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feet and 4,000 wings, while his body is provided
feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars.
feet.” In Vedic hymns Savatri is identified with
feetless ::: a. --> Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
feet ::: n. pl. --> See Foot. ::: n. --> Fact; performance. ::: pl.
feet: See foot.
Feet ::: [Tehmi: “In India it is considered that the whole power of the being is focused in the feet. So the feet are touched not only in humility but because all the power of the divinity is concentrated there. When someone touches the feet with the right attitude and devotion a certain power is drawn by the one who touches. So it is a grace by the person who is touched to allow it. Only if one is rooted in the Divine he can allow his feet to be touched.”]
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. Walking upon or over. 2. Pressing beneath the feet; trampling. treadings.
acatalectic ::: a. --> Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. ::: n. --> A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.
acre ::: n. --> Any field of arable or pasture land.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
adactylous ::: a. --> Without fingers or without toes.
Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
adelopod ::: n. --> An animal having feet that are not apparent.
agave ::: n. --> A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
alb ::: n. --> A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.
alcaic ::: a. --> Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. ::: n. --> A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
allerion ::: n. --> Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
almadie ::: n. --> A bark canoe used by the Africans.
A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.
ambulacrum ::: n. --> One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
anapest ::: n. --> A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene
anomalipede ::: a. --> Having anomalous feet.
anseres ::: n. pl. --> A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.
apodal ::: n. --> Without feet; footless.
Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.
apoda ::: n. --> A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.
An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.
A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.
apode ::: n. --> One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.
applause ::: n. --> The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
asclepiad ::: n. --> A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
asterolepis ::: n. --> A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
badger ::: n. --> An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America.
baleen ::: n. --> Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.
ballotade ::: v. i. --> A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
bandle ::: n. --> An Irish measure of two feet in length.
barefoot ::: a. & adv. --> With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
barefooted ::: a. --> Having the feet bare.
basking shark ::: --> One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
bastinado ::: n. --> A blow with a stick or cudgel.
A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. ::: v. t. --> To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the
Besides the universal intelligible being of things, Aristotle was also primarily concerned with an investigation of the being of things from the standpoint of their generation and existence. But only individual things are generated and exist. Hence, for him, substance was primarily the individual: a "this" which, in contrast with the universal or secondary substance, is not communicable to many. The Aristotelian meaning of substance may be developed from four points of view: Grammar: The nature of substance as the ultimate subject of predication is expressed by common usage in its employment of the noun (or substantive) as the subject of a sentence to signify an individual thing which "is neither present in nor predicable of a subject." Thus substance is grammatically distinguished from its (adjectival) properties and modifications which "are present in and predicable of a subject." Secondary substance is expressed by the universal term, and by its definition which are "not present in a subject but predicable of it." See Categoriae,) ch. 5. Physics: Independence of being emerges as a fundamental characteristic of substance in the analysis of change. Thus we have: Substantial change: Socrates comes to be. (Change simply). Accidental change; in a certain respect only: Socrates comes to be 6 feet tall. (Quantitative). Socrates comes to be musical (Qualitative). Socrates comes to be in Corinth (Local). As substantial change is prior to the others and may occur independently of them, so the individual substance is prior in being to the accidents; i.e., the accidents cannot exist independently of their subject (Socrates), but can be only in him or in another primary substance, while the reverse is not necessarily the case. Logic: Out of this analysis of change there also emerges a division of being into the schema of categories, with the distinction between the category of substance and the several accidental categories, such as quantity, quality, place, relation, etc. In a corresponding manner, the category of substance is first; i.e., prior to the others in being, and independent of them. Metaphysics: The character of substance as that which is present in an individual as the cause of its being and unity is developed in Aristotle's metaphysical writings, see especiallv Bk. Z, ch. 17, 1041b. Primary substnnce is not the matter alone, nor the universal form common to many, but the individual unity of matter and form. For example, each thing is composed of parts or elements, as an organism is composed of cells, yet it is not merely its elements, but has a being and unity over and above the sum of its parts. This something more which causes the cells to be this organism rather than a malignant growth, is an example of what is meant by substance in its proper sense of first substance (substantia prima). Substance in its secondary sense (substantia secunda) is the universal form (idea or species) which is individuated in each thing.
feetless ::: a. --> Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
feet ::: n. pl. --> See Foot. ::: n. --> Fact; performance. ::: pl.
bicycle ::: n. --> A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider&
Big Gray Wall "jargon" What faces a {VMS} user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as {compilers}, {databases}, multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall". [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-07)
bilbo ::: n. --> A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
bipedal ::: n. --> Having two feet; biped.
Pertaining to a biped.
biped ::: n. --> A two-footed animal, as man. ::: a. --> Having two feet; two-footed.
blackfeet ::: n. pl. --> A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
blackfoot ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. ::: n. --> A Blackfoot Indian.
blacksnake ::: n. --> A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
blowgun ::: n. --> A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
boa constrictor ::: --> A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
boa [IBM] Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}. Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time. It is rumored within IBM that channel cables for the 370 are limited to 200 feet because beyond that length the boas get dangerous --- and it is worth noting that one of the major cable makers uses the trademark "Anaconda". [{Jargon File}]
bonito ::: n. --> A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the
braccate ::: a. --> Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
branchiopoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.
breakdown ::: n. --> The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet,
breast-deep ::: a. --> Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
broad gauge ::: --> A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
brontosaurus ::: n. --> A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
brontotherium ::: n. --> A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
broom corn ::: --> A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
by ::: pref. --> In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
Against.
caltrap ::: n. --> A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy&
candelabrum ::: n. --> A lamp stand of any sort.
A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
A large candlestick, having several branches.
canna ::: n. --> A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.
capriped ::: a. --> Having feet like those of a goat.
capybara ::: n. --> A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.
cationic cocktail "hardware" (Or "Downy cocktail") Diluted fabric softener sprayed on computer room carpets to prevent static electricity from being built up by feet shuffling on carpet. The {canonical} cationic cocktail is one part unscented liquid fabric softener (in the US, usually "Downy" brand) to five parts water. "Cationic" is the chemical term for the most common active ingredient in fabric softeners. The use of the term "cocktail" may be influenced by its use in other jargons, especially pharmacological and chemical, to denote a mixture which, like cationic cocktail, typically contains no alcohol and would be unwise to drink. (1998-04-04)
centiped ::: n. --> A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.
centistere ::: n. --> The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.
cephaloptera ::: n. --> One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.
ceratosaurus ::: n. --> A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
charan-amrita. :::"nectar of the Lord's feet"; bliss of the Self; perfumed "holy water" sanctified by the feet of a deity or of a holy man
chausses ::: n. pl. --> The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
cheval-de-frise ::: n. --> A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
cheyennes ::: n. pl. --> A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.
chibouk ::: n. --> A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.
chigre ::: n. --> A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.
chilblain ::: n. --> A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration. ::: v. t. --> To produce chilblains upon.
chimpanzee ::: n. --> An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
chine ::: n. --> A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
chinquapin ::: n. --> A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
chiropodist ::: n. --> One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
chiropody ::: n. --> The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
cist ::: n. --> A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
See Cyst.
civet ::: n. --> A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.
The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the
clambers ::: climbs, using both feet and hands; climbs with effort or difficulty; scrambles on all fours. clambered, clambering.
clamber ::: v. i. --> To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. ::: n. --> The act of clambering. ::: v. t.
climb ::: v. i. --> To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. ::: v. t.
clog ::: v. --> That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
closh ::: n. --> A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
The game of ninepins.
coble ::: n. --> A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.
cocoa palm ::: --> A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
cope ::: n. --> A covering for the head.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
cord ::: n. --> A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
coryphodon ::: n. --> A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
could have grown eighty feet tall
couple-close ::: n. --> A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.
A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
crab-yaws ::: n. --> A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
crocodile ::: n. --> A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun&
crow-trodden ::: a. --> Marked with crow&
crucify ::: v. t. --> To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
To vex or torment.
D-1000 "computer" {Datamatic Corporation}'s first computer, which weighed 25 tons, took up 6,000 square feet and cost $1.5 million, produced some time after 1955. (2009-01-14)
dangle ::: v. i. --> To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. ::: v. t. --> To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
decapod ::: n. --> A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
deccapodous ::: a. --> Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
decempedal ::: a. --> Ten feet in length.
Having ten feet; decapodal.
decistere ::: n. --> The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.
denominate ::: v. t. --> To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. ::: a. --> Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound
depeditate /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated. [{Jargon File}]
dinichthys ::: n. --> A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.
dinosauria ::: n. pl. --> An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
dipody ::: n. --> Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
diptera ::: n. pl. --> An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
dolphin ::: n. --> A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy&
dove plant ::: --> A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant. html{color:
drosky ::: n. --> A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
dry-shod ::: a. --> Without wetting the feet.
duodecimal ::: a. --> Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves. ::: n. --> A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by
elaphure ::: n. --> A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
encoubert ::: n. --> One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
entangle ::: v. t. --> To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
equipedal ::: a. --> Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.
eurypterus ::: n. --> A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.
expeditate ::: v. t. --> To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.
fan palm ::: --> Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.
fasten ::: a. --> To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on;
fathom ::: n. --> A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
The measure or extant of one&
feature "jargon" 1. A good property or behaviour (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2. An intended property or behaviour (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a {misfeature}). 3. A surprising property or behaviour; in particular, one that is purposely inconsistent because it works better that way - such an inconsistency is therefore a {feature} and not a {bug}. This kind of feature is sometimes called a {miswart}. 4. A property or behaviour that is gratuitous or unnecessary, though perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of {Common LISP}'s "format" function is the ability to print numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see {bells, whistles, and gongs}). 5. A property or behaviour that was put in to help someone else but that happens to be in your way. 6. A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a {feature} simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" is a common catch-phrase. Apparently there is a Volkswagen Beetle in San Francisco whose license plate reads "FEATURE". See also {feetch feetch}, {creeping featurism}, {wart}, {green lightning}. The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts and miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange between two hackers on an airliner: A: "This seat doesn't recline." B: "That's not a bug, that's a feature. There is an emergency exit door built around the window behind you, and the route has to be kept clear." A: "Oh. Then it's a misfeature; they should have increased the spacing between rows here." B: "Yes. But if they'd increased spacing in only one section it would have been a wart - they would've had to make nonstandard-length ceiling panels to fit over the displaced seats." A: "A miswart, actually. If they increased spacing throughout they'd lose several rows and a chunk out of the profit margin. So unequal spacing would actually be the Right Thing." B: "Indeed." "Undocumented feature" is a common euphemism for a {bug}. 7. An attribute or function of a {class} in {Eiffel}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-10-22)
Feet ::: [Tehmi: “In India it is considered that the whole power of the being is focused in the feet. So the feet are touched not only in humility but because all the power of the divinity is concentrated there. When someone touches the feet with the right attitude and devotion a certain power is drawn by the one who touches. So it is a grace by the person who is touched to allow it. Only if one is rooted in the Divine he can allow his feet to be touched.”]
fencepost error 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a {boundary condition}, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also {zeroth} and note that not all {off-by-one errors} are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient {binary tree} or {hash coding} implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an {algorithm}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01)
fete ::: n. --> A feat.
A festival. ::: n. pl. --> Feet. ::: v. t.
Fetish ::: A condition in which arousal and/or sexual gratification is attained through inanimate objects (shoes, pantyhose) or non-sexual body parts (feet, hair). Is considered a problem when the object is needed in order to obtain arousal or gratification and the individual can not can not complete a sexual act without this object present.
fettered ::: a. --> Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
fetter ::: n. --> A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the
Fiction: Whenever a symbol, as part of an utterance, occurs in such a context that the truth of any utterance of the same form would normally guarantee the existence of an individual denoted by that symbol, whereas in the case considered no such implication holds, the symbol may be said to occur fictitiously in that context. Thus in the utterance "The average man is six feet tall" the phrase "the average man" occurs fictitiously. For "X is less thin six feet tall" normally implies that there is an individual denoted by "X". But there is no individual denoted by "the average man".
fin-footed ::: a. --> Having palmate feet.
Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
fissipedia ::: n. pl. --> A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.
flamingo ::: n. --> Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
flax-plant ::: n. --> A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
footbath ::: n. --> A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
footboard ::: n. --> A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
The foot-rest of a coachman&
footed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Foot ::: a. --> Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot.
Having a foothold; established.
foothalt ::: n. --> A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
foothold ::: n. --> A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
footing ::: 1. A secure place for the feet; a foothold.
footless ::: a. --> Having no feet.
footman ::: n. --> A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master&
foot-sore ::: a. --> Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
footstool ::: n. --> A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
footworn ::: a. --> Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
forefoot ::: n. --> One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
fourfooted ::: a. --> Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
gallop ::: 1. A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride. 2. A ride taken at the pace of a gallop. galloping.
gallop ::: v. i. --> To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
To ride a horse at a gallop.
Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
giraffe ::: n. --> An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.
glass-snake ::: n. --> A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.
globigerina ::: n. --> A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera. html{color:
grade ::: n. --> A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
gradient ::: a. --> Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds. ::: n. --> The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a
grampus ::: n. --> A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
A kind of tongs used in a bloomery.
gressorious ::: a. --> Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
grison ::: n. --> A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton.
A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.
groggy ::: a. --> Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.
Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.
grouse ::: n. sing. & pl. --> Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet. ::: v. i.
hammock ::: n. --> A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
hausen ::: n. --> A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.
having rapidly moving feet; able to move quickly.
head-cheese ::: n. --> A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
hecatompedon ::: n. --> A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
hectometre ::: n. --> A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
hectostere ::: n. --> A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
hermes ::: n. --> See Mercury.
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue,
hexameter ::: n. --> A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. ::: a.
hexametrical ::: a. --> Consisting of six metrical feet.
hexapod ::: a. --> Having six feet. ::: n. --> An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
hexapodous ::: a. --> Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
hirsute ::: a. --> Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Rough and coarse; boorish.
Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.
hoof ::: n. --> The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
A hoofed animal; a beast.
See Ungula. ::: v. i. --> To walk as cattle.
hopple ::: v. t. --> To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. ::: n. --> A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze;
horsefeet ::: pl. --> of Horsefoot
horse power ::: --> The power which a horse exerts.
A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per
hose ::: pl. --> of Hose ::: n. --> Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
huso ::: n. --> A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.
The huchen, a large salmon.
hylaeosaurus ::: n. --> A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
IBM 704 "computer" A large, scientific computer made by {IBM} and used by the largest commercial, government and educational institutions. The IBM 704 had 36-bit memory words, 15-bit addresses and instructions with one address. A few {index register} instructions had the infamous 15-bit decrement field in addition to the 15-bit address. The 704, and {IBM 709} which had the same basic architecture, represented a substantial step forward from the {IBM 650}'s {magnetic drum} storage as they provided random access at electronic speed to {core storage}, typically 32k words of 36 bits each. [Or did the 704 actually come *before* the 650?] A typical 700 series installation would be in a specially built room of perhaps 1000 to 2000 square feet, with cables running under a raised floor and substantial air conditioning. There might be up to eight {magnetic tape} transports, each about 3 x 3 x 6 feet, on one or two "channels." The 1/2 inch tape had seven tracks and moved at 150 inches per second, giving a read/write speed of 15,000 six bit characters (plus parity) per second. In the centre would be the operator's {console} consisting of cabinets and tables for storage of tapes and boxes of cards; and a {card reader}, a {card punch}, and a {line printer}, each perhaps 4 x 4 x 5 feet in dimension. Small {jobs} could be entered via {punched cards} at the console, but as a rule the user jobs were transferred from cards to {magnetic tape} by {off-line} equipment and only control information was entered at the console (see {SPOOL}). Before each job, the {operating system} was loaded from a read-only system tape (because the system in {core} could have been corrupted by the previous user), and then the user's program, in the form of card images on the input tape, would be run. Program output would be written to another tape (typically on another channel) for printing off-line. Well run installations would transfer the user's cards to tape, run the job, and print the output tape with a turnaround time of one to four hours. The processing unit typically occupied a position symmetric but opposite the operator's console. Physically the largest of the units, it included a glass enclosure a few feet in dimension in which could be seen the "core" about one foot on each side. The 36-bit word could hold two 18-bit addresses called the "Contents of the Address Register" ({CAR}) and the "Contents of the Decrement Register" ({CDR}). On the opposite side of the floor from the tape drives and operator's console would be a desk and bookshelves for the ever-present (24 hours a day) "field engineer" dressed in, you guessed it, a grey flannel suit and tie. The maintenance of the many thousands of {vacuum tubes}, each with limited lifetime, and the cleaning, lubrication, and adjustment of mechanical equipment, was augmented by a constant flow of {bug} reports, change orders to both hardware and software, and hand-holding for worried users. The 704 was oriented toward scientific work and included {floating point} hardware and the first {Fortran} implementation. Its hardware was the basis for the requirement in some programming languages that loops must be executed at least once. The {IBM 705} was the business counterpart of the 704. The 705 was a decimal machine with a circular register which could hold several variables (numbers, values) at the same time. Very few 700 series computers remained in service by 1965, but the {IBM 7090}, using {transistors} but similar in logical structure, remained an important machine until the production of the earliest {integrated circuits}. [Was the 704 scientific, business or general purpose? Difference between 704 and 709?] (1996-01-24)
ichthyosaurus ::: n. --> An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations.
iguanodon ::: n. --> A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.
inia ::: n. --> A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.
INNER CONSCIOUSNESS (Divisions) ::: There are five main divisions. At the top above the head arc layers (or as we call them planes) of which we arc not conscious and which become conscious to us only by sadhana — those above the human mind — that is the higher consciousness. Below from the crown of the head to the throat are the layers (there are many of them) of the mind, the three principal being one at the top of the head communicating with the higher consciousness, another between the eye-brows where is the thought, sight and will, a third in the throat which is the externalising mind. A second division is from the shoulders to the navel ; these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers of the physical consciousness proper, the material, and below the feet is the sub- conscient which has also many levels.
It reminds me sometimes of that experience Nolini da had near the Samadhi. He saw a figure. It was standing by the Samadhi. It was late at night, the Ashram was empty and he saw a figure that looked exactly like Sri Aurobindo. He was about to fall at his feet when he saw the feet were different. This was actually a force of darkness and it was actually so powerful it was standing near the Samadhi. He stopped. If he had fallen at its feet it would have dragged him down, even someone so conscious. He (Nolini) would not have fallen down because he was always vigilant and that is why he noticed, but someone less conscious, less vigilant might be trapped, thinking ‘I am following the light.’ It is why this happens very often when one thinks one is speaking for God or speaking for the Divine.
juger ::: n. --> A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.
kamichi ::: n. --> A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.
kangaroo ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the
kick ::: v. t. --> To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. ::: v. i. --> To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so.
kilolitre ::: n. --> A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches.
kilometre ::: n. --> A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
kilostere ::: n. --> A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.
kitchen middens ::: --> Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.
koodoo ::: n. --> A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.
laelaps ::: n. --> A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
laminaria ::: n. --> A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil&
lammergeier ::: n. --> A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore
lanyard ::: n. --> A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
laver ::: n. --> A vessel for washing; a large basin.
A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
One of several vessels in Solomon&
lawe ::: v. t. --> To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog&
league ::: n. --> A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
lepidosiren ::: n. --> An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.
leprosy ::: n. --> A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
lion ::: n. --> A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a
lock-in "standard" When an existing standard becomes almost impossible to supersede because of the cost or logistical difficulties involved in convincing all its users to switch something different and, typically, {incompatible}. The common implication is that the existing standard is notably inferior to other comparable standards developed before or since. Things which have been accused of benefiting from lock-in in the absence of being truly worthwhile include: the {QWERTY} keyboard; any well-known {operating system} or programming language you don't like (e.g., see "{Unix conspiracy}"); every product ever made by {Microsoft Corporation}; and most currently deployed formats for transmitting or storing data of any kind (especially the {Internet Protocol}, 7-bit (or even 8-bit) {character sets}, analog video or audio broadcast formats and nearly any file format). Because of {network effects} outside of just computer networks, {Real World} examples of lock-in include the current spelling conventions for writing English (or French, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.); the design of American money; the imperial (feet, inches, ounces, etc.) system of measurement; and the various and anachronistic aspects of the internal organisation of any government (e.g., the American Electoral College). (1998-01-15)
lophiomys ::: n. --> A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.
lumbrical ::: a. --> Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet. ::: n. --> A lumbrical muscle.
LUSDA feet 95
LUSDAN feet 145
LUSD feet 89
LUSDI feet 149
machete ::: n. --> A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
macropodal ::: a. --> Having long or large feet, or a long stem.
macropodous ::: a. --> Having long legs or feet.
magnetic tape "storage" (Or "magtape", "tape" - {paper tape} is now obsolete) A data storage medium consisting of a magnetisable oxide coating on a thin plastic strip, commonly used for {backup} and {archiving}. Early industry-standard magnetic tape was half an inch wide and wound on removable reels 10.5 inches in diameter. Different lengths were available with 2400 feet and 4800 feet being common. {DECtape} was a variation on this "{round tape}". In modern magnetic tape systems the reels are much smaller and are fixed inside a {cartridge} to protect the tape and for ease of handling ("{square tape}" - though it's really rectangular). Cartridge formats include {QIC}, {DAT}, and {Exabyte}. Tape is read and written on a tape drive (or "deck") which winds the tape from one reel to the other causing it to move past a read/write head. Early tape had seven parallel tracks of data along the length of the tape allowing six bit characters plus {parity} written across the tape. A typical recording density was 556 characters per inch. The tape had reflective marks near its end which signaled beginning of tape (BOT) and end of tape (EOT) to the hardware. Data is written to tape in {blocks} with {inter-block gaps} between them. Each block is typically written in a single operation with the tape running continuously during the write. The larger the block the larger the data {buffer} required in order to supply or receive the data written to or read from the tape. The smaller the block the more tape is wasted as inter-block gaps. Several logical {records} may be combined into one physical block to reduce wastage ("{blocked records}"). Finding a certain block on the tape generally involved reading sequentially from the beginning, in contrast to {magnetic disks}. Tape is not suitable for {random access}. The exception to this is that some systems allow {tape marks} to be written which can be detected while winding the tape forward or rewinding it at high speed. These are typically used to separate logical files on a tape. Most tape drives now include some kind of {data compression}. There are several {algorithms} which provide similar results: {LZ} (most), {IDRC} ({Exabyte}), {ALDC} ({IBM}, {QIC}) and {DLZ1} ({DLT}). See also {cut a tape}, {flap}, {Group Code Recording}, {spool}, {macrotape}, {microtape}, {Non Return to Zero Inverted}, {Phase Encoded}. (1997-04-05)
mangostan ::: n. --> A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.
martlet ::: n. --> The European house martin.
A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.
metres ::: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line.
mile ::: n. --> A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
monitor ::: n. --> One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
monkey ::: n. --> In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very
mosasauria ::: n. pl. --> An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
mosasaurus ::: n. --> A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
multiped ::: n. --> An insect having many feet, as a myriapod. ::: a. --> Having many feet.
muskrat ::: n. --> A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.
The musk shrew.
The desman.
myrtle ::: n. --> A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
narwhal ::: n. --> An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
near-legged ::: a. --> Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling.
niagara period ::: --> A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
oared ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Oar ::: a. --> Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
Having feet adapted for swimming.
Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See
oar-footed ::: a. --> Having feet adapted for swimming.
oary ::: a. --> Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan&
octameter ::: n. --> A verse containing eight feet; as, --//Deep
octopede ::: n. --> An animal having eight feet, as a spider.
orthopoda ::: n. pl. --> An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.
ostrich ::: n. --> A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.
padam. :::"the foot"; feet; the ultimate support; a synonym for the Self
paddle ::: v. i. --> To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is
palanquin ::: n. --> An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.
palmiped ::: a. --> Web-footed, as a water fowl. ::: n. --> A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
papaw ::: n. --> A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.
A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet
parallelism ::: n. --> The quality or state of being parallel.
Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.
parjdigitate ::: a. --> Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet.
patellula ::: n. --> A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
patten ::: n. --> A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
A stilt.
patter ::: v. i. --> To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
To mutter; as prayers. ::: v. t.
pedal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
A pedal curve or surface.
pedata ::: n. pl. --> An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.
pedestrial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.
pedigerous ::: a. --> Bearing or having feet or legs.
pediluvy ::: n. --> The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.
pedimanous ::: a. --> Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
pedireme ::: n. --> A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.
pedomancy ::: n. --> Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
pedomotive ::: a. --> Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
pentameter ::: n. --> A verse of five feet. ::: a. --> Having five metrical feet.
pentapody ::: n. --> A measure or series consisting of five feet.
peristeropodous ::: a. --> Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.
pesade ::: n. --> The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.
pettitoes ::: n. pl. --> The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.
phalangist ::: n. --> Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.
pinnigrade ::: n. --> An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.
plantigrada ::: n. pl. --> A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
platypod ::: n. --> An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.
plethrum ::: n. --> A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.
plumiped ::: a. --> Having feet covered with feathers. ::: n. --> A plumiped bird.
poachy ::: a. --> Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land
polt-footed ::: a. --> Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet.
polypode ::: n. --> A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody.
An animal having many feet; a myriapod.
polypous ::: a. --> Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.
porbeagle ::: n. --> A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark.
pose ::: a. --> Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast. ::: n. --> A cold in the head; catarrh. ::: v. t.
potamian ::: n. --> A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.
priapean ::: n. --> A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
Princeton University "body, education" Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college. First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved to Princeton in 1756. The College was housed in Nassau Hall, newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah FitzRandolph. Nassau Hall contained the entire College for nearly half a century. The College was officially renamed Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the Graduate School was established. Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866 graduate students). The ratio of full-time students to faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one. Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres. The University's James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres. As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than 1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region. {(http://princeton.edu/index.html)}. (1994-01-19)
proa ::: n. --> A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
proceleusmatic ::: a. --> Inciting; animating; encouraging.
Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each. ::: n. --> A foot consisting of four short syllables.
ptarmigan ::: n. --> Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.
pteranodon ::: n. --> A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
pulvillus ::: n. --> One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.
quadruped ::: a. --> Having four feet. ::: n. --> An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
quadrupedal ::: a. --> Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
quagmire ::: n. --> Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
queachy ::: a. --> Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Like a queach; thick; bushy.
rafflesia ::: n. --> A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.
redshank ::: n. --> A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
The fieldfare.
A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
remiped ::: a. --> Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects. ::: n. --> An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans.
One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for
sabbaton ::: n. --> A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
saddle ::: n. --> A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse&
sagene ::: n. --> A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.
saltigrade ::: a. --> Having feet or legs formed for leaping. ::: n. --> One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
sampan ::: n. --> A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
sapphic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl. ::: n.
sauropoda ::: n. pl. --> An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
scansion ::: n. --> The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
scrabble ::: v. t. --> To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.
scrambled ::: climbed or moved quickly using one"s hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
screed ::: n. --> A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
A fragment; a portion; a shred.
A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
scuff ::: n. --> The back part of the neck; the scruff. ::: v. i. --> To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
scutellation ::: n. --> the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.
sea devil ::: --> Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
The angler.
sea elephant ::: --> A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
sea laces ::: --> A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
sea otter ::: --> An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, / marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.
sea snake ::: --> Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
sea trumpet ::: --> A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
sea turtle ::: --> Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}. 2. The {mnemonic} often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the {PDP-11} and many other architectures. The {RCA 1802} chip used in the early {Elf} and SuperElf {personal computers} had a "SEt X register" SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. DEC's engineers nearly got a {PDP-11} {assembler} that used the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the {Intel 8086}, noted that there was originally a "SEX" instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on what was being extended). The {Intel 8048} (the {microcontroller} used in {IBM PC} keyboards) is also missing straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions "ORL" and "ANL". The {Motorola 6809}, used in the UK's "{Dragon 32}" {personal computer}, actually had an official "SEX" instruction; the {6502} in the {Apple II} with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple. [{Jargon File}] (1998-03-03)
sheatfish ::: n. --> A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
She bowed and touched his feet with worshipping hands;
shoer ::: n. --> One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.
sidesaddle ::: n. --> A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
SimCity "games" {Maxis Software}'s simulation game which lets you design and build your own city, which must be administered well if it is to thrive. Land must be zoned, transportation systems built, and police and fire protection provided. Once you've zoned some land, and provided electrical power, the simulation takes over, and simcitizens move in. If you perform your mayoral duties poorly, however, they will move out again. If you don't provide enough police, crime will rise and sims will vote with their feet. Try to save money on fire protection, and your city may burn to the ground. There is no predefined way to win the game, building the largest city you can is just one possible strategy. SimCity runs on {Archimedes}, {Amiga}, {Atari ST}, {IBM PC} and {Macintosh}. There was also a {NeWS} version for {Sun} {SPARC} {workstations} running {OpenWindows}. {SimCity 2000} is an upgrade of SimCity. (1995-06-11)
sit ::: --> obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth. ::: v. t. --> To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a
Śiva (Shiva) ::: "the auspicious", a name of the god who is at once "the Siva Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace"; especially the contemplative aspect of this deity, in contrast to his "terrible" aspect which is called Rudra2 and sometimes regarded as a distinct god; the divine personality representing absolute Existence (sat) with infinite Force (tapas) inherent in it, whose immobility is translated in the lower hemisphere of existence (aparardha) by inertia, figured in the image of Śiva"s body lying under the feet of the dancing Kali; (also called Mahesvara and identified with Mahavira) the aspect of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahesvari; a name of the Lord and supreme Being (isvara, purus.ottama). siva siv a K Kali
six-footer ::: n. --> One who is six feet tall.
slide ::: v. t. --> To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain&
slop "jargon" 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions. For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again. When discrete quantities are involved, slop is often introduced to avoid the possibility of being on the losing side of a {fencepost error}. 2. The percentage of "extra" code generated by a compiler over the size of equivalent {assembly code} produced by {hand-hacking}; i.e. the space (or maybe time) you lose because you didn't do it yourself. This number is often used as a measure of the quality of a compiler; slop below 5% is very good, and 10% is usually acceptable. Modern compilers, especially on {RISCs}, may actually have *negative* slop; that is, they may generate better code than humans. This is one of the reasons assembler programming is becoming less common. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-28)
snowshoe ::: n. --> A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
somerset ::: n. --> A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
souse ::: n. --> A corrupt form of Sou.
Pickle made with salt.
Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
The ear; especially, a hog&
sozzle ::: v. t. --> To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water.
To heap up in confusion. ::: n. --> One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman.
sperm whale ::: --> A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
splayfeet ::: pl. --> of Splayfoot
splayfooted ::: a. --> Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.
splitfeet ::: n. pl. --> The Fissipedia.
stack ::: a. --> A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright
stadium ::: n. --> A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
stand ::: 1. To remain erect on one"s feet in a specified place, occupation, position, condition, etc. 2. To be, to continue or remain in a specified state, position, relation, etc. 3. To be set, placed, located, fixed or situated. 4. To take a position or place as indicated. 5. To have or adopt a certain policy, course, or attitude, as of adherence, support, opposition, or resistance. 6. To remain erect and firm under (a crushing weight, or the like), often with up. 7. To remain firm or steadfast, as in a cause. stands, stood, standing.
stand ::: n. --> To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
stell ::: v. t. --> To place or fix firmly or permanently.
A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
step ::: a. --> To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
stepping-stone ::: n. --> A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
stere ::: n. --> A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.
A rudder. See 5th Steer.
Helmsman. See 6th Steer. ::: v. t. & i.
stich ::: n. --> A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
A row, line, or rank of trees.
stigmatic ::: n. --> A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
stretcher ::: n. --> One who, or that which, stretches.
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
A piece of timber used in building.
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
T1 "communications" An {AT&T} term for a {digital carrier} facility used to transmit a {DS1} formatted digital signal at 1.544 megabits per second. T1 transmission uses a bipolar {Return To Zero} {alternate mark inversion} line coding scheme to keep the DC carrier component from saturating the line. Although some consider T1 signaling obsolete, much equipment operates at the "T1 rate" and such signals are either combined for transmission via faster circuits, or demultiplexed into 64 kilobit per second circuits for distribution to individual subscribers. T1 signals can be transported on {unshielded twisted pair} telephone lines. The transmitted signal consists of pips of a few hundred nanoseconds width, each inverted with respect to the one preceding. At the sending end the signal is 1 volt, and as received, greater than 0.01 volts. This requires repeaters about every 6000 feet. The information is contained in the timing of the signals, not the polarity. When a long sequence of bits in the transmitted information would cause no pip to be sent, "{bit stuffing}" is used so the receiving apparatus will not lose track of the sending clock. A T1 circuit requires two twisted pair lines, one for each direction. Some newer equipment uses the two lines at half the T1 rate and in {full-duplex} mode; the sent and received signals are separated at each end by components collectively called a "hybrid". Although this technique requires more sophisticated equipment and lowers the line length, an advantage is that half the sent and half the received information is mixed on any one line, making low-tech wiretaps less a threat. See also {Integrated Services Digital Network}. (1994-11-23)
taguan ::: n. --> A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
talipot ::: n. --> A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
tanka ::: n. --> A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.
tapeline ::: n. --> A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
tapir ::: n. --> Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
tarpum ::: n. --> A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.
tatouay ::: n. --> An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
tatou ::: n. --> The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
tayra ::: n. --> A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet.
teguexin ::: n. --> A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds&
tetrameter ::: n. --> A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
tetrapody ::: n. --> A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.
the bound feet,
theropoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.
toast ::: v. t. --> To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. ::: v.
toise ::: a. --> An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.
totipalmi ::: n.pl. --> A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.
track ::: n. 1. A mark or succession of marks left by something that has passed. 2. A path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail. 3. A path along which something moves or has moved, such as a wheel-rut; the wake of a ship; a series of footprints; etc. tracks. v. 4. To follow the tracks of; trail. 5. To observe, plot, or mark the path of something. tracked.
trample ::: 1. To tread or walk heavily or noisily; to stamp. 2. To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on. 3. To treat harshly or ruthlessly. Also fig. trampled, trampling.
treadwheel ::: n. --> A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.
tree ::: n. --> Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
tripedal ::: a. --> Having three feet.
trip ::: n. i. --> To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one&
tripod ::: n. --> Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
tripody ::: n. --> Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
triungulus ::: n. --> The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.
two-foot ::: a. --> Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.
unau ::: n. --> The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint.
underfoot ::: adv. --> Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n. ::: a. --> Low; base; abject; trodden down.
underhew ::: v. t. --> To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain.
ungual ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.
Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.
unlawed ::: a. --> Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.
upher ::: n. --> A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.
veeblefeetzer {veeblefetzer}
veeblefester "jargon, abuse" /vee'b*l-fes"tr/ (From "Born Loser" comix via {Commodore}; probably originally from "Mad" Magazine's "Veeblefeetzer" parodies ca. 1960) Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. Antonym of {hacker}. Compare {suit}, {marketroid}. See also {veeblefetzer}. [veeblefeetzer or veeblefetzer?] [{Jargon File}] (1996-03-31)
veeblefetzer "jargon" /vee'b*l-fetz'*/ (Or "veeblefeetzer"?) A purposely nonsensical sounding word applied to any sort of obscure or complicated object, e.g. a piece of computer code, model railroad equipment, auto parts, etc. The more immediate origin of the word is "Mad" Magazine. In the late 1950s and early 1960s it used the word along the same lines, especially in its send-ups of big business. "North American Veeblefetzer" was the subject of satires of an annual reports, an in-house newsletter, and more. A Veeblefetzer, in their case, was a robot-like device that did something or other. The more distant source was probably a 19th century yiddish word, possibly with limited usage. In German, "Fetzer" is any contraption, while "Veeble" is a likely corruption of "Webel" -- meaning weaving. Textile mills of this period were crammed with very complicated, wildly active and very loud pieces of machinery. See also {veeblefester}. [veeblefeetzer or veeblefetzer?] (1996-03-31)
velocipede ::: n. --> A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
velocity ::: n. --> Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.
verse ::: 1. A succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. 2. A poem, or piece of poetry. 3. A particular type of metrical composition. verses.
verse ::: n. --> A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
A short division of any composition.
A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
verst ::: n. --> A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
victoria ::: n. --> A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
wade ::: n. --> Woad.
The act of wading. ::: v. i. --> To go; to move forward.
To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
walk ::: v. i. --> To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one&
water barometer ::: --> A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
water monitor ::: --> A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
water shrew ::: --> Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
water spider ::: --> An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider.
A water mite.
Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water,
webbed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Web ::: a. --> Provided with a web.
Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
webfeet ::: pl. --> of Webfoot
web-footed ::: a. --> Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
wet-shod ::: a. --> Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.
whale ::: n. --> Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
whitlow ::: a. --> An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.
An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
wind ::: air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth"s surface. Wind, wind"s, winds, wind-faces, wind-feet, wind-goddess, wind-haired, wind-lashed, wind-maned, wind-rippled, wind-stirred, priest-wind"s.
wing-footed ::: a. --> Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.
wire-heel ::: n. --> A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
worm ::: n. --> A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
Any helminth; an entozoon.
Any annelid.
An insect larva.
worrel ::: n. --> An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.
xiphodon ::: n. --> An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.
yapock ::: n. --> A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum.
yardstick ::: n. --> A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
yard ::: v. i. --> A rod; a stick; a staff.
A branch; a twig.
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
The penis.
A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A
Yet, how can I not remember those moments at Her feet, the times when She and Sri Aurobindo came to me in vision during sleep, the gifts of the spirit they showered upon me and on all of us…
zamang ::: n. --> An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.
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1:Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #KEYS
2:Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." ~ Abraham Lincoln, #KEYS
3:He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
~ Joseph Joubert,#KEYS
4:The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet." ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #KEYS
5:To the blue lotus flower of Mother Syama's feet. . . . ~ SONG from GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA, #KEYS
6:Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 119:105, #KEYS
7:Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. ~ W C Fields, #KEYS
8:He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
9:If you want to assist at Mass, with devotion and with fruit, think of the sorrowful Mother at the feet of Calvary." ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
10:The pathless path is the path always under our feet. And since that path is always beneath us, if we miss it, how stupid! ~ Longchenpa, #KEYS
11:I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me." ~ Pablo Neruda,#KEYS
12:To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Luke, 1:79, #KEYS
13:The heart rejoices at the feet of the Lord, who is the Self eternally shining within as 'I-I'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
14:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ~ Revelation 12:1, #KEYS
15:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." ~ Revelation 12:1, #KEYS
16:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ William Butler Yeats,#KEYS
17:As the monkey sacrifices his life at the feet of the hunter, so does a man at the feet of a beautiful woman. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
18:The saviors carry the multitudes, burdened with cares and sorrows of the world, to the feet of the almighty. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
19:The outward form of one who has touched the feet of God remains unchanged, although they no longer do any evil. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
20:Surrender to the Feet of the Guru is the real mantra, in which there will be no fear of Maya's delusion. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
21:When I think of the lotus feet of the Lord, I forget myself so completely that unconsciously my cloth falls off. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
22:Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." ~ Stephen Hawking, #KEYS
23:Spiritual discipline means holding the mind steadfast at His holy feet all the time and immersing the mind in thoughts of Him. Repeat His Name. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
24:The tree too thick to embrace
emerges from a seedling.
A nine-storey tower rises from a brick.
A thousand-mile journey begins under your feet. ~ Lao Tzu,#KEYS
25:Long live the feet that are the being-consciousness-bliss of him who does not stir as all else whirls about. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
26:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
27:Surrender everything at His feet and give Him the general power of attorney. Let Him do what He considers best for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
28:Surrender to the Feet of the Guru is the real mantra, in which there will be no fear of Maya's delusion.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, [T5],#KEYS
29:Live a worldly life, yet fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and touch the feet of the Lord with the other. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
30:The dayspring from on high has visited us, to give light to them that sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace. ~ Saint Luke, #KEYS
31:Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 6:2 #KEYS
32:an autumn moon
at the feet of the
Goddess of Mercy
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
33:This day shall be the best day of my life. Today I will start with a new determination to dedicate my devotion forever at the feet of omnipresence. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #KEYS
34:So long as thou art not dead to all things, one by one, thou canst not set thy feet in this portico. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
35:A soul which does not practise the exercise of prayer is very like a paralyzed body which, though possessing feet and hands, makes no use of them." ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #KEYS
36:Oh lord, I do not want riches, fame, health, happiness or anything else. Grant that I may have pure Bhakti for thy lotus feet! ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
37:He who is weighed down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
38:He who is weighted down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
39:If anything is to be had — whatsoever, in whatever way — it must be had of Him alone. Man's bounden duty as a human being is to seek refuge at His Feet. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
40:A man's deeds are slavish, his very thoughts false, so long as he has not succeeded in putting fear under his feet. ~ Carlyle, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
41:It is the mean-minded who covet supernatural powers. Those who are pure Bhaktas do not want anything but the louts-feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
42:Does one enter a temple with dirty feet?
Likewise, one does not enter the temple of the spirit with a sullied mind.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
43:It is the Lord who sustains our floundering hope, just as he sustained Peter when he was floundering in the water, and made the waters firm beneath his feet. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
44:If you can attain devotion to the lotus-feet of the Lord, singing His glory, then you will not have to struggle long to control the senses. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
45:Look upon all women as your own mother. Never look at the face of a woman, but look towards her feet. All evil thoughts will then fly away. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
46:Climbing from Nature's deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
47:Run to his feet - He is standing close to you head right now You have slept for millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning." ~ Kamir, 15th-cent. Indian mystic poet, Wikipedia, #KEYS
48:Know that you will not be at all tormented by mental unrest if you, without being sentimental, dedicate the good or bad results of your actions to the lotus feet of the Lord. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
49:We are born to contri bute to a mutual action like feet and hands. The hostility of men among themselves is against Nature. ~ Mar-cus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
50:Thy golden Light came down into my feet;
My earth is now Thy playfield and Thy seat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Golden Light,#KEYS
51:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
52:What is man?... Thou crownedst him with glory and honour.... thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Hebrews,, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
53:Mary, a proper name is taken to mean star of the sea or enlightener and lady; hence in Rev ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (12:1) she is described with the moon under her feet., #KEYS
54:A million salutations at Thy petaled feet, O Lotus of Light! I pour my heart at Thy feet. I pour all my soul at Thy feet. I pour all the fragrant musk of my love at Thy feet of omnipresence. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #KEYS
55:Advance towards God, my child; the more you go towards Him, the more peace you will get. There is no peace in anything in the world. At the feet of God alone one find the abode of peace. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
56:In a good life, prudence is like the eye, which directs a person; and courage is like the feet, which support and carry him ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Colossians, ch. 3)., #KEYS
57:The dayspring from on high has visited us, to give light to them that sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace. ~ St. Luke, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:The mind that becomes elated also is subject to depression. Don't identify yourself with either! Go beyond! Somehow touch the feet of the Lord. Then you are no longer subject to the opposites of life. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
59:Let us without feet, make the holy circuit round the door of the King, For he has come intoxicated with 'Am I not I?' and broken our door." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, "Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi," Wikipedia., #KEYS
60:At his hands he received the crown of martyrdom, being nailed to the cross with his head towards the ground and his feet raised on high, asserting that he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as his Lord. ~ Saint Jerome, #KEYS
61:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
62:Thought could not think in him, flesh could not quiver;
The feet of Time could not adventure here ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Yogi on the Whirlpool,#KEYS
63:And symbol of some native cosmic strength,
A sacred beast lay prone below her feet,
A silent flame-eyed mass of living force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
64:The eyes of love gaze starlike through death's night,
The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
65:The woman was not formed from the feet of the man as a servant, nor from the head as lording it over her husband, but from the side as a companion, as it says in Genesis ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (2:21)., #KEYS
66:Too hard the gods are with man's fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
67:It is then alone that thou canst become one who walks in heaven, one of those who walk on the winds and above the waves and their feet shall not touch the waters. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
68:Meditate on the Lord alone, on Him, the Fountain of Goodness. Pray to Him; depend on Him. Try to give more time to japa and meditation. Surrender your mind at His Feet. Endeavor to sustain japa and meditation without a break. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
69:Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!" ~ Kamand Kojouri, author of "The Eternal Dance: Love Poetry and Prose,", (2018). Born in Tehran, raised in Dubai and Toronto, and resides in Wales., #KEYS
70:When you have altogether resigned yourselves at the feet of the Lord, you have know the secret of a peaceful, blissful life. Life is a constant fight. You must fight hard with the senses, the result is all in the hands of God. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
71:Crazed by the disease of realizing emptiness as the ground, crazed by the demon of destroying confusion on the path, and crazed by the force of discarding any thought of achieving a result, lord, Madman of the Empty Valley, I bow at your feet. ~ Gyaltsen Sangpo, #KEYS
72:Why should you be helpless? Does not the Master guide you through good and bad? Why should you be so worried? I have deposited you at His holy feet. You will have to move about within that circle; you can't go beyond it. He is always protecting you. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
73:You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
~ Franz Kafka,#KEYS
74:Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars
And saw the spaces ready for her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
75:A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
Her feet upon a couchant lion's back. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
76:If the mind does not become steadily fixed at the feet of Sri Sri Thakur, then pray to Him with yearning - 'O Thakur, please make my mind steady,' Know definitely that Sri Sri Thakur is hearing all your words and is able to know all your thoughts and moods. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
77:Behind her an ineffable Presence stood:
Her reign received their mystic influences,
Their lion-forces crouched beneath her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
78:The great cannot exist without the small, nor the small without the great. There is a mixture in all things, and all this serves a useful purpose. Take our own body: the head is nothing with out the feet, and the feet are similarly nothing without the head. ~ Saint Clement of Rome, #KEYS
79:Try diligently to check this mad outward rush of your mind. You can do this if you do not try to meditate as soon as you sit down. First draw the mind back from its external pursuits by means of discrimination, & lock it up inside, at the sacred feet of your Chosen Ideal.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
80:Feet (Mother's)
A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable
Overwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became
A fiery ocean of felicity;
He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
81:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
82:40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher. ~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
83:It matters not if you live the life of a house-holder, only you must fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and hold the feet of the Lord with the other. When you have no work in the world to do, hold His feet fast to your heart with both your hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
84:Inspiration with her lightning feet,
A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
85:The more thou shalt advance, the more thy feet shall encounter bog and morass. The path which thou walkest, is lighted by one only fire, even the light of the audacity which burns in thy heart. The more thou shalt dare, the more thou shalt obtain ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:There is nothing wrong in the life of the world. There is no harm in that. But always keep your mind, on God. Know for certain that house, family & property are not yours. They are God's. Your real home is in God.' pray always with a longing heart for love of God's Lotus Feet ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
87:There is nothing wrong in the life of the world. There is no harm in that. But always keep your mind, on God. Know for certain that house, family & property are not yours. They are God's. Your real home is in God.' pray always with a longing heart for love of God's Lotus Feet. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
88:It is true that many things are recorded in the scriptures; but all these are useless without the realization & without devotion to His Lotus Feet. The almanac forecasts the rainfall of the year. But not a drop of water will you get by squeezing the almanac. No not even one drop ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
89:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre,
And none could bear but for his strength within,
Yet none would leave because of his delight.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
90:Through thousands of years of chiseling & modelling, the lives of the great prophets of yore come down to us; & yet, in my opinion, not one stands so high in brilliance as that life which I saw with my own eyes, at whose feet I have learnt everything —the life of Sri Ramakrishna~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
91:Heaven had unveiled its lustre in her eyes,
Her feet were moonbeams, her face was a bright sun,
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
To live again and feel the hands of calm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
92:This was the play of the bright gods of Thought.
Attracting into time the timeless Light,
Imprisoning eternity in the hours,
This they have planned, to snare the feet of Truth
In an aureate net of concept and of phrase ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
93:Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
94:[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel--back in 1980, before I was online--I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.' ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #KEYS
95:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
96:If iron is once changed to gold by the touch of the philosopher's stone, it may be kept in the earth or thrown into a mass of ordure, but always it will be gold and can never go back to its first condition. So is it with him whose heart has touched, were it but a single time, the feet of the Almighty; let him dwell amidst the tumult of the world or in the solitude of the forest, by nothing can he again be polluted. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
97:If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Jnana, [6], [T5],#KEYS
98:Your love renders you impatient and disturbed.
With such sincerity you have placed your head at her feet that you are oblivious to the world.
When in the eyes of your beloved riches don't count, gold and dust are as one to you.
You say that she dwells in your eyes - if they be closed, she is in your mind.
If she demands your life, you place it in her hand; if she places a sword upon your head, you hold it forward.
When earthly love produces such confusion and demands such obedience, don't you wonder if travelers of the road of God remain engulfed in the Ocean of Reality? ~ Saadi,#KEYS
99:Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams. ~ James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1, #KEYS
100:And as I ran along the shore, crushing sleeping flowers with heedless feet and maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces, I saw that the garden had no end under that moon; for where by day the walls were, there stretched now only new vistas of trees and paths, flowers and shrubs, stone idols and pagodas, and bendings of the yellow-litten stream past grassy banks and under grotesque bridges of marble. And the lips of the dead lotos-faces whispered sadly, and bade me follow, nor did I cease my steps till the stream became a river, and joined amidst marshes of swaying reeds and beaches of gleaming sand the shore of a vast and nameless sea. Upon ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
101:Krishna:::
At last I find a meaning of soul's birth
Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet.
I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
And heard the passion of the Lover's flute,
And known a deathless ecstasy's surprise
And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.
Nearer and nearer now the music draws,
Life shudders with a strange felicity;
All Nature is a wide enamoured pause
Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.
For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
102:The Golden Light :::
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became
A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane,
A calm illumination and a flame.
Thy golden Light came down into my throat,
And all my speech is now a tune divine,
A paean-song of Thee my single note;
My words are drunk with the Immortal's wine.
Thy golden Light came down into my heart
Smiting my life with Thy eternity;
Now has it grown a temple where Thou art
And all its passions point towards only Thee.
Thy golden Light came down into my feet,
My earth is now Thy playfield and Thy seat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
103:The Divine Worker
I face earth's happenings with an equal soul;
In all are heard Thy steps: Thy unseen feet
Tread Destiny's pathways in my front. Life's whole
Tremendous theorem is Thou complete.
No danger can perturb my spirit's calm:
My acts are Thine; I do Thy works and pass;
Failure is cradled on Thy deathless arm,
Victory is Thy passage mirrored in Fortune's glass.
In this rude combat with the fate of man
Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength;
Thy Force in me labours at its grandiose plan,
Indifferent to the Time-snake's crawling length.
No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.
Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
104:The other day I told you the meaning of bhakti. It is to adore God with body, mind, and words. 'With body' means to serve and worship God with one's hands, go to holy places with one's feet, hear the chanting of the name and glories of God with one's ears, and behold the divine image with one's eyes. 'With mind' means to contemplate and meditate on God constantly and to remember and think of His lila. 'With words' means to sing hymns to Him and chant His name and glories.
Devotion as described by Narada is suited to the Kaliyuga. It means to chant constantly the name and glories of God. Let those who have no leisure worship God at least morning and evening by whole-heartedly chanting His name and clapping their hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
105:For primitive man the world is full of demons and mysterious powers which he fears; the whole of Nature is animated by these forces, which are nothing but man's own inner powers projected into the outside world. Christianity and modern science have de-demonized Nature, which means that the European has consistently taken back the demonic powers out of the world into himself, and has steadily loaded his unconscious with them. Out of man himself the demonic powers rise up in revolt against the supposed spiritual constraints of Christianity. The demons begin to break out in Baroque art: the columns writhe, the furniture sprouts satyr's feet. Man is slowly transformed into a uroboros, the "tail-eater" who devours himself, from ancient times a symbol of the demon-ridden man. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
106:The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.
Into the fallen human sphere they came,
Faces that wore the Immortal's glory still,
Voices that communed still with the thoughts of God,
Bodies made beautiful by the spirit's light,
Carrying the magic word, the mystic fire,
Carrying the Dionysian cup of joy,
Approaching eyes of a diviner man,
Lips chanting an unknown anthem of the soul,
Feet echoing in the corridors of Time.
High priests of wisdom, sweetness, might and bliss,
Discoverers of beauty's sunlit ways
And swimmers of Love's laughing fiery floods
And dancers within rapture's golden doors,
Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth
And justify the light on Nature's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 3:4,#KEYS
107:Drink water from the spring where the horse drinks. A horse will never drink bad water.
Make your bed where the cat sleeps.
Eat the fruit that was touched by the worm.
Freely pick the mushrooms on which the insects sit.
Plant your tree where the mole digs.
Build your house where the snake suns itself.
Dig your well where the birds build their nests in hot weather.
Go to sleep and wake up with the chickens and you will reap the golden grain of the day.
Eat more green vegetables, and you will have strong legs and an enduring heart.
Swim more often and you will feel on land like a fish in the water.
Look at the skies more often and not at your feet, and your thoughts will be clear and light.
Keep silent more often, speak less, and silence will reign in your soul, and your spirit will be calm and peaceful.
~ Saint Seraphim of Sarov in Georgia,#KEYS
108:Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi.
For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make the existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow from her like the light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall of the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.
Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines the mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
109:You must ask yourself, if for 10 years if you didnt avoid doing what you knew you needed to do, by your own definitions right, within the value structure that you've created to the degree that youve done that, what would you be like? Well you know there are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time and there are people who do find out over decades long periods what they could be like if they were who they were if they said... if they spoke their being forward, and theyd get stronger and stronger. you do not know the limits to that, we do not know the limits to that and so you could say well in part perhaps the reason that you're suffering unbearably can be left at your feet because you are not everything you could be and you know it. and of course thats a terrible thing to admit and its a terrible thing to consider but theres real promise in it. perhaps theres another way you could look at the world and another way you could act in the world. .. Imagine many people did that. ~ Jordan Peterson, #KEYS
110:The tide of materialistic thoughts is always on the watch, waiting for the least weakness, and if we relax but one moment from our vigilance, if we are even slightly negligent, it rushes in and invades us from all sides, submerging under its heavy flood the result sometimes of numberless efforts. Then the being enters a sort of torpor, its physical needs of food and sleep increase, its intelligence is clouded, its inner vision veiled, and in spite of the little interest it really finds in such superficial activities, they occupy it almost exclusively. This state is extremely painful and tiring, for nothing is more tiring then materialistic thoughts, and the mind, worn out, suffers like a caged bird which cannot spread its wings and yet longs to be able to soar freely.
But perhaps this state has its own use which I do not see.... In any case, I do not struggle; and like a child in its mother's arms, like a fervent disciple at the feet of his master, I trust myself to Thee and surrender to Thy guidance, sure of Thy victory.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, January 4th, 1914,#KEYS
111:SHYAM: "What is the distinction between the gross body and the subtle body?"
MASTER: "The body consisting of the five gross elements is called the gross body. The subtle body is made up of the mind, the ego, the discriminating faculty, and the mind-stuff. There is also a causal body, by means of which one enjoys the Bliss of God and holds communion with Him. The Tantra calls it the Bhagavati Tanu, the Divine Body. Beyond all these is the Mahakarana, the Great Cause. That cannot be expressed by words.
"What is the use of merely listening to words? Do something! What will you achieve by merely repeating the word 'siddhi'? Will that intoxicate you? You will not be intoxicated even if you make a paste of siddhi and rub it all over your body. You must eat some of it. How can a man recognize yarns of different counts, such as number forty and number forty-one, unless he is in the trade? Those who trade in yarn do not find it at all difficult to describe a thread of a particular count. Therefore I say, practise a little spiritual discipline; then you will know all these — the gross, the subtle, the causal, and the Great Cause. While praying to God, ask only for love for His Lotus Feet." ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
112:And now what methods may be employed to safeguard the worker in the field of the world? What can be done to ensure his safety in the present strife, and in the greater strife of the coming centuries? 1. A realisation that purity of all the vehicles is the prime essential. If a Dark Brother gains control over any man, it but shows that that man has in his life some weak spot.... 2. The elimination of all fear. The forces of evolution vibrate more rapidly than those of involution, and in this fact lies a recognisable security. Fear causes weakness; weakness causes a disintegration; the weak spot breaks and a gap appears, and through that gap evil force may enter.... 3. A standing firm and unmoved, no matter what occurs. Your feet may be bathed in the mud of earth, but your head may be bathed in the sunshine of the higher regions... 4. A recognition of the use of common-sense, and the application of this common-sense to the matter in hand. Sleep much, and in sleeping, learn to render the body positive; keep busy on the emotional plane, and achieve the inner calm. Do naught to overtire the body physical, and play whenever possible. In hours of relaxation comes the adjustment that obviates later tension. ~ Alice A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation p. 137/8, (1922) #KEYS
113:Thought's long far-circling journey touched its close
And ineffective paused the actor Will.
The symbol modes of being helped no more,
The structures Nescience builds collapsing failed,
All glory of outline, sweetness of harmony,
Rejected like a grace of trivial notes,
Expunged from Being's silence nude, austere,
Died into a fine and blissful Nothingness.
The Demiurges lost their names and forms,
The great schemed worlds that they had planned and wrought
Passed, taken and abolished one by one.
The universe removed its coloured veil,
And at the unimaginable end
Of the huge riddle of created things
Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the whole,
His feet firm-based on Life's stupendous wings,
Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time,
Inward, inscrutable, with diamond gaze.
Attracted by the unfathomable regard
The unsolved slow cycles to their fount returned
To rise again from that invisible sea.
All from his puissance born was now undone;
Nothing remained the cosmic Mind conceives.
Eternity prepared to fade and seemed
A hue and imposition on the Void,
Space was the fluttering of a dream that sank
Before its ending into Nothing's deeps.
The spirit that dies not and the Godhead's self
Seemed myths projected from the Unknowable;
From It all sprang, in It is called to cease.
But what That was, no thought nor sight could tell.
Only a formless Form of self was left,
A tenuous ghost of something that had been,
The last experience of a lapsing wave ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 3:1,#KEYS
114:... Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study." He then led me to the frame, about the sides, whereof all his pupils stood in ranks. It was twenty feet square, placed in the middle of the room. The superfices was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. They were all linked together by slender wires. These bits of wood were covered, on every square, with paper pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language, in their several moods, tenses, and declensions; but without any order. The professor then desired me "to observe; for he was going to set his engine at work." The pupils, at his command, took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down. ~ Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels, #KEYS
115:Yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come. The first glimpse of the Divine Mother made him the more eager for Her uninterrupted vision. He wanted to see Her both in meditation and with eyes open. But the Mother began to play a teasing game of hide-and-seek with him, intensifying both his joy and his suffering. Weeping bitterly during the moments of separation from Her, he would pass into a trance and then find Her standing before him, smiling, talking, consoling, bidding him be of good cheer, and instructing him. During this period of spiritual practice he had many uncommon experiences. When he sat to meditate, he would hear strange clicking sounds in the joints of his legs, as if someone were locking them up, one after the other, to keep him motionless; and at the conclusion of his meditation he would again hear the same sounds, this time unlocking them and leaving him free to move about. He would see flashes like a swarm of fire-flies floating before his eyes, or a sea of deep mist around him, with luminous waves of molten silver. Again, from a sea of translucent mist he would behold the Mother rising, first Her feet, then Her waist, body, face, and head, finally Her whole person; he would feel Her breath and hear Her voice. Worshipping in the temple, sometimes he would become exalted, sometimes he would remain motionless as stone, sometimes he would almost collapse from excessive emotion. Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people. He would take a flower and touch it to his own head, body, and feet, and then offer it to the Goddess. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Gospel, #KEYS
116:There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is there for swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything before it. Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she deals roughly with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all that is obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [19],#KEYS
117:Response To A Logician :::
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.
And sing this song in response to you.
Listen, pay heed to what I say,
forget your critique for a while.
The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing"
the radiance of the mind itself.
The best prize is what cannot be looked for
the priceless treasure of the mind itself.
The most nourishing food is "noneating"
the transcendent food of samadhi.
The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking"
the nectar of heartfelt compassion.
Oh, this self-realizing awareness
is beyond words and description!
The mind is not the world of children,
nor is it that of logicians.
Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"
you receive the highest initiation.
Perceiving the void of high and low,
you reach the sublime stage.
Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"
you follow the supreme path.
Knowing the end of birth and death,
the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.
Seeing the emptiness of reason,
supreme logic is perfected.
When you know that great and small are groundless,
you have entered the highest gateway.
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view.
Observing the truth of "nonobservation"
opens the way to meditating.
Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"
opens the way to perfect action.
When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"
you are approaching the highest fruition.
Ignorant are those who lack this truth:
arrogant teachers inflated by learning,
scholars bewitched by mere words,
and yogis seduced by prejudice.
For though they yearn for freedom,
they find only enslavement. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
118:See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet;
And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those harmonious feet.
Ob, are they flying shadows from their native forms set free?
Or phantoms in the fairy ring that summer moonbeams see?
As, by the gentle zephyr blown, some light mist flees in air,
As skiffs that skim adown the tide, when silver waves are fair,
So sports the docile footstep to the heave of that sweet measure,
As music wafts the form aloft at its melodious pleasure,
Now breaking through the woven chain of the entangled dance,
From where the ranks the thickest press, a bolder pair advance,
The path they leave behind them lost--wide open the path beyond,
The way unfolds or closes up as by a magic wand.
See now, they vanish from the gaze in wild confusion blended;
All, in sweet chaos whirled again, that gentle world is ended!
No!--disentangled glides the knot, the gay disorder ranges--
The only system ruling here, a grace that ever changes.
For ay destroyed--for ay renewed, whirls on that fair creation;
And yet one peaceful law can still pervade in each mutation.
And what can to the reeling maze breathe harmony and vigor,
And give an order and repose to every gliding figure?
That each a ruler to himself doth but himself obey,
Yet through the hurrying course still keeps his own appointed way.
What, would'st thou know? It is in truth the mighty power of tune,
A power that every step obeys, as tides obey the moon;
That threadeth with a golden clue the intricate employment,
Curbs bounding strength to tranquil grace, and tames the wild enjoyment.
And comes the world's wide harmony in vain upon thine ears?
The stream of music borne aloft from yonder choral spheres?
And feel'st thou not the measure which eternal Nature keeps?
The whirling dance forever held in yonder azure deeps?
The suns that wheel in varying maze?--That music thou discernest?
No! Thou canst honor that in sport which thou forgettest in earnest.
~ Friedrich Schiller,#KEYS
119:the spiritual force behind adoration :::
All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendor appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified by a slight glimpse of this infinite Love and Lover. It is for this reason that the worship of the god, the worship of the idol, the human magnet or ideal are not to be despised; for these are steps through which the human race moves towards that blissful passion and ecstasy of the Infinite which, even in limiting it, they yet represent for our imperfect vision when we have still to use the inferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. Certain idolatries are indispensable for the development of our emotional being, nor will the man who knows be hasty at any time to shatter this image unless he can replace it in the heart of the worshipper by the Reality it figures. Moreover, they have this power because there is always something in them that is greater than their forms and, even when we reach the supreme worship, that abides and becomes a prolongation of it or a part of its catholic wholeness. our knowledge is still imperfect in us, love incomplete if even when we know That which surpasses all forms and manifestations, we cannot still accept the Divine in creature and object, in man, in the kind, in the animal, in the tree, in the flower, in the work of our hands, in the Nature-Force which is then no longer to us the blind action of a material machinery but a face and power of the universal Shakti: for in these things too is the presence of the Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, The Works of Love - The Works of Life, 159,#KEYS
120:
Sweet Mother, here it is written: "There is a Yoga-Shakti lying coiled or asleep..." How can it be awakened?
I think it awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution is sincere and one has an aspiration, it wakes up by itself.
In fact, it is perhaps its awakening which gives the aspiration to do yoga.
It is possible that it is a result of the Grace... or after some conversation or reading, something that has suddenly given you the idea and aspiration to know what yoga is and to practise it. Sometimes just a simple conversation with someone is enough or a passage one reads from a book; well, it awakens this Yoga-Shakti and it is this which makes you do your yoga.
One is not aware of it at first - except that something has changed in our life, a new decision is taken, a turning.
What is it, this Yoga-Shakti, Sweet Mother?
It is the energy of progress. It is the energy which makes you do the yoga, precisely, makes you progress - consciously. It is a conscious energy.
In fact, the Yoga-Shakti is the power to do yoga.
Sweet Mother, isn't it more difficult to draw the divine forces from below?
I think it is absolutely useless.
Some people think that there are more reserves of energy - I have heard this very often: a great reserve of energy - in the earth, and that if they draw this energy into themselves they will be able to do things; but it is always mixed.
The divine Presence is everywhere, that's well understood. And in fact, there is neither above nor below. What is called above and below, I think that is rather the expression of a degree of consciousness or a degree of materiality; there is the more unconscious and the less unconscious, there is what is subconscious and what is superconscious, and so we say above and below for the facility of speech.
But in fact, the idea is to draw from the energies of the earth which, when you are standing up, are under your feet, that is, below in relation to you. But these energies are always mixed, and mostly they are terribly dark.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
121:Accumulating Prostrations
Why Prostrate at All?
Why fling yourself full-length on an often filthy floor, then get up and do it again hundreds of thousands of times?
Prostrations are a very immediate method for taking refuge and one of the best available for destroying pride. They are an outer gesture of surrender to the truth of dharma, and an expression of our intention to give up and expose our pride.
So, as we take refuge, we prostrate to demonstrate our complete surrender by throwing ourselves at the feet of our guru and pressing the five points of our body — forehead, hands and knees — to the floor as many times as we can.
(In the Tibetan tradition there are two ways of doing prostrations: one is the full-length and the other the half-length prostration, and we usually accumulate the full-length version.)
Prostrations are said to bring a number of benefits, such as being reborn with an attractive appearance, or our words carry weight and are valued, or our influence over friends and colleagues is positive, or that we are able to manage those who work for us.
It is said that practitioners who accumulate prostrations will one day keep company with sublime beings and as a result become majestic, wealthy, attain a higher rebirth and eventually attain liberation.
For worldly beings, though, to contemplate all the spiritual benefits of prostrations and the amount of merit they accumulate is not necessarily the most effective way of motivating ourselves. The fact that prostrations are good for our health, on the other hand, is often just the incentive we need to get started.
It's true, doing prostrations for the sake of taking healthy exercise is a worldly motivation, but not one I would ever discourage.
In these degenerate times, absolutely anything that will inspire you to practise dharma has some value, so please go ahead and start your prostrations for the sake of the exercise. If you do, not only will you save money on your gym membership, you will build up muscle and a great deal of merit.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness - A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practises, Shambhala Publications,#KEYS
122:Now I have taught you about Immortal Man and have loosed the bonds of the robbers from him. I have broken the gates of the pitiless ones in their presence. I have humiliated their malicious intent, and they all have been shamed and have risen from their ignorance. Because of this, then, I came here, that they might be joined with that Spirit and Breath, [III continues:] and might from two become one, just as from the first, that you might yield much fruit and go up to Him Who Is from the Beginning, in ineffable joy and glory and honor and grace of the Father of the Universe.
"Whoever, then, knows the Father in pure knowledge will depart to the Father and repose in Unbegotten Father. But whoever knows him defectively will depart to the defect and the rest of the Eighth. Now whoever knows Immortal Spirit of Light in silence, through reflecting and consent in the truth, let him bring me signs of the Invisible One, and he will become a light in the Spirit of Silence. Whoever knows Son of Man in knowledge and love, let him bring me a sign of Son of Man, that he might depart to the dwelling-places with those in the Eighth.
"Behold, I have revealed to you the name of the Perfect One, the whole will of the Mother of the Holy Angels, that the masculine multitude may be completed here, that there might appear in the aeons, the infinities and those that came to be in the untraceable wealth of the Great Invisible Spirit, that they all might take from his goodness, even the wealth of their rest that has no kingdom over it. I came from First Who Was Sent, that I might reveal to you Him Who Is from the Beginning, because of the arrogance of Arch-Begetter and his angels, since they say about themselves that they are gods. And I came to remove them from their blindness, that I might tell everyone about the God who is above the universe. Therefore, tread upon their graves, humiliate their malicious intent, and break their yoke and arouse my own. I have given you authority over all things as Sons of Light, that you might tread upon their power with your feet."
These are the things the blessed Savior said, and he disappeared from them. Then all the disciples were in great, ineffable joy in the spirit from that day on. And his disciples began to preach the Gospel of God, the eternal, imperishable spirit. Amen.
~ The Sophia of Jesus, (excerpt), The Nag Hamadi Library,#KEYS
123:requirements for the psychic :::
At a certain stage in the Yoga when the mind is sufficiently quieted and no longer supports itself at every step on the sufficiency of its mental certitudes, when the vital has been steadied and subdued and is no longer constantly insistent on its own rash will, demand and desire, when the physical has been sufficiently altered not to bury altogether the inner flame under the mass of its outwardness, obscurity or inertia, an inmost being hidden within and felt only in its rare influences is able to come forward and illumine the rest and take up the lead of the sadhana. Its character is a one-pointed orientation towards the Divine or the Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the clinging mixture of the undivine. Its action is like a searchlight showing up all that has to be changed in the nature; it has in it a flame of will insistent on perfection, on an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer existence. It sees the divine essence everywhere but rejects the mere mask and the disguising figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward joy and not on mere vital pleasure, -- for it prefers rather a purifying suffering and sorrow to degrading satisfactions, -- on love winged upward and not tied to the stake of egoistic craving or with its feet sunk in the mire, on beauty restored to its priesthood of interpretation of the Eternal, on strength and will and mastery as instruments not of the ego but of the Spirit. Its will is for the divinisation of life, the expression through it of a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal.
But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1,#KEYS
124:The Song Of Food And Dwelling :::
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.
Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,
Pray make me realize my own body as the house of Buddha,
Pray grant me this knowledge.
I built the house through fear,
The house of Sunyata, the void nature of being;
Now I have no fear of its collapsing.
I, the Yogi with the wish-fulfilling gem,
Feel happiness and joy where'er I stay.
Because of the fear of cold, I sought for clothes;
The clothing I found is the Ah Shea Vital Heat.
Now I have no fear of coldness.
Because of the fear of poverty, I sought for riches;
The riches I found are the inexhaustible Seven Holy Jewels.
Now I have no fear of poverty.
Because of the fear of hunger, I sought for food;
The food I found is the Samadhi of Suchness.
Now I have no fear of hunger.
Because of the fear of thirst, I sought for drink;
The heavenly drink I found is the wine of mindfulness.
Now I have no fear of thirst.
Because of the fear of loneliness, I searched for a friend;
The friend I found is the bliss of perpetual Sunyata.
Now I have no fear of loneliness.
Because of the fear of going astray,
I sought for the right path to follow.
The wide path I found is the Path of Two-in-One.
Now I do not fear to lose my way.
I am a yogi with all desirable possessions,
A man always happy where'er he stays.
Here at Yolmo Tagpu Senge Tson,
The tigress howling with a pathetic, trembling cry,
Reminds me that her helpless cubs are innocently playing.
I cannot help but feel a great compassion for them,
I cannot help but practice more diligently,
I cannot help but augment thus my Bodhi-Mind.
The touching cry of the monkey,
So impressive and so moving,
Cannot help but raise in me deep pity.
The little monkey's chattering is amusing and pathetic;
As I hear it, I cannot but think of it with compassion.
The voice of the cuckoo is so moving,
And so tuneful is the lark's sweet singing,
That when I hear them I cannot help but listen
When I listen to them,
I cannot help but shed tears.
The varied cries and cawings of the crow,
Are a good and helpful friend unto the yogi.
Even without a single friend,
To remain here is a pleasure.
With joy flowing from my heart, I sing this happy song;
May the dark shadow of all men's sorrows
Be dispelled by my joyful singing. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
125:He continuously reflected on her image and attributes, day and night. His bhakti was such that he could not stop thinking of her. Eventually, he saw her everywhere and in everything. This was his path to illumination.
He was often asked by people: what is the way to the supreme? His answer was sharp and definite: bhakti yoga. He said time and time again that bhakti yoga is the best sadhana for the Kali Yuga (Dark Age) of the present.
His bhakti is illustrated by the following statement he made to a disciple:
To my divine mother I prayed only for pure love.
At her lotus feet I offered a few flowers and I prayed:
Mother! here is virtue and here is vice;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is knowledge and here is ignorance;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is purity and impurity;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Ramakrishna, like Kabir, was a practical man.
He said: "So long as passions are directed towards the world and its objects, they are enemies. But when they are directed towards a deity, then they become the best of friends to man, for they take him to illumination. The desire for worldly things must be changed into longing for the supreme; the anger which you feel for fellow man must be directed towards the supreme for not manifesting himself to you . . . and so on, with all other emotions. The passions cannot be eradicated, but they can be turned into new directions."
A disciple once asked him: "How can one conquer the weaknesses within us?" He answered: "When the fruit grows out of the flower, the petals drop off themselves. So when divinity in you increases, the weaknesses of human nature will vanish of their own accord." He emphasized that the aspirant should not give up his practices. "If a single dive into the sea does not bring you a pearl, do not conclude that there are no pearls in the sea. There are countless pearls hidden in the sea.
So if you fail to merge with the supreme during devotional practices, do not lose heart. Go on patiently with the practices, and in time you will invoke divine grace." It does not matter what form you care to worship. He said: "Many are the names of the supreme and infinite are the forms through which he may be approached. In whatever name and form you choose to worship him, through that he will be realized by you." He indicated the importance of surrender on the path of bhakti when he said:
~ Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya,#KEYS
126:Mother of Dreams :::
Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest,
Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting?
Dream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the flame of the stars still around them;
Shadows at thy side in a darkness ride where the wild fires dance, stars glow and glance and the random meteor glistens;
There are voices that cry to their kin who reply; voices sweet, at the heart they beat and ravish the soul as it listens.
What then are these lands and these golden sands and these seas more radiant than earth can imagine?
Who are those that pace by the purple waves that race to the cliff-bound floor of thy jasper shore under skies in which mystery muses,
Lapped in moonlight not of our night or plunged in sunshine that is not diurnal?
Who are they coming thy Oceans roaming with sails whose strands are not made by hands, an unearthly wind advances?
Why do they join in a mystic line with those on the sands linking hands in strange and stately dances?
Thou in the air, with a flame in thy hair, the whirl of thy wonders watching,
Holdest the night in thy ancient right, Mother divine, hyacinthine, with a girdle of beauty defended.
Sworded with fire, attracting desire, thy tenebrous kingdom thou keepest,
Starry-sweet, with the moon at thy feet, now hidden now seen the clouds between in the gloom and the drift of thy tresses.
Only to those whom thy fancy chose, O thou heart-free, is it given to see thy witchcraft and feel thy caresses.
Open the gate where thy children wait in their world of a beauty undarkened.
High-throned on a cloud, victorious, proud I have espied Maghavan ride when the armies of wind are behind him;
Food has been given for my tasting from heaven and fruit of immortal sweetness;
I have drunk wine of the kingdoms divine and have healed the change of music strange from a lyre which our hands cannot master,
Doors have swung wide in the chambers of pride where the Gods reside and the Apsaras dance in their circles faster and faster.
For thou art she whom we first can see when we pass the bounds of the mortal;
There at the gates of the heavenly states thou hast planted thy wand enchanted over the head of the Yogin waving.
From thee are the dream and the shadows that seem and the fugitive lights that delude us;
Thine is the shade in which visions are made; sped by thy hands from celestial lands come the souls that rejoice for ever.
Into thy dream-worlds we pass or look in thy magic glass, then beyond thee we climb out of Space and Time to the peak of divine endeavour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
127:Apotheosis ::: One of the most powerful and beloved of the Bodhisattvas of the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet, China, and Japan is the Lotus Bearer, Avalokiteshvara, "The Lord Looking Down in Pity," so called because he regards with compassion all sentient creatures suffering the evils of existence. To him goes the millionfold repeated prayer of the prayer wheels and temple gongs of Tibet: Om mani padme hum, "The jewel is in the lotus." To him go perhaps more prayers per minute than to any single divinity known to man; for when, during his final life on earth as a human being, he shattered for himself the bounds of the last threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard. Under differing forms he traverses the ten thousand worlds, and appears in the hour of need and prayer. He reveals himself in human form with two arms, in superhuman forms with four arms, or with six, or twelve, or a thousand, and he holds in one of his left hands the lotus of the world.
Like the Buddha himself, this godlike being is a pattern of the divine state to which the human hero attains who has gone beyond the last terrors of ignorance. "When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change." This is the release potential within us all, and which anyone can attain-through herohood; for, as we read: "All things are Buddha-things"; or again (and this is the other way of making the same statement) : "All beings are without self."
The world is filled and illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva ("he whose being is enlightenment"); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus. Pain and pleasure do not enclose him, he encloses them-and with profound repose. And since he is what all of us may be, his presence, his image, the mere naming of him, helps. "He wears a garland of eight thousand rays, in which is seen fully reflected a state of perfect beauty.
The color of his body is purple gold. His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. The halo surrounding his head is studded with five hundred Buddhas, miraculously transformed, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, who are attended, in turn, by numberless gods. And when he puts his feet down to the ground, the flowers of diamonds and jewels that are scattered cover everything in all directions. The color of his face is gold. While in his towering crown of gems stands a Buddha, two hundred and fifty miles high." - Amitayur-Dhyana Sutra, 19; ibid., pp. 182-183. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Apotheosis,#KEYS
128:(Nirodbaran:) "It was the first week of January 1930.
At about 3 p.m., I reached Dilip Kumar Roy's place. "Oh, you have come! Let us go," he said, and cutting a rose from his terrace-garden he added, "Offer this to the Mother." When we arrived at the Ashram he left me at the present Reading Room saying, "Wait here." My heart was beating nervously as if I were going to face an examination. A stately chair in the middle of the room attracted momentarily my attention. In a short while the Mother came accompanied by Nolini, Amrita and Dilip. She took her seat in the chair, the others stood by her side. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a ‘visionary gleam’ or a reality? Nothing like it had I seen before. Her fair complexion, set off by a finely coloured sari and a headband, gave me the impression of a goddess such as we see in pictures or in the idols during the Durga Puja festival. She was all smiles and redolent with grace. I suppose this was the Mahalakshmi smile Sri Aurobindo had spoken of in his book The Mother. She bathed me in the cascade of her smile and heart-melting look. I stood before her, shy and speechless, made more so by the presence of the others who were enjoying the silent sweet spectacle. Minutes passed. Then I offered to her hand my rose and did my pranam at her feet which had gold anklets on them. She stooped and blessed me. On standing up, I got again the same enchanting smile like moonbeams from a magic sky. After a time she said to the others, "He is very shy." "[1]
(Amal Kiran:) "Now to come back to all the people, all – the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face. (laughter) I think he had come straight from England or via some place in Bengal, but he carried something of the air of England. (laughter) He had passed out as a doctor at Edinburgh. I saw him, we became friends and we have remained friends ever since. But when he came as a doctor he was not given doctoring work here. As far as I remember he was made the head of a timber godown! (laughter) All sorts of strange jobs were being given to people. Look at the first job I got. The Mother once told me, "I would like you to do some work." I said, "All right, I am prepared to do some work." Then she said,"Will you take charge of our stock of furniture?" (laughter)"[2]
(Amal Kiran:) "To return to my friend Nirod – it was after some time that he got the Dispensary. I don't know whether he wanted it, or liked it or not, but he established his reputation as the frowning physician. (laughter) People used to come to him with a cold and he would stand and glare at them, and say, "What? You have a cold!" Poor people, they would simply shiver (laughter) and this had a very salutary effect because they thought that it was better not to fall ill than face the doctor's drastic disapproval of any kind of illness which would give him any botheration. (laughter) But he did his job all right, and every time he frightened off a patient he went to his room and started trying to write poetry (laughter) – because that, he thought, was his most important job. And, whether he succeeded as a doctor or not, as a poet he has eminently succeeded. Sri Aurobindo has really made him a poet.
The doctoring as well as the poetry was a bond between us, because my father had been a doctor and medicine ran in my blood. We used to discuss medical matters sometimes, but more often the problems and pains of poetry."[3] ~ https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran#KEYS
129: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
130:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
131:I am the God of Wealth, the Strong and Splendid, I am the Master of the thousands and the Regent of the millions, I am the puissant Creator, the full-handed gatherer, the opulent disposer of treasures. All the riches of every kind that are in the earth and on the earth and below it and all the riches that are in the waters are mine by right; I have power over all their plenitudes. My power is for the Mother; I call all these riches for her, that I may dedicate them to her, that I may lay them at the feet of the Mother of Radiances, ॐ तथास्तु.. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:My feet is my only carriage. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 2:With white feet glancing light as air, ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 3:Six feet of dirt make all men equal. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 4:No chains around my feet, But I'm not free. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 5:To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 6:Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 7:The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 8:Look up at the stars, not down at your feet. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 9:Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 10:I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 11:You have to jump into disaster with both feet. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 12:Never test the depth of river with both the feet. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 13:I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 14:A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 15:Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 16:The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 17:The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 18:I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 19:Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 20:A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ~ jules-renard, @wisdomtrove 21:In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 22:Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 23:The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 24:I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 25:Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 26:Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 27:The time is & 28:Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 29:Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 30:Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 31:I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 32:Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 33:Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 34:He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 35:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 36:I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 37:Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 38:When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 39:Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 40:Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 41:To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 42:We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 43:God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 44:The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 45:As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 46:Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 47:Grammar is... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 48:Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 49:He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 50:There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 51:Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 52:A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 53:If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud? ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 54:Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 55:The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 56:Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 57:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 58:The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 59:The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 60:I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 61:the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 62:Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 63:In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 64:A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 65:Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 66:Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently & 67:If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 68:Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 69:We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 70:Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 71:Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 72:Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 73:The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 74:We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 75:You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 76:After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 77:Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 78:In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 79:The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 80:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 81:Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 82:Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 83:With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 84:Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 85:Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 86:And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 87:A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 88:The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 89:When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 90:I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 91:I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 92:Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 93:Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 94:You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 95:This Speech Was Given Before The 96:And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 97:We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 98:Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 99:Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 100:And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?" and the other glanced out and down and said "Oh no, only about ten feet more." ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 101:A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in& 102:I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 103:It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 104:Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 105:Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 106:I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 107:Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 108:I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 109:My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 110:A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 111:I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 112:On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 113:He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 114:Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 115:The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain ‚Äî and the whole world is at your feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 116:Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 117:I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 118:Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 119:Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 120:Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 121:And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 122:This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here! ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 123:Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 124:Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 125:If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 126:This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 127:master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 128:If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 129:In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 130:Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 131:People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 132:Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 133:A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 134:A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 135:If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 136:This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 137:We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 138:a woman's place is in the kitchen... sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 139:Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 140:flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 141:You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 142:I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 143:We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 144:Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 145:It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 146:A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 147:The more love you give in your day-to-day life, the greater the magnetic power of love you have in the field around you, and everything you want will fall at your feet. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 148:Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 149:The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 150:Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 151:I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 152:Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 153:So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 154:Don‚Äôt be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don‚Äôt be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 155:Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 156:For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 157:The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 158:Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 159:Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 160:Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 161:In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 162:And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 163:Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 164:Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 165:No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 166:Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 167:People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 168:You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 169:Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 170:If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 171:Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 172:Oh Mother, I don’t want name and fame; I don’t want the eight occult powers; Oh Mother, I have no desire for creature comforts; Please, Mother, Grant me the boon that I may have pure love For Thy lotus feet. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 173:What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 174:It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort... only to find a big bear hug coming his way. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 175:Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like & 176:You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 177:Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 178:Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 179:But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 180:I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,‚Äî This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 181:Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 182:It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 183:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 184:At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 185:What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 186:little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 187:When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 188:What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 189:Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 190:The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 191:She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 192:I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 193:Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 194:My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 195:Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ... just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 196:He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 197:Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 198:Joys and sorrows are time born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by them. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 199:One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 200:One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 201:Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground are a constant connection with the earth. Your feet bring your private clay in touch with the ancient, mother clay from which you first emerged. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 202:... And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 203:I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet - And I tip - drunken - Let no Pebble - smile - & 204:The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 205:You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 206:By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 207:I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building... I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done." ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 208:For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 209:Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 210:Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 211:Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 212:Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 213:He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320 ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 214:Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 215:Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 216:What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like & 217:Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the feet of your Guru. As a laundryman washes and cleans clothes, in the same way, I remove all the dirt which has stuck to you through your thoughts and actions. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 218:You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, & 219:There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 220:While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 221:What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness! ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 222:A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 223:It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 224:i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 225:I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 226:Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 227:Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 228:One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 229:There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 230:I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 231:The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 232:The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 233:Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 234:A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 235:Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people." ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 236:I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 237:We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 238:The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 239:During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 240:Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai & 241:To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 242:Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 243:We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 244:I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 245:I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 246:I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 247:He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 248:The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 249:The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 250:He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. & 251:The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 252:When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 253:Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 254:But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 255:We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 256:Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 257:Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 258:Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 259:Direct your attention into the body. Feel it from within. It is alive? Is there life in your hands, arms, legs, and feet – in your abdomen, your chest? Can you feel the subtle energy field that pervades the entire body and gives vibrant life to every organ and every call? Can you feel it simultaneously in all parts of the body as a single field of energy? ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 260:Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life! ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 261:[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should! ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 262:Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 263:The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 264:It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil's gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 265:Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 266:The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 267:This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 268:Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 269:He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 270:There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 271:You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 272:The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 273:A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 274:The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 275:Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 276:All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 277:We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 278:We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 279:This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 280:You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all - not some - all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value? ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 281:What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 282: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 283:Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 284:Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 285:Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being & 286:Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 287:Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 288:My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la! ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 289:The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 290:I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle? ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 291:Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 292:I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 293:Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 294:On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 295:Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures? ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 296:Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know? ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 297:I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 298:I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: & 299:There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 300:What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had been drowned and was reborn in another form. No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic. But this Siddhartha was somewhat changed, renewed. He had slept wonderfully. He was remarkably awake, happy and curious. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 301:When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 302:Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 303:... a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 304:Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 305:Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 306:I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I¬¥m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 307:Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 308:It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 309:There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. ‚ÄúGod created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it ! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 310:Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 311:Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 312:For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Vir√¢t? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 313:I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 314:Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 315:That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours... you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature... All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 316:When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of & 317:thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 318:Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 319:When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 320:The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 321:Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 322:Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 323:Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, & 324:We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 325:Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 326:Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand & 327:I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying & 328:So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing - a spontaneous handstand& 329:The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 330:He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 331:Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 332:Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. & 333:I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 334:Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 335:I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 336:A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 337:Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 338:Then Christ will say to us, & 339:And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself& 340:He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 341:Just as fire burns away all dross and rubbish, so the three fold suffering purges man's heart from all impurity and results in a growing single mindedness in his search after Truth. When he becomes deeply conscious of his weakness and tormented by the thoughts of his undesirable impulses and distressing characteristics, when afflictions like poverty, bereavement or humiliation make him feel his life is futile, then and then only does he develop real faith and religious fervor, and becomes anxious to surrender himself at the feet of the Supreme Being. Suffering should therefore be welcomed. Never does the soft moonlight appear more soothing than after the scorching heat of a summer day. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 342:For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is I didn’t get enough sleep. The next one is I don’t have enough time. Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don’t have enough of. ... Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we’re already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds are racing with a litany of what we didn’t get, or didn’t get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack. ... This internal condition of scarcity, this mind-set of scarcity, lives at the very heart of our jealousies, our greed, our prejudice, and our arguments with life. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:had feet of clay, ~ Crista McHugh, #NFDB
2:Rub her feet! ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
3:6,500 square feet. ~ Denise Kiernan, #NFDB
4:Baby Feet (Again) Jimmy ~ Judy Blume, #NFDB
5:On your feet, maggot! ~ Sarah M Eden, #NFDB
6:You talk with your feet. ~ A M Homes, #NFDB
7:Get on your feet or die. ~ Paul Hoffman, #NFDB
8:His feet where retarded. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
9:He shat on her feet in panic. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
10:My feet is my only carriage. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
11:Many famous feet have trod ~ Philip Larkin, #NFDB
12:Bare feet are the best shoes! ~ David Belle, #NFDB
13:Make your feet your friend. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
14:Dreams like feet, better than knees ~ Various, #NFDB
15:Bring anger and pride under your feet, ~ Rumi, #NFDB
16:M-O-O-N, that spells sore feet. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
17:A King should die on his feet. ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
18:Our loss put six feet under ground ~ Allen Tate, #NFDB
19:So I know where my feet are. ~ Robert Pattinson, #NFDB
20:fifty feet above the rocks. The wind ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
21:Her five-feet seven-inch frame ~ Beverly Jenkins, #NFDB
22:[Let's] put feet to our prayers. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
23:Someone to sweep you off your feet? ~ Louise Bay, #NFDB
24:When our feet hurt, we hurt all over. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
25:I'm the fastest thing on two feet. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
26:Made sure you saw my feet of clay. ~ Theresa Weir, #NFDB
27:Marks from Debbie Watson’s feet. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
28:The fog comes on little cat feet. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
29:Thou shalt never wash my feet. ~ John the Apostle, #NFDB
30:Six feet six inches. Dead even. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
31:Raffe sounds like Raw Feet. Coincidence? ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
32:Happiness is always two feet away! ~ Haythem Bastawy, #NFDB
33:I can remember, with unsteady feet, ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
34:Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet JOHN 13 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
35:Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
36:With aching hands and bleeding feet ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
37:Collins rewound the tape a few feet, then ~ John Saul, #NFDB
38:Every hundred feet the world changes ~ Roberto Bolano, #NFDB
39:Every hundred feet the world changes ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
40:My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
41:Pepy was six feet tall, with shoulders ~ Jon Scieszka, #NFDB
42:two-edged sword; Her feet go down ~ Wolf Dieter Storl, #NFDB
43:Better the feet slip then the tongue. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
44:I can’t not misstep. I have feet. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
45:I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. ~ Joshua Homme, #NFDB
46:I'm close to six feet, I like to think. ~ Tim Lincecum, #NFDB
47:Six thousand feet above men and time ... ~ John Zerzan, #NFDB
48:My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
49:Six feet of dirt make all men equal. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
50:haikus, unassuming and light on their feet. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
51:No chains around my feet, But I'm not free. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
52:Power and speed be hands and feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
53:the sand was like sugar under his feet. They ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
54:Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet. ~ Faith Hunter, #NFDB
55:Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
56:Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
57:Hollywood is tripping over its own feet. ~ Robert Englund, #NFDB
58:I have bad feet and I have weak ankles. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
59:Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave. ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
60:The feet of ghosts never touch the ground. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
61:To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
62:A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
63:and yanked him back to his feet. “Well fought. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
64:Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't. ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
65:Don't extend your feet beyond your blanket. ~ Julia Stuart, #NFDB
66:Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
67:feet—“Charlotte.” Someone inside was using her ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
68:He treats me like the dirt under my feet. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
69:I'm really good with fighting with my feet. ~ Eric Roberts, #NFDB
70:It is now two million square feet of echo. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
71:its skydiving with your feet on the ground. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
72:Love should make you feel ten feet tall. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
73:The path is always right beneath your feet. ~ Issan Dorsey, #NFDB
74:Her feet had turned into snails. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
75:I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. ~ Mariah Carey, #NFDB
76:I hear music and my feet just start moving. ~ Dick Van Dyke, #NFDB
77:It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A. ~ Caitlin Stasey, #NFDB
78:I want to lay my kill at your feet. ~ Annette Curtis Klause, #NFDB
79:LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
80:six feet tall, with a passing resemblance ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
81:wizard crackers every few feet along the table. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
82:You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt. ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
83:He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love. ~ Gaston Leroux, #NFDB
84:His heart was dancing far ahead of his feet. ~ Janet Lambert, #NFDB
85:I learned all about life with a ball at my feet ~ Ronaldinho, #NFDB
86:Toreador pants make your feet look big too ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
87:Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet. ~ Leo F Buscaglia, #NFDB
88:Feet are resilient, they’re like women that way, ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
89:I can feel the thunder underneath my feet ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
90:I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right. ~ Billy Crystal, #NFDB
91:If you're on your back, you're not on your feet! ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
92:It was about three feet wide and stippled ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
93:Move with your feet, the hands will follow. ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #NFDB
94:Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
95:The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
96:He set my feet on a rock and made my steps secure. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
97:He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet. ~ Chris Waddle, #NFDB
98:I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon. ~ Steve Coogan, #NFDB
99:I heard the pitter patter of little old feet. ~ Lawrence Block, #NFDB
100:Look up at the stars, not down at your feet. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
101:Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. ~ Plato, #NFDB
102:Our feet are our body's connection to the earth. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
103:Six feet of dirt make all men equal. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
104:When the spirit is willing your feet are light. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
105:As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally. ~ Lena Headey, #NFDB
106:Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise. ~ Ibn Majah, #NFDB
107:Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
108:If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. ~ Art Blakey, #NFDB
109:I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. ~ Douglas J Feith, #NFDB
110:i prefer to die on my feet,than live on my knees ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
111:Jump in with both feet. Stop making excuses. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
112:my feet. Because of you, I can survive. I hope ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
113:My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me, ~ Jay Electronica, #NFDB
114:My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet ~ Edith Wharton,#NFDB
115:Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
116:Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet. ~ Kelly Link, #NFDB
117:When the heart is right, the feet are swift. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
118:Where your will is ready, your feet are light. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
119:You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet. ~ Kass Morgan, #NFDB
120:And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet. ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
121:for every mile the feet go
the heart goes nine ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
122:His breath smelled like bananas and moldy feet. ~ Peter Lerangis, #NFDB
123:I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
124:Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
125:To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
126:Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
127:When you fall, leap to your feet and try again. ~ Nadia Comaneci, #NFDB
128:You have to jump into disaster with both feet. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
129:You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing. ~ Charles S Dutton, #NFDB
130:Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
131:Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. ~ Acts, XXII. 3., #NFDB
132:Len – it’s skydiving with your feet on the ground. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
133:Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now. ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
134:Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~ Colette, #NFDB
135:slattern’s robe. Her feet were red at the knuckles ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
136:The moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy. ~ Thierry Henry, #NFDB
137:The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
138:What seems over your head is always under His feet. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
139:Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
140:- You're so hateful.
- I learned at your feet. ~ Gillian Flynn,#NFDB
141:A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
142:A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
143:And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
144:another insect wandering past the feet of gods. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
145:I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid. ~ Keith Miller, #NFDB
146:If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet. ~ Ashley Madekwe, #NFDB
147:I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
148:Money looks better in the bank than on your feet. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
149:Never test the depth of river with both the feet. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
150:Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
152:A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
153:A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
154:A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
155:Another was: You’re a babe. Tickle my feet. XO Beulah ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
156:I don’t need to be at your feet. I already worship you, ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
157:I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. ~ Emiliano Zapata, #NFDB
158:It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
159:The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, #NFDB
160:When I say jump, fucking leap twenty feet. Got it? ~ Cecilia Robert, #NFDB
161:Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground. ~ Rupert Grint, #NFDB
162:Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? ~ Frida Kahlo, #NFDB
163:Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth. ~ Sitting Bull, #NFDB
164:How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
165:Love’s feet are always pleased to step on ashes. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
166:Music should either move your feet or move your heart ~ Paul van Dyk, #NFDB
167:The vaulted ceiling was twenty feet tall, lined with— ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
168:And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet. ~ Ricky Martin, #NFDB
169:Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet. ~ Morrie Ryskind, #NFDB
170:I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
171:I just put my feet in the ground and move them around. ~ Fred Astaire, #NFDB
172:I lay my heart at your feet because you own me, baby. ~ Sydney Landon, #NFDB
173:Why do I feel ten feet tall when I make her laugh? ~ E L James, #NFDB
174:Jesus was five feet and three and a half inches long. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
175:Politics was about watching where you put your feet. ~ Jonas Jonasson, #NFDB
176:Punch with your mouth and talk with your feet. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
177:The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
178:The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
179:they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
180:To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
181:Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
182:You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump? ~ Johnny Knoxville, #NFDB
183:And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet. ~ Kristin Cast, #NFDB
184:Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. ~ Hassan Fathy, #NFDB
185:do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
186:Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly. ~ Frida Kahlo,#NFDB
187:God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
188:his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
189:I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara, #NFDB
190:I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went. ~ Mathew Brady, #NFDB
191:I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB
192:My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet ~ Elaine Paige, #NFDB
193:The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. ~ Alice Cooper, #NFDB
194:The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
195:The will is always near, dear, though the feet vary. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
196:Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
197:Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
198:When he settles her feet and the chair’s feet both ~ Greer Macallister, #NFDB
199:As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet." ~ Eric Butterworth, #NFDB
200:Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet. ~ Edwina Currie, #NFDB
201:Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
202:I cried because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet ~ Saadi, #NFDB
203:I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
204:I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
205:Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street. ~ Dorothy Fields, #NFDB
206:Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars. ~ Casey Kasem, #NFDB
207:Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
208:Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
209:Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
210:Still he’d only missed his Bronco by a few hundred feet. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
211:The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet. ~ Robert Palmer, #NFDB
212:The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet ~ Kevin Keegan, #NFDB
213:the theorists theorize without ever getting their feet wet. ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
214:You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too. ~ Lee Remick, #NFDB
215:Aren’t your feet supposed to be the same size as each other? ~ R L Stine, #NFDB
216:Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
217:I hate feet, they're disgusting... what are they even for? ~ Peter Andre, #NFDB
218:I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
219:I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet. ~ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, #NFDB
220:She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing. ~ Niccol Ammaniti, #NFDB
221:Aunty said no, that’s where we got our small hands and feet. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
222:Cabs, cabs! Why did God give you feet? Walk me to Fiftieth. ~ Herman Wouk, #NFDB
223:Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
224:Hi, sweet pea.” He smiled as he set her back on her feet. ~ Elaine Levine, #NFDB
225:I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
226:I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
227:If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
228:I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
229:Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
230:People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life. ~ Toks Olagundoye, #NFDB
231:The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
232:These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them? ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
233:They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer. ~ Bruce Forsyth, #NFDB
234:They must always wash their hands and feet, or they will die. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
235:A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud. ~ Gary Corby, #NFDB
236:beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
237:Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
238:Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
239:Get your filthy paws off my son, feet pue tan!" Cherise ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
240:Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
241:I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
242:I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet. ~ Jack Johnson, #NFDB
243:I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
244:January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. ~ Sara Coleridge, #NFDB
245:Just because you kill people doesn't mean your feet should. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
246:Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
247:Rhizan gathered in writhing clumps at his hands and feet, ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
248:Silver at her throat. Stone at her feet. Iron in her heart. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
249:The bottom of my feet hurt like a bitch’s ass at a BDSM club. ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
250:When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function. ~ Johann Georg Hamann, #NFDB
251:Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet? ~ Virgil, #NFDB
252:Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
253:About three feet from where you were tossing your dirty water. ~ Beth Flynn, #NFDB
254:A man who flatterers his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
255:And the dog of my future, lying at my feet, is snoring now. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
256:Because when you're flat on your back you're not on your feet. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
257:Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
258:Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
259:He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
260:If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. ~ Fred Beck, #NFDB
261:I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
262:I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
263:Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
264:Nature seems to unbutton its waistcoat and put its feet up. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
265:Nobody can get at your heart once it's lying six feet under. ~ Lesley Kagen, #NFDB
266:She came awake and to her feet when screams pierced the night. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
267:The best way to dream is with your eyes open and feet moving ~ Tony Gaskins, #NFDB
268:There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. ~ Nicolas Chamfort, #NFDB
269:they could use in an identity search. “Six feet, one ninety, ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
270:They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane. ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
271:We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald, #NFDB
272:As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what Im saying? ~ Dule Hill, #NFDB
273:do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
274:Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. ~ Faith Hill, #NFDB
275:For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet. ~ Astor Piazzolla, #NFDB
276:I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
277:I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground. ~ Nicole Kidman, #NFDB
278:If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
279:I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe. ~ Ellen Barkin, #NFDB
280:I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. —Voltaire ~ S T Abby, #NFDB
281:Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what. ~ Jared Leto, #NFDB
282:Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
283:Never test the depth of a river with both feet. ~ Bathroom Readers Institute, #NFDB
284:Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
285:Podo rushed back to his friend and pulled him to his feet. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
286:Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
287:"The path of enlightenment is what is underneath our feet." ~ Douglas Penick, #NFDB
288:Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees. ~ Andy McNab, #NFDB
289:Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
290:Honestly. There are days when I only open my mouth to change feet. ~ Zo Sharp, #NFDB
291:I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
292:I eat beef jerky and ride with bare feet on the dashboard. We ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
293:I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some. ~ Merle Haggard, #NFDB
294:I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
295:Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
296:Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet. ~ Julie Garwood, #NFDB
297:My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
298:No great dream has ever come to the feet of his dreamer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
299:one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A ~ Adam Hochschild, #NFDB
300:Scarlett Garcia fell at the feet of no gloriously delicious man! ~ Lola Stark, #NFDB
301:The only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
302:Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears ~ Pauline Oliveros, #NFDB
303:When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth? ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
304:but it was a peace with swollen feet and a limp in its gait. ~ Chigozie Obioma, #NFDB
305:I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. ~ Wally Lamb, #NFDB
306:I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
307:It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
308:I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
309:Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
310:Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ~ Giovannino Guareschi, #NFDB
311:The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
312:The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
313:Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES! ~ Jeff Smith, #NFDB
314:American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ~ Charles G Dawes, #NFDB
315:Could be a wolf. Maybe a lion.” “With four feet, you think? Or two? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
316:disarray as they were pulled to their feet by their escorts. We ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
317:Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
318:Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
319:He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
320:He will strengthen you and comfort you when you sit at his feet. ~ Sarah Sundin, #NFDB
321:I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
322:I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
323:I hope the footprints I leave behind are smaller than my feet. ~ Zachary Koukol, #NFDB
324:I’ll let you into my heart
but wipe your feet at the door. ~ Atticus Poetry,#NFDB
325:I used to cry because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
326:I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
327:Ra warbled, ‘Hel-lo-o-o-o-o!’ and stumbled to his feet. He began ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
328:Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another. ~ John Ajvide Lindqvist, #NFDB
329:Then I brace my feet against the casements and
rescue myself. ~ Mackenzi Lee,#NFDB
330:We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand. ~ Old Tom Morris, #NFDB
331:Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
332:You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off. ~ Jim Thompson, #NFDB
333:A garden of soda bottles filled with water grew by his feet. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
334:Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
335:Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
336:Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. ~ Michael Douglas, #NFDB
337:Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
338:Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
339:He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
340:Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
341:I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
342:Invite a man to your table, and soon he will place his feet upon it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
343:I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.” - Voltaire ~ Lily White, #NFDB
344:I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
345:No one can escape their pasts. It lives as shackles at your feet. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
346:Stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
347:The hinged clogs were transforming his feet into blood puddings. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
348:The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci, #NFDB
349:You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
350:You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is. ~ George Cukor, #NFDB
351:April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet. ~ Sara Coleridge, #NFDB
352:feet on the deck over their heads and then the sound, far off but ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
353:forward, and he tried to get to his feet again, but his leg collapsed ~ S M Reine, #NFDB
354:I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
355:I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees. ~ Emiliano Zapata, #NFDB
356:One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
357:PSA119.105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
358:The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
359:This girl could bring me to her feet, but I’d always stand for her. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
360:Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
361:Will you want me just as much when I’m fifteen feet nine inches? ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
362:You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
363:And her hair was a folded flower
And the quiet of love in her feet. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB
364:Anelka was travelling so fast that he couldn't keep his own feet ~ Clive Tyldesley, #NFDB
365:around here.” She changed the subject and rose to her feet. “And ~ Debra Burroughs, #NFDB
366:Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
367:Boys, come with me,” Podo ordered, and they leapt to their feet. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
368:He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
369:He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
~ Joseph Joubert,#NFDB
370:His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
371:If my cock had scales and another ninety feet it’d be a dragon! ~ Jonathan Strahan, #NFDB
372:I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
373:Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet ~ Woody Hayes, #NFDB
374:No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. ~ Quintus Ennius, #NFDB
375:only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
376:Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
377:She was suddenly aware of how empty her feet felt inside her shoes. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
378:Standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet. ~ Patricia Wentworth, #NFDB
379:The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
380:The King pointed to the carpet at his feet. “On your knees, bastard.” — ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
381:To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet. ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
382:What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet? ~ Mary Slessor, #NFDB
383:You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet.
- Bellamy Blake ~ Kass Morgan,#NFDB
384:Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. Psalm 119:105 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
385:A great wave washed at your feet and dark wings lifted you away. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
386:A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
387:Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
388:Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
389:Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? —FRIDA KAHLO ~ Patry Francis, #NFDB
390:Get out! yelled a voice in his head but his feet didn’t move. ~ Christopher Greyson, #NFDB
391:He always walks like the sidewalk was put there just for his feet. ~ Jason Reynolds, #NFDB
392:I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet. ~ Famke Janssen, #NFDB
393:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
394:Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
395:Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
396:Never test the depth of the river with both feet. —WARREN BUFFETT ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
397:not here to babysit you.” Aelissm bounced to her feet and offered ~ Suzie O Connell, #NFDB
398:Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
399:Swept off my feet and out to sea by the undertow of my own life..... ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
400:When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake! ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
401:When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
402:Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way. ~ Philippe Petit, #NFDB
403:You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
404:Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
405:I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
406:I have blisters on my feet from dancing alone with your ghost. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
407:It is easy to be eyes and ears. It is harder to be fists and feet. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
408:I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet. ~ Ruta Sepetys,#NFDB
409:I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.’” I ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
410:Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet. ~ Richard Stearns, #NFDB
411:Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit. ~ Costa Gavras, #NFDB
412:To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. ~ Jean Baptiste Rousseau, #NFDB
413:Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal? ~ William Booth, #NFDB
414:Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags. ~ Charles W Colson, #NFDB
415:Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head? ~ Wendy O Williams, #NFDB
416:God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
417:Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
418:Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet. ~ Stanley Spencer, #NFDB
419:I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen. ~ Kimberly Raye, #NFDB
420:If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that. ~ Marv Albert, #NFDB
421:If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
422:I’m a grown man, but the threat of calling my mother gets me on my feet ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
423:I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
424:I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~ ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
425:Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
426:Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully ~ Isobelle Carmody, #NFDB
427:She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
428:Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
429:Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
430:The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
431:There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
432:thousands of years of history under their feet, and definitely unaware ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
433:We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
434:We were ten feet away when we triggered the First Law of Percy Jackson ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
435:When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
436:all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it. ~ tienne Gilson, #NFDB
437:A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world. ~ Mat Johnson, #NFDB
438:He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet, ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
439:If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else. ~ Richard Schmid, #NFDB
440:I'm just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet ... and where not to. ~ J Z Colby, #NFDB
441:No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
442:Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
443:the only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet in depth. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
444:To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
445:An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
446:A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice. ~ Homer, #NFDB
447:HANDS UP, FEET APART, MOUTHS SHUT. DON’T MOVE AND WE WON’T SHOOT YOU.” I ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
448:Her feet wriggled against me like little puppies under the blanket. ~ Jacqueline Wilson, #NFDB
449:I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~ Lettie Cowman, #NFDB
450:I fall at the feet of those who meditate on the Truest of the True. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
451:If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
452:It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
453:Neutral feet start in your trunk, so really go after those tight hips: ~ Kelly Starrett, #NFDB
454:No appendages or extremities (no tongues, no feet, no claws, no ears). ~ Jennifer 8 Lee, #NFDB
455:Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
456:Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
457:Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
458:We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
459:You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet. ~ Alicia Silverstone, #NFDB
460:Any ending where you’re still standing on your own feet is a happy one. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
461:Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
462:Elise didn’t listen the corpse as James emptied his stomach a few feet away. ~ S M Reine, #NFDB
463:Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
464:He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
465:I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair. ~ Beyonce Knowles, #NFDB
466:I’m not swaying on my feet. I’m slow dancing to music only I can hear. ~ Tammy Blackwell, #NFDB
467:Marx inverted Hegel’s dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet. ~ David Harvey, #NFDB
468:Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet. ~ Luc Sante, #NFDB
469:My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me. ~ Mahalia Jackson, #NFDB
470:Out he went, his blue and ivory feet crushing the wet salad of the lawn. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
471:She’d shown me her fierceness. I worshipped at the feet of her ferocity. ~ Molly O Keefe, #NFDB
472:She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
473:shoes were so cut and slashed that they were ready to fall from her feet. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
474:Though this body be just six feet tall, in it is contained the entire universe. ~ Buddha, #NFDB
475:Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
476:A court of rotting corpses to worship at the feet of the goddess of death. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
477:And then she smiled a smile so dazzling, Rishi tripped over his own feet. ~ Sandhya Menon, #NFDB
478:At least thirty feet of assorted power cords and connector cables. Back-up ~ Rachel Sharp, #NFDB
479:Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
480:Come now, please continue. I'd like to kiss you before my feet disintegrate. ~ Cate Rowan, #NFDB
481:He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB
482:How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps? ~ Warsan Shire, #NFDB
483:If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
484:I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate. ~ Tracy Morgan, #NFDB
485:Invite a man to your table, and soon he will place his feet upon it. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
486:I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover. ~ Michael McMillian, #NFDB
487:It mattered not where her feet landed because her heart was certain. ~ Erica Bauermeister, #NFDB
488:It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself. ~ Jared Leto, #NFDB
489:It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
490:I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet. ~ Jesse McCartney, #NFDB
491:Mushrooms are fungus and fungus reminds me of feet and I don’t eat feet. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
492:Our feet have reached the holy places, but our hearts may not have done so. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
493:The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
494:"We walk with our feet in the mud, but our eyes can see the stars." ~ Christmas Humphreys, #NFDB
495:A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
496:At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
497:Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo. ~ Jerry Lawler, #NFDB
498:How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. ~ Homer, #NFDB
499:I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
500:In America, we have energy literally off our shores and under our feet. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
501:I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon. ~ Umberto Guidoni, #NFDB
502:I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
503:I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
504:is not sitting, but sitting at Jesus’ feet which is commendable. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
505:Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
506:Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. ~ Robert Andrews Millikan, #NFDB
507:There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
508:You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
509:Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.' ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
510:Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit.” When ~ William Finnegan, #NFDB
511:I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet. ~ Bonnie Wright, #NFDB
512:It's an important part of knight training - sweeping maidens off their feet. ~ Katie M John, #NFDB
513:Lady Bast, guide my feet. Guard my path. Know my heart resides with you. ~ Yasmine Galenorn, #NFDB
514:Mushrooms are fungus and fungus reminds me of feet and I don’t eat feet.”) ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
515:my feet were uncomfortable due to wearing high heels made from Satan’s asshole. ~ R J Lewis, #NFDB
516:Quest? What quest?” Misty got to her feet. “Did I wake up in Lord of the Rings? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
517:Roarke winced and began the delicate task of extracting his feet from his mouth. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
518:Seek not to know where the path may lead, only to keep your feet upon it. ~ Melissa McPhail, #NFDB
519:Swish, I swing from tree to tree. My feet are like hands - I’m a chimpanzee! ~ Julie Murphy, #NFDB
520:That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri, #NFDB
521:The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet. ~ Jimmy Carr, #NFDB
522:The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
523:The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp. ~ Edward Klein, #NFDB
524:There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
525:There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
526:The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
527:They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
528:When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
529:A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
530:As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
531:Before common sense could trump curiosity, my feet led me over for a closer look. ~ J D Horn, #NFDB
532:CALVIN:
Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien. ~ Bill Watterson,#NFDB
533:Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
534:Flatten your feet, because nothing in your life is too dead for resurrection. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
535:Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
536:I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
537:If my heart had feet, it would have been up the staircase before the rest of me. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
538:If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. ~ Iris Johansen, #NFDB
539:If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance. ~ Iris Johansen, #NFDB
540:I will lay my world at your feet, Anastasia. I want you, body and soul, forever. ~ E L James, #NFDB
541:my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
542:No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
543:Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
544:The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
545:There's man all over for you...blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
546:They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
547:What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. ~ Gregory Peck, #NFDB
548:Yeah, we got the skills Fake hexes and shooting feet Teach you ’bout pancakes ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
549:All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall. ~ Bea Arthur, #NFDB
550:And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
551:And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
552:And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
553:Bill Gates’s cabin is fifteen thousand square feet and cost $9 million to build, ~ David Rose, #NFDB
554:I am chaos. I am the undoing of man. And all the world will fall to my feet. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
555:I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. ~ Jim Bishop, #NFDB
556:I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
557:I don’t know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
558:I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
559:Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese. ~ Alan Garner, #NFDB
560:I would drop my life down at your feet and allow you to dance upon it, ~ Charlotte Vale Allen, #NFDB
561:Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
562:Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
563:She knew that being a mortal woman is hard on the heart, hard on the feet. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
564:Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady. ~ Hamish Bowles, #NFDB
565:strategy formation walks on two feet, one deliberate, the other emergent. ~ Lawrence Freedman, #NFDB
566:That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
567:The flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
568:The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
569:This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
570:We will walk to God
barefoot:
our feet lacerated,
our limbs wounded. ~ Saadi Youssef,#NFDB
571:Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet. ~ John Berryman, #NFDB
572:Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet. ~ W P Kinsella, #NFDB
573:He can't parade back into my life and expect me to throw confetti at his feet. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
574:If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
575:if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. ~ Andre Dubus III, #NFDB
576:I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
577:I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB
578:I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
579:On your feet, Christopher Herondale. We’ve been looking for you a long time. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
580:Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston, #NFDB
581:the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom. ~ William Scott Wilson, #NFDB
582:The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher. ~ Joseph J Romm, #NFDB
583:The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
584:The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. ~ John McGraw, #NFDB
585:Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
586:What did it mean, falling at his feet like that? Was it symbolic or what? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
587:Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. ~ Benvenuto Cellini, #NFDB
588:FEET: I stand in truth. I move forward with joy. I have spiritual understanding. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
589:If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. ~ Andre Dubus III, #NFDB
590:I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ~ Aaron Allston, #NFDB
591:It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air. ~ Reeve Carney, #NFDB
592:Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
593:People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
594:taking a nap --
feet planted
against a cool wall
~ Matsuo Basho, taking a nap
,#NFDB
595:The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor, #NFDB
596:You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ~ Clarence Day, #NFDB
597:All I saw was his beauty, his singing limbs, the quick flickering of his feet. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
598:A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
599:Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
600:Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
601:However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
602:I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
603:In old Quebec City, “magnificent” wasn’t measured in square feet, but in details. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
604:Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
605:Justice’s wheels were greased with paper and fueled by quick feet on the streets. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
606:Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
607:Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
608:Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
609:Seriously, what is it about men in jeans and bare feet which is so totally hot? ~ Samantha Towle, #NFDB
610:She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
611:The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal. ~ Chris Waddle, #NFDB
612:This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
613:When you stand unharmed, you find the strength to help those fallen at your feet. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
614:You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ~ Charles de Gaulle, #NFDB
615:Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander. ~ Amy Dickinson, #NFDB
616:Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath. ~ Robert Wyland, #NFDB
617:Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
618:Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
619:Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet. ~ Vespasian, #NFDB
620:God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
621:God, there were so many of them.
So many sets of dying eyes and scuffing feet. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
622:He may have peed on you feet, but nobody can pee on your soul without your permission. ~ A S King, #NFDB
623:I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet. ~ Niccolo Paganini, #NFDB
624:if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom. ~ Fannie Lou Hamer, #NFDB
625:If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more. ~ Horace, #NFDB
626:I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
627:If you Christians lived like Jesus Christ, India would be at your feet tomorrow. ~ John R W Stott, #NFDB
628:If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
629:If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
630:I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high. ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard, #NFDB
631:Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
632:Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
633:Plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
634:Sometimes the near seemed far, far away and the faraway was right beneath your feet. ~ Lou Berney, #NFDB
635:That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
636:These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
637:This thing on the floor between my feet is a classic case of misplaced aggression. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
638:We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
639:You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
640:Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness. ~ Megan Abbott, #NFDB
641:Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. ~ Russell B Long, #NFDB
642:Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me]. ~ Khloe Kardashian, #NFDB
643:From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. ~ Eugene V Debs, #NFDB
644:Hello, Consort,’’ Mauro boomed. He got to his feet, spread his arms, and curtsied. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
645:His feet still hurt horribly, but going back down the hill was easier than going up. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
646:I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
647:Janner woke with a start and leapt to his feet. The chamber was completely dark. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
648:Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
649:my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living. ~ Pablo Neruda,#NFDB
650:Our feet whispered through the grass as fireflies flickered in slow circles around ~ Emily Bleeker, #NFDB
651:Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound ~ Maxine Hong Kingston, #NFDB
652:Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
653:Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
654:splattered all over the wall, come right up off his feet like a pulled puppet just ~ Richard Price, #NFDB
655:The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene. ~ Andrew Barrett, #NFDB
656:We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it. ~ Walter Schloss, #NFDB
657:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
658:you pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
i stand up ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
659:Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
660:and Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square. ~ John Green, #NFDB
661:At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
662:Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
663:He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
664:I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
665:... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set! ~ Fran Drescher, #NFDB
666:I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me. ~ Kristanna Loken, #NFDB
667:I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one! ~ Chris Evert, #NFDB
668:Janner found his feet and struck the charging Fang’s blade upward with his sword. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
669:No one regards the things before his feet, But views with care the regions of the sky. ~ Democritus, #NFDB
670:One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. ~ Charles William Eliot, #NFDB
671:She felt safer back here, separated from this man by four feet of shining wood. ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
672:She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
673:Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet. ~ Walter Jon Williams, #NFDB
674:We’re fine.’
A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
675:What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
676:When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
677:Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
678:Who was there to soothe him as life’s rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet? ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
679:Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
680:Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, "Touch her, I’ll break your neck. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
681:Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, “Touch her, I’ll break your neck. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
682:If you want to leave your footprints On the sands of time Do not drag your feet. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
683:I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ~ Patrick Henry, #NFDB
684:I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB
685:I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
686:I’m not teaching you how to move your feet; I’m teaching you how to move your mind ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
687:I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground. ~ Joe Morton, #NFDB
688:It’s tough being an adult but we cope with that. You’re not getting cold feet, are you? ~ Carol Wyer, #NFDB
689:Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
690:Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
691:A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
692:Andre stood at my feet, looking like a fallen angel. A very pissed off fallen angel. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
693:A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
694:Because if this is to be my fate, I'm going to walk boldly into it on my own two feet. ~ Natasha Ngan, #NFDB
695:Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold. ~ Jimmy Greaves, #NFDB
696:Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
697:I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off. ~ Christina Ricci, #NFDB
698:in a whisper so quiet I barely hear it, so loud it makes the earth tremble at my feet. ~ Dahlia Adler, #NFDB
699:It is necessary to wash the saints’ feet, but be sure you do not do it in scalding water. ~ F B Meyer, #NFDB
700:Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
701:One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
702:Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
703:Rosebush after rosebush fell before their marching feet, plowed down by the vanguard. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
704:Several hundred feet ahead, Saphira and Thorn tussled, two giants in the night. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
705:The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
706:There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
707:Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
708:We live by night and dance fast so grass can't grow under our feet. That's our creed. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
709:When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it. ~ Kate Tempest, #NFDB
710:Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda. ~ Dan Harmon, #NFDB
711:You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet. ~ Tiffany Haddish, #NFDB
712:At last, the world stops spinning. The ground is solid beneath her feet once more. ~ Wendy Corsi Staub, #NFDB
713:Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet. ~ Richard Armour, #NFDB
714:Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
715:German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain, ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
716:He walks over to me, and I can see his feet and shins in my field of vision. Naked feet. I ~ E L James, #NFDB
717:If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around ~ Kentaro Miura, #NFDB
718:I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV. ~ Missi Pyle, #NFDB
719:in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely. ~ Padgett Powell, #NFDB
720:I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket. ~ Charles Kennedy, #NFDB
721:one must occasionally stand the world on
its head in order to put it on its feet. ~ Henning Mankell,#NFDB
722:There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
723:Well, Ginger, looks like we finally found the one man unwilling to grovel at your feet. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
724:Whatever you’re facing, it is under your feet. It is not permanent. It’s temporary. Stay ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
725:A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
726:A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
727:And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn’t showing up on his own two feet? ~ Joan Silber, #NFDB
728:Another strained silence fell, like a mostly dead mouse dropped at one’s feet by a cat. She ~ Eva Leigh, #NFDB
729:Behold at thy feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, O Mother of mercy, my refuge and my hope. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
730:don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
731:Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. ~ Gracie Allen, #NFDB
732:Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
733:He was eighteen feet from nose to tail," the fisherman who was measuring him called. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
734:I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
735:If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud? ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
736:If you come within two feet of this curtain, I will poke out your eyes while you sleep. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
737:I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
738:It was like adults thought that real life only started when a person was five feet tall. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
739:My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go. ~ Patricia Heaton, #NFDB
740:Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. ~ Red Smith, #NFDB
741:The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
742:The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off. ~ Ringo Starr, #NFDB
743:What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands? ~ Homer, #NFDB
744:When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
745:When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain. ~ Alexander Chee, #NFDB
746:You can run away, but darkness has quick feet and large wings, and it will follow you... ~ Ronald Malfi, #NFDB
747:You don’t walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
748:Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth. ~ Luke Bryan, #NFDB
749:Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
750:If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one. ~ Philip Toshio Sudo, #NFDB
751:I hear it a lot “Heaven is under the women feet,” I doubt that; I found it between them. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
752:It is better to negotiate standing on two feet compared to when a foot is on your chest. ~ James Maxwell, #NFDB
753:It’s raining. The world is weeping at our feet in anticipation of what we’re about to do. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
754:I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return. ~ Cobie Smulders, #NFDB
755:I wanted to lay corpses at her feet and prove I may be a monster but I was her monster. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
756:I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses. ~ Jack Kemp, #NFDB
757:look mother, look at me now, kingdoms blooming beneath my feet and a throne of shadows for me. ~ Arlen C, #NFDB
758:One by one, the pairs of feet in front of Harry took the weight of their owners once more; ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
759:she was as insignificant in the grand scheme of the galaxy as the sand beneath her feet. ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
760:The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it. ~ Andrew Bird, #NFDB
761:the earth under his feet, Timoken said, “I’m going for my camel.” “Your camel!” the wizard ~ Jenny Nimmo, #NFDB
762:The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
763:The moonlight made ghosts of the bed hangings, and cast a spectral pool about my feet ~ Susanna Kearsley, #NFDB
764:The mountains sat with their feet in the sea, and the old man's house was on the knees. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
765:These are the true patriots, with their hands in the till and their feet in the gore … ~ Hippolyte Taine, #NFDB
766:The soles of her feet were summer-tough, numb to the jagged shells and bits of pinecone. ~ Denise Hunter, #NFDB
767:Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
768:When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood. ~ Elizabeth Olsen, #NFDB
769:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanis aw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
770:When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
771:A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill. ~ Ben Hogan, #NFDB
772:A single decision, a moment in time, and the ground could shift beneath your feet. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
773:Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
774:Damn. Six feet four and everything in proportion, the quote went. It was true in this case. ~ Stacia Kane, #NFDB
775:Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him. ~ Walter Hagen, #NFDB
776:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
777:If I were trying to sweep you off your feet, you'd be swept. Period. - Adam from Moonlight ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
778:I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
779:Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
780:Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high! ~ Susan Seidelman, #NFDB
781:My feet hurt, my back hurt, and I really needed to pee. Yeah, I was feeling really powerful. ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
782:Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
783:Rain patters on the roof of the wagon like the dancing feet of a hundred happy elves. ~ Carrie Anne Noble, #NFDB
784:Saying of the Prophet
The Tongue
A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
785:That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello. ~ Hedy Lamarr, #NFDB
786:The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get. ~ Jerry Tarkanian, #NFDB
787:There’s a whole galaxy of ass out there to kick, and I’ve got just the feet for it.” Tanner ~ Elliott Kay, #NFDB
788:The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
789:Trusting a fool to convey a message is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
790:When on a long trek, it’s okay to quit whenever you like, as long as your feet keep moving. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
791:Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave but not our hearts. —Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
792:With bones of ships and soldiers at her feet.
With blood on her hands and nothing inside. ~ Traci Chee,#NFDB
793:A girl who made no mistakes about the right shade of lipstick would always land on her feet. ~ Jane Smiley, #NFDB
794:At night ghosts come In rivers of grief, To claw away the sand beneath a man’s feet. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
795:...because on some basic, soul-deep level within me, he is the solid ground beneath my feet. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
796:For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody. ~ Elizabeth Berkley, #NFDB
797:Go away. Your feet are misshapen and your eyebrows grow together in a threatening way. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
798:He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
799:He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. ~ Anna Katharine Green, #NFDB
800:I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
801:I made such an idol of my beautiful Osborne, and now it turns out he has feet of clay. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
802:It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
803:My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four. ~ Tracy Austin, #NFDB
804:Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister. ~ Bruce Willis, #NFDB
805:Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ~ Jeremy Bentham, #NFDB
806:Surely having one’s life stolen out from under one’s feet counted for more than livestock. ~ Cat Sebastian, #NFDB
807:A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
808:Carmen? I can hear her release the safety on her Glock when I get within two feet of her. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
809:Dewdrops on grass. On the soles of his feet: sudden, wet, unexpected, so shocking they hurt. ~ Taiye Selasi, #NFDB
810:If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy. ~ Joe Flanigan, #NFDB
811:If you want to leave your footprints
On the sands of time
Do not drag your feet. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,#NFDB
812:I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
813:It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
814:I wait for the significance of this to dawn. Moss grows around my feet. Glaciers form and melt. ~ C J Tudor, #NFDB
815:Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet. ~ Taki Theodoracopulos, #NFDB
816:Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
817:My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet. ~ Francois Hollande, #NFDB
818:My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. ~ Tyra Banks, #NFDB
819:My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
820:Not more than ten feet behind Walker stood Commander Sykes, reading through yet another ~ Michael C Grumley, #NFDB
821:Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ~ Jeremy Bentham, #NFDB
822:The pain was a river I rode; I could not plant my feet in it or it would knock me down ~ Frances Greenslade, #NFDB
823:The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
824:There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
825:The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf, #NFDB
826:They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
827:We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
828:What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? ~ John L Balderston, #NFDB
829:When he was still about forty feet away he stopped, walked over to a bulkhead, and tapped on ~ Mike Resnick, #NFDB
830:Would the day ever come when I would see her and not feel the earth shift beneath my feet? She ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
831:And maybe there is greatness waiting for you—if you only get back up on your feet and keep going. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
832:By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands. ~ Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, #NFDB
833:Carefully consider the path for your feet, and all your ways will be established. Proverbs 4:26 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
834:curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
835:Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
836:It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
837:Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
838:Love should give wings to the feet of service, and strength to the arms of labour. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
839:My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. ~ Michael Cera, #NFDB
840:Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
841:Sixty feet of drug fueled shark sped through the water, ready to eat every damn thing in sight. ~ Jake Bible, #NFDB
842:was sixty feet off, but the bullet caught him in the top of the head, killing him instantly. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
843:You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants. ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
844:A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
845:Are you okay? Were you hurt?"
"No, Gran, she's dying. She's bleeding out at your feet. ~ Alexandra Bracken,#NFDB
846:but i want to ask her what is wrong with being dark and heavy
with your feet firmly on soil? ~ Salma Deera,#NFDB
847:Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. BELIEF ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
848:Girls’ night out was sacred, and that meant nothing with a penis was going to be within ten feet ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
849:I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
850:If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside. ~ ASAP Rocky, #NFDB
851:If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
852:If we’re going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
853:If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
854:I just had a pedicure. My feet are soft like a baby's behind. If his ass was covered in calluses. ~ Bob Saget, #NFDB
855:I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels. ~ Tamara Mellon, #NFDB
856:In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
857:I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing! ~ Adam Garcia, #NFDB
858:*It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
859:I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet? ~ Rachel Joyce, #NFDB
860:Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~ Red Smith, #NFDB
861:shuffled on my feet because my naughty bits felt like they were being pierced with a horny spear. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
862:Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
863:Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. Exodus 3:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
864:Yet I thought I saw her stand,
A shadow there at my feet,
High over the shadowy land. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
865:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
866:A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
867:But for true, only a woman can truly welcome a man back home, wash his feet, and fix his plate. ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB
868:But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. ~ Carrie Ryan, #NFDB
869:Dad has always said that a man who raises a hand against a female lowers himself beneath her feet. ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
870:Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart... ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
871:I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet. ~ Robbie Lawler, #NFDB
872:If I’m still on my feet, then I’m meant to be living. I’ll not give up all of my pleasures. ~ Susanna Kearsley, #NFDB
873:Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg. ~ Eamon Dunphy, #NFDB
874:not to get swept off one’s feet by one’s passions, but to treat them with disdain and orderliness, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
875:On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.' ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
876:O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
877:Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
878:She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
879:the higher they reached toward heaven’s stars, the farther their feet lifted from God’s earth. ~ Alix Christie, #NFDB
880:We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet. ~ Kris Saknussemm, #NFDB
881:Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
882:You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamond in your hair. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
883:you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
884:Yup, I totally jizzed all over her face from eight feet above. The accuracy I had was on point. ~ Meghan Quinn, #NFDB
885:Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
886:A hundred square feet of heaven is far more precious than a million square feet of hell. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
887:Any love that starts out under a lie is bound to kill you. I just didn’t want to die on my feet. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
888:As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay. ~ I W Gregorio, #NFDB
889:Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. KABIR ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
890:England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground. ~ Clive Tyldesley, #NFDB
891:I examined the ten feet I would have to walk alone and remembered my left mind made me a moron. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
892:I feel the illusion I’ve twirled around me like a sari start to come undone and fall to my feet. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
893:If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
894:I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to. ~ Deborah Kass, #NFDB
895:I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
896:It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet. ~ Katherine Rundell, #NFDB
897:May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... ~ Robert Fanney, #NFDB
898:My favorite way to dance is being swept off my feet by somebody who doesn't know how to dance. ~ Julianne Hough, #NFDB
899:My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them? ~ Gail Devers, #NFDB
900:My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
901:My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
902:OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips. ~ Karen Walker, #NFDB
903:Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet. ~ Harry Lloyd, #NFDB
904:Whatever else you could say about Jason Westerfield, grass didn’t grow under the man’s feet. A ~ Jeffery Deaver, #NFDB
905:When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
906:You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and feet, of your words and thoughts. ~ Buddhist proverb, #NFDB
907:You can’t find your feet? I’ll be there to pull you up. You can’t walk? I’ll fucking carry you. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB
908:Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
909:Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
910:As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long. ~ Sania Mirza, #NFDB
911:As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine. ~ Jack Osbourne, #NFDB
912:Be The Kind Of Woman That When Your Feet hit The Floor Each Morning The Devil Says, Oh Crap She's Up ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
913:He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
914:Her dog Custard is a Pomeranian. He looks like a golden dandelion fluff with cat feet. Mrs. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
915:He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
916:I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really! ~ Nick Carter, #NFDB
917:I wonder if he’s ever tasted salt water or got dizzy watching the tide pull away from his feet ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
918:Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv. ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
919:She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers! ~ Corey Taylor, #NFDB
920:That always amazed him: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down solid steel. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
921:The false student is the one whose eyes are fixed upon heaven because his feet are planted in mud. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
922:The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. —JAMES OPPENHEIM ~ Todd Henry, #NFDB
923:The heroes of the faith usually have feet of clay—sometimes thighs, hearts, and heads as well. The ~ Mark A Noll, #NFDB
924:Twenty feet away. Even in the crowded hallway,there is something in her that radiates out to me ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
925:We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
926:When a depression comes, what should one do? Shake it off, as you shake off the dust from your feet ~ The Mother, #NFDB
927:You’ve got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It’s good for the soul. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
928:After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet. ~ Lev Shestov, #NFDB
929:A heavy silence was followed by a vibration beneath their feet and Iko’s voice. “I don’t compute. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
930:Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
931:Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
932:Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?"
"A snowman? ~ Ridley Pearson,#NFDB
933:He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men’s feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart. ~ Guru Arjan, #NFDB
934:I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
935:If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
936:I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
937:. . it was cause enough that the world was not worthy to be any longer trodden by his feet. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
938:jeans; otherwise, her dressing time would have doubled. Next, she shoved her feet into her favorite ~ Chanda Hahn, #NFDB
939:Sometimes, the bottom is the strongest place to stand when you're trying to get on your feet again. ~ Eden Butler, #NFDB
940:The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas. ~ Paula Abdul, #NFDB
941:Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. ~ Eric Allman, #NFDB
942:We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
943:when the Lakers scored at the buzzer to take the lead, Charlotte leapt to her feet and cheered. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
944:Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high. ~ Abby Sunderland, #NFDB
945:"You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and feet, of your words and thoughts." ~ Buddhist proverb, #NFDB
946:You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet. ~ William Booth, #NFDB
947:Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
948:Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
949:Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
950:Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
951:Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
952:feet ahead, driving thousands of tiny, needlelike grains into our unprotected face, our eyes. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
953:Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
954:I don't think anyone has ever pulled a chair out for me. It was weird. What did I do with my feet? ~ Nichole Chase, #NFDB
955:I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
956:If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
957:Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
958:Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under! ~ Burt Shavitz, #NFDB
959:No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . . ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
960:Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. ~ John Selden, #NFDB
961:Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
962:Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
963:She found nowhere to sit but on the floor, so she sat at his feet and found herself at home there. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
964:Some lids are best kept closed, glued, nailed, screwed down and buried under six feet of earth. ~ Michael Robotham, #NFDB
965:Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
966:The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
967:The most comfortable shoes from the point of view of our feet are the most fashionable shoes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
968:There was a dead man at my feet. I’d almost been killed. Esteban somehow shot him with a teapot. He ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
969:We think we’re invincible, but we’re not. One way or another, we’re all placed six feet under. ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
970:What would I do with all that wealth? Eventually a man just needs six feet of cloth for his shroud. ~ Vikas Swarup, #NFDB
971:A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away. ~ Bob Monkhouse, #NFDB
972:A pair of knickers land at my feet as a girl screams, “Reed, take me home, take me home and fuck me. ~ Lesley Jones, #NFDB
973:Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's. ~ Jessie Burton, #NFDB
974:Big giant insect thing holding me several hundred feet in the air? What's there to be nervous about? ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
975:Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
976:God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy! ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
977:Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy. ~ Lucy Lawless, #NFDB
978:He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
979:He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
980:I feel like I'm being pulled in a hundred different directions and my feet are stuck in cement. ~ Elizabeth Acevedo, #NFDB
981:If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career ~ Francoise Hardy, #NFDB
982:If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
983:If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
984:I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
985:I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground! ~ Natasha Henstridge, #NFDB
986:I never saw a country before," says the robed man. "All I saw was the earth under my feet. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett, #NFDB
987:I never saw a country before,” says the robed man. “All I saw was the earth under my feet. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett, #NFDB
988:In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me. ~ Lara Stone, #NFDB
989:I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know? ~ Kelly Lynch, #NFDB
990:It’s the direction the feet are pointing—not the hands—that indicates a person’s true interest. ~ Michelle Richmond, #NFDB
991:. . . it was cause enough that the world was not worthy to be any longer trodden by his feet. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
992:Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf, #NFDB
993:Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
994:Sir 12:18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet. ~ Various, #NFDB
995:Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet. ~ Lora Leigh, #NFDB
996:The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus[*] be with you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
997:An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
998:Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
999:Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, ‘Oh Crap, She’s Up! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1000:But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1001:By the blood of creeping Christ, stand on your feet.” Creeping Christ? he thinks. What does he mean? ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
1002:For a hundred feet, majestic Celtic crosses and flat stones jutted from the emerald green earth. ~ Angela J Townsend, #NFDB
1003:For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet. ~ Debby Ryan, #NFDB
1004:Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
1005:I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety. ~ Tim Walz, #NFDB
1006:It's old wooden floors creak under my feet despite my efforts to remain as silent as possible. I pass ~ Tom Reynolds, #NFDB
1007:I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1008:Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1009:So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it. ~ Cody Lundin, #NFDB
1010:Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1011:Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down. ~ Phil Ochs, #NFDB
1012:The heart rejoices at the feet of the Lord, who is the Self eternally shining within as 'I-I'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1013:The Roman pomp and raiment have fallen away, and I swear last the glory of washed feet and shared bread. ~ Eli Brown, #NFDB
1014:They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em! ~ Emily Robison, #NFDB
1015:This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity ~ Xenophanes, #NFDB
1016:Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. ~ Chris Klein, #NFDB
1017:You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes? ~ David Wong, #NFDB
1018:A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. ~ Francois Mauriac, #NFDB
1019:Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1020:God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction. ~ Origen, #NFDB
1021:Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. ~ James A Garfield, #NFDB
1022:He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. ~ Suzanne Finnamore, #NFDB
1023:How would you have responded if Jesus, knowing everything about you, knelt before you to wash your feet? ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1024:Keeping my voice level, I shook my head. Mustn't enrage the antisocial monster standing five feet away. ~ J C Daniels, #NFDB
1025:Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet! ~ Arthur Frommer, #NFDB
1026:Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
1027:Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. —ROBERT BRAULT ~ Harvey Karp, #NFDB
1028:Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1029:so you know how serious I am. I’ll never leave you again unless I’m six feet fucking under. You got me? ~ Alexa Riley, #NFDB
1030:The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1031:The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1032:There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found. ~ John Daido Loori, #NFDB
1033:There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1034:We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1035:We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1036:You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1037:You know what kind of nerves are in your feet? The same ones that network into your genitals. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
1038:After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
1039:All through the hotel, beds scraped, feet thumped to the floor. The future dead, rising to forestall. ~ Robin Oliveira, #NFDB
1040:Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up. ~ Joanne Clancy, #NFDB
1041:Careful big man,” I whisper. “That sounds a lot like a king falling. The ground isn’t soft at my feet. ~ Meagan Brandy, #NFDB
1042:his feet were lovely, lean and long, with high arches and toes that curved adorably—like pink macaroni. ~ Z A Maxfield, #NFDB
1043:I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, #NFDB
1044:I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching. ~ Jessica Ennis, #NFDB
1045:If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~ Abigail Van Buren, #NFDB
1046:Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1047:I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It’s cheaper, and you get more feet. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
1048:In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1049:Isn't that what every woman secretly yearns for?" she said lightly. "to be totally swept off her feet? ~ Sherryl Woods, #NFDB
1050:It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold. ~ William Booth, #NFDB
1051:Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1052:Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1053:My desire to return home, if it was still home, on my own two feet. The same way I had left it behind. ~ Cameron Dokey, #NFDB
1054:O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go. ~ Russell Hoban, #NFDB
1055:so my choice is to breathe feet the whole way or spear my eyeballs out on neck spikes? Awesome."-Zuzana ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1056:Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1057:The little sedimentary deposits of his need had piled at her feet until they blocked her view of him. ~ Matthew Thomas, #NFDB
1058:The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1059:To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. ~ David Livingstone, #NFDB
1060:Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
1061:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~ Kahlil Gibran, #NFDB
1062:Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1063:do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play. ~ Anna Sewell, #NFDB
1064:For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
1065:Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1066:him, but I can’t get my feet to move. I know I need to get it over with, but there are people making ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1067:If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. ~ William Hague, #NFDB
1068:in love with the ground, the feet of the real buried in sand on a beach you can’t reach except in memory. ~ Nate Pritts, #NFDB
1069:In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1070:One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~ Odell Shepard, #NFDB
1071:Please do not masturbate while I do your feet. I cannot take another moaning horny white woman this week. ~ Avery Aster, #NFDB
1072:Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. ~ Woody Hayes, #NFDB
1073:…The first wave of vampires hit the stairs then, a cascade of tip-tapping feet and dark-spangled hatred. ~ Lili St Crow, #NFDB
1074:The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1075:There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1076:They say man only needs six feet of Earth. But it is a corpse, and not man, which needs these six feet. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1077:Walking away, I mentally hear glass cracking under my feet because I step right over my shattered heart. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
1078:We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet. ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
1079:When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1080:You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground. ~ A J McLean, #NFDB
1081:You ever wonder why we hesitate to rush into something good, but drag our feet getting out of something bad? ~ L A Witt, #NFDB
1082:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1083:an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. ~ Ada Leverson, #NFDB
1084:a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
1085:Because Tammy is in there making like her feet hate each other, and they don’t
need us around for it. ~ Erin McCarthy,#NFDB
1086:But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1087:Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great! ~ Marlo Thomas, #NFDB
1088:Clarisse demolished a whole building with a wrecking ball, and the maze entrance just shifted a few feet. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1089:dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet. ~ Tony Judt, #NFDB
1090:Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
1091:Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #NFDB
1092:heatwave. Dad was wearing a T-shirt and baggy shorts, flip-flops on his feet, a bottle of beer in his hand. ~ Jess Ryder, #NFDB
1093:I clenched my jaw and willed my feet to stop. Brain: Stop, feet. Feet: I like cookies. My feet kept moving. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1094:I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
1095:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!” —T. Harv Eker ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1096:If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see out Zooey again. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1097:If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on. ~ Myrtle Reed, #NFDB
1098:Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet. ~ William A Dembski, #NFDB
1099:In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1100:I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet. ~ Liam Hemsworth, #NFDB
1101:I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping? ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1102:My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground. ~ Rob James Collier, #NFDB
1103:Past sea level varied by 10–20 meters (30–60 feet) for each 1C change in the global average temperature. ~ Peter Brannen, #NFDB
1104:Stop flaunting your impeccable language skills, Vincent, help the girl to her feet and let her take her leave ~ Amy Plum, #NFDB
1105:the inside of her car window. Panicked, she screamed as flames licked at her feet, burning, and cooking the ~ Dale Mayer, #NFDB
1106:..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
1107:When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing. ~ Bob Geldof, #NFDB
1108:and, in the ardour of the moment, Mr Jiffin laid himself, his hand, and his cheesemongery at Afy’s feet. ~ Mrs Henry Wood, #NFDB
1109:Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1110:Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil says, “Crap, she’s up. ~ Caroline Hanson, #NFDB
1111:Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1112:Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
1113:Did you forget to lock the door, my sweet?” I asked the man at my feet, though I kept my eyes on Magnus. ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
1114:Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out. ~ Djuna Barnes, #NFDB
1115:If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don’t let them to rust! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1116:I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here. ~ Jay Kay, #NFDB
1117:It took all of her moral strength not to kick him—just a little—while he was so conveniently at her feet. ~ Karen Hawkins, #NFDB
1118:I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me. ~ Emilia Fox, #NFDB
1119:Love is like walking a tightrope thirty thousand feet in the air. It's bloody terrifying. And it's amazing. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
1120:My eyes locked with the fury’s and I smiled. She hesitated. I snapped to my feet. “Bitch, please. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1121:Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1122:She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. ~ Irin Carmon, #NFDB
1123:So long as thou art not dead to all things, one by one, thou canst not set thy feet in this portico. ~ Farid-ud-din-attar, #NFDB
1124:The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. ~ Wilfred Owen, #NFDB
1125:We’re being followed,” I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us, ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1126:When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1127:While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient. ~ Bill Willingham, #NFDB
1128:With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. ~ Dr Seuss, #NFDB
1129:With your two feet and your two hands and the big fucking brain on your shoulders you can do anything. ~ John O Callaghan, #NFDB
1130:Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1131:At night the jackals came and ate their feet, and the next morning crows flew down and ate their eyes. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
1132:A week and a half later two feet of snow lay white and crisp and even on the grounds of the Overlook Hotel. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1133:Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up". ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
1134:His mouth tilted and his eyes twinkled. "I knew it. One look into yer eyes and I could fall at yet feet. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks, #NFDB
1135:Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB
1136:Just then one of the eleven silent men got to his feet, folding his newspaper into quarters as he did so, ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
1137:My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me. ~ Rory Stewart, #NFDB
1138:Rincewind's feet made their own decision and, from the point of view of his head, got it entirely wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1139:Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1140:The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word. ~ Andr Brink, #NFDB
1141:The Triune God will be our dwelling place even while our feet walk the low road of simple duty here among men. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1142:Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall! ~ Danny Kaye, #NFDB
1143:Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1144:Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. ~ A C Grayling, #NFDB
1145:You see how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet.” —Alicia Silverstone, Clueless (1995) 8 ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
1146:And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1147:And worse, Fin decided to plop his fuzzy butt just feet from the auction house. The scene of the crime. ~ Adrienne Giordano, #NFDB
1148:A river of Whites flowed five hundred feet wide, shoulder to shoulder, back to chest, running and angry. They ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
1149:Crawford got to his feet. “Director Noonan, may I say—” “You may leave, is what you may do,” Krendler said. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
1150:From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons. ~ Rita Hayworth, #NFDB
1151:He looks over at me, six feet two inches of total fear, and I sell him out-sell him right down the river. ~ Alecia Whitaker, #NFDB
1152:Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. ~ Nicolas Bentley, #NFDB
1153:I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. ~ Peter Greenaway, #NFDB
1154:If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1155:In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
1156:I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over. ~ Nick Lowe, #NFDB
1157:I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. ~ Robert Englund, #NFDB
1158:Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
1159:My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth. ~ Colleen McCullough, #NFDB
1160:Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel.
But, what about virtue? ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
1161:What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet. ~ Keith Olbermann, #NFDB
1162:When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;. ~ Veronica Franco, #NFDB
1163:You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. Psalm 56:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1164:You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1165:But the thing that really convinces me that the apocalypse is here is the crunching of smartphones under my feet. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
1166:Clap your hands, Stomp your feet. Those MOA girls can’t be beat! Go, blue. Go, gold. You’re a wonder to behold! ~ Joan Holub, #NFDB
1167:Could you have an orgasm standing fully clothed six feet from your man? I had a feeling I was about to find out. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1168:Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, ‘Damn, that can’t be a good sign. ~ Deborah Blake, #NFDB
1169:Sabbath happens anywhere and everywhere we let go of the controls and lay the cares of our lives at His feet. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
1170:She was tiny, less than five feet, but somehow didn’t seem that small; attitude can make up for inches. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1171:The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
1172:You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~ Dr Seuss,#NFDB
1173:79† To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To †guide our feet into the way of peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1174:A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1175:A man's deeds are slavish, his very thoughts false, so long as he has not succeeded in putting fear under his feet. ~ Carlyle, #NFDB
1176:A year with tears unshed, A year with wandering feet, A year with silent songs unsung, A year with sighs replete. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1177:If you want to see if you can swim, you have to have enough faith and be willing to get your feet wet first... ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
1178:I look up; snow is starting to fall again, like a thousand stars tumbling down from above to melt at our feet. ~ Camilla Monk, #NFDB
1179:It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her... ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
1180:Leni got to her feet, stared at him. I didn't mean to do that. The same words she'd heard spoken by her dad. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1181:The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1182:The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit, ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1183:The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1184:To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace... ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1185:Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache. ~ Guy Finley, #NFDB
1186:Twenty-five percent of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. The whole country is sixteen feet below sea level. ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
1187:Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
1188:What is man?... Thou crownedst him with glory and honour.... thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. ~ Hebrews, #NFDB
1189:When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1190:When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench? ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1191:Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1192:A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, “Oh crap, he’s up! ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1193:Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet. ~ Lee Harvey Oswald, #NFDB
1194:Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1195:But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it. ~ Alfred Doblin, #NFDB
1196:her slippered feet rustling the corners of a bed of dead leaves, who scattered away, mumbling hasty apologies. ~ Angela J Ford, #NFDB
1197:He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet... ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1198:His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1199:Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1200:If being grounded is important, stay away from Prince Charming because he will sweep you off your feet. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
1201:I'm tired of being me. Connor calls my name a few times, the sound of his voice like salt on my blistered feet. ~ Suzy Vitello, #NFDB
1202:I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. ~ Ben Schwartz, #NFDB
1203:I still hung onto the hope that my broken knight would gallop back into my life and sweep me off my feet. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1204:It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees. ~ Andrew of Crete, #NFDB
1205:Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1206:My side hurt. My feet hurt. My neck hurt. My ass hurt. I needed a fucking bra. But I didn’t care. I just ran. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1207:No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts. ~ Meljean Brook, #NFDB
1208:Noo-Noo would turn into a tummy with feet if she ate as much as she'd like to eat. Knot What it Seams. ~ Elizabeth Spann Craig, #NFDB
1209:[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1210:Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy. ” And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:15 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1211:She gazed down at the sleeping boy at her feet. Alex had died for his prince. If necessary, she would do no less. ~ Erin Beaty, #NFDB
1212:Surrender to the Feet of the Guru is the real mantra, in which there will be no fear of Maya’s delusion. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1213:The miles mean more if you have travelled them one step at a time and felt the ground change beneath your feet ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1214:The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1215:We call it getting a haircut,” Flynne said, giving him a look as she got to her feet, “back in frontier days. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1216:We're hungry for a blue
that will sing like a drum
We're lifting our spring feet
to dance this death down ~ Chrystos,#NFDB
1217:You had to train your mind to remember: human being lying here at my feet, not someone to feel contempt toward. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
1218:A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!" ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1219:All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
1220:But I’d be over her. I couldn’t imagine the day I wouldn’t love her, especially not with her submission at my feet. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
1221:Everything's changing now. It's all patrol cars and fewer feet on the beat. I hope they know what they're doing. ~ Rennie Airth, #NFDB
1222:Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?" ~ Brad Furman, #NFDB
1223:Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1224:Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street. ~ Lou Reed,#NFDB
1225:I was very depressed in those months, because it’s not funny to lose both your feet when you’re thirty years old. ~ Nevil Shute, #NFDB
1226:Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet. ~ Meat Loaf, #NFDB
1227:Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1228:Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1229:Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. ~ Cyril Smith, #NFDB
1230:tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1231:Teacher: Suppose you have a box which contains a ten-foot snake. Student: But Mr. Malone, snakes don't have feet! *** ~ Various, #NFDB
1232:The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
1233:The floor was slick with blood, so much blood that he felt his feet sliding on it, the grease of human remains. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1234:The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim. ~ Marco Polo, #NFDB
1235:There's the old saying "I felt bad because I didn't have a pair of shoes until I met a man who didn't have any feet ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1236:We stood two feet apart. There was a buffer of history between us, and everything else pulling us together. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1237:Adam Smith had come into my life like a whirlwind.
He'd swept me off my feet. And then, he'd stolen me away. ~ Natasha Knight,#NFDB
1238:Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ Robinson Jeffers, #NFDB
1239:He lied. I lied. Any love that starts out under a lie is bound to kill you. I just didn't want to die on my feet. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1240:If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1241:I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big! ~ Neve Campbell, #NFDB
1242:In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet ~ Charlie Hunnam, #NFDB
1243:I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind.” So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
1244:I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1245:I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
1246:I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1247:Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
1248:May the nights always be aglow
with the bliss of the day
with unharmed hands and feet
and kissed cheeks. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
1249:My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground. ~ Valerie Trierweiler, #NFDB
1250:PSA22.16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1251:Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak. ~ Wendy Williams, #NFDB
1252:The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1253:The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, #NFDB
1254:There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
1255:you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
1256:19The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1257:A feeling settles over me—a one-beer-deep feeling, a no-more-skittering-feet-after-the-trap-snaps feeling. ~ Carmen Maria Machado, #NFDB
1258:An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.) ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1259:Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club. ~ Winsor McCay, #NFDB
1260:Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1261:Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
1262:Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
1263:For on the far wall, a girl with long brown hair and tea-colored eyes was slowly rising to her feet. Imogen. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
1264:Get us into Azmodea. (Jericho)
Why in the name of smelly feet would you want to go there again?! (Asmodeus) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1265:Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand. ~ Anne Douglas Sedgwick, #NFDB
1266:He leaned over me, so threatening and powerful that if he demanded it, I’d have told him the sky was beneath my feet. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
1267:I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1268:I mean, hell, bitch, I got the long hair and beard and women worship at my feet. Maybe I’m the fuckin’ second coming? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1269:Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1270:Meekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her Saviour. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline (1847), Part II. V, line 35, #NFDB
1271:My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1272:My feet hurt, Hell-Bard."
"Good for you."
"My wrists hurt too."
"Fascinating."
... "You're a bastard. ~ Susan Dennard,#NFDB
1273:Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1274:Only ’cos it’s very hard to prove things when someone’s scooped a hole in your head and buried your feet in it! ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1275:Samy was Samantha. She was wearing a white linen dress. She also had on hobbit feet, huge and extremely hairy ones. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
1276:Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. ~ Elizabeth Edwards, #NFDB
1277:The problem with loneliest people is they look in the sky for miracles, while miracles touch their feet everyday. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1278:…the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside? ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1279:Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1280:Untouchable, inappropriate, and tempting as original sin, lying all alone in a bed just twenty feet down the hall. ~ Madison Faye, #NFDB
1281:cut off everything from everything stand here the soles of your feet the ground
your brain in the black nothing between ~ Ikkyu,#NFDB
1282:Fuck me! She sucks better than a Dyson. I swear all vacuums would bow at her feet if they were aware of her talents. ~ K M Golland, #NFDB
1283:Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1284:I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. ~ Chris Avellone, #NFDB
1285:If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on. ~ Marie Corelli, #NFDB
1286:I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. ~ Jesse Owens, #NFDB
1287:It felt like the blisters on my feet had coupled off and started forming little blister families. Tonight sucked. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1288:I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1289:Long live the feet that are the being-consciousness-bliss of him who does not stir as all else whirls about. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1290:Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room ~ John Green, #NFDB
1291:My eyes locked the fury's and I smiled.
She hesitated.
I snapped to my feet. "Bitch, please. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
1292:[People] mistake the constellations of the cosmic void for the stars made by ducks' feet in the soft mud of the bog. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1293:Pretty soon we’d laced the sneakers over his fake feet, and the world’s first flying goat boy was ready for launch. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1294:Rise," he murmers, pointing to the valley thousands of feet below. Then he points to my chest. "And rise alone. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1295:There’s a security guard, like, ten feet away. I could have you kicked out of here.”
“For what? Being awesome? ~ Victoria Scott,#NFDB
1296:...The sex was amazing. And the man made me trip over my own feet. And he had a smile like Ctrl+Alt+Delete on my brain. ~ L A Witt, #NFDB
1297:Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high. ~ Chael Sonnen, #NFDB
1298:We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. ~ Subcomandante Marcos, #NFDB
1299:Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air. ~ Kelly Ripa, #NFDB
1300:You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
1301:Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
1302:A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
1303:Amanda meant to move, but somehow her feet didn't do anything. They were like Quebec, determined to be independent. ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
1304:Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.' ~ Debby Ryan, #NFDB
1305:But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
1306:By the by, he is a virgin, about eight feet tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge. Do not be alarmed. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
1307:Cal and I stare after her, then at the walls, then at the floor, then at our feet, afraid to look at each other. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1308:Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
1309:Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1310:God,” Kal groans, putting me down on my feet when we reach his car. “You two are disgustingly horny. It’s abnormal. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
1311:He kneaded his front feet on the floor in a little dance, which was so cute it hurt. “Spider loves Chicken Party. ~ Kristen Painter, #NFDB
1312:I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1313:I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1314:I don’t know about you, but my eye’s been on a table filled with chocolate five feet away,” the mystery man said. ~ Sara Jane Stone, #NFDB
1315:I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1316:I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet. ~ Eli Broad, #NFDB
1317:...I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers! ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1318:I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick. ~ Huey Lewis, #NFDB
1319:I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1320:I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet. ~ Dashiell Hammett,#NFDB
1321:Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1322:Most refugees end up on welfare.
In feet, all of the refugees I know do 3-D work—difficult, dirty, and dangerous. ~ Mary Pipher,#NFDB
1323:My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade. ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
1324:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1325:Shhh,” her brother whispered. “I think we’re on the yacht.” She got shakily to her feet. The deck pitched slightly. ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
1326:Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today. ~ Tim Winton, #NFDB
1327:That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1328:[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it`s going to go up a little bit higher. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1329:trapped scholars and all who worshipped at their feet into ancient thought patterns with no room for change or progress. ~ J F Penn, #NFDB
1330:What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"? ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
1331:Amory was now eighteen years old, just under six feet tall and exceptionally, but not conventionally, handsome. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1332:Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life. ~ Saddam Hussein, #NFDB
1333:Do you see, my dear? The proverbs are at play. ‘I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.’” I ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
1334:Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1335:Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones. ~ Mary Parker Follett, #NFDB
1336:Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. ~ Lucy Lawless, #NFDB
1337:I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1338:I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
1339:I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse. ~ Julie Newmar, #NFDB
1340:Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts! ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB
1341:I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum. ~ Halle Berry, #NFDB
1342:It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. ~ Joanna Lumley, #NFDB
1343:Josh’s lips found mine, and fuck me stupid, the man could kiss the socks off a worm if it had the feet to put them on. ~ K M Golland, #NFDB
1344:Leena Smith, the American typhoon, swept him off his feet. They went to the movies together, ate together, shopped together, ~ Sri M, #NFDB
1345:My chubbiest, chattiest toddler was now this lanky boy of few words, whose feet I could smell from across the room. ~ Elisabeth Egan, #NFDB
1346:My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet. ~ Coco J Ginger, #NFDB
1347:No tricks, Syn,” Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away.
“Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit,” I said ~ Amelia Hutchins,#NFDB
1348:Show me a woman with both feet planted firmly on the ground - and I'll show you a girl who can't get her knickers off. ~ Kathy Lette, #NFDB
1349:The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
1350:The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1351:Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing. ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
1352:To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB
1353:Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1354:When he finally found the strength to pull away, he settled her on her feet and went to toss the condom in the toilet. ~ Helen Hoang, #NFDB
1355:You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician. ~ Dalton Trumbo, #NFDB
1356:a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1357:But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. ~ Michelle Richmond, #NFDB
1358:Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George Harrison that died in July after an attack by beetles : 15 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1359:himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1360:If I could just somehow let you see yourself through my eyes. I guarantee your feet would never touch the ground again. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1361:If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall. ~ Bruce Campbell, #NFDB
1362:If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up. ~ Nina Dobrev, #NFDB
1363:I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
1364:Love conquers nothing. Love provides the motivation; the person must do the rest with their own hands, heart, and feet. ~ Amber Kizer, #NFDB
1365:My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes. ~ Andrea Barber, #NFDB
1366:My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar. ~ Ace Frehley, #NFDB
1367:Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
1368:our feet
are grape-squashed in memories
our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer’s lips. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
1369:People passed, spoke and waved with no idea that innocence had sloughed from my body and lay in a heap at my feet. ~ Delores Phillips, #NFDB
1370:She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady. ~ Drew Magary, #NFDB
1371:Some people say you should watch a man’s feet to see if he’s ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1372:These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
1373:The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1374:A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high. ~ Isaac Newton, #NFDB
1375:And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children. ~ Natalia Ginzburg, #NFDB
1376:Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother. ~ Erica Cameron, #NFDB
1377:...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
1378:He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1379:I am nothing. One day I shall rest six feet below the earth’s surface, and so will you. But you probably don’t think about it. ~ Sri M, #NFDB
1380:I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet." At that he smiled. "How would you know what feet taste like?" "I just know. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1381:I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. ~ Virgil Thomson, #NFDB
1382:It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . . ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1383:My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1384:People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
1385:... skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
1386:Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet; Womanhood and childhood fleet. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ~ D E Stevenson, #NFDB
1387:Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and consecrated the thorny path forever. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1388:The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. ~ Pope Gregory I, #NFDB
1389:The big boys have got their feet up on their desks, drinking coffee and admiring the pretty ankles of their secretaries ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1390:Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell, ~ Richard Marsh, #NFDB
1391:There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands. ~ Homer, #NFDB
1392:There’s a security guard, like, ten feet away. I could have you kicked out of here.”
“For what? Being awesome? ~ Victoria Scott,#NFDB
1393:The sand here, at their feet as they looked down from the dry cliff, was dark gray, the color of a thundercloud. The ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
1394:Well, damn,” Lula said, “I can hear his little feet going, but I can’t see him. He’s lost in between all these cars. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1395:We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. ~ Jacoby Shaddix, #NFDB
1396:You’re breathtaking,” he explained. “All you have to do is stand there and breathe and the earth beneath my feet moves. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
1397:5Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1398:A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1399:All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why! ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1400:And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
1401:and the slapping feet of the men that follow the box. They have no faces and they feel with the whiskers of dogs. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips, #NFDB
1402:But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
1403:Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
1404:For a moment no one spoke. Then Lymond got to his feet. ‘I have a better idea. You marry her,’ he suggested. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1405:he’d uttered his name. And now she understood, he’d been telling her so ever since he’d landed at her feet in the ballroom ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1406:He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1407:I don’t like the way you make me feel,” she said, unsteady on her feet.
“No, you love it, and that scares you more. ~ Angelica Chase,#NFDB
1408:I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet. ~ Barbara Corcoran, #NFDB
1409:I'm told he takes after our father - a sweet-talker he is not. His mouth sees more feet than a treadmill at a crowded gym. ~ Robin Kaye, #NFDB
1410:It seemed that the closer the girls got to Mrs. Tifton, the louder Skye squished, like a monster jellyfish with feet. ~ Jeanne Birdsall, #NFDB
1411:It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look. ~ Laura Marano, #NFDB
1412:I’ve played on grass my whole life, Scout. There’s no need for me to see what’s out there when it’s green beneath my feet. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
1413:Love was an Alice in Wonderland hole and he was white-knuckling the edge, his feet dangling above the precipice. ~ Tamara Rose Blodgett, #NFDB
1414:My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life. ~ Celine Dion, #NFDB
1415:Surrender to the Feet of the Guru is the real mantra, in which there will be no fear of Maya's delusion.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, [T5],#NFDB
1416:Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and consecrated the thorny path for ever. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1417:The pathless path is the path always under our feet. And since that path is always beneath us, if we miss it, how stupid! ~ Longchenpa, #NFDB
1418: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
1419:Three hundred feet down, seawater slams through a two-inch hole with enough force to bend a knee the way knees don’t bend. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1420:We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1421:When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1422:You have to step on people’s feet and kick them in the back of the leg,” Grandma said, “then they move away from you. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1423:But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame! ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1424:Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She ~ Katherine Dunn, #NFDB
1425:Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. ~ Gwendoline Christie, #NFDB
1426:Eyes closed, feet dancing their way toward the pond, she was her own music, her body her favorite thing she'd ever owned. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1427:How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? ~ Katharina Elisabeth Goethe, #NFDB
1428:Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street. ~ DMX, #NFDB
1429:Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1430:Setting aside the feather she’d been about to attach to a delightful monstrosity of a hat, Harriet Peabody rose to her feet ~ Jen Turano, #NFDB
1431:She has done this for Jason and will do more, she knows. Her brother dismembered at her feet. This is how the world begins. ~ David Vann, #NFDB
1432:That day threw me away into a dark, painful space with nothing below my feet. I'd lost my candidate for a place to belong. ~ Kabi Nagata, #NFDB
1433:The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1434:The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1435:there is nothing wrong
with the feet
of a woman who would rather
walk toward peace
than run to the middle of chaos ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
1436: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
1437:The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,
I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet. ~ Coco J Ginger,#NFDB
1438:This one walked with soft feet like she'd drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1439:This one walked with soft feet like she’d drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1440:To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace...” Luke 1:79 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1441:We. Are. Off. Our. Feet. I look up. The air’s shimmering with light. The world is. Or I’m imagining this. Of course I am. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1442:When crossing a river in bright moonlight, I love to see the water scatter in showers of crystal beneath the oxen's feet. ~ Sei Sh nagon, #NFDB
1443:When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice. Of ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
1444:When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1445:Why are you troubled?” He asked them. “And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at My hands and My feet.” Luke 24:38–39 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1446:Cloud walking. I like that. And yeah, that's exactly how you make me feel. Like my feet will never touch the ground. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1447:Don’t helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
1448:Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let
Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set
In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
1449:Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. Jeremiah 13:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1450:Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street. ~ Dorothy Fields, #NFDB
1451:He just seemed menacing. Like he could slit your throat, then sit down, prop his feet on your corpse, and eat a sandwich. ~ Dianne Duvall, #NFDB
1452:He remembered only too well how unpredictable grief was. How it swept in and took you right off your feet with no warning. ~ Nancy Naigle, #NFDB
1453:I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life. ~ Patti LuPone, #NFDB
1454:I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1455:It was as if their feet ran on parallel train tracks and pulled in at the same stations at the same time, over and over. ~ Barbara O Neal, #NFDB
1456:I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1457:Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism. ~ Walter E Williams, #NFDB
1458:she instead pictured Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s bloody, broken body at her feet. It proved a more comforting thought. ~ Steve Hockensmith, #NFDB
1459:Stone lions five feet high were set on each side of the staircase leading to the front door, their teeth bared in welcome. ~ Ashley McLeo, #NFDB
1460:Surrender everything at His feet and give Him the general power of attorney. Let Him do what He considers best for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1461:Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. ~ Danny Tyran, #NFDB
1462:Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1463:We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
1464:What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1465:When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet! ~ Shalom Harlow, #NFDB
1466:While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”4 ~ John Bytheway, #NFDB
1467:You still my die in the Dregs.'
Inej's dark eyes had glinted. 'I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
1468:Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB
1469:Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
1470:God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down. ~ Marvin Sapp, #NFDB
1471:Go for it, Aunt Ginny! Knock him flying! You can always have another kid! One with better manners and less stinky feet! ~ G Norman Lippert, #NFDB
1472:I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot. ~ Fedor Emelianenko, #NFDB
1473:In the engine room below, it sounded like Leo and the others were doing an Irish line dance with anvils tied to their feet. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1474:Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for ~ Abigail Adams, #NFDB
1475:It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1476:No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty ~ James Anthony Froude, #NFDB
1477:Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1478:She could be barefoot for the rest of our lives and I'd love her disgustingly filthy feet with every bit of strength I had. ~ Kelly Rimmer, #NFDB
1479:She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet. ~ Nicole Lyons, #NFDB
1480:Straighten your feet • Back your hips up • Align your knee pits • Adjust your pelvis • Drop your ribs • Relax your diaphragm ~ Katy Bowman, #NFDB
1481:Surrender everything at His feet and give Him the general power of attorney. Let Him do what He considers best for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1482:The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1483:Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1484:Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel? ~ Marc Cohn, #NFDB
1485:What options did an angry butterfly have, anyway? Stamping eyelash-sized feet? Flapping its wings in a sarcastic manner? In ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
1486:You can’t just dump things at our feet when you want to go eat a goddamn panda. The working class are not your trash bin. ~ Conor Lastowka, #NFDB
1487:You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience. ~ Louis C K, #NFDB
1488:You're our new Paladin," she said... We were going to be fine.
"Well." Saylor rose to her feet. "We are totally effed. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
1489:You still may die in the Dregs."
Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
1490:Ala!" Echo sprang to her feet, legs tangled in the sheets. The Ala was here. The Ala had brought food. The Ala was a goddess ~ Melissa Grey, #NFDB
1491:A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
1492:And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1493:At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1494:Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1495:Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1496:Climbing from Nature’s deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1497:Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
1498:God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful. ~ Robert Pierce, #NFDB
1499:He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth. ~ Graham Joyce, #NFDB
1500:I think you know I love you. Not past tense, not friendly love. Love. Love that lassoes the moon and lays it at your feet. ~ Daisy Prescott, #NFDB
506 Poetry
313 Integral Yoga
116 Fiction
110 Philosophy
76 Mysticism
73 Occultism
68 Yoga
66 Christianity
23 Philsophy
20 Psychology
17 Mythology
11 Hinduism
10 Islam
7 Integral Theory
6 Baha i Faith
5 Science
5 Buddhism
3 Sufism
2 Education
1 Thelema
1 Cybernetics
1 Alchemy
159 Sri Aurobindo
155 The Mother
113 Satprem
78 Nolini Kanta Gupta
65 H P Lovecraft
56 Sri Ramakrishna
54 Percy Bysshe Shelley
50 William Wordsworth
39 William Butler Yeats
39 Walt Whitman
39 Rabindranath Tagore
34 John Keats
33 James George Frazer
31 Robert Browning
27 Friedrich Nietzsche
27 Aleister Crowley
23 Ralph Waldo Emerson
20 Anonymous
18 Saint Augustine of Hippo
17 Plotinus
15 Lucretius
13 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
13 Carl Jung
12 Ovid
12 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12 Friedrich Schiller
11 A B Purani
10 Muhammad
10 Li Bai
9 Vyasa
9 Saint John of Climacus
9 Plato
8 Swami Vivekananda
8 Hafiz
7 Nirodbaran
7 Jalaluddin Rumi
7 Baha u llah
6 Saint Teresa of Avila
6 Lewis Carroll
6 Jorge Luis Borges
6 George Van Vrekhem
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Ramprasad
5 Joseph Campbell
4 Swami Krishnananda
4 Rainer Maria Rilke
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Edgar Allan Poe
4 Aldous Huxley
3 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
3 Hakim Sanai
3 Franz Bardon
3 Bokar Rinpoche
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Patanjali
2 Mirabai
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
2 Kabir
2 Jetsun Milarepa
2 Jayadeva
2 Baba Sheikh Farid
65 Lovecraft - Poems
54 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
54 Shelley - Poems
50 Wordsworth - Poems
39 Yeats - Poems
38 Savitri
36 Whitman - Poems
35 Tagore - Poems
34 Keats - Poems
33 The Golden Bough
31 Browning - Poems
24 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
24 Collected Poems
23 Emerson - Poems
19 The Divine Comedy
18 Magick Without Tears
18 Agenda Vol 01
17 The Bible
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
16 Prayers And Meditations
16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
15 Of The Nature Of Things
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
13 The Synthesis Of Yoga
13 Record of Yoga
12 Schiller - Poems
12 Metamorphoses
12 Agenda Vol 04
11 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
11 Anonymous - Poems
10 Quran
10 Li Bai - Poems
10 City of God
10 Agenda Vol 03
10 Agenda Vol 02
9 Vishnu Purana
9 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
9 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
9 Faust
9 Agenda Vol 07
9 5.1.01 - Ilion
8 Hafiz - Poems
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
7 Agenda Vol 11
7 Agenda Vol 10
7 Agenda Vol 06
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Phenomenon of Man
6 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
6 Talks
6 Some Answers From The Mother
6 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
6 Essays Divine And Human
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
6 Alice in Wonderland
6 Agenda Vol 13
6 Agenda Vol 12
6 Agenda Vol 09
5 Vedic and Philological Studies
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 The Future of Man
5 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
5 Liber ABA
5 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
4 Walden
4 The Study and Practice of Yoga
4 The Perennial Philosophy
4 The Life Divine
4 The Blue Cliff Records
4 Rilke - Poems
4 Questions And Answers 1956
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Questions And Answers 1954
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Letters On Yoga IV
4 Letters On Yoga II
4 Kena and Other Upanishads
4 Crowley - Poems
4 Agenda Vol 08
3 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
3 Twilight of the Idols
3 The Way of Perfection
3 The Practice of Psycho therapy
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
3 Song of Myself
3 Rumi - Poems
3 Poe - Poems
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
3 On Education
3 Letters On Yoga I
3 Isha Upanishad
3 Goethe - Poems
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
2 Symposium
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Raja-Yoga
2 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
2 Milarepa - Poems
2 Labyrinths
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Essays On The Gita
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Borges - Poems
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Amrita Gita
2 Aion
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother would be seated in this rather medieval-looking chair with its high, carved back, her feet on a little tabouret, while we sat on the floor, on a slightly faded carpet, conquered and seduced, revolted and never satisfied - but nevertheless, very interested. Treasures, never noted down, were lost until, with the cunning of the Sioux, we succeeded in making Mother consent to the presence of a tape recorder. But even then, and for a long time thereafter, She carefully made us erase or delete in our notes all that concerned Her rather too personally - sometimes we disobeyed Her.
But finally we were able to convince Her of the value inherent in keeping a chronicle of the route.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The main temple is dedicated to Kali, the Divine Mother, here worshipped as Bhavatarini, the Saviour of the Universe. The floor of this temple also is paved with marble. The basalt image of the Mother, dressed in gorgeous gold brocade, stands on a white marble image of the prostrate body of Her Divine Consort, Siva, the symbol of the Absolute. On the feet of the Goddess are, among other ornaments, anklets of gold. Her arms are decked with jewelled ornaments of gold. She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. She wears a golden crown, golden ear-rings, and a golden nose-ring with a pearl-drop. She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a blood-stained sabre. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness. For She is the Cosmic Power, the totality of the universe, a glorious harmony of the pairs of opposites. She deals out death, as She creates and preserves. She has three eyes, the third being the symbol of Divine Wisdom; they strike dismay into the wicked, yet pour out affection for Her devotees.
The whole symbolic world is represented in the temple garden — the Trinity of the Nature Mother (Kali), the Absolute (Siva), and Love (Radhakanta), the Arch spanning heaven and earth. The terrific Goddess of the Tantra, the soul-enthralling Flute-Player of the Bhagavata, and the Self-absorbed Absolute of the Vedas live together, creating the greatest synthesis of religions. All aspects of Reality are represented there. But of this divine household, Kali is the pivot, the sovereign Mistress. She is Prakriti, the Procreatrix, Nature, the Destroyer, the Creator. Nay, She is something greater and deeper still for those who have eyes to see. She is the Universal Mother, "my Mother" as Ramakrishna would say, the All-powerful, who reveals Herself to Her children under different aspects and Divine Incarnations, the Visible God, who leads the elect to the Invisible Reality; and if it so pleases Her, She takes away the last trace of ego from created beings and merges it in the consciousness of the Absolute, the undifferentiated God. Through Her grace "the finite ego loses itself in the illimitable Ego — Atman — Brahman". (Romain Holland, Prophets of the New India, p. 11.)
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Yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come. The first glimpse of the Divine Mother made him the more eager for Her uninterrupted vision. He wanted to see Her both in meditation and with eyes open. But the Mother began to play a teasing game of hide-and-seek with him, intensifying both his joy and his suffering. Weeping bitterly during the moments of separation from Her, he would pass into a trance and then find Her standing before him, smiling, talking, consoling, bidding him be of good cheer, and instructing him. During this period of spiritual practice he had many uncommon experiences. When he sat to meditate, he would hear strange clicking sounds in the joints of his legs, as if someone were locking them up, one after the other, to keep him motionless; and at the conclusion of his meditation he would again hear the same sounds, this time unlocking them and leaving him free to move about. He would see flashes like a swarm of fire-flies floating before his eyes, or a sea of deep mist around him, with luminous waves of molten silver. Again, from a sea of translucent mist he would behold the Mother rising, first Her feet, then Her waist, body, face, and head, finally Her whole person; he would feel Her breath and hear Her voice. Worshipping in the temple, sometimes he would become exalted, sometimes he would remain motionless as stone, sometimes he would almost collapse from excessive emotion. Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people. He would take a flower and touch it to his own head, body, and feet, and then offer it to the Goddess. Or, like a drunkard, he would reel to the throne of the Mother, touch Her chin by way of showing his affection for Her, and sing, talk, joke, laugh, and dance. Or he would take a morsel of food from the plate and hold it to Her mouth, begging Her to eat it, and would not be satisfied till he was convinced that She had really eaten. After the Mother had been put to sleep at night, from his own room he would hear Her ascending to the upper storey of the temple with the light steps of a happy girl, Her anklets jingling. Then he would discover Her standing with flowing hair. Her black form silhouetted against the sky of the night, looking at the Ganges or at the distant lights of Calcutta.
Naturally the temple officials took him for an insane person. His worldly well-wishers brought him to skilled physicians; but no-medicine could cure his malady. Many a time he doubted his sanity himself. For he had been sailing across an uncharted sea, with no earthly guide to direct him. His only haven of security was the Divine Mother Herself. To Her he would pray: "I do not know what these things are. I am ignorant of mantras and the scriptures. Teach me, Mother, how to realize Thee. Who else can help me? Art Thou not my only refuge and guide?" And the sustaining presence of the Mother never failed him in his distress or doubt. Even those who criticized his conduct were greatly impressed with his purity, guilelessness, truthfulness, integrity, and holiness. They felt an uplifting influence in his presence.
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One day, listening to a recitation of the Bhagavata on the verandah of the Radhakanta temple, he fell into a divine mood and saw the enchanting form of Krishna. He perceived the luminous rays issuing from Krishna's Lotus feet in the form of a stout rope, which touched first the Bhagavata and then his own chest, connecting all three — God, the scripture, and the devotee. "After this vision", he used to say, "I came to realize that Bhagavan, Bhakta, and Bhagavata — God, Devotee, and Scripture — are in reality one and the same."
--- VEDANTA
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"Sri Ramakrishna had not read books, yet he possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of religions and religious philosophies. This he acquired from his contacts with innumerable holy men and scholars. He had a unique power of assimilation; through meditation he made this knowledge a part of his being. Once, when he was asked by a disciple about the source of his seemingly inexhaustible knowledge, he replied; "I have not read; but I have heard the learned. I have made a garland of their knowledge, wearing it round my neck, and I have given it as an offering at the feet of the Mother."
Sri Ramakrishna used to say that when the flower blooms the bees come to it for honey of their own accord. Now many souls began to visit Dakshineswar to satisfy their spiritual hunger. He, the devotee and aspirant, became the Master. Gauri, the great scholar who had been one of the first to proclaim Sri Ramakrishna an Incarnation of God, paid the Master a visit in 1870 and with the Master's blessings renounced the world. Narayan Shastri, another great pundit, who had mastered the six systems of Hindu philosophy and had been offered a lucrative post by the Maharaja of Jaipur, met the Master and recognized in him one who had realized in life those ideals which he himself had encountered merely in books. Sri Ramakrishna initiated Narayan Shastri, at his earnest request, into the life of sannyas. Pundit Padmalochan, the court pundit of the Maharaja of Burdwan, well known for his scholarship in both the Vedanta and the Nyaya systems of philosophy, accepted the Master as an Incarnation of God. Krishnakishore, a Vedantist scholar, became devoted to the Master. And there arrived Viswanath Upadhyaya, who was to become a favourite devotee; Sri Ramakrishna always addressed him as "Captain". He was a high officer of the King of Nepal and had received the title of Colonel in recognition of his merit. A scholar of the Gita, the Bhagavata, and the Vedanta philosophy, he daily performed the worship of his Chosen Deity with great devotion. "I have read the Vedas and the other scriptures", he said. "I have also met a good many monks and devotees in different places. But it is in Sri Ramakrishna's presence that my spiritual yearnings have been fulfilled. To me he seems to be the embodiment of the truths of the scriptures."
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Totapuri, coming to know of the Master's marriage, had once remarked: "What does it matter? He alone is firmly established in the Knowledge of Brahman who can adhere to his spirit of discrimination and renunciation even while living with his wife. He alone has attained the supreme illumination who can look on man and woman alike as Brahman. A man with the idea of sex may be a good aspirant, but he is still far from the goal." Sri Ramakrishna and his wife lived together at Dakshineswar, but their minds always soared above the worldly plane. A few months after Sarada Devi's arrival Sri Ramakrishna arranged, on an auspicious day, a special worship of Kali, the Divine Mother. Instead of an image of the Deity, he placed on the seat the living image, Sarada Devi herself. The worshipper and the worshipped went into deep samadhi and in the transcendental plane their souls were united. After several hours Sri Ramakrishna came down again to the relative plane, sang a hymn to the Great Goddess, and surrendered, at the feet of the living image, himself, his rosary, and the fruit of his life-long sadhana. This is known in Tantra as the Shorasi Puja, the "Adoration of Woman". Sri Ramakrishna realized the significance of the great statement of the Upanishad: "O Lord, Thou art the woman. Thou art the man; Thou art the boy. Thou art the girl; Thou art the old, tottering on their crutches. Thou pervadest the universe in its multiple forms."
By his marriage Sri Ramakrishna admitted the great value of marriage in man's spiritual evolution, and by adhering to his monastic vows he demonstrated the imperative necessity of self-control, purity, and continence, in the realization of God. By this unique spiritual relationship with his wife he proved that husband and wife can live together as spiritual companions. Thus his life is a synthesis of the ways of life of the householder and the monk.
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In the nirvikalpa samadhi Sri Ramakrishna had realized that Brahman alone is real and the world illusory. By keeping his mind six months on the plane of the non-dual Brahman, he had attained to the state of the vijnani, the knower of Truth in a special and very rich sense, who sees Brahman not only in himself and in the transcendental Absolute, but in everything of the world. In this state of vijnana, sometimes, bereft of body-consciousness, he would regard himself as one with Brahman; sometimes, conscious of the dual world, he would regard himself as God's devotee, servant, or child. In order to enable the Master to work for the welfare of humanity, the Divine Mother had kept in him a trace of ego, which he described — according to his mood — as the "ego of Knowledge", the "ego of Devotion", the "ego of a child", or the "ego of a servant". In any case this ego of the Master, consumed by the fire of the Knowledge of Brahman, was an appearance only, like a burnt string. He often referred to this ego as the "ripe ego" in contrast with the ego of the bound soul, which he described as the "unripe" or "green" ego. The ego of the bound soul identifies itself with the body, relatives, possessions, and the world; but the "ripe ego", illumined by Divine Knowledge, knows the body, relatives, possessions, and the world to be unreal and establishes a relationship of love with God alone. Through this "ripe ego" Sri Ramakrishna dealt with the world and his wife. One day, while stroking his feet, Sarada Devi asked the Master, "What do you think of me?" Quick came the answer: "The Mother who is worshipped in the temple is the mother who has given birth to my body and is now living in the nahabat, and it is She again who is stroking my feet at this moment. Indeed, I always look on you as the personification of the Blissful Mother Kali."
Sarada Devi, in the company of her husband, had rare spiritual experiences. She said: "I have no words to describe my wonderful exaltation of spirit as I watched him in his different moods. Under the influence of divine emotion he would sometimes talk on abstruse subjects, sometimes laugh, sometimes weep, and sometimes become perfectly motionless in samadhi. This would continue throughout the night. There was such an extraordinary divine presence in him that now and then I would shake with fear and wonder how the night would pass. Months went by in this way. Then one day he discovered that I had to keep awake the whole night lest, during my sleep, he should go into samadhi — for it might happen at any moment —, and so he asked me to sleep in the nahabat."
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Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
The Brahmo leaders received much inspiration from their contact with Sri Ramakrishna. It broadened their religious views and kindled in their hearts the yearning for God-realization; it made them understand and appreciate the rituals and symbols of Hindu religion, convinced them of the manifestation of God in diverse forms, and deepened their thoughts about the harmony of religions. The Master, too, was impressed by the sincerity of many of the Brahmo devotees. He told them about his own realizations and explained to them the essence of his teachings, such as the necessity of renunciation, sincerity in the pursuit of one's own course of discipline, faith in God, the performance of one's duties without thought of results, and discrimination between the Real and the unreal.
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Durgacharan Nag, also known as Nag Mahashay, was the ideal householder among the lay disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. He was the embodiment of the Master's ideal of life in the world, unstained by worldliness. In spite of his intense desire to become a sannyasi, Sri Ramakrishna asked him to live in the world in the spirit of a monk, and the disciple truly carried out this injunction. He was born of a poor family and even during his boyhood often sacrificed everything to lessen the sufferings of the needy. He had married at an early age and after his wife's death had married a second time to obey his father's command. But he once said to his wife: "Love on the physical level never lasts. He is indeed blessed who can give his love to God with his whole heart. Even a little attachment to the body endures for several births. So do not be attached to this cage of bone and flesh. Take shelter at the feet of the Mother and think of Her alone. Thus your life here and hereafter will be ennobled." The Master spoke of him as a "blazing light". He received every word of Sri Ramakrishna in dead earnest. One day he heard the Master saying that it was difficult for doctors, lawyers, and brokers to make much progress in spirituality. Of doctors he said, "If the mind clings to the tiny drops of medicine, how can it conceive of the Infinite?" That was the end of Durgacharan's medical practice and he threw his chest of medicines into the Ganges. Sri Ramakrishna assured him that he would not lack simple food and clothing. He bade him serve holy men. On being asked where he would find real holy men, the Master said that the sadhus themselves would seek his company. No sannyasi could have lived a more austere life than Durgacharan.
--- GIRISH GHOSH
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One early morning at three o'clock, about a year later, Gopal Ma was about to finish her daily devotions, when she was startled to find Sri Ramakrishna sitting on her left, with his right hand clenched, like the hand of the image of Gopala. She was amazed and caught hold of the hand, whereupon the figure vanished and in its place appeared the real Gopala, her Ideal Deity. She cried aloud with joy. Gopala begged her for butter. She pleaded her poverty and gave Him some dry coconut candies. Gopala, sat on her lap, snatched away her rosary, jumped on her shoulders, and moved all about the room. As soon as the day broke she hastened to Dakshineswar like an insane woman. Of course Gopala accompanied her, resting His head on her shoulder. She clearly saw His tiny ruddy feet hanging over her breast. She entered Sri Ramakrishna's room. The Master had fallen into samadhi. Like a child, he sat on her lap, and she began to feed him with butter, cream, and other delicacies. After some time he regained consciousness and returned to his bed. But the mind of Gopala's Mother was still roaming in another plane. She was steeped in bliss. She saw Gopala frequently entering the Master's body and again coming out of it. When she returned to her hut, still in a dazed condition, Gopala accompanied her.
She spent about two months in uninterrupted communion with God, the Baby Gopala never leaving her for a moment. Then the intensity of her vision was lessened; had it not been, her body would have perished. The Master spoke highly of her exalted spiritual condition and said that such vision of God was a rare thing for ordinary mortals. The fun-loving Master one day confronted the critical Narendranath with this simple-minded woman. No two could have presented a more striking contrast. The Master knew of Narendra's lofty contempt for all visions, and he asked the old lady to narrate her experiences to Narendra. With great hesitation she told him her story. Now and then she interrupted her maternal chatter to ask Narendra: "My son, I am a poor ignorant woman. I don't understand anything. You are so learned. Now tell me if these visions of Gopala are true." As Narendra listened to the story he was profoundly moved. He said, "Yes, mother, they are quite true." Behind his cynicism Narendra, too, possessed a heart full of love and tenderness.
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Pundit Shashadhar one day suggested to the Master that the latter could remove the illness by concentrating his mind on the throat, the scriptures having declared that yogis had power to cure themselves in that way. The Master rebuked the pundit. "For a scholar like you to make such a proposal!" he said. "How can I withdraw the mind from the Lotus feet of God and turn it to this worthless cage of flesh and blood?" "For our sake at least", begged Narendra and the other disciples. "But", replied Sri Ramakrishna, do you think I enjoy this suffering? I wish to recover, but that depends on the Mother."
NARENDRA: "Then please pray to Her. She must listen to you."
--
"I shall make the whole thing public before I go", the Master had said some time before. On January 1, 1886, he felt better and came down to the garden for a little stroll. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. Some thirty lay disciples were in the hall or sitting about under the trees. Sri Ramakrishna said to Girish, "Well, Girish, what have you seen in me, that you proclaim me before everybody as an Incarnation of God?" Girish was not the man to be taken by surprise. He knelt before the Master and said, with folded hands, "What can an insignificant person like myself say about the One whose glory even sages like Vyasa and Valmiki could not adequately measure?" The Master was profoundly moved. He said: "What more shall I say? I bless you all. Be illumined!" He fell into a spiritual mood. Hearing these words the devotees, one and all, became overwhelmed with emotion. They rushed to him and fell at his feet. He touched them all, and each received an appropriate benediction. Each of them, at the touch of the Master, experienced ineffable bliss. Some laughed, some wept, some sat down to meditate, some began to pray. Some saw light, some had visions of their Chosen Ideals, and some felt within their bodies the rush of spiritual power.
Narendra, consumed with a terrific fever for realization, complained to the Master that all the others had attained peace and that he alone was dissatisfied. The Master asked what he wanted. Narendra begged for samadhi, so that he might altogether forget the world for three or four days at a time. "You are a fool", the Master rebuked him. "There is a state even higher than that. Isn't it you who sing, 'All that exists art Thou'? First of all settle your family affairs and then come to me. You will experience a state even higher than samadhi."
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Sunday, August 15, 1886. The Master's pulse became irregular. The devotees stood by the bedside. Toward dusk Sri Ramakrishna had difficulty in breathing. A short time afterwards he complained of hunger. A little liquid food was put into his mouth; some of it he swallowed, and the rest ran over his chin. Two attendants began to fan him. All at once he went into samadhi of a rather unusual type. The body became stiff. Sashi burst into tears. But after midnight the Master revived. He was now very hungry and helped himself to a bowl of porridge. He said he was strong again. He sat up against five or six pillows, which were supported by the body of Sashi, who was fanning him. Narendra took his feet on his lap and began to rub them. Again and again the Master repeated to him, "Take care of these boys." Then he asked to lie down. Three times in ringing tone's he cried the name of Kali, his life's Beloved, and lay back. At two minutes past one there was a low sound in his throat and he fell a little to one side. A thrill passed over his body. His hair stood on end. His eyes became fixed on the tip of his nose. His face was lighted with a smile. The final ecstasy began. It was mahasamadhi, total absorption, from which his mind never returned. Narendra, unable to bear it, ran downstairs.
Dr. Sarkar arrived the following noon and pronounced that life had departed not more than half an hour before. At five o'clock the Masters body was brought downstairs, laid on a cot, dressed in ochre clothes, and decorated with sandal-paste and flowers. A procession was formed. The passers-by wept as the body was taken to the cremation ground at the Baranagore Ghat on the Ganges.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
bitterness, rivet the chains still on your feet.
Paragraph 4 is a practical counsel to mystics not
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Besides undergoing spiritual disciplines at the feet of the Master, M. used to go to holy places during the Master's lifetime itself and afterwards too as a part of his Sdhan.
He was one of the earliest of the disciples to visit Kamarpukur, the birthplace of the Master, in the latter's lifetime itself; for he wished to practise contemplation on the Master's early life in its true original setting. His experience there is described as follows by Swami Nityatmananda: "By the grace of the Master, he saw the entire Kamarpukur as a holy place bathed in an effulgent Light. Trees and creepers, beasts and birds and men all were made of effulgence. So he prostrated to all on the road. He saw a torn cat, which appeared to him luminous with the Light of Consciousness. Immediately he fell to the ground and saluted it" (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda vol. I. P. 40.) He had similar experience in Dakshineswar also. At the instance of the Master he also visited Puri, and in the words of Swami Nityatmananda, "with indomitable courage, M. embraced the image of Jagannath out of season."
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
M. spent his weekends and holidays with the monastic brethren who, after the Master's demise, had formed themselves into an Order with a Math at Baranagore, and participated in the intense life of devotion and meditation that they followed. At other times he would retire to Dakshineswar or some garden in the city and spend several days in spiritual practice taking simple self-cooked food. In order to feel that he was one with all mankind he often used to go out of his home at dead of night, and like a wandering Sannysin, sleep with the waifs on some open verandah or footpath on the road.
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Besides the prompting of his inherent instinct, the main inducement for M. to keep this diary of his experiences at Dakshineswar was his desire to provide himself with a means for living in holy company at all times. Being a school teacher, he could be with the Master only on Sundays and other holidays, and it was on his diary that he depended for 'holy company' on other days. The devotional scriptures like the Bhagavata say that holy company is the first and most important means for the generation and growth of devotion. For, in such company man could hear talks on spiritual matters and listen to the glorification of Divine attri butes, charged with the fervour and conviction emanating from the hearts of great lovers of God. Such company is therefore the one certain means through which Sraddha (Faith), Rati (attachment to God) and Bhakti (loving devotion) are generated. The diary of his visits to Dakshineswar provided M. with material for re-living, through reading and contemplation, the holy company he had had earlier, even on days when he was not able to visit Dakshineswar. The wealth of details and the vivid description of men and things in the midst of which the sublime conversations are set, provide excellent material to re-live those experiences for any one with imaginative powers. It was observed by M.'s disciples and admirers that in later life also whenever he was free or alone, he would be pouring over his diary, transporting himself on the wings of imagination to the glorious days he spent at the feet of the Master.
During the Master's lifetime M. does not seem to have revealed the contents of his diary to any one. There is an unconfirmed tradition that when the Master saw him taking notes, he expressed apprehension at the possibility of his utilising these to publicise him like Keshab Sen; for the Great Master was so full of the spirit of renunciation and humility that he disliked being lionised. It must be for this reason that no one knew about this precious diary of M. for a decade until he brought out selections from it as a pamphlet in English in 1897 with the Holy Mother's blessings and permission. The Holy Mother, being very much pleased to hear parts of the diary read to her in Bengali, wrote to M.: "When I heard the Kathmrita, (Bengali name of the book) I felt as if it was he, the Master, who was saying all that." ( Ibid Part I. P 37.)
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
use me even as You use Your feet, O Sweet Mother.
I bow to You in joyful gratitude.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To [my little smile] whose precious help prevents my feet from
being hurt by the stones on the way.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My heart wants to run to your feet; it wants to lose
itself in you. This is what I want, but have I done it? I
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
but I can't remain at Your feet for more than a few
seconds; how can I live?
--
sincerity at the feet of the Divine, work will do you as much
good as meditation.
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
without a Guru who will lead me to Her feet?
I do not see anybody in the world more qualified than Sri
Aurobindo to lead you to the feet of the Mahashakti.
With my love and blessings.
--
heart may I have your lotus feet permanently installed
on a throne of love.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And saw the spaces ready for her feet.
1.32
--
And the tired feet of thought approached her doors.
2.35
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Grasses his kine have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing!
Yamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing!
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In his climb to a peak no feet have ever trod,
He seeks through a penumbra shot with flame
--
\t:Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,
A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
--
The feet that run behind a fleeting fate,
The ineffable meaning of the endless dream.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Alarmed by the sorrow dragging at her feet
And conscious of the high things not yet won,
--
Amid the wrestle of force, the trampling feet,
Across the cries of anguish and of joy,
--
Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The earth-nature's summits sank below his feet:
He climbed to meet the infinite more above.
--
Acts at a distance without hands or feet.
This giant Ignorance, this dwarfish Life
--
Here where he stands, his feet on a prostrate world,
His mind no more cast into Matter's mould,
--
Their lion-forces crouched beneath her feet;
The future sleeps unknown behind their doors.
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words, these heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is that that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred chord, "awakening in you someone dead" till thenmrtam kcana bodhayant. More than the matter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who embodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the words and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the soul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any speaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in what he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind and draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men, self-confident and bold and fiery, can carry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a lower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that is touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes straight to the spirit in youit is the call of the deep unto the deep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is asleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are free and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness Sachchidananda that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and invincible and free absolutely. The courage and fearlessness that Vivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the lordship of your spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in man.
Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the Atman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of India. India had a large place in Vivekananda's consciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to India's future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather the spiritual work to do. Here is India's work as Vivekananda conceived it in a nutshell:
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man then, according to Pascal, is by nature a sinful thing. He can lay no claim to noble virtue as his own: all in him is vile, he is a lump of dirt and filth. Even the greatest has his full share of this taint. The greatest, the saintliest, and the meanest, the most sinful, all meet, all are equal on this common platform; all have the same feet of clay. Man is as miserable a creature as a beast, as much a part and product of Nature as a plant. Only there is this difference that an animal or a tree is unconscious, while man knows that he is miserable. This knowledge or perception makes him more miserable, but that is his real and only greatness there is no other. His thought, his self-consciousness, and his sorrow and repentance and contrition for what he is that is the only good partMary's part that has been given to him. Here are Pascal's own words on the subject:
"The greatness of man is great in this that he knows he is miserable. A tree does not know that it is miserable.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The touch of Earth is always reinvigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical Knowledge. It may even be said that the supraphysical can only be really mastered in its fullnessto its heights we can always reachwhen we keep our feet firmly on the physical. 'Earth is His footing' says the Upanishad, whenever it images the Self that manifests in the universe." Huxley's commentary is as follows:
"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower ooze, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
myself at Your feet.
"In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration,
0 1955-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1) To prostrate oneself at His feet in a surrender of all pride, with a perfect HUMILITY.
2) To unfold ones being before Him, to open entirely ones body from head to toe, as one opens a book, spreading open ones centers so as to make all their movements visible in a total SINCERITY that allows nothing to remain hidden.
0 1956-09-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Something a little taller than myself: its feet extended below my feet and its head went a little beyond my head.
A solid block with a rectangular basea rectangle with a square baseone single piece.
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I would like to throw myself at your feet and open my heart to you but I cannot. I cannot.
For I SEE that, were I to give in now, I would be done forthere would be no alternative but to live out the rest of my days in the Ashram. But everything in me rebels at this idea. The idea of winding up as General Secretary of the Ashram, like Pavitra, makes my skin crawl. It is absurd, and I apologize for speaking this way, Mother, for I admire Pavitra but I cant help it, I cant do it, I do not want to end up like that.
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of the whole being suddenly drawing itself up, with its head lifted high I am my own master.
We live perennially with a burden on our shoulders, something that bows our heads down, and we feel pulled, led by all kinds of external forces, we dont know by whom or what, nor where tothis is what men call Fate, Destiny. When you do yoga, one of the first experiences the experience of the kundalini, as it is called here in Indiais precisely one in which the consciousness rises, breaks through this hard lid, here, at the crown of the head, and at last you emerge into the Light. Then you see, you know, you decide and you realizedifficulties may still remain, but truly speaking one is above them. Well, as a result of the supramental manifestation, it is THIS experience that came into the body. The body straightened its head up and felt its freedom, its independence.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The tall beings on the shore were not of the same color, at least they did not have this orange tint; they were paler, more transparent. Except for a part of their bodies, only the outline of their forms could be seen. They were very tall, they did not seem to have a skeletal structure, and they could take on any form according to their needs. Only from their waists to their feet did they have a permanent density, which was not felt in the rest of their body. Their color was much more pallid and contained very little red, it verged rather on gold or even white. The parts of whitish light were translucid; they were not absolutely transparent, but less dense, more subtle than the orange substance.
Just as I was called back, when I was saying, Not yet , I had a quick glimpse of myself, of my form in the supramental world. I was a mixture of what these tall beings were and the beings aboard the ship. The top part of myself, especially my head, was a mere silhouette of a whitish color with an orange fringe. The more it approached the feet, the more the color resembled that of the people on the ship, or in other words, orange; the more it went up towards the top, the more translucid and white it was, and the red faded. The head was only a silhouette with a brilliant sun at its center; from it issued rays of light which were the action of the will.
As for the people I saw aboard ship, I recognized them all. Some were here in the Ashram, some came from elsewhere, but I knew them as well. I saw everyone, but as I realized that I would not remember everyone when I came back, I decided not to give any names. Besides, it is unnecessary. Three or four faces were very clearly visible, and when I saw them, I understood the feeling that I have had here, on earth, while looking into their eyes: there was such an extraordinary joy On the whole, the people were young; there were very few children, and their ages were around fourteen or fifteen, but certainly not below ten or twelve (I did not stay long enough to see all the details). There were no very old people, with the exception of a few. Most of the people who had gone ashore were of a middle ageagain, except for a few. Several times before this experience, certain individual cases had already been examined at a place where people capable of being supramentalized are examined; I had then had a few surprises which I had noted I even told some people. But those whom I disembarked today I saw very distinctly. They were of a middle age, neither young children nor elderly people, with only a few rare exceptions, and this quite corresponded to what I expected. I decided not to say anything, not to give any names. As I did not stay until the end, it would be impossible for me to draw an exact picture, for it was neither absolutely clear nor complete. I do not want to say things to some and not say them to others.
0 1958-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
'If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature to forbid the turning away of our feet from less ordinary pastures.'
Cent. Ed. Vol. XVII, p. 79
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then comes the story of Anusuya and her husb and (who is truly a husb and a very good man, but well, not a god, after all!), who was sleeping with his head resting upon Anusuyas knees. They had finished their puja (both of them were worshippers of Shiva), and after their puja he was resting, sleeping, with his head on Anusuyas knees. Meanwhile, the gods had descended upon earth, particularly this Parvati, and they saw Anusuya like that. Then Parvati exclaimed, This is a good occasion! Not very far away a cooking fire was burning. With her power, she sent the fire rolling down onto Anusuyas feetwhich startled her because it hurt. It began to burn; not one cry, not one movement, nothing because she didnt want to awaken her husband. But she began invoking Shiva (Shiva was there). And because she invoked Shiva (it is lovely in the story), because she invoked Shiva, Shivas foot began burning! (Mother laughs) Then Narada showed Shiva to Parvati: Look what you are doing; you are burning your husbands foot! So Parvati made the opposite gesture and the fire was put out.
Thats how it went.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I am at your feet. You are my Mother, my only support.
Signed: Satprem
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I am at your feet.
Your child,
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my Love, I am at your feet.
Signed: Satprem
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I am at your feet, your child eternally.
Signed: Satprem
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Shortly before the 15th of August I had a unique experience that exemplifies all this.1 For the first time the supramental light entered directly into my body, without passing through the inner beings. It entered through the feet (a red and gold colormarvelous, warm, intense), and it climbed up and up. And as it climbed, the fever also climbed because the body was not accustomed to this intensity. As all this light neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body-consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as the light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was a second of fainting.
I found myself in another world, but not far away (I was not in a total trance). This world was almost as substantial as the physical world. There were roomsSri Aurobindos room with the bed he rests on and he was living there, he was there all the time: it was his abode. Even my room was there, with a large mirror like the one I have here, combs, all kinds of things. And the substance of these objects was almost as dense as in the physical world, but they shone with their own light. It was not translucent, not transparent, not radiant, but self-luminous. The various objects and the material of the rooms did not have this same opacity as the physical objects here, they were not dry and hard as in the physical world we know.
0 1959-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I would wish to be like Sujata, completely transparent, your child with her at your feet. Mother, help me. I need you. Sujata is healing something that was very painful in me, as though it were flayed or wounded, and which threw me into revolt. With this calming influence, I would like to begin a new life of self-giving. This change of residence is for me like the symbol of another change. Oh, Mother! may the painful road be over, and may all be achieved in the joy of your Will.
Your child,
0 1960-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my love, I am at your feet.
Signed: Satprem
0 1960-04-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, I am at your feet, with my love and my gratitude.
Your child,
0 1960-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It gives me the impression of something like Yes, thats it, like a cavemanOh (Mother speaks mockingly), surely one of the cave artists or poets or writers! The intellectual life of the caves, I mean! But the cave happens to be low and when youre in it, you are like this (Mother stoops over), but the whole time you want to stand up straight. That makes you furious. Thats exactly the feeling it gives menot a cave meant for a man standing on his two feet; its a cave for a lion or for for any four-legged animal.
Its symbolic. Im speaking symbolically.
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No, no thats not what I mean. Im speaking of the relationship I have with you, the true onewhat I was telling you about just a moment ago. Because, you see, Im going to tell you everything! (Mother laughs) I have the impression that it would go much faster if I could pick you up, put you here (Mother touches her heart), carry you here and tell you, Calm yourself, listen! But its not possible (alas). Youre always fast on your feet with your head touching this very low ceiling. Myself, I cant be like that. Im not even sure (laughing) if my feet would get in!
Anyway, my child, its not that Im not trying I am trying. And its not that you cantyou can. Thats the problem You know, its as if you were stubbornly trying to turn the key the wrong way in the lock.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
He saw me the next day for half an hour. I sat downit was on the verandah of the Guest House, I was sitting there on the verandah. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. Myself, I was seated at his feet, very small, with the table just in front of meit came to my forehead, which gave me a little protection I didnt say anything, I didnt think anything, try anything, want anything I merely sat near him. When I stood up half an hour later, he had put silence in my head, thats all, without my even having asked himperhaps even without his trying.
Oh, I had tried for years I had tried to catch silence in my head I never succeeded. I could detach myself from it, but it would keep on turning But at that moment, all the mental constructions, all the mental, speculative structures none of it remaineda big hole.
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As I approached the house, but still from some distance, I suddenly saw some men busy at work. Then instantly instantly this road which was so vast, sunlit and smoothso smooth to the feet oh, it became the top level of a scaffolding. And what is more, this scaffolding was not very well made, and the closer I came the more complicated it gotthere were planks jutting out, beams off balance. In short, you had to watch every single step to keep from breaking your neck. I began getting annoyed. Moreover, my packages were heavy. They were heavy and they so saddled my arms that I was unable to hold onto anything and had constantly to do a balancing act. Then I began thinking, My God, how complicated this world is! And just at that moment, I saw a young person coming along, like a young girl dressed in European clothes, with a hat on her head all black! This young person had white skin, but her clothes were black, and she wore black shoes on her small white feet. She was dressed all in blackblack, all in black. Like complete unconsciousness. She also came carrying packages (many more than me), and she came hopping along the whole length of the scaffolding, putting her feet just anywhere! My God, I said to myself, shes going to break her neck!But not at all! She was totally unconscious; she wasnt even aware that it was dangerous or complicateda total unconsciousness. But her unconsciousness is what allowed her to go on like that! I watched it all. Well, sometimes its good to be unconscious! Then she disappeared; she had only come to give me a demonstration (she neither saw me nor looked at me). And looking down at the workers, I saw that everything was getting more and more complicated, more and more, more and more and there wasnt even any ladder by which to get down. In other words, it was getting unbearable. Then something in me rebelled: Ah, no! Ive had enough of all thisits too stupid!
And IMMEDIATELY, I found myself down below, relieved of my packages. And everything was perfectly simple. (I had even brought the packages along without realizing it.) All, all was in order, very neat, very luminous, very simplesimply because I had said, Ah, no! Ive had enough of this business! Why all these stupid complications!5
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, if we were capable of. When I am up in my room, its very easy, very easy: it comes and what is a little more difficult is getting out of that state. There I am, like this (gesture of blissful abandonment), and when I feel its time to go downstairs or I have something to do or someone is coming with lunch or whatever, then its a little difficult; otherwise, I am like that (same gesture). Whats difficult is my contact with the Ashram people. As soon as I go down and simply that, having to fidget on my feet, giving people flowers. And they are so unconsciously egotistical! If I dont go through the usual concentration on each one of them, they wonder, What is it? Whats wrong? Have I done something? And and it turns into a big drama.
Otherwise, concentration is very good, it doesnt tire mewhen my body is not drained, when it isnt constantly aware that it exists because it hurts here, hurts there, aches here, aches there (pain is what gives it a sense of existing), when the body is able to forget itself, things go well, its nothing. Now the Force passes through me without causing fatigue, while many years ago, too much Force created tension; but its not like that now, not at allon the contrary, the body feels better when a lot of force has passed through it.
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To realize what one has to realize, it is absolutely indispensable to be TOTALLY free of all ties with the ordinary, false consciousness common to material body-consciousness the consciousness of the body-substancederiving from the subconscient and the inconscient. This must not only be mastered (it has been mastered for a long time)but there must be complete independence so that it no longer has the power to provoke any reaction at all. But we arent there yet, its still not like that, and as long as it isnt, we are not on the safe side. But when all the bodys cells, even in their most subconscious reactions, will come to know what I myself know, that the Supreme alone exists, when they will know that, it will be goodnot before. As I told you just now, they still have ordinary reactions: If I have to stay on my feet, (this isnt a thought; Im obliged to use words, but it isnt a thought), If I have to stay on my feet, Im going to get tired; if I do too much, Ill be tired, if I do this, it will have that consequence, if. This stupid, automatic little mechanism. its not yet THAT, not yet That!
Of course, theres the constant difficulty of all the thoughts coming from outside and from the people you live with. But now the consciousness is such that these outer things are seen objectively (Mother makes a gesture of seeing vibrations coming and stopping before her eyes)automatically I see everything that comes from the surrounding vibrations objectively: far, near, above, below, everywhere. The vibration comes WITH THE KNOWLEDGE. In other words, its not that you see what it is only after it has been received and absorbed: it comes with the knowledge, and this is a great help. This type of perception has considerably increased and become much more precise since that experience [of January 24], much more; it has made a big difference.
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For example, each time I have been able to master something, I mean find the true solution for an illness or a malfunctioning (the TRUE solution, not a mental one, not some ordinary knowledge, but the spiritual solution: the vibration that will UNDO the wrong working or set you on your feet again), it has always been very easy for me to cure the same thing in others, through the emission of this vibration.
Thats how it works. Because all substance is ONE. All is onewe constantly forget that! We always have a sense of separation, and that is total, total falsehood; its because we rely on what our eyes see, on (Mother touches her hands and arms, as if to indicate a separate body, cut off from other bodies). That is truly Falsehood. As soon as your consciousness changes a little, you realize that what we see is like an image plastered over something. But its not true, NOT TRUE AT ALL. Even in the most material Matter, even a stoneeven in a stoneas soon as ones consciousness changes, all this separation, all this division, completely vanishes. These are (how to put it?) modes of concentration (something akin to yet not quite that), vibratory modes WITHIN THE SAME THING.8
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem puts a cushion under Mothers feet)
Its almost a luxury these days!
0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, there are certain symptoms which never appear with filariasis. And the doctor has been astounded at the control Ive had over it: it began in the feet, I checked it there; it went higher, I checked it there; then it went higher still and I continued to control it. Finally, the other day, it tried to get into the arms, but it couldnt hold outand last night there was a real riot! (Mother laughs) So perhaps its the deformation or transposition of some sort of mantric effort, like last time in 58 when there was an attempt to make me throw up all my blood but only food came out! Its probably something similar. My impression (Ive had it from the start) is that they have made a try at thrombosis (you know, when something blocks the circulation). Besides, it seems that X asked the doctor if blood-poisoning might be involved, so he must have seen this possibility. There has been absolutely nothing of the kind, but there has been an effort to block the circulation in the veins, probably an adaptation of the magic attack. And along with this have come all the usual things: all the usual suggestions, all the usual prophecies [about Mothers departure]. But for me, these are the normal facts of life, thats all. I am used to it. It has no importance.
Do you really believe Z could be behind this magician you saw?
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The night before last I was again awakened at midnight (not awakened: I came out of my trance) with those stings burning from inside out, from the tips of the feet up to here, everywhere, in the back it lasted four hours, non-stop. Well, my body didnt once complain. Not once did it ask for it to stop; it just kept quiet, saying: Thy Will be done. And not only saying it but FEELING it, quietlyfour hours of minuscule tortures. It didnt say a thing.
Saying nothing is elementary for me! But the body didnt say anythingit didnt even fidget; it didnt even have, you know, that feeling of, When will it be over? Nothing. It just stayed quiet, quiet. I was like a statue in my bed, stinging from head to toe. So I really cant complain! The instrument I have been given is of truly good quality. An unflinching goodwill.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I have had some cats. I had a cat who was the reincarnation of the mind of a Russian woman. I had a vision of it one day, it was so strangethis woman had been murdered at the time of the Russian Revolution, along with her two little children. And her mind entered a cat here. (How? I dont know.) But this cat, mon petit. I got her when she was very young. She would come and lie down, stretched out like a human being, with her head on my arm! (I used to sleep on a Japanese tatami on the floor.) And she would stay there, so well-behaved, didnt stir all night long! I was really amazed. Then she had kittens, and wanted to give birth to them lying stretched out, not at all like a cat. It was very difficult to make her understand that it couldnt be done that way! And one night after she had had her kittens, I saw her I saw a young woman in furs, with a fur bonnetyou could just see a tiny human face; she had two little ones and she came to me and placed them at my feet. Her whole story was there in her consciousness: how she and the two children had been murdered. And then I realized she was the cat!
The cat wouldnt leave her kittens for a moment! Not for anything. She wouldnt eat, wouldnt go outside to relieve herself, nothing: she stayed put. So I told her, Bring me your kittens. (If you know how to handle them, cats understand very well when theyre spoken to.) Bring me your little ones. She looked at me, went and brought one of her kittens, and placed it between my feet. Then she went to fetch the other one and placed it between my feet (not beside, between my feet). Now you can go out, I told her. And out she went.
I had another cat named Kiki. He had a wonderful color and was just like velvet. We used to have meditations and he would come, get up on a chair and go into trance; he would make the brusque movements of trance during the meditation. And I had to rouse him out of it, otherwise he wouldnt wake up!
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, mon petit, you really must have your feet on the ground, be very solid, firmly balanced, and not get carried away!
But you seem to be saying that the ideas which govern or underlie our progress are more or less false moral ideas; so what should underlie our progress? What would make us say: this is good or not good, useful or not useful for progress?
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
0 1961-06-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I saw N. and he told me, Oh! X had an experience during the meditation with you this morning. Ah! I said to myself, This is going to be interesting. (I was wrong to think so, by the way, even for a quarter of a second.) Yes, he told me, he saw what seemed to be a transparent golden veil descending over you; and by your side were flowers like roses, or colored like roses, with the feet of a child upon them.
All the psychics tell you such stories!
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The secret lies in matter. Because Agni is imprisoned in matter and we ourselves are imprisoned there. It is said that Agni is without head or feet, that it conceals its two extremities: above, it disappears into the great heaven of the supraconscient (which the Rishis also called the great ocean), and below, it sinks into the formless ocean of the inconscient (which they also called the rock). We are truncated. But the Rishis were men of a solid realism, a true realism resting upon the Spirit; and since the summits of mind opened out upon a lacuna of lightecstatic, to be sure, but with no hold over the worldthey set upon the downward way.6 Thus begins the quest for the lost sun, the long pilgrimage of descent into the inconscient and the merciless fight against the dark forces, the thieves of the sun, the panis and vritras, pythons and giants, hidden in the dark lair with the whole cohort of usurpers: the dualizers, the confiners, the tearers, the COVERERS. But the divine worker, Agni, is helped by the gods, and in his quest he is led by the intuitive ray, Sarama, the heavenly hound with the subtle sense of smell who sets Agni on the track of the stolen herds (strange, shining herds). Now and again there comes the sudden glimmer of a fugitive dawn then all grows dim. One must advance step by step, digging, digging, fighting every inch of the way against the wolves whose savage fury increases the nearer one draws to their denAgni is a warrior. Agni grows through his difficulties, his flame burns more brilliantly with each blow from the Adversary; for, as the Rishis said, Night and Day both suckled the divine Child; they even said that Night and Day are the two sisters, Immortal, with a common lover [the sun] common they, though different their forms (I.113.2,3). These alternations of night and brightness accelerate until Day breaks at last and the herds of Dawn7 surge upward awakening someone who was dead (I.113.8). The infinite rock of the inconscient is shattered, the seeker uncovers the Sun dwelling in the darkness (III.39.5), the divine consciousness in the heart of Matter. In the very depths of Matter, that is to say, in the body, on earth, the Rishis found themselves cast up into Light that same Light which others sought on the heights, without their bodies and without the earth, in ecstasy. And this is what the Rishis would call the Great Passage. Without abandoning the earth they found the vast dwelling place, that dwelling place of the gods, Swar, the original Sun-world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental World: Human beings [the Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place (I.36.8). They have entered the True, the Right, the Vast, Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, the unbroken light, the fearless light, where there is no longer suffering nor falsehood nor death: it is immortality, amritam.
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0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here, just to give you an example: when I first began to work (not with Theon personally but with an acquaintance of his in France, a boy4 who was a friend of my brother), well, I had a series of visions (I knew nothing about India, mind you, nothing, just as most Europeans know nothing about it: a country full of people with certain customs and religions, a confused and hazy history, where a lot of extraordinary things are said to have happened. I knew nothing.) Well, in several of these visions I saw Sri Aurobindo just as he looked physically, but glorified; that is, the same man I would see on my first visit, almost thin, with that golden-bronze hue and rather sharp profile, an unruly beard and long hair, dressed in a dhoti with one end of it thrown over his shoulder, arms and chest bare, and bare feet. At the time I thought it was vision attire! I mean I really knew nothing about India; I had never seen Indians dressed in the Indian way.
Well, I saw him. I experienced what were at once symbolic visions and spiritual FACTS: absolutely decisive spiritual experiences and facts of meeting and having a united perception of the Work to be accomplished. And in these visions I did something I had never done physically: I prostrated before him in the Hindu manner. All this without any comprehension in the little brain (I mean I really didnt know what I was doing or how I was doing itnothing at all). I did it, and at the same time the outer being was asking, What is all this?!
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About 15 feet high.
In fact, without knowing anything, Satprem had sensed a kind of warrior, very luminous and white, reminding him of the god Kartik, son of the Universal Mother, armed with a spear. Later, Mother said that her vital being was a "diamond-warrior."
0 1962-02-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take Z, for instanceshe told me that Maharshi1 wrote in his book that if I were Hindu and did asanas every day, all India would be at my feet! This has certainly been Zs biggest difficulty: it was easy to come here, she could speak to me perfectly freely, I didnt behave mysteriously. So of course, it was too simple!
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0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In being THAT, it might be said, Mother thus resolves the famous question of the unified-field theory, the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mothers body-consciousness is one with the movement of the universe, Mother lives the unified-field theory in her body. In so doing she opens up to us not merely one more physical theory, but the very path to a new species on earth, a species that will physically and materially live on the scale of the universe. The posthuman species might not simply be one with a few organs more or less, but rather one capable of being at every point in the universe. A sort of material ubiquity. It may not be so much a new as an ubiquitous species, a species that embraces everything, from the blade of grass under our feet to the far galaxies. A multifarious, undulating existence. A resume or epitome of evolution, really, which at the end of its course again becomes each point and each species and each movement of its own evolution.
There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by Subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write: "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war.... The victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.... The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical.... That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but...." (July 29, 1942 and Sept. 3, 1943, Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI.394 ff.) And on her side also, Mother had to publicly declare: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura.... Those, therefore, who wish for the victory of the Nazis and their associates should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo." (May 6, 1941, original English.)
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is indeed the case of Madame Thons sandals, which came and put themselves on her feet instead of her feet going and putting themselves in the sandals, but that that belongs to yet another realm. It wasnt what you would call a natural phenomenon: she was applying her will and her action, and the substance of the sandals was becoming receptive. But does that mean the world will be that way? I dont know.
Two or three times, like a flash, I have seen something manifest, change place. But it was over in less time than it takes to tell, so it might be entirely subjective. To make sure, I would have to check it with someone else, wouldnt I?
0 1962-06-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About 15 feet high.
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0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A whiteness and a strength is in the skies... Virgin formidable In beauty, disturber of the ancient world!... How art thou white and beautiful and calm, Yet clothed in tumult! Heaven above thee shakes Wounded with lightnings, goddess, and the sea Flees from thy dreadful tranquil feet.
Perseus the Deliverer, Cent. Ed., VI. 6.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some receive it from above; for others, it rises from below (gesture to the base of the spine). As I once told you, the old system always proceeds from below upwards, while Sri Aurobindo pulls from above downwards. This becomes very clear in meditation (well, in yoga, in yogic experience): for those who follow the old system, its invariably the kundalini at the base [of the spine] rising from center to center, center to center, until the lotus (in an ironic tone) bursts open here gesture at the crown of the head). With Sri Aurobindo, it comes like this (gesture of descending Force) and then settles here (above the head); it enters, and from there it comes down, down, down, everywhere, to the very bottom, and even below the feet the subconscientand lower still, the inconscient.
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was lying on my chaise longue in concentration when all at once I found myself in my friend Zs house. He and several others were playing music. I could see everything very clearly, even more clearly than in the physical, and I moved around very quickly, unimpeded. I stayed there watching for a while, and even tried to attract their attention, but they were unaware of me. Then suddenly something pulled me, a sort of instinct: I must go back. I felt pain in my throat. I remember that to get out of their room, which was all closed except for one small opening high up, my form seemed to vaporize (because I still had a form, though unlike our material onemore luminous, less opaque), and I went out like smoke through the open window. Then I found myself back in my room, next to my body, and I saw that my head was twisted and rigid against the cushion, and I was having trouble breathing. I wanted to get into my body: impossible. So I became afraid. I entered through the legs, and when I reached the knees I seemed to bounce back out; two, three times like that: the consciousness rose and then bounced back out like a spring. If I could only tip over this stool, I thought (there was a small stool under my feet), the noise would wake me up! But nothing doing. And I was breathing more and more heavily. I was terribly afraid. Suddenly I remembered Mother and cried out, Mother! Mother! and found myself back in my body, awake, with a stiff neck.
(Mother laughs and laughs.)
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No, he never told me that. Trying to reenter through the feet!
Some people try to do it through the head: thats a little difficult. Its a little difficult and you have to know how. But through the heart its completely natural.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this experience comes with examples just as concrete and as utterly banal as can be. Theres no room for imagination or enthusiasm they are details of the utmost banality. For example (its only ONE example), this sudden shift of consciousness takes place (something imperceptible, you cant perceive it, for if you had time to perceive it, I suppose it wouldnt happen; it isnt objectified), and you feel youre going to faint, all the blood rushes from the head to the feet and: whoops! But if the consciousness is caught IN TIME, it doesnt happen; and if its not caught in time, it does.
This would tend to show. I dont know if we can generalize or if this is just one special case being worked out (I cant say), but theres a very distinct impression that what ordinary human consciousness perceives as death might simply be that the consciousness hasnt been brought back to its true position fast enough.
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She also used to say that to stay in your body you should cover your feet with a piece of blue cloth (when you sleep, of course, your feet are bare); put a piece of blue cloth over your feet and it keeps you in your body.
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0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it keeps coming and coming. Many come and are not even aware of it! And I keep going and going. Consciously, most of the time, but also quite often not consciously. Heres an example: someone is very ill, someone who truly loves me (its Z, A.s wife). A. informed me she was ill. So I increased the dose (everyone is inside, I am with everyone, that goes without saying, but when something goes wrong I increase the dose). I increased the dose. I expected an improvement but it didnt happen. So I increased the dose again. The next day, I received a letter from A. saying that the night before, Z had had an interesting experience. She has asthma (asthmatics feel as if they are dying, its very painful, and she is very sensitive, very nervousshe was really unwell, so they drugged her, and so). Well then, during an acute attack of asthma, she sat up in her bed, her legs hanging down. Then her feet began to feel cold and she reached out for her slippers; she bent down, and instead of her slippers she felt something soft and alive. Astonished, she looks down and sees my feet. My feet were there with the sandals I used to wear to go outmy bare feet. So she touched my feet and said, Ohh, Mother is here! Immediately she lay down again, fell asleep and woke up cured.
And she didnt make it up: my feet WERE there. My feet, I mean something of me which took that form to be perceptible to her.
All this makes for work.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, listen (this is not meant to be published or told), I dont know if Ive told you already. I was nine or ten years old, I was running with some friends in the forest of Fontainebleau (Ive told this story somewhere). The forest is rather dense, so you cant see very far ahead. We were running, and speeding along as I was, I didnt see I was coming to the edge overhanging the road. The place where we were was about ten feet above the road (more than a story high), and the road was paved with stonesfreshly paved. And we were running. I was racing ahead, the others were behind. Well, Id built up such momentum that I couldnt stopwhoosh! I went sailing into the air. I was ten, eleven at the most, mind you, with no notion of the miraculous or the marvelous, nothing, nothing I was just flung into the air. And I felt something supporting me, holding me up, and I was literally SET DOWN on the ground, on the stones. I got up (I found it perfectly natural, you understand!): not a scratch, not a speck of dust, nothing, absolutely intact. I fell down very, very slowly. Then everyone rushed up to see. Oh, its nothing! I said, I am all right. And I left it at that. But the impression lingered. That feeling of something carrying me (gesture of a slow fall, like a leaf falling in stages with slight pauses): I fell down that slow. And the material proof was there, it was no illusion since I was unscathed the road was paved with stones (you know the flint stones of France?): not a scratch, nothing. Not a speck of dust.
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
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About forty feet long and thirteen feet wide.
One of Mother's secretaries.
0 1963-04-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am at your feet
Signed: Satprem
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If I could only have the Word, as the Rishis said, the true mantra, I would keep at it, Id do hours of japa if necessary, but I would go right to the end. Its as if I were told, See this plot of land, there are ten million cubic feet of earth to dig, and at the end of it is freedom. Well, Id set to it, whatever the time needed, because Id know there is an end. But for that you need a pickaxe.
Nobody can give you the true mantra. Its not something that is given: its something that wells up from within. It must spring from within all of a sudden, spontaneously, like a profound, intense need of your being then it has power, because its not something that comes from outside, its your very own cry.
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Just before leaving, Satprem rests his forehead on Mothers feet. The previous time, when Satprem had made the same gesture, Mother, who was standing then, had lost her balance and almost fallen.)
You saw last time how I lost my balance. When you touched my foot, there came down a not a column, it was a tornado! Of a light so white, so white! Not transparentsparkling white, white like milk. But such a powerful mass! It came so violently that I lost my balance. Thats all, I only lost my balance. And it remained there, it was thereyou saw how I stood a moment without raising my head, it was because I was looking at it. It was it was MUCH MORE SOLID THAN MATTER. Something very peculiar, it was solid! More solid, MORE MATERIAL THAN MATTER. And a power, a weight, a densityextraordinary! Like a great column, and everything became pure white. Absolutely white. Nothing but white, everywhere. It stayed on a few seconds. And the power of it threw me off balance.
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And there was nothing but thatthere was no more you or my feet or my body or anything, nothing but that.
(silence)
0 1963-06-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then Champaklal (who had brought the baby) didnt want him to go without having touched my feet (I thought it was going to cause a disaster): Champaklal put him on the floor, bent his head forwardas soon as the baby saw my feet, he caught them with his two hands, one hand on each foot!
Seven months old!
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But well-formed: lovely hands, lovely arms, lovely feet. Very well-formed.
Its a new thing, I have never seen such a baby, never.
0 1963-06-26b, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With my pranams at your feet.
Your child who loves you,
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I receive letters from everywhere, from Argentina, Canada and so on, from people I dont know but who are really sweet. Listen to this one (Mother takes a letter from beside her), its from the mother of Z, who is here: If I were within walking distance of you, I would pick a rose, not yet full bloomed, laden and fragrant, to lay at your feet. This sounds like a love letterwell, it is! My son has been trying to teach me through you that all letters should be love letters. Its lovely. So I replied like this: Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it.
And then Nolini told me
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once again I was tall I am always tall. But I hadnt dressed as I do usually: I wore a short dress. There were lots of people there; I recognized everyone, I could hear everyones voice, it was very, very distinct. And there were two girls (not girls, theyre women now, but to me they were like girls), two girls talking to each other and saying, How strong her legs are! (Its symbolic.) And at the same time, I saw my legs as if there were a mirror to show them to me! I had a short dress and I saw my legs and my two feet with shoes onmy feet had shoes on. And a short dress. Very active.
Voil.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the way, the same thing happened again: I went the usual wayplop! cut off, nothing left, I cant get through; I come back, start another wayplop! cut off, I cant get through. Yet I kept going up (how, I dont know). Then I reached a sort of square terrace-balcony, perfectly square, and ALL its doors were closed. There was no way of going farther: all the doors were closed. Then I see water rising, rising, rising in the ENTIRE building, except the places where the doors were closed. Downstairs (I dont know, I was very high up, maybe on the fourth or fifth floor) the doors were closed, so naturally water could not get in. All the courtyards (large, immense courtyards) were turned into swimming pools. What water! I kept watching it, admiring it; I said to myself, What wonderful water! So clear, so clear, clearer than any I ever saw. Water that was I cant say, it was transparent like like purity itself, it was marvelous. It was rising and rising and rising. I saw in one of the courtyards on my left (a very large courtyard: it had become an immense swimming pool!), I saw a person in a bathing suit come out of the water, as if he had taken his bath in it, and wrap himself up (a very tall person, very tall, who was neither a man nor a woman), he wrapped himself up in a bathrobe, then walked away on the water (!) I was watching this till suddenly I realized that the water was beginning to reach my feet. Then I KNEW: Ah, yes! Theyve decided to do this. I was a little upset: They really could have told me they were going to do this! I thought. Its something they must do regularly. Did they inform some people? (All this in my head, of course.)
And I kept admiring that water, thinking, But its purity itself! It was reaching my feet, yet I wasnt getting wet. Then I remarked, If I stay here (Because I was standing with my back against closed doors and the building extended beyond them, but in front of me there was nothing, so normally the water should have flowed out that wayhow is it then that it didnt? I dont know the whole thing was quite marvelous!) And it was rising and rising and rising, until it reached my ankles and suddenly triggered something within me I woke up.
I was at least ten minutes later than my usual time.
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I remember that when the water touched my feet, it was (how can I explain?) it wasnt a sensation, I had no sensations, but around my feet it was like sparkling diamonds. Obviously I didnt intend to be fully immersed in it. And when I felt the water around my feet, I had an odd sensation (a perception, not a sensation), not the sensation of being wet, but clearly like: I shouldnt stay here. And I woke up very abruptly.
(silence)
Before the water reached my feet, while I was watching it rising and rising, I thought, Still, they really could have told me (no, it wasnt me, it was they really could have ANNOUNCED the thing). And at the same time I felt: Why, but its something they do regularly (recurring gesture), they do it regularly, but they should really inform people. But not strongly, simply like something passing [in Mothers thought].
Not for a second the sense of a danger, not at all. Not for a second.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo was here, there was a boy who was quite uncontrollable: he had fits of anger which he couldnt control (not that it occurred to him to control them!). He was an engineer and a very intelligent boy (but that makes no difference), and once, while Sri Aurobindo was in my room, this boy came up the stairs and had me called. I went out to see him. Then he flew into a great rage, began shouting and in his rage tried to rush at me. Well, I simply put my two hands on his shoulders, without an effort, like tha the went tumbling down the stairs. Quite simply, I stopped him from coming near by touching his shoulders. But that was clearly Kali. Sri Aurobindo came and I told him what had happened. (The boy had got back to his feet and was climbing the stairs again; when he saw Sri Aurobindo, he scampered off! He never did it again, of course.) But that was clearly Kali: when Kali wants to, she can be very strong, but that still belongs to the realm of terrestrial things. She is very strong: I simply stopped the boy from coming near, I put my hands on his shoulders, he lost his balance and fell all the way down the stairs, he rolled right down the stairs. So I thought it was Sri Aurobindo who had made Kali intervene (he had heard that demented boy shout, you see).
Its not the same thing. Long ago, when Sri Aurobindo was here, Kali used to come from time to time but it still belongs to this world, its not the same thing [as the supramental Power].
0 1963-12-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I was always accompanied by a form, not a very precise one, but which was the materialization in that realm of the Lords Presence. I remember having for the work entered a huge room, completely bare, without anything, in a half-light, when suddenly I felt something grabbing hold of me here (gesture at the nape of the neck), something I even felt physically (I was lying in my bed, but I felt it physically). So I pointed it out to that Form which was accompanying me everywhereso attentive, so closeto explain and show things to me; I complained, saying, Look, something has grabbed hold of me, it even hurts physically. So I saw a kind of arm come and take that thing on my neck, pull it away and present it to me: it was like one of those big bats that are called flying fox (there are some here, they eat little birds, chicks), it was clinging to my neck! He said, Oh, its nothing! Its only that. (Mother laughs) And it was a big thing like this (about three feet) which had grabbed hold of me here and had its two claws still out (he had wrenched it off my neck). It had become flat and almost inert, but it was still as vicious as anything.
It was quite simply an incidentto mention just one.
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, the very day when Janina1 died (she died around 6 in the morning, I think), around 4 in the morning, something made me suddenly take interest in this question: What will the new form be like? What will it be? I was looking at man and at the animal, and then I saw that there would be a far greater difference between man and the new form than between man and the animal. I began to see certain things, and it so happened that Janina was there (in her thought, but a material enough and very concrete thought). It was very interesting (it lasted a long time, nearly two hours), because I saw all the timidity of human conceptions, while she had made contact with something: it wasnt an idea but a sort of contact [with a future reality]. And I had the sense of a more plastic Matter, more full of Light, much more directly responsive to the Will (the higher Will), and with such a plasticity that it could respond to the Will by taking on variable and changing forms. And I saw some of her own forms, forms that she conceived (rather like those beings who dont have a body as we do, but have hands and feet when they will it, a head when they will it, luminous clothes when they will itthings of that sort), I saw that, and I remember I was congratulating her; I told her, Yours was a partial but partially very clear perception of one of the forms the new Manifestation will take. And she was very happy; I told her, You see, you have fully worked for the future. And then, suddenly, I saw a sapphire blue light, pale, very luminous, with something like the shape of a flame (with a rather broad base), and there was a kind of flashpfft!and it was gone. She wasnt there anymore. I thought, Well, thats odd! An hour later (I saw that around 6 A.M.; all the rest had lasted about two hours), they told me she was dead. Which means she spent the last moments of her life with me, and then, from me, pfft! went off towards a life elsewhere.
It was very abrupt. She was so happy, you know, I told her, How well you have worked for the future! And all of a sudden, a sort of flash (a sapphire blue light, pale, very luminous, with the shape of a flame and a rather broad base), pfft! she was gone. And that was just the time when she died.
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo picked up those letters (at that moment I knew exactly what they meant, but its secondary), then he took me by the hand (that is, his right hand took my left hand: I was on his right), and we started walking on the road. And while we were walking on the road, after a time (there were many details and things I am not telling because they are incidental, they had their meaning at the time but they dont matter), while we were walking on the road, he suddenly leaned over towards me and showed me that I was walking on flint. (You know, when the road is made of chips of stones and slightly cambered to make water flow away? On the side some earth has been washed away and sometimes the stones are bared.) And I was walking on those stonesno, he was walking on them and he showed them to me, so I had him walk in the middle of the road and I started walking on the stones so he wouldnt walk on them (but I didnt feel the stones at all). And then I noticed (I looked at him at that moment), I noticed Sri Aurobindos head a glorified head, truly a supramental head, a marvel! And his whole body, EVERY PART OF HIS BODY was someone in whom he was manifesting for a particular work or reason, or a particular action in relation to me; and as for me, I wasnt a person, I was only a Force (I noticed that I didnt have a body). And I saw all those who were participating (not their physical appearance, but I knew who they were): for this one, such and such a thing; for that one, such and such a thing; the hand, such and such a thing; the arm, such and such a thing and so on. And I saw his feet: they were my feet with tabis on; they were my feet, my feet with tabis on. And it was my feet with tabis on that didnt want to let him walk on the stones, on the side of the road, and that was why he left it.
It was wonderfully clear and meaningful! And I saw, I knew exactly someones place in the Work; and in that Work, in that relationship with me, he was supported, directed by Sri Aurobindo. The whole thing in detail.
It was a revelation with an absolutely wonderful exactness. And that concern he had. First, the feeling that I WAS his feet (but his white feet with tabis on, as mine are) and that he didnt want me to walk on the edge, on the rugged stones of the road, and thats why he left
It has left me with an absolutely unforgettable impression because it was a revelation of the play of forcesof what things TRULY are in spite of their appearances, which are deceptive.
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And then, that sort of thing he was holding with his hand [Mother], which was watching all that, was simply the consciousness, the consciousness that works, the true consciousness; and the feet were my physical presence on the earth.
It was truly very interesting.
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I cant tell you to what extent this body was not only happy but full of a sort of blissful glory at being His feet. When I saw that, it was a marvel. And at the same time, there was the sensation, the clear perception of all the relationships for the Work, with the feeling and sensation, the exact perception of the relationship I have with those peoplenot very many, but I know them.
Indications for Mother's work or of the general situation or that of the Ashram and the disciples.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, the first time I felt this in a clear way was when I heard Sunils music on The Hour of God; that was the first time, and at the time I didnt know it was something completely organized, a sort of organization of experience. But now, after all these months, it has become classified, and it gives me an absolutely certain indication, which doesnt correspond to any active thought or any active will I am simply an infinitely sensitive instrument for receiving vibrations. Thats how I know where things come from. There is no thought. Thats how the vibration of Sujatas dream came to me (Mother gestures down, below her feet): it was in the realm of the subconscient. So I knew it was a recording.
And the other day, when Nolini read me his article, it was neutral (vague gesture to a medium height), neutral all the time, and then, suddenly, a spark of Ananda; thats what made me appreciate it. And when you read me just now that text by Y., when she expressed her experience of the sunrise, there was a little beam of light (gesture to the throat level), so I knew. A pleasant beam of lightnot Ananda, but a pleasant light here (same gesture), so I knew there was something there, that she had touched something.
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And completely, completely outside thought. The thought comes AFTER. For instance, for this dream, when you asked me the question, I said, Logically, since the vibration is here (indicates below the feet), it must be a memory. And with a kind of certainty because because the perception is perfectly impersonal.
Its an extraordinarily sensitive mechanism, and with an almost infinite field of receptivity (gesture of gradation).
0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was, oh, certainly more than fifty years ago, because I had already come upon the Cosmic, Thons teaching and the inner divine Presence, and I knew that the new creation would be a creation of immortality I immediately felt it was true (that it was a way of expressing something true). So then, when I read that, I thought, Heres how people make everything topsy-turvy! Head and feet upside down. And I pondered for a long, long time over the problem: How to bring this to the true position? And I set to work. Already at the time, I used to practice adopting that standpoint, looking at things from that standpoint, understanding how that standpoint could exist. And those two things made me ponder: the will to die, and what that man considered to be perfect lovetwo idiotic things.
But I discovered what was true in it; thats what was interesting: I tried and tried to find, and suddenly I felt that aspiration towards the immutable, immutable peace. Well, it was upside down: only immutable peace can give you eternal existence. There, it was all upside down, the idea was to cease existence in order to find immutable peace. But its immutable peace one is after and thats what compels the cessation of existence, in order to allow the transformation to take place.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, for a long time, we went to all sorts of places unknown to me: towns, countrysides, forests, etc. It lasted a very long time. And once, we were there, near a forest (near a road that crossed the forest) and we were busy and talking when all of a sudden, he leaped to his feet. You know, he never wears any clothes, so to speak; when I saw him the first time in his house (his supramental house), in the subtle physical, he was without clothes; but its a kind of vibrant matter: its very material, very concrete, and it has a sort of color that isnt a color, which is a bit golden and radiantit doesnt send out rays, but it vibrates with a radiant light. And at least nine times out of ten he is that way; generally, when we are together for some work, he is that way. Last night he was that way. So then I was busy (we had arranged something and I was busy) when, suddenly, I see him leap to his feet and run a hundred-meter sprint. At first I was shocked, I said to myself, Whats this?! And with great ease, you know: he darted off, then stopped a few minutes, and then ran back. Then he stopped again, and went off a third time on a sprint: like the 100-meter race they run. But the third time, he had grown tall, with a slim body. Grown tall as if to demonstrate to me: this is the way the body will be transformed. He had grown very tall, very strong.
It was very interesting and absolutely unexpected.
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(Sujata:) You are at least this tall [Sujata points to the ceiling, about fifteen feet high].
Yes, I have noticed: I often look at people like this (Mother leans over her armchair). But its perfectly natural, I dont have a feeling of being tall.
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the last two nights, the activities of the morning, those that take place in the subtle physical with Sri Aurobindo and all the people here, have suddenly become concerned with food! But in a very different form. Its always to give me indications about people, about things. The night before last, there was an amusing incident. You know that Mridu, the fat woman who used to cook for Sri Aurobindo, is in the subtle physical. When she died, Sri Aurobindo (I didnt even know she had died), Sri Aurobindo went to fetch her in her house, then brought her to me and put her at my feet here: thats how I knew she had died (I was told the next morning). But I didnt understand what had happened; I saw Sri Aurobindo go into Mridus house, then come back (laughing) with a small bundle like this, and put it at my feet! I was flabbergasted, I saw it was Mridu, and I ran after Sri Aurobindo to ask him, What on earth does this mean?! Then everything vanished. The next day, I was told she was dead. And she lives like that, in the subtle physical, and I see her very, very often, very often (she is a little better than she was physically, but not much more intelligent!). But the other night, she brought me big prunes (they were this big), and I ate a few, and found them very good; then Pavitra came along, looked at those poor prunes and told me, Oh, you shouldnt eat this, theres mold on it! I remembered it because it amused me. And I looked, saying (laughing), I dont see any mold, and anyway they are very good! And last night, there was a man (whom I know very well, but I cant remember his name) who told me I absolutely must drink milk! (For years and years I havent drunk a drop of milk.) And he showed me the milk saying, You see, you should mix the milk in soup, in this, in that. I wondered, Thats odd, why all of a sudden? I never, ever used to have dreams of food! (They arent dreams, by the way: I am not asleep, I am perfectly conscious.) It began two nights ago: first I ate prunesbig prunes like this then last night, I was told to take milk! But it was so insistent that for a moment this morning I wondered if I should start drinking milk!
This is also new.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Where to? We all know our final destination. It is no bigger than seven feet by four, after we have produced some offspring, who will do what we were doing and before us our fathers fathers, with a few technical improvements and even a lot of televisions but without the one vision that changes everything. For we have changed nothing in the world as long as we havent changed inside.
Which is why the mystics send us back to heaven, and the realists to the ever-receding perfect society and automatic leisure.
0 1965-11-06, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night it lasted two hours. And you feel like holding on to something, because its so dizzying. I dont know, last night, in the middle of the experience I became a little conscious, and it was (gesture expressing a fantastic movement). But the Command came: Quiet, quiet, dont move, quiet, so I didnt move. And it lasted almost two hours. And the movement is head first (not feet first), head first, its the head thats pulled.
All I know is that it has to do with the transformation of the body. But how does one know that its fast? There is nothing but the movement and the bodys sense of being carried away dizzyingly.
--
Youve been in a car at more than sixty miles an hour, havent you? It feels motionless in comparison to that Speed. It wasnt physical since my bed wasnt moving, but it was so swift, so swift that you could feel the friction of speed. And head first: it went head first. It didnt go feet first because I was lying and I didnt go feet first: I went head first, brrf I as if sucked along by something. And my eyes were open. But naturally, the body wasnt movingvisibly, at least, it wasnt moving! Oh, I remember, yes, the night before, it was the house that was moving; I was in a room that was moving with that same swiftness, and I was watching everything hurtling and hurtling past, it was fantastic! And yesterday, it wasnt the house, it was only a sort of column how can I explain? It wasnt a columna strip. I was there on that strip, but I was very tall, I took up a lot of room; there were lots of people, and they were small (Mother draws small figures), a lot, brrf!
Yes, yes, I remember, the previous night, it was the room that was moving: a square room; and there werent any walls, there were just windows, and it was rushing and rushing, what a race it was! Then everything stopped abruptly, finishednot finished, not stopped: the consciousness changes, there is a reversal of consciousness, so its over.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday evening, after I had written that message (I wrote it in the evening, not in comfort but that was the only time I had; the light wasnt good, but anyway I did it), after I had written, I felt a strong pain here, in my temples. Ah, I said, now I know! Now and then, after having listened to lots of people and especially after having written lots of birthday cards, answers to letters there is a sort of strange heaviness in my temples (and Ive never had headaches in my life, thats not like me!), and I say to myself, Whats this new decrepitude?! Then I noticed it wasnt that: its my eyes. Its because I havent yet found the secret of how to use my eyes. As I said just before, at times I see with extraordinary precision: things seem to come towards me to show themselves its so clear that the minutest detail is perceived. Thats one extreme. The other extreme is what I have already told several times: a sort of veil. I know things, they are in my consciousness, but I see just clearly enough not to bump against them or knock them over; everything, everything seems to be behind a veil; only I know where things are, so I find them, or I dont bump against them or break them, but thats not because I see I see a picture behind a veil, as it were. Thats the other extreme. In between the two, there are all sorts of gradations. And I am convinced its to show me that my eyes are still capable of seeing accurately the instrument is still very good, but I dont know how to use it. I dont know how to use it, because previously I used it as everyone uses his eyes, his hands, his feet, out of a sort of habit, more or less consciously I was very proud of my consciousness! ([Laughing] We are always very proud!) Very proud to have such conscious hands; in the past, for instance, I would sometimes say, I want twelve sheets of paper, then I would stop bothering about itmy hand would go and take, and there were twelve of them. That had been happening for a long, a very long time, but it would happen AT CERTAIN TIMES: when I was in the required state, that is, when there wasnt the intrusion of an arbitrary will. So all this is a field of experiment and study in very small details, absolutely insignificant in themselves, but very instructive. And it goes on all the time, twenty-four hours a day, night and day (at night its on other planes), but all this takes place in the physical, a more or less subtle physical.
This morning, there was a very amusing story. I was rinsing my eyes and mouth; I do it before daybreak, that is, with electric light. And in my bathroom there is an emergency light. Its one of the latest inventions: its connected to the power and as long as there is power, the light remains off and a battery inside gets charged; as soon as the power fails, the light turns on and the battery is discharged to keep the light on. Its very well made, they invented it for hospitals and other places where any power failure must be avoided: as soon as the power goes, the light turns on instantaneously, and when the power returns, it goes off and gets recharged for the next time. They installed it for me in the bathroom. And this morning while I was washing my teeth, poff! the light went off. I continued, naturally, since I had that emergency light. But then, I did a study. The lights in C.s room (and everywhere) were on, it was only here, in this group of rooms. That was an odd phenomenon to begin with. Then I looked, and while I looked I noticed something I hadnt taken note of all these last few days: a will to disorganize all my personal life. And causing power failures is one of the known occult methods (I dont know how its done, in fact, but that man who wrote books and came here a very long time ago, Brunton, said it was one of the tricks known to those who practice occultism: a sudden failure of the lights). There are lots of other such tricks designed to disorganize peoples lives with the idea of frightening them or announcing catastrophes to them (I have always found this very childish). But then, I saw that there was (I think I know where, here, it comes from) a will for disorganization, and I saw the path it followed (winding gesture as if Mother were going back to the source). It had begun last night, in the middle of the night: when I got up around midnight, I saw a will wanting to preoccupy me with thoughts of money! And it was insisting: the thought that everything was going wrong, and so on. I saw that in the middle of the night. I was busy with other things, but I saw that will: formations; and naturally I dealt with them as they deserved. But I saw that it went on, trying to disturb people, to make them uncomprehending, and then to turn the power off, all sorts of silly things. Its not the first time it has happenedits not always the same people because generally, when they have tried and got a good knock in return, they dont try a second time, theyve had enough! But there are others who think they are very clever and want to prove to me (laughing) that they are right and I am wrongbecause ultimately it always comes to that! So I spent half an hour this morning, before they restored the power and I resumed my usual activities, half an hour having huge fun following the thread (same winding gesture going back to the source) wherever there was mischief, and then I very kindly answered.
0 1966-06-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are wondering how to communicate with other solar systems. But our very way of thinking stems from our form, its because we count one-two-three-four-five with our fingers, so we say one-two-three-four-five. Others use other words, but if five objects are put together they understand. But can dolphins count, for instance? They have no hands, no feet(laughing) they only have one-two-three-four-five dolphins!
It would be interesting to know.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the work is being done like that, on all the planes; on all the planes (there are even planes beneath the feet), constantly, constantly, without stop, night and day.
***
0 1966-08-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive never been quite able to use this electric organ; I used to make much better use of my grand organ, the one I had before; it was far easier for me. This one is very complicated, very mechanical, very mechanical. Its a bit too mechanically modern and it doesnt respond to vital influence as well as my old organ did. My feet used to make it work, and they put such force into it! There was a force of vibration in the way the swells were worked. This one, I would have had to get accustomed to it, to impregnate the instrument; but to me its like an empty shell, with no soul behind it: its an empty shell. You see, a sounding board responds a lot; in a piano, the sounding board, the keys, the strings, it all responds; it responds to the force. You can even make them vibrate without touching them. While this electric device is an empty shell.
***
0 1966-09-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Someone writes to me, You told me this, and its one of my scenes! One of the scenes I livednot lived, lived and created at the same time! I dont know how to explain it. Its like a work of (Mother seems to feet an invisible substance between her fingers, as if fashioning it).
And its not me, of course! Here (Mother touches her forehead), Lord, thank God, I hope it will go on forever: quiet, calm, so calm, so tranquil, so peaceful. But it comes from every side! (gesture of innumerable communications pouring into this silence)
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only the children dont. They are so innocent. Theres this little Asha who comes every morning. (She is the one who decided, I wasnt supposed to say no! She said, I am coming.) She comes every morning. In the beginning she used to do a pranam, but a serious one: she would remain there, rolling her head on my feet! But now she has found something else: she comes, doesnt say a word to anyone, looks at the people in the room, and when she sees everybody very busy, she slips under my table, catches hold of my hand, and then begins to play with itkissing it, turning it, pulling it. Then when she has finished this side, she comes to the other side! And with such lovely joy and trust, so lovely, so trusting: Oh, how a-mus-ing this is!
Thats nice.
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its true tenderness: that of the Divine. People dont know, they always think of something very human. But its not human (Mother closes her eyes and remains standing in concentration) Its extremely luminous, rose-colored, slightly golden always smiling. Its a very particular sensation. (After a long silence) Everything is like a beautiful pink rosea beautiful rose. Its better than that, much better (how can I put it?). No difficulties can existthey dont exist [when one is in that Tenderness]. Its the side of life (of life, I mean of the manifestation) which is all beauty, smile, peace and lightspontaneously, effortlessly, with an impossibility for anything else to exist. Its very particular. And its very high up, very high up. Yet, now and then I see a drop of it here. The first time I saw it (Mother wobbles on her feet). I must sit down because Im going away!
(Mother sits down and resumes) It can only be realized in a world devoid of egoism. Which means that when the whole action of individualization is over and there is no more need for the element of egoism, then it will be possible for that to be fully manifested.
0 1966-12-20, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am a little sad, naturally, because I tried to write with the best of my soul, but I am not attached and am ready to make the offering of this failure at your feet, with the certainty that all is well, even if I do not yet see the Lords design. I would only like you to tell me the deeper truth about the bookif it must be, I am ready to make an effort and patiently correct or redo what has to be redone. But must it be?
Mother, That alone exists. That consoles me for everything.
0 1966-12-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But Hong Kong isnt going to set her back on her feet!
The doctor said something much worse than that, he said, If she returns to Pondicherry before spending at least two months in a cool climate (and Hong Kong isnt cool!), she will be incurably ill, her liver will never be cured. So faced with such a suggestion, I said, I am not taking any responsibility: go and get your suggestion cured in Hong Kong!
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An Italian professor did some research in Mexico. He says: Human cells can generate enough electrical energy to electrocute another human being standing eighteen feet away. Dr. Ruggiero feels that his experiments in human cells may result in the cure of paralysis and he says that an electrical energy screen generated by human cells could be used to stop bullets. Electrical energy could make a human dynamo capable not only of inflicting death, but of literally walking on air. By connecting cables to the human frame, human cells could produce energy and light sufficient to fill the power needs of an average home or small manufacturing unit. In experiments in his Mexico City laboratory, Dr. Ruggiero has produced a current from a goat enough to light up a series of 40 watt bulbs and to activate an electric door bell
But its been known for a long time that cats, the skin of cats, is full of electricity. It was used in the past to cure rheumatism.
0 1967-06-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is only one place in the world where the issue is being played out really and symbolically that is India. That is where, therefore, the disease of the earth must be focused. It is in the order of things that the last Asura should come and die at the feet of the Mother.
But India, supposed to embody the forces of truth, is herself prey to the same Falsehood as is the rest of the earth. The Asura is also in India, perhaps more dangerous there as it is masked behind a veil of false truth.
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I dont know if its not a fabrication, because it was all going on in a rather dark and confused atmosphere. I remember that Sri Aurobindo was lying down and had to undergo a serious operation: an operation on his two feet, and on all his toes. Then he left for the operation (in fact, he left on his own for the operation, unaided). After a few moments I saw him come back (yet it was a long operation), I saw him come back with his two feet heavily bandaged: there were big bandages on his two feet. Then I was quite astonished, because I saw him walk very soon afterwards: he no longer had any bandages and was wearing new shoes.
Oh!
--
The feet are the symbol of physical life, and according to what I once saw (your dream seems related to that), EACH part of his body represented someoneor rather represented his, Sri Aurobindos, MODE of expression in someone.3
One night I saw him like that, I told you. But it was extremely complex; I only noted two or three important things, but there didnt seem to be even one small part of his body that wasnt represented by someone. So if we take the symbol of the feet to be the physical Not only the feet, but all the toes, did you say?
All the toes, yes.
--
In my vision, his two feet were me. But in my vision, his feet had white tabis on, to make me clearly understand that it was me. And in my vision, he walked on the edge of a path strewn with bare flint stones, so it was very hard and sharp-edged, and he said, No, this is not the way it should be, lets walk higher up on the road where its smoother, and he came back to the middle of the road. So if its like that, if its the same symbol carrying on, it would mean something concerning mepossibly.
The shoes are a covering. A covering Pinkish cream, did you say?
--
He came back with big bandages on his two feet.
(After a silence) When did you have this dream?
--
Mother had said several times that she "was" Sri Aurobindo's feet (see in particular Agenda VI, March 10, 1965).
This is the pure cellular mind.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a magazine (I think its Life, an American magazine), they published the story of a man (who is in fact one of the editors or administrators of the magazine), a man who was given an injection of penicillin and who was allergic to penicillin. And lo and behold, suddenly all his cells begin to dissolve, while he, entirely conscious and as if concentrated in his brain, watches the dissolution. When it reached up to the heart, the doctors declared him dead. The impression it had on him was that the cells had a kind of expanding movement, then burst and dissolved one after another: feet, legs, abdomen, everything. And when it reached the heart, the doctor said, Hes dead. But he had taken refuge in his brain and thought, I must hold out; if I can hold out here, concentrate and resist here, all will be well. And thats what he did. Then he felt all at once a power, he says, something so luminous, so beautiful, so gentle, so so much more full of love than anything else in the world, such a marvellous sensation that he let himself melt into it, and after some time, everything was put in order and he came back to life! He describes that. He describes it (with sentences: its in a magazine, so he makes sentences), but his experience is really interesting. You see, because of that will to concentrate in what he conceived to be the essential part of his being, the centre of his life, he suddenly found himself in the presence of that power. He said he tried to recapture it afterwards, but I forget what it was, I no longer remember, except for the sensation, that sensation more marvellous than anything one can conceive.2
I found that interesting.
--
Here is the person's description: "External awareness had slipped away I heard, saw nothing. I sagged forward as my wife held my head to keep me from pitching from the chair. To the Doctor I had reached clinical death. But for me there was a surge of inner awarenessmagnified, finely focused, brilliant. It is a progressive thing, this death. You feel the toes going first, then the feet, cell by cell, death churning them like waves washing the sands. Now the legs, the cells winking out. Closer now, and the visibility is better. Hands, arms, abdomen and chest, each cell flaring into a supernova, then gone. There is order and system in death, as in all that is life. I must try to control the progression, to save the brain for last so that it may know. Now the neck. The lower jaw. The teeth. How strange to feel one's teeth die, one by one, cell igniting cell, galaxies of cells dying in brilliance. Now, in retrospect, I grope for this other thing. There was something else, something that I felt or experienced or beheld at the very last instant. What was it? I knew it so well when it was there, opening before me, something more beautiful, more gentle, more loving than the mind or imagination of living creature could ever conceive. But it is gone." David Snell, Life Senior Editor (extract from Life, May 29, 1967).
According to Sri Aurobindo, the green light is a dynamic force of the vital which has the power to purify, harmonize or heal.
0 1968-04-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I got today a letter from a Swedish lady, I think (Swedish or Norwegian, I dont know), who bought a crucifixion. A HUGE paintinghuge, I forget its size, but its fantastic, something like thirty feet high. She asks me what she should do with it! She wants to send it to me. So Ive told her (she paid a good sum for it, but shes a very rich woman; only she wanted to make a gift of it to me), Ive told her to make an exhibition in a large hall, with, written under the painting, The Past. Then to put next to it, quite small, a photo of the galaxy, which is almost identical to Aurovilles plana photo of the galaxy, big as this, and below, Aurovilles plan big as this (gesture still smaller), and to write, The Future.
And shell make people pay to come in and see!
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The interesting thing regarding this body is that I have a growing impression of a residue which still remains unconscious. Because in my state (which is becoming more and more normal), I feel (feel, its a material sensation) at a distance of at least two feet. And when I am consciously concentrated on a thing or an individual, I MATERIALLY feel from inside that consciousness and that individual. For instance, if someone acts with a very unconscious movement, it hurts. Its like giving me a blow.
And its increasingly that way.
0 1968-07-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel all luminous, the Divine Grace is so powerful that at times I think my body is incapable of holding it; Mothers Presence is so real; the bliss is so serene, so tranquil. The little ADVENTURE begun at the Samadhi becomes so worthy of being lived, the CONSCIOUSNESS has widened so much. Darkness, fear, scruples, mortifications are so far away! A few weeks ago, I had a very painful dream: my body was being torn apart, the pain was excruciating; my feet, my hands, my head were being pulled apart. Today, when I read your letter, I understood the meaning: I had to grow. Just two words to inform you about my situation. As I told you, I found two currents in the Vatican, the first one quite raging against me; we thought that my assuming a new post would calm them down but a few days later, they managed to demand a Collegiate examination (by a neurologist, who, I believe, had been ordered to declare me ill, an endocrinologist, an expert in general medicine, and the Popes physician] hence the cry of the child running to his mother: my telegram asking for Mothers protection. On Sunday the 7th, I had a dream: Mother came into a sort of huge warehouse, where I was lying on the ground, and told me, Quick, get away and leave me your place. I flew away (without my body, which was still on the ground): it was my soul that went away, and, from on high, very high up, I saw Mother taking possession of my body, entering it, and staying put. Suddenly an army of doctors in white robes makes a beeline for my body (in which Mother is still hidden); no sooner have they surrounded and begun examining it than a terrible explosion sends them flying into the air.
(Mother laughs)
0 1968-07-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if its a result of what I told you or what, but Ive seen an immense Being who came holding a little child by the hand and the little child was you. He came to put the child in front of me, like this (gesture at Mothers feet). Immense, immense, far taller than the house, you know: the little child was like a finger to him (Mother shows two phalanges of her little finger). He was holding the child like that, and came and put him in front of me (Mother laughs).
Maybe its the continuation of what I told you! But it was very concrete.2
0 1968-10-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On your terrace, a sort of bearhuge, all black, nearly ten feet high, with pointed ears, sitting there regally, and watching. He had taken up position there. He was settled north-west of your terrace, looking north-west.
(Mother keeps her eyes closed, smiling)
0 1968-10-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As usual, an awesome cataract when one is at her feet.
***
0 1969-01-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am going to try it on A. [the American disciple], Ill see if it makes him steady on his feet again. Hell believe its his statue of Athena! It doesnt matter. Even those who think well still think nonsense, so
This sadhu, it tried to pull him within, but when the pressure became very strong, he started talking! He couldnt [bear or contain it]. The disciple who was near him became very excited, but he controlled him.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day, I received someone here (it was R., in fact), and the body asked this Consciousness, like that, it asked, How, how to make sure there is no mixture of all the lower movements with this light? Then (I was sitting here), there came down a sort of column wide like this (gesture of about five feet), here (gesture in front of Mother), like a column of light. But it came down IN THE ROOM, mon petit! It wasnt elsewhere it was here. To such a point that I saw it with my own eyes. A light indefinable, dazzling, but I dont know, so tranquil! I cant say, I dont know how to explain so steady, so tranquil. Dazzling. And without any vibrations. And its color indefinable, in the sense that it was neither white nor golden nor It was as if EVERYTHING were there. It cant be described. Wonderful. Then this Consciousness took my consciousness and went like this (gesture in a circle starting from Mother on her left, going through the column of light, then returning to Mother on her right). I felt it [the column of light, when Mothers consciousness went through it]. I felt it, but I didnt see anything [i.e., no shadow]. I didnt see anything, I only saw a slight movement, but It was like a slight movement, but it was the same light.2 Then it went through the column, and came back [into Mother]. And then it took R.s consciousness (same gesture in a circle starting from R., taking her consciousness through the column, and coming back to R.), it went through, and there was an outline [while crossing through the column of light], an outline, and in the place of the head, it was blue, it had become blue [i.e., a shadow in the light]. That was R.s effect: an outline. Then it said something to me (wordlessly, but it was instantly translated into words, in English):
When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness you must not make a shadow.
0 1969-05-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it did that thing (it was the first time it happened to me) You see, I was asked, What is the condition one should be in to fully receive this Consciousness? So I was here, sitting like this, and the person was sitting where you are (a little more to the side), and I saw with my open eyes the Consciousness (not this consciousness: the Supreme Consciousness) come down (gesture like a column of light before Mother) That, mon petit, it cant be described. I was like this (eyes wide open), and I saw it come (same gesture like a column) and settle down on the wooden floor like that, about this size (gesture: about five feet wide). All the rest was as usual (Mother shows the furniture, her bed, which she could see as usual), and there was that which I saw with these very eyes. Then this Consciousness took my consciousness (revolving gesture starting from Mothers left side, going through the column of light in front of Mother, and returning on the right side): I didnt see anything [i.e., any shadow]. I wondered whether it had gone through the column (yet I FELT it while going through). And then, so I would understand clearly it took the consciousness of the person sitting there and made it go through [the column of light], and I saw a slight form, I saw a blue form in the place of the head. That was a weakness. For a long while I saw, I looked, then it went away all of a sudden. You know, its so independent of ones will, aspiration, movements of consciousnessof everything. And like this: visible for this bodyon its scale, you understand. Fantastic!
This body was accustomed to having experiences under the psychics influence, in its adoration for the Supreme Conscious Truthin adoration. Its whole joy was there, it was fully satisfied. But since that time, it has had experienceswhich the other parts of the being had IN THEIR OWN WAY, but now this way this physical way is so concrete! So concrete and tangible. The body can say, I have SEEN the Supreme Consciousness, like people in the past who said, I have seen God.This body doesnt believe in God it believes in something much better than God! (laughter)
0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem lays his forehead on Mothers feet)
Since this Creation can be a marvel identical with the Supreme Consciousness, why, why did it have to go through all this? (Mother draws a circle that comes back to its starting point)
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Today is Durga puja. I have a lion under my feet, you know!
(the cushion under Mothers feet)
Pull it. (Laughing) Its nice! It keeps still.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, no! Ah, we have many little Aurovilians, lots of them, but you know, among them some are absolutely remarkable from the point of view of consciousness; theyre tall as a boot, mon petit, and theyre conscious! Its splendid. A few days ago, I held a Tamil baby in my hands, he was as big as this, like a doll (delightfully shaped, with exquisite tiny feet), and with this child I wanted to make the experiment: I took him on my lap, and I put the Forceyou should have seen the transformation of his expression! His eyes arent open yet, but a blissful peace seemed to come over him. I thought, Lets see whether hes asleep or conscious. Then I touched his foo the started, which means he wasnt asleep at all. Wonderful! A wonderful expression. I know another one who isnt yet two years old, but, mon petit, his way of seeing and acting is that of a five-year-old child! So something is happening nevertheless. And the last experience is a woman (she came with the caravan), who had a first child in France: she suffered for thirty-five hours to give birth. She gave birth to another one here (the day before yesterday, I think): one hour and without suffering. An hour later, when it was over, she was up and about! So she said, Thats Mother, because I dont know how its done!
Something is happening.
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The feet must be sure of their ground before the head can hope to kiss the skies.
Letters on Yoga, 24.1394
0 1970-01-10, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Two feet four inches.
It could be hollow. It need not be solid, so as not to be too heavy.
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That underground passageway into the room People will enter some thirty feet away from the wall, at the foot of the urn. The urn will mark the starting point of the descent. Ill have to choose the exact direction. Then, later on, the urn might very well be INSIDE rather than outside the enclosure. So perhaps we could simply have a big wall all around, and then gardens. Between the surrounding wall and the building to be constructed, we can have gardens and the urn. And that wall will have an entrance (one or several ordinary gates), so that people will be able to move around in the garden.
Then there will be certain conditions to be met before one is allowed to descend into the underground passage and emerge into the temple. It will have to be a bit initiatory: not quite like that, not just anyhow.
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because he saw that space in the center all bare, with just the symbol at the Center and that big, smooth carpet, without, any break caused by the columns. But instead, big blockstwelve big blockssignaling the place of the columns and also acting as supports. Twelve big blocks about two feet high.
It makes no sense.
--
Theres also a question of measurement. According to the plan, you gave 24 meters [78 feet 9 inches]12 meters on each side of the globe. But could some more distance be kept for the outer circle? The plan has 24 meters in diameter and 15.2 meters [49 feet 10 inches] in height.
Oh?
0 1970-03-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think these children have a much greater inner sensitivenessmuch greater. There are little ones like that (about that age, two, three, four). One came with his parents, they brought him; I didnt particularly pay attention to him (I found the little one sweet, thats all). Afterwards, when he left, he said, Im not leaving this place. I want to see Mother, Im not leaving here. And he asked, he said, I want to see Mother every day! He came back and sat down (all the family members came, received flowers, left and so on), but he remained quietly seated at my feet. He didnt move, he was quite satisfied. And strangely, its not because I pay special attention to them, not at all. Not at all.
One child, the other day, brought me flowers. I gave him a rose, and then he went to the other family members: he wanted to take their bouquets to give them to me. He came back, sat down, looked at his rose for a long time, and then he came and gave it to me as if it were it was so clearly, This is the best I have, so Im giving it to you! (Mother laughs)
0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O my unique Love which sprang from my heart and filled it so much that it made my life blossom. O my Lord of unique Love who has given himself to me wholly and by the Grace-Light has transmuted me. My Love that has entered and unified with me in my heart, so as to transform my body into a golden body. The skin has become supple, the influx of the nervous current all over the body is vibrating, with pauses in between; the bones have become pliable and plastic in their nature; the soft muscles have become truly loosened; the blood has become condensed within; the semen has become concentrated into a single drop and confined in the chest; the petals of the brain2 have blossomed or expanded; amrita [nectar of immortality] is welling up into springs all over the body and filling it up; the luminous forehead perspires; the luminous face brightens up; the breath full of peace becomes cool and refreshing; the inner smile beams up; the hair stands on end; tears of joy flow down towards the feet; the mouth vibrates into the passionate calling [of the Divine]; the ear tubes ring with the sense of musically humming sound; the body has become cool; the soft chest moves; the hands join [as in prayer]; the legs revolve or spin round; the mind melts sweetly, the intelligence becomes full of light; the will becomes full of joy and harmony; the individuality has enlarged itself everywhere; the heart has blossomed into the universality of feeling so as to be felt by the world outwardly; the whole knowledge-body has become blissful; even the spiritual egoism of the senses has gone away; the senses (tattva) have been replaced wholly by the truth (sattva), the truth-principle or truth-substance which alone prevails now uniquely; attachment to objects of the senses and to things of the world has dissolved away, and only the aspiration and will towards the illimitable Grace grows and intensifies.3
And how long did he live like this?
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But I felt centers BELOW the feet.
I felt a center below the feet.5 There was one below the feet, one at the knees, one here (gesture at the base of the spine), and all of it (Mother gestures, drawing the energies upward), like this, drawn up, and it came here (gesture to the heart).
Does Sri Aurobindo speak of that transformation of the subconscient and its becoming conscious?
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What I am conscious of is the Consciousness there (gesture above); thats something unchanging. This (gesture to the forehead): blank. If it starts stirring, its very uncomfortable, but generally it doesnt stir at allone day it stirred for a few minutes, and it was extremely unpleasant. Its like this (gesture like a motionless bar), blank: a blank feeling, like blank paper. This (gesture from the throat to the mouth) is the connection with people, and thats EXTREMELY unpleasant, really extremely unpleasant (I cant say), and materially it results in the deterioration of teeth and Very unpleasant. Here (gesture to the heart) I told you, all energies, from below the feet (Mother gestures as if pulling it all upward), all that was brought up to here. Here (gesture to the heart), its like a sun, always. Its like a radiant sun: thats where I work; thats where I work from. But with the centers there (gesture to the base of the spine), all the energies have been as if brought up to the heart.
And thats so natural. This and this (gesture to the heart and above the head), its so natural that I dont even observe it anymore: its my way of being.
0 1970-10-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have dedicated the book At the feet of the Truth.
Thats good.
0 1970-11-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a cyclone followed by a tidal wave: a huge wave, more than fifteen feet high, which swept a whole area, and there are maybe three hundred thousand dead.
Bah! When did that happen?
0 1970-12-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From this day, Mother went through a long ordeal that lasted more than a month and a half. That will be the last turning point after those of 1962 and 1968. Satprem will see her again only on January 16. On December 31, her faithful cashier Satyakarma left his body, the last in the unhappy series that deprived Mother of her most reliable helpers. In the course of this ordeal, Mother was affected successively in the chest, the abdomen, then the legs and down to the feet. The first bedsores appeared on her back.
***
0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, exactly! But I took it that way too. Not only was it the leg, but the lower part of the leg (Mother points to her feet). This one (Mother touches her right leg) was on the verge of being paralyzed also, but the day it happened, I concentrated with a vengeance, I walked for a long, long time to keep it from being paralyzed. I managed to keep it from being paralyzed; only this one (left one) was stricken.
But the whole body has changed drastically. For example, with respect to food, I have absolutely no appetitenone whatsoever. For a time, I even felt disgusted, a kind of disgust for foodit was very difficult because they wanted to force me to eat just the same.2 To me eating seemed like something miserable, you know, without any meaning, exactly as if I had never eaten in my life. Out of sheer effort I managed to go on taking what is considered indispensable (laughing) to keep the body alive!
0 1971-05-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theyre doing it quietly, discreetly, but theyre doing it.1 Their intention is to put Pakistan back on her feet.
Why, then its over!
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last Asura must die at the feet of the Eternal Mother.
A lover of India
0 1971-09-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are covered with Sri Aurobindos Compassion, and near the head, there is a slightly broken pot with new creation, and near the feet a pot of devotion,1 the same for both. I found that very nice, but nothing has been done.
Ive never heard Pavitra complain about it! (laughter)
0 1971-09-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the last time I saw him, he was upside down, his head down and his feet in the air.
Ohh!
--
Once, several years ago, Mother had received both Satprem and his brother together, and they had sat at her feet, side by side. Then, after the interview, Mother told Satprem: "It's strange, he seems to be like an emanation of you."
***
0 1971-10-30, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are happy together at your feet, Mother.
Yes, she complements you well.
0 1972-01-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the same applies to seeing, to hearing. I feet all my faculties diminishing. In that respect, it is true, I dont know what people are doing, saying or anything, but at the same timeat the same time I have a MUCH TRUER perception of what they are, of what they think and do: of the world. A truer perception, but so new that I dont know how to describe it.
So I am no longer this, but I am not yet the other. Its like this (gesture in between). Not easy.
0 1972-03-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, Mother, that same night (the night I saw the tidal wave), I saw also a sudden image: you were lying down and I was holding tightly onto your feet, and by our side was a tall black beingjet-blackmaybe ten feet high, who was all its not that he had black skin, but he was all dressed in black. And he was standing on a kind of black carpet.
Yes, thats it. I have the same impression.
0 1972-04-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But if you look at things in the true light, there can only be a more beautiful manifestation! Thon had told me this was the seventh and last one. Sri Aurobindo (I had told him what Thon said), Sri Aurobindo concurred, for he said, This one will see the transformation towards the Supermind. But to reach the Supermind, the mind must SHUT up! And I always get the impression (laughing) of a child sitting on the minds head (gesture like a child kicking its feet), playing on the minds head! If I could still draw, it would make something really funny. The mind that huge terrestrial mind (Mother puffs out her cheeks)which thinks itself so important and indispensable, and then a child sitting on its head and playing! Its so funny.
Ah, mon petit, we dont have faith! The moment one has faith.
0 1972-08-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am still looking for the key to infusing that Power I feet, that Force, that Truth into everyday physical activity. I find it quite difficult. Yet when I stop all activity, the contact is instantly made, and very powerful and REAL it is, but the minute I go back to being active, everything recedes into the background.
Aah!
0 1972-10-25, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) Mother, you know, I saw you yesterday morning between 4:00 and 4:30, and you were giving your blessings to everybody. You were sitting on a very high seat, dressed in a white sari (if I recall correctly), and I was among the first to approach you for pranam. I knelt before you, brought my hands together, and bowed my head. Then you held my head, and suddenly I noticed I couldnt raise my head anymore! And I realized you were forcing my head downwards: you know, with your hands you were pressing, so my head kept going down and down and down. Finally I saw your feet I was very close to your feetand what lovely feet they were, Mother! All white and wonderful. Translucent almost.1
(Mother smiles and caresses Sujatas cheek)
The feet are the symbol of matter.
***
0 1972-12-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I place myself at your feet.
(Mother smiles, takes Satprems hands and plunges in for half an hour)
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Next is the domain of the Supermind with which the manifestation of the Divine starts. We have said it is the world of typal realities, of the first seed-realities, where the One and the Many are united and fused in each other, where the absolute unity of the Supreme maintains itself in undiminished magnitude and expresses and formulates itself perfectly in and through the original multiplicity. Here take birth the first personalities, absolute truth-forms of the Divine. Here are the highest gods, the direct formations of the Divine himself. Here are the Four Powers and Personalities of swara whom Sri Aurobindo has named after the Vaishnava terminology: (i) Mahavira, embodying the Brahmin quality of Knowledge and Light and wide Consciousness, (ii) Balarama, embodying the Kshatriya quality of Force and intense dynamism, (iii) Pradyumna, embodying the quality of love and beauty the Vaishya virtue of mutuality and harmony and solidarity, and (iv) Aniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution in detail. Corresponding with these Four there are the other Four Powers and Personalities of the Divine Mother war (i) Maheshwari, (ii) Mahakali, (iii) Mahalakshmi and (iv) Mahasaraswati. Next in the downward gradient comes the Overmind where the individualised powers and personalities of the Divine tend to become self-sufficient and self-regarding; their absolute unity is loosened and the lines of multiplicity begin to be more independent of each other, each aiming at a special fulfilment of its own. Still the veil that is being drawn over the unity is yet transparent which continues to be sufficiently dynamic. This is the abode of the gods, the true and high gods: it is these that the Vedic Rishis appear to have envisaged and sought after. The all gods (vive dev) were indeed acknowledged to be but different names and forms of one supreme godhead (dev) it is the one god, says Rishi Dirghatamas, who is called multifariously whether as Agni or Yam a or Matariswan; it is the one god, again, who is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet. And yet they are separate entities, each has his own distinct and distinctive character and attribute, each demands a characteristic way of approach and worship. The tendency towards an exclusive stress is already at work on this level and it is the perception of this truth that lies behind the term henotheism used by European scholars to describe the Vedic Religion.
The next stage of devolution is the Mind proper. There or perhaps even before, on the lower reaches of the Overmind, the gods have become all quite separate, self-centred, each bounded in his own particular sphere and horizon. The overmind gods the true godsare creators in a world of balanced or harmoniously held difference; they are powers that fashion each a special fulfilment, enhancing one another at the same time (parasparam bhvayantah). Between the Overmind and the Mind there is a class of lesser godsthey have been called formateurs; they do not create in the strict sense of the term, they give form to what the anterior gods have created and projected. These form-makers that consolidate the encasement, fix definitely the image, have most probably been envisaged in the Indian dhynamrtis. But in the Mind the gods become still more fixed and rigid, stereotyped; the mental gods inspire exclusive systems, extreme and abstract generalisations, theories and principles and formulae that, even when they seek to force and englobe all in their cast-iron mould, can hardly understand or tolerate each other.
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its strength can overtake joy's running feet;
Overleaping the fixed hurdles set by Time,
02.03 - National and International, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A leading Nationalist has opined that he does not understand the "slogan" of viewing the nation against a background of internationalism. We can only say that the patriot has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing always like the old guards attached to the old regime who do not see how much water has flown below their feet while they stood gazing at the sky or shut themselves up in their ivory tower. Well, a village headman could in the same way assert that he does not know and cares not to know how to look upon his village against the background of the whole nation: still the village exists only in and through the life of the nation. Even so, the nation which grew out of the fusion of clans and tribes has to outgrow itself; it has to live today, if she wishes to live, in and through the life of humanity as a whole.
Kurukshetra is a turning-point in history. The battle was between an old order that had to go and a new order that was taking birth. The old order was supported, on the one hand, by Bhishma and Drona, personating its codes and laws, its morals, and, on the other, by Duryodhana and Sisupala as its dynamic actors and executors. The new order was envisaged by Krishna and its chief protagonists were the five brothers. The old order meant the supremacy of the family and the clan: that was the central unit round which society grew and was held together. Krishna came to break that mould and evolve a higher and larger unit of collective life. It was not yet the nation, but an intermediary stage something like a League of clans, (as we in our day are trying another higher stage in the League of Nations). The Rajasuya celebrates the establishment of this New Order of a larger, a greater human organisation, Dharmarajya, as it was called.
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
AN UNEVEN broad ascent now lured his feet.
Answering a greater Nature's troubled call
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And while his feet trod on a soil unsafe,
He saw the image of a happier state.
--
His wisdom's call steadies her careless feet,
He props her dance upon a rigid base,
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The great Lord graciously presses his holy feet upon this back of mine;
I am his slave, Kumbhodara by name, Nikumbha's comrade.4
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Appeared in the emptiness where her feet had trod,
A quick obscurity, a seeking stir.
02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This "little slender lad, whose flesh is bitter, lightning engendered, born from dungs of mares" is perhaps a symbol of our human receptacle. We have to carry this mortal frame with its clay feet and make the effort towards self-transcendence: the alchemy's other name is self-purification and self-perfection. This tender shoot is a mysterious chemical storehouse, its fermentation and purification and use awaken in us the sleeping divine will, give a clear vision, guide us through the secret worlds and ultimately to the home of Immortality. The Vedic Rishis sang to the Soma creeper or god Soma,Tatra mm. amtam kdhi, O Somadeva, carry us where thou flowest down and there make us immortal. For there abound all delight, all ecstasy, all enjoyment, all lure and the supreme Desire ofdesirenanda, moda, mud, pramud, kma4are these not the five fruits of heaven the poet of the West mentions?
"The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele" in New Poems 1962 (Cassel-London).
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He trod a soil that failed beneath his feet
And journeyed in stone strength to a fugitive end.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A glimmer of fugitive feet on fleeing soil.
In the labyrinth pattern of her thoughts and hopes
02.07 - George Seftris, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The sound of a flute played to naked feet
That tread your sleep in the other life, the submerged one.1
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All about you swathes of feet
All about you dead hands
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Adored the feet that trampled them into mire.
It was a world of sorrow and of hate,
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A scale of sense that climbed with fiery feet
To heights of unimagined happiness,
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Fixed in life’s air the feet of hurrying dreams,
Kept prints of passing Forms and hooded Powers
02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
She at whose feet lies low the Supreme in his pure whiteness.
Why should she herself be black?
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its feet are steadied upon finite things,
Its wings can dare to cross the Infinite.
--
This they have planned, to snare the feet of Truth
In an aureate net of concept and of phrase
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That he might feel the tread of pilgrim feet
Mounting in haste to the Eternal's house.
--
It blooms for ever at the feet of God,
Fed by life's sacrificial mysteries.
--
And beauty and the rhythmic feet of the hours.
73.17
02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its forces with their feet of wind and fire
Arisen from the dumbness in his soul.
02.14 - Appendix, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Let me in this connection tell you a story. We were then in college. The Swadeshi movement was in full flood, carrying everything before it. We the young generation of students had been swept off our feet. One day, an elder among us whom I used to consider personally as my friend, philosopher and guide, happened to pass a remark which rather made me lose my bearings a little. He was listing the misdeeds of the British in India. "This nation of shopkeepers!" he was saying, "There is no end to their trickeries to cheat us. Take, for instance, this question of education. The system they have set up with the high-sounding title of 'University' and 'the advancement of learning' is nothing more than a machine for creating a band of inexpensive clerks and slaves to serve them. They have been throwing dust into our eyes by easily passing off useless Brummagem ware with the label of the real thing. One such eminently useless stuff is their poet Wordsworth, whom they have tried to foist on our young boys to their immense detriment." This remark was no doubt a testimony to his inordinate love of country. But it remains to be seen how far it would bear scrutiny as being based on truth.
For us in India, especially to Bengalis, the first and foremost obstacle to accepting Wordsworth as a poet would be his simple, artless and homely manner:
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet
And the world change with the beauty of a smile.
--
He fell down at her feet unconscious, prone.
END OF CANTO FOURTEEN
03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His feet firm-based on Life's stupendous wings,
Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time,
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Only we hear the feet of passing gods.
341
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Immortal, treading the earth with mortal feet
All heaven's beauty crowd in earthly limbs!
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Came gliding in upon white feet of sound.
Unlocked was the deep glory of Silence' heart;
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other peoples may be the arms and the feet and the head of Humanity, but India is its heart, its soul for she cherishes always within her the Truth that lives for ever, the flaming God-head, the Immortal awake in mortality, as say the Vedas, amto martyeu tv .
***
03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In these latter the human consciousness has reached its high water-mark of normal development. They are the finest expression of mans capacities and powers in the ordinary nature. Here we have the play of the higher, even perhaps the highest ranges of the Mind the mind, that is to say, of the poet and the philosopher. But here also stands revealed the counterfoil, the obverse of that high achievement the feet of clay on which is reared the head of gold, the flesh that is tied irrevocably to the spirit.
The human soul, as represented in Hamlet, has evolved so far as to stand on a summit from where it can contemplate the entire creation. It has attained a kind of universal consciousness and has the vision of a global movement of natureeven as Arjuna had of the Lord's universal body, and like him is awed and overwhelmeda harsh world, in which one draws one's breath in pain. But this is a mental summit, and the contradiction that is revealed here can be resolved only by passing beyond into a higher domain of consciousness.
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Moving when feet of the Immortals pass,
A fiery halo over sleeping hills,
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This movement of extension, looked at from the standpoint of intensiveness, is also a movement of devolution, of reclamation. The Brahminic stage represents culture that is knowledge; it touches the mind, it is the brain that is the recipient and instrument of the Light. The Kshatriya comes into the field when the light, the vibration of awakening, from the mind comes down into the vital energies, from the brain to the heart region. The Vaishya spirit has taken up man still at a lower region, the lower vital: the economic man that has his gaze fixed upon his stomach and entrails. Lastly, the final stage is reached when physical work, bodily labour, material service have attained supreme importance and are considered almost as the only values worth the name for a human being. To walk and work firmly upon Earth the Light needs a strong pair of feet. Therefore, the Veda says, Padbhym sudro ajyata, out of the feet of the Cosmic Godhead the Sudra was born.
That is how man has become and is becoming integrally consciousconscious in and of all parts of his being. He is awakening and opening to the light that descends from above: indeed the true light, the light of truth is something transcendent and it is that that comes down and slowly inhabits the world and possesses humanity. Its progress marks the steps of evolution. It means the gradual enlightening and illumining of the various layers of our being, the different strands of consciousness from the higher to the lower, from the less dense to the more dense, from mind to the body. It means also in the same process a canalisation, materialisation and fixing upon earth and in the physical being of the increasing powers of the Light.
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her moonbeam feet tinged not the lucent floors:
The beauty and divinity were gone.
04.04 - The Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The strong importunate feet of Time fell soft
Along these lonely ways, his titan pace
04.08 - To the Heights VIII (Mahalakshmi), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To kiss those glorious feet of hers
That trail the Dawn!
04.13 - To the HeightsXIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Overwhelmed with wonder the heart lies prostrate at thy feet,
O Mother victorious!
--
A home of safety is the refuge at thy feet,
O Mother of Bliss, Mother victorious!
04.14 - To the Heights-XXIV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
thou hast set blue-kissing wings to my feet
and made me soar high-
04.19 - To the Heights-XIX (The March into the Night), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The same old shadow still lingers at our feet and entangles them inexorably;
And the eternal viper remains coiled fast into the darkness of our entrails. . . .
04.21 - To the HeightsXXI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Time lies prostrate at its feet in awe and adoration.
Thou art the Child that we carry as in a womb
04.22 - To the Heights-XXII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
My hands have touched the roses of thy feet-
The very soul of fragrance has passed into the substance
04.24 - To the Heights-XXIV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
thou hast set blue-kissing wings to my feet
and made me soar high-
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Earth prostrate lay beneath their feet of stone.
Below them crouched a dream of emerald woods
--
Cool-perfumed with slow pleasure-burdened feet
Faint stumbling breezes faltered among flowers.
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
His mind was open to her infinite mind,
--
Had laid the spell of destiny on his feet
And drawn him to the forest's flowering verge.
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or hold between my hands the World-Mother s feet.
In men I met strange portions of a Self
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But now the gold link comes to me with thy feet
And His gold sun has shone on me from thy face.
--
Descend, O happiness, with thy moon-gold feet
Enrich earth's floors upon whose sleep we lie.
--
Her gleaming feet upon the green-gold sward
Scattered a memory of wandering beams
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She bowed and touched his feet with worshipping hands;
She made her life his world for him to tread
05.05 - Man the Prototype, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The conception of the Purusha at the origin of things, as the very source of things, so familiar to the Indian tradition, gives this high primacy to the human figure. We know also of the cosmic godhead cast in man's mouldalthough with multiple heads and feetvisioned and hymned by sages and seers. The gods themselves seem to possess a human frame. The Upanishads say that once upon a time the gods looked about for a proper body to dwell in, they were disappointed with all others; it is only when the human form was presented that they exclaimed, This is indeed a perfect form, a perfect form indeed. All that indicates the feeling and perception that there is something eternal and transcendent in the human body-frame.
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05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is the world that we see really like? Is it mental, is it material? This is a question, we know, philosophers are familiar with, and they have answered and are still answering, each in his own way, taking up one side or other of the antinomy. There is nothing new or uncommon in that. The extraordinary novelty comes in when we see today even scientists forced to tackle the problem, give an answer to it,scientists who used to smile at philosophers, because they seemed to assault seriously the windmills of abstract notions and airy concepts, instead of reposing on the terra firmaof reality. The tables are turned now. The scientists have had to start the same business the terra firmaon which they stood as on the securest rock of ages is slipping away under their feet and fast vanishing into smoke and thin air. Not only that, it is discovered today that the scientist has always been a philosopher,' without his knowledgea crypto-philosopher,only he has become conscious of it at last. And furthermirabile dictum!many a scientist is busy demonstrating that the scientist is, in his essence, a philosopher of the Idealist school!
Physical Science in the nineteenth century did indeed develop or presuppose a philosophy of its own; it had, that is to say, a definite outlook on the fundamental quality of things and the nature of the universe. Those were days of its youthful self-confidence and unbending assurance. The view was, as is well-known, materialistic and deterministic. That is to say, all observation and experiment, according to it, demonstrated and posited:
05.09 - The Changed Scientific Outlook, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is a scientific obscurantism, which is not less obscure because it is scientific, and one must guard against it with double care and watchfulness. It is the mentality of the no-changer whose motto seems to be: plus a change, plus a reste le mme.. Let me explain. The scientist who prefers still to be called a materialist must remember that the (material) ground under his feet has shifted considerably since the time he first propounded his materialistic position: he does not stand in the same place (or plane?) as he did even twenty years ago. The change has been basic and fundamentalfundamental, because the very definitions and postulates with which we once started have been called in question, thrown overboard or into the melting-pot.
Shall we elucidate a little? We were once upon a time materialists, that is to say, we had very definite and fixed notions about Matter: to Matter we gave certain invariable characteristics, inalienable properties. How many of them stand today unscathed on their legs? Take the very first, the crucial property ascribed to Matter: "Matter is that which has extension." Well, an electric charge, a unit energy of it, the ultimate constituent of Matter as discovered by Science today, can it be said to occupy space? In the early days of Science, one Boscovich advanced a theory according to which the ultimate material particle (a molecule, in his time) does not occupy space, it is a mere mathematical point toward or from which certain forces act. The theory, naturally, was laughed out of consideration; but today we have come perilously near it. Again, another postulate describing Matter's dharma was: "two material particles cannot occupy the same place at the same time". Now what do you say of the neutron and proton that coalesce and form the unit of a modern atomic nucleus? Once more, the notion of the indestructibility of Matter has been considerably modified in view of the phenomenon of an electric particle (electron) being wholly transmuted ("dematerialised" as the scientists themselves say) into a light particle (photon). Lastly, the idea of the constancy of massa bed-rock of old-world physicsis considered today to be a superstition, an illusion. If after all these changes in the idea of Matter, a man still maintains that he is a materialist, as of old, well, I can only exclaim in the Shakespearean phrase: "Bottom, thou art translated"! What I want to say is that the changes that modern physics proposes to execute in its body are not mere amendments and emendations, but they mean a radical transfiguration, a subversion and a mutation. And more than the actual changes effected, the possibilities, the tendencies that have opened out, the lines along which further developments are proceeding do point not merely to a reformation, but a revolution.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What feet of gods, what ravishing flutes of heaven
Have thrilled high melodies round, from near and far
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And they forget the wounded feet of man,
His limbs that faint beneath the whips of grief,
06.23 - Here or Elsewhere, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the same way, there are souls that have emerged out of the fire of earthly life and are enjoying the safety and security of the heavens; but they have been called to come back into the world, add to the experience of the tranquil above the experience of the trouble below. Surely it increases the scope of their consciousness. But to turn upon the world means also to re-enter into ignorance, for this world means ignorance, as it is, it is nothing but ignorance. The role then of one who returns is once more to embrace ignorance, but with a view to bringing into it the light and bliss that he gained from above, permeating the stuff of the present world with the substance of the higher consciousness. It is a sacrifice demanded of him, thus to abandon the eternal felicity of the high heavens the unbroken union with the Divine above and to enter into the depths of this great perilous world: but this is a privilege too, to bring solace to the afflicted, the transforming light to obscure souls, the radiant energy to inert earth. It is a high privilege for which the luminous soul is thankful: he modestly accepts a gift of grace from the Supreme. He accepts the Ignorance and offers it: he lays it at the feet of the Supreme so that it may be transmuted into lightlight here below. His own role is that of a modest intermediary.
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06.30 - Sweet Holy Tears, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It was a banquet I prepared for men. Instead of a life of misery and suffering, of obscurity and ignorance I brought to them a life of light and joy and freedom. I took all the pains the task demanded and when it was ready I offered it to mankind to partake of it. But man in his foolishness and pigheadedness rejected it, did not want it. He preferred to remain in his dark miserable hole. Now, what am I to do with my Feast? I cannot let it go waste, throw it to the winds. So I offered it to my Lord and laid it at his feet. He accepted it. He alone can enjoy it and honour it.
The Feast is that of Transformation, the Divine Life on earth. Man is not capable of it naturally, cannot attain it by his own effort or personal worth. It is the Divine who is to bring it down Himself. He is to manifest Himself and thus establish His own life here below. Then only will it be possible for the human creature to open to the urgency of the new beauty and offer his surrender.
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or laid her burning cheek upon his feet.
Waking at morn her lips endlessly clung to his,
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hastening, a dragon with a million feet,
Its foam and cry a drunken giant's din,
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This coming and going of the feet of Time,
Can find the single Truth, the eternal Law:
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Hurried with eager feet to the outer world;
Her eyes were turned towards the eternal source.
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Trod only by rare wounded pilgrim feet.
A few bright forms emerged from unknown depths
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Beneath her feet a sharp and wounding stone.
A divine pity on the peaks of the world,
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That I might cry and grovel at his feet
And offer him worship with my blood and tears.
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Her feet upon a couchant lion's back.
A formidable smile curved round her lips,
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Her feet were moonbeams, her face was a bright sun,
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But when its feet had touched the quivering bloom,
A mighty movement rocked the inner space
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A sacred beast lay prone below her feet,
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07.19 - Bad Thought-Formation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular species. Nature is conscious in the sense that she knows what she wants, she knows her whither and her how, her end and the way to go towards it. To man much of Nature seems incoherent, because his consciousness is narrow and he has not an overall vision. When you look at the small details, the little fragments, you do not understand; you do not find any link, sequence, sense. But Nature has a conscious will, she is a conscious being. Perhaps the word being is too human. When we speak of Nature's being, we naturally think of the human being, only a little bigger, or perhaps much bigger but working more or less in the same way. But it is not so. Instead of the word being, I would prefer the word entity. The conscious entity that is Nature has a conscious will and it does things much more deliberately and purposively than map, and it has formidable forces at its disposal. Man speaks of blind and violent Nature. But it is man who is blind and violent, not nature. You say an earthquake is a terrible affair. Thousands of houses crash into dust, millions of people are killed, whole cities devastated, entire portions of earth are swallowed up etc., etc. Yes, from the human point of view Nature seems monstrous. But what has she done after all? When you get a knock on your body somewhere there appears a blue patch. Are you worried about it? Your earthquake is nothing more than a reshuffling of a cell in your body. You destroy thousands of cells every moment of your life. You are monstrous! That is the relative proportion. And consider, we are speaking of earth alone and earthly events. But what is this earth itself in the bosom of the universe? A point, a zero. You are walking on the ground and are not looking down. You place one step forward and then another and you trample thousands of innocent ants under your feet. If you were an ant you would have cried out, what a cruel and stupid force! Imagine other forces stalking about much bigger than yourself and under their casual steps millions of creatures like you are crushed, continents are pressed down and mountains kicked up. They do not even notice such catastrophic happenings! The only difference between man and ant is that man knows what happens to him and the ant does not. But even there are you sure?
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07.32 - The Yogic Centres, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are, of course, the seven well-known yoga-centres in the human body. They are, beginning from below, (1) the end of the spine, (2) the lower abdomen, (3) the navel, (4) the heart, (5) the throat, (6) between the eyebrows and (7) the crown of the head. But there are others extending from below the spine which are not so well known. It is true, however, that the centres in the individual being end with the spine; what is below belongs more to the universal nature. There is a centre above and beyond the crown; there is also, on the other side, a centre below and away from under the feet. The yoga-centres are centres of consciousness and energy; they are the sources of the various types and qualities of consciousness and energy they indicate the many planes of consciousness-energy. There are people who actually feel that their force and strength come from below, as if these stream into them like a spring from under the feet. This region from below the spine-end to the feet is that of the subconscient and what extends further down is the domain of the inconscient. We may distinguish five more centres in this lower or infra-spinal region apart from the spine-end itself (mldhra) (1) the knee, (2) the leg, (3) the feet, (4) the sole of the foot and (5) below the feet. That would make the total number of centres as twelve the mystic number for completeness or integrality.
The centre at the bottom of the spine, which is the basis of the individual consciousness is seen as a serpenta serpent coiled up and asleep, with perhaps just the head sticking up in a very somnolent manner. It represents the normal human consciousness, bottled up, narrow, ignorant, asleep; human energy, too, at this level is obscure and mechanical, extremely limited. The whole energy potential, the consciousness-force is locked up in the physical body consciousness. Now the serpent does not remain asleep forever. It has to wake up, it wakes up. That is to say, man's consciousness awakes, grows and rises upward. The serpent one day shakes its head, lifts it up a little more, begins to sway its hood, as if trying to throw off the sleep and look about. It slowly uncoils itself and rises more and more. It rises and passes through the centres one by one, becomes more and more awake, gathers new light and potency at each centre. Finally, fully awakened, it rises to its full height, erect, straight like a rod, its tail-end at the bottom of the spine and its hood touching the crown of the man's head. The man is then the fully awakened, the perfectly self-conscious man. The movement does not stop there, however; for the serpent presses further on, it strikes with its hood the bottom of the crown and in the end breaks through and passes beyond like a flash of lightning. One need not fear the break through, there is no actual, physical breaking or fracture of the skull. Although it is said that once you have gone over and beyond your head, you are not likely to return, you go for good. In other words, the body does not hold together very long after the experience; it drops and dies. And yet it need not be so, it is not the whole truth. For when you have gone beyond, you can come back too, carrying the superconscient light with you. That is to say, the serpent, now luminous,pure and free energycan enter the body again, this time with its head down and the tail up. It enters blazing, illumining with its superconscient light the centres one by one, giving man richer and richer consciousness, energy and life, transforming the being more and more. The Light comes down easily enough to the heart region; then the difficulty begins, the regions below gradually become darker and denser and it is hard task for the Light to penetrate as it goes further down. If it succeeds in reaching the bottom of the spine, it has achieved something miraculous. But there is a further progress necessary, if man and the world with himis to realise a wholly transformed supraconscient life. In other words, the Light must touch and enter not only the physical stratum of our being but the others too that lie below, the subconscient and inconscient. That has been till now a sealed dungeon, something impossible to approach and tackle.
08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We come to the next term. I spoke to you once of courage; I said courage means the taste for adventure, the supreme adventure. This taste for the supreme adventure is Aspirationaspiration that seizes you wholly and throws you without calculation or reserve, without the possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the discovery of the Divine, the great adventure of meeting the Divine and the still greater adventure of realising the Divine. It means plunging into an unknown venture without looking backward, without asking even for a moment what is going to happen for if you ask where you are going to fall, you never start, you remain fixed where you are, both your feet firmly rooted on the spot, fearing lest you lose your balance. That is why I call the thing courage. But truly it is aspiration. The two go together. True aspiration is something full of courage.
We have till now, then, four elements. The fifth one I wish to add is Endurance. For, if you are not capable of facing your difficulties without getting disheartened, without abandoning your effort because it is too difficult, and if you are not able to bear blows, pocket them and go on never minding for the blows come because of your faults and mistakesyou cannot go very far: at the first turning where you lose sight of your petty habitual life, you despair and give up the game.
09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And looked down on the dead man at her feet;
Then like a tree recovering from a wind
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Planting her human feet where his had trod,
Into the perilous silences beyond.
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Where his feet touched the shadowy marches' brink,
Turning arrested luminous Satyavan
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To upbuoy thy feet of dream in groundless Nought
And bear thee through the pathless infinite.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Whatever happy space his cherished feet
Preferred, must be at once her soul embracing
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And pick from its mire mid many trampling feet
Its scornful small concessions to the weak.
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"Hast thou god-wings or feet that tread my stars,
Frail creature with the courage that aspires,
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The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds.
He labours in the depths, exults on the heights;
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
to land with feet on the ground and head high.... "Wow, let's do it again!"
100.020 Human Sense Awareness
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As soon as he finished muttering, the man saw that his dark room was flooded with a dazzling light. After a while the luminous waves faded and he found in front of him a charming boy of a dusky complexion standing with a lamp in his hand, and smiling sweetly without saying a word. Noticing the musical anklets round his feet and the peacock plume, the man understood that Shyamsundar had revealed himself. At first he was at a loss what to do; for a moment he thought of bowing at his feet, but looking at the boys smiling face no longer felt like making his obeisance. At last he burst out with the words, Hullo, Keshta,2 what makes you come here? The boy replied with a smile, Well, didnt you call me? Just now you had the desire to whip me! That is why I am surrendering myself to you. Come along, whip me. The man was now even more confounded than before, but not with any repentance for the desire to whip the Divine: the idea of punishing instead of patting such a sweet youngster did not appeal to him. The boy spoke again, You see, Harimohon, those who, instead of fearing me, treat me as a friend, scold me out of affection and want to play with me, I love very much. I have created this world for my play only; I am always on the lookout for a suitable playmate. But, brother, I find no one. All are angry with me, make demands on me, want boons from me; they want honour, liberation, devotionnobody wants me. I give whatever they ask for. What am I to do? I have to please them; otherwise they will tear me to pieces. You too, I find, want something from me. You are vexed and want to whip some one. In order to satisfy that desire you have called me. Here I am, ready to be whipped. ye yath m prapadyante3, I accept whatever people offer me. But before you beat me, if you wish to know my ways, I shall explain them to you. Are you willing? Harimohon replied, Are you capable of that? I see that you can talk a good deal, but how am I to believe that a mere child like you can teach me something? The boy smiled again and said, Come, see whether I can or not.
Then Sri Krishna placed his palm on Harimohons head. Instantly electric currents started flowing all through his body; from the mldhra the slumbering kualin power went up running to the head-centre (brahmarandhra), hissing like a serpent of flame; the head became filled with the vibration of life-energy. The next moment it seemed to Harimohon that the walls around were moving away from him, as if the world of forms and names was fading into Infinity leaving him alone. Then he became unconscious. When he came back to his senses, he found himself with the boy in an unknown house, standing before an old man who was sitting on a cushion, plunged in deep thought, his cheek resting on his palm. Looking at that heart-rending despondent face distorted by tormenting thoughts and anxiety, Harimohon could not believe that this was Tinkari Sheel, the all-in-all in their village. Then, extremely frightened, he asked the boy, Keshta, what have you done? You have entered someones dwelling in the dead of night like a thief! The police will come and thrash the life out of us. Dont you know Tinkari Sheels power? The boy laughed and said, I know it pretty well. But stealing is an old practice of mine, and, besides, I am on good terms with the police. Dont you fear. Now I am giving you the inner sight, look inside the old man. You know Tinkaris power, now witness how mighty I am.
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Again he placed his palm on Harimohons head. As soon as he felt the touch, Harimohon saw no longer the dwelling of Tinkari Sheel. On the beautiful, solitary and breezy summit of a hill an ascetic was seated, absorbed in meditation, with a huge tiger lying prone at his feet like a sentinel. Seeing the tiger Harimohons own feet would not proceed any further. But the boy forcibly dragged him near to the ascetic. Incapable of resisting the boys pull Harimohon had to go. The boy said, Look, Harimohon. Harimohon saw, stretched out in front of his eyes, the ascetics mind like a diary on every page of which the name of Sri Krishna was inscribed a thousand times. Beyond the gates of the Formless Samadhi the ascetic was playing with Sri Krishna in the sunlight.
Harimohon saw again that the ascetic had been starving for many days, and for the last two his body had experienced extreme suffering because of hunger and thirst. Reproachingly Harimohon asked, Whats this, Keshta? Babaji loves you so much and still he has to suffer from hunger and thirst? Have you no common sense? Who shall feed him in this lonely forest home of tigers? The boy answered, I will feed him. But look here for another bit of fun. Harimohon saw the tiger go straight to an ant-hill which was close by and break it with a single stroke of the paw. Hundreds of ants scurried out and began stinging the ascetic angrily. The ascetic remained plunged in meditation, undisturbed, unmoved. Then the boy sweetly breathed in his ears, Beloved! The ascetic opened his eyes. At first he felt no pain from the stings; the all-enchanting flute-call which the whole world longs for, was still ringing in his earsas it had once rung in Radhas ears at Vrindavan. At last, the innumerable repeated stings made him conscious of his body. But he did not stir. Astonished, he began muttering to himself, How strange! I have never known such things! Obviously it is Sri Krishna who is playing with me. In the guise of these insignificant ants he is stinging me. Harimohon saw that the burning sensation no longer reached the ascetics mind. Rather every sting produced in him an intense ecstasy all over his body, and, drunk with that ecstasy, he began to dance, clapping his hands and singing the praise of Sri Krishna. The ants dropped down from his body and fled.
10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
No mortal feet could rest upon that soil,
No breath of life lingered embodied there.
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The flying feet of exquisite desires.
On a slow trembling brink between night and day
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Mid swift escaping lanes that fled her feet
Journeying she wished no end: as one through clouds
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
No feet that move, no hands to take his gifts:
Aerial statue of the nude Idea,
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A trailing robe of dreams behind her feet.
But now her spirit's flame of conscient force
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I trample on thy law with living feet;
For to arise in freedom I was born.
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Child, hast thou trodden the gods beneath thy feet
Only to win poor shreds of earthly life
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And persuade to tread the harsh globe with wounded feet
Leaving her unapproachable glory and bliss,
1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
6. O you who believe! When you rise to pray, wash your faces and your hands and arms to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles. If you had intercourse, then purify yourselves. If you are ill, or travelling, or one of you returns from the toilet, or you had contact with women, and could not find water, then use some clean sand and wipe your faces and hands with it. God does not intend to burden you, but He intends to purify you, and to complete His blessing upon you, that you may be thankful.
7. And Remember God’s blessings upon you, and His covenant which He covenanted with you; when you said, “We hear and we obey.” And remain conscious of God, for God knows what the hearts contain.
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33. The punishment for those who fight God and His Messenger, and strive to spread corruption on earth, is that they be killed, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be banished from the land. That is to disgrace them in this life; and in the Hereafter they will have a terrible punishment.
34. Except for those who repent before you apprehend them. So know that God is Forgiving and Merciful.
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66. Had they observed the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed amply from above them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate community, but evil is what many of them are doing.
67. O Messenger, convey what was revealed to you from your Lord. But if you do not, then you would not have delivered His message. And God will protect you from the people. God does not guide the disbelieving people.
1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
65. Say, “He is Able to send upon you an affliction, from above you, or from under your feet. Or He can divide you into factions, and make you taste the violence of one another. Note how We explain the revelations, so that they may understand.”
66. But your people rejected it, though it is the truth. Say, “I am not responsible for you.”
1.007 - The Elevations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
124. “I will cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides; then I will crucify you all.”
125. They said, “It is to our Lord that we will return.”
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195. Do they have feet with which they walk? Or do they have hands with which they strike? Or do they have eyes with which they see? Or do they have ears with which they hear? Say, “Call upon your partners, then plot against me, and do not wait.”
196. “My Master is God, He Who sent down the Book, and He takes care of the righteous.”
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
In a word: do fix a convenient season for going on the Astral Plane under my eye: half an hour (with a bit of luck) on not more than four evenings would put you in a very different frame of mind. You will soon "feel your feet" and then "get your sea-legs" and then, much sooner than you think
"Afloat in the aethyr, O my God! my God!" . . . . . "White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wings!"
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Thou speakest false! By God! What thou dost possess is naught but husks which We have left to thee as bones are left to dogs. By the righteousness of the one true God! Were anyone to wash the feet of all mankind, and were he to worship God in the forests, valleys, and mountains, upon high hills and lofty peaks, to leave no rock or tree, no clod of earth, but was a witness to his worship-yet, should the fragrance of My good pleasure not be inhaled from him, his works would never be acceptable unto God. Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the Lord of all. How many a man hath secluded himself in the climes of India, denied himself the things that God hath decreed as lawful, imposed upon himself austerities and mortifications, and hath not been remembered by God, the Revealer of Verses. Make not your deeds as snares wherewith to entrap the object of your aspiration, and deprive not yourselves of this Ultimate Objective for which have ever yearned all such as have drawn nigh unto God. Say: The very life of all deeds is My good pleasure, and all things depend upon Mine acceptance. Read ye the Tablets that ye may know what hath been purposed in the Books of God, the All-Glorious, the Ever-Bounteous. He who attaineth to My love hath title to a throne of gold, to sit thereon in honour over all the world; he who is deprived thereof, though he sit upon the dust, that dust would seek refuge with God, the Lord of all Religions.
Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor. We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim. Should he repent, God will, no doubt, forgive him. If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one who will deal mercilessly with him. Terrible, indeed, is God in punishing! Whosoever interpreteth this verse otherwise than its obvious meaning is deprived of the Spirit of God and of His mercy which encompasseth all created things. Fear God, and follow not your idle fancies. Nay, rather, follow the bidding of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Erelong shall clamorous voices be raised in most lands. Shun them, O My people, and follow not the iniquitous and evil-hearted. This is that of which We gave you forewarning when We were dwelling in Iraq, then later while in the Land of Mystery, and now from this Resplendent Spot.
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Wash your feet once every day in summer, and once every three days during winter.
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1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
[I] 34 My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you-are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.
This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine. 35 There is no other way, all other ways are false paths. I found the right way, it led me to you, to my soul. I return, tempered and purified. Do you still know me?
10.10 - A Poem, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Janu 8 has fallen at the feet of Radha
Full mercy to the bereaved mother,
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The earth falls on the feet, in various colors
But he is a water sportsman
10.12 - Awake Mother, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Mothers feet, wakeful they passed the night.
Hence rose the Mother:
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
thousand feet. The purusha pervades the world and tran-
scends it by ten fingers. Only one quarter of the macran-
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to the midspace; his head to the sky; his feet to the earth;
and so on. Even the structure of ancient Indias society was
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large; and his feet to the servile estate.
The symbolic representation of the universe in the
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
certain, wobbling on its feet. It is still childish, having just
emerged from the primal waters. A wave of the unconscious may
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
She urg'd by fear, her feet did swiftly move,
But he more swiftly, who was urg'd by love.
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Scarce had she finish'd, when her feet she found
Benumb'd with cold, and fasten'd to the ground:
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Erected on her feet she walks again:
And two the duty of the four sustain.
1.01 - Description of the Castle, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
8.: Certain books on prayer that you have read advise the soul to enter into itself,10' and this is what I mean. I was recently told by a great theologian that souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.' Just so, there are souls so infirm and accustomed to think of nothing but earthly matters, that there seems no cure for them. It appears impossible for them to retire into their own hearts; accustomed as they are to be with the reptiles and other creatures which live outside the castle, they have come at last to imitate their habits. Though these souls are by their nature so richly endowed, capable of communion even with God Himself, yet their case seems hopeless. Unless they endeavour to understand and remedy their most miserable plight, their minds will become, as it were, bereft of movement, just as Lot's wife became a pillar of salt for looking backwards in disobedience to God's command.11
9.: As far as I can understand, the gate by which to enter this castle is prayer and meditation. I do not allude more to mental than to vocal prayer, for if it is prayer at all, the mind must take part in it. If a person neither considers to Whom he is addressing himself, what he asks, nor what he is who ventures to speak to God, although his lips may utter many words, I do not call it prayer.12' Sometimes, indeed, one may pray devoutly without making all these considerations through having practised them at other times. The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave-caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition-cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. I trust His Majesty will prevent any of you, sisters, from doing so. Our habit in this Order of conversing about spiritual matters is a good preservative against such evil ways.
1.01 - DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
There was nothing so very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket and looked at it and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole, under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice after it!
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? They have got to live a mans life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot! The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fools life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:
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A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period. Old shoes will serve a hero longer than they have served his valet,if a hero ever has a valet,bare feet are older than shoes, and he can make them do. Only they who go to soires and legislative halls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them. But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and shoes, are fit to worship God in, they will do; will they not? Who ever saw his old clothes,his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes. All men want, not something to _do with_, but something to _do_, or rather something to _be_. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives. The loon retires to solitary ponds to spend it. Thus also the snake casts its slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat, by an internal industry and expansion; for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind.
We don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without. Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury; our thicker garments, constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or cortex; but our shirts are our liber or true bark, which cannot be removed without girdling and so destroying the man. I believe that all races at some seasons wear something equivalent to the shirt. It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety. While one thick garment is, for most purposes, as good as three thin ones, and cheap clothing can be obtained at prices really to suit customers; while a thick coat can be bought for five dollars, which will last as many years, thick pantaloons for two dollars, cowhide boots for a dollar and a half a pair, a summer hat for a quarter of a dollar, and a winter cap for sixty-two and a half cents, or a better be made at home at a nominal cost, where is he so poor that, clad in such a suit, of _his own earning_, there will not be found wise men to do him reverence?
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However, if one designs to construct a dwelling house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead. Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary. I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind. Formerly, when how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my proper pursuits, was a question which vexed me even more than it does now, for unfortunately I am become somewhat callous, I used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night, and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and, having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the air at least, get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free. This did not appear the worst, nor by any means a despicable alternative. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this. I am far from jesting. Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands. Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great flakes, with pressure of weighty timber, when they are green.... The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad.... I have often lodged in their wigwams, and found them as warm as the best English houses. He adds, that they were commonly carpeted and lined within with well-wrought embroidered mats, and were furnished with various utensils. The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string. Such a lodge was in the first instance constructed in a day or two at most, and taken down and put up in a few hours; and every family owned one, or its apartment in one.
In the savage state every family owns a shelter as good as the best, and sufficient for its coarser and simpler wants; but I think that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the families own a shelter. In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live. I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire. But, answers one, by merely paying this tax the poor civilized man secures an abode which is a palace compared with the savages. An annual rent of from twenty-five to a hundred dollars, these are the country rates, entitles him to the benefit of the improvements of centuries, spacious apartments, clean paint and paper, Rumford fireplace, back plastering, Venetian blinds, copper pump, spring lock, a commodious cellar, and many other things. But how happens it that he who is said to enjoy these things is so commonly a
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The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as an improved method of _agri_-culture. We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of mans struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten. There is actually no place in this village for a work of _fine_ art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it. There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid for, and their internal economy managed and sustained, I wonder that the floor does not give way under the visitor while he is admiring the gewgaws upon the mantel-piece, and let him through into the cellar, to some solid and honest though earthy foundation. I cannot but perceive that this so called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the _fine_ arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump; for I remember that the greatest genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty-five feet on level ground. Without factitious support, man is sure to come to earth again beyond that distance. The first question which I am tempted to put to the proprietor of such great impropriety is, Who bolsters you? Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or of the three who succeed? Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental. The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation: now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper.
Old Johnson, in his Wonder-Working Providence, speaking of the first settlers of this town, with whom he was contemporary, tells us that
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England, who have no means to build farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside with wood all round the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth; floor this cellar with plank, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars clear up, and cover the spars with bark or green sods, so that they can live dry and warm in these houses with their entire families for two, three, and four years, it being understood that partitions are run through those cellars which are adapted to the size of the family. The wealthy and principal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling houses in this fashion for two reasons; firstly, in order not to waste time in building, and not to want food the next season; secondly, in order not to discourage poor laboring people whom they brought over in numbers from Fatherland. In the course of three or four years, when the country became adapted to agriculture, they built themselves handsome houses, spending on them several thousands.
In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first. But are the more pressing wants satisfied now? When I think of acquiring for myself one of our luxurious dwellings, I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to _human_ culture, and we are still forced to cut our _spiritual_ bread far thinner than our forefa thers did their wheaten. Not that all architectural ornament is to be neglected even in the rudest periods; but let our houses first be lined with beauty, where they come in contact with our lives, like the tenement of the shellfish, and not overlaid with it. But, alas! I have been inside one or two of them, and know what they are lined with.
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By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards. James Collins shanty was considered an uncommonly fine one. When I called to see it he was not at home. I walked about the outside, at first unobserved from within, the window was so deep and high. It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap. The roof was the soundest part, though a good deal warped and made brittle by the sun. Door-sill there was none, but a perennial passage for the hens under the door board. Mrs. C. came to the door and asked me to view it from the inside. The hens were driven in by my approach. It was dark, and had a dirt floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and there a board which would not bear removal. She lighted a lamp to show me the inside of the roof and the walls, and also that the board floor extended under the bed, warning me not to step into the cellar, a sort of dust hole two feet deep. In her own words, they were good boards overhead, good boards all around, and a good window,of two whole squares originally, only the cat had passed out that way lately. There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit, an infant in the house where it was born, a silk parasol, gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent new coffee mill nailed to an oak sapling, all told. The bargain was soon concluded, for James had in the meanwhile returned. I to pay four dollars and twenty-five cents to-night, he to vacate at five to-morrow morning, selling to nobody else meanwhile: I to take possession at six. It were well, he said, to be there early, and anticipate certain indistinct but wholly unjust claims on the score of ground rent and fuel. This he assured me was the only encumbrance. At six I passed him and his family on the road. One large bundle held their all,bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens,all but the cat, she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.
I took down this dwelling the same morning, drawing the nails, and removed it to the pond side by small cartloads, spreading the boards on the grass there to bleach and warp back again in the sun. One early thrush gave me a note or two as I drove along the woodl and path. I was informed treacherously by a young Patrick that neighbor Seeley, an
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I dug my cellar in the side of a hill sloping to the south, where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach and blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet square by seven deep, to a fine sand where potatoes would not freeze in any winter. The sides were left shelving, and not stoned; but the sun having never shone on them, the sand still keeps its place. It was but two hours work. I took particular pleasure in this breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an equable temperature. Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth. The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.
At length, in the beginning of May, with the help of some of my acquaintances, rather to improve so good an occasion for neighborliness than from any necessity, I set up the frame of my house. No man was ever more honored in the character of his raisers than I. They are destined, I trust, to assist at the raising of loftier structures one day. I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to rain; but before boarding I laid the foundation of a chimney at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms. I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire became necessary for warmth, doing my cooking in the mean while out of doors on the ground, early in the morning: which mode I still think is in some respects more convenient and agreeable than the usual one. When it stormed before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, and sat under them to watch my loaf, and passed some pleasant hours in that way. In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.
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carpenter is but another name for coffin-maker. One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color. Is he thinking of his last and narrow house? Toss up a copper for it as well. What an abundance of leisure he must have! Why do you take up a handful of dirt? Better paint your house your own complexion; let it turn pale or blush for you. An enterprise to improve the style of cottage architecture! When you have got my ornaments ready I will wear them.
Before winter I built a chimney, and shingled the sides of my house, which were already impervious to rain, with imperfect and sappy shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges I was obliged to straighten with a plane.
I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight- feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite. The exact cost of my house, paying the usual price for such materials as I used, but not counting the work, all of which was done by myself, was as follows; and I give the details because very few are able to tell exactly what their houses cost, and fewer still, if any, the separate cost of the various materials which compose them:
Boards.......................... $ 8.03, mostly shanty boards.
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I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in. The moon will not sour milk nor taint meat of mine, nor will the sun injure my furniture or fade my carpet, and if he is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, than to add a single item to the details of housekeeping. A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacons effects, for his life had not been ineffectual:
1.01f - Introduction, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
Ajtaatru, Vaidehs son, was also there with several hundreds of thousands of his attendants. Each of them, after having bowed at the Buddhas feet, withdrew and sat to one side.
At that time the Bhagavat was respectfully surrounded by the fourfold assembly (i.e., monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen), paid homage, honored, and praised. He then taught the bodhisattvas the Mahayana sutra called
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And feet, as well as their wives and children.
Moreover, I see bodhisattvas
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Lay at Her feet your offering
And with it mingle the fragrant sandal-paste of Love.
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So saying, he continued on his way along the meadow. But the cowherd boys, being afraid, did not accompany him. In the mean time the snake moved swiftly toward him with upraised hood. As soon as it came near, he recited a mantra, and the snake lay at his feet like an earthworm. The brahmachari said: 'Look here. Why do you go about doing harm? Come, I will give you a holy word. By repeating it you will learn to love God. Ultimately you will realize Him and so get rid of your violent nature.' Saying this, he taught the snake a holy word and initiated him into spiritual life. The snake bowed before the teacher and said, 'Revered sir, how shall I practise spiritual discipline?'
'Repeat that sacred word', said the teacher, 'and do no harm to anybody'. As he was about to depart, the brahmachari said, 'I shall see you again.'
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"The liberated souls, such as the sadhus and mahatmas, are not entangled in the world, in 'woman and gold'. Their minds are free from worldliness. Besides, they always meditate on the Lotus feet of God.
"Suppose a net has been cast into a lake to catch fish. Some fish are so clever that they are never caught in the net. They are like the ever-free. But most of the fish are entangled in the net. Some of them try to free themselves from it, and they are like those who seek liberation. But not all the fish that struggle succeed. A very few do jump out of the net, making a big splash in the water. Then the fishermen shout, 'Look!
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Worship His feet in the lotus of your heart;
With mind serene and eyes made radiant
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No sooner had M. entered the room than the Master laughed aloud and said to the boys, "There! He has come again." They all joined in the laughter. M. bowed low before him and took a seat. Before this he had saluted the Master with folded hands, like one with an English education. But that day he learnt to fall down at his feet in orthodox Hindu fashion.
The peacock and the opium
1.01 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Drove forth my feet through woods and meadows free,
And while a thousand tears were burning,
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
20. If an earthly king were to call us and request us to serve in his presence, we should not delay for other orders, we should not make excuses, but we should leave everything and eagerly go to him. Let us then be on the alert, lest when the King of kings and Lord of lords and God of gods calls us to this heavenly office, we cry off out of sloth and cowardice and find ourselves without excuse at the Last Judgment. It is possible to walk, even when tied with the fetters of worldly affairs and iron cares, but only with difficulty. For even those who have iron chains on their feet can often walk; but they are continually stumbling and getting hurt. An unmarried man, who is only tied to the world by business affairs, is like one who has fetters on his hands; and therefore when he wishes to enter the monastic life he has nothing to hinder him. But the married man is like one who is bound hand and foot. (So when he wants to run he cannot.)2
Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life? I replied to them: Do all the good you can; do not speak evil of anyone; do not steal from anyone; do not lie to anyone; do not be arrogant towards anyone; do not hate any one; be sure you go to church; be compassionate to the needy; do not offend anyone; do not wreck another mans domestic happiness;3 and be content with what your own wives can give you. If you behave in this way you will not be far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
person whose social personality has not found its feet; moreover any
psycho therapeutic intervention may occasionally run into a latent psychosis
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same time he learns to stand on his own feet instead of clinging to the
doctor.
1.01 - Sets down the first line and begins to treat of the imperfections of beginners., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
2. It must be known, then, that the soul, after it has been definitely converted to the service of God, is, as a rule, spiritually nurtured and caressed by God, even as is the tender child by its loving mother, who warms it with the heat of her bosom and nurtures it with sweet milk and soft and pleasant food, and carries it and caresses it in her arms; but, as the child grows bigger, the mother gradually ceases caressing it, and, hiding her tender love, puts bitter aloes upon her sweet breast, sets down the child from her arms and makes it walk upon its feet, so that it may lose the habits of a child and betake itself to more important and substantial occupations. The loving mother is like the grace of God, for, as soon as the soul is regenerated by its new warmth and fervour for the service of God, He treats it in the same way; He makes it to find spiritual milk, sweet and delectable, in all the things of God, without any labour of its own, and also great pleasure in spiritual exercises, for here God is giving to it the breast of His tender love, even as to a tender child.
3. Therefore, such a soul finds its delight in spending long periods perchance whole nightsin prayer; penances are its pleasures; fasts its joys; and its consolations are to make use of the sacraments and to occupy itself in Divine things.
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The wise say that this threefold way is like an iron chain, binding the feet of him who aspires to escape from the prison-house of this world. He who frees himself from the chain achieves Deliverance.
Shankara
1.01 - The Cycle of Society, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or let us take, for this example will serve us best, the Vedic institution of the fourfold order, caturvara, miscalled the system of the four castes,for caste is a conventional, vara a symbolic and typal institution. We are told that the institution of the four orders of society was the result of an economic evolution complicated by political causes. Very possibly;1 but the important point is that it was not so regarded and could not be so regarded by the men of that age. For while we are satisfied when we have found the practical and material causes of a social phenomenon and do not care to look farther, they cared little or only subordinately for its material factors and looked always first and foremost for its symbolic, religious or psychological significance. This appears in the Purushasukta of the Veda, where the four orders are described as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. To us this is merely a poetical image and its sense is that the Brahmins were the men of knowledge, the Kshatriyas the men of power, the Vaishyas the producers and support of society, the Shudras its servants. As if that were all, as if the men of those days would have so profound a reverence for mere poetical figures like this of the body of Brahma or that other of the marriages of Sury, would have built upon them elaborate systems of ritual and sacred ceremony, enduring institutions, great demarcations of social type and ethical discipline. We read always our own mentality into that of these ancient forefa thers and it is therefore that we can find in them nothing but imaginative barbarians. To us poetry is a revel of intellect and fancy, imagination a plaything and caterer for our amusement, our entertainer, the nautch-girl of the mind. But to the men of old the poet was a seer, a revealer of hidden truths, imagination no dancing courtesan but a priestess in Gods house commissioned not to spin fictions but to image difficult and hidden truths; even the metaphor or simile in the Vedic style is used with a serious purpose and expected to convey a reality, not to suggest a pleasing artifice of thought. The image was to these seers a revelative symbol of the unrevealed and it was used because it could hint luminously to the mind what the precise intellectual word, apt only for logical or practical thought or to express the physical and the superficial, could not at all hope to manifest. To them this symbol of the Creators body was more than an image, it expressed a divine reality. Human society was for them an attempt to express in life the cosmic Purusha who has expressed himself otherwise in the material and the supraphysical universe. Man and the cosmos are both of them symbols and expressions of the same hidden Reality.
From this symbolic attitude came the tendency to make everything in society a sacrament, religious and sacrosanct, but as yet with a large and vigorous freedom in all its forms,a freedom which we do not find in the rigidity of savage communities because these have already passed out of the symbolic into the conventional stage though on a curve of degeneration instead of a curve of growth. The spiritual idea governs all; the symbolic religious forms which support it are fixed in principle; the social forms are lax, free and capable of infinite development. One thing, however, begins to progress towards a firm fixity and this is the psychological type. Thus we have first the symbolic idea of the four orders, expressingto employ an abstractly figurative language which the Vedic thinkers would not have used nor perhaps understood, but which helps best our modern understanding the Divine as knowledge in man, the Divine as power, the Divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality, the Divine as service, obedience and work. These divisions answer to four cosmic principles, the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates the arrangement of its parts, the Work that carries out what the rest direct. Next, out of this idea there developed a firm but not yet rigid social order based primarily upon temperament and psychic type2 with a corresponding ethical discipline and secondarily upon the social and economic function.3 But the function was determined by its suitability to the type and its helpfulness to the discipline; it was not the primary or sole factor. The first, the symbolic stage of this evolution is predominantly religious and spiritual; the other elements, psychological, ethical, economic, physical are there but subordinated to the spiritual and religious idea. The second stage, which we may call the typal, is predominantly psychological and ethical; all else, even the spiritual and religious, is subordinate to the psychological idea and to the ethical ideal which expresses it. Religion becomes then a mystic sanction for the ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more other-worldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end even from the theory of life.
1.01 - The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
the great illumination shines forth from under his own feet.
COMMENTARY
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his feet.*
Though everyone in the whole country goes after him, he will
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"Call him here to wash this old monk's feet."
**Give him thirty more blows and drive him away-this
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times; today the brambles under everyone's feet are already
several yards deep. "Though everyone in the whole country
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"Call him here to wash this old monk's feet." He certainly
diminishes the man's dignity, but at the same time he properly
offers his own hands and feet as well. Tell me, where does
Hsueh Tou's meaning lie? When you get here, can you call it an
1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
That is where we are. The illusion is not dead; it even rages with unprecedented violence, equipped with all the arms we have so obligingly polished up for it. But these are the last convulsions of a colossus with feet of clay which is actually a gnome, an oversized, overoutfitted gnome. The ancient sages of India knew it well. They divided human evolution into four concentric circles: that of the men of knowledge (Brahmins), who lived at the beginning of humanity, in the age of truth; that of the nobles and warriors (Kshatriya), when only three fourths of the truth was left; that of the merchants and middle class (Vaishya), who had only half of the truth; and finally ours, the age of the little men, the Shudra, the servants (of the machine, of the ego, of desire), the great proletariat of regimented liberties the Dark Age, Kali Yuga, when no truth is left at all. But because this circle is the most extreme, because all the truths have been tried and exhausted, and all possible roads explored, we are nearing the right solution, the true solution, the emergence of a new age of truth, the supramental age Sri Aurobindo spoke of, like the buttercup breaking its last envelope to free its golden fruit. If the parallel holds true between the collective body and our human body, we could say that the center governing the age of the sages was located at the level of the forehead, while that of the age of the nobles was at the level of the heart, that of the age of the merchants, at the stomach, and the one governing our age is at the level of sex and matter. The descent is complete. But that descent has a meaning a meaning for matter. Had we stayed forever at the forehead level of the divine truths of the mind, this earth and body would never have been changed, and we would have probably ended up escaping into some spiritual heaven or nirvana. Now, everything must be transformed, even the body and matter, since we are right in it. Ironically, this is the greatest service this dark, materialistic and scientific age may have rendered us: to compel such a plunge of the spirit into matter that it had either to lose itself in it or to be transformed with it. Absolute darkness is but the shadow of a greater Sun, which digs its abysses in order to raise up a more stable beauty, founded on the purified base of our earthly subconscious and seated erect in truth down to the very cells of our bodies.
O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race,
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hollow voices cry out to the traveller, "Flee this place; go back to the cross-roads; there is still time." The young man hesitates, then replies, "Tomorrow." He covers his face with his hands so as not to see the bodies rolling into the ravine, and runs along the road, drawn on by an irresistible urge to go forward. He no longer wonders whether he will find a way out. With furrowed brow and clothes in disorder, he runs on in desperation. At last, thinking himself far away from the accursed place, he opens his eyes: there are no more fir-trees; all around are barren stones and grey dust. The sun has disappeared beyond the horizon; night is coming on. The road has lost itself in an endless desert. The desperate traveller, worn out by his long run, wants to stop; but he must walk on. All around him is ruin; he hears stifled cries; his feet stumble on skeletons. In the distance, the thick mist takes on terrifying shapes; black forms loom up; something huge and misshapen suggests itself. The traveller flies rather than walks towards the goal he senses and which seems to flee from him; wild cries direct his steps; he brushes against phantoms. At last he sees before him a huge edifice, dark, desolate, gloomy, a castle to make one say with a shudder: "A haunted castle." But the young man pays no attention to the bleakness of the place; these great black walls make no impression on him; as he stands on the dusty ground, he hardly trembles at the sight of these formidable towers; he thinks only that the goal is reached, he forgets his weariness and discouragement. As he approaches the castle, he brushes against a wall, and the wall crumbles; instantly everything collapses around him; towers, battlements, walls have vanished, sinking into dust which is added to the dust already covering the ground.
Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
The mother, though suspicious and disinclined to see her son, appeared from her room and fearfully agreed to visit the shrine with him. As they walked along, Shu-liang said, "Our worries are over, mother. I'm going to show you a secret place where many precious gems have been dug up. I promise you, by tomorrow our family will be rich and prosperous." Coming to a grim-looking place at the base of a mountain, he pointed to a hole in the ground seven or eight feet deep. "Come here and look into it, mother," he said, leading her to the hole. Suddenly, he reached out to grab her and push her over the edge into the hole, but in doing that he lost his footing, slipped, and fell in himself.
"Help me, mother," he pleaded. "Please, take hold of my hand. Pull me out of here. The earth in this hole is sandy and burning hot. I can't bear it any more." His mother, confused and upset, moved this way and that attempting to reach out her hand to him. But by then the intense heat inside the hole was sending up thick billows of black smoke.
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"Since you ask," one of them replied, "an unfilial son has defiled this shrine. See over there where he entered through the sacred hedge and walked through the sacred precincts. Now we must dig up every particle of earth that his feet contaminated, down to a depth of seven feet, and dispose of it. But that fellow will soon receive his just reward from the lord of heaven." By the time he had finished speaking, light was appearing in the morning sky, and he and all the other strange beings had vanished. Not long afterward in that same area, a man was struck and killed by a single bolt of lightning.
There is another story about a priest who went to an ancient shrine for an overnight retreat. In the deepening silence he heard the sound of a fleet horse galloping by. Presently, a rider pulled up before the shrine and proclaimed in a harsh voice, "Greetings to the fellow inside the shrine. We have vowed to take you from here. Come out this instant!"
1.020 - Ta-Ha, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
71. He said, “Did you believe in him before I have given you permission? He must be your chief, who has taught you magic. I will cut off your hands and your feet on alternate sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of the palm-trees. Then you will know which of us is more severe in punishment, and more lasting.”
72. They said, “We will not prefer you to the proofs that have come to us, and Him who created us. So issue whatever judgment you wish to issue. You can only rule in this lowly life.
10.23 - Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This sorrowful world kneels before Thee, 0 Lord, in mute supplication; this tortured Matter nestles at thy feet, its last, its sole refuge; and so imploring Thee, it adores Thee, Thee whom it neither knows nor understands! Its prayer rises like the cry of one in a last agony; that which is disappearing feels confusedly the possibility of living again in Thee; the earth awaits Thy decree in a grandiose prostration.
Mother, sweet Mother, who I am, Thou art at once the destroyer and the builder.
1.024 - The Light, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
24. On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will testify against them regarding what they used to do.
25. On that Day, God will pay them their account in full, and they will know that God is the Evident Reality.
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31. And tell the believing women to restrain their looks, and to guard their privates, and not display their beauty except what is apparent thereof, and to draw their coverings over their breasts, and not expose their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, what their right hands possess, their male attendants who have no sexual desires, or children who are not yet aware of the nakedness of women. And they should not strike their feet to draw attention to their hidden beauty. And repent to God, all of you believers, so that you may succeed.
32. And wed the singles among you, and those who are fit among your servants and maids. If they are poor, God will enrich them from His bounty. God is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
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45. God created every living creature from water. Some of them crawl on their bellies, and some walk on two feet, and others walk on four. God creates whatever He wills. God is Capable of everything.
46. We sent down enlightening revelations, and God guides whomever He wills to a straight path.
1.026 - The Poets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
49. He said, “Did you believe in Him before I have given you permission? He must be your chief, who taught you magic. You will soon know. I will cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you all.”
50. They said, “No problem. To our Lord we will return.
1.029 - The Spider, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
55. On the Day when the punishment will envelop them, from above them, and from beneath their feet, He will say, “Taste what you used to do!”
56. O My servants who have believed: My earth is vast, so worship Me alone.
1.02 - BEFORE THE CITY-GATE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
He snares our feet, some future chain to bind.
WAGNER
1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
In skinny films, and shape his oary feet;
From both his sides the wings and feathers break;
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The glitt'ring sandals to his feet applies,
And to each heel the well-trim'd pinion ties.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
The latter fled, flying into the sky, but Kumarbi pursued him, caught him by the feet, and threw him to
the ground, after biting his loins. Since he was laughing and rejoicing over his exploit, Anu told him
1.02 - ON THE TEACHERS OF VIRTUE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
youths were said to be sitting at his feet. To him
Zarathustra went, and he sat at his feet with all the
youths. And thus spoke the sage:
1.02 - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
kāra)[23], denominated Vaikarīka, 'pure;' Taijasa, 'passionate;' and Bhūtādi, 'rudimental,'[24] is produced; the origin of the (subtile) elements, and of the organs of sense; invested, in consequence of its three qualities, by Intellect, as Intellect is by the Chief principle. Elementary Egotism then becoming productive, as the rudiment of sound, produced from it Ether, of which sound is the characteristic, investing it with its rudiment of sound. Ether becoming productive, engendered the rudiment of touch; whence originated strong wind, the property of which is touch; and Ether, with the rudiment of sound, enveloped the rudiment of touch. Then wind becoming productive, produced the rudiment of form (colour); whence light (or fire) proceeded, of which, form (colour) is the attribute; and the rudiment of touch enveloped the wind with the rudiment of colour. Light becoming productive, produced the rudiment of taste; whence proceed all juices in which flavour resides; and the rudiment of colour invested the juices with the rudiment of taste. The waters becoming productive, engendered the rudiment of smell; whence an aggregate (earth) originates, of which smell is the property[25]. In each several element resides its peculiar rudiment; thence the property of tanmātratā,[26] (type or rudiment) is ascribed to these elements. Rudimental elements are not endowed with qualities, and therefore they are neither soothing, nor terrific, nor stupifying[27]. This is the elemental creation, proceeding from the principle of egotism affected by the property of darkness. The organs of sense are said to be the passionate products of the same principle, affected by foulness; and the ten divinities[28] proceed from egotism affected by the principle of goodness; as does Mind, which is the eleventh. The organs of sense are ten: of the ten, five are the skin, eye, nose, tongue, and ear; the object of which, combined with Intellect, is the apprehension of sound and the rest: the organs of excretion and procreation, the hands, the feet, and the voice, form the other five; of which excretion, generation, manipulation, motion, and speaking, are the several acts.
Then, ether, air, light, water, and earth, severally united with the properties of sound and the rest, existed as distinguishable according to their qualities, as soothing, terrific, or stupifying; but possessing various energies, and being unconnected, they could not, without combination, create living beings, not having blended with each other. Having combined, therefore, with one another, they assumed, through their mutual association, the character of one mass of entire unity; and from the direction of spirit, with the acquiescence of the indiscrete Principle[29], Intellect and the rest, to the gross elements inclusive, formed an egg[30], which gradually expanded like a bubble of water. This vast egg, O sage, compounded of the elements, and resting on the waters, was the excellent natural abode of Viṣṇu in the form of Brahmā; and there Viṣṇu, the lord of the universe, whose essence is inscrutable, assumed a perceptible form, and even he himself abided in it in the character of Brahmā[31]. Its womb, vast as the mountain Meru, was composed of the mountains; and the mighty oceans were the waters that filled its cavity. In that egg, O Brahman, were the continents and seas and mountains, the planets and divisions of the universe, the gods, the demons, and mankind. And this egg was externally invested by seven natural envelopes, or by water, air, fire, ether, and Aha
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[28]: The Bhāgavata, which gives a similar statement of the origin of the elements, senses, and divinities, specifies the last to be Diś (space), air, the sun, Pracetas, the Aswins, fire, Indra, Upendra, Mitra, and Ka or Prajāpati, presiding over the senses, according to the comment, or severally over the ear, skin, eye, tongue, nose, speech, hands, feet, and excretory and generative organs. Bhag. II. 5. 31.
[29]: Avyaktānugraheṇa. The expression is something equivocal, as Avyakta may here apply either to the First Cause or to matter. In either case the notion is the same, and the aggregation of the elements is the effect of the presidence of spirit, without any active interference of the indiscrete principle. The Avyakta is passive in the evolution and combination of Mahat and the rest. Pradhāna is, no doubt, intended, but its identification with the Supreme is also implied. The term Anugraha may also refer to a classification of the order of creation, which will be again adverted to.
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3:If the change comes suddenly and decisively by an overpowering influence, there is no further essential or lasting difficulty. The choice follows upon the thought, or is simultaneous with it, and the self-consecration follows upon the choice. The feet are already set upon the path, even if they seem at first to wander uncertainly and even though the path itself may be only obscurely seen and the knowledge of the goal may be imperfect. The secret Teacher, the inner Guide is already at work, though he may not yet manifest himself or may not yet appear in the person of his human representative. Whatever difficulties and hesitations may ensue, they cannot eventually prevail against the power of the experience that has turned the current of the life. The call, once decisive, stands; the thing that has been born cannot eventually be stifled. Even if the force of circumstances prevents a regular pursuit or a full practical self-consecration from the first, still the mind has taken its bent and persists and returns with an ever-increasing effect upon its leading preoccupation. There is an ineluctable persistence of the inner being, and against it circumstances are in the end powerless, and no weakness in the nature can for long be an obstacle.
4:But this is not always the manner of the commencement. The Sadhaka is often led gradually and there is a long space between the first turning of the mind and the full assent of the nature to the thing towards which it turns. There may at first be only a vivid intellectual interest, a forcible attraction towards the idea and some imperfect form of practice. Or perhaps there is an effort not favoured by the whole nature, a decision or a turn imposed by an intellectual influence or dictated by personal affection and admiration for someone who is himself consecrated and devoted to the Highest. In such cases, a long period of preparation may be necessary before there comes the irrevocable consecration; and in some instances it may not come. There may be some advance, there may be a strong effort, even much purification and many experiences other than those that are central or supreme; but the life will either be spent in preparation or, a certain stage having been reached, the mind pushed by an insufficient driving-force may rest content at the limit of the effort possible to it. Or there may even be a recoil to the lower life, -- what is called in the ordinary parlance of Yoga a fall from the path. This lapse happens because there is a defect at the very centre. The intellect has been interested, the heart attracted, the will has strung itself to the effort, but the whole nature has not been taken captive by the Divine. It has only acquiesced in the interest, the attraction or the endeavour. There has been an experiment, perhaps even an eager experiment, but not a total self-giving to an imperative need of the soul or to an unforsakable ideal. Even such imperfect Yoga has not been wasted; for no upward effort is made in vain. Even if it fails in the present or arrives only at some preparatory stage or preliminary realisation, it has yet determined the soul's future.
1.02 - Substance Is Eternal, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
The rock-paved highways worn by many feet;
And at the gates the brazen statues show
1.02 - Taras Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
emitting from the soles of her feet a mighty wind that
dispersed all the enemies.
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
Such methods are very convenient. But its like a cobbler who thinks that the shoes he made for a three-year-old should still fit the ten-year-old; the shoes are well formed, but they no longer fit the child. And thats how it is with the teaching that the child is meant to assimilate. What the child takes in during the seventh or eighth year is no longer suited to the soul of the twelve-year-old; its as useless as shoes that have become too small. We just dont realize it when the problem unfolds within the soul. The teacher who demands of her students at age twelve the same definitions that were used earlier is like the cobbler who tries to put a three- year-olds shoes onto the feet of a ten-year-old: she might fit her toes into the shoes, but not her heels. Much of a childs spiritual and psychic nature doesnt fit into the education we give children. Whats needed is that, through the medium of flexible and artistic forms, we give children perceptions, ideas, and feelings in picto- rial form that can metamorphose and grow with the soul, because the soul itself is growing. But before this can happen, there has to be a living relationship between child and teacher, not the dead relationship that arises from lifeless educational concepts. Thus, all instruction given to children between approximately seven and fifteen needs to be permeated with pictures.
In many ways, this runs counter to the ordinary tendencies of modern culture, and of course we belong to this modern culture. We read books that impart meaningful content through little squiggles we call a, b, c, and so on. We fail to realize that weve been damaged by being forced to learn these symbols, since they have absolutely no relationship to our inner life. Why should a or b look the way they do today? Theres no inner necessity, no experience that justifies writing an h after an a to express a feeling of astonishment or wonder.
1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But how could we possibly know the secret of that which now seems an undefined and disturbing nonself, possibly even destructive of what we so concretely know as self, we who are at the end of this mental circle, in this age of the servants of the ego and ambiguous enjoyments of a little thinking self?... Actually, the path is made by walking it, as in a forest. There is no path, it does not exist: it has to be made. And once we have walked a few feet, apparently in the dark, we will realize that our groping steps led to a first clearing, and that we were all the while guided, even in our darkest stumblings, by an infallible Hand that has already directed our millipede meanderings. For, in fact, the goal we pursue is already within; it is an eternal Goal. It is a Future that is millions of years old and as young as a newborn child. It is opening its eyes to everything, constantly staring in wonderment. To find It is to enter constant wonder, a new birth of the world at each instant.
But at least we have signposts to help us take these first steps, and if we pose questions about man's future (not pose questions in the sense of a theoretician spinning his vain web and adding one idea to another only to inflate the same old story, but in the sense of a sailor plotting his course, because there is a channel to go through even as the sea crashes against the reefs), we will perhaps discover a few clues by studying the old animal circle, when we were still only the future of the ape.
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Yet the process, the Great Process, is here, just as it began as long ago as the Pleistocene era that idle little second, that introspection of the second kind but the movement revealed to the monkey and the movement revealed to the spiritualist of ages past (and surpassed) are in no way an indication of the next direction it is to take. There is no continuity that is a delusion! There is no refinement of the same movement, no improving upon the ape or man, no perfecting of the stone tool or the mental tool, no climbing higher peaks, no thinking loftier thoughts, no deeper meditations or discoveries that would be a glorification of the existing state, a sublimation of the old flesh, a sublime halo around the old beast there is SOMETHING ELSE, something radically different, a new threshold to cross, as different from ours as the threshold of plant life was from the animal, another discovery of the already-here, which will change our world as drastically as the human look changed the world of the caterpillar yet it is the same world, but seen with two different looks another Spirit, we might say, as different from the religious or intellectual spirit or the great naked Spirit on the heights of the Absolute, as man's thought is different from the first quivering of a wild rose under a ray of sunlight yet it is the same eternal Spirit but in a greater concretization of itself, for, in fact, the Spirit's true direction is not from the bottom up, but from the top down, and it becomes ever more in matter, because it is the world's very Matter, wrested bit by bit from our false caterpillar look and false human look and false spiritual look or, let us say, recognized little by little by our growing true look. This new threshold of vision depends first on a pause in our regular mental and visual routine and that is the Great Process, the movement of introspection of the second kind but the path is entirely new: this is a new life on earth, another discovery to make; and the less weighed down we are by past wisdom, past ascents, past illuminations, all the disciplines and virtues and old gilded frills of the Spirit, the freer we are and more open to the new, the more the path shall spring up under our feet, as if by magic, as if it sprang from that total desecration.
This superman, whom we have said is the next goal of evolution, will therefore in no way be a paroxysm of man, a gilded hypertrophy of the mental capacity, nor will he be a spiritual paroxysm, a sort of demigod appearing in a halo of light and outfitted with an oversized consciousness (cosmic, of course) streaked with bolts of lightning, marvelous phenomena and Experiences that would make the poor laggards of evolution pale with envy. It is true that both things are possible, both exist. There are marvelous Experiences; there are superhuman capacities that would make the man in the street turn pale. It is not a myth; it is a fact. But Truth, as always, is simple. The difficulty does not lie in discovering the new path; it lies in clearing away what blocks the view. The path is new, completely new; it has never been seen before by human eyes, never been trodden before by the athletes of the Spirit, yet it is walked every day by millions of ordinary men unaware of the treasure at hand.
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
9.: A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. Since God has given it such great dignity, permit it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even that of self-knowledge. Mark well, however, that self-knowledge is indispensable, even for those whom God takes to dwell in the same mansion with Himself. Nothing else, however elevated, perfects the soul which must never seek to forget its own nothingness. Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost. But, remember, the bee leaves its hive to fly in search of flowers and the soul should sometimes cease thinking of itself to rise in meditation on the grandeur and majesty of its God. It will learn its own baseness better thus than by self-contemplation, and will be freer from the reptiles which enter the first room where self-knowledge is acquired. The palmito here referred to is not a palm, but a shrub about four feet high and very dense with leaves, resembling palm leaves. The poorer classes and principally children dig it up by the roots, which they peel of its many layers until a sort of kernel is disclosed, which is eaten, not without relish, and is somewhat like a filbert in taste. See St. John of the Cross, Accent of Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch, xiv, 3. Although it is a great grace from God to practise self-examination, yet 'too much is as bad as too little,' as they say; believe me, by God's help, we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, poor creatures of earth that we are.
10.: I do not know whether I have put this clearly; self-knowledge is of such consequence that I would not have you careless of it, though you may be lifted to heaven in prayer, because while on earth nothing is more needful than humility. Therefore, I repeat, not only a good way, but the best of all ways, is to endeavour to enter first by the room where humility is practised, which is far better than at once rushing on to the others. This is the right road;-if we know how easy and safe it is to walk by it, why ask for wings with which to fly? Let us rather try to learn how to advance quickly. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Athena. This necessity was emphasized in the most surprising way by the result of the Michelson-Morley experiments, when Physics itself calmly and frankly offered a contradiction in terms. It was not the metaphysicians this time who were picking holes in a vacuum. It was the mathematicians and the physicists who found the ground completely cut away from under their feet. It was not enough to replace the geometry of Euclid by those of Riemann and Lobatchevsky and the mechanics of Newton by those of Einstein, so long as any of the axioms of the old thought and the definitions of its terms survived. They deliberately abandoned positivism and materialism for an indeterminate mysticism, creating a new mathematical philosophy and a new logic, wherein infinite-or rather transfinite-ideas might be made commensurable with those of ordinary thought in the forlorn hope that all might live happily ever after. In short, to use a Qabalistic nomenclature, they found it incumbent upon themselves to adopt for inclusion of terms of Ruach (intellect) concepts which are proper only to Neschamah (the organ and faculty of direct spiritual apperception and intuition). This same process took place in Philosophy years earlier. Had the dialectic of Hegel been only. half understood, the major portion of philosophical speculation from the Schoolmen to
Kant's perception of the Antinomies of Reason would have been thrown overboard.
1.02 - THE POOL OF TEARS, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you."
Just at this moment her head struck against the roof of the hall; in fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.
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After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White
Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid-gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other. He came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh!
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As she said this, she looked down at her hands and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid-gloves while she was talking. "How _can_ I have done that?" she thought. "I must be growing small again." She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it and found that she was now about two feet high and was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding and she dropped it hastily, just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether.
"That _was_ a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence. "And now for the garden!" And she ran with all speed back to the little door; but, alas! the little door was shut again and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before. "Things are worse than ever," thought the poor child, "for I never was so small as this before, never!"
As she said these words, her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt-water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea. However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to see what it was: she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
"He would have said more," the story goes, "but the maiden pursued her frightened way and left him with words unfinished, even in her desertion seeming fair. The winds bared her limbs, the opposing breezes set her garments aflutter as she ran, and a light air flung her locks streaming behind her. Her beauty was en hanced by flight. But the chase drew to an end, for the youthful god would not longer waste his time in coaxing words, and, urged on by love, he pursued at utmost speed. Just as when a Gallic hound has seen a hare in an open plain, and seeks his prey on fly ing feet, but the hare, safety; he, just about to fasten on her, now, even now thinks he has her, and grazes her very heels with his out stretched muzzle; but she knows not whether or not she be already caught, and barely escapes from those sharp fangs and leaves be hind the jaws just closing on her: so ran the god and maid, he sped by hope and she by fear. But he ran the more swiftly, borne on the wings of love, gave her no time to rest, hung over her fleeing shoulders and breathed on the hair that streamed over her neck.
Now was her strength all gone, and, pale with fear and utterly overcome by the toil of her swift flight, seeing the waters of her fa ther's river near, she cried: 'O father, help! If your waters hold di vinity, change and destroy this beauty by which I pleased o'er well.' Scarce had she thus prayed when a down-dragging numb ness seized her limbs, and her soft sides were begirt with thin bark. Her hair was changed to leaves, her arms to branches. Her feet, but now so swift, grew fast in sluggish roots, and her head was now but a tree's top. Her gleaming beauty alone remained."
Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 504-553 (translation by Frank Justus Miller, the
1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Once Petrarch reaches the summit, however, his narrative becomes unsettled; the shifts of tense indicate his intense agitation even at the mere recollection of his experience at the summit. "Shaken by the unaccustomed wind and the wide, freely shifting vistas, I was immediately awe-struck. I look: the clouds lay beneath my feet . . . . I look toward Italy, whither turned my soul even more than my gaze, and sigh at the sight of the Italian sky which appeared more to my spirit than to my eyes, and I was overcome by an inexpressible longing to return home . . . . Suddenly a new thought seized me, transporting me from space into time [a locistraduxit ad tempora]. I said to myself: it has been ten years since you left Bologna . . . ." In the lines that follow, recollecting a decade of suffering, and preoccupied by the overpowering desire for his homel and that befell him during the unaccustomed sojourn on the summit, he reveals that his thoughts have turned inward. Still marked by his encounter with what was then a new reality, yet shaken by its effect, he flees "from space into time," out of the first experience with space back to the gold-ground of the Siena masters.
Having confessed his anguish and unburdened his soul, he describes further his perception of space: "Then I turn westward; in vain my eye searches for the ridge of the Pyrenees, boundary between France and Spain . . . . To my right I see the mountains of Lyon, to the left the Mediterranean surf washes against Marseille before it Breaks on Aigues-Mortes. Though the distance was considerable, we could see clearly; the Rhne itself lay beneath our gaze."
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12:It is necessary, therefore, that advancing Knowledge should base herself on a clear, pure and disciplined intellect. It is necessary, too, that she should correct her errors sometimes by a return to the restraint of sensible fact, the concrete realities of the physical world. The touch of Earth is always reinvigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical Knowledge. It may even be said that the supraphysical can only be really mastered in its fullness - to its heights we can always reach - when we keep our feet firmly on the physical. "Earth is His footing,"2 says the Upanishad whenever it images the Self that manifests in the universe. And it is certainly the fact that the wider we extend and the surer we make our knowledge of the physical world, the wider and surer becomes our foundation for the higher knowledge, even for the highest, even for the Brahmavidya.
13:In emerging, therefore, out of the materialistic period of human Knowledge we must be careful that we do not rashly condemn what we are leaving or throw away even one tittle of its gains, before we can summon perceptions and powers that are well grasped and secure, to occupy their place. Rather we shall observe with respect and wonder the work that Atheism has done for the Divine and admire the services that Agnosticism has rendered in preparing the illimitable increase of knowledge. In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal. Well, if it could always be, as it has been in the great period we are leaving, the faithful handmaid, severe, conscientious, clean-handed, luminous within its limits, a half-truth and not a reckless and presumptuous aberration.
1.02 - The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
and beneath the feet it extends boundlessly. Don't
lift or lower your head.*
1.02 - THE WITHIN OF THINGS, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
crust changes ceaselessly under our feet, while the heavens sweep
us along in a cyclone of stars.
1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquitos wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated in the meridian shallows. Weather this danger and you are safe, for the rest of the way is down hill. With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses. If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through
Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call _reality_, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a _point dappui_, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
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I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.
1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Another peculiar attribute which Patanjali uses is samvega. It is very difficult to translate it into English tivra samvega. Tivra is intense, very forceful, vehement. Samvega is impetuosity, if we would like to put it into English. We know what impetuous movement is it is turbulent, uncontrollable, vehement, powerful, revolting such is the kind of asking that is implied in this sutra. That is samvega like a violent tempest, a forceful wind that is blowing, uprooting all trees and blowing buildings. We know how forcefully the wind can blow off even the top of buildings. That kind of aspiration is called samvegatva, where we do not care for anything else. Let heaven go to hell or hell go to heaven, it makes no difference. The soul is simply revolting against any kind of limitation which has been imposed upon it by any factor whatsoever, even if it is a so-called virtuous factor of the traditional world. Everything is broken to pieces, cast to the winds, crushed under the feet, and the soul simply asks and asks and asks. This is the tivra samvegatva that Patanjali is referring to in the seeking of the great Reality, which is the object of our quest.
Such an asking, such a kind of aspiration, this kind of longing is unknown to us. Neither can you understand it, nor can I understand it. It is impossible for any human mind to have such an aspiration for anything in this world. We have tentative longings; we have conditional desires and limited loves, but unlimited love is unknown to us. Nevertheless, this is what is needed if we want success. Unfortunately, as the mind has been tethered to conditions of various types right from its birth in this physical world, this kind of aspiration has been a strange phenomenon even to the farthest stretch of imagination. But now we have come to a field of a new type of training where such an old prejudice of thought is to be abandoned and a new understanding is to be awakened in ourselves, which has nothing to do with the factors which may condition this asking in any manner whatsoever. Bondage is of two kinds that which looks bad, and that which looks good. There are two types of bondage in this world. There are certain things which everybody appraises as valuable, considers wonderful and praiseworthy; that is one kind of bondage, and it is as powerful a bondage as the second kind that which we call 'bad' in this world. This is because the idea of bad and good is, again, conditional in respect of circumstances, conditions and stages of evolution. What is bad at one time may be good at another time, and vice versa. So in this unconditional asking of the soul for its supreme object, it gets rid of the shackles of conditional factors either in the form of virtue or in the form of vice.
10.35 - The Moral and the Spiritual, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The states of being or consciousness from the animal, or down from Matter itself up to the Supremebrahmastambaconstitute what is called a hierarchy. Hierarchy means a structure rising upward tier upon tier, step by step: it is a scale, as it were, of increasing values, only the values are not moral, they indicate only a measure, a neutral measure respecting position or a kind of mass content. As in a building where brick is laid upon brick, or stone upon stone, the one laid above is not superior to the one laid below; the terms inferior and superior indicate only the simple position of the objects. Even the system of the four social orders in ancient" India was originally such a hierarchy. The higher and lower orders did not carry any moral appreciation or depreciation. The four orders placed one above the other schematically denote only the respective social functions classified according to the nature of each, even as the human body represents such a hierarchy, rising from the feet at the bottom towards the head at the top. This is to say all objects and movements in nature are right when they are confined each to its own domain, following its own dharma of that domain. Thus one can be perfectly calm and at ease witnessing the catastrophes and cataclysms in nature, for one knows it is the dharma of material nature. Man terms them disasters for he judges them according to his own convenience. Even so, one should not be perturbed at the wild behaviourman calls it wildof wild animals. Likewise the gods in their sovereign tranquillity smile at the crudeness and stupidities of human beings. One has to lift oneself up, withdraw and stand high above all that one wishes to surpass and look at it, with a benign godly smile.
The world is a gradation of developing consciousness, of growing states or status of being. There is a higher and lower level in point of the measure of consciousness but that involves no moral judgement: the moral judgement is man's; it is man's, one might almost say, idiosyncrasy, that is to say, a notion that is a prop to help him mount the ladder. Though it might be necessary at a certain stage, in certain circumstances, it is not a universal or ineluctable law, not even in his personal domain. The growing consciousness is like the growing tree rising upward first into a trunk, then spreading out into branches, into twigs and tendrils, then in flowers and finally, in fruits. These are mounting grades of growth, but the growth above is not superior to the growth below. It is a one unified whole and each portion has its own absolute value, beauty and utility.
1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
65. On this Day, We will seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify to everything they had done.
66. If We will, We can blind their eyes as they rush towards the path—but how will they see?
10.37 - The Golden Bridge, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thy golden Light came down into my feet:
My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.2
1.03 - A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, "I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--"
"Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!"
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
identification with this pattern bolsters his still-maturing ability to stand on his own two feet supports his
determination to move away from the all-encompassing and too-secure maternal-dependent world.
1.03 - A Sapphire Tale, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Suddenly a bird's song rings out clear and joyful; all uneasiness vanishes. Liane knows that the forest is friendly - if there are beings in the trees, they cannot wish her harm. She is seized by an emotion of great sweetness, all appears beautiful and good to her, and tears come to her eyes. Never has her hope been so ardent at the thought of the beloved stranger; it seems to her that the trees quivering in the breeze, the moss rustling beneath her feet, the bird renewing its melody - all speak to her of the One whom she awaits. At the idea that perhaps she is going to meet him she stops short, trembling, pressing her hands against her beating heart, her eyes closed to savour to the full the exquisite emotion; and now the sensation grows more and more intense until it is so precise that Liane opens her eyes, sure of a presence. Oh, wonder of wonders! He is there, he, he in truth as she has seen him in her dream ... more handsome than men usually are. - It was Meotha.
With a look they have recognised each other; with a look they have told each other of the long waiting and the supreme joy of rediscovery; for they have known each other in a distant past, now they are sure of it.
1.03 - Bloodstream Sermon, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism
hands and feet by its light are as many as the grains of sand along
the Ganges, but when you ask them, they can't explain it. They're
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movement of his own hands and feet. The Buddha wasn't mistaken.
Deluded people don't know who they are. Something so hard to
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eyes, moving your hands and feet, it's all your miraculously aware
nature. And this nature is the mind. And the mind is the buddha.
1.03 - Japa Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
14. If you cannot take a bath, wash your hands, feet, face and body, and sit for Japa.
15. Face north or east when sitting. This enhances the efficacy of the Japa.
1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
V: Sometimes it descends down to the toes of the feet.
(After a pause) How should I proceed now in my sadhana?
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
the feet the more the colour looked like that of the people
on the ship, that is to say orange; the more upwards the
1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
97. QUESTION: Concerning the washing of the feet in winter and summer.
ANSWER: It is the same in both cases; warm water is preferable, but there can be no objection to cold.
1.03 - Spiritual Realisation, The aim of Bhakti-Yoga, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
The vast mass of those whose religion is like this, are conscious or unconscious materialists the end and aim of their lives here and hereafter being enjoyment, which indeed is to them the alpha and the omega of human life, and which is their Ishtpurta; work like street-cleaning and scavengering, intended for the material comfort of man is, according to them, the be-all and end-all of human existence; and the sooner the followers of this curious mixture of ignorance and fanaticism come out in their true colours and join, as they well deserve to do, the ranks of atheists and materialists, the better will it be for the world. One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. Show us one, but one gigantic spiritual genius growing out of all this dry dust of ignorance and fanaticism; and if you cannot, close your mouths, open the windows of your hearts to the clear light of truth, and sit like children at the feet of those who know what they are talking about the sages of India. Let us then listen attentively to what they say.
next chapter: 1.04 - The Need of Guru
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
anger: 'Put your feet down with pollen. Put your hands down
with pollen. Put your head down with pollen. Then your feet are
pollen; your hands are pollen; your body is pollen; your mind is
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candle burning at his head and the lantern at his feet. She folded
her wings and stood by the bed, and, drawing back the coverlid,
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
the feet that made them. Thus the natives of South-eastern Australia
think that they can lame a man by placing sharp pieces of quartz,
1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
those material depths in which a few miles beneath our feet
lurks one of the most vexatious mysteries of science : the
1.03 - The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Which, with their tears commingled, at their feet
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1.03 - The House Of The Lord, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
About an hour after food, came the bath. I have described the sponge-bath. Now I shall speak of the shower-bath, given with a spraying arrangement. For this kind of bath to be possible we had to wait for over two years. He would take some rest after his meal, then get up and sit on the edge of the bed waiting for the Mother's arrival. In the interval he would do the leg exercises prescribed by Dr. Manilal. Sometimes if she was late in coming, we used to fidget but Sri Aurobindo was an image of patience. Now and then if he felt drowsy, Champaklal would put a few pillows as back-rest and support them from behind till the Mother came. Then he would start walking in her presence for about half an hour. One may be tempted to ask, "Why should he walk in her presence?" It was certainly not for any physical reason. As Sri Aurobindo's walking had not yet become steady, the Mother's presence was necessary to protect him from any harm that could be caused by occult forces that is how I understand it. Just as Sri Aurobindo used to protect the Mother, she protected him, when needed: it was the role of the Lord and the Shakti. These are occult phenomena beyond our human intelligence. After her departure, he would go to the adjacent room which had been turned into a small bathroom, with walls of glazed tiles, the floor of mosaic and there was constant supply of hot and cold water. After long years of austerity, affluence and luxury indeed! The Divine also passes through hardships, though with a smile! The bath itself was simple enough, not taking more than half an hour. This again was like the bath of the temple Deity in a shrine, except that here the Deity was in a human body one of the most sensitive. The Deity, entirely passive, submitted himself to the care of the attendants, the sevaks who did what they thought best. In this priestly act of ablution, we felt a thrill as we touched and cleansed his body, part by part. As the face was rubbed, he closed his eyes, leaned in front or back when these parts were done respectively, and when one arm was lifted for cleaning, his hand gently pressed the fingers of the operator. Finally came the turn of the two small and dainty feet all the activities going on silently and in mutual understanding, while the conversation proceeded simultaneously. Another operation that we, following the ancient traditional practice, undertook during the bath for a short time, at the earnest request of some devotees, was what we call "sipping of water touched by the feet of the Deity". Sri Aurobindo granted the boon and even put forward his feet so that we could wash them and collect the water in a bowl.
After the bath when the word "finished" was uttered, he would rise and walk to his bed for rest. We would Put a sprinkling of talcum powder on his body. Then relaxing himself, he would enjoy a calm repose.
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Now, the part of the time that remains unaccounted for was the night. For a number of years, especially during the last ones, it was the most interesting period. For gradually, attending to Sri Aurobindo's meal, his walking and his sleep became very complicated since these activities had to depend on the Mother's round of work. I have said before that, like life, our daily routine was continually changing. The midday meal shifted from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We had to be guided by her clock. She had thousands of things to attend to in addition to the organisational work of the Ashram. Now she had also to bear additional responsibility for Sri Aurobindo. No wonder her time had to be very flexible. And too subtle, elusive and quick are her movements for our human calculation! Can we imagine her holding collective meditation at 11 p.m., sometimes even at 1 a.m.? Consequently Sri Aurobindo's supper began to shift from normal hours to as late as 11 p.m. after which she would go down for meditation. But if she was late, then the meal had to be served after the meditation. Later on the meditation was followed by a regular Pranam attended by more than three hundred individuals. Then the Mother would come to Sri Aurobindo's room to attend to his walking, normally at 11 p.m., but there were occasions when she came even at 1 a.m.! Then she would come half an hour or one hour later to give him an eye-wash with a blue liquid called "blue water", and to rub lightly his upper body with a perfumed white cream. That was her last service of the day. We naturally had to keep awake till then, awaiting the soft tread of her feet in the corridor, for there was no knowing when she would turn up. Of course whenever possible, we did snatch a cat-nap in between, but it had to be "conscious sleep"! Purani, whose duty began at 2.30 a.m., sometimes found us awake! I am sure that it was Sri Aurobindo's radiant Presence which was the source of all our energy and kept us fit as a fiddle, in spite of many days of scanty sleep. I have read in Kalidasa that during Shiva's deep meditation, a constant stream of energy Tapas went out to fill his two attendants to enable them to keep vigil over the world of Nature. Even after the Mother's departure, Sri Aurobindo kept awake and only when he had learnt that she had retired, did our lights go out; that was at about 2 a.m. It was my duty to switch off the last light. The switch was above the foot, of his bed. Putting my hand on it I would look at him: he gave his impersonal sweet smile in return and the light went off. A night lamp was kept burning. Then we too would retire, sleeping in the same room. Once I had a frightful nightmare and screamed. Sri Aurobindo called me, "Nirod! Nirod!" and I woke up. Very often, Purani said, when he came he found me snoring. Champaklal amended, saying, "No, he snores even long before!" "That is perhaps in anticipation of Purani's arrival!" added Sri Aurobindo.
In spite of there being a swarm of mosquitoes, Sri Aurobindo was not in the habit of using a mosquito net. Instead, mosquito-coils imported from China were lighted and placed around the bed. These coils burn slowly, emitting a thin white trail of smoke with a smell of burnt hay or dry leaves. Its somewhat sharp odour is supposed to stave off the invasion of the invincible army of tiny pests. Chinese discovery indeed! But the smoke-line, I fear, was not impregnable and some of the wily pests would, under the cover of night, plunge their keen short proboscis into Sri Aurobindo's bare tender skin producing angry weals or scarlet buttons. Some Insectol had to be applied to prevent sepsis. During the breeding season when the army division was at its height, the Mother would bring a globe-like thing and burst, as it were, a 'gas bomb' from it, just before she took her leave at night. A huge volley of white smoke with a strong smell would fill the whole room and clear up soon after. With the installation of the ceiling-fan, these crude devices were of course dispensed with. In the daytime, when the mosquitoes were flying and humming around him, or about to sit on his legs, we would rush to kill them with a clap of our hands. Sometimes he would ask, "Got it?" and on our answering "Yes", an approving smile would be our reward.
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I have mentioned that Sri Aurobindo used to keep his upper body always bare. In this, as in many other habits, he was very much an Indian, though he was brought up in English ways. For instance, he was not accustomed to use slippers in the room. He always went about barefoot. When a pair of slippers was offered to him, he said, "I don't use them. Let them be given to Nolini who likes shoes." During severe cold weather we have seen him use only a chaddar. But it intrigued me very much to see that he kept his feet always exposed, projecting out of the wrap. It seems odd, for our feet feel the cold more than other parts. Did it imply that at all moments, even at night, the feet of the Divine must be available as the haven of refuge to the needy and the devoted? It may not be too fantastic to suppose that many beings came in their subtle bodies to offer their pranams at his feet. My hypothesis is not altogether a fiction, for we have now learnt from the Mother that Sri Aurobindo has built a home in the subtle-physical plane and many of us visit him at night in our subtle bodies. She has also told us that we visit her or she visits us during our sleep. In the morning she has often asked, "Do you know anything about it?" Well, as all this is true, surely beings could also come in their subtle forms to do pranam to Sri Aurobindo. "But why bare feet?" one may ask. "That is the Indian custom", would be my, answer.
"Did he sleep at night?" was the question very often asked. To all appearance he did sleep and quite sufficiently. The Mother and he always insist on observing normal rules of health. We must eat well and sleep well, So, if there was a physical need for food, there could be a need for sleep as with us, but with a difference. For our sleep is a heavy plunge into inconscience where we forget everything, whereas a Yogi sleeps awake. There is also a state in which the physical body is apparently asleep, while the subtle body goes out visiting various persons in their sleep. The Mother has said that she does most of the subtle work in this way at night. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me, "In former days when she was spending the night in a trance and out working in the Ashram, she brought back with her the knowledge of all that was happening to everybody... I often know from her what has happened before it is reported by anyone."
1.03 - THE STUDY (The Exorcism), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Lay thyself at the feet of the Master!
Thou seest, not vain the threats I bring thee:
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
MY ATTENDANT BOKU, while on a trip to his native place, stopped by the residence of Layman Ishii and claiming to be indisposed threw himself at the Layman's feet and implored him for his help. He took possession of the Layman's private chambers and for ten days devoted himself diligently to zazen.a
I recently overheard several of Boku's comrades discussing him. "Boku hit on a truly splendid plan," they decided. "He is sure to return with a much deeper attainment." I wasn't so sure. "Boku," I said to myself. "This is not a good idea. Being a kind and deeply compassionate man, when the
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"One day when I was in Mino Province, I observed a cicada casting its skin in the shade. It managed to get its head free, and then its hands and feet emerged one after the other. Only its left wing remained inside, adhering to the old skin. It didn't look as though the cicada would ever get that wing unstuck. Watching it struggling to free itself, I was moved by feelings of pity to assist it with my fingernail. 'Excellent,' I thought. 'Now you are free to go on your way.' But the wing I had touched remained shut and would not open. The cicada never was able to fly the way it should have. Watching it, I felt ashamed of myself, regretting deeply what I had done.
"When you consider it, present-day Zen teachers act in much the same way in guiding their students. I've seen and heard how they take young people of exceptional talent-those destined to become the very pillars and ridgepoles of our school-and with their extremely ill-advised and inopportune methods, end up turning them into something half-baked and unachieved. This is the primary reason for the decline of our Zen school, why the Zen groves are withering away.
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Then one day he suddenly grabbed the master and hurried him to a secluded spot at the rear of the temple. He seated the master on the ground, spread out his prostration cloth before him, and performed three bows. 'I appeal to your great mercy and compassion,' he said. 'Please teach me the principles of Zen. Guide me to sudden enlightenment.' The master ignored him, enraging the monk, who flew into a fit of passion, sprang to his feet and, eyes red with anger, broke off a large branch from a nearby tree. Brandishing it, he stood in front of the master glaring scornfully at him. 'Priest!' he cried. 'If you don't tell me what you know, I am going to club you to death, cast your body down the cliff, and leave this place for good.' 'If you want to beat me to death, go ahead,' replied the master. 'I'm not going to teach you any Zen.' What a pity. This monk was obviously gifted with special capacity and spiritual strength. He had what it takes to penetrate the truth and perish into the great death. But notice what great caution and infinite care these ancient teachers exercised when leading students to self-awakening.
"Zen Master Tao-wu responded to a monk with the words, 'I won't say living. I won't say dead.'
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
If in the Nectar Lake of Mother Ka1i's feet
My mind remains immersed,
1.03 - YIBHOOTI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
alion will sit at his feet like a lamb, and all his desires be
fulfilled at will.
1.041 - Detailed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
29. Those who disbelieved will say, “Our Lord, show us those who led us astray—among jinn and humans—and we will trample them under our feet, so they become of the lowest.”
30. Surely, those who say: “Our Lord is God,” and then go straight, the angels will descend upon them: “Do not fear, and do not grieve, but rejoice in the news of the Garden which you were promised.
1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Lord, as Infinite Wisdom Thou shalt enter my soul, And my unquiet mind, made speechless by Thy sight, Will find a haven at Thy feet.
In my heart's firmament, O Lord, Thou wilt arise As Blissful Immortality;
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At Thy beloved feet I shall renounce my life
And so at last shall gain life's goal;
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Behold the Mother's radiant face, which so enchants the heart And captivates the universe! About Her Lotus feet Bands of ecstatic holy men are dancing in delight.
What matchless loveliness is Hers! What infinite content Pervades the heart when She appears! O brothers, says Premdas,
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M: "Even so, one must think of hands, feet, and the other parts of body. But again, I realize that the mind cannot be concentrated unless one meditates, in the beginning, on God with form. You have told me so. Well, God can easily assume different forms. May one meditate on the form of one's own mother?"
MASTER: "Yes, the mother should be adored. She is indeed an embodiment of Brahman."
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After sunset the evening worship was performed in the temples. Since it was the day of Vijaya, the devotees first saluted the Divine Mother and then took the dust of the Master's feet.
Tuesday, October 24,1882
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Some savage feet, new printed on the ground,
His cheeks turn'd pale, his limbs no vigour found;
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Fain wou'd she meet the youth with hasty feet,
She fain wou'd meet him, but refus'd to meet
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Where are thy feet, thy legs, thy shoulders gone?
Chang'd is thy visage, chang'd is all thy frame;
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His feet again the valiant Perseus plumes,
And his keen sabre in his hand resumes:
1.04 - Descent into Future Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Heal the wounds that doubt inflicts on me, my soul. That too is to be overcome, so that I can recognize your supreme meaning. How far away everything is, and how I have turned back! My spirit is a spirit of torment, it tears asunder my contemplation, it would dismantle everything and rip it apart. I am still a victim of my thinking. When can I order my thinking to be quiet, so that my thoughts, those unruly hounds, will crawl to my feet? How can I ever hope to hear your voice louder, to see your face clearer, when all my thoughts howl?
The Red Book
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He had to come to me as a stranger from far away and from an unheard-of side. He had to call me. I could not address him, knowing him and his nature. He announced himself with a loud voice, as in a warlike turmoil with the manifold clamoring of the voices of this time. The spirit of this time arose in me against this stranger, and uttered a battle cry together with his many serfs. I heard the noise of this battle in the air. Then the spirit of the depths burst forth and led me to the site of the innermost. But he had reduced the spirit of this time to a dwarf who was clever and bustling, yet was a dwarf And the vision showed me the spirit of this time as made of leather, that is, pressed together, sere and lifeless. He could not prevent me from entering the dark underworld of the spirit of the depths. To my astonishment I realized that my feet sank into the black muddy water of the river of death. [The Corrected Draft adds: "for that is where death is", p. 41] The mystery of the shining red crystal was my next destination" (pp. 54-55).
The Draft continues: My soul is my supreme meaning, my image of God, neither God himself nor the supreme meaning. God becomes apparent in the supreme meaning of the human community (p. 58).
1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
of his feet, which ordinarily convey to him the position and
state of motion of his legs, send no messages which his central
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The touch of Earth is always reinvigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical Knowledge. It may even be said that the supraphysical can only be really mastered in its fulnessto its heights we can always reachwhen we keep our feet firmly on the physical. Earth is His footing, says the Upanishad, whenever it images the Self that manifests in the universe.
Sri Aurobindo
1.04 - Homage to the Twenty-one Taras, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
You crush seven worlds beneath your feet
And have power to call all forces.
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17. Homage to ture with stamping feet,
Whose essence is the seed-letter hum.
1.04 - KAI VALYA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
night, until their feet swell, and, if they live, the legs become
so stiff in this position that they can no more bend them, but
1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet,
a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with
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It is beneath our feet--and not very far beneath them--here in
Europe at the present day, and it crops up on the surface in the
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what is going on beneath our feet. Now and then the polite world is
startled by a paragraph in a newspaper which tells how in Scotland
1.04 - Narayana appearance, in the beginning of the Kalpa, as the Varaha (boar), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
The Yogis.-Triumph, lord of lords supreme; Keśava, sovereign of the earth, the wielder of the mace, the shell, the discus, and the sword: cause of production, destruction, and existence. THOU ART, oh god: there is no other supreme condition, but thou. Thou, lord, art the person of sacrifice: for thy feet are the Vedas; thy tusks are the stake to which the victim is bound; in thy teeth are the offerings; thy mouth is the altar; thy tongue is the fire; and the hairs of thy body are the sacrificial grass. Thine eyes, oh omnipotent, are day and night; thy head is the seat of all, the place of Brahma; thy mane is all the hymns of the Vedas; thy nostrils are all oblations: oh thou, whose snout is the ladle of oblation; whose deep voice is the chanting of the Sāma veda; whose body is the hall of sacrifice; whose joints are the different ceremonies; and whose ears have the properties of both voluntary and obligatory rites[7]: do thou, who art eternal, who art in size a mountain, be propitious. We acknowledge thee, who hast traversed the world, oh universal form, to be the beginning, the continuance, and the destruction of all things: thou art the supreme god. Have pity on us, oh lord of conscious and unconscious beings. The orb of the earth is seen seated on the tip of thy tusks, as if thou hadst been sporting amidst a lake where the lotus floats, and hadst borne away the leaves covered with soil. The space between heaven and earth is occupied by thy body, oh thou of unequalled glory, resplendent with the power of pervading the universe, oh lord, for the benefit of all. Thou art the aim of all: there is none other than thee, sovereign of the world: this is thy might, by which all things, fixed or movable, are pervaded. This form, which is now beheld, is thy form, as one essentially with wisdom. Those who have not practised devotion, conceive erroneously of the nature of the world. The ignorant, who do not perceive that this universe is of the nature of wisdom, and judge of it as an object of perception only, are lost in the ocean of spiritual ignorance. But they who know true wisdom, and whose minds are pure, behold this whole world as one with divine knowledge, as one with thee, oh god. Be favourable, oh universal spirit: raise up this earth, for the habitation of created beings. Inscrutable deity, whose eyes are like lotuses, give us felicity. Oh lord, thou art endowed with the quality of goodness: raise up, Govinda, this earth, for the general good. Grant us happiness, oh lotus-eyed. May this, thy activity in creation, be beneficial to the earth. Salutation to thee. Grant us happiness, oh lotus-eyed. arāśara said:-
The supreme being thus eulogized, upholding the earth, raised it quickly, and placed it on the summit of the ocean, where it floats like a mighty vessel, and from its expansive surface does not sink beneath the waters. Then, having levelled the earth, the great eternal deity divided it into portions, by mountains: he who never wills in vain, created, by his irresistible power, those mountains again upon the earth which had been consumed at the destruction of the world. Having then divided the earth into seven great portions or continents, as it was before, he constructed in like manner the four (lower) spheres, earth, sky, heaven, and the sphere of the sages (Maharloka). Thus Hari, the four-faced god, invested with the quality of activity, and taking the form of Brahmā, accomplished the creation: but he (Brahmā) is only the instrumental cause of things to be created; the things that are capable of being created arise from nature as a common material cause: with exception of one instrumental cause alone, there is no need of any other cause, for (imperceptible) substance becomes perceptible substance according to the powers with which it is originally imbued[8].
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
But let us not fail, if you agree, to describe clearly in our treatise the weapons of these brave warriors: how they hold the shield of faith in God and their trainer,2 and with it they ward off, so to speak, every thought of unbelief and vacillation; how they constantly raise the drawn sword of the Spirit and slay every wish of their own that approaches them; how, clad in the iron armour of meekness and patience, they avert every insult and injury and missile. And for a helmet of salvation they have their superiors protection through prayer. And they do not stand with their feet together, for one is stretched out in service and the other is immovable in prayer.
Obedience is absolute renunciation of our own life, clearly expressed in our bodily actions. Or, conversely, obedience is the mortification of the limbs while the mind remains alive. Obedience is unquestioning movement, voluntary death, simple life, carefree danger, spontaneous defence by God, fearlessness of death, a safe voyage, a sleepers progress. Obedience is the tomb of the will and the resurrection of humility. A corpse does not argue or reason as to what is good or what seems to be bad. For he who has devoutly put the soul of the novice to death will answer for everything. Obedience is an abandonment of discernment in a wealth of discernment.
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fragrance. Then the great man allowed us to uncover the coffin in which he had been placed, and when this was done we all saw that fragrant myrrh was flowing like two fountains from his precious feet. Then that teacher said to all: Look! The sweat of his toils and labours have been offered as myrrh to God and truly accepted.
The fathers of that place told us of many triumphs of this most saintly Menas, and amongst others the following: Once the superior wanted to test his God-given patience. In the evening Menas came to the abbots cell, and having prostrated before the abbot, asked him as usual to give him instruction. But the abbot left him lying on the ground till the hour of the Office, and only then blessed him; and having rebuked him for being fond of self-display and for being impatient, he ordered him to get up. The holy man knew Menas would bear all this courageously, and therefore he made this scene for the edification of all. A disciple of Saint Menas confirmed what was told us about his director, and added: I was inquisitive to know whether sleep overcame him while he lay prostrate before the abbot. But he assured me that while lying on the ground he had recited by heart the whole psalter.
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One of those ever-memorable fathers who had great love for me according to God and was very outspoken, once said to me kindly: If, wise man, you have within you the power of him who said, I can do all things in Christ who streng thens me;1 if the Holy Spirit has descended upon you with the dew of purity, as upon the Holy Virgin; if the power of the Highest has over shadowed you with patience; then like the Man (Christ our God), gird your loins with the towel of obedience; and having risen from the supper of silence, wash the feet of the brethren in a spirit of contrition; or rather, roll yourself under the feet of the community in spiritual self-abasement. At the gate of your heart place strict and unsleeping guards. Control your wandering mind in your distracted body. Amidst the actions and movements of your limbs, practise mental quiet (hesychia). And, most paradoxical of all, in the midst of commotion be unmoved in soul. Curb your tongue which rages to leap into arguments. Seventy times seven in the day wrestle with this tyrant. Fix your mind to your soul as to the wood of a cross to be struck like an anvil with blow upon blow of the hammers, to be mocked, abused, ridiculed and wronged, without being in the least crushed or broken, but continuing to be quite calm and immovable. Shed your own will as a garment of shame, and thus stripped of it enter the practice ground. Array yourself in the rarely acquired breastplate of faith, not crushed or wounded by distrust towards your spiritual trainer. Check with the rein of temperance the sense of touch that leaps forward shamelessly. Bridle your eyes, which are ready to waste hour after hour looking at physical grandeur and beauty, by meditation on death. Gag your mind, overbusy with its private concerns, and thoughtlessly prone to criticize and condemn your brother, by the practical means of showing your neighbour all love and sympathy. By this will all men truly know, dearest father, that we are disciples of Christ, if, while living together, we have love one for another.2 Come, come, said this good friend, come and settle down with us and for living water drink derision at every hour. For David, having tried every pleasure under heaven, last of all said in bewilderment: Behold, what is good, or what is beautiful? Nothing else but that brethren should dwell together in unity.3 But if we have not yet been granted this good, that is, such patience and obedience, then it is best for us, having at least discovered our weakness, to live apart far from the athletic lists, and bless the combatants and pray they may be granted patience. I was won over to the good arguments of this most excellent father and teacher, who
1 Philippians iv, 13.
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At confession be like a condemned criminal in disposition and in outward appearance and in thought. Cast your eyes to the earth, and, if possible, sprinkle the feet of your judge and physician, as the feet of Christ, with your tears.
If everything depends on habit, and follows upon it, then still more do the virtues depend on habit, for they have God as their great collaborator.
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Let us hear what a gift of discernment this holy man obtained by his utter obedience. When he was residing in the monastery of St. Sabba three young monks came to him wanting to become his disciples. He gladly received them and at once gave them kindly hospitality, wanting to refresh them after the labour of their journey. When three days had passed, the elder said to them: By nature, brothers, I am prone to fornication, and I cannot accept any of you. But they were not scandalized, for they knew the good work of the elder. Yet however much they asked him, they were quite unable to persuade him. Then they threw themselves at his feet and implored him at least to give them a rulehow and where they ought to live. So he yielded to their entreaties, and knowing that they would receive it with humility and obedience, the elder said to one: The Lord wants you, child, to live in a place of solitude in subjection to a father. And to the second he said: Go and sell your will and give it to God, and take up your cross and persevere in a community and monastery of brothers, and you will certainly have treasure in heaven. Then to the third he said: Take in with your very breath the word of Him who said: He who endures to the end will be saved.1 Go, and if possible choose for your trainer in the Lord the most strict and exacting person and with daily perseverance drink abuse and scorn as milk and honey. Then the brother said to the great John: But, Father, what if the trainer lives a lax life? The elder replied: Even if you see him committing fornication, do not leave him, but say to yourself: Friend, why are you here ?2 Then you will see all pride vanish from you, and lust wither.
Let all of us who wish to fear the Lord struggle with our whole might, so that in the school of virtue we do not acquire for ourselves malice and vice, cunning and craftiness, curiosity and anger. For it does happen, and no wonder! As long as a man is a private individual, or a seaman, or a tiller of the soil, the Kings enemies do not war so much against him. But when they see him taking the Kings colours,3 and the shield, and the dagger, and the sword, and the bow, and clad in soldiers garb, then they gnash at him with their teeth, and do all in their power to destroy him. And so, let us not slumber.
1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
the mountains continue to rise beneath our feet . . . and so on.
It can be said that Science today progresses only by peeling
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ing beneath our feet! The ship that bears us is still making head-
way.
1.04 - Sounds, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
My house was on the side of a hill, immediately on the edge of the larger wood, in the midst of a young forest of pitch pines and hickories, and half a dozen rods from the pond, to which a narrow footpath led down the hill. In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub-oaks and sand-cherry, blueberry and groundnut. Near the end of May, the sand-cherry (_Cerasus pumila_,) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with good sized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side. I tasted them out of compliment to Nature, though they were scarcely palatable. The sumach (_Rhus glabra_,) grew luxuriantly about the house, pushing up through the embankment which I had made, and growing five or six feet the first season. Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant though strange to look on. The large buds, suddenly pushing out late in the spring from dry sticks which had seemed to be dead, developed themselves as by magic into graceful green and tender boughs, an inch in diameter; and sometimes, as I sat at my window, so heedlessly did they grow and tax their weak joints, I heard a fresh and tender bough suddenly fall like a fan to the ground, when there was not a breath of air stirring, broken off by its own weight. In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.
As I sit at my window this summer afternoon, hawks are circling about my clearing; the tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white-pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air; a fishhawk dimples the glassy surface of the pond and brings up a fish; a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore; the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed-birds flitting hither and thither; and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad cars, now dying away and then reviving like the beat of a partridge, conveying travellers from Boston to the country. For I did not live so out of the world as that boy who, as I hear, was put out to a farmer in the east part of the town, but ere long ran away and came home again, quite down at the heel and homesick. He had never seen such a dull and out-of-the-way place; the folks were all gone off; why, you couldnt even hear the whistle! I doubt if there is such a place in
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When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion,or, rather, like a comet, for the beholder knows not if with that velocity and with that direction it will ever revisit this system, since its orbit does not look like a returning curve,with its steam cloud like a banner streaming behind in golden and silver wreaths, like many a downy cloud which I have seen, high in the heavens, unfolding its masses to the light,as if this travelling demigod, this cloud-compeller, would ere long take the sunset sky for the livery of his train; when I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I dont know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it. If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! If the cloud that hangs over the engine were the perspiration of heroic deeds, or as beneficent as that which floats over the farmers fields, then the elements and Nature herself would cheerfully accompany men on their errands and be their escort.
I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular. Their train of clouds stretching far behind and rising higher and higher, going to heaven while the cars are going to Boston, conceals the sun for a minute and casts my distant field into the shade, a celestial train beside which the petty train of cars which hugs the earth is but the barb of the spear. The stabler of the iron horse was up early this winter morning by the light of the stars amid the mountains, to fodder and harness his steed. Fire, too, was awakened thus early to put the vital heat in him and get him off. If the enterprise were as innocent as it is early! If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snow-shoes, and with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.
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Regularly at half past seven, in one part of the summer, after the evening train had gone by, the whippoorwills chanted their vespers for half an hour, sitting on a stump by my door, or upon the ridge pole of the house. They would begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, referred to the setting of the sun, every evening. I had a rare opportunity to become acquainted with their habits. Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spiders web, only proportionally louder. Sometimes one would circle round and round me in the woods a few feet distant as if tethered by a string, when probably
I was near its eggs. They sang at intervals throughout the night, and were again as musical as ever just before and about dawn.
1.04 - Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
won the hat on his head but lost the shoes on his feet. He's
already lost his body and his life.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
natural catastrophe. A society light on its feet, so to speak, is constantly in a position to adapt to the
unexpected even to the rapid and catastrophic unexpected even to transform such change into
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continued, it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images
from diverse models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body, and since they in no
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collapse of the idol with feet of clay, as dissolution to constituent bodily or material elements, as journey to
the underworld or sea bottom, as sojourn through the valley of the shadow of death, as forty years (or forty
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...the feet, firmly placed on the ground, correspond to the roots of the tree, its foundation and source of
nourishment. This might indicate that in daily life you stand firmly on the ground to meet lifes
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
and feet were dark green. "Where are you going?" he demanded.
"Halt! You are my prey!"
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every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and
approached the young prince.
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
If the Mother was thus equipped with all necessities for Sri Aurobindo's comfort, Sri Aurobindo on his part was as solicitous about the Mother's well-being. He followed closely all her outer activities and enveloped her with an aura of protection against the dark forces. His accident was due, he said, to his being busy protecting the Mother and unmindful about himself, under the assumption that the adverse forces would not dare to attack him. "That was my mistake," he said. The Mother herself could take any risk, launch upon any adventure, for she had entire faith and reliance upon Sri Aurobindo's mighty force and protection. Anybody who has come in contact with the Mother knows that her dynamic nature makes light of all difficulties and dangers and she is the least concerned about herself 'when some special work has to be done. At one time her health suffered from a chronic trouble, indicated by a swelling of the feet. I observed that every time the Mother entered or left the room, Sri Aurobindo's eyes were fixed on her feet till after a number of years the limbs regained their normalcy. Not about her health alone, about all her movements and activities the Mother always used to keep him informed: before going to the meditation and after it, before going for a drive and after it, or before seeing any visitor, she would come and see him. Sri Aurobindo also would inquire about her from Champaklal, whether she had finished her food and gone to bed or not, and as I have said, until she had retired, he kept awake. If by chance she was late in returning from a drive Sri Aurobindo would inquire again and again. As the Mother's routine was crammed with activities, quite often she used to be late for her meal. Sometimes she would report the fact. But he would never interfere with her activities, only mildly suggest some change if necessary. Imposition of rules, compulsion of any sort was against his nature, either on the Mother or on sadhaks. So is it with the Mother. Sri Aurobindo did not want us to detain her in any way. He would cut short his walk, or hurry his meal to suit her convenience.
There was a period when the Mother was in a state of almost continuous trance. It was a very trying phase, indeed. She would enter Sri Aurobindo's room with a somnolent walk and go back swaying from side to side leaving us in fear and wonder about the delicate balancing. Sri Aurobindo would watch her intently till she was out of sight, but it was a matter of surprise how she maintained her precarious balance. Sometimes in the midst of doing his hair, her hand would stop moving at any stage; either the comb remained still, or the ribbon tied to his plaits got loose. While serving meals too, the spoon would stand still or the knife would not cut and Sri Aurobindo had to, by fictitious coughs or sounds, draw her out. Fifteen minutes' work thus took double the time and then she would hasten in order to make up for it. Such trance moods were more particularly manifest at night during the collective meditation below, and in that condition she would come to Sri Aurobindo's room with a heap of letters, reports, account-books, etc., to read, sign or answer during Sri Aurobindo's walking time. But her pious intention would come to nothing, for no sooner did she begin than the trance overtook her. Sri Aurobindo took a few extra rounds and sat in his chair watching the Mother while she with the book open, pen in hand, had travelled into another world from whose bourne it was perhaps difficult to return. He would watch her with an indulgent smile and try all devices to bring her down to earth. We would stand by, favoured spectators of the delectable scene. When at last the Mother did wake up, Sri Aurobindo would say with a smile, "We haven't made much progress!" She would then take a firm resolve, and finish all work in a dash or go back if the trance was too heavy. Once Sri Aurobindo saw that she was writing on the book with her fountain pen unopened. He kept on watching. Suddenly she realised her mistake and Sri Aurobindo broke into a gracious smile. During the time of meditation too, her condition was most extraordinary. Someone coming for pranam would remain standing before her trance-mood for fifteen to thirty minutes, another had her hand on his bowed head for a pretty long time; all was unpredictable. There was an exceptional circumstance when Sri Aurobindo intervened in the Mother's work. On her way from Sri Aurobindo's room to the collective meditation below, she went for a while to her room to take some rest, as it was probably too early to go down. But once she sat down, time and space vanished and she was deep in trance, while below the crowd was waiting till it was about 1 a.m. Sri Aurobindo, on being informed, sent word that all should disperse and go home. The Mother, on waking up, prepared herself to go to the meditation when she was told what had happened.
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Now I shall pass on to another field of the Mother's activity which can be called yogic, though it would not be quite the right term to use. For, according to the Mother there is no yogic or unyogic activity, all life is Yoga. This does not mean, as is frequently misinterpreted, that everything can pass as yogic. It refers to the fact that the whole of Nature's evolution is secretly a slow and gradual preparation for the spiritual life. Thus every earthly activity has a divine purpose behind it. So the Mother and Sri Aurobindo accept the whole field of Nature as the field of Yoga, but they aim at transforming life's common movement, rejecting the ignorant turn it mostly takes and bringing out the divine truth which is secret within it. To achieve this, they want us always to be in the spiritual consciousness so that whatever life-activity is accepted becomes a part of Yoga and undergoes transformation. I have said that Sri Aurobindo's accident had upset all her previous programme: Pranam, interviews and meditation had to be given up or suspended for a time. It was almost a break with the past. And with the arrival of the children and their parents, our way of life also had to undergo a considerable change. The old things came back, but in a new form. No more seven-or-eight-hour Darshans, two or three hour Pranams, evening meditations, etc. Now, for instance, for Pranam, the Mother used to come and stand at the top of the main staircase at about 10.00 a.m. and a whole crowd would go up to her, the ceremony lasting for nearly two or three hours, the Mother remaining on her feet all the time! From Sri Aurobindo's room we used to hear people holding long talks with her on personal or departmental matters. The Mother would be quite oblivious of time and space or of persons. She would go on hearing the various complaints, reports and sometimes discussing some points, no matter for how long, while the queue behind would wait and wait jammed on the narrow and packed staircase. This was, as I have pointed out, her method of working, one-pointed concentration. The business in hand must be first attended to. We have seen this characteristic of hers in many instances. During Christmas, it was her custom to send 'baskets' to the European and American inmates, out of consideration for their national sentiments, I suppose. On its eve she would sit down in a chair or on a low stool and with the help of some sadhikas arrange each basket, consider each individual's taste, necessity, fancy, giving cheese, chocolate, fruits, etc., etc. while time would stop flowing for her. We were waiting in Sri Aurobindo's room for his meal, but we knew and would joke with one another that the Mother was in her element, for though Divine, her human motherly instinct could not be forgotten.
After the Pranam was over actually there was no pranam, for people would receive only a flower and could talk to her of their need, then at about 1.00 p.m. she would hold a class in the Darshan hall, in the form of questions and answers, somewhat on the lines of Sri Aurobindo's talks with us, very probably inspired by them. But only those who knew French were allowed to attend it, questions and answers being conducted in French. Here again exceptions were made afterwards. Some people who did not know French attended and asked questions in English. I too was very keen on attending it, partly because we had no work at that time. It was Sri Aurobindo's silent period, to be broken only when the Mother brought his food after the talks. I managed to write a few lines in French asking her permission. She read the note before Sri Aurobindo and said smiling, "He wants to show his knowledge of French!"
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The Mother became so preoccupied with the various activities in the Playground that she would return at about 8 or 9 p.m. with a garland around her neck (put by Pranab) and she would offer it at Sri Aurobindo's feet. Her intensive concentration at the Playground made people remark that the Supermind would descend there first. When Sri Aurobindo was told about it, he commented, "I won't get the Supermind, then?" It is of interest to note that the Supramental Manifestation did take place during a meditation in the Playground on February 29, 1956.
I shall now take up a minor but important activity of which the world has not heard much. I mean the Mother's coaching in dramatics. After her return from tennis and finishing all other activities she would attend the dramatic rehearsals of our children who were being trained for the School Anniversary on the 1st of December. She herself would select the play or theme, choose the roles for different participants and coach them individually night after night till they were ready. I have been told what minute care she took to correct the movements, articulations of each actor, and how she would not spare anyone. A young participant told me laughingly that once he ran away for fear of being scolded before the others! Sometimes the Mother would give descriptions of the display to Sri Aurobindo. Once when a suitable theme was hard to find, for Sri Aurobindo's dramas had not yet come out, I suggested to the Mother in the presence of Sri Aurobindo, to stage Savitri. She accepted the idea. Thanks to her assiduous personal training and attention, our novices learnt the art of acting with beauty and refinement. Though she herself cannot attend these functions nowadays, the tradition she established is respectfully maintained by the artistes she prepared. A foreign visitor seeing the Mother in her colourful tennis dress observed that she looked like Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French actress. Curiously enough, I had the same impression when I first saw her in that costume without knowing much of the actress except her great name. The Mother's Dramatic faculty and wonderful gift of elocution gave substance to my impression.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Saraswati is known to us in the Purana,the Muse with her feet on the thousand leaved lotus of the mind, the goddess of thought, learning, poetry, of all that is high in mind and its knowledge. But, so far as we can understand from the Purana, she is the goddess of mind only, of intellect & imagination and their perceptions & inspirations. Things spiritual & the mightier supra-mental energies & illuminations belong not to her, but to other powers. Well, we meet Saraswati in the Vedas;and if she is the same goddess as our Puranic & modern protectress of learning & the arts, the Personality of the Intellect, then we have a starting pointwe know that the Vedic Rishis had other than naturalistic conceptions & could call to higher powers than the thunder-flash & the storm-wind. But there is a difficultySaraswati is the name of a river, of several rivers in India, for the very name means flowing, gliding or streaming, and the Europeans identify it with a river in the Punjab. We must be careful therefore, whenever we come across the name, to be sure which of these two is mentioned or invoked, the sweet-streaming Muse or the material river.
The first passage in which Saraswati is mentioned, is the third hymn of the first Mandala, the hymn of Madhuchchhanda Vaisvamitra, in which the Aswins, Indra, the Visve devah and Saraswati are successively invokedapparently in order to conduct an ordinary material sacrifice? That is the thing that has to be seen,to be understood. What is Saraswati, whether as a Muse or a river, doing at the Soma-offering? Or is she there as the architect of the hymn, the weaver of the Riks?
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Its Tarot trump is O - The Fool, implying just this airy aimlessness of existence. The card depicts a person dressed like a jester bearing over his shoulder a stick, on which hangs a bundle. Before him yawns a gaping precipice, while a little dog yaps at his feet from behind. On his tunic is the
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II. - The High Priestess of the Silver Star, picturing a throned woman, crowned with a tiara, the Sun above her head, a stole on her breast, and the sign of the Moon at her feet. She is seated between two pillars, one white (male) and the other black (female), comparable to the right and left-hand pillars of the Tree of Life, and the Masonic
Yachin and Boaz. In her hand is the scroll of the
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V. - The Hierophant is the Tarot attri bution. He is represented as raising his right hand in the sign of benedic- tion over the heads of two ministers, and in his left hand he bears a w r and or sacerdotal staff surmounted by a triple cross. At his feet are two keys, those of Life and Death, which solve the mysteries of existence.
Vav is also the " Son " of Tetragrammaton - Bacchus or
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
Who stamps the seven worlds with her feet,
Who possesses the power to summon them.
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WHO STAMPS THE SEVEN WORLDS WITH HER feet,
WHO POSSESSES THE POWER TO SUMMON THEM.
1.04 - THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it; but as the door opened inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself, "Then I'll go 'round and get in at the window."
1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Why, Zounds! Both hands and feet are, truly
And head and virile forcesthine:
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You'll always have them at your feet.
A title first must draw and interest them,
1.055 - The Compassionate, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
41. The guilty will be recognized by their marks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
42. So which of your Lord’s marvels will you deny?
1.05 - ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size that it felt quite strange at first. "The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden--how _is_ that to be done, I wonder?" As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. "Whoever lives there," thought Alice, "it'll never do to come upon them _this_ size; why, I should frighten them out of their wits!" She did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
1.05 - AUERBACHS CELLAR, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Still in my feet the fright like lead is weighing.
(He turns towards the table.)
1.05 - Bhakti Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
Let my mind be ever fixed On Thy Lotus feet. Let me have constant remembrance of Thee. Let me sing Thy glory always.
14. The Name of the Lord is your sole refuge. It is your prop, shelter and abode. Name is divine nectar. Nama and Nami are inseparable.
15. Keep a picture of the Lord and concentrate on it the face or feet or the whole picture. Then visualise the picture in your heart or the space between the two eyebrows.
16. Repeat your Ishta MantraOm Namah Sivaya, Om Namo Narayanaya, Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevayamentally, sometimes verbally when the mind wanders.
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20. Practise the nine modes of devotion or Nava-vidha Bhakti, viz., Sravana (hearing the Lilas of the Lord), Kirtan (singing His Name), Smarana (His remembrance), Padasevana (service of His feet), Archana (offering flowers), Vandana (prostrations), Dasyam (servant-Bhava), Sakhya (His friendship), and Atmanivedana (self-surrender).
21. Say unto the Lord: I am Thine, all is Thine, Thy Will be done. Feel you are an instrument in the hands of the Lord, that the Lord works through your mind, body and senses. Offer all your actions and the fruits of the actions unto the Lord. This is the way to do self-surrender.
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25. Shall I wash Thy feet with holy water, O Lord? The very Ganga flows from Thy feet. Shall I give You seat? Thou art all-pervading. Shall I wave lights for Thee? Sun and Moon are Thy Eyes! Shall I offer flowers to Thee? Thou art the essence of flowersthis is Para Puja.
26. Feel the presence of the Lord everywhere. He dwells in the chambers of your heart, too. He is in the breath in the nostrils; He glitters in your eyes. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein. Behold Him in every face.
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Trip'd up their feet, and flung 'em on the floor;
The sword of Perseus, who by chance was nigh,
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The Argive heroe's feet triumphant tread.
But Phineus stands aloof, and dreads to feel
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Her legs dissolve, and feet flow off in stream.
Her arms, her back, her shoulders, and her side,
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In the cool rivulet my feet I dipt,
Then waded to the knee, and then I stript;
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With nimble feet, before the distanc'd God.
But here I lagg'd, unable to sustain
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Before my feet his shadow now appear'd;
As what I saw, or rather what I fear'd.
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
I saw some of those guilty yet guiltless men standing in the open air, all night till morning and never moving their feet, by force of nature pitifully dazed by sleep; yet they allowed themselves no rest, but reproached themselves, and drove away sleep with dishonours and insults.
Others lifted up their eyes to heaven, and with wailings and outcries, implored help from there.
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Having stayed for thirty days in the prison, impatient as I am, I returned to the great monastery and the great shepherd. And when he saw that I was quite changed and had not yet come to myself like a wise man he understood what this change meant and said: Well, Father John, did you see the struggles of those who labour at their task? I replied: I saw them, Father, and I was amazed; and I consider those fallen mourners more blessed than those who have not fallen and are not mourning over themselves; because as a result of their fall, they have risen by a sure resurrection. That is certainly so, he said; and his truthful tongue related to me this story: About ten years ago I had a brother here who was extremely zealous and active. And so, when I saw that he was so burning in spirit, I trembled for him lest the devil out of envy should trip his foot against a stone, as he sped along on his course as is apt to happen to those who walk swiftly. And that is just what happened. Late one evening he came to me, showed me the open wound, wanted plaster, asked for cauterization, and was very alarmed. Then, when he saw that the doctor did not wish to make too severe an incision (because he deserved sympathy), he flung himself on the ground, embraced my feet, moistened them with abundant tears, and asked to be shut in the prison which you saw. It is impossible for me not to go there, he cried. Finally a rare and most unusual thing among the sickhe urged the doctor to change his kindness to sternness, and with all haste he went to the penitents and became their companion and fellow sufferer. The grief that springs from the love of God pierced his heart as with a sword and on the eighth day, he departed to the Lord, asking that he should not be given burial. But I brought him here, and buried him among the fathers, as he deserved, be cause after his week of slavery, on the eighth day he was released as a free man.5 And there is one who knows for certain that he did not rise from my foul and wretched feet before he had won Gods favour. And no wonder! For having received in his heart the faith of the harlot in the Gospel, he moistened my lowly feet with the same assurance. All things are possible to him who believes, said the Lord.6 I have seen impure souls raving madly about physical love; but making their experience of carnal love a reason for repentance, they transferred the same love to the Lord; and, over coming all fear, they spurted themselves insatiably into the love of God. That is why
1 Psalm cxlii, 5.
1.05 - Prayer, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you
whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the
1.05 - Ritam, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We do not find the word ritam in the hymns that follow and are ascribed to Sunahshepa Ajigarti and Hiranyastupa Angirasa, but the first two hymns of Sunahshepa are addressed mainly or entirely to the god Varuna and we glean from them certain indications which are of considerable interest & importance in connection with Varuna & the Truth. He is hymned by Sunahshepa as the master of wide vision, uruchakshasam, the god of august, boundless & universal knowledge. He has made a wide path for Surya,the Vedic god of ideal knowledge, as I shall suggest,to follow in his journeyings; he has made places for him to set his feet in the unfooted vasts of the infinite. He is hymned also as the punisher of sin and the deliverer from sinKritam chid enah pra mumugdhi asmat. And loose from us the sin we have done. Kshayann asmabhyam Asura prachet rjann ennsi sisrathah kritni, Dwelling in us, O Mighty One, O King, in conscious knowledge, cleave from us the sins of our doing.
Now in the 18th hymn, a hymn of Medhatithi to Brahmanaspati, I have passed over designedly a verse in which we have a direct reference to that goddess Dakshina whom I suppose to be the female energy of Daksha, the divine master of the viveka
1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At a certain stage in the Yoga when the mind is sufficiently quieted and no longer supports itself at every step on the sufficiency of its mental certitudes, when the vital has been steadied and subdued and is no longer constantly insistent on its own rash will, demand and desire, when the physical has been sufficiently altered not to bury altogether the inner flame under the mass of its outwardness, obscurity or inertia, an inmost being hidden within and felt only in its rare influences is able to come forward and illumine the rest and take up the lead of the sadhana. Its character is a one-pointed orientation towards the Divine or the Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the clinging mixture of the undivine. Its action is like a searchlight showing up all that has to be changed in the nature; it has in it a flame of will insistent on perfection, on an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer existence. It sees the divine essence everywhere but rejects the mere mask and the disguising figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward joy and not on mere vital pleasure, -- for it prefers rather a purifying suffering and sorrow to degrading satisfactions, -- on love winged upward and not tied to the stake of egoistic craving or with its feet sunk in the mire, on beauty restored to its priesthood of interpretation of the Eternal, on strength and will and mastery as instruments not of the ego but of the Spirit. Its will is for the divinisation of life, the expression through it of a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal.
But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence it has leaned on earthly love, affection, tenderness, goodwill, compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength and courage, on all that can help to refine and purify the grossness and commonness of human nature; but it knows how mixed are these human movements at their best and at their worst how fallen and stamped with the mark of ego and self-deceptive sentimental falsehood and the lower self profiting by the imitation of a soul movement. At once, emerging, it is ready and eager to break all the old ties and imperfect emotional activities and replace them by a greater spiritual Truth of love and oneness. It may still admit the human forms and movements, but on condition that they are turned towards the One alone. It accepts only the ties that are helpful, the heart's reverence for the Guru, the union of the God-seekers, a spiritual compassion for the ignorant human and animal world and its peoples, the joy and happiness and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere. It plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart's secret centre and, while that call is there, no reproach of egoism, no mere outward summons of altruism or duty or philanthropy or service will deceive or divert it from its sacred longing and its obedience to the attraction of the Divinity within it. It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and is ready to shed all the downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness and the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
force our feet, which were sore and swollen with edema. And there were the usual moans and groans
about petty troubles, such as the snapping of wires which replaced shoelaces. One morning I heard
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snowy marching grounds in his bare feet, as his shoes were too shrunken for him to wear. In those
ghastly moments, I found a little bit of comfort: a small piece of bread which I drew out of my pocket
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bright lantern, stood the punished girl, head hanging, the wind tugging at her gray work skirt, her feet
growing numb from the cold, a thin scarf over her head. It had been warm during the day, when they had
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The stones rustle beneath our feet. We are ascending....
With the years, armor-plated restraint covers your heart and all your skin. You do not hasten to
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procession, looks perplexed and frowns. But now the mother of the dead child throws herself at His feet,
wailing, If it is truly You, give me back my child! and she stretches out her hands to Him. The procession stops. They put the coffin down at His feet. He looks down with compassion, His lips form the
words Talitha cumi arise, maiden and the maiden arises. The little girl sits up in her coffin, opens
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He sees everything: the placing of the coffin at His feet and the girl rising from it. His face darkens. He
knits his thick white brows; his eyes flash with an ominous fire. He points his finger and orders his
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Your feet will tomorrow, at a sign of my hand, hasten to Your stake to rake the coals. Dont You know
it? Oh yes, I suppose You do, he added, deeply immersed in thought, his eyes fixed for a moment on
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were seven feet thick, and made of some impervious substance [titanium dioxide (?)] which sounded
impressive, in the context of the dream. These walls were designed to permanently contain the object. I
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had a blade at least two and a half feet long. Across his shoulder he had strapped a large leather sheaf.
He was walking along the edge of the highway, muttering to himself, and swinging the blade in a jerky
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of pride to cease praying in public, and to clean up the dust under our feet, instead; seems too mundane to
treat those we actually face with respect and dignity, when we could be active, against, in the street. Maybe
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darkened cathedral. The chandelier hung hundreds of feet below its point of connection on the dome,
and was still so high off the ground that the people below, on the floor, looked like ants. These people
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
hole is dug about twelve feet long and eight or ten broad, and over
this hole a conical hut of logs and branches is made. Two wizards,
1.05 - THE MASTER AND KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"It is as if the Divine Mother said to the human mind in confidence, with a sign from Her eye, 'Go and enjoy the world.' How can one blame the mind? The mind can disentangle itself from worldliness if, through Her grace, She makes it turn toward Herself. Only then does it become devoted to the Lotus feet of the Divine Mother."
Whereupon Sri Ramakrishna, taking upon himself, as it were, the agonies of all householders, sang a song complaining to the Divine Mother: Mother, this is the grief that sorely grieves my heart, That even with Thee for Mother, and though I am wide awake, There should be robbery in my house.
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Then he said: "To my Divine Mother I prayed only for pure love. I offered flowers at Her Lotus feet and prayed to Her: 'Mother, here is Thy virtue, here is Thy vice. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy knowledge, here is Thy ignorance. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy purity, here is Thy impurity. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee.
Here is Thy dharma, here is Thy adharma. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee.'
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"Why shouldn't one be able to realize God in this world? King Janaka had such realization. Ramprasad described the world as a mere 'framework of illusion'. But if one loves God's hallowed feet, then-
This very world is a mansion of mirth;
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Therefore I said to Sambhu, 'Suppose God appears before you; then will you ask Him to build hospitals and dispensaries for you?' (Laughter.) A lover of God never says that. He will rather say: 'O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus feet. Keep me always in Thy company. Give me sincere and pure love for Thee.'
Path of devotion most elective for Kaliyuga
1.05 - The New Consciousness, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Therefore, we cannot say precisely how it works, any more than the apes of old could say what had to be done to control thought. We can, however, try to describe some of these elusive little strokes, indicate a general direction and, along with our traveler of the new world, follow step by step the thread of a discovery that seems at times incoherent but eventually makes a coherent whole. We have never been in that country before. It even seems to take shape under our feet, almost to grow by our look, as if noticing this curve, that almost mischievous gleam, encouraged it to grow and draw this dotted line under our feet, this other curve, and that enchanting hill, toward which we run with a pounding heart. Our traveler of the new world is first and foremost an observer: nothing escapes his attention, not one detail, not the slightest encounter, the least conjunction or hardly noticeable correspondence the marvel is born in droplets, as though the secret were of an infinitesimal order. He is a microscopic observer. For maybe there are no big things or small ones, but one and the same supreme flowing whose every point is as supremely filled with consciousness and meaning as the sum total of all universes, as if, really, the entire goal were at each instant.
Hence we have filled each and every wastel and of our day there is no more waste we have infused the vacancy between two acts with being, and even our acts are no longer so completely caught up in the Machine. We can talk, make phone calls, write or meet people, but behind in the background, something continues to be, vibrating, vibrating very softly, like a breath from a far-off sea, the flowing of a little river in the distance; and if we stop for a moment in mid-gesture and take but a single step back, we are instantly in that ever so fresh little river, that open space, that easy expanse, and we sink into it as into the repose of Truth, because only Truth is at rest, since it is. Strangely enough, this sort of slippage or shifting of the center of being does not loosen our grip on life, does not throw us into a sort of dream state we would be tempted to call hollow. On the contrary, we are utterly awake it even looks as if the sleeper were in the one who talks, writes and telephones in a state of alertness, but not alert to the machine's wheelworks, the play of the features, the calculation of the next step, the whirl of appearances: we are engrossed in something else, as if listening behind our head, in that vibrating expanse, that leisurely flowing; and sometimes we feel variations of intensity, changes of rhythm, sudden pressures, as if a finger of light were pressing there, bringing something to our notice, calling our attention to a particular point by shining its light. Then, without knowing why, we utter some words, make a gesture, or, on the contrary, are kept from making a gesture, we turn here instead of there, smile when the person we were talking to seemed so unpleasant, or, on the contrary, dismiss him rapidly when he seemed so well intentioned. And everything is exactly as it should be, to a T. What we did or said was exactly what had to be done or said, just where we had to turn to avoid the accident or have the necessary encounter two days or two hours later, in utter amazement, we understand the meaning or exactness of our action. It is as if we had been introduced to a functioning of truth.
1.05 - The twelve simple letters, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
[paragraph continues] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces. The twelve months of the year are: Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tamus, Ab, Elul, Tishri, Marcheshvan, Kislev, Teves, Schevat and Adar. The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet 39 or esophagus, stomach and milt.
1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When, in the ordinary way of business, we write 0, we should really write 0n.[4] For 0 implies that the subject is not extended in any dimension under discussion. Thus a line may be two feet in length, but in breadth and depth the coefficient is Zero. We could describe it as 2f 0b 0d, or n2f + 0b + 0d.[5]
What I proposed in considering "What do we mean by Nothing?" was to consider every possible quality of any object as a dimension.
1.05 - Vishnu as Brahma creates the world, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Next from Brahmā, in a form composed of the quality of foulness, was produced hunger, of whom anger was born: and the god put forth in darkness beings emaciate with hunger, of hideous aspects, and with long beards. Those beings hastened to the deity. Such of them as exclaimed, Oh preserve us! were thence called Rākṣasas[16]: others, who cried out, Let us eat, were denominated from that expression Yakṣas[17]. Beholding them so disgusting, the hairs of Brahmā were shrivelled up, and first falling from his head, were again renewed upon it: from their falling they became serpents, called Sarpa from their creeping, and Ahi because they had deserted the head[18]. The creator of the world, being incensed, then created fierce beings, who were denominated goblins, Bhūtas, malignant fiends and eaters of flesh. The Gandharvas were next born, imbibing melody: drinking of the goddess of speech, they were born, and thence their appellation[19]. The divine Brahmā, influenced by their material energies, having created these beings, made others of his own will. Birds he formed from his vital vigour; sheep from his breast; goats from his mouth; kine from his belly and sides; and horses, elephants, Sarabhas, Gayals, deer, camels, mules, antelopes, and other animals, from his feet: whilst from the hairs of his body sprang herbs, roots, and fruits.
Brahmā having created, in the commencement of the Kalpa, various plants, employed them in sacrifices, in the beginning of the Tretā age. Animals were distinguished into two classes, domestic (village) and wild (forest): the first class contained the cow, the goat, the hog, the sheep, the horse, the ass, the mule: the latter, all beasts of prey, and many animals with cloven hoofs, the elephant, and the monkey. The fifth order were the birds; the sixth, aquatic animals; and the seventh, reptiles and insects[20].
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ga, and Vāyu with more detail. The Bhāgavata, as usual, amplifies still more copiously, and mixes up much absurdity with the account. Thus the person of Sandhyā, 'evening twilight,' is thus described: "She appeared with eyes rolling with passion, whilst her lotus-like feet sounded with tinkling ornaments: a muslin vest depended from her waist, secured by a golden zone: her breasts were protuberant, and close together; her nose was elegant; her tongue beautiful; her face was bright with smiles, and she modestly concealed it with the skirts of her robe; whilst the dark curls clustered round her brow." The Asuras address her, and win her to become their bride. To the four forms of our text, the same work adds, Tandrī, 'sloth;' Jrimbhikā, 'yawning;' Nidrā, 'sleep;' Unmāda, 'insanity;' Antarddhāna, 'disappearance;' Pratibimba, 'reflexion;' which become the property of Pisācas, Kinnaras, Bhūtas, Gandherbas, Vidyādharas, Sādhyas, Pitris, and Menus. The notions of night, day, twilight, and moonlight being derived from Brahmā, seem to have originated with the Vedas. Thus the commentator on the Bhāgavata p. 41 observes, 'That which was his body, and was left, was darkness: this is the Śruti.' All the authorities place night before day, and the Asuras or Titans before the gods, in the order of appearance; as did Hesiod and other ancient theogonists.
[16]: From Rakṣa, 'to preserve'
1.05 - Yoga and Hypnotism, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What is this force that enables or compels a weak man to become so rigid that strong arms cannot bend him? that reverses the operations of the senses and abrogates pain? that changes the fixed character of a man in the shortest of periods? that is able to develop power where there was no power, moral strength where there was weakness, health where there was disease? that in its higher manifestations can exceed the barriers of space and time and produce that far-sight, far-hearing and far-thinking which shows mind to be an untrammelled agent or medium pervading the world and not limited to the body which it informs or seems to inform? The European scientist experimenting with hypnotism is handling forces which he cannot understand, stumbling on truths of which he cannot give a true account. His feet are faltering on the threshold of Yoga. It is held by some thinkers, and not unreasonably if we consider these phenomena, that mind is all and contains all. It is not the body which determines the operations of the mind, it is the mind which determines the laws of the body. It is the ordinary law of the body that if it is struck, pierced or roughly pressed it feels pain. This law is created by the mind which associates pain with these contacts, and if the mind changes its dharma and is able to associate with these contacts not pain but insensibility or pleasure, then they will bring about those results of insensibility or pleasure and no other. The pain and pleasure are not the result of the contact, neither is their seat in the body; they are the result of association and their seat is in the mind. Vinegar is sour, sugar sweet, but to the hypnotised mind vinegar can be sweet, sugar sour. The sourness or sweetness is not in the vinegar or sugar, but in the mind. The heart also is the subject of the mind. My emotions are like my physical feelings, the result of association, and my character is the result of accumulated past experiences with their resultant associations and reactions crystallising into habits of mind and heart summed up in the word, character. These things like all the rest that are made of the stuff of associations are not permanent or binding but fluid and mutable, anity sarvasaskr. If my friend blames me, I am grieved; that is an association and not binding. The grief is not the result of the blame but of an association in the mind. I can change the association so far that blame will cause me no grief, praise no elation. I can entirely stop the reactions of joy and grief by the same force that created them. They are habits of the mind, nothing more In the same way though with more difficulty I can stop the reactions of physical pain and pleasure so that nothing will hurt my body. If I am a coward today, I can be a hero tomorrow. The cowardice was merely the habit of associating certain things with pain and grief and of shrinking from the pain and grief; this shrinking and the physical sensations in the vital or nervous man which accompany it are called fear, and they can be dismissed by the action of the mind which created them. All these are propositions which European Science is even now unwilling to admit, yet it is being proved more and more by the phenomena of hypnotism that these effects can be temporarily at least produced by one man upon another; and it has even been proved that disease can be permanently cured or character permanently changed by the action of one mind upon another. The rest will be established in time by the development of hypnotism.
The difference between Yoga and hypnotism is that what hypnotism does for a man through the agency of another and in the sleeping state, Yoga does for him by his own agency and in the waking state. The hypnotic sleep is necessary in order to prevent the activity of the subjects mind full of old ideas and associations from interfering with the operator. In the waking state he would naturally refuse to experience sweetness in vinegar or sourness in sugar or to believe that he can change from disease to health, cowardice to heroism by a mere act of faith; his established associations would rebel violently and successfully against such contradictions of universal experience. The force which transcends matter would be hampered by the obstruction of ignorance and attachment to universal error. The hypnotic sleep does not make the mind a tabula rasa but it renders it passive to everything but the touch of the operator. Yoga similarly teaches passivity of the mind so that the will may act unhampered by the saskras or old associations. It is these saskras, the habits formed by experience in the body, heart or mind, that form the laws of our psychology. The associations of the mind are the stuff of which our life is made. They are more persistent in the body than in the mind and therefore harder to alter. They are more persistent in the race than in the individual; the conquest of the body and mind by the individual is comparatively easy and can be done in the space of a single life, but the same conquest by the race involves the development of ages. It is conceivable, however, that the practice of Yoga by a great number of men and persistence in the practice by their descendants might bring about profound changes in human psychology and, by stamping these changes into body and brain through heredity, evolve a superior race which would endure and by the law of the survival of the fittest eliminate the weaker kinds of humanity. Just as the rudimentary mind of the animal has been evolved into the fine instrument of the human being so the rudiments of higher force and faculty in the present race might evolve into the perfect buddhi of the Yogin.
1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
head, arms, thighs and feet. To us, he comments, this is
merely a poetical image, but to the seers among the ancient
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Shrunk up her tender feet, as if afraid;
And, looking back on the forsaken strand,
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Her feet their usual offices refuse,
Her arms, and neck their graceful gestures lose:
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Nay more, with spiteful feet the villains trod
O'er the soft bottom of the marshy flood,
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Whose nimble feet spring with so swift a force
Across the fields, they seem to wing their course.
1.06 - Iconography, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
mudra with the right hand, while at the feet of each one
is shown the danger from which she protects those who
1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
bled beneath our feet, its vast human masses split-
ting and reforming, we have begun to be conscious
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we seem to be swept off our feet as individuals what aspect can
it wear to our awakened eyes except that of a crisis of birth, almost
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
He said to himself, Whose heavy feet are these?
He shouted from the window, Who goes there?
1.06 - On Work, #The Prophet, #Kahlil Gibran, #Poetry
Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil. And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.
But I say, not in sleep but in the overwakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
1.06 - Origin of the four castes, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Formerly, oh best of Brahmans, when the truth-meditating Brahmā was desirous of creating the world, there sprang from his mouth beings especially endowed with the quality of goodness; others from his breast, pervaded by the quality of foulness; others from his thighs, in whom foulness and darkness prevailed; and others from his feet, in whom the quality of darkness predominated. These were, in succession, beings of the several castes, Brahmans, Kṣetriyas, Vaisyas, and Śūdras, produced from the mouth, the breast, the thighs, and the feet of Brahmā[2]. These he created for the performance of sacrifices, the four castes being the fit instruments of their celebration. By sacrifices, oh thou who knowest the truth, the gods are nourished; and by the rain which they bestow, mankind are supported[3]: and thus sacrifices, the source of happiness, are performed by pious men, attached to their duties, attentive to prescribed obligations, and walking in the paths of virtue. Men acquire (by them) heavenly fruition, or final felicity: they go, after death, to whatever sphere they aspire to, as the consequence of their human nature. The beings who were created by Brahmā, of these four castes, were at first endowed with righteousness and perfect faith; they abode wherever they pleased, unchecked by any impediment; their hearts were free from guile; they were pure, made free from soil, by observance of sacred institutes. In their sanctified minds Hari dwelt; and they were filled with perfect wisdom, by which they contemplated the glory of Viṣṇu[4]. After a while (after the Tretā age had continued for some period), that portion of Hari which has been described as one with Kāla (time) infused into created beings sin, as yet feeble though formidable, or passion and the like: the impediment of soul's liberation, the seed of iniquity, sprung from darkness and desire. The innate perfectness of human nature was then no more evolved: the eight kinds of perfection, Rasollāsā and the rest, were impaired[5]; and these being enfeebled, and sin gaining strength, mortals were afflicted with pain, arising from susceptibility to contrasts, as heat and cold, and the like. They therefore constructed places of refuge, protected by trees, by mountains, or by water; surrounded them by a ditch or a wall, and formed villages and cities; and in them erected appropriate dwellings, as defences against the sun and the cold[6]. Having thus provided security against the weather, men next began to employ themselves in manual labour, as a means of livelihood, (and cultivated) the seventeen kinds of useful grain-rice, barley, wheat, millet, sesamum, panic, and various sorts of lentils, beans, and pease[7]. These are the kinds cultivated for domestic use: but there are fourteen kinds which may be offered in sacrifice; they are, rice, barley, Māṣa, wheat, millet, and sesamum; Priya
gu is the seventh, and kulattha, pulse, the eighth: the others are, Syāmāka, a sort of panic; Nīvāra, uñcultivated rice; Jarttila, wild sesamum; Gavedukā (coix); Markata, wild panic; and (a plant called) the seed or barley of the Bambu (Venu-yava). These, cultivated or wild, are the fourteen grains that were produced for purposes of offering in sacrifice; and sacrifice (the cause of rain) is their origin also: they again, with sacrifice, are the great cause of the perpetuation of the human race, as those understand who can discriminate cause and effect. Thence sacrifices were offered daily; the performance of which, oh best of Munis, is of essential service to mankind, and expiates the offences of those by whom they are observed. Those, however, in whose hearts the dross of sin derived from Time (Kāla) was still more developed, assented not to sacrifices, but reviled both them and all that resulted from them, the gods, and the followers of the Vedas. Those abusers of the Vedas, of evil disposition and conduct, and seceders from the path of enjoined duties, were plunged in wickedness[8]. The means of subsistence having been provided for the beings he had created, Brahmā prescribed laws suited to their station and faculties, the duties of the several castes and orders[9], and the regions of those of the different castes who were observant of their duties. The heaven of the Pitris is the region of devout Brahmans. The sphere of Indra, of Kṣetriyas who fly not from the field. The region of the winds is assigned to the Vaisyas who are diligent in their occupations and submissive. Śūdras are elevated to the sphere of the Gandharvas. Those Brahmans who lead religious lives go to the world of the eighty-eight thousand saints: and that of the seven Ṛṣis is the seat of pious anchorets and hermits. The world of ancestors is that of respectable householders: and the region of Brahmā is the asylum of religious mendicants[10]. The imperishable region of the Yogis is the highest seat of Viṣṇu, where they perpetually meditate upon the supreme being, with minds intent on him alone: the sphere where they reside, the gods themselves cannot behold. The sun, the moon, the planets, shall repeatedly be, and cease to be; but those who internally repeat the mystic adoration of the divinity, shall never know decay. For those who neglect their duties, who revile the Vedas, and obstruct religious rites, the places assigned after death are the terrific regions of darkness, of deep gloom, of fear, and of great terror; the fearful hell of sharp swords, the hell of scourges and of a waveless sea[11].
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[6]: In the other three Purāṇas, in which this legend has been found, the different kinds of inhabited places are specified and p. 46 introduced by a series of land measures. Thus the Mārkaṇḍeya states, that 10 Paramāṇus = 1 Parasūkṣma; 10 Parasūkṣmas = 1 Trasareṇu; 10 Trasareṇus = 1 particle of dust, or Mahīrajas; 10 Mahīrajasas = 1 Bālāgra, 'hair's point;' 10 Bālāgras = 1 Likhyā; 10 Likhyās= 1 Yūka; to Yūkas = 1 heart of barley (Yavodara); 10 Yavodaras = 1 grain of barley of middle size; 10 barley grains = 1 finger, or inch; 6 fingers = a Pada, or foot (the breadth of it); 2 Padas = 1 Vitasti, or span; 2 spans = 1 Hasta, or cubit; 4 Hastas = a Dhanu, a Danda, or staff, or 2 Nārikās; 2000 Dhanus = a Gavyūti; 4 Gavyūtis = a Yojana. The measurement of the Brahmāṇḍa is less detailed. A span from the thumb to the first finger is a Pradeśa; to the middle finger, a Nāla; to the third finger, a Gokerna; and to the little finger, a Vitasti, which is equal to twelve Angulas, or fingers; understanding thereby, according to the Vāyu, a joint of the finger; according to other authorities, it is the breadth of the thumb at the tip. (A. R. 5. 104.) The Vāyu, giving similar measurements upon the authority of Manu, although such a statement does not occur in the Manu Sanhitā, adds, that 21 fingers= 1 Ratni; 24 fingers = 1 Hasta, or cubit; 2 Ratnis = 1 Kiṣku; 4 Hastas = 1 Dhanu; 2000 Dhanus = l Gavyūti; and 8000 Dhanus = 1 Yojana. Durgas, or strong holds, are of four kinds; three of which are natural, from, their situation in mountains, amidst water, or in other inaccessible spots; the fourth is the artificial defences of a village (Grāma), a hamlet (Kheṭaka), or a city (Pura or Nagara), which are severally half the size of the next in the series. The best kind of city is one which is about a mile long by half a mile broad, built in the form of a parallelogram, facing the northeast, and surrounded by a high wall and ditch. A hamlet should be a Yojana distant from a city: a village half a Yojana from a hamlet. The roads leading to the cardinal points from a city should be twenty Dhanus (above too feet) broad: a village road should be the same: a boundary road ten Dhanus: a royal or principal road or street should be ten Dhanus (above fifty feet) broad: a cross or branch road should be four Dhanus. Lanes and paths amongst the houses are two Dhanus in breadth: footpaths four cubits: the entrance of a house three cubits: the private entrances and paths about the mansion of still narrower dimensions. Such were the measurements adopted by the first builders of cities, according to the Purāṇas specified.
[7]: These are enumerated in the text, as well as in the Vāyu and Mārkaṇḍeya P., and are, Udāra, a sort of grain with long stalks (perhaps a holcus); Kodrava (Paspalum kora); Cīnaka, a sort of panic (P. miliaceum); Māṣa, kidney bean (Phaseolus radiatus); Mudga (Phaseolus mungo); Masūra, lentil (Ervum hirsutum); Nishpāva, a sort of pulse; Kulattha (Dolithos p. 47 biflorus); Arhaki (Cytisus Cajan); Chanaka, chick pea (Cicer arietinum); and Sana (Crotolaria).
1.06 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice 2 The Works of Love - The Works of Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendour appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified by a slight glimpse of this infinite Love and Lover. It is for this reason that the worship of the god, the worship of the idol, the human magnet or ideal are not to be despised; for these are steps through which the human race moves towards that blissful passion and ecstasy of the Infinite which, even in limiting it, they yet represent for our imperfect vision when we have still to use the inferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. Certain idolatries are indispensable for the development of our emotional being, nor will the man who knows be hasty at any time to shatter the image unless he can replace it in the heart of the worshipper by the Reality it figures. Moreover, they have this power because there is always something in them that is greater than their forms and, even when we reach the supreme worship, that abides and becomes a prolongation of it or a part of its catholic wholeness. Our knowledge is still imperfect in us, love incomplete if even when we know That which surpasses all forms and manifestations, we cannot still accept the Divine in creature and object, in man, in the kind, in the animal, in the tree, in the flower, in the work of our hands, in the Nature-Force which is then no longer to us the blind action of a material machinery but a face and power of the universal Shakti: for in these things too is the presence of the Eternal.
An ultimate inexpressible adoration offered by us to the Transcendent, to the Highest,1 to the Ineffable, is yet no complete worship if it is not offered to him wherever he manifests or wherever even he hides his godhead - in man2 and object and every creature. An Ignorance is there no doubt which imprisons the heart, distorts its feelings, obscures the significance of its offering; all partial worship, all religion which erects a mental or a physical idol is tempted to veil and protect the truth in it by a certain cloak of ignorance and easily loses the truth in its image. But the pride of exclusive knowledge is also a limitation and a barrier. For there is, concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the passion of the pure and sublimated sense, and its attraction which is the call of the divine Flute-player, the mastering compulsion of the AllBeautiful, can only be seized and seize us through an occult love and yearning which in the end makes one the Form and the Formless, and identifies Spirit and Matter. It is that which the spirit in Love is seeking here in the darkness of the Ignorance and it is that which it finds when individual human love is changed into the love of the Immanent Divine incarnate in the material universe.
1.06 - The Breaking of the Limits, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
We had set out in search of a self amid all this inner and outer machinery; we so much needed something other than this generic sum, this legal fiction, this curriculum vitae which is like a curriculum of death, this sum of actions and daily gestures adding up to zero or perpetually in hope of an inscrutable and elusive something, this crest of existence forever slipping away from under our feet and receding into the distance, toward another wave, the more or less happy repetition of the same old story, of the same program stored in the computer with our parents' chromosomes, our studies, our formative and deformative years; something that was not the attach case we lug around everywhere, nor the stethoscope, nor the pen, not the sum of our feelings nor the sum of our changeless thoughts that leave us forever the same and alone in our little island of self which is not self, which is millions of things crammed into us from the outside, from around and above and below us, from life, from the world, from other beings where is the self? What is me in all that? Where am I? The question had become so unbearable that one day we stepped outside stepped into nothing, which was perhaps something, but it was everything, the only way out of the leaden island. Then, little by little, in the tiny empty interval between this shadow of mechanical self and that something, or nothing, which watches it all, we saw a flame of need grow in us, a need that became more and more intense and burning as the darkness grew thicker in and around us, an inexplicable flame leaping in that stifling nothingness. And slowly, very slowly, like a vague dawn emerging from under the night, like a faraway city wrapped in fog, we saw twinkling little lights start to appear, faint signs, so faint they looked like lights floating on a dark sea, which could have been ten feet or ten miles away, unless they were the reflection of stars or the phosphorescence of noctilucas beneath the waves. But even that nothing was already something in a world filled with such unsurpassed nothingness. So we persevered. The little flame of need settled in us (or was it outside us, or in our stead?); it became our companion, our presence amid an absence of everything, our gauge, our ever-burning intimacy. And the more it grew, calling out from within us, calling so desperately in this empty and suffocating nothing, the brighter the signs grew, twinkled a little everywhere beneath our steps, as if to say, See? See?, as if calling the new world brought it to birth, as if something answered, became steadier, formed into lines, coordinates, channels, and we began to enter another country, another consciousness, another way of being but where is me in all this, the one who directs and owns, that singular traveler, the center that is neither of the ape nor of man?
So we looked intently right and left: where is me, who is me?... There is no me! Not a trace, not a single ripple of it. What is the use? There is this little shadow in front, which appropriated and piled up feelings, thoughts, powers, plans, like a beggar afraid of being robbed, afraid of destitution; it hoarded desperately on its island, yet kept dying of thirst, a perpetual thirst in the middle of the lovely sheet of water; it kept building lines of defense and fortresses against that overwhelming vastness. But we left the leaden island; we let the stronghold fall, which was not so strong as all that. We entered another current that seemed inexhaustible, a treasure giving itself unsparingly: why should we hold back anything from the present minute when at the next one there were yet other riches? Why should we think or plan anything when life organized itself according to another plan, which foiled all the old plans and, sometimes, for a second, in a sort of ripple of laughter, let us catch a glimpse of an unexpected marvel, a sudden freedom, a complete disengagement from the old program, a light and unfettered little law that opened all doors, toppled the ineluctable consequences and all the old iron laws with the flick of a finger, and left us stunned for a minute, on the threshold of an inconceivable expanse of sunlight, as though we had stepped into another solar system which is perhaps not a system at all as if breaking the mechanical limits inside had caused the same breaking of the mechanical limits outside. Maybe because the Machinery we are facing is one and the same: The world of man is what he thinks it; its laws are the result of his own constraint.
--- Overview of noun foot
The noun foot has 11 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (89) foot, human foot, pes ::: (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot")
2. (81) foot, ft ::: (a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall")
3. (8) foot ::: (the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain")
4. (4) animal foot, foot ::: (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings)
5. (2) foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure ::: (lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower")
6. (2) foot, invertebrate foot ::: (any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates)
7. (1) foot ::: (travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot")
8. foot ::: (a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger)
9. infantry, foot ::: (an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot")
10. metrical foot, foot, metrical unit ::: ((prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm)
11. foot ::: (a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foot
11 senses of foot
Sense 1
foot, human foot, pes
=> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
=> extremity
=> external body part
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
foot, ft
=> linear unit, linear measure
=> unit of measurement, unit
=> definite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
foot
=> bottom
=> region, part
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
animal foot, foot
=> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
=> extremity
=> external body part
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
=> support
=> supporting structure
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
foot, invertebrate foot
=> organ
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 7
foot
=> walk
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
foot
=> secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
=> agent
=> representative
=> negotiator, negotiant, treater
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 9
infantry, foot
=> army unit
=> military unit, military force, military group, force
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
=> meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
=> poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody
=> versification
=> form
=> writing style, literary genre, genre
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 11
foot
=> support
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun foot
6 of 11 senses of foot
Sense 1
foot, human foot, pes
=> flatfoot, splayfoot, pes planus
Sense 4
animal foot, foot
=> fossorial foot
=> hoof
=> bird's foot
=> webfoot
=> trotter
=> forefoot
=> hindfoot
=> paw
Sense 5
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
=> bed
=> raft foundation
Sense 6
foot, invertebrate foot
=> tube foot
Sense 9
infantry, foot
=> paratroops
Sense 10
metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
=> dactyl
=> iamb, iambus
=> anapest, anapaest
=> amphibrach
=> trochee
=> spondee
=> pyrrhic, dibrach
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foot
11 senses of foot
Sense 1
foot, human foot, pes
=> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
Sense 2
foot, ft
=> linear unit, linear measure
Sense 3
foot
=> bottom
Sense 4
animal foot, foot
=> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
Sense 5
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
=> support
Sense 6
foot, invertebrate foot
=> organ
Sense 7
foot
=> walk
Sense 8
foot
=> secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
Sense 9
infantry, foot
=> army unit
Sense 10
metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
=> meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
Sense 11
foot
=> support
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun foot
11 senses of foot
Sense 1
foot, human foot, pes
-> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
=> animal foot, foot
=> foot, human foot, pes
Sense 2
foot, ft
-> linear unit, linear measure
=> long measure
=> astronomy unit
=> metric linear unit
=> nautical linear unit
=> inch, in
=> foot, ft
=> footer
=> yard, pace
=> yarder
=> perch, rod, pole
=> furlong
=> mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi
=> miler
=> half mile, 880 yards
=> quarter mile, 440 yards
=> league
=> ligne
=> nail
=> archine
=> kos, coss
=> vara
=> verst
=> cable, cable length, cable's length
=> chain
=> cubit
=> finger, fingerbreadth, finger's breadth, digit
=> fistmele
=> body length
=> handbreadth, handsbreadth
=> head
=> lea
=> li
=> link
=> mesh
=> mil
=> mile, mil, Swedish mile
=> mile, Roman mile
=> Roman pace
=> geometric pace
=> military pace
=> palm
=> span
=> survey mile
=> fathom, fthm
=> point
=> em, pica em, pica
=> en, nut
=> cicero
Sense 3
foot
-> bottom
=> foot
=> base
=> rock bottom
Sense 4
animal foot, foot
-> vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
=> animal foot, foot
=> foot, human foot, pes
Sense 5
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
-> support
=> abutment
=> architrave
=> basement
=> buttress, buttressing
=> foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
=> pedestal, plinth, footstall
=> prop
Sense 6
foot, invertebrate foot
-> organ
=> ovipositor
=> siphon, syphon
=> ctene, comb-plate
=> wing
=> foot, invertebrate foot
=> sucker
=> stinger
=> contractile organ, contractor
=> primordium, anlage
=> vital organ, vitals
=> effector
=> external organ
=> internal organ, viscus
=> sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor
=> tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper
=> speech organ, vocal organ, organ of speech
=> lens, crystalline lens, lens of the eye
=> gland, secretory organ, secretor, secreter
=> organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
=> end organ
=> reproductive organ, sex organ
=> target organ
=> taret organ
=> erectile organ
Sense 7
foot
-> walk
=> amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation
=> constitutional
=> foot
=> hike, hiking, tramp
=> last mile
=> moonwalk
=> perambulation
=> turn
=> walkabout
=> walk-through
Sense 8
foot
-> secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
=> agent-in-place
=> agent provocateur, provocateur
=> bridge agent
=> case officer
=> codetalker, windtalker
=> foot
=> NOC
=> spy, undercover agent
=> walk-in
Sense 9
infantry, foot
-> army unit
=> corps, army corps
=> division
=> battle group
=> regiment
=> brigade
=> battalion
=> company
=> platoon
=> detachment
=> vanguard, van
=> section
=> squad
=> troop
=> troop
=> artillery, artillery unit
=> musketry
=> cavalry
=> infantry, foot
Sense 10
metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
-> meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
=> catalexis
=> scansion
=> common measure, common meter
=> metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
Sense 11
foot
-> support
=> andiron, firedog, dog, dog-iron
=> arch support
=> back, backrest
=> backboard
=> baluster
=> bar
=> base, pedestal, stand
=> bearing
=> bearing wall
=> bedpost
=> bookend
=> brace
=> bracket, wall bracket
=> bridge
=> foot
=> foothold, footing
=> handrest
=> hanger
=> harness
=> harp
=> headstock
=> leg
=> perch
=> pier
=> pier
=> pillow block
=> rack, stand
=> rest
=> rib
=> rocker
=> seat
=> shelf
=> spoke, wheel spoke, radius
=> step, stair
=> stirrup, stirrup iron
=> stock, gunstock
=> structural member
=> tailstock
=> tee, football tee
=> undercarriage
=> yoke
--- Grep of noun feet
calves' feet
cat's feet
cold feet
crow's feet
itchy feet
pigs' feet
Grep of noun foot
acre-foot
alpine coltsfoot
animal foot
athlete's foot
australian hare's foot
bear's foot
bigfoot
bird's-foot fern
bird's-foot violet
bird's foot
bird's foot clover
bird's foot trefoil
blackfoot
board foot
calf's-foot jelly
canary island hare's foot fern
cat's foot
clawfoot
cleft foot
cloven foot
clubfoot
cocksfoot
coltsfoot
creeping crowfoot
crow's foot
crowfoot
cubic foot
cursed crowfoot
dove's foot geranium
elephant's-foot
flatfoot
foot
foot-and-mouth disease
foot-lambert
foot-pound
foot-poundal
foot-ton
foot brake
foot doctor
foot lever
foot pedal
foot race
foot rot
foot rule
foot soldier
foot traffic
footage
football
football coach
football field
football game
football helmet
football hero
football league
football official
football play
football player
football score
football season
football stadium
football team
football tee
footballer
footbath
footboard
footbridge
footcandle
footedness
footer
footfall
footfault
footgear
foothill
foothold
footing
footlights
footlocker
footman
footmark
footnote
footpad
footpath
footplate
footprint
footprint evidence
footrace
footrest
footslogger
footstall
footstep
footsteps-of-spring
footstool
footwall
footwear
footwork
forefoot
fossorial foot
goat's foot
goatsfoot
goosefoot
hare's-foot bristle fern
hare's-foot fern
harefoot
harold harefoot
heterodactyl foot
hindfoot
horse's foot
hotfoot
human foot
immersion foot
invertebrate foot
kangaroo's-foot
kangaroo-foot plant
leaf-foot bug
lion's foot
lobate foot
metrical foot
neat's-foot oil
nettle-leaved goosefoot
nettleleaf goosefoot
oak-leaved goosefoot
oakleaf goosefoot
plains spadefoot
prairie bird's-foot trefoil
rabbit's-foot fern
red goosefoot
single-foot
southern spadefoot
spadefoot
splayfoot
square foot
squirrel's-foot fern
stinking goosefoot
sweet coltsfoot
tall crowfoot
tenderfoot
trench foot
tube foot
vertebrate foot
water crowfoot
webbed foot
webfoot
western spadefoot
white-man's foot
whiteman's foot
zygodactyl foot
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Six Feet Under (2001 - 2005) - Laced with irony and dark situational humor, the show approaches the subject of death through the eyes of the Fisher family, who owns and operates a funeral home in Los Angeles. Peter Krause stars as Nate, who reluctantly becomes a partner in the funeral home after his father's death.
Franny's Feet (2004 - 2011) - Frances "Franny" Fantootsie visits with her Grandpa every day at his shoe repair shop in Vancouver. They like to talk about matters until a customer comes. The customer presents the problem shoes to Grandpa, and he gives the pair to Franny to place inside the shoe repair box. Franny tries on the foo...
Christmas in Rockefeller Center (1951 - Current) - Every year since 1931 the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has been an American tradition for New Yorkers and Tourists alike. The first tree erected in 1931 stood just 20 feet tall and was decorated with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans". In 1933 the tree was lit...
The Buzz on Maggie (2005 - 2006) - an American animated television series created by Dave Polsky for Disney Channel. The series centers on an ambitious and expressive tween fly named Maggie Pesky and her family and friends. The show is set in Stickyfeet, a city for insects located in a dump. While conceptualizing the series, Polsky w...
Garfield: His Nine Lives(1988) - The surly feline plays multiple roles recalling his nine lives, ranging from "Cave Cat" to "Space Cat". Filled with loads of fun and laughter, this feature will sweep you off your feet!
The Green Mile(1999) - Paul Edgecomb is a slightly cynical veteran prison guard on Death row in the 1930's. His faith, and sanity, deteriorated by watching men live and die, Edgecomb is about to have a complete turn around in attitude. Enter John Coffey, He's eight feet tall. He has hands the size of waffle irons. He's be...
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Airport(1977) - Art thieves hijack a plane,accidentally crashing it into the ocean.Trapped over 100 feet underwater,the crew,and thieves,try to escape.Starring Jack Lemmon,Brenda Vaccaro,and James Stewart.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(2005) - Two years after the end of Final Fantasy VII the world is starting to get back on its feet and is working towards a new future. However, there is a new threat from a new illness called Geo-stigma, and three men that seem to be seeking Jenova. Cloud and his friends from the orginal game must once aga...
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Happy Feet(2006) - Every Emperor Penguin sings a unique song called a "heartsong" to attract a mate. If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin and they become mates. They lay an egg, which is left in Memphis' care,...
True Love(1989) - Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. Both are getting cold feet.
Jeepers Creepers II(2003) - Three days after the events of the first film Billy Taggart assists his father by erecting scarecrows in the corn field. After inspecting one of the scarecrows he noticed that it had clawed feet. When the scarecrow suddenly comes to life he runs back towards the farm to call for help, but is interce...
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Lady In Cement(1968) - During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a woman's body with her feet encased in a concrete block and sets out to solve the murder case.
Ultimate Desires(1991) - Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo at Samantha's feet. Vicki slips a brooch into Sam's hand before disappering, then turns up the next day, dead. Sam soon finds herself the target of an...
Cold Feet ::: TV-PG | 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (1997 ) -- The show follows the lives of 30-something couples Adam and Rachel, Pete and Jenny, David and Karen as they navigate love and life in Manchester. Creator:
Finding Your Feet (2017) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 30 March 2018 (USA) -- On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate. Director: Richard Loncraine Writers:
Five Feet Apart (2019) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Drama, Romance | 15 March 2019 (USA) -- A pair of teenagers with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love, though their disease means they must avoid close physical contact. Director: Justin Baldoni Writers:
Happy Feet (2006) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG | 1h 48min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 November 2006 (USA) -- Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce! Directors: George Miller, Warren Coleman (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers:
Noelle (2019) ::: 6.3/10 -- G | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 12 November 2019 (USA) -- Santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet. Director: Marc Lawrence Writer:
Polyester (1981) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 26min | Comedy | 29 May 1981 (USA) -- A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet. Director: John Waters Writer:
Six Feet Under ::: TV-MA | 55min | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20012005) -- A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles. Creator: Alan Ball
The Big Sky (1952) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 2h 20min | Drama, Western | 27 November 1952 (Italy) -- The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet. Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Dudley Nichols (screenplay), A.B. Guthrie Jr. (novel)
The Wood (1999) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 July 1999 (USA) -- While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends. Director: Rick Famuyiwa Writers: Rick Famuyiwa (story), Todd Boyd (story) | 1 more credit
Tiny House Nation ::: TV-PG | 43min | Reality-TV | TV Series (2014- ) Episode Guide 90 episodes Tiny House Nation Poster -- Tiny House Nation takes renovation experts John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin across America to help design and construct tiny dream homes in spaces under 500 square feet. Tiny House Nation ... S Stars:
Up for Love (2016) ::: 6.3/10 -- Un homme la hauteur (original title) -- Up for Love Poster -- A lawyer dating a dashing, wealthy architect four and a half feet tall gets ribbed by her family, employees and jealous ex about his stature. Director: Laurent Tirard Writers:
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Ahiru no Sora -- -- Diomedéa -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama School Shounen -- Ahiru no Sora Ahiru no Sora -- Lacking what is considered the most important asset in basketball, Sora Kurumatani has struggled with his short height since the inception of his love for the game. Despite missing this beneficial aspect, Sora's unwavering drive never allowed his small stature to dictate his ability to play, believing strongly in trying his hardest and persistently practicing to prove his capability. -- -- In hopes of satisfying his mother's wishes, Sora enters Kuzuryuu High School to become a member of the basketball club and compete wholeheartedly in tournaments. However, Sora is disappointed to find out that the boy's basketball team is nothing but a retreat for punks who have no interest in the sport. Sora also comes to learn that brothers Chiaki and Momoharu Hanazono—whom he becomes acquainted with—have also lost their once spirited motivation to play. -- -- Determined to revive the basketball team, Sora challenges the boys to a match against him, where his quick feet and swift movements overwhelm the group. Gradually affected by Sora's impressive skills, sheer effort, and tireless devotion to basketball, the boys unexpectedly find their burnt-out passion for the game rekindling once again. -- -- 139,580 7.33
Ahiru no Sora -- -- Diomedéa -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama School Shounen -- Ahiru no Sora Ahiru no Sora -- Lacking what is considered the most important asset in basketball, Sora Kurumatani has struggled with his short height since the inception of his love for the game. Despite missing this beneficial aspect, Sora's unwavering drive never allowed his small stature to dictate his ability to play, believing strongly in trying his hardest and persistently practicing to prove his capability. -- -- In hopes of satisfying his mother's wishes, Sora enters Kuzuryuu High School to become a member of the basketball club and compete wholeheartedly in tournaments. However, Sora is disappointed to find out that the boy's basketball team is nothing but a retreat for punks who have no interest in the sport. Sora also comes to learn that brothers Chiaki and Momoharu Hanazono—whom he becomes acquainted with—have also lost their once spirited motivation to play. -- -- Determined to revive the basketball team, Sora challenges the boys to a match against him, where his quick feet and swift movements overwhelm the group. Gradually affected by Sora's impressive skills, sheer effort, and tireless devotion to basketball, the boys unexpectedly find their burnt-out passion for the game rekindling once again. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 139,580 7.33
Amagi Brilliant Park -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic -- Amagi Brilliant Park Amagi Brilliant Park -- Seiya Kanie, a smart and extremely narcissistic high school student, believes that the beautiful but reserved Isuzu Sento has invited him on a date at an amusement park called Amagi Brilliant Park. Much to his chagrin, not only is the location a run-down facility, the supposed date is merely a recruitment tour where Sento and Princess Latifa Fleuranza, the owner of the theme park, ask him to become the park's new manager. Their cause for desperation? As stipulated in a land-use contract, Amagi has less than three months to meet a quota of 500,000 guests, or the park will be closed for good and the land redeveloped by a greedy real-estate company. -- -- Seiya is won over by the revelation that Amagi is no ordinary amusement park; many of its employees are Maple Landers—mysterious magical beings who live in the human world and are nourished by the energy created by people having fun. Entrusted with the hopes and dreams of this far-off enchanted land, Seiya must now use his many skills to bring Amagi back on its feet, or watch it crumble before his eyes. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 515,705 7.51
Boys Be... -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance Shounen -- Boys Be... Boys Be... -- There are two sides to every love story, and Boys Be... reveals what's really going on—from the guy's point of view! -- -- Meet three normal high school guys with just one thing on their minds: girls. Quiet Kyoichi has been friends with Chiharu ever since they were young, but lately, his feelings have begun to change. Lecherous Makoto, a self-proclaimed master of the rules of romance, is ready to sweep the ladies off their feet. And Yoshihiko, a handsome sports nut, is unfortunately a bit clueless in matters of the heart. -- -- Join this hapless trio for a year of romantic misadventures that will change their lives forever! -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- 20,259 6.44
Boys Be... -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance Shounen -- Boys Be... Boys Be... -- There are two sides to every love story, and Boys Be... reveals what's really going on—from the guy's point of view! -- -- Meet three normal high school guys with just one thing on their minds: girls. Quiet Kyoichi has been friends with Chiharu ever since they were young, but lately, his feelings have begun to change. Lecherous Makoto, a self-proclaimed master of the rules of romance, is ready to sweep the ladies off their feet. And Yoshihiko, a handsome sports nut, is unfortunately a bit clueless in matters of the heart. -- -- Join this hapless trio for a year of romantic misadventures that will change their lives forever! -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 20,259 6.44
Byulbyul Iyagi -- -- - -- 6 eps -- - -- Psychological Drama -- Byulbyul Iyagi Byulbyul Iyagi -- Six animated shorts about discrimination and being different. -- -- 1. "Daydream" talks about dealing with people with disability. It homes in on the daily life of a father with a daughter whose hands and feet are deformed. -- -- 2. "Animal Farm" relies on the rough-and-ready feel of stop-motion clay animation to create a satire of bullying and mob dynamics. -- -- 3. "At Her House" paints a devastating picture of gender inequality within a marriage. -- -- 4. "Flesh and Bone" gently pillories superficiality and the obsession with outward appearance. -- -- 5. "Bicycle Trip" focuses on the discrimination experienced by foreign workers in Korea. -- -- 6. "Be a Human Being" looks at the way young Koreans are barely treated as human beings before they get to university. -- -- (Source: ANIWEBLOG, ASIANDB, Jeonju) -- Movie - Sep 23, 2005 -- 402 N/A -- -- Paradise -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Adventure Psychological Space -- Paradise Paradise -- "A highly energetic story told from outer space, battlefields, and dentist offices, over and around time and space." -- -- (Source: Image Forum Festival 2014 program) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2013 -- 381 N/A -- -- Ninja & Soldier -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Psychological -- Ninja & Soldier Ninja & Soldier -- Two eight-year-old boys compete in a game of childish bravado. Ken is a Ninja, Nito a child soldier from the Congo who was forced to kill his own mother. Their naïve game addresses cruel realities, and they talk about their differences and what they have in common. Accompanied by contrasting graphics, the film explores the types of acts of which humankind is capable. -- -- (Source: Berlinale) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2012 -- 374 5.90
Enen no Shouboutai -- -- David Production -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Supernatural Shounen -- Enen no Shouboutai Enen no Shouboutai -- Spontaneous Human Combustion: a chaotic phenomenon that has plagued humanity for years, randomly transforming ordinary people into flaming, violent creatures known as Infernals. While Infernals make up the first-generation accounts of Human Combustion, the second and third generations became known as pyrokinetics—people gifted with the ability to manipulate and control their flames while remaining human. To combat the Infernal threat and discover the cause, the Tokyo Armed Forces, Fire Defense Agency, and Holy Church of Sol produced their answer: the Special Fire Force. -- -- Young and eager third-generation pyrokinetic Shinra Kusakabe, nicknamed Devil's Footprints for his explosive ability to ignite his feet at will, becomes a member of the lively Special Fire Force Company 8. Upholding the brigade's duty to extinguish the blazing Infernals and lay their souls to rest, Shinra is determined to become a hero who will save the lives of those threatened by the flame terror. -- -- However, this is not the hero's game Shinra imagined. The Fire Force is a fractured mess of feuding brigades, abnormal Infernal sightings are increasing all over Tokyo, and a shadowy group is claiming to have answers to the strange fire that caused the death of Shinra's family 12 years ago. Faced with many obstacles within and outside the Fire Force, Shinra fights to uncover the truth behind the burning mysteries that have kept him in the dark. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 779,039 7.67
Futon -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Dementia -- Futon Futon -- A futon, a traditional Japanese mattress, as seen by Yoriko Mizushiri, becomes the vehicle of dream fantasies combining the most pleasant sensations such as the morning coffee, the warmth of bedding and a soft rice carpet under one’s feet. Lazy stretching serves as a start of sensuous, sleepy gymnastics. With a fluid movement, the passive body will turn once again from the left to the right of the mattress to dive into the fantasies of even deeper unconsciousness a little while later. -- -- (Source: Krakow Film Festival) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2012 -- 708 5.18
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- -- J.C.Staff -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Harem Magic Romance Fantasy -- Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- O, Hero! -- -- When Kazuya Souma is unexpectedly transported to another world, he knows the people expect a hero. But Souma's idea of heroism is more practical than most—he wants to rebuild the flagging economy of the new land he's found himself in! Betrothed to the princess and abruptly planted on the throne, this realist hero must gather talented people to help him get the country back on its feet—not through war, or adventure, but with administrative reform! -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 23,670 N/A -- -- Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space -- The One Year War comes to a close, as the Zeon forces now retreat back into space. Amuro learns much more of his Newtype abilities and tries to use them the best way he can. He's pushed to his limit as he encounters the infamous Char Aznable once again. He also falls in love with a mysterious woman named Lalah Sune, who knows the full potential of the Newtype abilities. -- -- The greatest battle is about to begin, as many loved ones fall to the power of war. Can the Earth Federation defeat the Principality of Zeon? Or will they fail? Can Char prove that he's the better Newtype than Amuro? They all will be answered now... -- -- (Source: Otakufreakmk2) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment -- Movie - Mar 13, 1982 -- 22,788 7.77
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- -- J.C.Staff -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Harem Magic Romance Fantasy -- Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- O, Hero! -- -- When Kazuya Souma is unexpectedly transported to another world, he knows the people expect a hero. But Souma's idea of heroism is more practical than most—he wants to rebuild the flagging economy of the new land he's found himself in! Betrothed to the princess and abruptly planted on the throne, this realist hero must gather talented people to help him get the country back on its feet—not through war, or adventure, but with administrative reform! -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 23,670 N/A -- -- Mujin Wakusei Survive -- -- Madhouse, Telecom Animation Film -- 52 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Slice of Life -- Mujin Wakusei Survive Mujin Wakusei Survive -- The story is set in the 22nd century where space travel, planet colonization and anti-gravity basketball are practically everyday things. Planet Earth has become uninhabitable, and therefore people live in colonies on the surrounding planets. On a school field trip, a mistake causes the protagonist, a young transfer student named Luna, her pet robot, and six of her classmates to be thrown through a gravity storm and crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet. There, with Luna as their leader, the robot cat Chako, the lone wolf Kaoru, the spoiled rich boy Howard, the shy Sharla, the obedient Bell, the prideful musician Menori and the young genius Shingo must fight for their survival. But is the planet really uninhabited, or is there someone or something out there, waiting in the shadows? -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- TV - Oct 16, 2003 -- 23,504 7.70
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- -- J.C.Staff -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Harem Magic Romance Fantasy -- Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- O, Hero! -- -- When Kazuya Souma is unexpectedly transported to another world, he knows the people expect a hero. But Souma's idea of heroism is more practical than most—he wants to rebuild the flagging economy of the new land he's found himself in! Betrothed to the princess and abruptly planted on the throne, this realist hero must gather talented people to help him get the country back on its feet—not through war, or adventure, but with administrative reform! -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 23,670 N/A -- -- Seikon no Qwaser: Jotei no Shouzou -- -- TAKI Corporation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Ecchi Seinen -- Seikon no Qwaser: Jotei no Shouzou Seikon no Qwaser: Jotei no Shouzou -- Based on Ekaterina Kurae's chapter 16 from the manga, and episode 10.5 of the anime. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- OVA - Oct 20, 2010 -- 23,668 6.41
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- -- J.C.Staff -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Harem Magic Romance Fantasy -- Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki -- O, Hero! -- -- When Kazuya Souma is unexpectedly transported to another world, he knows the people expect a hero. But Souma's idea of heroism is more practical than most—he wants to rebuild the flagging economy of the new land he's found himself in! Betrothed to the princess and abruptly planted on the throne, this realist hero must gather talented people to help him get the country back on its feet—not through war, or adventure, but with administrative reform! -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 23,670 N/A -- -- Tenshi na Konamaiki -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Magic Romance Shounen -- Tenshi na Konamaiki Tenshi na Konamaiki -- Megumi-chan is a girl with a secret past. She used to be a boy until she met a person she thought was a magic user. This person gave him/her a magical book from which a genie appears to grant one wish when blood is applied to it. Megumi made the wish to be a man in a man's body but the genie has a twist: he grants wishes backwards so he turns Megumi-kun aged 9 to Megumi-chan. Years pass and Megumi enters High School where she immediately beats up the school bully who of course falls in love with her. She is looking for that book again to be able to reverse the spell placed upon her. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Apr 6, 2002 -- 23,228 7.47
Gravitation -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Music Romance Shoujo Shounen Ai -- Gravitation Gravitation -- All Shuichi ever dreamed about was following in the footsteps of his pop idol, Ryuichi Sakuma and the band Nittle Grasper. Together with his best friend Hiro, Shuichi's formed a band called Bad Luck and they've even managed to get signed to a major recording label! Unfortunately, the studio deadlines are looming and Shuichi still hasn't finished the lyrics for any of the songs. What he needs is a little inspiration... but he's been running a little low in that department lately. While Hiro recommends finding a girlfriend, fate has other things in store for him... -- -- Walking through the park late one night, Shuichi's latest lyrics flutter away and land at the feet of a stunning stranger that takes his breath away. Unfortunately, that mysterious stranger happens to be the famous novelist Eiri Yuki, who completely crushes the young singer by telling him he has "zero talent". Now, Shuichi's so annoyed that he's managed to finish his song just so he can find and confront Yuki once again. But, are his actions really motivated by anger, or has he actually fallen in love? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 103,035 7.00
Long Riders! -- -- Actas -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Sports Shounen -- Long Riders! Long Riders! -- Falling in love at first sight with a collapsible bicycle outside the station, Ami Kurata, first-year university student empties her account without a second thought and buys the bicycle. Now she enjoys weekend cycling trips with Aoi, her childhood friend, and Hinako, a senior at her university. "Owning a road bike may change your view of the world completely." Prompted by the comment, Ami purchased a road bike, and she is really impressed with the traveling performance. As soon as she places her feet on the pedals and presses down, everything about riding a road bicycle—the lightness of the pedal, the speed, the acceleration—is nothing like she has ever experienced. Ami's cycle life gets going with the new road cycle as her partner! -- -- (Source: Showgate, edited) -- 23,310 6.65
Long Riders! -- -- Actas -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Sports Shounen -- Long Riders! Long Riders! -- Falling in love at first sight with a collapsible bicycle outside the station, Ami Kurata, first-year university student empties her account without a second thought and buys the bicycle. Now she enjoys weekend cycling trips with Aoi, her childhood friend, and Hinako, a senior at her university. "Owning a road bike may change your view of the world completely." Prompted by the comment, Ami purchased a road bike, and she is really impressed with the traveling performance. As soon as she places her feet on the pedals and presses down, everything about riding a road bicycle—the lightness of the pedal, the speed, the acceleration—is nothing like she has ever experienced. Ami's cycle life gets going with the new road cycle as her partner! -- -- (Source: Showgate, edited) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 23,310 6.65
Psycho Diver: Mashou Bosatsu -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- - -- Horror Psychological Sci-Fi -- Psycho Diver: Mashou Bosatsu Psycho Diver: Mashou Bosatsu -- Yuki Kano has it all: fame, wealth, the world at her feet. There's also something very wrong with her... from time to time, she's totally unable to sing (which, for a pop star, is not good). Enter Bosujima, a "psycho diver" with the capability to enter people's heads and straighten out what's wrong with them. Well, most of the time, anyway. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Urban Vision -- OVA - May 21, 1997 -- 4,149 5.69
Space☆Dandy 2nd Season -- -- Bones -- 13 eps -- Original -- Space Comedy Sci-Fi -- Space☆Dandy 2nd Season Space☆Dandy 2nd Season -- Second season of Space Dandy. -- -- Space Dandy is a dandy guy, in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it's first come, first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety of aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe! -- -- (Source: Bandai Visual) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jul 6, 2014 -- 134,454 8.26
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