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fosterage ::: n. --> The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
foster-child ::: a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
fostered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Foster
fostering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Foster
fosterling ::: n. --> A foster child.
fosterment ::: n. --> Food; nourishment.
foster ::: to bring up, raise, or rear; nourish; sustain; support.
foster ::: v. t. --> To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
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ABSYS "language" An early {declarative language} from the {University of Aberdeen} which anticipated a number of features of Prolog. ["ABSYS: An Incremental Compiler for Assertions", J.M. Foster et al, Mach Intell 4, Edinburgh U Press, 1969, pp. 423-429]. (1994-11-08)
ABSYS ::: (language) An early declarative language from the University of Aberdeen which anticipated a number of features of Prolog.[ABSYS: An Incremental Compiler for Assertions, J.M. Foster et al, Mach Intell 4, Edinburgh U Press, 1969, pp. 423-429]. (1994-11-08)
Amiad ::: Organization established in 1982 to foster Jewish identity and promote Diaspora Jewish community involvement with Israeli Jewish communities.
Anugraha, Anugrahana (Sanskrit) Anugraha, Anugrahaṇa [from anu-grah to support, uphold, foster, treat kindly] Favor, kindness, promoting or favoring a good object. In the Vishnu-Purana (1:5) applied to the eighth creation (in the Matsya and other Puranas to the fifth creation), the period of formative development “which possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness.” In Sankhya philosophy anugraha-sarga is the creation or formation of “the feelings or mental conditions.”
apramAda. (P. appamAda; T. bag yod pa; C. bufangyi; J. fuhoitsu; K. pulbangil 不放逸). In Sanskrit, "heedfulness" or "vigilance"; one of the forty-six mental concomitants (CAITTA) according to the SARVASTIVADA-VAIBHAsIKA school of ABHIDHARMA and one of the fifty-one according to the YOGACARA school. Heedfulness is the opposite of "heedlessness" (PRAMADA) and is the vigilant attitude that strives toward virtuous activities and remains ever watchful of moral missteps. Heedfulness fosters steadfastness regarding spiritual and ethical matters; it was presumed to be so foundational to any kind of ethical or wholesome behavior that the SarvAstivAda abhidharma system included it among the predominant wholesome factors of wide extent (KUsALAMAHABHuMIKA). Heedfulness is also an integral part of the path of cultivation (BHAVANAMARGA), where certain types of proclivities (ANUsAYA)-such as passion for sensual pleasure (RAGA)-can only be removed by consistent and vigilant training, rather than simply through correct insight, as on the path of vision (DARsANAMARGA). Heedfulness was so crucial to spiritual progress that the Buddha recommended it in his last words delivered on his deathbed, as related in the PAli MAHAPARINIBBANASUTTANTA: "Indeed, monks, I declare to you: decay is inherent in all compounded things; strive on with vigilance." (Handa 'dAni bhikkhave AmantayAmi vo: vayadhammA sankhArA; appamAdena sampAdetha.)
aranya. (P. araNNa; T. dgon pa; C. [a]lanruo; J. [a]rannya; K. [a]ranya [阿]蘭若). In Sanskrit, "forest" or "wilderness"; the ideal atmosphere for practice, and one of the various terms used to designate the residences of monks. The solitude and contentment fostered by forest dwelling was thought to provide a better environment for meditation (BHAVANA) than the bustle and material comforts of city monasteries, and there is some evidence in mainstream Buddhist materials of discord between monks who followed the two different ways of life. Forest dwelling was frequently championed by the Buddha, and living at the root of a tree was one of the thirteen specific ascetic practices (S. DHuTAGUnA, P. DHUTAnGA) authorized by the Buddha. Forest dwelling is also used as a metaphor for the renunciation and nonattachment that monks were taught to emulate. Forest dwellers are called aranyaka (P. araNNaka or AraNNaka). See also ARANNAVASI; PHRA PA.
(a) Speculative philosophy is commonly considered to embrace metaphysics (see Metaphysics) and epistemology as its two coordinate branches or if the term metaphysics be extended to embrace the whole of speculative philosophy, then epistemology and ontology become the two main subdivisions of metaphysics in the wide sense. Whichever usage is adopted, epistemology as the philosophical theory of knowledge is one of the two main branches of philosophy. The question of the relative priority of epistemology and metaphysics (or ontology) has occasioned considerable controversy: the dominant view fostered by Descartes, Locke and Kant is that epistemology is the prior philosophical science, the investigation of the possibility and limits of knowledge being a necessary and indispensible preliminary to any metaphysical speculations regarding the nature of ultimate reality. On the other hand, strongly metaphysical thinkers like Spinoza and Hegel, and more recently S. Alexander and A. N. Whitehead, have first attacked the metaphvsical problems and adopted the view of knowledge consonant with their metaphysics. Between these two extremes is the view that epistemology and metaphysics are logically interdependent and that a metaphysically presuppositionless epistemology is as unattainable as an epistemologically presuppositionless metaphysics.
astAngasamanvAgataM upavAsaM. (P. atthangasamannAgataM uposathaM; T. yan lag brgyad pa'i gso sbyong; C. bazhaijie; J. hassaikai; K. p'alchaegye 八齋戒). In Sanskrit, the "fortnightly assembly with its eight constituents," more popularly known as the eight rules of conduct (sIKsAPADA; P. sikkhApada). On the fortnightly UPOsADHA days, Buddhist laity would take three additional precepts beyond their standard list of five precepts (PANCAsĪLA) to help foster a sense of renunciation. The full list of eight includes prohibitions against (1) killing, (2) stealing, (3) engaging in sexual misconduct, (4) lying, and (5) consuming intoxicants; these are supplemented by these three extra precepts prohibiting (6) resting on a high or luxurious bed, (7) using makeup and perfumes and enjoying music and dance, and (8) eating at improper times (viz., after midday). See also BAGUAN ZHAI; sĪLA.
AstasAhasrikAprajNApAramitA. (T. Sher phyin brgyad stong pa; C. Xiaopin bore jing; J. Shobon hannyakyo; K. Sop'um panya kyong 小品般若經). In Sanskrit, "Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines." This scripture is now generally accepted to be the earliest of the many PRAJNAPARAMITA sutras and thus probably one of the very earliest of the MAHAYANA scriptures. The Asta, as it is often referred to in the literature, seems to have gradually developed over a period of about two hundred years, from the first century BCE to the first century CE. Some of its earliest recensions translated into Chinese during the Han dynasty do not yet display the full panoply of self-referentially MahAyAna terminology that characterize the more elaborate recensions translated later, suggesting that MahAyAna doctrine was still under development during the early centuries of the Common Era. The provenance of the text is obscure, but the consensus view is that it was probably written in central or southern India. The Asta, together with its verse summary, the RATNAGUnASAMCAYAGATHA, probably represents the earliest stratum of the prajNApAramitA literature; scholars believe that this core scripture was subsequently expanded between the second and fourth centuries CE into other massive PrajNApAramitA scriptures in as many as 100,000 lines (the sATASAHASRIKAPRAJNAPARAMITA). By about 500 CE, the Asta's basic ideas had been abbreviated into shorter condensed statements, such as the widely read, 300-verse VAJRACCHEDIKAPRAJNAPARAMITA ("Diamond Sutra"). (Some scholars have suggested instead that the "Diamond Sutra" may in fact represent one of the earliest strata of the prajNApAramitA literature.) The MahAyAna tradition's view of its own history, however, is that the longest of the prajNApAramitA scriptures, the 100,000-line satasAhasrikAprajNApAramitA, is the core text from which all the other perfection of wisdom sutras were subsequently excerpted. The main interlocutor of the Asta, as in most of the prajNApAramitA scriptures, is SUBHuTI, an ARHAT foremost among the Buddha's disciples in dwelling at peace in remote places, rather than sARIPUTRA, who much more commonly appears in this role in the mainstream Buddhist scriptures (see AGAMA; NIKAYA). The prominent role accorded to Subhuti suggests that the prajNApAramitA literature may derive from forest-dwelling (Aranyaka) ascetic traditions distinct from the dominant, urban-based monastic elite. The main goal of the Asta and other prajNApAramitA scriptures is rigorously to apply the foundational Buddhist notion of nonself (ANATMAN) to the investigation of all phenomena-from the usual compounded things (SAMSKARA) and conditioned factors (SAMSKṚTADHARMA), but even to such quintessentially Buddhist summa bona as the fruits of sanctity (ARYAMARGAPHALA) and NIRVAnA. The constant refrain of the Asta is that there is nothing that can be grasped or to which one should cling, not PRAJNA, not PARAMITA, not BODHISATTVA, and not BODHI. Even the six perfections (sAdPARAMITA) of the bodhisattva are subjected to this same refutation: for example, only when the bodhisattva realizes that there is no giver, no recipient, and no gift will he have mastered the perfection of giving (DANAPARAMITA). Such radical nonattachment even to the central concepts of Buddhism itself helps to foster a thoroughgoing awareness of the emptiness (suNYATA) of all things and thus the perfection of wisdom (prajNApAramitA). Even if the Asta's area of origin was in the south of India, the prajNApAramitA scriptures seem initially to have found their best reception in the northwest of India during the KUSHAN dynasty (c. first century CE), whence they would have had relatively easy entrée into Central Asia and then East Asia. This geographic proximity perhaps accounts for the early acceptance the Asta and the rest of the prajNApAramitA literature received on the Chinese mainland, helping to make China the first predominantly MahAyAna tradition.
auddhatya. (P. uddhacca; T. rgod pa; C. diao; J. jo; K. to 掉). In Sanskrit, "restlessness," "agitation," or "distraction"; along with its related "worry" or "regret" (KAUKṚTYA), with which it is often seen in compound, auddhatya constitutes the fourth of the five hindrances (NĪVARAnA) to the attainment of meditative absorption (DHYANA). Auddhatya-kaukṛtya is the specific hindrance to joy (SUKHA), the fourth of the five factors of dhyAna (DHYANAnGA). Restlessness and worry are fostered by unwise attention (AYONIsOMANASKARA) to mental unrest and are overcome through learning and reflecting on the SuTRAs and VINAYA and by associating with elders of calm demeanor. Restlessness and worry are countered by SAMADHI, the fourth of the five spiritual faculties (INDRIYA) and the sixth of the factors of enlightenment (BODHYAnGA), together with development of the factors of tranquillity (PRAsRABDHI), and equanimity (UPEKsA).
Bayinnaung. (r. 1551-1581). Burmese king and third monarch of the Taungoo dynasty. Bayinnaung was the brilliant general and brother-in-law of King Tabinshwehti (r. 1531-1550), who first expanded the territory of the city-state Taungoo to create the Taungoo empire (1531-1752). Tabinshwehti sought to reunify the various kingdoms and petty states that had once been vassals to the first Burmese empire of Pagan (1044-1287). To this end, he followed a policy of conciliation toward vanquished peoples, especially the Mon, whose brand of reformed Sinhalese THERAVADA Buddhism he favored. Bayinnaung continued this ecumenical religious policy even while he aggressively extended the borders of his empire eastward through military campaigns launched in the name of the Buddha. In a series of campaigns, he subdued the Shan tribes, the Lao kingdom of Vientiane, and the Thai kingdoms of AYUTHAYA and Chiangmai, creating briefly Southeast Asia's largest polity. Throughout these territories, he built pagodas and distributed copies of PALI scriptures. In the Shan hills, he compelled the local warlords to abandon human sacrifice and convert to Buddhism, requiring them to provide material support to missionary monks dispatched from his capital. While officially promoting the reformed Buddhism of the Mon, Bayinnaung remained tolerant of local Buddhist custom and allowed independent monastic lineages to continue. He maintained close diplomatic relations with the Buddhist kingdom of Sri Lanka and offered munificent gifts to its palladium, the TOOTH RELIC at Kandy. In 1560, when the Portuguese captured the relic, Bayinnaung sought to ransom it for 300,000 ducats, only to have his emissaries witness its destruction in a public ceremony ordered by the archbishop of Goa. Legend says that the tooth miraculously escaped and divided itself into two, one of which was returned to Kandy, while the other was gifted to Bayinnaung, who enshrined it in the Mahazedi pagoda at his capital Pegu. The religious policies of Bayinnaung and his successors greatly influenced the character of Burmese Buddhism and society. Royal patronage of Buddhist scholarship coupled with the proliferation of village monastery schools fostered a common Buddhist identity among the populace that crossed ethnic boundaries and facilitated a degree of peasant literacy that was unusual in premodern societies.
fosterage ::: n. --> The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
foster-child ::: a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
fostered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Foster
fostering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Foster
fosterling ::: n. --> A foster child.
fosterment ::: n. --> Food; nourishment.
foster ::: to bring up, raise, or rear; nourish; sustain; support.
foster ::: v. t. --> To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
Bodhiruci. (C. Putiliuzhi; J. Bodairushi; K. Poriryuji 菩提流支) (fl. sixth century). A renowned Indian translator and monk (to be distinguished from a subsequent Bodhiruci [s.v.] who was active in China two centuries later during the Tang dynasty). Bodhiruci left north India for Luoyang, the Northern Wei capital, in 508. He is said to have been well versed in the TRIPItAKA and talented at incantations. Bodhiruci stayed at the monastery of YONGNINGSI in Luoyang from 508 to 512 and with the help of BuddhasAnta (d.u.) and others translated over thirty MAHAYANA sutras and treatises, most of which reflect the latest developments in Indian MahAyAna, and especially YOGACARA. His translations include the DHARMASAMGĪTI, SHIDIJING LUN, LAnKAVATARASuTRA, VAJRACCHEDIKAPRAJNAPARAMITASuTRA, and the WULIANGSHOU JING YOUPOTISHE YUANSHENG JI, attributed to VASUBANDHU. Bodhiruci's translation of the Shidijing lun, otherwise known more simply as the Di lun, fostered the formation of a group of YOGACARA specialists in China that later historians retroactively call the DI LUN ZONG. According to a story in the LIDAI FABAO JI, a jealous Bodhiruci, assisted by a monk from SHAOLINSI on SONGSHAN named Guangtong (also known as Huiguang, 468-537), is said to have attempted on numerous occasions to poison the founder of the CHAN school, BODHIDHARMA, and eventually succeeded. Bodhiruci is also said to have played an instrumental role in converting the Chinese monk TANLUAN from Daoist longevity practices to the PURE LAND teachings of the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING.
breed ::: v. t. --> To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
British Mandate ::: (1922-1948) After WWI the British army seized control of Israel from the Ottoman Turks in 1918. Later in July 1922, the League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the responsibility of fostering the "Palestine Mandate" until it became self-sufficient.
cherish ::: v. t. --> To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
child ::: 1. A person between birth and full growth. 2. A baby or infant. 3. A person who has not attained maturity. 4. One who is childish or immature. 5. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance. 6. Any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc. Child, child"s, children, Children, children"s, child-god, Child-Godhead, child-heart, child-heart"s, child-laughter, child-soul, child-sovereign, child-thought, flame-child, foster-child, God-child, King-children.
cultivate ::: v. t. --> To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while
cultivation ::: n. --> The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
Deus Lunus The moon god in masculine guise, the feminine being Dea Luna. Blavatsky connects him with the Hindu Soma and with Jehovah (SD 2:466). The moon is considered a feminine potency because its main function is one of generation, production, and likewise intimately connected with the vivification and feeding of seeds of life of whatever kind. Just as the human or animal mother on earth produces, nurses, and fosters her offspring, both for good and ill, such is the feminine function of the moon in those cosmic relations which connect the moon too intimately with the earth; on the other hand, the moon in its masculine aspect or potency represents its generative power as contrasted with its productive. Thus, it not only produces and fosters the seeds of life as a cosmic agent, but itself is that generative cosmic function which brings about the cyclic vital activities in the hosts of seed-lives, continuously sowing the seed-lives in the appropriate fields.
Dhammakāya. (Thai, Thammakai). A Buddhist reform movement in Thailand that originated in 1916, when a monk named Luang Phor Sodh is said to have rediscovered a technique of meditation that had been lost since the time of the Buddha. The movement began to gain impetus in 1970, when one of the abbot's disciples, a nun known as Khun Yay Upāsika, founded Wat Phra Dhammakāya. Dhammakāya meditation practice consists of visualizing a small crystal sphere entering one's body through the nasal passage; the sphere settles in the solar plexus and eventually becomes transformed into a crystal image of the Buddha. While engaging in this visualization, the meditator is supposed to focus on the MANTRA "samma arahang." The practice is supposed to culminate in the ability to see a buddha image (the dhammakāya, or "truth body" of the Buddha; see DHARMAKĀYA) inside oneself, an experience compared to tasting NIRVĀnA in the present life. Meditation is the principal Dhammakāya practice, and the organization encourages its followers to meditate twice a day as a way of improving self-confidence and as a tool for success, well being, and fostering family life. Dhammakāya also offers group training courses for adults in the private and public sectors. Devotees dress in white, and temple buildings are simple in design. Dhammakāya is also known for organizing massive ceremonies involving several thousand monks and tens of thousands of laypeople on Buddhist holy days. Rather than following the traditional lunar calendar and practicing on the days of the waning and waxing moon, Dhammakāya practice is held every Sunday, with meditation in the morning, followed by a sermon on topics relevant to the problems and concerns of everyday life. Its adherents are also encouraged to take part in such activities as retreats, youth camps, and massive ordinations for college students during the summer break. The Dhammakāya movement also differs from mainstream Thai Buddhism in that it requires monks to be ordained for life rather than the temporary ordination that is common among Thai laymen. In addition to its massive WAT outside of Bangkok, it has established branches throughout Thailand and overseas. Many Thais, especially intellectuals who support the forest meditation tradition, criticize Dhammakāya for its "direct marketing" type of organization and its quick-fix solutions to complex problems.
dhenu ::: [Ved.]: "fosterer", "nourisher", fostering cow; cow. ::: dhenavah [plural]
dhutanga. [alt. dhutanga] (S. dhutaguna/dhuta/dhuta; T. sbyang pa'i yan lag; C. toutuo[xing]; J. zuda[gyo]; K. tut'a[haeng] 頭陀[行]). In Pāli, lit. "limbs of scrupulousness," viz., "austerities," or "ascetic practices." The term is alternately known as simply dhuta/dhuta in both Pāli and Sanskrit; the BUDDHIST HYBRID SANSKRIT term dhutaguna means the "qualities" (GUnA) of the "purified" (dhuta) person, viz., an "ascetic." Dhutanga refers to a specific set of thirteen ascetic practices that the Buddha authorized monks to adopt voluntarily for the purposes of cultivating contentedness with little, detachment, energy, and moderation. These austerities are not enjoined on monks and nuns by the VINAYA, but are rather optional practices that monastics were sanctioned to adopt for limited periods of time in order to foster sensory restraint (INDRIYASAMVARA), an important constituent of morality (sĪLA). Based on the Buddha's own failed experiments with extreme mortification of the flesh (see TAPAS) as a practice conducive to enlightenment while he was a BODHISATTVA, this specific set of practices was considered to provide a middle way (MADHYAMAPRATIPAD) between self-mortification and sensual indulgence. The thirteen authorized practices are (1) wearing patched robes made from discarded cloth rather than from cloth donated by laypeople; (2) wearing only three robes; (3) going for alms; (4) not omitting any house while on the alms round, rather than begging only at those houses known to provide good food; (5) eating only what can be eaten in one sitting; (6) eating only food received in the alms bowl (PĀTRA), rather than more elaborate meals presented to the SAMGHA; (7) refusing more food after indicating one has eaten enough; (8) dwelling in the forest; (9) dwelling at the root of a tree; (10) dwelling in the open air, using only a tent made from one's robes as shelter; (11) dwelling in a charnel ground (sMAsĀNA); (12) satisfaction with whatever dwelling one has; and (13) sleeping in a sitting position without ever lying down (see CHANGJWA PURWA). The comparable Mahāyāna list of twelve dhutagunas is essentially the same, dropping the two practices involving eating (5, 6) and adding an additional rule on wearing only garments made of coarse hemp and wool. The VISUDDHIMAGGA recommends these ascetic practices especially to those of either greedy (RĀGA) or deluded (MOHA) temperaments (CARITA), because greed and delusion both wane through, respectively, the continued practice of asceticism and the clarification of what is important in life; sometimes a person of hateful temperament is also said to benefit, because conflict abates as one becomes content with little. The Buddha offered this authorized list of voluntary practices after explicitly rejecting a more severe set of austerities proposed by his cousin and rival DEVADATTA that would have been mandatory for all members of the saMgha: forest dwelling (see ARANNAVĀSI), subsistence on gathered alms food only, use of rag robes only, dwelling at the foot of a tree, and strict vegetarianism. With the growth of settled monasticism, the practice of the austerities waned, although asceticism continues to be a major prestige factor within the Buddhist lay and monastic communities. In their accounts of India, both FAXIAN and XUANZANG note the presence of followers of Devadatta who adhered to the austere practices he had recommended to the Buddha. The dhutangas should be distinguished from TAPAS, "severe austerities," or DUsKARACARYĀ, "difficult feats" of religious virtuosity, practices that do not necessarily involve the authorized types of ascetic practices. See also THUDONG.
durga. ::: the divine Mother as Protector and Fosterer
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embosom ::: v. t. --> To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.
Enlightenment: When Kant, carried by the cultural enthusiasm of his time, explained "enlightenment" as man's coming of age from the state of infancy which rendered him incapable of using his reason without the aid of others, he gave only the subjective meaning of the term. Objectively, enlightenment is a cultural period distinguished by the fervent efforts of leading personalities to make reason the absolute ruler of human life, and to shed the light of knowledge upon the mind and conscience of any individual. Such attempts are not confined to a particular time, or nation, as history teaches; but the term is generally applied to the European enlightenment stretching from the early 17th to the beginning of the 19th century, especially fostered by English, Dutch, French, and German philosophers. It took its start in England from the empiricism of F. Bacon, Th. Hobbes, J. Locke, it found a religious version in the naturalism of Edw. H. Cherbury, J. Toland, M. Tindal, H. Bolingbroke, and the host of "freethinkers", while the Earl of Shaftesbury imparted to it a moral on the "light of reason". Not so constructive but radical in their sarcastic criticism of the past were the French enlighteners, showing that their philosophy got its momentum from the moral corruption at the royal court and abuse of kinglv power in France. Descartes' doctrine of the "clear and perspicuous ideas," Spinoza's critical attitude towards religion, and Leibniz-Wolff's "reasonable thinking" prepared the philosophy of P. Bayle, Ch. Montesquieu, F. M. Voltaire, and J. J. Rousseau. The French positive contribution to the subject was the "Encyclopedie ou Dictionaire raisonne des sciences, arts et metiers", 1751-72, in 28 volumes, edited by Diderot, D'Alembert, Helvetius, Holbach, J. L. Lagrane, etc. What, in England and France, remained on the stage of mere ideas and utopic dreams became reality in the new commonwealth of the U.S.A. The "fathers of the constitution" were enlightened, outstanding among them B. Franklin, Th. Jefferson, J. Adams, A. Hamilton, and Th. Paine their foremost literary propagandist.
foment ::: v. t. --> To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
To cherish with heat; to foster.
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
Fortran M ::: Parallel extensions to Fortran with processes and channels by Ian Foster .[Fortran M: A Language for Modular Parallel Programming, I. Foster et al, MCS-P327-0992, ANL, 1992]. (1994-10-26)
Fortran M Parallel extensions to Fortran with processes and channels by Ian Foster "fortran-m@mcs.anl.gov". ["Fortran M: A Language for Modular Parallel Programming", I. Foster et al, MCS-P327-0992, ANL, 1992]. (1994-10-26)
godfather ::: n. --> A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. ::: v. t. --> To act as godfather to; to take under one&
group therapy: when therapeutic sessions are carried out in groups rather than individually, whereby the therapist acts as a facilitator amongst the group. Group therapy can help individuals feel less isolated and through fostering social interaction, are able to discuss with and help others.
hihan Bukkyo. (C. pipan Fojiao; K. pip'an Pulgyo 批判佛教). In Japanese, "critical Buddhism." A contemporary intellectual controversy fostered largely by the Japanese Buddhist scholars and SoToSHu ZEN priests Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro and their followers. In a series of provocative essays and books, Hakamaya and Matsumoto have argued for a more engaged form of Buddhist scholarship that sought a critical pursuit of truth at the expense of the more traditional, accommodative approaches to Buddhist thought and history. "Critical" here refers to the critical analysis of Buddhist doctrines using modern historiographical and philological methodologies in order to ascertain the authentic teachings of Buddhism. "Critical" can also connote an authentic Buddhist perspective, which should be critical of intellectual misconstructions and/or societal faults. Critical Buddhists polemically dismiss many of the foundational doctrines long associated with East Asian Buddhism, and especially Japanese Zen, as corruptions of what they presume to have been the pristine, "original" teachings of the Buddha. In their interpretation, true Buddhist teachings derive from a critical perspective on the nature of reality, based on the doctrines of "dependent origination" (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA) and "nonself" (ANĀTMAN); for this reason, the style of critical philosophical analysis used in the MADHYAMAKA school represents an authentic approach to Buddhism. By contrast, more accommodative strands of Buddhism that are derived from such teachings as the "embryo of buddhahood" (TATHĀGATAGARBHA), buddha-nature (FOXING), and original enlightenment (HONGAKU) were considered heretical, because they represented the corruption of the pristine Buddhist message by Brahmanical notions of a perduring self (ĀTMAN). The Mahāyāna notion of the nonduality between such dichotomies as SAMSĀRA and NIRVĀnA, the Critical Buddhists also claim, fostered a tendency toward antinomianism or moral ambiguity that had corrupted such Buddhist schools as CHAN or Zen and encouraged those schools to accept social inequities and class-based persecution (as in Soto Zen's acquiescence to the persecution of Japanese "untouchables," or burakumin). Opponents of "Critical Buddhism" suggest that efforts to locate what is "original" in the teachings of Buddhism are inevitably doomed to failure and ignore the many local forms Buddhism has taken throughout its long history; the "Critical Buddhism" movement is therefore sometimes viewed as social criticism rather than academic scholarship.
Himavanta. In Pāli, "The Snowy Region," one of nine adjacent lands (paccantadesa) converted to Buddhism by missionaries dispatched in the third century BCE by the elder MOGGALIPUTTATISSA at the end of the third Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, THIRD). Himavanta is identified with the Himalaya mountain range and is also known as Himavā or Himācala. This land was converted by the elder Majjhima, who preached the DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA during his mission there. The third Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, THIRD), which was held in Pātaliputta (S. PĀtALIPUTRA) during the reign of King Asoka (S.AsOKA), and the nine Buddhist missions it fostered, are known only in STHAVIRANIKĀYA sources and are first recorded in Pāli in the fifth-century DĪPAVAMSA. Himavanta was renowned as a refuge for ascetics and hermits and as an abode of solitary buddhas (P. paccekabuddha; S. PRATYEKABUDDHA).
hongaku. (本覺). In Japanese, "original enlightenment." The notion that enlightenment was a quality inherent in the minds of all sentient beings (SATTVA) initially developed in East Asia largely due to the influence of such presumptive APOCRYPHA as the DASHENG QIXIN LUN. The Dasheng qixin lun posited a distinction between the potentiality to become a buddha that was inherent in the minds of every sentient being, as expressed by the term "original enlightenment" (C. BENJUE; pronounced hongaku in Japanese); and the soteriological process through which that potential for enlightenment had to be put into practice, which it called "actualized enlightenment" (C. SHIJUE; J. shikaku). This distinction is akin to the notion that a person may in reality be enlightened (original enlightenment), but still needs to learn through a course of religious training how to act on that enlightenment (actualized enlightenment). This scheme was further developed in numerous treatises and commentaries written by Chinese exegetes in the DI LUN ZONG, HUAYAN ZONG, and TIANTAI ZONG. ¶ In medieval Japan, this imported soteriological interpretation of "original enlightenment" was reinterpreted into an ontological affirmation of things just as they are. Enlightenment was thence viewed not as a soteriological experience, but instead as something made manifest in the lived reality of everyday life. Hongaku thought also had wider cultural influences, and was used, for example, to justify conceptually incipient doctrines of the identity between the buddhas and bodhisattvas of Buddhism and the indigenous deities (KAMI) of Japan (see HONJI SUIGAKU; SHINBUTSU SHuGo). Distinctively Japanese treatments of original enlightenment thought begin in the mid-eleventh century, especially through oral transmissions (kuden) within the medieval TENDAISHu tradition. These interpretations were subsequently written down on short slips of paper (KIRIGAMI) that were gradually assembled into more extensive treatments. These interpretations ultimately came to be attributed by tradition to the great Tendai masters of old, such as SAICHo (767-822), but connections to these earlier teachers are dubious at best and the exact dates and attributions of these materials are unclear. During the late Heian and Kamakura periods, hongaku thought bifurcated into two major lineages, the Eshin and Danna (both of which subsequently divided into numerous subbranches). This bifurcation was largely a split between followers of the two major disciples of the Tendai monk RYoGEN: GENSHIN (942-1017) of Eshin'in in YOKAWA (the famous author of the oJo YoSHu); and Kakuun (953-1007) of Danna'in in the Eastern pagoda complex at ENRYAKUJI on HIEIZAN. The Tendai tradition claims that these two strands of interpretation derive from Saicho, who learned these different approaches while studying Tiantai thought in China under Daosui (J. Dosui/Dozui; d.u.) and Xingman (J. Gyoman; d.u.), and subsequently transmitted them to his successors in Japan; the distinctions between these two positions are, however, far from certain. Other indigenous Japanese schools of Buddhism that developed later during the Kamakura period, such as the JoDOSHu and JoDO SHINSHu, seem to have harbored more of a critical attitude toward the notion of original enlightenment. One of the common charges leveled against hongaku thought was that it fostered a radical antinomianism, which denied the need for either religious practice or ethical restraint. In the contemporary period, the notion of original enlightenment has been strongly criticized by advocates of "Critical Buddhism" (HIHAN BUKKYo) as an infiltration into Buddhism of Brahmanical notions of a perduring self (ĀTMAN); in addition, by valorizing the reality of the mundane world just as it is, hongaku thought was said to be an exploitative doctrine that had been used in Japan to justify societal inequality and political despotism. For broader East Asian perspectives on "original enlightenment," see BENJUE.
Hongzhou zong. (J. Koshushu; K. Hongju chong 洪州宗). The Hongzhou school of Chinese CHAN derives its name from the Hongzhou region in Jiangxi province, where the Chan master MAZU DAOYI developed his unique style of Chan pedagogy. The name was first used by the Chan historian GUIFENG ZONGMI to refer primarily to those who traced their lineage back to Mazu and his immediate disciples. According to traditional accounts of their teachings, Chan masters in the Hongzhou line regarded all activities of everyday life as the very functioning of the buddha-nature (FOXING) itself. Since everything in the conditioned realm, therefore, was presumed to be a manifestation of the buddha-nature, Hongzhou adepts were said to claim that all actions, whether right or wrong, good or evil, and so forth, were equally the functioning of the enlightened mind. Zongmi criticized this view as promoting a dangerous antinomianism in Chan, which fostered unrestrained conduct (see WU'AI XING). Normative portrayals in Chan literature of iconoclastic masters striking their students, shouting, and pinching their students' noses derive from stereotypes fostered within the Hongzhou school. Largely through the efforts of Mazu's prominent disciples BAIZHANG HUAIHAI and NANQUAN PUYUAN, the Hongzhou line came to be the dominant Chan lineage in medieval China and eventually evolved into the GUIYANG ZONG and LINJI ZONG of the mature Chan tradition. The Hongzhou lineage was also extremely influential in Silla and Koryo-period Korea as well, where eight of the nine sites associated with the Korean Nine Mountains Son school (KUSAN SoNMUN) were founded during the ninth century by teachers who studied in China with Hongzhou masters.
huatou. (J. wato; K. hwadu 話頭). In Chinese, "topic of inquiry"; in some contexts, "critical phrase" or "keyword." The Song-dynasty CHAN master DAHUI ZONGGAO, in the LINJI ZONG, popularized a meditative technique in which he urged his students (many of whom were educated literati) to use a Chan case (GONG'AN) as a "topic of meditative inquiry" (huatou) rather than interpret it from purely intellectual or literary perspectives. Perhaps the most famous and most widely used huatou is the topic "no" (WU) attributed to the Chan master ZHAOZHOU CONGSHEN: A monk asked Zhaozhou, "Does a dog have buddha-nature (FOXING), or not?," to which Zhaozhou replied "WU" ("no"; lit. "it does not have it"; see GOUZI WU FOXING; WU GONG'AN). Because of the widespread popularity of this particular one-word topic in China, Korea, and Japan, this huatou is often interpreted as a "critical phrase'" or "keyword," in which the word "wu" is presumed to be the principal topic and thus the "keyword," or "critical phrase," of the longer gong'an exchange. Because Zhaozhou's answer in this exchange goes against the grain of East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism-which presumes that all sentient beings, including dogs, are inherently enlightened-the huatou helps to foster questioning, or technically "doubt" (YIQING), the focus of a new type of Chan meditation called KANHUA CHAN, "the Chan of investigating the huatou." Huatou (which literally means "head of speech," and thus "topic") might best be taken metaphorically as the "apex of speech," or the "point at which (or beyond which) speech exhausts itself." Speech is of course initiated by thought, so "speech" in this context refers to all the discriminative tendencies of the mind, viz., conceptualization. By leading to the very limits of speech-or more accurately thought-the huatou acts as a purification device that frees the mind of its conceptualizing tendencies, leaving it clear, attentive, and calm. Even though the huatou is typically a word or phrase taken from the teachings of previous Chan masters, it is a word that is claimed to bring an end to conceptualization, leaving the mind receptive to the influence of the unconditioned. As Dahui notes, huatou produces a "cleansing knowledge and vision" (see JNĀNADARsANA) that "removes the defects of conceptual understanding so that one may find the road leading to liberation." Huatou is thus sometimes interpreted in Chinese Buddhism as a type of meditative "homeopathy," in which one uses a small dosage of the poison of concepts to cure the disease of conceptualization. Dahui's use of the huatou technique was first taught in Korea by POJO CHINUL, where it is known by its Korean pronunciation as hwadu, and popularized by Chinul's successor, CHIN'GAK HYESIM. Investigation of the hwadu remains the most widespread type of meditation taught and practiced in Korean Buddhism. In Japanese Zen, the use of the wato became widespread within the RINZAISHu, due in large part to the efforts of HAKUIN EKAKU and his disciples.
impasture ::: v. t. --> To place in a pasture; to foster.
Information Resource Management ::: (IRM) A philosophical and practical approach to managing government information. Information is regarded as a valuable resource which should be managed like and/or destruction, for maximising the overall usefulness of information, and improving service delivery and program management.IRM views information and Information Technology as an integrating factor in the organisation, that is, the various organisational positions that manage Information Technology are interrelated, and fosters that interrelationship and organisational integration.IRM includes the management of (1) the broad range of information resources, e.g., printed materials, electronic information, and microforms, (2) the various IRM is to increase the usefulness of government information both to the government and to the public.[Gary D. Blass et al. Finding Government Information: The Federal Information Locator System (FILS), Government Information Quarterly, JAI Press, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-32. 1991]. (1995-11-12)
Information Resource Management (IRM) A philosophical and practical approach to managing government information. Information is regarded as a valuable resource which should be managed like other resources, and should contribute directly to accomplishing organisational goals and objectives. IRM provides an integrated view for managing the entire life-cycle of information, from generation, to dissemination, to archiving and/or destruction, for maximising the overall usefulness of information, and improving service delivery and program management. IRM views information and {Information Technology} as an integrating factor in the organisation, that is, the various organisational positions that manage information are coordinated and work together toward common ends. Further, IRM looks for ways in which the management of information and the management of Information Technology are interrelated, and fosters that interrelationship and organisational integration. IRM includes the management of (1) the broad range of information resources, e.g., printed materials, electronic information, and microforms, (2) the various technologies and equipment that manipulate these resources, and (3) the people who generate, organise, and disseminate those resources. Overall the intent of IRM is to increase the usefulness of government information both to the government and to the public. [Gary D. Blass et al. "Finding Government Information: The Federal Information Locator System (FILS)", Government Information Quarterly, JAI Press, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-32. 1991]. (1995-11-12)
"In the inner sense of the Veda Surya, the Sun-God, represents the divine Illumination of the Kavi which exceeds mind and forms the pure self-luminous Truth of things. His principal power is self-revelatory knowledge, termed in the Veda ``Sight"". His realm is described as the Truth, the Law, the Vast. He is the Fosterer or Increaser, for he enlarges and opens man"s dark and limited being into a luminous and infinite consciousness. He is the sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, and leads him to the highest Sight.” The Upanishads*
“In the inner sense of the Veda Surya, the Sun-God, represents the divine Illumination of the Kavi which exceeds mind and forms the pure self-luminous Truth of things. His principal power is self-revelatory knowledge, termed in the Veda ``Sight’’. His realm is described as the Truth, the Law, the Vast. He is the Fosterer or Increaser, for he enlarges and opens man’s dark and limited being into a luminous and infinite consciousness. He is the sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, and leads him to the highest Sight.” The Upanishads
Jagaddhatri (Sanskrit) Jagaddhātrī [from jagat the world + dhātrī mother, nurse] World-mother, world foster-mother; applied to Sarasvati and Durga, among other Hindu goddesses. Used particularly in connection with Krishna in his aspect of the Logos, the avatara, and likewise with his brother Balarama, who both are brought to their mother, Devaki, by means of Jagaddhatri. Cosmologically, the name refers to a spiritual substance which is one of the first few removes from Brahman. In the building of worlds it is the cosmic matrix out of which worlds are born, and which therefore acts not only in the sense of mother, but likewise as foster-mother, nurse, and producer.
jieshe. (J. kessha; K. kyolsa 結社). In Chinese, "retreat society"; a generic designation for various religious reform movements that were especially popular during Song-dynasty China and Koryo-dynasty Korea. These fraternal societies had their antecedents in the AMITĀBHA society of LUSHAN HUIYUAN (334-416) during the Eastern Jin dynasty and were widespread by the ninth century. By the Song dynasty, such communities were pervasive throughout China, especially in the south. These societies were typically involved in TIANTAI, HUAYAN, and PURE LAND practice, though some were dedicated to the worship of a specific BODHISATTVA, such as SAMANTABHADRA. These societies were typically founded outside the ecclesiastical establishment and, by encouraging both lay and ordained adepts to train together, they fostered some measure of religious egalitarianism within East Asian Buddhism. The jieshe movement was especially influential in Koryo-dynasty Korea, where some fourteen separate kyolsa sites are mentioned in the Koryosa ("History of Koryo"), from Kangwon province in the north to South Cholla province in the south. The best known is the CHoNGHYE KYoLSA (Samādhi and PrajNā Society) initiated in 1180 by POJO CHINUL (1158-1210) and formally established in 1188, which was dedicated to SoN (Chan) cultivation. In 1197, the community had grown so large that it was relocated to Kilsangsa on Mt. Songgwang, the site of the major present-day monastery of SONGGWANGSA. The residents of the society are said to have gathered together to recite sutras, train in meditation, and engage in group work activity. Chinul's first composition, the Kwon su Chonghye kyolsa mun ("Encouragement to Practice: The Compact of the Samādhi and PrajNā Society"), written in 1290, provided the rationale behind the establishment of the community and critiqued pure land adepts who claim that buddhahood cannot be achieved in the present lifetime. Chinul was joined at his community by the Ch'ont'ae (TIANTAI) adept WoNMYO YOSE (1163-1240), who subsequently founded the Paengnyon kyolsa (White Lotus Society) in 1211 at Mandoksan in the far southwest of the peninsula, which was engaged in Ch'ont'ae practice.
Kapilavastu. (P. Kapilavatthu; T. Ser skya'i gzhi; C. Jiapiluowei; J. Kabirae; K. Kabirawi 迦毘羅衛). In Sanskrit, the capital city of the sĀKYA tribe and the hometown of the buddha GAUTAMA. The city was located north of the larger region of KOsALA, in the foothills of modern-day Nepal. Kapilavastu is the town where SIDDHĀRTHA Gautama was raised and lived as a prince until he renounced worldly life. Later, after his enlightenment, he stayed often at Nigrodha's Park in the precincts of the city, together with his growing band of disciples. In Kapilavastu, his cousins ĀNANDA and DEVADATTA, his half-brother NANDA, and his barber UPĀLI were converted and became monks (BHIKsU). When the Buddha ordained his then seven-year-old son RĀHULA as a novice (sRĀMAnERA) without the knowledge of the boy's mother, YAsODHARĀ, the Buddha's father, sUDDHODANA, protested, and a rule was created stating that ordinations would not take place without prior parental consent. After the death of his father, the Buddha's foster mother MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ begged the Buddha to be allowed to join the SAMGHA, thus initiating the order of nuns (BHIKsUnĪ).
kaukṛtya. (P. kukkucca; T. 'gyod pa; C. hui; J. ke; K. hoe 悔). In Sanskrit, "worry," "remorse," or perhaps "crisis of conscience"; along with the related "restlessness" or "distraction" (AUDDHATYA), with which it is often seen in compound (as auddhatya-kaukṛtya); it constitutes the fourth of the five hindrances (NĪVARAnA) to the attainment of meditative absorption (DHYĀNA). Auddhatya-kaukṛtya is the specific hindrance to joy (SUKHA), the fourth of the five factors of dhyāna (DHYĀNĀnGA), and is fostered by unwise attention (AYONIsOMANASKĀRA) to mental unrest and is overcome through learning and reflecting on the SuTRA and VINAYA, and associating with elders of calm demeanor. Restlessness and worry are countered by SAMĀDHI, the fourth of the five spiritual faculties (INDRIYA) and the sixth of the factors of enlightenment (BODHYAnGA), together with development of the tranquillity (PRAsRABDHI), and equanimity (UPEKsĀ) enlightenment factors.
kin altruism: in evolutionary psychology, the concept that individuals help those who are close relatives, because it fosters the transmission of their genes.
laissez faire ::: --> Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
lap ::: n. --> The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a
Love ::: Spiritually this is a fundamental property of consciousness as all experience and experiencers are emergent from non-duality and return through the same gate. This fosters a sense of self and respect that eschews the dualistic boundaries we set for ourselves and for our minds. With this principle in mind guiding actions through Will becomes much easier (there is much less resistance) as we seek to align Love with Will and Will with Love.
Lumbinī. (T. Lum bi'i tshal/Lum bi ni; C. Lanpini yuan; J. Ranbinion; K. Nambini won 藍毘尼園). In Sanskrit and Pāli, the name of the Buddha's birthplace, now Rummindei in the Terai Region of modern Nepal. The Buddha's mother MĀYĀ was traveling from her home in KAPILAVASTU to her parents' home to give birth when she went into labor at Lumbinī. According to traditional accounts, she gave birth while standing between twin sĀLA trees. It is said that the Buddha stepped out of her right side and was born. (His conception had been similarly miraculous: the Buddha entered his mother's womb in the form of a white elephant.) The moment after the Buddha's birth, both mother and child were washed with water by divinities, the legendary origin of "bathing the infant Buddha" ceremonies that occur during the festival celebrating the Buddha's birth in numerous Buddhist cultures. As soon as he was born, he is claimed to have taken seven steps and declared that he was unrivalled on heaven and earth (see SIMHANĀDA). As with all mothers of prospective buddhas, Māyā died seven days after the birth of her son. Queen Māyā's sister MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ, another wife of his father King sUDDHODANA, would serve as the Buddha's wet nurse and foster mother and eventually become the founder of the order of nuns (BHIKsUnĪ). The mainstream MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA (P. MAHĀPARINIBBĀNASUTTA) recognizes Lumbinī as the first of the four principal pilgrimage sites (MAHĀSTHĀNA) Buddhists should frequent to recollect the achievements of the Buddha and to "arouse emotion in the faithful" along with BODHGAYĀ, where the Buddha attained enlightenment; the Deer Park (MṚGADĀVA) at ṚsIPATANA (SĀRNĀTH), where he first "turned the wheel of the dharma" (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA); and KUsINAGARĪ, where he passed away into PARINIRVĀnA. Lumbinī is still frequented today by Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world.
Mazu Daoyi. (J. Baso Doitsu; K. Majo Toil 馬祖道一) (709-788). Chinese CHAN master of the Tang dynasty and retrospective patriarch of the HONGZHOU ZONG of the broader Chan tradition. Mazu was a native of Hanzhou in present-day Sichuan province. At an early age, he became a student of the Chan master Chuji (alt. 648-734, 650-732, 669-736) of Zizhou (also in present-day Sichuan province) and received the full monastic precepts later from the VINAYA master Yuan (d.u.) at nearby Yuzhou. Mazu is said to have later visited the sixth patriarch HUINENG's disciple NANYUE HUAIRANG (677-744), under whom he attained awakening. According to the famous story, which is frequently recited in Chan literature, Mazu was awakened when his teacher Nanyue likened Mazu's sitting in meditation to the act of polishing of a roof tile: just as a roof tile cannot be polished to make a mirror, sitting meditation, says Nanyue, cannot lead to buddhahood. In his thirties, Mazu began teaching at various monasteries in the southern regions of Fujian and Jiangxi province. In 769, he began his residence at the monastery of Kaiyuansi (also known as Youqingsi) in Zhongling (in present-day Jiangsu province) and attracted many students. Emperor Xianzong (r. 805-820) later gave him the posthumous title Chan Master Daji (Great Serenity). His teachings are recorded in the Mazu Daoyi chanshi guanglu. Mazu developed the idea of "original enlightenment" (BENJUE) from the DASHENG QIXIN LUN ("Awakening of Faith According to the Mahāyāna") in a radical direction. He asserted that "everyday mind is the way" (pingchangxin shi dao) and that "mind itself is the Buddha" (zixin shi fo), arguing that sentient beings have never in fact been deluded but have always been awakened buddhas. Although Mazu did not intend to advocate maintaining a deluded state of mind but wanted instead to recognize the value of the ordinary life as the ground of enlightenment, his emphasis on the inseparable relationship of enlightenment and ignorance drew severe criticisms, especially from GUIFENG ZONGMI (780-841), who believed that Mazu's teachings fostered antinomianism for suggesting that practice was not necessary in order to awaken.
milieu therapy: a humanistic approach to the treatment of psychological disorders that emphasises the importance of an institution in recovery. An environment is created whereby staff and patients are viewed as equal, and an atmosphere is fostered of self-respect.
Nevertheless, the myth originally undoubtedly contained occult truths, for the wolf stands for a certain fostering or nutritive factor in the legend, and does not mean the actual animal; and similarly with the shepherd in such legends.
nosel ::: v. t. --> To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
nourish ::: v. t. --> To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
To support; to maintain.
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
To cherish; to comfort.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to
nurse ::: n. 1. One who tends or looks after another. 2. Fig. One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means. v. 3. To feed at the breast of; suckle. 4. To manage or guide carefully; look after with care; foster. 5. To bear privately in the mind or in the heart. nurses, nursed, nursing, earth-nursed.
nurse ::: n. --> One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
nursery ::: n. --> The act of nursing.
The place where nursing is carried on
The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
nuzzle ::: v. t. --> To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
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Pali Text Society. An organization founded in 1881 by the British PĀLI specialist THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS (1843-1922), which, according to Rhys Davids' mission statement, sought "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts." The Pali Text Society (PTS) was one response to Buddhism's growing popularity in the West in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, and the society played an essential role in sponsoring both the production of critical editions of Pāli texts and their translation into English. With the help of scholars around the world, the PTS published critical, Romanized editions of most of the Pāli Canon over the first three decades of its existence; this massive project was followed with editions of important commentarial literature and an English translation series. The PTS also started the Journal of the Pali Text Society, which continues to publish articles on both Pāli Buddhism and broader topics in Buddhist Studies. The group also published primers for learning the Pāli language and such important reference works as the Society's Pali-English Dictionary, begun by Rhys Davids and finished by his student William Stede, which is now available in a searchable electronic format online. By the time of Rhys Davids' death in 1922, the PTS had published almost thirty thousand pages of Romanized and translated Pāli materials, as well as a host of articles and essays written by Western scholars. Over the years, presidents of the PTS have included such distinguished Pāli scholars as CAROLINE A. F. RHYS DAVIDS (1858-1942), ISALINE BLEW HORNER, and K. R. Norman. In 1994, the PTS began the Fragile Palm Leaves project to collect, identify, catalogue, preserve, and copy a number of rare Pāli manuscripts that survive in the Southeast Asian Buddhist traditions.
Pan chen Lama. A Tibetan title given to members of an important line of incarnate lamas (SPRUL SKU), commonly identified as second in stature in Tibet after the DALAI LAMAs. Their seat is BKRA SHIS LHUN PO monastery in Gtsang in western Tibet. Pan chen is a common abbreviation for the mixed Sanskrit and Tibetan appellation "pandita chen po" (literally "great scholar"), and is an honorific title granted to scholars of great achievement. It was also used as an epithet for the abbot of Bkra shis lhun po monastery, beginning with its founder and first abbot DGE 'DUN GRUB. The fifth Dalai Lama gave the abbacy of Bkra shis lhun po to his tutor, BLO BZANG CHOS KYI RGYAL MTSHAN. As abbot of the monastery, he was called Pan chen, but he came to receive the distinctive title "Pan chen Lama" when the fifth Dalai Lama announced that, upon his teacher's death, his teacher would reappear as an identifiable child-successor. Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan thus had conferred on him the title "Pan chen Lama." The Pan chen Lama is considered the human incarnation of the buddha AMITĀBHA, while the Dalai Lama is considered the human incarnation of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITEsVARA. Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan is traditionally viewed as the fourth member of the lineage, with his previous incarnations recognized posthumously, beginning with TSONG KHA PA's disciple MKHAS GRUB DGE LEGS DPAL BZANG PO. For this reason, there is some confusion in the numbering of the lamas of the lineage; Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan is sometimes referred to as the fourth Pan chen Lama, but more commonly in Tibetan sources as the first. Blo bzang dpal ldan ye shes is sometimes referred to as the sixth Pan chen Lama, but more commonly in Tibetan sources as the third. (In the discussion below, the higher numerical designation will be employed, since it is used in the contemporary controversy over the identity of the Pan chen Lama.) The fifth Dalai Lama apparently hoped that the Dalai Lama and Pan chen Lama could alternate as teacher and student in lifetime after lifetime. This plan required, however, that each live a long life, which was not to be the case. Subsequent incarnations were recognized and installed at Bkra shis lhun po and eventually grew to wield considerable religious and political power, at times rivaling that of the Dalai Lama himself. This was particularly true in the nineteenth century, when few Dalai Lamas reached their majority. The sixth Pan chen Lama, Blo bzang dpal ldan ye shes (Losang Palden Yeshe, 1738-1780), was a skilled politician who secured Tibet's first relationship with a European power when he befriended George Bogle, British emissary to the East India Company under Warren Hastings. The ninth Pan chen Lama (1883-1937) did not enjoy close relations with the thirteenth Dalai Lama; the Dalai Lama felt that the Pan chen Lama was too close to both the British and the Chinese. They also disagreed over what taxes the Pan chen Lama owed the LHA SA government. The Pan chen Lama went to China in 1925, and his supporters became aligned with the nationalist Guomindang party. While in China, he gave teachings and performed rituals, including some intended to repulse the Japanese invaders then on the Chinese mainland. After the death of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, he served in an advisory capacity in the search for the fourteenth Dalai Lama and died shortly thereafter, while en route back to Tibet. His successor, the tenth Pan chen Lama 'Phrin las lhun grub chos kyi rgyal mtshan (Trinle Lhündrup Chokyi Gyaltsen, 1938-1989) was selected by the Chinese, with the Lha sa government providing only tacit support. He was drawn into the official Chinese administration as a representative of the Communist party and remained in China when the Dalai Lama fled into exile in 1959. In 1964, he was arrested and imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to the Communist party's harsh policies in Tibet, and was subjected to public humiliation and physical abuse. After fourteen years in prison, he was released in 1978, and played a key role in fostering the cultural reconstruction that helped to reestablish religious life in Tibet. Despite his role in the Communist administration, many Tibetans continue to view his life as a heroic struggle for the cause of liberalization in Tibet. His death led to the recognition of two child incarnations: one, Dge 'dun chos kyi nyi ma (Gendün Chokyi Nyima, b. 1989), chosen by the fourteenth Dalai Lama in exile and favored by the majority of Tibetan people, and another, Rgyal mtshan nor bu (b. 1990), installed by the Chinese government. The disappearance of the Dalai Lama's candidate in China has led to a significant increase in tension between the two factions. The lineage of Pan chen Lamas includes:
Philosophic speculations, heavily shrouded by "pre-logical" and symbolic language, started with the poetic, ritualistic Vedas (q.v.), luxuriating in polytheism and polyanthropoism, was then fostered by the Brahman caste in treatises called Aranyakas (q.v.) and Brahmanas (q.v.) and strongly promoted by members of the ruling caste who instituted philosophic congresses in which peripatetic teachers and women participated, and of which we know through the Upanishads (q.v.). Later, the main bulk of Indian Philosophy articulated itself organically into systems forming the nucleus for such famous schools as the Mimamsa and Vedanta, Sankhya and Yoga, Nyaya and Vaisesika, and those of Buddhism and Jainism (all of which see). Numerous other philosophic and quasi philosophic systems are found in the epic literature and elsewhere (cf., e.g., Shaktism, Shivaism, Trika, Vishnuism), or remain to be discovered. Much needs to be translated by competent philosophers.
Program Composition Notation ::: (PCN) A specification language for parallelism between C and Fortran modules. PCN provides a simple language for specifying concurrent algorithms, interfaces modelling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation.Version 2.0 runs on networks of workstations: Sun-4, NeXT, RS/6000, SGI; multicomputers: iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA; and shared memory multiprocessors: Symmetry/Dynix. .E-mail: Ian Foster , Steve Tuecke .[Productive Parallel Programming: The PCN Approach, I. Foster et al, Sci Prog 1(1):51-66 (1992)]. (1993-02-12)
Program Composition Notation (PCN) A specification language for parallelism between {C} and {Fortran} {modules}. PCN provides a simple language for specifying {concurrent} {algorithms}, interfaces to {Fortran} and {C}, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on a {workstation} or small parallel computer and run unchanged on {supercomputers} and integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at {Argonne National Laboratory} and the {California Institute of Technology}. It has been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate modelling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation. Version 2.0 runs on networks of workstations: {Sun-4}, {NeXT}, {RS/6000}, {SGI}; {multicomputers}: {iPSC}/860, {Touchstone DELTA}; and {shared memory} multiprocessors: {Symmetry}/{Dynix}. {(ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/pcn)}. E-mail: Ian Foster "pcn@mcs.anl.gov", Steve Tuecke "tuecke@mcs.anl.gov". ["Productive Parallel Programming: The PCN Approach", I. Foster et al, Sci Prog 1(1):51-66 (1992)]. (1993-02-12)
pusan (Pushan) ::: the Fosterer or Increaser, a form of the sun-god. [Ved.]
Rgya gar chos 'byung. (Gyakar Chojung). In Tibetan, "History of the Dharma in India," a detailed history of the development of Buddhism on the subcontinent written in 1608 by the Tibetan savant Kun dga' snying po (1575-1634), better known as TĀRANĀTHA. The work's complete title is Dam pa'i chos rin po che 'phags pa'i yul du ji ltar dar ba'i tshul gsal bar ston pa dgos 'dod kun 'byung. It is often consulted by Tibetan and Western scholars of Buddhism because of its judicious use of earlier traditional sources and its sense of the larger history of the subcontinent, perhaps fostered by the author's access to Indian informants, unusual for such a late period in Indian Buddhist history. The work restricts itself largely to the history of Buddhism in India and follows a chronology that can be loosely characterized as historical: it is based on five time periods between the time of AJĀTAsATRU and AsOKA, five time periods from there to the time of the third Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, THIRD), and remaining time periods covering the great MAHĀYĀNA masters, through the history of the Pāla dynasty. It ends with a history of Buddhism in different regions, a history of TANTRA, and of image making. Tāranātha's Rgya gar chos 'byung is supplemented by his histories of PADMASAMBHAVA, the KĀLACAKRATANTRA, the TĀRĀ and YAMĀNTAKA lineages, and by his BKA' 'BABS BDUN LDAN GYI RNAM THAR, "Biographies of the Seven Instruction Lineages."
sapta dhenavah ::: the seven fostering cows. [Ved.]
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. ::: (company) (SPI) A non-profit corporation which helps organisations develop and distribute open hardware and open software. SPI's goals are:* to create, form and establish an organization to formulate and provide software systems for use by the general public without charge;* to teach and train individuals regarding the use and application of such systems;* to hold classes, seminars and workshops concerning the proper use and application of computers and computer systems;* to endeavor to monitor and improve the quality of currently existing publicly available software;* to support, encourage and promote the creation and development of software available to the general public;* to provide information and education regarding the proper use of the Internet;* to organize, hold and conduct meetings, discussions and forums on contemporary issues concerning the use of computers and computer software;* to foster, promote and increase access to software systems available to the general public;* to solicit, collect and otherwise raise money and to expend such funds in furtherance of the goals and activities of the corporation;* to aid, assist, cooperate, co-sponsor and otherwise engage in concerted action with private, educational and governmental organisations and associations on all issues and matters concerning the use of computers and computer software and;* generally to endeavor to promote, foster and advance interest in computers and computer software by all available means and methods.SPI currently supports Berlin, Debian, GNOME, LSB, Open Source. .(2002-04-14)
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Sotoshu. (曺洞宗). One of the three major branches of the Japanese Zen tradition, along with the RINZAISHu and oBAKUSHu. The Soto tradition traces its lineage back to DoGEN KIGEN (1200-1253), who is credited with transmitting to Japan the CAODONG ZONG line of the Chinese CHAN teacher TIANTONG RUJING (1162-1227). After returning from China in 1227, Dogen settled in Kyoto and sought to create a new Zen community. Because of resistance from the TENDAI and Rinzai traditions that were already firmly entrenched in the capital (see ENNI BEN'EN), Dogen and his followers eventually left for the rural area of Echizen (in the northern part of present-day Fukui prefecture), and founded EIHEIJI, which came to serve as the center of this new Zen institution. In Echizen, Dogen devoted his time and energy to securing the doctrinal and institutional bases for his community. Dogen's venture was aided by several adherents of the DARUMASHu, who joined the community. Among them were Koun Ejo (1198-1280), the editor of the seventy-five-roll version of Dogen's magnum opus, the SHoBoGENZo, and Tettsu Gikai (1219-1309), whose lineage subsequently came to dominate the Soto school; these monks later served as the second and the third abbots of Eiheiji. Modern scholars believe that a dispute between Gikai and a fellow disciple of Koun Ejo named Gien (d. 1313) concerning the abbotship of Eiheiji prompted Gikai to move to Daijoji in Ishikawa. Gikai was succeeded by his disciple KEIZAN JoKIN (1268-1325), who is honored as "the second patriarch" of Soto by the school's modern followers. Keizan revitalized the Soto community by synthesizing Zen practice with the worship of local gods (KAMI), thus appealing to the local populace. Keizan also established SoJIJI, which along with Eiheiji came to serve as the headquarters (honzan) of the Soto tradition. Gazan Shoseki (1275-1365), a successor of Keizan, produced several disciples, including Taigen Soshin (d. c. 1371) and Tsugen Jakurei (1322-1391), who are credited with the Soto school's rapid expansion throughout Japan during the medieval period. Soto monks of this period, especially those belonging to Keizan-Gazan lines, proselytized in the rural areas of Japan, which had been largely neglected by the established Buddhist traditions at court, and attracted a following among commoners and local elites by engaging in such social activities as building bridges and irrigation systems, as well as by performing rituals that met their religious needs, such as funeral services and mass ordinations (jukai e). Each lineage of the Soto tradition also developed its own secret koan manuals (monsan), only available to selected monks, which gave a received set of questions and answers regarding each koan (C. GONG'AN). During the Tokugawa period, the Soto school developed into one of the largest Buddhist sects in Japan, with a stable financial base, thanks to the mandatory parish system (DANKA SEIDO) that the government launched, in which every household was required to register as a member of a local Buddhist temple and was responsible for the financial support for the temple. By the middle of the eighteenth century, there were more than 17,500 Soto temples across Japan. Although the religious life of the majority of the Soto monks and lay followers during this period was focused on practical religious benefits, such as faith healing and funeral services, a restoration movement eventually developed that sought to return to the putative "original teachings and practices" of the founder Dogen. MANZAN DoHAKU (1636-1714) opposed the custom of IN'IN EKISHI, or "changing teachers according to temple," which was widespread in the Soto tradition during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was required in order to inherit the dharma lineage of a temple (GARANBo). Instead, Manzan called for a direct, face-to-face transmission (menju shiho) from one master to his disciple (isshi insho), which he claimed Dogen had established for the Soto tradition. After several failed attempts, he finally succeeded in persuading the bakufu government to ban the in'in ekishi and garanbo practice in 1703. TENKEI DENSON (1648-1735) and MENZAN ZUIHo (1683-1769) also composed influential commentaries to Dogen's magnum opus, the Shobogenzo, which led to a renaissance in Dogen studies. After the Meiji reforms of 1868, the two head monasteries of Eiheiji and Sojiji, which had remained rivals through the Tokugawa period, worked together to reform the school, issuing several standardizations of the rules for temple operation, ritual procedures, etc. In 1890, Azegami Baisen (d.1901) from Sojiji and Takiya Takushu (d. 1897) from Eiheiji edited the layman ouchi Seiran's (1845-1918) introductory work on the Shobogenzo and distributed it under the title of the Soto kyokai shushogi ("Meaning of Practice and Realization in the Soto Sect"). This text played a major role in the popularization of the school's meditative practice of "just sitting" (SHIKAN TAZA), which fosters a psychological state in which "body and mind are sloughed off" (SHINJIN DATSURAKU); sitting practice itself is therefore regarded as the manifestation of the perfect enlightenment of buddhahood. The Soto school continues to thrive today, with the great majority of its more than fourteen thousand contemporary temples affiliated with Sojiji.
sramana. (P. samana; T. dge sbyong; C. shamen; J. shamon; K. samun 沙門). In Sanskrit "renunciant," "mendicant," or "recluse," a term used in ancient India to refer to male religious of a number of different itinerant sects, including Buddhism, often associated with the warrior (KsATRIYA) caste, which challenged the hegemony of the brāhmana priests and mainstream Brahmanical religion deriving from the Vedas. Whereas the Brahmanical tradition traces itself back to a body of literature centered on the Vedas, the sramana movements instead derive from historical persons who all flourished around the sixth century BCE. Six different sramana groups are mentioned in the SĀMANNAPHALASUTTANTA of the DĪGHANIKĀYA, each representing different trends in Indian thought, including antinomianism (PuRAnA-KĀsYAPA); fatalism (MASKARIN-GOsĀLĪPUTRA of the ĀJĪVAKA school); materialism (AJITA-KEsAKAMBALA of the LOKĀYATA school); atomism (KAKUDA-KĀTYĀYANA); and agnosticism (SANJAYA-VAIRĀtĪPUTRA); the sixth group is the JAINA tradition of NIRGRANTHA JNĀTĪPUTRA, also known as MAHĀVĪRA, with which Buddhism shares many affinities. These six are typically referred to in Buddhist materials as the six "heterodox teachers" (TĪRTHIKA) and are consistently criticized by the Buddha for fostering wrong views (MITHYĀDṚstI). Some scholars suggest that these groups were loosely associated with a third phase in the development of pan-Indian religion called the āranyaka (forest dwellers) movement, where the highly specialized fire rituals (HOMA) set forth in the Brāhmanas for the propitiation of Vedic gods gave way to a more internalized form of spiritual praxis. These itinerant asetics or wanders were also called PARIVRĀJAKA (P. paribbājaka; "those who go forth into homelessness"), in direct contrast to the householders (GṚHASTHA) whose behavior was governed by the laws set down in dharmasāstras. Because so many of the beliefs and practices emblematic of the sramana movement have no direct Vedic antecedents, however, other scholars have proposed that the sramana groups may instead exemplify the resurfacing in Indian religion of aboriginal elements that had long been eclipsed by the imported rituals and beliefs that the Āryans brought with them to India. These doctrines, all of which have their parallels in Buddhism, include rebirth and transmigration (e.g., PUNARJANMAN); notions that actions have effect (e.g., KARMAN); asceticism (TAPAS, DHUTAnGA) and the search for ways of behavior that would not bind one to the round of SAMSĀRA; and liberation (MOKsA, VIMOKsA) as the goal of religious practice. In Buddhism, sramana is also used generically to refer to all monks, including the Buddha, whose epithets include sramana Gautama and Mahāsramana, "Great Renunciant." The term often occurs in the compound sramanabrāhmana (P. samanabrāhmana), "recluses and brāhmanas." This compound has a range of meanings. In some cases, it refers simply to those who practice and benefit from the Buddha's teachings. In other cases, it refers to non-Buddhist religious practitioners. In the edicts of AsOKA, the term is used to refer to those who are worthy of respect and offerings, with sramana taken to mean Buddhist monks (and possibly other ascetics) and brāhmana taken to mean brāhmana priests. The term sramana should be carefully distinguished from sRĀMAnERA (s.v.), a novice monk.
Strand ::: 1. AND-parallel logic programming language. Essentially flat Parlog83 with sequential-and and sequential-or eliminated.[Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming, Ian Foster et al, P-H 1990]. Strand88 is a commercial implementation.2. A query language, implemented on top of INGRES (an RDBMS). [Modelling Summary Data, R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981].
Strand 1. {AND-parallel} {logic programming} language. Essentially flat {Parlog83} with sequential-and and sequential-or eliminated. ["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et al, P-H 1990]. {Strand88} is a commercial implementation. 2. A query language, implemented on top of {INGRES} (an {RDBMS}). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981].
Sympathy: On psychological levels, a participation in and feeling for other living beings in adversity or other emotional phases, not always painful, which may or may not lead to participating or alleviating action, explained naturalistically as a general instinct inherent in all creatures, ethically sometimes as an original altruism, sociologically as acquired in the civilisatory process through needs of co-operation, mutual aid, and fellow-feeling in family and group action. Stressed particularly in Hinduism, fostered along with pity (q.v.) in Christianity, discussed and recommended as a shrewd social expedient by such men as Hobbes, Bentham, and Adam Smith, Schopenhauer raised sympathy Mitleid), as an equivalent to love, into an ethical principle which Nietzsche repudiated because to him it increases suffering and through weakness hinders development. Sympathy, as a cultural force, becomes progressively more evident in the increasing establishment of benevolent institutions, such as hospitals, asylums, etc., a more general altruism and ejection (Clifford), an extension of kindness even to animals (first taught by Buddhism, see Ahimsa), reform and relief movements of all kinds, etc. Still regarded highly as a praiseworthy virtue, it has been gradually rid of its dependence on individual ethical culture by scientific conditioning in social planning on a huge scale. See v. Orelli, Die philosophischen Auffassungen des Mttleids (1912); Scheler, Wesen und Formen der Sympathie (1926). -- K.F.L.
Taixu. (太) (1889-1947). In Chinese, "Grand Voidness"; a leading figure in the Chinese Buddhist revival during the first half of the twentieth century. Taixu was ordained at the age of fourteen, purportedly because he wanted to acquire the supernatural powers of the buddhas. He studied under the famous Chinese monk, "Eight Fingers" (Bazhi Toutou), so called because he had burned off one finger of each hand in reverence to the Buddha, and achieved an awakening when reading a PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ SuTRA. In 1908, he joined a group of radicals, including other Buddhist monks, intent on revolution. In 1911, he organized the first of many groups (many of them short-lived) to revitalize Buddhism during this time of national crisis following the fall of the Qing dynasty. In 1912, he was involved in a failed attempt to turn the famous monastery of Chinshansi into a modern school for monks. After this disgrace, beginning in 1914, he went into retreat for three years, during which time he studied Buddhist scriptures and formulated plans to revitalize Buddhism, outlined in such works as his 1915 Zhengli sengqie zhidu lun ("The Reorganization of the SAMGHA System"). He drafted a number of such plans over the remainder of his career, although none was ever implemented. In general, these plans called for improved and modernized education for monks and their participation in community and governmental affairs. He believed that Buddhism had become ossified in China and needed to be reformed into a force that would both inspire and improve society. In his view, for an effective reform of the monastic system to take place, Chinese Buddhists had to be educated according to the same standards as those in other Buddhist countries, beginning with Japan. For Taixu, the revival of Chinese Buddhism entailed starting a dialogue with the Buddhist traditions of other Asian countries; hence, a modern Buddhism had to reach out to these traditions and incorporate their intuitions and original insights. It was from these initial ideas that, during the 1920s, Taixu developed a strong interest in Japanese MIKKYo and Tibetan VAJRAYĀNA, as well as in the THERAVĀDA tradition of Sri Lanka. Taixu's participation in the "Revival of Tantra" (mijiao chongxing) debates with Wang Hongyuan (1876-1937), a Chinese convert to Japanese SHINGON, demonstrated his eclectic ideas about the reformation of Chinese Buddhism. The first of Taixu's activities after his return to public life was the founding of the Bodhi Society (Jueshe) in Shanghai in 1918. He was involved in the publication of a wide variety of Buddhist periodicals, such as "Masses Enlightenment Weekly," "Sound of Enlightenment," "Buddhist Critic," "New Buddhist Youth," "Modern SaMgha," "Mind's Light," and the most enduring, "Sound of the Tides" (Haichaoyin). In 1922, he founded the Wuchang Buddhist Institute, where he hoped to produce a new generation of Buddhist leaders in China. In 1923, he founded the first of several "world Buddhist organizations," as a result of which he began to travel and lecture widely, becoming well known in Europe and America. He encouraged several of his students to learn the languages and traditions of Buddhist Asia. Among his students who went abroad in Tibet and Sri Lanka, FAZUN was the most accomplished in making several commentaries of late Indian Buddhism available to the Chinese public, thus fostering a comparison between the historical and doctrinal developments of Buddhism in China and in Tibet. In 1928 in Paris, Taixu donated funds for the establishment of the World Buddhist Institute, devoted to the unification of Buddhism and science; it would eventually be renamed Les Amis du Bouddhisme. He lectured in Sri Lanka and arranged an exchange program under which Chinese monks would study there. In 1929, he organized the Chinese Buddhist Society, which would eventually attract millions of members. During the Japanese occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s, Taixu followed the Nationalist government into retreat in Sichuan. In this period, as a result of his efforts to internationalize Chinese Buddhism, Taixu founded two branches of the Wuchang Institute of Buddhist Studies specializing in Pāli and Tibetan Buddhism: the Pāli Language Institute in Xi'an, and the Sino-Tibetan Institute in Chongqing. In 1937, at the Sino-Tibetan Institute, in his famous essay "Wo de fojiao geming shibai shi" ("History of My Failed Buddhist Revolutions"), Taixu began an earnest self-reflection on his lifelong efforts to reform Chinese Buddhism, deeming them a failure in three domains: conceiving a Buddhist revolution, globalizing Buddhist education, and reorganizing the Chinese Buddhist Association. When the first global Buddhist organization, the WORLD FELLOWSHIP OF BUDDHISTS, was founded in 1950, Taixu, who had died three years earlier, was credited as its inspiration. His insights would eventually be developed and implemented by later generations of Buddhists in China and Taiwan. His collected works were published in sixty-four volumes. Several of the leading figures of modern and contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Buddhism were close disciples of Taixu, including Fazun (1902-1980), Yinshun (1905-2005), Shengyan (1930-2009), and Xingyun (1927-).
The historical antecedents of experimental psychology are various. From British empiricism and the psychological philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume came associationism (see Associationism), the psychological implications of which were more fully developed by Herbart and Bain. Associationism provided the conceptual framework and largely colored the procedures of early experimental psychology. Physics and physiology gave impetus to experiments on sensory phenomena while physiology and neurology fostered studies of the nervous system and reflex action. The names of Helmholtz, Johannes Müller, E. H. Weber and Fechner are closely linked with this phase of the development of experimental psychology. The English biologist Galton developed the statistical methods of Quetelet for the analysis of data on human variation and opened the way for the mental testing movement; the Russian physiologist Pavlov, with his researches on "conditioned reflexes," contributed an experimental technique which has proved of paramount importance for the psychologist. Even astronomy made its contribution; variations in reaction time of different observers having long been recognized by astronomers as an important source of error in their observations.
The moon is the giver of one form of life, as well as of lower forms of mind, to our earth and its inhabitants; while the sun is the giver of life in general to the planetary system, as well as of the higher forms or aspects of mind. Remembering the extremely occult character of both moon and sun, when they are spoken of as givers this in no sense implies that they give to those who have it not, but rather give in the sense of being transmitters, nurses of, and producers of what already exists in those to whom the gifts are thus given. Thus a father or mother may be said to be the giver of life to the children, although the children themselves are in and from themselves a vital fountain: giving here means transmitting, fostering, producing, but not creating and donating.
The study of society, societal relations. Originally called Social Physics, meaning that the methods of the natural sciences were to be applied to the study of society. Whereas the pattern originally was physics and the first sociologists thought that it was possible to find laws of nature in the social realm (Quetelet, Comte, Buckle), others turned to biological considerations. The "organic" conception of society (Lilienfeld, Schaeffle) treated society as a complex organism, the evolutionists, Gumplowicz, Ratzenhofer, considered the struggle between different ethnic groups the basic factor in the evolution of social structures and institutions. Other sociologists accepted a psychological conception of society; to them psychological phenomena (imitation, according to Gabriel Tarde, consciousness of kind, according to F. H. Giddings) were the basic elements in social interrelations (see also W. McDougall, Alsworth Ross, etc.). These relations themselves were made the main object of sociological studies by G. Simmel, L. Wiese, Howard Becker. A kind of sociological realism was fostered by the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, and his school. They considered society a reality, the group-mind an actual fact, the social phenomena "choses sociales". The new "sociology of knowledge", inaugurated by these French sociologists, has been further developed by M. Scheler, K. Mannheim and W. Jerusalem. Recently other branches of social research have separated somewhat from sociology proper: Anthropogeography, dealing with the influences of the physical environment upon society, demography, social psychology, etc. Problems of the methodology of the social sciences have also become an important topic of recent studies. -- W.E.
T’ien (Chinese) Heaven, the abode of the ancestors; when applied to the human being, spirit: “Wander to where the ten thousand things [the cosmos] both begin and end, unify your nature, foster your life-breath, concentrate your ‘power’ till it is one with the force that created all things after their kind — do this, and your t’ien (heaven) shall maintain its integrity” (Chuang Tzu, 19:2).
vāsanā. (T. bag chags; C. xunxi/xiqi; J. kunju/jikke; K. hunsŭp/sŭpki 薰習/習氣). In Sanskrit, literally, "perfumings," hence "predispositions," "habituations," "latent tendencies," or "residual impressions" (and sometimes seen translated overliterally from the Chinese as "habit energies"); subtle tendencies created in the mind as a result of repeated exposure to positive or negative objects. Vāsanā are described as subtle forms of the afflictions (KLEsA), which hinder the attainment of buddhahood. According to the DAZHIDU LUN (*MahāprajNāpāramitāsāstra), ARHATs remain subject to the influence of the vāsanā-for example, sĀRIPUTRA's anger and NANDA's staring at beautiful women-just as the scent of incense remains behind in a censer even after all the incense has burned away. Thus, only the buddhas have removed all such latent tendencies. In the YOGĀCĀRA system, the vāsanā "perfume" the "seeds" (BĪJA) of wholesome and unwholesome actions that are implanted in the storehouse consciousness (ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA). The CHENG WEISHI LUN (*VijNaptimātratāsiddhi) lists the following three types of vāsanā: (1) linguistic predispositions (C. mingyan xiqi), the impressions created by concepts and expressions through which one evaluates his experience; (2) grasping-at-self predispositions (C. wozhi xiqi), impressions fostered by grasping at false notions of a perduring self (ĀTMAGRĀHA), which create an attachment to I and mine; and (3) cause-of-existence predispositions (C. youzhi xiqi), impressions that engender wholesome and unwholesome karmic retributions, which lead to continued rebirth in SAMSĀRA.
Veridicity: A property of certain perceptions, memories and other acts of cognition which, though not in the strictest sense true -- since truth is usually considered an exclusive property of propositions and judgments -- tend to form true propositions. Non-veridical cognitions including illusions and hallucinations though not in themselves false are deceptive and foster falsity and error. -- L.W.
vyāpāda. (T. gnod sems; C. chen; J. shin; K. chin 瞋). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "malice" or "ill will"; the ninth of ten unwholesome courses of action (AKUsALA-KARMAPATHA), referring to the hateful wish that harm will befall another. The ten courses of action are divided into three groups according to whether they are performed by the body, speech, or mind. Malice is classified as an unwholesome mental action (AKUsALA-KARMAN), and forms a triad along with covetousness (ABHIDHYĀ) and wrong views (MITHYĀDṚstI). Only extreme forms of defiled thinking are deemed an unwholesome course of mental action, such as the covetous wish to misappropriate someone else's property, the harmful intent to hurt someone, or the adherence to pernicious doctrines. Lesser forms of defiled thinking are still unwholesome (akusala), but do not constitute a course of action. ¶ "Malice" is also listed as one of the five hindrances (NĪVARAnA) to DHYĀNA, obstructing the dhyāna factor of rapture (PRĪTI). Malice is fostered by unwise attention (AYONIsOMANASKĀRA) to objects causing aversion and is removed through frequent wise attention to loving-kindness (MAITRĪ), developing the meditation on loving-kindness, and recognizing the fact that every person's actions are his or her own and acknowledging the futility of anger. Malice is countered by faith (sRADDHĀ), the first of the five spiritual faculties (INDIYA), and by the enlightenment factors (BODHYAnGA) of physical rapture (prīti) and equanimity (UPEKsĀ). "Malice" is also included among the ten fetters (SAMYOJANA) and is completely overcome only upon becoming an ARHAT.
WILL TO UNITY The will to unity is no will to uniformity, no standardization into robotism. The will to unity does not fight against other views or against dissidents. It is so rational that it need never fear criticism. It leaves everybody&
wu gong'an. (J. mukoan; K. mu kongan 無公案). In Chinese, "the case 'no'"; an influential CHAN case or precedent (GONG'AN) associated with the Tang-dynasty Chan master ZHAOZHOU CONGSHEN (778-897). In this exchange, once a student came to Zhaozhou and asked, "Does a dog have the buddha-nature (FOXING), or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "No" (lit., "It does not have it"). The complete exchange from which this gong'an is drawn continues: "Everything has buddha-nature, from the buddhas above, to the ants below. Why wouldn't a dog have it?" Zhaozhou replied: "Because he has the nature of karmically conditioned consciousness." This response seems to be associated with Chan debates concerning the Sinitic Buddhist doctrine of the "buddha-nature of the insentient" (wuqing foxing), which presumed that all insentient things, including rocks and tiles, trees, and grass, were also endowed with the buddha-nature; thus, if even rocks have the buddha-nature, why not dogs? Since the answer to the student's question should unequivocally be "Yes, a dog does have the buddha-nature," Zhaozhou's enigmatic response, which Wumen calls a "checkpoint of the patriarchs," seems to challenge one of the foundational beliefs of East Asian Buddhism; in so doing, it engenders a question in the student's mind, which will help to foster inquiry and ultimately a sense of doubt (YIQING). This answer "WU" ("no") became a popular meditative topic (HUATOU) in the Chan meditation practice of "questioning meditation" (KANHUA CHAN) and is one of the most important gong'ans used in kanhua Chan training, especially in the Chinese LINJI ZONG and Japanese RINZAISHu lineages, as well as in the Korean CHOGYE CHONG. The wu gong'an is the first case collected in the gong'an anthology WUMEN GUAN ("Gateless Checkpoint"), and its use in kanhua practice was popularized by the Chinese Linji teacher DAHUI ZONGGAO (1089-1163). See also GOUZI WU FOXING.
yizi guan. (J. ichijikan; K. ilcha kwan 一字關). In Chinese, "one-word checkpoint" or "one-word barrier"; a pedagogical device developed by YUNMEN WENYAN (864-949), the founder of the YUNMEN ZONG of the classical CHAN tradition, which used only a single utterance to respond to a student's question. For example, once a monk asked him, "When you kill your parents, you repent before the Buddha. But when you kill the buddhas and patriarchs, to whom do you repent?" Yunmen answered, "Lu" ("exposed"). Another time a monk asked him, "What is the treasury of the true dharma eye (ZHENGFAYANZANG)?" Yunmen answered, "Pu" ("universal"). Such terse answers offered no basis for conceptual understanding, instead demanding that students have a direct realization of truth. These one-word checkpoints were highly praised by DAHUI ZONGGAO for fostering especially close concentration during KANHUA CHAN meditation: "Once you enter into the gate of the one-word GONG'AN, even nine oxen wouldn't be able to pull you out."
Zodiacus vitae (Latin for Zodiac of Life): An old school book by Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus, widely used in England in the 16th century. Its twelve chapters were said by Foster Watson, M.A., Professor of Education in the University College of Wales (in the modern annotated edition published by Philip Wellby in 1908) to “find their parallel in the twelve labours of Hercules,” and thus “to typify the evolution of the human soul through successive stages of mental and spiritual enlightenment.”
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1:The answers will find you. ~ Jeff Foster, #KEYS
2:Fall in love with the deep comfort of insecurity. ~ Jeff Foster, #KEYS
3:All suffering is for an apparent 'I', all suffering is in the story of 'me', all suffering is essentially a fight against this moment. ~ Jeff Foster, #KEYS
4:Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters (c.1946),#KEYS
5:We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" ~ David Foster Wallace, (1962 - 2008) American author, wrote "Infinite Jest,", (1996) et al., Wikipedia., #KEYS
6:Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you. ~ David Foster Wallace, #KEYS
7:The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
~ David Foster Wallace,#KEYS
8:Recommended Reading
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
Ben Lerner - The Topeka School
Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper
Elena Ferrante - The Days of Abandonment
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Michael Murphy - Golf in the Kingdom
Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
Albertine Sarrazin - Astragal
Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby
Michael Paterniti - Love and Other Ways of Dying
Rainer Maria Rilke - Book of Hours
James Baldwin - Another Country
Roberto Calasso - Ka
Translation by S. Radhakrishan - Principle Upanisads
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Translation by Georg Feuerstein - Yoga Sutra
Richard Freeman - The Mirror of Yoga
Translation by S. Radhakrishan - The Bhagavad Gita
Shrunyu Suzuki - Zen Mind Beginner's Mind
Heinrich Zimmer - Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Sogyal Rinpoche - The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Joseph Campbell - Myths of Light
Joseph Campbell - The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Sri Aurobindo - Savitri
Thomas Meyers - Anatomy Trains
Wendy Doniger - The Hindus ~ Jason Bowman, http://www.jasonbowmanyoga.com/recommended-reading,#KEYS
9:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 2:Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 3:Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 4:The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 5:You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 6:Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 7:Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 8:It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 9:The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences; when they happen, they happen. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences—and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 10:The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 11:Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 12:The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 13:By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 14:For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 15:For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 16:Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 17:I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 18:If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 19:Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 20:At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 21:Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one & 22:You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 23:People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 24:A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -teaching us what's truly important& 25:This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 26:Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Preacher, was there ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
2:coming closer, their ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
3:You shot first. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
4:Love more and openly. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
5:Practice being excited. ~ Bill Foster, #NFDB
6:Chewie, we’re home, ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
7:Going After Cacciato ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
8:Real love never dies, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
9:The Ileenium system? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
10:He is not. He’s lovely. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
11:History is story, too. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
12:Nobody came to Jakku. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
13:Agent Foster scribbled ~ Jennifer Bernard, #NFDB
14:Simplicity is freedom. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
15:thought that she was the ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
16:Get away from her, you! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
17:Oh really? You’re cold? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
18:There is only one story. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
19:that slimy sycophant Hux ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
20:You smile too much, Rey. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
21:Don't read with your eyes. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
22:It is you,” Ren murmured. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
23:In your eyes I found myself. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
24:I've never lied about my age. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
25:The Millennium Falcon rose. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
26:We are who people think we are. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
27:love means breaking all the rules ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
28:Never underestimate a droid, ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
29:Facts can be most persuasive. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
30:Foster’s face breaks into a grin. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
31:I do believe in sexual monogamy. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
32:I think you never stop learning. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
33:Japan will need to foster deep ~ George Friedman, #NFDB
34:Mediocrity is contextual. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
35:You get to decide what to worship. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
36:Goals are discovered, not made. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
37:I am the luckiest filmmaker I know. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
38:In loquaciousness lay insanity. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
39:Time passes. Horror does not. * ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
40:Friend, I love your rebellious heart. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
41:I don’t really mean what I’m saying. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
42:Try to let what is unfair teach you. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
43:Do not underestimate objects. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
44:I foster a lot. Not humans, animals. ~ Bellamy Young, #NFDB
45:I actually feel very proud of my age. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
46:I got a bad feeling about this.” — ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
47:I'm vulnerable most when I'm in love. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
48:I wish you way more than luck. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
49:The blow had cauterized instantly. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
50:Women always figure out the truth. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
51:you know what I see when I look at you, ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
52:Compliance does not foster innovation. ~ George Couros, #NFDB
53:I am not what you see and hear. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
54:In the end, winning is sleeping better. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
55:...morning is the soul's night. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
56:Unlike in simulations, reality bled ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
57:Compelled belief is no belief at all. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
58:every failure is also a victory. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
59:Unlike in simulations, reality bled. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
60:Architecture is an expression of values. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
61:But patience had to be learned alone. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
62:I want to love you and be loved by you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
63:So yo then man what's your story? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
64:Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
65:Every love story is a ghost story. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
66:He could talk to a buzzard and make it coo. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
67:I found myself again and then found love. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
68:she wrapped her arms around his neck and ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
69:Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
70:Everything about you suits everything in me. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
71:It is important to foster individuality, ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
72:I've been writing full-time since 1978. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
73:I’ve got cracks baby, but you’re my glue. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
74:The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
75:Forgive everybody everything everyday. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
76:I no longer know how to be me without you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
77:It takes a lot to become a foster parent. ~ Rosie O Donnell, #NFDB
78:Marriage is the tomb of friendship. ~ Hannah Webster Foster, #NFDB
79:You have the only thing I want—your heart. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
80:Cultivated people foster what is good in others, ~ Confucius, #NFDB
81:I like to have fun, but I don't play games. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
82:Freedom is just chaos with better lighting ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
83:If I fail, at least I will have failed my way. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
84:The U.S. has no friends, only interests. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
85:Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
86:Conformity to a sick society is to be sick. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
87:Don't tell me you're my friend. Act like one. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
88:I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
89:No one thinks you're an idiot. That's just dumb. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
90:Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
91:When you love someone, nothing is impossible. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
92:Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
93:I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
94:It takes a strong man to admit his weaknesses. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
95:nature’s beauty was a powerful balm for the mind. ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
96:wanted to keep making her happy and was really ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
97:But no one can ever say I didn’t sing. ~ Florence Foster Jenkins, #NFDB
98:But ... this will begin to make things right. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
99:He’d love to segue right from hello to hell, yeah, ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
100:he walked with his arms closer to his body, his ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
101:I find in myself a need to get very away. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
102:In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
103:Love is the foundation of strength in a family. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
104:Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
105:Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
106:An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
107:Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
108:I can't imagine myself not being an actor. ~ Scott Michael Foster, #NFDB
109:If you are too busy to read, you are too busy. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
110:I know how to run without you holding my hand! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
111:Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
112:My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
113:Sometimes being a contrary bastard was a real pain. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
114:When I'm learning something, I am truly inspired. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
115:How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
116:It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
117:Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
118:The point of books is to combat loneliness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
119:Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
120:...loneliness is not a function of solitude. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
121:The man who knows his limitations, has none. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
122:Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
123:Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
124:meal was sensitized: any nonprogrammed disruption ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
125:My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
126:Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
127:Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
128:You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy. ~ Erin Foster, #NFDB
129:I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
130:It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
131:That what appears to be egoism so often isn't. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
132:The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
133:Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
134:Enjoy each and every day. No one else will do it you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
135:Good literature makes your head throb heartlike ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
136:I am a focused person. I am a fighter. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
137:If you've never wept and want to, have a child. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
138:I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
139:Every love story is a ghost story. David Foster Wallace ~ Kate Racculia, #NFDB
140:Fiction is about what it is to be a human being. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
141:Hearts aren’t as smart as heads. Ain’t that the truth? ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
142:If you could come up with four things that define you, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
143:Lay your head on my shoulder, your heart next to mine. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
144:...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
145:Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
146:The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
147:asleep by now?” “Yeah, but I like to see them. Besides, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
148:Being understood is not the most essential thing in life. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
149:If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
150:In the end, winning is sleeping better.” —Jodie Foster ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
151:SHE NEEDED HIM. AND HE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. (P:7) ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
152:There are secrets within secrets, though--always. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
153:There are very few innocent sentences in writing. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
154:we don’t have to live up to the expectations of others. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
155:Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
156:You came out of nowhere, and suddenly you’re all I see. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
157:A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
158:Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
159:Eyes narrowing, she whispered, “Are you accusing me of PMS? ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
160:If worship does not change us it has not been worship. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
161:I never answer that question until after I’ve done it. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
162:No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
163:reject anything that is producing an addiction in you. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
164:We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
165:We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
166:YOU’RE JUST LIKE ME, DCI FOSTER. WE’VE BOTH KILLED FIVE. ~ Robert Bryndza, #NFDB
167:And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
168:Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
169:Easy, big boy. We need you sober if you wanna win a GOTY. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
170:Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
171:I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
172:I’m not a hero. I’m not Resistance. I’m a stormtrooper. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
173:No man should ever put himself before the woman he loves. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
174:Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
175:People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
176:So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
177:When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
178:corollaries—where have I seen his face, don’t I know that ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
179:Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
180:I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
181:of Abigail Foster from a distance, but this new development ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
182:She looked up. “Never underestimate a droid, Lieutenant. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
183:You will never have time for prayer; you must make time. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
184:A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. ~ John Foster, #NFDB
185:comes by again, give her my number and tell her…Never mind. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
186:It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
187:Plutt wants droid. We take droid. Female don’t interfere. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
188:Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
189:If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
190:Words and a book and a belief that the world is words. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
191:You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
192:you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
193:A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes. ~ Radney Foster, #NFDB
194:Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
195:Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
196:Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
197:I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
198:Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you." ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
199:There has been an awakening in the Force. Have you felt it? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
200:Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
201:I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. ~ Franz Liszt, #NFDB
202:I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
203:Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
204:She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
205:Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
206:The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
207:The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
208:You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
209:an eyebrow. “No worries, man. I wouldn’t miss it for the world. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
210:If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
211:It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
212:I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
213:Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
214:Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
215:Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
216:We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
217:Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
218:Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
219:fear alone, shaped by capricious whim, would never foster loyalty. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
220:I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was in my 20s. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
221:It's okay not to know everything; that would have calmed me down. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
222:Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
223:Monogamy was for the birds, and he didn’t fucking care to tweet. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
224:Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
225:South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
226:What you wish for today may not be what you truly want tomorrow. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
227:Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft. ~ James Langevin, #NFDB
228:I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
229:It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
230:I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
231:[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
232:My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
233:My heart is so wrapped up in you that you’re my hopes and dreams. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
234:Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
235:So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
236:This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
237:You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
238:'F - k you' is not really the best way to articulate how you feel. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
239:I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
240:It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
241:life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
242:Love is everlasting, ever growing, and ever giving if you allow it. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
243:Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
244:order to go to a bar, drink their asses off, flirt with strangers, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
245:Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
246:The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
247:The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years. ~ Scott Michael Foster, #NFDB
248:A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
249:ARE OPEN OFFICES BAD FOR WORK? OR DO THEY ACTUALLY FOSTER COLLABORATION? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
250:characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
251:Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
252:I feel like my life now, it's only getting better, which feels nice. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
253:I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
254:No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
255:Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley) ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
256:There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
257:You need a man who can put up with your shit and slap your ass. Her ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
258:Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
259:Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
260:If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. ~ Rupert Everett, #NFDB
261:I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
262:Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
263:... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
264:The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
265:Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
266:You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
267:don’t have to be who our parents or people around us expect us to be. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
268:Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
269:equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
270:If I ever coo at a man, Ray thought privately, I hope someone shoots me. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
271:If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
272:I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
273:Legend says this map is unobtainable,” Poe noted. “How’d you do it? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
274:There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
275:To date, however, the boy had proved himself relentlessly ordinary. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
276:everyone carries baggage. Some people’s was just lighter than others’. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
277:In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
278:I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
279:I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
280:She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
281:Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
282:Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
283:Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
284:Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
285:How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
286:If I was dead broke and had to feed my three children. I'd do anything. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
287:Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
288:You’re killing me, sweetheart. Tearing me down one word at a time.” She ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
289:Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
290:He blinked with the innocence of a young boy, clueless to her annoyance, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
291:I do not 'gallivant,'" Truzenzuzex commented primly. "I plan in haste. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
292:The way he said delicious made her lick her lips. “Tell me something you ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
293:You stink of humanity,' he murmured, 'but I'll love you just the same. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
294:But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
295:Crazy thing is, it’s all real. The Jedi, the Force—it’s true. All true. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
296:I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
297:I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
298:I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
299:Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
300:Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
301:She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
302:[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
303:That weapon—is mine.” Finn all but snarled his reply. “Come and get it. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
304:The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
305:The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
306:What was that?” “Us,” he instantly replied. “Inescapable, unbreakable us. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
307:Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
308:I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
309:It is pathetic, though. Is it not? You and I, both in pursuit of a ghost ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
310:Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
311:The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. ~ Arthur Schnitzler, #NFDB
312:We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
313:You sure you can get away?” he asked, knowing there was nothing that would ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
314:almost-thirty-year-old woman, with too many T-shirts and jeans to count and ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
315:Crazy thing is, it’s all real. The Jedi, the Force – it’s true. All true. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
316:Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
317:Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
318:Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
319:I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
320:If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
321:I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
322:I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes. ~ Joel Gretsch, #NFDB
323:keeping his career, he’d thrown himself into surfing and training and tried ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
324:Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you. ~ Brendan Foster, #NFDB
325:Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
326:Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.' ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
327:Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee. ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
328:confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
329:Han Solo,” came the clipped voice of the gang leader, “you are a dead man. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
330:I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
331:I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
332:I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
333:I think cheating can inherently mean a deeper problem, someone is acting out. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
334:It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
335:Let’s go, sugar pop. I’ve got a bottle of Middle Sister with our name on it. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
336:Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
337:The only man who is right for you is the one you don’t want to live without. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
338:You might miss out on a really great story if you judge a book by its cover. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
339:You utterly and completely destroy everything I thought I knew about myself. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
340:But there are as many different kinds of love as there are people in the world. ~ Amy S Foster, #NFDB
341:I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
342:It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
343:I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
344:I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all. ~ Thora Birch, #NFDB
345:The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
346:where locals and fans could dance the night away and take home expensive swag, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
347:But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
348:Finn stared at her, one thought in his mind, one word on his lips. “Rathtars. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
349:I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress. ~ Evan Rachel Wood, #NFDB
350:I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever. ~ Elle Fanning, #NFDB
351:I probably have never done it right, but I have always loved you, Keelyn Foster. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
352:This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
353:We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. —DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
354:You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
355:You’re like the ocean, shaping the landscape around you as you go through life. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
356:Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
357:I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
358:I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
359:It is I, See-Threepio! You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
360:Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!” exclaimed the alien. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
361:…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
362:Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
363:Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
364:God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
365:I want you with me, Amy. Every day, every night, every f*cking minute of my life. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
366:[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly. ~ Richard Armour, #NFDB
367:Stop...toying with me."
"When I toy with you, you'll know it-and enjoy it. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
368:Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
369:But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
370:Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
371:Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
372:In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
373:It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
374:One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ~ John Foster, #NFDB
375:Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing. ~ Florence Foster Jenkins, #NFDB
376:Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening. ~ Erin Foster, #NFDB
377:Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
378:An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more. ~ John Bellamy Foster, #NFDB
379:A player will play while he’s searching for his soul mate, and then they’re all in. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
380:If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
381:I haven’t got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that’s not how the Force works. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
382:In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
383:I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
384:Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
385:When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
386:...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
387:I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
388:I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
389:No, baby. We don’t own. We are one. We share, we love, we protect, but we don’t own. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
390:I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
391:If someone takes the time to text, you damned well better be kind enough to check it. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
392:I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
393:Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
394:My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
395:No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else’s.’ For ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
396:Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
397:But I will tell you this: no true happiness can ride on the back of someone else’s pain. ~ Amy S Foster, #NFDB
398:Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
399:I never thought I needed anyone, but I’m starting to think I was just waiting for you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
400:No. I’m fine.” All these numbers are blurring together, and I see Treat on every page. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
401:She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
402:Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
403:But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
404:I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
405:I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants and jeans kind of gal, I dress really simply and comfortably. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
406:It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
407:Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
408:Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
409:So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
410:that other people have told you and living one that’s based on a lie you’ve told yourself. ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
411:we can teach and hope and pray, but in the end, each person controls their own actions. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
412:Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
413:ghosts were tricky. They hovered in the eyes of the living and the hearts of the guilty. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
414:A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
415:He had to take his mind off of waiting for her to call. Either she would or she wouldn’t. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
416:I don't know, think for that relationship in particular age doesn't really come into play. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
417:I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
418:Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. ELIOT ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
419:That was intense and freaking hot. Like a shot of... Whiskey. I want more Whiskey please. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
420:The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on this earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
421:I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
422:My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
423:Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
424:Biological traces are acceptable,” Hux murmured, “but a couple of skulls would be better. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
425:Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
426:I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
427:I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
428:Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. ~ Marion Woodman, #NFDB
429:Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
430:The realization of such a thing cannot possibly be as beautiful as its imagining, of course. ~ Alyson Foster, #NFDB
431:You trust him, Trace, and you know it."
"With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
432:As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
433:As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
434:Compliance does not foster innovation. In fact, demanding conformity does quite the opposite. ~ George Couros, #NFDB
435:Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
436:I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
437:It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
438:My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
439:The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people... ~ David Foster, #NFDB
440:Typical Ren, Hux thought. Self-centered, arrogant, indifferent to the interests of others. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
441:Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
442:I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
443:Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
444:My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
445:No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
446:Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
447:The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
448:The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972 ~ Brendan Foster, #NFDB
449:Always do what you love. Those who don’t like it don’t matter and those who matter don’t care, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
450:A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
451:Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
452:How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
453:I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
454:In a given year, 640,000 children, most of them poor, will spend at least some time in foster care. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
455:I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
456:I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
457:Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
458:Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
459:There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
460:Usually a senile old fool knows when to retire. But sometimes he simply needs to be retired. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
461:You are…you are…” The merchant tried to control himself. “You have nothing. You are nothing! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
462:You know what I’m talking about. Mother was monitoring his body. You were monitoring Mother. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
463:Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
464:I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
465:I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
466:Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. ~ Norman Douglas, #NFDB
467:Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
468:Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
469:Reactions still sharp from years of experience, Han fired, sending the trooper to the ground. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
470:The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
471:... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. ~ Eugie Foster, #NFDB
472:But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
473:I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
474:If life offers one guarantee, it’s that death is inevitable. All you can do is move forward. “He ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
475:It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
476:Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
477:Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
478:The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. ~ Alan Hirsch, #NFDB
479:Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio ~ David Foster, #NFDB
480:Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
481:Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
482:golden and worn, the dingy color of mustard powder. A piano sat off to the side, with photographs ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
483:I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
484:I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
485:I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
486:It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond. ~ Randeep Hooda, #NFDB
487:My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
488:Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts." ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
489:To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
490:When you think you’re done with something, look it over again and see how you can make it better. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
491:Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
492:I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
493:Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
494:Planning to be a seducer was difficult enough. Talking about it with the seducee would be impossible. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
495:The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
496:You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
497:Babe, you are all I've thought about for so long, I can't remember what I thought about before you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
498:Babe, you are all I’ve thought about for so long, I can’t remember what I thought about before you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
499:Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round. ~ Chloe Smith, #NFDB
500:Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.” Still, ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
501:Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
502:It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. ~ Hannah Webster Foster, #NFDB
503:Let me leave you my number. Anything comes up, or if anyone bothers you-"
"You're bothering me. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
504:Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
505:She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
506:the heart is like a garden. If all the elements are right, it can breathe life into a wilting soul. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
507:The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
508:The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
509:we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
510:Well, we better hide way out there where the crawdads sing. I pity any foster parents who take you on. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
511:Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
512:Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
513:If she let go or otherwise lost her grip, of course, it would solve all her problems. Permanently. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
514:It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
515:I’ve lived for over one thousand years, son. Long enough to see the same eyes in different people. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
516:The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
517:...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
518:Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
519:You’re the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
520:All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired. ~ Brendan Foster, #NFDB
521:And sometimes life throws us oceans of trouble, and it’s all we can do to keep our heads above water. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
522:A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
523:CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
524:For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
525:If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. —David Foster Wallace ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
526:I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
527:I treasure the time I had with her. It’s like she knew she was going to…you know…be taken away early. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
528:I wish I could just sleep until this whole mess passes me by. And by this whole mess, I mean my life. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
529:Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
530:You’re no longer possibly mine. You’re not even my sure thing,” she whispered. “You’re my everything. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
531:Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. ~ Charles Bass, #NFDB
532:Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
533:Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
534:Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
535:reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer’s alone. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
536:She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
537:To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
538:We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
539:Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
540:A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
541:Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
542:For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual. — ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
543:I can’t do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
544:It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
545:The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
546:We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. ~ Charles Sturt, #NFDB
547:Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
548:His back to the room, Jackson said, "I need a Chris." Because Chris was gay, Dare choked and Trace laughed. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
549:His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
550:I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
551:I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
552:I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
553:Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
554:Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
555:People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
556:The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
557:What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
558:But then, to those behind the First Order, sowing fear and terror was merely politics by another means. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
559:Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
560:I’m waiting to hear the engine spring to life. But nothing happens. Of course. The bloody battery is dead. I ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
561:Nothing is more wonderful than coming home to the person you love, or having a family of your own.” Their ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
562:Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
563:You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
564:Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
565:I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
566:I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
567:Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
568:Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
569:Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
570:Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
571:There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people. ~ Antwone Fisher, #NFDB
572:We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
573:A planetary shield being a fairly straightforward thing, there was hardly ever a problem with the system. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
574:Can I tell that from her ear Axel? No, I can't. Why don't you go sit down somewhere and stop pacing behind me. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
575:David Foster Wallace: There’s so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us. ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
576:Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
577:In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
578:I soon found out her full name: micah marie foster. I chuckled at her initials, MMF. I’m a dirty, dirty Man. ~ Harper Miller, #NFDB
579:My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
580:There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies? ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
581:Chocolate didn’t make stupid decisions. Chocolate didn’t ask questions. Chocolate was the perfect companion. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
582:I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
583:Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows. - Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
584:Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
585:Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
586:The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
587:To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. ~ Jacobus Arminius, #NFDB
588:I am stupid" Hans Hubermann told his foster daughter " And kind, which makes me the biggest idiot in the world. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
589:I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
590:Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
591:To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power. ~ B H Liddell Hart, #NFDB
592:Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
593:Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
594:I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
595:If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
596:In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
597:It is important to foster individuality,” he said, “for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”8 This ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
598:It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
599:I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
600:maybe you need to hear how you have totally captivated my heart, my mind, and, well, you know you own my body. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
601:Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
602:The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
603:Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.” Though ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
604:All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
605:in the words of novelist David Foster Wallace, “The truth will set you free, but not until it’s done with you. ~ Ian Morgan Cron, #NFDB
606:It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
607:One did not have to be trained as a pilot to infer that a dead console did not bode well for future voyaging. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
608:Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
609:This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
610:Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. ~ Bruce Willis, #NFDB
611:Without his phone, he seemed to breathe easier, and Bella realized, she thought that held true for most people. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
612:You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them killing each other for a percentage. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
613:'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
614:[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
615:When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
616:You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don��t see them killing each other for a percentage. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
617:I begin to think that a foster mother who smokes cigars and makes me sleep in the basement would be a relief. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt, #NFDB
618:[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
619:I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
620:Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
621:Sometimes the heart tells us things in whispers, and we miss them. When we’re ready, we hear them loud and clear. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
622:The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
623:The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
624:There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
625:You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
626:By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
627:David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me. ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
628:I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
629:If you're in a relationship and someone was cheating, it could be a complete reflection of the relationship itself. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
630:I really wanted to go chunky-dunking tonight.” Chunky-dunking is what Bella and her friends called skinny-dipping. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
631:Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
632:sent pain across her nose and below her eyes. “I’m so sorry. Let me get you a napkin,” a deep, worried voice said. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
633:The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals. ~ Dorothy Height, #NFDB
634:You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don’t like me.” “Hard to imagine,” she murmured. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
635:God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
636:it was easy to look like a diamond on a sunny day, but it’s how you act on the darkest days that matters.” “There’s ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
637:Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
638:People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
639:The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
640:There are times in our lives when everything comes together and we know we are exactly where we are supposed to be. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
641:Writing for children is important to me because I want children to develop the same love of books I had as a child. ~ Darlene Foster, #NFDB
642:A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
643:As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
644:Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
645:Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
646:I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
647:The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
648:There’s a Blarina merchant there named Ohn Gos who is afflicted with the sorry habit of listening sympathetically. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
649:Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
650:Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
651:I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river. ~ Eugie Foster, #NFDB
652:Listening to your son after you've spent time with a girl will make you wonder when he became Jodie Foster in Nell. ~ Laurie Kilmartin, #NFDB
653:...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
654:'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
655:Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours." I smiled. That was a promise I fully intended to keep. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
656:Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
657:If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
658:It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
659:Professors also read, and think, symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
660:To Max, a quantum state was one where gambling was licensed, and Schrödinger’s cat lived somewhere on Laurel Avenue. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
661:We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
662:We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
663:He was going to get rid of the delivery person, throw the food in the kitchen, then get back to his real dinner.
Violet ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
664:If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
665:I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
666:I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
667:Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
668:Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
669:close the blinds in the tiny studio. Foster mumbles what I assume is a thank you from the futon. The sorry sack didn’t even ~ Clare James, #NFDB
670:I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song. ~ Charice Pempengco, #NFDB
671:It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
672:Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure. ~ Bill Foster, #NFDB
673:Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
674:Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
675:There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
676:Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
677:As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
678:Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
679:dealing with the most hurtful emotions and knowing that at the end of it all stood the truth and the power of their love. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
680:Dex wondered if they were in college or if they had abandoned their family’s dreams for them in lieu of a life of gaming. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
681:Ellie was the reason he’d guarded his heart. But she was also the only woman who had ever made him feel as if he had one. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
682:If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
683:I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
684:Jane started crying, which didn’t surprise Ray in the least. The woman had the appearance of a professional watering pot—her ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
685:Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
686:So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
687:That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
688:WESTON, COLORADO, was a small ranch town with dusty streets, too many cowboy hats, and a main drag that had been built to ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
689:And since he’s written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Foster is one hell of an entertainer. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
690:As a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny. ~ Erin Foster, #NFDB
691:For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
692:Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
693:if there’s one thing I know about this world, it’s that all we’ve got is who we are. So don’t you ever stop being too you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
694:I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
695:It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
696:I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
697:I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing. ~ Lindsay Lohan, #NFDB
698:never cheat. It’s not just a betrayal of the person you promised to love, honor and cherish. It betrays the family unit, too. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
699:No one offered to help her with the heavy load. In Niima, youth and gender were no barrier to neighborhood indifference. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
700:Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
701:The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
702:He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn’t expected the alien to be so completely alien. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
703:If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
704:Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
705:The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
706:Un hombre inteligente siempre sabe cuando retirarse a tiempo...pero un hombre aun mas inteligente sabe cuando volver a empezar ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
707:When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
708:You were...were...looking at me!"
"Yeah. I was considering having you for breakfast before you kicked me in the jaw. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
709:because the laws of the universe support it by random chance, or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
710:For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
711:History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
712:I need to find a man who acts like a gentleman in public and who’s willing to do very ungentlemanly things to me in private. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
713:Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them. ~ Patricia Briggs, #NFDB
714:There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
715:The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
716:Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
717:Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
718:about Strahan?" "Never seen him before ... or since." "Put him on a horse and tie him," McQueen said. "Well give him to Foster. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
719:As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality. Once ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
720:Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
721:So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
722:You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.’ She took a deep breath. ‘But now I never can. I never can. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
723:You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
724:Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
725:I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess. ~ John Krasinski, #NFDB
726:It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
727:It was true what people said about going through difficult times together and how struggles could bring people closer together. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
728:Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
729:Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
730:What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
731:Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
732:If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
733:If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to. ~ Bill Foster, #NFDB
734:I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
735:I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
736:The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
737:When people don’t have access to facts, they invent what they’d like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
738:I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
739:I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
740:Macha’s foster-son, Ugani Mor (the Great), who succeeded her, led his armies into Britain, and had his power acknowledged there. ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
741:One thing I’ve learned in my life is that we can teach and hope and pray, but in the end, each person controls their own actions. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
742:Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
743:Stop thinking your way through life, always trying to work it out before living it. Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death. Feel ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
744:--Think about it. This is your future. You've only got one....How could one sentence pack more power than an uppercut to the jaw? ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
745:Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. RUMI ~ Sara Foster, #NFDB
746:....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
747:Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
748:If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
749:My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
750:The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
751:The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
752:We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us. ~ Carmen Dell Orefice, #NFDB
753:I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
754:Not all parachurch ministries are bad; in fact, the best ones foster collaboration across churches for important ministry and unity. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
755:Nothing,” declared the first stormtrooper, standing at attention. Poe winked up at the trooper who had used his hands. “Good job. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
756:She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
757:The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
758:When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need. ~ Michelle Monaghan, #NFDB
759:You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
760:An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
761:I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
762:If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition. ~ John Bellamy Foster, #NFDB
763:I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
764:I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster. ~ Emma Stone, #NFDB
765:Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
766:There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
767:When you reject your sadness,you become unhappy.When you are presentwith your sadness,you discover profound joy.This is love’s paradox. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
768:Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
769:I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
770:sometimes that pain is necessary in order to move forward. There are times when those painful reminders drive us to be stronger.” She ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
771:The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
772:There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn’t looking. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
773:And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
774:I obtain my center by remembering to breathe when in a difficult situation. My daily routine includes prayer, workouts, and meditation. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
775:It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
776:Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
777:Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
778:remove a trigger from a gun and while the trigger itself would look decidedly unimportant, its absence would render the gun useless. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
779:The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
780:The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
781:There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
782:..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
783:To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
784:As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. ~ Dennis Cardoza, #NFDB
785:a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
786:Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
787:I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both. ~ Sophie Nelisse, #NFDB
788:My mother once said that when soul mates find each other, from their very first kiss they feel like they’ve been together forever.” Her ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
789:Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
790:There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
791:Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society.”46 ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
792:He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
793:I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
794:In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
795:No wonder you get along with so many kinds of people, Foster. Look at all this heritage that’s part of you. That’s something to be proud of. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
796:posts bail for you. A great friend helps you hide the body, but the best friend…The very best friend knows how to dispose of the bodies. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
797:Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
798:When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
799:Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
800:If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
801:I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
802:I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. ~ Ben Fountain, #NFDB
803:It is you,” Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
804:The trouble with computers, she thought, was that they had no intuitive senses. Only deductive ones. You had to ask the right question. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
805:TREAT BRADEN didn’t usually charter planes. It wasn’t his style to flash his wealth, but tonight he needed to be anywhere but his Nassau, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
806:We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. ~ Ruben Hinojosa, #NFDB
807:Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
808:Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
809:I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster. ~ Amy Adams, #NFDB
810:I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
811:I’m not special. I care about you, and when you care about someone, what they want or need or care about becomes important to you.” “Thank ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
812:The heart doesn’t care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
813:There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself? ~ Noel Tichy, #NFDB
814:The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
815:Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
816:I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
817:I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
818:Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that, more than any other, separate the professorial reader from the rest of the crowd. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
819:The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
820:The very unfeasibility of it worked in their favor. He could not be a prisoner trying to escape, because prisoners simply did not escape. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
821:At Hawke’s questioning look, I said, “Seth and I are looking into becoming foster parents for a couple of kids who don’t have anyone.” Hawke ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
822:begun to irk him in ways that it never had before meeting Max Armstrong. It had been six months since he’d seen her standing in the lobby of ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
823:Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
824:history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
825:In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
826:I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
827:It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
828:Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ~ George C Williams, #NFDB
829:Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence. ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
830:The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
831:There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
832:To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
833:Don't bitch about the clothes that you try on. Blush all you want--"
"What makes you think I'll blush?"
"If you don't, we won't take them. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
834:I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
835:I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
836:I had always followed the careful rules laid down by Harry, my cop foster father, who taught me how to be what I am with modesty and exactness. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
837:I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
838:me get you a napkin,” a deep, worried voice said. Two patrons rushed over and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an older woman ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
839:One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
840:Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
841:Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner. ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
842:Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier"). ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
843:There is, in fact, no form of dysfunctional family or no personal disintegration of character for which there is not a Greek or Roman model. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
844:You could foster happiness and add to our joy - or sow hurt and discord. It's a choice you make each day, each hour, and with each thought. ~ Cathy Marie Hake, #NFDB
845:A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
846:I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me. Especially when it’s filled with noises like that distress call. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
847:Just because something’s hard and just because it makes both of us nervous doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it, Reese. Worth absolutely everything. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
848:The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
849:The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
850:There are even a handful who like to collect biological specimens. Those with money collect live ones. Those without money become scientists. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
851:The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
852:What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
853:Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
854:To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
855:To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
856:We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws. ~ Mariano Rajoy, #NFDB
857:Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
858:Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
859:I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
860:It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
861:One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
862:Sometimes you’ve got to let the pain sink deep into your bones until it aches so badly you think you’ll shatter. Only then can you truly move on. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
863:Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
864:The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
865:Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization. ~ Madeleine M Kunin, #NFDB
866:Don’t be sorry for feeling something. That’s the world’s great separator—those who feel and react to their feelings and those who cower from them. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
867:I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
868:One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
869:One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
870:To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
871:I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
872:If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
873:I know that everyone has been hurt in some way and that everyone is capable of learning and relearning how to trust again. Starting with themselves. ~ Ruthie Foster, #NFDB
874:sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
875:Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
876:We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
877:And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
878:conditions that make us feel anonymous, when we think that others do not know us or care to, can foster antisocial, self-interested behaviors. My ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
879:Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
880:Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?"
"Of course not."
"But he's..."
"He's sweet," Molly insisted.
Dare snorted. "He's still listening. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
881:We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
882:and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an older woman asked. Tears sprang from the corners of Danica’s closed eyes. Damn it. Her entire ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
883:Niima was a functioning armpit of a town and nothing more, a place where no one asked questions and everyone went quietly about their own business. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
884:nose, knocking Danica’s head back. Her hand flew to her bloody nose. “Ow! Geez!” She ducked in pain, covering her face and talking through her hands. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
885:Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security. ~ Robert W Firestone, #NFDB
886:That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
887:The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
888:Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
889:door. Whack! He elbowed her right in the nose, knocking Danica’s head back. Her hand flew to her bloody nose. “Ow! Geez!” She ducked in pain, covering ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
890:I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
891:I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just going to soak in anyone I meet. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
892:I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
893:I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
894:Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
895:that’s what love is all about. It’s full of hopes and dreams and makes you feel like you’re walking among the clouds one minute and drowning the next. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
896:The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
897:The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom. ~ Rudolph Rummel, #NFDB
898:We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
899:We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.”
His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.”
“Do it anyway! ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
900:When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
901:By catching ourselves in the act of invoking a loophole, we give ourselves an opportunity to reject it, and stick to the habits that we want to foster. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
902:Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will ~ David Foster, #NFDB
903:Expanding outward from the explosion, a tremendous burst of heat tore through the Hosnian system’s other worlds, searing their surfaces clean of life ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
904:I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
905:I don't wear a lot of makeup in real life and I try to take care of my skin. I clean it, I moisturize it, but mainly I just try to drink a ton of water. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
906:Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community. ~ Michael Franti, #NFDB
907:Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
908:After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
909:A series of moans came from the Wookiee. Then he turned—and sat down. In the copilot’s seat. Rey felt herself tearing up. “You’re serious, aren’t you? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
910:Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister. ~ Jason Gann, #NFDB
911:Despite lack of any training with a lightsaber, Finn was athletic and courageous. In tandem with such traits, the saber made him a formidable fighter. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
912:I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
913:I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
914:I sometimes think there is nothing so lovely as an artistically-designed book. ~ Kendell Foster Crossen, The Hour of the Mortals, Startling Stories (August 1952), p. 81., #NFDB
915:It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
916:Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
917:opened his company. Regina handled the administrative aspects of the company, kept the production schedule, monitored the program testing, and basically ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
918:Rey scarcely glanced in the other vessel’s direction. “That one’s garbage! We need something that’ll move, not just get off the ground—if we’re lucky! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
919:The nature that preceded human history … no longer exists anywhere (except perhaps on a few Australian coral islands of recent origin). —KARL MARX1 ~ John Bellamy Foster, #NFDB
920:When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
921:It’s not unusual, while waiting for somebody to kiss the frog and the real parents to come home, for a foster child to live in ten or twenty different houses. ~ Cris Beam, #NFDB
922:It was decided. I was going to let Ryan Foster do me. I had no idea when it would happen, but it was inevitable. If he kept being this cute, it was inevitable. ~ S Walden, #NFDB
923:I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
924:...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
925:Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life. ~ Tony Hoagland, #NFDB
926:The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about." ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
927:When we foster appreciation for and love ourselves, we start to contribute to the world in a way that allows equality, inclusivity, and all forms of kindness. ~ Jes Baker, #NFDB
928:Eric Cameron. No… it couldn’t be. Oh. My. God. “Mattie?” That was why Eric was so familiar to me. I know his freaking name. Mirror Boy had been a foster kid. ~ Apryl Baker, #NFDB
929:Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
930:eyes. “I’m so sorry. Let me get you a napkin,” a deep, worried voice said. Two patrons rushed over and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
931:I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
932:This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
933:David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then. ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
934:For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
935:He turned her in his arms and gazed into the eyes of the woman he’d met over diapers and baby food and fallen in love with one second at a time ever since. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
936:The Millennium Falcon.” She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. “This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs.” “Twelve parsecs. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
937:What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
938:Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
939:I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
940:I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
941:It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
942:The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
943:was to come. She lost her fragile grasp on control, unaware of everything but the implosion of heat, the wave of sensation that made her muscles ripple and her ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
944:With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
945:You have ten minutes to be angry, ten minutes to be sad, ten minutes to be anything other than thankful that you have an eleventh minute to look forward to. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
946:Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
947:To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
948:True love can’t be stopped, and when it touches you, you’re flooded with so much emotion that you don’t know whether you’re sinking or swimming, or floating. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
949:And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives. ~ Ken Foster, #NFDB
950:Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
951:I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
952:I never thought I’d want to be in anyone’s picture ever again, but you make me want to be in yours. I like who we are together and who I am when I’m with you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
953:It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
954:Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
955:We’re passionate people, and passion has two sides. The side that burns so deep you can’t escape it, and the side that claws away the skin and leaves you raw. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
956:What if our foster care systems, in every one of our communities, knew that the churches are the first place willing to help families and children in crisis? ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
957:You will leave Starkiller at once and come to me with Kylo Ren. Leave immediately.” He added grimly, “It appears that he may have been right about the girl. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
958:Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
959:Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much. ~ John Bellamy Foster, #NFDB
960:His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
961:I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family. ~ Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, #NFDB
962:It was evident from both Hux’s tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
963:Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
964:Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process ~ Albert Bandura, #NFDB
965:She needed to be loved and cherished and shown that how he felt had nothing to do with controlling her decisions and everything to do with keeping her safe. “I ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
966:That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence. ~ George Will, #NFDB
967:The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
968:Back to Jak— Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There’s nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand—I don’t get it! ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
969:In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
970:One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
971:Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job. ~ Seymour Papert, #NFDB
972:We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
973:Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time? ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
974:A vision not consistent with values that people live by day by day will not only fail to inspire genuine enthusiasm, it will often foster outright cynicism. These ~ Peter M Senge, #NFDB
975:For a guy who’s been shot down more than once, I’m pretty gun-shy. But for you, I would have tried a million times. I’ve got a hell of a crush on you, Sara Foster. ~ Devney Perry, #NFDB
976:I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
977:I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. ~ Gregory Corso, #NFDB
978:It was Churchill who called John Foster Dulles “the only bull who brings his own china shop with him,” and who coined the progression, “dull, duller, Dulles. ~ William Manchester, #NFDB
979:Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
980:Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
981:Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
982:I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
983:The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
984:This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
985:TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
986:We were all here, and she came to see you, so I’m not sure what she really wanted to say to you, but you know Dad. He took her under his wing and had her stay for ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
987:You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big. ~ Marcelo Claure, #NFDB
988:You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could. ~ Melissa Febos, #NFDB
989:all cases should involve concurrent planning with birth parents, birth family, and extended kin, along with potential outside foster and/or adoptive families. ~ Joyce Maguire Pavao, #NFDB
990:For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
991:Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
992:I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch, #NFDB
993:I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
994:she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
995:Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
996:Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
997:But I’ve struggled, like every foster child I’ve ever met, between two opposing agonies: she didn’t want me, and I’m the one who left. The guilt, still, is immeasurable. ~ Cris Beam, #NFDB
998:In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
999:Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1000:must be done; whatever the cost, whatever the danger. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.” Though ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1001:The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’ ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1002:But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it. It’s something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1003:Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1004:I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1005:In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1006:[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it." ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1007:The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1008:What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1009:First, it was far more energy-saving to foster relationships with positive people. Secondly, one of the laws of consciousness is that “like goes to like”; bitterness ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
1010:I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny. ~ Arian Foster, #NFDB
1011:I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1012:Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1013:As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1014:Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1015:If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1016:I love you. I love you for who you are, past and all. If you need to look over your shoulder, I’ll look first. If you’re scared, I’ll keep you safe. Come home with me, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1017:I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along. ~ Walt Dohrn, #NFDB
1018:Love will find you when it’s damn good and ready and not a second before or a minute too late—and when it does, you don’t have a chance in hell in getting away.” DAISY ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1019:I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care. ~ Christopher Darden, #NFDB
1020:I would say I couldn’t love you more than I do right this very second, but it’d be a lie, because I know without a doubt that every second will be better than the last. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1021:Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I. ~ Alan Dean Foster,#NFDB
1022:There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1023:a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means. ~ Thomas E Woods Jr, #NFDB
1024:Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue. ~ Linda Lingle, #NFDB
1025:I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1026:I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1027:Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1028:My ex-husband is not on social media or Facebook, which I find fascinating and I do not follow any [others]. I know that one of them follows me, which I find interesting. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1029:Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1030:Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
1031:The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1032:This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile."
Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible. ~ Alan Dean Foster,#NFDB
1033:As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1034:But the point is this: stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. And they don’t have to stick to genre. Poems can learn from plays, songs from novels. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1035:I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else? ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1036:I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1037:The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1038:For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this. ~ Shinzo Abe, #NFDB
1039:I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1040:I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1041:We scientists in particular must foster internationalism,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.”41 ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1042:It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1043:Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself."
"Says the man with the black eye. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1044:Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1045:American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1046:I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.” Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. “Will you help me?” “Yes,” Han told him. “Anything. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1047:It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1048:We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1049:A deep gully formed, separating her from General Hux and the arriving troopers. Utilizing the tiny position sensor emplaced in Ren’s belt, Hux had tracked him to this spot. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1050:And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1051:Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1052:I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1053:No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1054:Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1055:T here’s no written rule anywhere that I know of stating this, no First-teenth Amendment to the Literary Constitution, but there might as well be: you get one national poet. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1056:The woman who ran my last foster home didn't think it was safe,so we had to stay inside and watch some Charlie Brown cartoon three times.I've never liked beagles to this day. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1057:We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1058:God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1059:He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1060:I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1061:I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1062:I talk to myself,” he had once explained to his minder. “I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself.” He remembered smiling. “Sometimes I even win the arguments. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1063:I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1064:Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1065:My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1066:Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1067:The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1068:This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1069:True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1070:We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we’ll either sink or swim. I’m a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath? ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1071:God created humans with an incredible capacity for intellectual thought, and it’s a shame when people fail to use that capacity to foster their own faith and better understand their ~ Dan Eaton, #NFDB
1072:I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1073:It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1074:May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1075:That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1076:When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame? ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1077:...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
1078:Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1079:Formal profile or not, of one thing he was now certain: They had badly underestimated what had seemed to be a Resistance pilot on the verge of physical and emotional collapse. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1080:I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1081:I've created a monster," he muttered thickly and quickly positioned her over his lap. "I need to come, Grace. Bad. I'm shaking like a virgin, but you've got some catching up to do. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1082:Jack knew most kids brought up in foster homes were like feral cats. Social graces were far down on the list of skills kids learned in broken homes—survival was at the top. ~ Christopher Greyson, #NFDB
1083:We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1084:Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1085:And when you graduate and get a job and find the one woman who finally stays - who you want to stay - she won't care that there's not a chance in hell you'll ever figure her out. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1086:Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1087:Not powerful enough," Tyler said. "It's a one terawatt laser so far." "It's not a laser . . ." Dr. Foster said tiredly. "My orbital death ray, my name," Tyler replied with a chuckle. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
1088:Since everything is only an illusion, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one might as well burst out laughing! – Longchenpa ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1089:Stunned by his own action, Kylo Ren fell to his knees. Following through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him believed. Instead, he found himself weakened. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1090:he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1091:Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1092:The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1093:The first two ultimate rules of being a foster child that I had learned while at Aunt Mary’s were never to become too attached to anyone and never to take someone’s home for granted. ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
1094:There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1095:Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1096:He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1097:I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1098:Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1099:My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises. ~ S Truett Cathy, #NFDB
1100:David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder. ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
1101:Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1102:I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1103:Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1104:Niima: center of the galaxy, repository of manifold cultures, offering to its myriad inhabitants a never-ending succession of entertainment, education, and enjoyable distractions. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1105:You told me never to be in a hurry to fail. That the end result should be strong enough to carry anything I did forward, not just good enough to hold it together for the time being. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1106:As I saw it, our mandate was to foster a culture that would seek to keep our sightlines clear, even as we accepted that we were often trying to engage with and fix what we could not see. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1107:I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need to hold on to myself or who I was when I was 25. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1108:I have given you nothing. I have shown you what was there in you already, and you have been man enough to destroy what is weak and to foster what is strong until it is unassailable. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1109:Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1110:I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1111:Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1112:As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1113:Goals and purpose are two very different things. Your goal might rely on others, but your purpose? That’s all you, son. And I guarantee, when you figure that out, the rest will follow. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1114:It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1115:Part of pattern recognition is talent, but a whole lot of it is practice: if you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1116:Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1117:There are only two possibilities: either human life emerged because the laws of the universe support it by random chance, or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
1118:there are two distinct viewpoints in every republic: that of the populace and that of the elite. All the laws made in order to foster liberty result from the tensions between them, ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1119:You are so appealing, Miss Foster, every bit as beautiful as your sister—more so, to me—that I almost lost my head. I want nothing more than to let this romantic current sweep us along. ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
1120:Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1121:Consisting of a rounded head floating above a much larger sphere, it was dull white with striking orange markings. Designated BB-8, the droid was, at the moment, very, very concerned. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1122:Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1123:Fight the Boredom To be, in a word, unborable. … It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. —David Foster Wallace This ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
1124:God created humans with an incredible capacity for intellectual thought, and it’s a shame when people fail to use that capacity to foster their own faith and better understand their creator. ~ Dan Eaton, #NFDB
1125:Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1126:Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1127:Those stories- myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature- are always with us. Always in us. We can draw upon them, tap into them, add to them whenever we want. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1128:What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every feeling. And that cannot come from outside of yourself. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1129:He worked to pay attention, realizing that the tottering upright stinking blob was speaking. No, he corrected himself resolutely: It was a graceful, fluid biped who was addressing him. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1130:I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1131:It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1132:K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1133:The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count. ~ Joan Robinson, #NFDB
1134:Why did you let the alien survive inside Kane?’ The science officer scowled. ‘I’m not sure you’re getting through to me. Nobody “let” anything survive inside anybody. It just happened. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1135:If he’d had to look at the lobby of the Nassau resort for one more second, he might have torn the place down. As the plane landed, Treat knew that getting away from resorts altogether and ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1136:The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1137:What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1138:I think if I had just slowed down a little bit it could have a little easier. I multiplied how difficult it needed to be instead of just saying, fair enough. You don't have to make it hard. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1139:Lay your head on my shoulder. Your heart next to mine,” he whispered. “I’ll take it all. Hear it through.” He pressed a kiss to her temple. “I’ll wrestle your demons, to remain beside you. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1140:Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post. ~ Rebecca Ferguson, #NFDB
1141:if we humans utilize our newly found genetic knowledge skillfully, it could help foster a greater sense of affinity and unity not only with our fellow human beings but with life as a whole. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1142:The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1143:There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster. ~ Anne Truitt, #NFDB
1144:But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1145:Every strong woman I’ve ever met had a parent who failed them, a parent who did well by them, or siblings to compete with. There’s no magic. We all become who we are because of someone else. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1146:Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1147:QBLH(qabbalah) which means to receive. The Qabbalah is not handed down from generation to generation but something which requires receptivity in those who are initiated into the mysteries. ~ Paul Foster Case, #NFDB
1148:The AASS had established a fledgling newspaper in Salem, Ohio, the Bugle, and the indefatigable Abby Kelley, along with her husband, Stephen Foster, and others, had laid the moral-suasionist ~ David W Blight, #NFDB
1149:Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1150:I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating. ~ Simon Helberg, #NFDB
1151:Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race in the universe, for who else believes that God has nothing better to do than sit around all day and help him out of tight spots?” It ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1152:Sun drifts, moon breaches, cool air whispers into the night. Tears fall, arms comfort, birds in the distance take flight. Waning crescent, smother my cries, take me up to the inky skies.” She ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1153:The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1154:Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1155:It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1156:I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life, I try not to take anything too seriously, I try to and I do find a ton of joy and happiness in my life and I think that helps you stay youthful. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1157:I want my options left open.” Her last words left her breathless, and she leaned in closer, her breath on his chin. “When I see that spark in your eyes, while you’re talking about your career, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1158:I want to be your wife. I want to have our babies, and take trips, and get wrinkly. But what I want most of all is to have you look at me like you are right now for the rest of my life.” Sam’s ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1159:Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1160:There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1161:There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1162:This time she was sure she managed a grin. ‘I can’t figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren’t supposed to be optimists.’ ‘Yeah, I know. You’re not the first to point it out. I’m a freakin’ anomaly. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1163:In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1164:I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this? ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
1165:Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1166:Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. ~ Charles Lyell, #NFDB
1167:All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1168:God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1169:Han Solo.
A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life. ~ Alan Dean Foster,#NFDB
1170:I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1171:I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1172:The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
1173:Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals. ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
1174:Many of the arts practiced at home are especially nourishing to the soul because they foster contemplation and demand a degree of artfulness, such as arranging flowers, cooking, and making repairs. ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
1175:My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle. ~ Tom Courtenay, #NFDB
1176:Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. ~ Mary Garden, #NFDB
1177:Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial. ~ Antwone Fisher, #NFDB
1178:We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1179:And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1180:I try to exercise, I try to think of it less as vanity and more like, how do I stay healthy from the inside out? I try to make my insides happy and healthy and I think that reflects on the outside. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1181:Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1182:Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1183:...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1184:Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt. ~ Alyson Foster, #NFDB
1185:All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
1186:A novel without readers is still a novel. It has meaning, since it has had at least one reader, the person who wrote it. Its range of meanings, however, is quite limited. Add readers, add meaning. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1187:In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1188:Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1189:She’d always wanted a man who knew how to be a man, who knew how to take without forcing, how to give without becoming too soft, and was sensitive enough to listen and care without losing his edge. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1190:There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1191:We can only control who we are, Blake. You are doing all the appropriate things. You are working on yourself, so that you—and no one else matters here but you—can take pride in the person you are. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1192:Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1193:If you want to foster great inner work life, focus first on eliminating the obstacles that cause setbacks. Why? Because one setback has more power to sway inner work life than one progress incident. ~ Teresa Amabile, #NFDB
1194:I’m angry,” I admitted. “So angry.” “I know,” she said, squeezing my hands. “It’s why we’re dancing. I find it hard to be angry when I’m dancing. There’s just something about it that doesn’t foster rage. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1195:In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
1196:I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1197:Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller. ~ Eugie Foster, #NFDB
1198:My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1199:Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1200:Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1201:close to the people standing in line that she couldn’t step to the side to see. She was gridlocked. Danica leaned to the right and peered around the massive shoulder ahead of her just as the owner of ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1202:From the moment I met you, I never stood a chance of not falling in love with you. I never stopped loving you, so there was no need to fall back in love with you. I just had to let myself feel again. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1203:I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1204:The genealogy of the modern redistributive state—with its notorious tendency to foster identity politics—can be traced back not to any sort of “primitive communism” but ultimately to violence and war. ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
1205:The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences; when they happen, they happen. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences—and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you. ~ Rick Hanson, #NFDB
1206:The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1207:What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning. ~ Ernst von Glasersfeld, #NFDB
1208:When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1209:An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof. ~ Hannah Webster Foster, #NFDB
1210:As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1211:Foster Mom: “Hm, hm, you’d be surprised, these little kids be out here fucking. ’Cause you know the last one you had up in here, she was eleven years old, and I had to get her a whole box of condoms. ~ Tiffany Haddish, #NFDB
1212:In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1213:I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
1214:Love is not something you can turn on or off. It sneaks up on you and wraps itself around your nerves. It seeps into your soul, and it infiltrates the crevices of your mind so you can’t think past it. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1215:Reviewers love us. Right, Dex?” Thrive had already produced three games, one of which, World of Thieves, had made Dex a major player in the gaming world—and earned him millions of dollars. His biggest ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1216:And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1217:REX BRADEN AWOKE before dawn, just as he had every Sunday morning for the past twenty-six years—since the Sunday after his mother died, when he was eight years old. He didn’t know what had startled him ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1218:Since winning her gold, Jayla had been all over television and radio commercials as well as print ads for Dove and a few of her other sponsors, and young girls from all over had emailed her in support, ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1219:Au jardin de mon père, les lilas sont fleuris. Tous les oiseaux du monde viennent y faire leur nid. Auprés de ma blonde, qu’il fait bon, fait bon, fait bon. Auprés de ma blonde, qu’il fait bon dormir. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1220:I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1221:I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1222:She had bribed a teacher. She had stolen opium. She had burned herself, lied to her foster parents, abandoned her responsibilities at the store, and broken a marriage deal.
And she was going to Sinegard. ~ R F Kuang,#NFDB
1223:I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1224:I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1225:I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place. ~ Angel Olsen, #NFDB
1226:MAX STARED AT her phone. The temptation to turn it on was burning a hole in her hand. “Ugh!” She shoved it into the glove compartment of the rental car so that she wouldn’t be tempted to make any foolish ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1227:The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the noble life he had set out for himself. It was a terrible way to meet girls. Whoever ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1228:To: Gabe Foster From: Dylan Mitchell I have prepared the fourth pot of coffee for you to taste. I pray that this one meets your exacting taste buds, because I do actually have plans for the rest of my life. ~ Lily Morton, #NFDB
1229:Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1230:Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
1231:Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it. ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
1232:He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1233:I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children. ~ Mac Barnett, #NFDB
1234:I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1235:Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. ~ Charles Bass, #NFDB
1236:The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
1237:To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1238:When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1239:A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
1240:Curiosity, after all, was what had driven mankind out from his isolated, unimportant world and across the gulf between the stars. It had also, he thoughtfully reminded himself, killed the figurative cat. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1241:Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. Like soft silver, melting. Liesel, upon seeing those eyes, understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1242:That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1243:I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1244:I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1245:One study, based on Medicaid data in thirteen states, found that 12.4 percent of children in foster care received antipsychotics, compared with 1.4 percent of Medicaid-eligible children in general.29 ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1246:pushed so close to the people standing in line that she couldn’t step to the side to see. She was gridlocked. Danica leaned to the right and peered around the massive shoulder ahead of her just as the owner ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1247:So how do we get from there to a pattern of experience that can stand for the whole of postcolonial Latin America? Ah, our para dox again. The solution, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1248:Sound doctrine delivers us from the snare of false teaching (2 Tim. 2:24–26; Titus 1:9-11), which otherwise threatens to arrest spiritual development (Eph 4:14) and to foster ecclesiastical discord (Rom. 16:17). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1249:Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
1250:The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1251:The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on. ~ William Z Foster, #NFDB
1252:Although hindsight and the outcome bias generally foster risk aversion, they also bring undeserved rewards to irresponsible risk seekers, such as a general or an entrepreneur who took a crazy gamble and won. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1253:Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1254:Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
1255:Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters (c.1946),#NFDB
1256:Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1257:The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1258:Well, I’ve gone through enough therapy to understand that it’s not our fault. Our parents made their decisions. We just tagged along for the ride, and sometimes the ride crashed and threw us into another lane. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1259:With this embrace of subjectivity came the diminution of objective truth: the celebration of opinion over knowledge, feelings over facts—a development that both reflected and helped foster the rise of Trump. ~ Michiko Kakutani, #NFDB
1260:He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1261:Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1262:Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it's not. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1263:Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1264:Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1265:Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
1266:Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. ~ Andre Malraux, #NFDB
1267:True relaxation was a state of being that had been virtually unknown to him since childhood. The best that could be said of it was that when he felt relatively safe, he entered a condition of lenient wariness. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1268:A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken." ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1269:Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
1270:locked on the man who had elbowed her—the most beautiful specimen of a human being she had ever seen. Oh shit. “I’m…What…?” Come on, girl. Get it together. He’s probably an egomaniac. “I’m so sorry.” His voice was ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1271:Love isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about not caring if you don’t, because what happiness really comes down to is knowing that you don’t need answers if your heart is full of the person you cherish most. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1272:The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271 ~ Sharyn McCrumb,#NFDB
1273:As a world leader in Internet innovation, the United States has both the responsibility and incentive to help establish forward-looking privacy policy models that foster innovation and preserve basic privacy rights. The ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1274:she wondered what was worse—having only dreamed of finding love, finding it and letting it slip away, or loving someone so completely that a decade later you were still punishing yourself for having made a mistake? ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1275:Willa A. Foster commented, “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1276:You know what?” I stood up. I’d had enough and he hadn’t even started. “Six foster kids a few months ago doesn’t make you an expert. Not by a sight. It makes you crazier than a shithouse rat.” “Maybe, but—” “No. No but. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
1277:easier question to answer. “Who wouldn’t be? This is New Riviera, the paradise planet, the best of Mother Earth concentrated and then spread like a fine glaze on an entire world instead of just a small part of it. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1278:First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. —Journal of the Whills, 7:477 ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1279:How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~ Woody Allen, as quoted in Love, Sex, Death & The Meaning of Life : The Films of Woody Allen (2001) by Foster Hirsch, p. 50, #NFDB
1280:If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1281:In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. ~ Estelle Morris Baroness Morris of Yardley, #NFDB
1282:Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1283:Take it easy, Grace," Noah told her as he stepped into his slacks. "According to Ben she's doing fine now and is kicking up a fuss at all the attention. To quote Ben, 'She's pitching a bitch about looking old and frail. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1284:The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty. ~ Fritz Kreisler, #NFDB
1285:The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those of Jesus, it is because we have learned to let the Spirit foster his life in us. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
1286:Then I’d been determined to be the best blind foster the world had ever known, following every rule, obeying every protocol, the very model of royal fae youth. Maybe that way, they would send for me. I could go home. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1287:The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1288:Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1289:If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1290:I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog! ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
1291:As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1292:As a parent, to the degree you are able to recognize that your children are in your life to foster a renewed sense of who you are, you will discover their potential to lead you to the discovery of your own true being. ~ Shefali Tsabary, #NFDB
1293:it’s that whether they’re yours in the traditional sense or not doesn’t matter. The heart doesn’t care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1294:Did Mr. Poe write as a boy?
Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world ~ Lynn Cullen,#NFDB
1295:I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1296:Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1297:David foster Wallace:
'...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.'
NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016 ~ Tom Bissell,#NFDB
1298:I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1299:I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1300:life is that easy and that complicated. I think I’m sitting in the center of easy and complicated and I don’t know where I’ll end up—but it sure feels like I’m in the right place regardless of if it’s easy or complicated. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1301:Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1302:One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1303:Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1304:Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1305:David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like a slug of coffee - so they're the five most sleepless days I every spent with anyone. ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
1306:Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1307:Spencer talked to Trace."
Aha! "That--"
"And Trace told Dare. But no one told me because you swore everyone to secrecy, and I have to tell you, that annoys the hell out of me."
-Jackson and Arizona ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1308:The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1309:What makes a moment a defining one is that it is so far past words, so much more about the texture of the surroundings that the memory of it hangs like an emboldened stamp in your brain. So this moment was for Foster and Chip. ~ Eric Arvin, #NFDB
1310:You can play their game and you can beat them at it. Or you can let them banish you from New York in tatters. Just as Mr. Foster is trying to do to me. But do you know something? Nobody ever won a game they didn’t play.” She ~ Graham Moore, #NFDB
1311:Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality. ~ Abe Fortas, #NFDB
1312:He couldn't allow himself to give the warning a second thought. Second thoughts led to doubt, and doubt led to carelessness, which in turn would likely lead him to exactly what gave him the second thought in the first place ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1313:IMAGINATION: one of the most powerful tools that humans have to help us visualize our dreams and goals. Imagination is our ability to form mental images and concepts in our brains to foster ideas and turn our goals into reality. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1314:When Trace simply held her hands out to her sides and looked at her, Priss asked, "Are we going to have sex now?"
His mouth twitched, and his gaze warmed, but he sounded dead serious when he said, "Yeah, I think we are. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1315:Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1316:Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was fair... But here and now, it was perfect. And really, there was nothing more important than that. ~ Eugie Foster, #NFDB
1317:Any of you ever been to Disney World?”
Ferbus gave her a harsh look and pointed around the circle at each Junior. “Foster kid, orphan, foster kid, disowned—”
“Okay, so no,” she said. “But perhaps you’ve heard of the place. ~ Gina Damico,#NFDB
1318:As for the screening process, we already do that for adoptive/foster parents. Why do we cling to the irrational belief that biological parents are necessarily competent parents—in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1319:I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1320:I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment to ideals, a sense of solidarity, purposefulness, steadfastness, responsibility. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
1321:Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1322:Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1323:...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1324:We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
1325:When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1326:I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1327:I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1328:All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1329:As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down. Rather than buffering people from clinical depression, increased wealth in a society seems to foster it. Suicide ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
1330:From the box she removed a lightsaber. Finn eyed it uncertainly, but even in the poor light, Han recognized it immediately. Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber. “Where’d you get that?” Han demanded. “Long story. A good one—for later. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1331:If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1332:Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1333:For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1334:I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1335:If somebody treats you with unkindness, if they judge or criticize you, it’s likely they have endured similar treatment from others in the past, and they are only repeating unconscious patterns in search of a love they cannot find. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1336:I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1337:Let them laugh and point. You are a yogi of traffic jams and discarded apple cores, aloneness and impossibly blue winter skies, a yogi of broken dreams, mad with truth and devotion and inexplicable joy, and you cannot be saved now. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1338:Numerous case histories have been documented about children previously neglected or abused by their parents, who, when placed with loving foster parents, have distorted their new surroundings and therefore reacted adversely. ~ Robert W Firestone, #NFDB
1339:There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
1340:The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
1341:Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1342:I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
1343:I want to wrap you up in me until you can feel how much I want you. I want to make you feel as wanted as you make me feel, because I want you Gemma, all of you. I’ve never felt like this before. I feel like this is my first time. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1344:She stared up at him and for an instant his expression went soft all over her before he turned away, gritting his teeth.
Dean felt her gentle touch everywhere, in places he'd never thought about before.
Like his heart. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1345:We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1346:A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1347:Awkwardly pressed up against him, the Princess seemed to take no notice of their proximity. In the dampness, though, her body heat was near palpable to Luke and he had to force himself to keep his attention on what he was doing. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1348:Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1349:I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1350:Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1351:On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1352:Shaw resented being questioned by the Temple Planning Commission. It felt especially offensive because, besides her constant responsibilities as a foster parent, she had a day job as well, contributing her entire salary to the Temple. ~ Jeff Guinn, #NFDB
1353:you can live your life afraid to move forward, or you can live your life accepting people for who they are and believing in those people, giving second chances with the hopes that the changes they’ve worked hard to achieve remain. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1354:An enlightened society is one where the culture encourages time for self-awareness, belonging, and connection. An enlightened society would actually foster cultural and social relationships to help commuters find their way home. It ~ Ethan Nichtern, #NFDB
1355:Dare leaned in her window. “Be smart, Priss, and listen to Trace.”
Priss scowled at him. “Why doesn’t he have to listen to me?”
After a long stare-off, Dare peered past Priss to Trace and said, totally deadpan, “Listen to Priss. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1356:I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1357:I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great. ~ Bruce Willis, #NFDB
1358:The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1359:To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1360:We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs. ~ John Carlos Frey, #NFDB
1361:Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1362:she gathered her belongings and headed for the makeshift entrance that led into the belly of the half-destroyed AT-AT walker. It might be an ancient, rotting, rusting example of now useless military might, but to Rey, it was home. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1363:State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. ~ Charles Bass, #NFDB
1364:The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1365:What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1366:A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1367:Coming from the theatre I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1368:The best leaders are lifelong learners; they take measures to create organizations that foster and inspire learning throughout. The most effective leaders are those who realize it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts most. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
1369:This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1370:Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1371:was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1372:What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1373:I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1374:A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1375:Gospels of Sin Management” presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind … [and] they foster “vampire Christians,” who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven. Dallas ~ Scot McKnight, #NFDB
1376:I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1377:What we mean when speaking of "myth" in general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry—all very highly useful and informative in their own right—can't. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1378:At incredible velocity and accelerating exponentially, the concentrated volume of quintessence escaped, transforming as it did so into a state known as phantom energy and following the artificial line of egress that had been provided. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1379:At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1380:Finally, by making activism our priority, we fashion a reputation as rabble-rousing malcontents and foster hostility toward unbelievers that alienates us from them, and them from us. We need to let go of the notion that culture and ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1381:Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!" ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1382:Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1383:Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within. ~ Jack Gleeson, #NFDB
1384:The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1385:The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1386:The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1387:Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1388:Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1389:The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1390:We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
1391:being she had ever seen. Oh shit. “I’m…What…?” Come on, girl. Get it together. He’s probably an egomaniac. “I’m so sorry.” His voice was rich and smooth, laden with concern. A thin blonde grabbed his arm and shoved a napkin into his hand. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1392:Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. ~ David Foster Wallace,#NFDB
1393:My foster mother -Holly- used to say if wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. It was a quote she picked up from some book, loosely translated intro there was no point in spending time on wishes.
At least that's how i took it. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
1394:Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1395:Be smart and take your pert little ass out the door and away from danger.”
Pert little ass? Frowning, she looked behind herself. From what she could see, her ass—pert or otherwise—looked nonexistent thanks to the shape of her skirt. ~ Lori Foster,#NFDB
1396:If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1397:I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream. To sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
1398:She stood and extended a hand. He glanced at it, his dark gaze rising to her face, then gratefully accepted her offer of assistance. “Follow me,” Rey said. She turned and broke into a run, the grateful Finn allowing himself to be guided. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1399:The most vibrant platforms embrace third-party collaboration. The companies behind these platforms seek to foster symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationships with users, customers, partners, vendors, developers, and the community at large. ~ Phil Simon, #NFDB
1400:Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
1401:Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. ~ Louis Farrakhan, #NFDB
1402:Because Rowdy Yates was that and then some. He was also drop-dead gorgeous in a devilish, careless, edgy way. Where Reese tempered his sex appeal, Rowdy threw it out there without reserve, bludgeoning innocent bystanders with his raw magnetism. ~ Lori Foster, #NFDB
1403:He was struggling also, against her newly discovered ability, as well as the wound inflicted by Chewbacca’s bowcaster. Gritting his teeth, he flung his arm sideways in a single, powerful gesture—and the blaster went flying out of her hand. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1404:I know each day is a gift. It’s a chance to renew ourselves in so many ways.” “How’s that?” “The way I see it, if we mess up one day, the next day is a chance to make it better or move past it. It’s a gift of another chance. A new beginning. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1405:Mael was the youngest son of Mannuetios, king of the Trinovantes to the north, and as young boys, he and his brother, Aeddan, had been sent to foster with our tribe—to grow to manhood as one of us, ensuring peace between the two kingdoms. ~ Lesley Livingston, #NFDB
1406:More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor extremism they are - is a really bad thing. More information may not be a good thing, either. ~ Paul Saffo, #NFDB
1407:Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1408:Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
1409:You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred, and exclusiveness, and anger. And it's really just a matter of what concepts, ideas you decide to focus on. ~ Andrew B Newberg, #NFDB
1410:It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1411:more than others see. Be more than others are. You’re too interesting to be single layered. Too many people go through life seeing only what they expect. They view life waiting to be heard, rather than listening and seeing what others do not. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1412:optimizing MCM is not a matter of a “big-bang” initiative but instead involves a deliberate step-by-step process. A phased approach will help keep implementation momentum up; foster senior executive confidence, which will increase their buy-in; ~ Mark Jeffery, #NFDB
1413:The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1414:Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1415:People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good. ~ John Braithwaite, #NFDB
1416:America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1417:Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1418:Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
1419:The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty. ~ Alyson Foster, #NFDB
1420:Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career—no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1421:Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1422:I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It's hard. ~ Sutton Foster, #NFDB
1423:Someone had to go first, show that there was a life to be recorded here, that this place, this new set of possibilities, could inspire a new literature. Cooper set the signpost on the road, and hearty travelers have been following it ever since. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1424:In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged. ~ Carmen Lawrence, #NFDB
1425:I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1426:Looking closely at Molly’s file, Lori the social worker settles on a stool. “So you’ll be aging out of foster care in . . . let’s see . . . you turned seventeen in January, so nine months. Have you thought about what you’re going to do then? ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1427:Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1428:To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life. ~ Joan Z Borysenko, #NFDB
1429:What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1430:What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1431:close to the people standing in line that she couldn’t step to the side to see. She was gridlocked. Danica leaned to the right and peered around the massive shoulder ahead of her just as the owner of that shoulder turned to look out the door. Whack! ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1432:Here it is: there's only one story. There, I said it and I can't very well take it back. There is only one story. Ever. One. It's always been going on and it's everywhere around us and every story you've ever read or heard or watched is part of it. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1433:I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. ~ Richard Lugar, #NFDB
1434:Kodie, a late-teen juvenile delinquent from Terre Haute, Indiana, who was illiterate before he discovered the series; his foster mother Shirley Comer, a nurse, had started reading Harry Potter to him while he was in a juvenile rehabilitation center. ~ Melissa Anelli, #NFDB
1435:Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1436:You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1437:as a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care—less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor’s degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1438:I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1439:It was endearing, in that way that almost ached sometimes, how much my folks wanted Foster to be okay. And I think even more than I did, they wanted Foster to be normal. For me, being normal meant fitting in. For them, I think, it just meant being happy. ~ Emma Mills, #NFDB
1440:necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
1441:Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller, people like Charles Bukowski and John Fante and David Foster Wallace. ~ John Larroquette, #NFDB
1442:What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love? ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1443:Bushido is not learning how to die. Bushido is learning how to live, how to protect and foster life. Even in war, the taking of human life is to be avoided as much as possible. It is always a sin to kill. Give your opponents every chance to make peace ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1444:It takes a special man not to feel threatened by a smart, headstrong girl like you. And it takes a generous, loving heart to want to nurture that strength, to push you outside your comfort zone, instead of tamping it down or trying to control it.” Duke ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1445:Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
1446:Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
1447:There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. ~ Norman Foster, #NFDB
1448:the success of creation spaces can be traced back to careful design at the outset by a small group of people who were very thoughtful about the conditions required to foster or “scaffold” scalable collaboration, learning, and performance improvement. ~ John Seely Brown, #NFDB
1449:Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can’t really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it. ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1450:The challenge, of course, is how to create environments that foster these serendipitous connections, on all the appropriate scales: in the private space of your own mind; within larger institutions; and across the information networks of society itself. ~ Steven Johnson, #NFDB
1451:The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1452:nations, v and raise my signal to the peoples; w and they shall bring your sons in their arms, [5] and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 23 x Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1453:Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1454:The fundamental goal of education, writes Dewey, ”is the development of a spirit of social co-operation and community life....“ The goal is to foster the child’s ”social capacity“—by, among other things, ”saturating him with the spirit of service....“21 ~ Leonard Peikoff, #NFDB
1455:You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1456:And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
1457:Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, #NFDB
1458:In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection. ~ David Rockwell, #NFDB
1459:~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~ ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1460:She looks happy to me when she’s beside you.”
I laugh bitterly. “She looked real happy when she left.”
“She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It’s indifference that should scare you. The same look foster parents give you when you come and go. ~ Katie McGarry,#NFDB
1461:THERE ARE PLACES I’ll remember all my life – red square with a hot wind howling across it, my mother’s bedroom on the wrong side of 8-Mile, the endless gardens of a fancy foster home, a man waiting to kill me in a group of ruins known as the Theatre of Death. ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
1462:What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness. ~ David W Orr, #NFDB
1463:Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. ~ Charles Foster Johnson, #NFDB
1464:As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. ~ Brad Sherman, #NFDB
1465:Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
1466:He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1467:I'm also including a good crop of new recipes I've never shared before--all guaranteed to win friends, influence people, garner marriage proposals, foster friendships, mend fences, and make you the most popular person in town.
(Or at least in your family.) ~ Ree Drummond,#NFDB
1468:I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style. ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
1469:After a few months went by, Dee started leaving her own baby with Foua when she took Lia to medical appointments-perhaps the first instance in the history of Child Protective Services that a foster mother has asked a legally abusive parent to baby-sit for her. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB
1470:I don’t get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It’s such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range.” She shrugged. “I suppose it doesn’t matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1471:Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1472:Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1473:The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct contact with people who are like-minded and interested in similar things. I think the film festival circuit has certainly helped to foster the community. ~ Joe Swanberg, #NFDB
1474:With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1475:As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life. ~ Wanda Coleman, #NFDB
1476:In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace. ~ Saint Basil, #NFDB
1477:Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ~ John Foster, #NFDB
1478:In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
1479:It’s delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1480:Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1481:Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself. ~ Radney Foster, #NFDB
1482:Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1483:Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other. ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1484:The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1485:Husband and wife stood regarding each other for the first time in years. Amid the smoke and drifting embers, neither said a word. Emerging from behind the figure in the portal, C-3PO walked out into the scorched field to confront the motionless droid beside Han. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1486:We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. ~ Margaret Spellings, #NFDB
1487:Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1488:All human suffering is a variation on this theme—trying to control the waves, trying to control our present-moment experience so it conforms to our ideas and concepts of how it should be. If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be! I ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1489:Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1490:Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1491:Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1492:We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1493:You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1494:Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1495:I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture. ~ Anna Kendrick, #NFDB
1496:She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
1497:The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again ~ Thomas C Foster, #NFDB
1498:The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1499:You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
1500:forged and distributed large quantities of food ration cards to cause confusion, shortages, and resentment; sent out forged tax notices and other government directives and documents to foster disorganization and inefficiency within industry and unions … all this and much ~ William Blum, #NFDB
44 Integral Yoga
42 Poetry
13 Psychology
12 Occultism
9 Philosophy
7 Fiction
5 Christianity
4 Science
3 Yoga
3 Mythology
1 Education
1 Baha i Faith
33 Sri Aurobindo
21 Nolini Kanta Gupta
12 The Mother
11 William Wordsworth
8 Carl Jung
7 John Keats
6 Satprem
6 Lucretius
5 Jordan Peterson
5 James George Frazer
5 H P Lovecraft
4 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
3 Sri Ramakrishna
3 Robert Browning
3 Ovid
2 Saint Teresa of Avila
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Percy Bysshe Shelley
2 Aldous Huxley
11 Wordsworth - Poems
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
8 The Secret Of The Veda
7 Keats - Poems
6 Of The Nature Of Things
5 The Golden Bough
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Lovecraft - Poems
4 The Practice of Psycho therapy
4 The Future of Man
4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
3 Words Of Long Ago
3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
3 Prayers And Meditations
3 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
3 Metamorphoses
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Collected Poems
3 Browning - Poems
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 Shelley - Poems
2 Savitri
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
I began the study of the Qabalah at an early age. Two books I read then have played unconsciously a prominent part in the writing of my own book. One of these was "Q.B.L. or the Bride's Reception" by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones), which I must have first read around 1926. The other was "An Introduction to the Tarot" by Paul foster Case, published in the early 1920's. It is now out of print, superseded by later versions of the same topic. But as I now glance through this slender book, I perceive how profoundly even the format of his book had influenced me, though in these two instances there was not a trace of plagiarism. It had not consciously occurred to me until recently that I owed so much to them. Since Paul Case passed away about a decade or so ago, this gives me the opportunity to thank him, overtly, wherever he may now be.
By the middle of 1926 I had become aware of the work of Aleister Crowley, for whom I have a tremendous respect. I studied as many of his writings as I could gain access to, making copious notes, and later acted for several years as his secretary, having joined him in Paris on October 12, 1928, a memorable day in my life.
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I saw all kinds of thingsoh, bah! bah! An adverse organization in the most material vital to mislead unenlightened spiritual aspirations: I encountered that last night. There was a kind of preacher teaching how to do things, and for each thing I had to contradict and explainbecause he had quite an audience: he has that audience at night, and when people wake up, they arent conscious of it, and it influences them. It results in a kind of possession. It was (oh, I see that gentleman often), its a tall, black beinghe is black, jet black but he passes himself off as a great Initiate! People dont see him as he is (they must see him in a very attractive guise), and he preaches the very things that foster disintegration. He teaches you in detail how to doa very good teacher of mischief. But I argued with him about everything, explained everything in detail, very carefully, very conscientiously, and when it was over, I offered it all to the Lordso I dont know what happened to him!
They are quite unhappy at whats going on here! (Mother laughs)
0 1972-08-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As in all tragedies in human History, there is not a particular person to blame. Humans only incarnate certain types of force or character they come, die, triumph and vanish but the forces remain and continue to animate millions and millions of unknown little humans here and there, who are silently responsible and the invisible actors in the drama. There is no one to put on trial hereexcept millions who are but ourselves. It would therefore be absurd to say that Pranab was the author, or the sole author, of that formation (Everywhere, there are wills that it [the body] should die! she said), but he certainly fostered it and transmitted it, and because he was physically present all the time, Mother had to brea the that horror constantly. Ultimately there remains this haunting question, the only one perhaps: Could it have been otherwise?
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02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A great opportunity is offered to India's soul, a mighty auspicious moment is come, if she can choose. If she chooses rightly, then can she arrive at the perfect fulfilment of her agelong endeavour, her life mission. India has preserved and fostered through the immemorial spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human type. It is this for which India lives; by losing this India loses all her reason of existenceraison d'tre the earth and humanity too lose all significance. Today we are in the midst of an incomparable ordeal. If we know how to take the final and crucial step, we come out of it triumphant, a new soul and a new body, and we make the path straight for the Lord. We have to recognise clearly and unequivocally that victory on' one side will mean that the path of the Divineof progress and evolution and fulfilmentwill remain open, become wider and smoother and safer; but if the victory is on the other side, the path will be closed perhaps for ever, at least for many ages and even then the travail will have to be undergone again under the most difficult conditions and circumstances. Not with a political shortsightedness, not out of -the considerations of convenience or diplomacy, of narrow parochial interests, but with the steady vision of the soul that encompasses the supreme welfare of humanity, we have to make our choice, we have to go over to the right side and oppose the wrong one with all the integrity of our life and being. The Allies, as they have been justly called, are really our allies, our friends and comrades, in spite of their thousand faults and defects; they have stood on the side of the Truth whose manifestation and triumph is our goal. Even though they did not know perhaps in, the beginning what they stood for, even though perhaps as yet they do not comprehend the full sense and solemnity of the issues, still they have chosen a side which is ours, and we have to stand by them whole-heartedly in an all-round comradeship if we want to be saved from a great perdition.
This war is a great menace; it is also a great opportunity. It can land humanity into a catastrophe; it can also raise it to levels which would not have been within its reach but for the occasion. The Forces of Darkness have precipitated themselves with all their might upon the world, but by their very downrush have called upon the higher Forces of Light also to descend. The true' use of the opportunity offered to man would be to bring about a change, better still, a reversal, in his consciousness, that is to say, it will be of highest utility if it forces upon him by the pressure of inexorable circumstancessince normally he is so unwilling and incapable to do it through a spontaneous inner awakening the inescapable decision that he must change and shall change; and the change is to be for or towards the birth of a spiritual consciousness in earthly life. Indeed the war might be viewed" as the birth-pangs of such a spiritual consciousness. Whether the labour would be sublimely fruitful here and how or end in barrenness is the question the Fates and the gods are asking of man the mortal beingtoday.
02.10 - Independence and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Precisely, the present war brings to our door the opportunity most suited to the acquisition and development of this power and strength. The very things the Indian temperament once had in abundance but now lacks most and has to recoverdiscipline, organization, impersonality and objectivity in work, hard and patient labour, skill of execution in minute detailsqualities by virtue of which power is not only acquired, but maintained and fosteredare now made more easily available. These qualities cannot be mastered and developed with such facility and swiftness as under the pressure of the demands of a war. This does not mean that we have got to be militarists. But the world is such that if we wish to live and prosper we must know how to make use of the materials and conditions that are given to us. Many good things are imbedded among bad ones, and wisdom and commonsense do not advise us to throw out the baby with the bath-water. That is another matter, however.
If we had joined hands with the British in the war-work on their own termsto try to compel them to our terms is to put the cart before the horsewe would have seen that as we proceeded with the work, more and more of it came automatically under our charge, however small or slight it might have looked in the beginning. In the end or very soon we would have found that our possession of the field was an accomplished fact, there could be no question of denying or refusing, the fact had to be acceptedadmitted and ratified. It is the well-known policy of the camel which Aesop described in one of his Fables. We have to establish the inexorable logic of events which definitively solves the riddle, cuts the Gordian knot as it were. A theoretical, that is to say, a moral and legal pact or understanding is but a dam of sands.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have said individual or personal worth should be the chief concern of the social governance, to bring it to birth, to maintain and foster it is its principal function. This means naturally freedom, but not the freedom that is demanded by the individualist as against the socialist or the collectivist. For there freedom means freedom for competition and rivalry, freedom for the egos, for selfish interests to fight and battle and survive who can. That is the motto of the competitive society in which we have been living for some time past. That system has become intolerable and hence all the seismic troubles in society today. What is needed is real freedom. For it is easy to see that under the competitive system the apparent freedom is only apparent, a make-believe. It is not freedom, that is to say, free choice and initiation that can work here, it is the pressure from rivals, the impact of adverse circumstances that determine one's will and choice. In the second place, it is not the deeper urges or capacities that are touched and awakened in this way, it is the superficial impulses and preoccupations that find a vent. Man is here only a link in a chain of reactions over which he has hardly any real control: one's decision is limited by conditions beyond one's reach, one's hands are forced, as the common phrase goes.
The problem then is this: how to arrive at the inner freedom, how to contact the inner man, the true person and personality? For we are aiming at nothing less than the Soul, the Self, the Divine in man, God's purpose in the Individual, the Individual as God's instrument. That is the beau idal, so to say, in the human personality which all schemes of social reconstruction must have constantly in view.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This life principle of a body politic seems in Pakistan to be represented by the Ansars. The question then to be determined is whether they have accepted the Pact or not. If they have, is it merely a political expedient or do they find in it a real moral value? We have to weigh and judge the ideal and motive that inspire this organisation which seeks to be the steel frame supporting or supported by the Government. We ask: is this a nucleus, a seed bed for the new life to take birth and grow, the new life that would go to the making of the new world and humanity? And we have to ask India too, has she found her nucleus or nuclei, on her side, that would generate and foster the power of her soul and spirit? The high policy of a government remains a dead law or is misconstrued and misapplied through local agents: they are in fact the local growths that feed the national life and are fed by it and they need careful nurture and education, for upon them depends ultimately the weal or the woe of the race.
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03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It may be questioned whether too many languages are not imposed on us in this way and whether it will not mean in the end a Babel and inefficiency. It need not be so and it is not going to be so. We must remember the age we are in, its composite structure, its polyphonic nature. In the ancient and mediaeval ages, the ages of separatism and exclusiveness of clans and tribes and regions, even in the later age of the states and nations, the individual group-consciousness was strong and sedulously fostered. Languages and literature grew and developed more or less independently and with equal vigour, although always through some kind of give and take. But the modern world has been made so inextricably one, ease of communication and free interchange have obliterated the separating boundaries, not only geographical but psychological. The modern consciousness has so developed and is so circumstanced that one can very easily be bi-lingual or even trilingual: indeed one has to be so, speaking and writing with equal felicity not only one's mother tongue but one or more adopted tongues. Modern culture means that.
Naturally I am referring to the educated or cultured stratum of humanity, the lite. This restriction, however, does not vitiate or nullify our position. The major part of humanity is bound and confined to the soil where they are born and brought up. Their needs do not go beyond the assistance of their vernacular. A liberal education, extending even to the masses, may and does include acquaintance with one or two foreign languages, especially in these days, but in fact it turns out to be only a nodding acquaintance, a secondary and marginal acquisition. When Latin was the lingua franca in Europe or Sanskrit in India, it was the lite, the intelligentsia, the Brahmin, the cleric, who were the trustees and guardians of the language. That position has virtually been taken in modern times, as I have said, by English and French.
03.12 - TagorePoet and Seer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Such a great name is Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature. We need not forget Bankim Chandra, nor even Madhusudan: still one can safely declare that if Bengali language and literature belonged to any single person as its supreme liberator and fosterer savitand pit is Rabindranath. It was he who lifted that language and literature from what had been after all a provincial and parochial status into the domain of the international and universal. Through him a thing of local value was metamorphosed definitively into a thing of world value.
The miracle that Tagore has done is this: he has brought out the very soul of the raceits soul of lyric fervour and grace, of intuitive luminosity and poignant sensibility, of beauty and harmony and delicacy. It is this that he has made living and vibrant, raised almost to the highest pitch and amplitude in various modes in the utterance of his nation. What he always expresses, in all his creations, is one aspect or another, a rhythm or a note of the soul movement. It is always a cry of the soul, a profound experience in the inner heart that wells out in the multifarious cadences of his poems. It is the same motif that finds a local habitation and a name in his short stories, perfect gems, masterpieces among world's masterpieces of art. In his dramas and novels it is the same element that has found a wider canvas for a more detailed and graphic notation of its play and movement. I would even include his essays (and certainly his memoirs) within the sweep of the same master-note. An essay by Rabindranath is as characteristic of the poet as any lyric poem of his. This is not to say that the essays are devoid of a solid intellectual content, a close-knit logical argument, an acute and penetrating thought movement, nor is it that his novels or dramas are mere lyrics drawn out arid thinned, lacking in the essential elements of a plot and action and character. What I mean is that over and above these factors which Tagores art possesses to a considerable degree, there is an imponderable element, a flavour, a breath from elsewhere that suffuses the entire creation, something that can be characterised only as the soul-element. It is this presence that makes whatever the poet touches not only living and graceful but instinct with something that belongs to the world of gods, something celestial and divine, something that meets and satisfies man's deepest longing and aspiration.
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In India we have an echo of the transition, rather perhaps, she held up the type of the transition required. For here the evolution seems to have been more gradual and the steps are more clearly visible leading one to the other. India maintained an unbroken continuity in the cyclic change of the human consciousness. She was coeval with Egypt and Chaldea, Sumeria and Babylon: she communed with them perhaps in similar and parallel terms. And yet she changed or evolved and knew to express herself in other terms in other times. She had talked in mystic terms with the mystics and later on she talked in rational terms with rationalists. And today we see signs of her parleying with the Scientists in scientific terms. That is how India still lives, while Egypt and Chaldea have gone the way of Atlantis and Gondwanaland. For something is enshrined there which is eternal, something living and dynamic which is pressing forward to manifest and embody itself, some supreme truth and reality of the future which she is fostering within her to deliver to nature and humanitya new humanity with a new nature.
The Olympians as opposed to the Chthonian gods. The Olympians were white in colour, the Chthonians black or blood-red: the Olympian temples faced the East, while the Chthonian faced the West and so on.
04.04 - A Global Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is the view, an old-world view, of eternal recurrence. That is to say, creation is ever the same; it goes through a cycle of changes, but the cycles repeat ad infinitum. There is no progress, no forward movement towards a more and more perfection. Indeed, the cycle of creation is a closed circle. The idea of progress was very much in vogue at one time. It was born under the auspices of Romantic Idealism; it was fostered and streng thened by youthful, Science in the first enthusiasm of her early discoveries, especially that of the fact of biological evolution. There has, however, been a setback since, when it was found that the original picture of evolution the emergence and growth of species in the course of a few thousand years is far from being true, that evolution means not thousands but millions of years. And when archaeologists discovered that men could build hygienic cities, run democratic states, discuss and argue acutely on recondite problems of life and philosophy, women knew the use of ornaments and jewels of consummate beauty and craftsmanship in epochs when they were expected to be no more than wild denizens of the cave or the forest, the belief in human progress, at least along a steady straight line, was very much shaken.
Yet an imperious necessity of the idea, almost as an inevitable ingredient of human consciousness, always exists and constantly makes its presence felt. If recurrence is the law of creation, this idea with its will to fruition is also a recurrent phenomenon. A modern form of it has been given a very dynamic drive in the Marxian gospel. A socio-economic progress, however, is and can be only a part, in fact, a result of a wider and deeper progress.
04.05 - The Immortal Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Viewed from this standpoint India stands as a case sui generis. She did not stop short satisfied with the lesser gods. She aspired for the highest One, the supreme spiritual reality and it was her mission, her destiny, to foster it and keep guard over it for the sake of humanity. Whatever the outer vicissitudes, she maintained throughout the inner continuity of her spiritual life and realisation. That is where she drank of the nectar of immortality and that is how she could always revive and renew herself after a period of decline and almost disintegration, because she possessed the mystery of the self. Other peoples were busy about many other things important or unimportant in some measure, but here was a race that never forgot the one thing needful. India of today, we repeat, is fundamentally and essentially the India of the Vedas, even in a more literal sense than that China of Mao-tse- Tung (or Sun-yat-Sen) is the China of Lao-tse.
A race dies out altogether or continues to lead a superficial mechanical existence, that is to say, vegetates as an inchoate mass, when it knows to live only in its body, confined only to the demands of the barest physical necessities. The life of a race gains a meaning and a new vitality when a higher light and aspiration inspire and move its spirit; when a deeper and finer sensibility, a nobler ambition stir its affections, when a superior intelligence and understanding illumine its mental horizon, its lease of life is increased by that and also its power of recuperation and renewal. And the further it enters into these basic constants of existence the greater that power of rejuvenation. 1
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A foster-child of beauty and solitude,
Heir to the centuries of the lonely wise,
05.18 - Man to be Surpassed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Erich Kahler (a Czech now become an American citizen) in his book Man the Measureseeks to strike a balance, but as the title indicates, evidently leans more to the second, the reactionary, than to the original ideal. He posits that man's humanity is to be preserved and fostered, that is to say, his true humanity, that which distinguishes him from mere animality. The Greek ideal, according to Kahler, was an advance upon the animal man; it brought in the ideal of the rational man. And yet the Greek ideal, in spite of its acceptance of the whole manmens sana in corpore sanoembracing as it did his physical, ethical and sthetic development, laid on the whole a greater emphasis upon reason, upon ration-alising, that is, ordering life according to a rational pattern. And then the Greek ideal was more for the individual; it was for the culture and growth of the individuality in man. Society was considered as composed of such individualised units. The degree of personal choice, of individual liberty, of free understanding that a Greek citizen enjoyed marked the evolution secured by man out of the primitive society. Still the integral man is not the rationalistic man, even as he is not the mere biological man: and he is not predominantly individualistic either.
Yes, man's true humanity, says Kahler, almost echoing Nietzcshe, consists precisely in his capacity to surpass himself. The animal is wholly engrossed in its natural nature and activities; but man is capable of standing back, can separate from his biological self, observe, control and direct. For him "existence" truly means (as the Existentialist declares today) ex+sistere or ex+stare, to stay or stand outside. That is the surpassing enjoyed by him and demanded of himgoing beyond one's natural or normal self. But there is a danger here. For there can be a too much surpassing, a going away altogether, as religion or spirituality usually enjoins. Christianity, for example, which is in many senses a movement contrary to the Greek spirit, taught a transcendence that was for luring or driving the human soul away from the world and men towards an extra-terrestrial summum bonum.
05.22 - Success and its Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How is this tranquil energism to be secured? What are the conditions that produce and maintain and foster it? The first condition is self-confidence. One must have trust in oneself, a full faith that one is able to do the thing. A pessimist, a half-hearted doubter, a defeatist can never achieve anything in the world. All successful men, whatever share they agreed to give to chance, had always immense hope and faith. Against failures, against tremendous odds they have always persisted, always believed in their star. Like Caesar they said not only to themselves but also to others: "Thou carriest with thee the fate of Caesar." Only, of course, the self-confidence sometimes overrides itself, becomes conceit and arrogance. Then you go beyond your depth, tempt the fates beyond your control and open the door to failure. So along with self-confidence, there must be an element of sobriety; we will call it modestytrue modesty that can perceive the extreme limit at least of the possible and the impossible. Such modesty itself is a source of serenity and calmness in the mind and nerves. Imagine a lion couchant, aiming at its prey. The prey remains spellbound, unable to run away. The lion's gaze is fixed upon its victim; its hypnotism consists in a calm and absolute self-confidence, an unshakable assurance that its will shall prevail.
Man's self-confidence is, as I have said, apt to overleap itself; it turns into self-conceit and blind and obstinate complacence. An animal by instinct knows how to remain within its limits and continue to be unfailing in its judgment: it is domestic animals that begin to get muddled in their instinctive movements. With the growth of the mental self-consciousness man loses the sense of his limits and always seeks to exceed himself. And therefore failure and fall have become almost his constant companions. His efforts are not commensurate with his powers. Hence in his case modesty is a great asset and a desideratum. Modesty, we said, is the consciousness of one's limitationnot over-estimating oneself, nor for that matter under-estimating oneself: it is judging exactly what one is.
05.26 - The Soul in Anguish, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A range of mystics and philosophers or philosopher-mystics from Kierkegaard to Sartre have made much of the sentiment of "anguish". Naturally, it is not the usual feeling of grief or sorrow due to disappointment or frustration that they refer to, nor is it the "repentance" which is a cardinal virtue in the Christian spiritual discipline. Repentance or grief is for something amiss, for some wrong done, for some good not done. It has a definite cause that gives rise to it and determinate conditions that maintain and foster it: and therefore it has also an end, at least the possibility of an ending. It is not eternal and can be mastered and got over: it is of the category of the Sankhyan or Buddhistic dukhatrayabhighata for that matter even the lacrimae rerum(tears inherent in things) of Virgil1 are not eternal.
But the new Anguish spoken of is a strange phenomenon: it is causeless and it is eternal. It has sprung unbidden with no antecedent cause or condition: it is woven into the stuff of the being, part and parcel of the consciousness itself. Indeed it seems to be the veritable original sin, pertaining to the very nature. Kierkegaard makes of it an absolute necessity in the spiritual constituent and growth of the human soul something akin to, but deeper, because ineradicable, than the Socratic "divine discontent". Sartre puts it in more philosophical and rational terms, in a secular atmosphere as a kind of inevitable accompaniment to the sense of freedom and responsibility and loneliness that besets the individual being and consciousness at its inmost core, its deepest depth.
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Flatter and foster it with golden beams;
It grows towards the Titan and the God.
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
at least partial consequence I was more than willing to throw aside the structure that had fostered me. No
one really opposed my rebellious efforts, either, in church or at home in part because those who were
1.01 - Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
15. The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O fosterer,10 for the law of the Truth, for sight.
16. O fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The Purusha there and there, He am I.
17. The Breath of things11 is an immortal Life, but of this body ashes are the end. OM! O Will,12 remember, that which was done remember! O Will, remember, that which was done remember.
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"waters". If this accentuation is disregarded, we may take it as the singular apas, work, action. Shankara, however, renders it by the plural, works. The difficulty only arises because the true Vedic sense of the word had been forgotten and it came to be taken as referring to the fourth of the five elemental states of Matter, the liquid. Such a reference would be entirely irrelevant to the context. But the Waters, otherwise called the seven streams or the seven fostering Cows, are the Vedic symbol for the seven cosmic principles and their activities, three inferior, the physical, vital and mental, four superior, the divine
Truth, the divine Bliss, the divine Will and Consciousness, and the divine Being. On this conception also is founded the ancient idea of the seven worlds in each of which the seven principles are separately active by their various harmonies. This is, obviously, the right significance of the word in the Upanishad.
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10 In the inner sense of the Veda Surya, the Sun-God, represents the divine Illumination of the Kavi which exceeds mind and forms the pure self-luminous Truth of things. His principal power is self-revelatory knowledge, termed in the Veda "Sight". His realm is described as the Truth, the Law, the Vast. He is the fosterer or Increaser, for he enlarges and opens man's dark and limited being into a luminous and infinite consciousness. He is the sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, and leads him to the highest Sight.
He is Yama, Controller or Ordainer, for he governs man's action and manifested being by the direct Law of the Truth, satyadharma, and therefore by the right principle of our nature, ya thatathyatah.. A luminous power proceeding from the Father of all existence, he reveals in himself the divine Purusha of whom all beings are the manifestations.
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
I would make myself guilty of a sin of omission if I were to foster the
impression that specialized therapy needed nothing but a wide knowledge.
1.01 - Proem, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
And fosters all, and whither she resolves
Each in the end when each is overthrown.
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
32:The Teacher of the integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, -- these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel.
33:The example is more powerful than the instruction; but it is not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal character, which is of most importance. These have their place and their utility; but what will most stimulate aspiration in others is the central fact of the divine realisation within him governing his whole life and inner state and all his activities. This is the universal and essential element; the rest belongs to individual person and circumstance. It is this dynamic realisation that the Sadhaka must feel and reproduce in himself according to his own nature; he need not strive after an imitation from outside which may well be sterilising rather than productive of right and natural fruits.
1.02.4.1 - The Worlds - Surya, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
16. O fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father
of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most
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Surya is Pushan, fosterer or increaser. His work must be to
effect this enlargement of the divided self-perception and action
10.29 - Gods Debt, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
First let us understand the mystery of God's debt to man. We know, in ordinary life a subordinate has a duty towards his superior, the lesser owes a debt to the greater. That is easily understood. Likewise the superior also has a duty to his subordinate, the greater has his duty to the smaller. The child owes a debt to his parents; no less is the debt that the parents owe to the child. The parents not only bring forth the child, but they have to bring him up, nourish, foster, educate and settle him in life. We know also, as the scriptures tell us, that there is a debt man owes to the gods. The paying of the debt is described in the institution of the sacrifice (yajna). It is through his sacrifice that man achieves what he has to achieve upon earth. It is the givingof what one is and what one hasto the gods the sacrifice mounts carrying the offering to the gods. But the sacrifice is not a mere one-sided movement, the sacrifice brings from the gods gifts for the manmaterial prosperity and spiritual fulfilment. Man increases himself in this way, but thereby increases the gods also. The offering that man brings in his sacrificeall his possessionshis earthly possessions, but chiefly his possessions of the inner world, the wealth of his spirit, the virtues of his consciousness all go to the gods and increase them, that is to say, they become more manifest and more powerful upon earth and in earthly existence and in the service of man.
The sacrifice going up to the gods as offered by man means the sadhana, the inner discipline that he follows by which he lifts up his being with its mental and vital and physical formulations to their higher and higher potencies upon earth. The dedication of the normal powers and faculties to the gods means purification and release from the bondages of ignorance and egoism. This serves to make the gods living to us, bring them near to our terrestrial life, to our normal consciousness. This is what is meant by increasing the godsman's duty or debt to the gods. In answer there is a corresponding gesture from the gods, with their immortalising reality they dwell in us and fill our being with their godlike qualities, their light, their energy, their delight, their very immortality. Man increases the gods and the gods increase man and by their mutual increasing they attain the supreme increment, the Divine status, so says the Gita.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
verbal reprim and might well foster feelings of relief in the individual who expects a severe physical beating
which is to say, technically, that the absence of an expected punishment can serve quite effectively as a
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valuation are not yet sophisticated enough to foster complete adaptation demonstrate to us
incontrovertibly that our processes of evaluation are still incomplete:
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The ability to restrict the appearance of the Terrible Mother, and foster the realization of her
Benevolent Sister (that is, the ability to decrease threat, and maximize promise and satisfaction) might
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The ritual of voluntary exposure fosters mimetic identification with the hero (whether this is explicitly
recognized, or not); teaches the individual that the courageous exploratory spirit can eternally prevail
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chaos, and the fostering of implicit identification with the Logos, the creative and redemptive Word.
Analysis of the much more dramatic, very widespread, but metaphorically equivalent phenomena of the
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strength, sexuality and bloodlust of the bull is the power which, when domesticated, serves to foster,
protect, and engender the herd. The devastating power of sudden explosive combustion is reliable and
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crush. He represents the tradition fostering cooperation among people whose shared culture makes trust
easy among people whose immediate familiarity banishes the fear normally produced by the other. The
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thought. Anything that protects and fosters (and that is therefore predictable and powerful) necessarily has
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1.02 - The Concept of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
parents are not their real parents but merely foster-parents to
whom they were handed over. Benvenuto Cellini also had this
1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
Long before any distinct perception of progress, there rises in the student, from the hidden depths of the soul, a feeling that he is on the right path. This feeling should be cherished and fostered, for it can develop into a trustworthy guide. Above all, it is imperative to extirpate the idea that any fantastic, mysterious practices are required for the attainment of higher knowledge. It must be clearly realized that a start has to be made with the thoughts and feelings with which we continually live, and that these feelings and thoughts must merely be given a new direction. Everyone must say to himself: "In my own world of thought and feeling the deepest mysteries lie hidden, only hitherto I have been unable to perceive them." In the end it all resolves itself into the fact that man ordinarily carries body, soul and spirit about with him, and yet is conscious in a true sense only of his body, and not of his soul and spirit. The student becomes conscious of soul and spirit, just as the ordinary person is conscious of his body. Hence it is highly important to give the
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1.02 - What is Psycho therapy?, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
and simple. This error is certainly fostered by Freud himself and his
adherents, who, in most sectarian fashion, regard their sexual theory and
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
human morality. The nature of what constitutes such acceptability fosters direct conflict or debate, in terms
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1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
With pleasing stories her false foster-child.
Much did she talk of love, and when she came
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Ino first took him for her foster-child;
Then the Niseans, in their dark abode,
1.03 - Some Practical Aspects, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
It is also no use saying: I particularly wish to examine my previous life, and shall study only for this purpose. We must rather be capable of abandoning this desire, of eliminating it altogether, and of studying, at first, with no such intention. We should cultivate a feeling of joy and devotion for what we learn, with no thought of the above end in view. We should learn to cherish and foster a particular desire in such a way that it brings with it its own fulfillment.
If we become angered, vexed or annoyed, we erect a wall around ourselves in the soul-world, and the forces which are to develop the eyes of the soul cannot approach. For instance, if a person angers me he sends forth a psychic current into the soul-world. I cannot see this current as long as I am myself capable of anger. My own anger conceals it from me. We must not, however, suppose that when we are free from anger we shall immediately have a psychic (astral) vision. For this purpose an organ of vision must have been developed in the soul. The beginnings
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
it to be a jealously guarded fostering of our own individuality,
achieved in increasing isolation; or in the association and giving of
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the supreme pole of personalization, fosters and nourishes the mu-
tual affinity of individualities in process of convergence. Will it be
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Man, tore open his own flesh and therein fostered the child till in due time, by a miraculous and mysterious Second
Birth, the child of Semple came to full life as God."
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
But saw her vainest in her foster-God.
Could then (she cry'd) a bastard-boy have pow'r
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And said, Thy foster-God has cost thee dear.
A rock there stood, whose side the beating waves
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
devils?). Our tendency to personally identify with our respective countries, say to foster and be proud of
our patriotism reflects knowledge that our personal integrity and security is integrally bound up, for
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who fosters a child who rapidly becomes so independent that mothering no longer suffices. Each foray
out into the world produces an increase in knowledge, and a commensurate decrease in the ability of the
1.04 - The Sacrifice the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This profounder idea of the world-wide law is at the heart of the teaching about works given in the Gita; a spiritual union with the Highest by sacrifice, an unreserved self-giving to the Eternal is the core of its doctrine. The vulgar conception of sacrifice is an act of painful self-immolation, austere self-mortification, difficult self-effacement; this kind of sacrifice may go even as far as self-mutilation and self-torture. These things may be temporarily necessary in mans hard endeavour to exceed his natural self; if the egoism in his nature is violent and obstinate, it has to be met sometimes by an answering strong internal repression and counterbalancing violence. But the Gita discourages any excess of violence done to oneself; for the self within is really the Godhead evolving, it is Krishna, it is the Divine; it has not to be troubled and tortured as the Titans of the world trouble and torture it, but to be increased, fostered, cherished, luminously opened to a divine light and strength and joy and wideness. It is not ones self, but the band of the spirits inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the altar of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the souls errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our selfs real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may throw by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
But the true essence of sacrifice is not self-immolation, it is self-giving; its object not self-effacement, but self-fulfilment; its method not self-mortification, but a greater life, not self-mutilation, but a transformation of our natural human parts into divine members, not self-torture, but a passage from a lesser satisfaction to a greater Ananda. There is only one thing painful in the beginning to a raw or turbid part of the surface nature; it is the indispensable discipline demanded, the denial necessary for the merging of the incomplete ego. But for that there can be a speedy and enormous compensation in the discovery of a real greater or ultimate completeness in others, in all things, in the cosmic oneness, in the freedom of the transcendent Self and Spirit, in the rapture of the touch of the Divine. Our sacrifice is not a giving without any return or any fruitful acceptance from the other side; it is an interchange between the embodied soul and conscious Nature in us and the eternal Spirit. For even though no return is demanded, yet there is the knowledge deep within us that a marvellous return is inevitable. The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence.
1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
as it were. This change of texture will be felt at first through unpleasant symptoms, for while the ordinary person is generally protected by a thick hide, the seeker no longer has this protection: he receives people's thoughts, intentions, and desires in their true forms and in all their starkness, exactly as they are assaults. And here we must emphasize that "bad thoughts" or "ill will" are not the only forms to share a virulent character; nothing is more aggressive than good intentions, kindly sentiments, or altruism; either way, it is the ego fostering itself, through sweetness or through violence. We are civilized only on the surface; underneath the cannibal in us lives on. It is therefore very necessary for the seeker to be in possession of the Force we have described; with It he can go anywhere. Actually, the cosmic wisdom is such that this transparency would not come without adequate protection. Armed with "his" Force and a silent mind, then,
the seeker will gradually find he is open to all outside impacts; he receives everything; distances are unreal barriers no one is far away,
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
that foster Gods desire to inundate and destroy everything that exists.
Great evils are easily identifiable, at least in retrospect, and are usually the result (at least in
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Satan, the highest angel in Gods heavenly hierarchy, desired to become like the Most High, and fostered a
rebellion in heaven. He was defeated, and cast, unrepentant, into Hell, where he rules eternally over the
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in the course of normal development that identification fosters maturity, and separation from blind
maternal solicitude but ultimately the group is tyrannical, and demands obedience at the cost of unique
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it clear definition of the nature of subjective experience, when allowed to surface, and fosters attempts to
adapt to that experience. It is for this reason that only the unredeemed the outcast, the sick, the blind, and
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corrupt, nature of previous status, to foster anxiety, depression, and desire, often realized, for dissolution
and death. How could such a threat be countered?
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the crux of the matter is that those elements of experience that foster denial or avoidance (and therefore
remain unencountered or unprocessed) always border on the maddening. This is particularly true from the
1.06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
And sun, for its share, foster and give heat,
No grains, nor trees, nor breathing things can grow."
1.07 - THE GREAT EVENT FORESHADOWED - THE PLANETIZATION OF MANKIND, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
verse and continuously grows, fostered by the ever
more complicated grouping of matter. Projected
1.08 - Independence from the Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
This obsession has little importance in ordinary life, where the activities of the physical mind are lost in the general hubbub, and where we are, in fact, protected by our very lack of receptivity, but when we have worked systematically at fostering transparency within ourselves and at increasing our receptivity, the negative interference caused by the physical mind can become quite a serious, and even perilous, obstacle.
This mental, vital, and physical transparency is the key to a twofold independence. First, an independence from sensations: since the consciousness-force is no longer entangled at all the levels of our being but gathered into a maneuverable beam, as it were, it can be disconnected at will from a particular point from cold, hunger, pain,
1.08 - The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One must build up nerves of steel in powerful and elastic muscles in order to be able to endure anything whenever it is indispensable. But at the same time great care must be taken not to demand more from the body than the effort which is strictly necessary, the expenditure of energy that fosters growth and progress, while categorically excluding everything that causes exhaustion and leads in the end to physical decline and disintegration.
A physical culture which aims at building a body capable of serving as a fit instrument for a higher consciousness demands very austere habits: a great regularity in sleep, food, exercise and every activity. By a scrupulous study of ones own bodily needs for they vary with each individuala general programme will be established; and once this has been done well, it must be followed rigorously, without any fantasy or slackness. There must be no little exceptions to the rule that are indulged in just for once but which are repeated very often for as soon as one yields to temptation, even just for once, one lessens the resistance of the will-power and opens the door to every failure. One must therefore forgo all weakness: no more nightly escapades from which one comes back exhausted, no more feasting and carousing which upset the normal functioning of the stomach, no more distractions, amusements and pleasures that only waste energy and leave one without the strength to do the daily practice. One must submit to the austerity of a sensible and regular life, concentrating all ones physical attention on building a body that comes as close to perfection as possible. To reach this ideal goal, one must strictly shun all excess and every vice, great or small; one must deny oneself the use of such slow poisons as tobacco, alcohol, etc., which men have a habit of developing into indispensable needs that gradually destroy the will and the memory. The all-absorbing interest which nearly all human beings, even the most intellectual, have in food, its preparation and its consumption, should be replaced by an almost chemical knowledge of the needs of the body and a very scientific austerity in satisfying them. Another austerity must be added to that of food, the austerity of sleep. It does not consist in going without sleep but in knowing how to sleep. Sleep must not be a fall into unconsciousness which makes the body heavy instead of refreshing it. Eating with moderation and abstaining from all excess greatly reduces the need to spend many hours in sleep; however, the quality of sleep is much more important than its quantity. In order to have a truly effective rest and relaxation during sleep, it is good as a rule to drink something before going to bed, a cup of milk or soup or fruit-juice, for instance. Light food brings a quiet sleep. One should, however, abstain from all copious meals, for then the sleep becomes agitated and is disturbed by nightmares, or else is dense, heavy and dulling. But the most important thing of all is to make the mind clear, to quieten the emotions and calm the effervescence of desires and the preoccupations which accompany them. If before retiring to bed one has talked a lot or had a lively discussion, if one has read an exciting or intensely interesting book, one should rest a little without sleeping in order to quieten the mental activity, so that the brain does not engage in disorderly movements while the other parts of the body alone are asleep. Those who practise meditation will do well to concentrate for a few minutes on a lofty and restful idea, in an aspiration towards a higher and vaster consciousness. Their sleep will benefit greatly from this and they will largely be spared the risk of falling into unconsciousness while they sleep.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But why, it might be asked, should each subjective order or stratum of consciousness necessarily involve the co-existence of a corresponding order of beings & objective world-stratum? For the modern mind, speculative & introspective like the Vedic, is yet speculative within the limits of sensational experience and therefore unable to believe in, even if it can conceive of existence, least of all of an objective existence under conditions different from those [with] which we are familiar and of which our senses assure us. We may therefore admit the profundity & subtlety of the subjective distinction, but we shall be apt to regard the belief in objective worlds & beings unseen by our senses as either an early poetic fancy or a crude superstition of savages. But the Vedic mentality, although perfectly rational, stood at the opposite pole of ideas from the modern and its subjective consciousness admitted a class of experiences which we reject and cut short the moment they begin to present themselves by condemning them as hallucinations. The idea of modern men that the ancients evolved their gods by a process of poetic imagination, is an error due to inability to understand an alien mentality & unwillingness to investigate from within those survivals of it which still subsist though with difficulty under modern conditions. Encouraging this order of phenomena, fostering & developing carefully the states of mind in which they were possible and the movements of mind & sense by which they were effected, the Vedic Rishis saw and communed with the gods and threw themselves into the worlds of which they had the conception. They believed in them for the same reason that Joan of Arc believed in her saints & her voices, Socrates in his daemon or Swedenborg in his spirits, because they had constant experience of them and of the validity both of the experiences and of the instruments of mind & sense by which they were maintained in operation. They would have answered a modern objector that they had as good a proof of them as the scientist has of the worlds & the different orders of life revealed to his optical nerve by microscope & telescope. Some of them might even question whether these scientific discoveries were not optical illusions due to the excitation of the nerve by the instruments utilised! We may, similarly, get rid of the Vedic experiences, disbelieve and discount them, saying that they missed one essential instrument of truth, the sceptical distrust of their instruments,but we cannot argue from them in the minds that received them a childish irrationality or a savage superstition. They trusted, like us, their experience, believed their mind & senses and argued logically from their premisses.
It is true that apart from these experiences the existence of various worlds & different orders of beings was a logical necessity of the Vedic conception of existence. Existence being a life, a soul expressing itself in forms, every distinct order of consciousness, every stratum or sea of conscious-being (samudra, sindhu, apah as the Vedic thinkers preferred to call them) demanded its own order of objective experiences (lokas, worlds), tended inevitably to throw itself into forms of individualised being (vishah, ganah, prajah). Moreover, in a world so conceived, nothing could happen in this world without relation to some force or being in the worlds behind; nor could there be any material, vital or mental movement except as the expression of a life & a soul behind it. Everything here must be supported from the worlds of mind or it could not maintain its existence. From this idea to the peopling of the world with innumerable mental & vital existences,existences essentially vital like the Naiads, Dryads, Nereids, Genii, Lares & Penates of the Greeks and Romans, the wood-gods, river-gods, house-gods, tree-deities, snake-deities of the Indians, or mental like the intermediate gods of our old Pantheon, would be a natural and inevitable step. This Animism is a remarkably universal feature in the religious culture of the ancient world. I cannot accept the modern view that its survival in a crude form among the savages, those waifs & strays of human progress, is a proof of their low & savage originany more than the peculiarly crude ideas of Christianity that exist in uneducated negro minds [and] would survive in a still more degraded form if they were long isolated from civilised life, would be a proof to future research that Christianity originated from a cannibal tribe on the African continent. The idea is essentially a civilised conception proceeding from keen susceptibility & only possible after a meditative dwelling upon Naturenot different indeed in rank & order from Wordsworths experience of Nature which no one, I suppose, would consider an atavistic recrudescence of old savage mentality, and impossible to the animal man. The dog & crow who reason from their senses, do not stand in awe of inanimate objects, or of dawn & rain & shine or expect from them favours.
1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadows yearning with the most royal light!
1.09 - Saraswati and Her Consorts, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Vedic system, as in most very ancient schools of thought. We find it recurring constantly, - the seven delights, sapta ratnani; the seven flames, tongues or rays of Agni, sapta arcis.ah., sapta jvalah.; the seven forms of the Thought-principle, sapta dhtayah.; the seven Rays or Cows, forms of the Cow unslayable, Aditi, mother of the gods, sapta gavah.; the seven rivers, the seven mothers or fostering cows, sapta matarah., sapta dhenavah., a term applied indifferently to the Rays and to the Rivers. All these sets of seven depend, it seems to me, upon the Vedic classification of the fundamental principles, the tattvas, of existence.
The enquiry into the number of these tattvas greatly interested the speculative mind of the ancients and in Indian philosophy we find various answers ranging from the One upward and running into the twenties. In Vedic thought the basis chosen was the number of the psychological principles, because all existence was conceived by the Rishis as a movement of conscious being.
1.10 - Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Here we see that the same powers of making rain and fostering the
cattle, which are ascribed to the tree-spirit regarded as
1.10 - The Revolutionary Yogi, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
would have fostered; it would have been easy, then, to outleap the intellect,121 as Sri Aurobindo writes in his Human Cycle, and pass from the instinctively intuitive phase to an other-worldly spiritualism.
The intellect is an utterly useless outgrowth if the goal of evolution is merely to get out of it. It appears, however, that Nature worked against that primitive intuition and deliberately covered it with ever thicker mental layers, increasingly complex and universal, and increasingly useless in terms of getting out; we all know how the wonderfully intuitive efflorescence of Upanishadic India at the beginning of this story, or of NeoPlatonic Greece at the beginning of this era, was leveled to be replaced by a human intellect that was inferior and denser, to be sure, but more general. We can only raise the question without trying to answer it. We wonder if the meaning of evolution is to indulge in the luxury of the mind, only to destroy it later and regress to a submental or nonmental religious stage or, on the contrary, to develop the mind to the utmost, 122 as we are being driven to do, until this exhausts its own narrowness and superficial turmoil and rises to its higher, superconscious regions, at a spiritual and supramental level where the Matter-Spirit contradiction will vanish like a mirage, and where we will no longer need to "get out" because we will be everywhere Within.
1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And to the God his foster-father brought.
Pleas'd with the welcome sight, he bids him soon
1.11 - GOOD AND EVIL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The answers to these questions will be given to a great extent in the words of that most surprising product of the English eighteenth century, William Law. (How very odd our educational system is! Students of English literature are forced to read the graceful journalism of Steele and Addison, are expected to know all about the minor novels of Defoe and the tiny elegances of Matthew Prior. But they can pass all their examinations summa cum laude without having so much as looked into the writings of a man who was not only a master of English prose, but also one of the most interesting thinkers of his period and one of the most endearingly saintly figures in the whole history of Anglicanism.) Our current neglect of Law is yet another of the many indications that twentieth-century educators have ceased to be concerned with questions of ultimate truth or meaning and (apart from mere vocational training) are interested solely in the dissemination of a rootless and irrelevant culture, and the fostering of the solemn foolery of scholarship for scholarships sake.
Nothing burns in hell but the self.
1.11 - The Seven Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But if we adopt a more consistent method, insuperable difficulties oppose themselves to the purely material sense. We have for instance a hymn (VII.49) of Vasishtha to the divine waters, apo devh., apo divyah., in which the second verse runs, "The divine waters that flow whether in channels dug or self-born, they whose movement is towards the ocean, pure, purifying, - may those waters foster me." Here, it will be said, the sense is quite clear; it is to material waters, earthly rivers, canals, - or, if the word khanitrimah. means simply "dug", then wells, - that Vasishtha addresses his hymn and divyah., divine, is only an ornamental epithet of praise; or even perhaps we may render the verse differently and suppose that three kinds of water are described, - the waters of heaven, that is to say the rain, the water of wells, the water of rivers. But when we study the hymn as a whole this sense can no longer stand. For thus it runs:
So also he interprets the all-important Vedic word r.tam sometimes as sacrifice, sometimes as truth, sometimes as water, and all these different senses in a single hymn of five or six verses!
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"May those divine waters foster me, the eldest (or greatest) of the ocean from the midst of the moving flood that go purifying, not settling down, which Indra of the thunderbolt, the
Bull, clove out. The divine waters that flow whether in channels dug or self-born, whose movement is towards the Ocean, - may those divine waters foster me. In the midst of whom King
Varuna moves looking down on the truth and the falsehood of creatures, they that stream honey and are pure and purifying, - may those divine waters foster me. In whom Varuna the king, in whom Soma, in whom all the Gods have the intoxication of the energy, into whom Agni Vaishwanara has entered, may those divine waters foster me."
It is evident that Vasishtha is speaking here of the same waters, the same streams that Vamadeva hymns, the waters that rise from the ocean and flow into the ocean, the honeyed wave that rises upward from the sea, from the flood that is the heart of things, streams of the clarity, ghr.tasya dharah.. They are the floods of the supreme and universal conscious existence in which Varuna moves looking down on the truth and the falsehood of mortals, - a phrase that can apply neither to the descending rains nor to the physical ocean. Varuna in the Veda is not an Indian Neptune, neither is he precisely, as the European scholars at first imagined, the Greek Ouranos, the sky. He is the master of an ethereal wideness, an upper ocean, of the vastness of being, of its purity; in that vastness, it is elsewhere said, he has made paths in the pathless infinite along which Surya, the
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"O Waters, that supreme wave of yours, the drink of Indra, which the seekers of the Godhead have made for themselves, that pure, inviolate, clarity-streaming, honeyed (ghr.taprus.am madhumantam) wave of you may we today enjoy. O Waters, may the son of the waters (Agni), he of the swift rushings, foster that most honeyed wave of you; that wave of yours in which
Indra with the Vasus is intoxicated with ecstasy, may we who seek the Godhead taste today. Strained through the hundred purifiers, ecstatic by their self-nature, they are divine and move to the goal of the movement of the Gods (the supreme ocean); they limit not the workings of Indra: offer to the rivers a food of oblation full of the clarity (ghr.tavat). May the rivers which the sun has formed by his rays, from whom Indra clove out a moving wave, establish for us the supreme good. And do ye, O gods, protect us ever by states of felicity."
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"Spread out were the masses of him in universal forms in the womb of the clarity, in the flowings of the sweetnesses; here the fostering Rivers stood nourishing themselves; the two Mothers of the accomplishing god became vast and harmonised. (7)
"Borne by them, O child of Force, thou didst blaze out
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We see that these Waters are the same as those of Vamadeva's hymn, of Vasishtha's, closely connected with the clarity and the honey, - ghr.tasya yonau srava the madhunam, scotanti dhara madhuno ghr.tasya; they lead to the Truth, they are themselves the source of the Truth, they flow in the unobstructed and shoreless Vast as well as here upon the earth. They are figured as fostering cows (dhenavah.), mares (asvah.), they are called sapta van.h., the seven Words of the creative goddess Vak, - Speech, the expressive power of Aditi, of the supreme Prakriti who is spoken of as the Cow just as the Deva or Purusha is described in the Veda as Vrishabha or Vrishan, the Bull. They are therefore the seven strands of all being, the seven streams or currents or forms of movement of the one conscious existence.
We shall find that in the light of the ideas which we have discovered from the very opening of the Veda in Madhuchchhandas' hymns and in the light of the symbolic interpretations which are now becoming clear to us, this passage apparently so figured, mysterious, enigmatical becomes perfectly straightforward and coherent, as indeed do all the passages of the Veda which seem now almost unintelligible when once their right clue is found. We have only to fix the psychological function of Agni, the priest, the fighter, the worker, the truth-finder, the winner of beatitude for man; and that has already been fixed for us in the first hymn of the Rig Veda by Madhuchchhandas' description of him, - "the Will in works of the Seer true and most rich in
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The rivers, usually named dhenavah., fostering cows, are here described as asvah., Mares, because while the Cow is the symbol of consciousness in the form of knowledge, the
Horse is the symbol of consciousness in the form of force.
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But this is not the last stage. The Force rises into the womb or birthplace of this mental clarity (ghr.tasya) where the waters flow as streams of the divine sweetness (srava the madhunam); there the forms it assumes are universal forms, masses of the vast and infinite consciousness. As a result, the fostering rivers in the lower world are nourished by this descending higher sweetness and the mental and physical consciousness, the two first mothers of the all-effecting Will, become in their entire largeness perfectly equal and harmonised by this light of the
Truth, through this nourishing by the infinite Bliss. They bear the full force of Agni, the blaze of his lightnings, the glory and rapture of his universal forms. For where the Lord, the Male, the
1.12 - The Herds of the Dawn, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Mothers or the seven fostering Cows, sapta dhenavah..
The word apah. itself has, covertly, a double significance; for the root ap meant originally not only to move from which in all probability is derived the sense of waters, but to be or bring into being, as in apatya, a child, and the Southern Indian appa, father. The seven Waters are the waters of being; they are the
1.12 - The Significance of Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By this shall you bring forth (fruits or offspring), let this be your milker of desires. foster by this the gods and let the gods foster you; fostering each other, you shall attain to the supreme good.
fostered by sacrifice the gods shall give you desired enjoyments; who enjoys their given enjoyments and has not given to them, he is a thief. The good who eat what is left from the sacrifice, are released from all sin; but evil are they and enjoy sin who cook (the food) for their own sake. From food creatures come into being, from rain is the birth of food, from sacrifice comes into being the rain, sacrifice is born of work; work know to be born of Brahman, Brahman is born of the Immutable; therefore is the all-pervading Brahman established in the sacrifice. He who follows not here the wheel thus set in movement, evil is his being, sensual is his delight, in vain, O Partha, that man lives." Having thus stated the necessity of sacrifice, - we shall see hereafter in what sense we may understand a passage which seems at first sight to convey only a traditional theory of ritualism and the necessity of the ceremonial offering, - Krishna proceeds to state the superiority of the spiritual man to works. "But the man whose delight is in the Self and who is satisfied with the enjoyment of the Self and in the Self he is content, for him there exists no work that needs to be done. He has no object here to be gained by action done and none to be gained by action undone;
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letter of the Veda, then all the positions of the Vedist dogma are conceded and there is nothing more. Ceremonial sacrifice is the right means of gaining children, wealth, enjoyment; by ceremonial sacrifice rain is brought down from heaven and the prosperity and continuity of the race assured; life is a continual transaction between the gods and men in which man offers ceremonial gifts to the gods from the gifts they have bestowed on him and in return is enriched, protected, fostered. Therefore all human works have to be accompanied and turned into a sacrament by ceremonial sacrifice and ritualistic worship; work not so dedicated is accursed, enjoyment without previous ceremonial sacrifice and ritual consecration is a sin. Even salvation, even the highest good is to be gained by ceremonial sacrifice. It must never be abandoned. Even the seeker of liberation has to continue to do ceremonial sacrifice, although without attachment; it is by ceremonial sacrifice and ritualistic works done without attachment that men of the type of Janaka attained to spiritual perfection and liberation.
Obviously, this cannot be the meaning of the Gita, for it would be in contradiction with all the rest of the book. Even in the passage itself, without the illumining interpretation afterwards given to it in the fourth chapter, we have already an indication of a wider sense where it is said that sacrifice is born from work, work from brahman, brahman from the Akshara, and therefore the all-pervading Brahman, sarvagatam brahma, is established in the sacrifice. The connecting logic of the "therefore" and the repetition of the word brahma are significant; for it shows clearly that the brahman from which all work is born has to be understood with an eye not so much to the current Vedic teaching in which it means the Veda as to a symbolical sense in which the creative Word is identical with the all-pervading Brahman, the Eternal, the one Self present in all existences, sarvabhutes.u, and present in all the workings of existence. The Veda is the knowledge of the Divine, the Eternal, - "I am He who is to be known in all the books of the Knowledge," vedais ca vedyah.,
1.12 - The Sociology of Superman, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The child of that City will be born with a flame, consciously, voluntarily, without having to undo millennia of animality or abysses of prejudice. He will not be told incessantly that he has to earn a living, for nobody will earn a living in the City of the Future, nobody will have money. Living will be devoted to serving the Truth, each according to his capacity or talent, and the only earnings will be joy. He will not be deluged with musts and must-nots; he will only be shown the immediate sadness of not listening to the right little note. He will not be tormented with the idea of finding a job, being a success, outranking others, passing or failing grades, for nobody succeeds or fails in the City of the Future, nobody has a job, nobody takes precedence over anybody; one does the one job of pursuing a clear little note that lights up everything, does everything for one, takes care of everything for one, unites everything in its tranquil harmony, and whose only success is to be in accord with itself and with the whole. He will not learn to depend on a teacher, a book or a machine, but to rely on that little flame inside, that sprightly little flowing that guides his steps, prompts a discovery, leads by chance to an experience and brings out knowledge effortlessly. And he will learn to cultivate the powers of his body the way others today cultivate the powers of push buttons. His faculties will not be confined in ready-made forms of vision and comprehension; in him will be fostered a vision that has nothing to do with the eyes, a comprehension that is not from books, dreams of other worlds that prepare tomorrow's, direct communications and instant intuitions and subtle senses. And if machines are still used in the City of the Future, he will be told that they are temporary crutches until we find in our own heart the source of the pure Power which will one day transmute matter as we now transmute a blank sheet of paper into a green prairie with the stroke of a pencil. He will be taught the Look, the true and potent look, the look that creates, that changes everything he will be taught to use his own powers and to believe in his power of truth, and that the purer and clearer he is, in harmony with the Law, the more matter responds to Truth. And, instead of entering a prison, the child will grow up in an atmosphere of natural oneness, free of you, me, yours or mine, where he will not have been taught constantly to put up screens and mental barriers, but to be consciously what he unconsciously has been since the beginning of time: to extend himself into all that is and lives, to feel in all that feels, to comprehend through an identical more profound breathing, through a silence that carries everything, to recognize the same little flame everywhere, to love the same clear little flowing everywhere, and to be the self everywhere, behind a thousand different faces and in a thousand musics that are a single music.
Then there will be no more boundaries inside or outside, no more I want, I take, no more lack or absence, no more confined and lonely self, no more against or for, good or evil. There will be one single supreme Harmony in thousands of bodies, plucking its chord in this one and that one, this circumstance and that accident, this gesture and that one, unifying everything in one single movement whose every second is perfect and every act true, every word exact, every thought right, every line rhythmical, every heart in unison and Truth will mold matter according to its right vision. And this little city without boundaries will radiate by its simple power of truth, attracting what must be attracted, discarding what must be discarded, simply by its own force of concentration, touching this point of the universe or that one, this soul or that one, answering thousands of invisible calls, continuously emitting its high, clear note which will brighten the world and lighten hearts, unbeknownst to all.
1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
able, capable, all things considered, of fostering some degree of
taste for life? Must it not rather be wholly delectable, if it is to be
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which this elemental separatism automatically creates and fosters,
by an effect of mass and resonance, within the process of totaliza-
1.15 - The Value of Philosophy, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
For this reason greatness of soul is not fostered by those philosophies which assimilate the universe to Man. Knowledge is a form of union of Self and not-Self; like all union, it is impaired by dominion, and therefore by any attempt to force the universe into conformity with what we find in ourselves. There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made, that space and time and the world of universals are properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no account for us. This view, if our previous discussions were correct, is untrue; but in addition to being untrue, it has the effect of robbing philosophic contemplation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with the not-Self, but a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, making an impenetrable veil between us and the world beyond. The man who finds pleasure in such a theory of knowledge is like the man who never leaves the domestic circle for fear his word might not be law.
The true philosophic contemplation, on the contrary, finds its satisfaction in every enlargement of the not-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and thereby the subject contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is personal or private, everything that depends upon habit, self-interest, or desire, distorts the object, and hence impairs the union which the intellect seeks. By thus making a barrier between subject and object, such personal and private things become a prison to the intellect. The free intellect will see as God might see, without a _here_ and _now_, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of customary beliefs and traditional prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the sole and exclusive desire of knowledge--knowledge as impersonal, as purely contemplative, as it is possible for man to attain. Hence also the free intellect will value more the abstract and universal knowledge into which the accidents of private history do not enter, than the knowledge brought by the senses, and dependent, as such knowledge must be, upon an exclusive and personal point of view and a body whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal.
1.16 - Dianus and Diana, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
should deem superhuman or divine. The illusion has been fostered and
maintained by the same causes which begot it, namely, the marvellous
1.16 - THE ESSENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
promote and foster the currents of convergence (collective orga-
nizations) within which alone, by the laws of anthropogenesis, in-
1.17 - The Burden of Royalty, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
and sunshine which foster the fruits of the earth, for the wind
which brings ships to their coasts, and even for the solid ground
1.17 - The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and the Dashagwas, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
O Indra, didst make to thrive the Might of Swar (or the Swarsoul, svarn.aram), that rapture ten-rayed and making a light of knowledge (or, shaking the whole being with its force, dasagvam vepayantam) by which thou didst foster the ocean; that Somaintoxication by which thou didst drive forward the great waters
(the seven rivers) like chariots to their sea, - that we desire that we may travel on the path of the truth," pantham r.tasya yatave tam mahe (VIII.12.2-3). It is in the power of the Soma that the hill is broken open, the sons of darkness overthrown. This Somawine is the sweetness that comes flowing from the streams of the upper hidden world, it is that which flows in the seven waters, it is that with which the ghr.ta, the clarified butter of the mystic sacrifice, is instinct; it is the honeyed wave which rises out of the ocean of life. Such images can have only one meaning; it is the divine delight hidden in all existence which, once manifest, supports all life's crowning activities and is the force that finally immortalises the mortal, the amr.tam, ambrosia of the gods.
1.18 - The Human Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The hymn is therefore an invocation to Agni for the journey to the supreme good, the divine birth, the bliss. And its opening verse is a prayer for the necessary conditions of the journey, the things that are said here to constitute the form of the pilgrim sacrifice, adhvarasya pesah., and among these comes first the forward movement of the Angirases; "Forward let the Angirases travel, priests of the Word, forward go the cry of heaven (or, of the heavenly thing, cloud or lightning), forward move the fostering Cows that diffuse their waters, and let the two pressing-stones be yoked (to their work) - the form of the pilgrim sacrifice," pra brahman.o angiraso naks.anta, pra krandanur nabhanyasya vetu; pra dhenava udapruto navanta, yujyatam adr adhvarasya pesah.. The Angirases with the divine
Word, the cry of Heaven which is the voice of Swar the luminous heaven and of its lightnings thundering out from the Word, the divine waters or seven rivers that are set free to their flowing by that heavenly lightning of Indra the master of Swar, and with the outflowing of the divine waters the outpressing of the immortalising Soma, these constitute the form, pesah., of the adhvara yajna. And its general characteristic is forward movement, the advance of all to the divine goal, as emphasised by the three verbs of motion, naks.anta, vetu, navanta and the emphatic pra, forward, which opens and sets the key to each clause.
1.19 - The Victory of the Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
"The fostering cows of the Truth (dhenavah., an image applied to the rivers, while gavah. or usrah. expresses the luminous cows of the Sun) nourished him, lowing, with happy udders, enjoyed in heaven; obtaining right thinking as a boon from the supreme (plane) the rivers flowed wide and evenly over the hill," r.tasya hi dhenavo vavasanah., smadudhnh. ppayanta dyubhaktah.; paravatah. sumatim bhiks.aman.a, vi sindhavah. samaya sasrur adrim, (I.73.6). And in I.72.8, speaking of them in a phrase which is applied to the rivers in other hymns, he says,
"The seven mighty ones of heaven, placing aright the thought, knowing the Truth, discerned in knowledge the doors of felicity;
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"They conceived in mind the first name of the fostering cows, they found the thrice seven supreme (seats) of the Mother; the
The Victory of the Fathers
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females of the herd knew that and they followed after it; the ruddy one was manifested by the victorious attainment (or, the splendour) of the cow of Light," te manvata prathamam nama dhenos, trih. sapta matuh. paraman.i vindan; taj janatr abhyanus.ata vra, avirbhuvad arun.r yasasa goh.. The Mother here is Aditi, the infinite consciousness, who is the Dhenu or fostering Cow with the seven rivers for her sevenfold streaming as well as Go the Cow of Light with the Dawns for her children; the Ruddy One is the divine Dawn and the herd or rays are her dawning illuminations. The first name of the Mother with her thrice seven supreme seats, that which the dawns or mental illuminations know and move towards, must be the name or deity of the supreme Deva, who is infinite being and infinite consciousness and infinite bliss, and the seats are the three divine worlds, called earlier in the hymn the three supreme births of
Agni, Satya, Tapas and Jana of the Puranas, which correspond to these three infinities of the Deva and each fulfils in its own way the sevenfold principle of our existence: thus we get the series of thrice seven seats of Aditi manifested in all her glory by the opening out of the Dawn of Truth.3 Thus we see that the achievement of the Light and Truth by the human fathers is also an ascent to the Immortality of the supreme and divine status, to the first name of the all-creating infinite Mother, to her thrice seven supreme degrees of this ascending existence, to the highest levels of the eternal hill (sanu, adri).
1.21 - IDOLATRY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
What follows is an extract from a very remarkable letter written in 1836 by Thomas Arnold to his old pupil and future biographer, A. P. Stanley. Fanaticism is idolatry; and it has the moral evil of idolatry in it; that is, a fanatic worships something which is the creation of his own desire, and thus even his self-devotion in support of it is only an apparent self-devotion; for in fact it is making the parts of his nature or his mind, which he least values, offer sacrifice to that which he most values. The moral fault, as it appears to me, is the idolatry the setting up of some idea which is most kindred to our own minds, and the putting it in the place of Christ, who alone cannot be made an idol and inspire idolatry, because He combines all ideas of perfection and exhibits them in their just harmony and combination. Now in my own mind, by its natural tendency that is, taking my mind at its besttruth and justice would be the idols I should follow; and they would be idols, for they would not supply all the food which the mind wants, and whilst worshipping them, reverence and humility and tenderness might very likely be forgotten. But Christ Himself includes at once truth and justice and all these other qualities too. Narrow-mindedness tends to wickedness, because it does not extend its watchfulness to every part of our moral nature, and the neglect fosters wickedness in the parts so neglected.
As a piece of psychological analysis this is admirable. Its only defect is one of omission; for it neglects to take into account those influxes from the eternal order into the temporal, which are called grace or inspiration. Grace and inspiration are given when, and to the extent to which, a human being gives up self-will and abandons himself, moment by moment, through constant recollectedness and non-attachment, to the will of God. As well as the animal and spiritual graces, whose source is the divine Nature of Things, there are human pseudo-gracessuch as, for example, the accessions of strength and virtue that follow self-devotion to some form of political or moral idolatry. To distinguish the true grace from the false is often difficult; but as time and circumstances reveal the full extent of their consequences on the soul, discrimination becomes possible even to observers having no special gifts of insight. Where the grace is genuinely supernatural, an amelioration in one aspect of the total personality is not paid for by atrophy or deterioration elsewhere. The virtue which is accompanied and perfected by the love and knowledge of God is something quite different from the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees which, for Christ, was among the worst of moral evils. Hardness, fanaticism, uncharitableness and spiritual pridethese are the ordinary by-products of a course of stoical self-improvement by means of personal effort, either unassisted or, if assisted, seconded only by the pseudo-graces which are given when the individual devotes himself to the achievement of an end which is not his true end, when the goal is not God, but merely a magnified projection of his own favourite ideas or moral excellences. The idolatrous worship of ethical values in and for themselves defeats its own objectand defeats it not only because, as Arnold insists, there is a lack of all-round development, but also and above all because even the highest forms of moral idolatry are God-eclipsing and therefore guarantee the idolater against the enlightening and liberating knowledge of Reality.
1.28 - Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The face of Truth is hidden by a golden lid; that remove, O fostering Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for sight. O Sun, O sole Seer, marshal thy rays, gather them together, - let me see of thee thy happiest form of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I. Isha Upanishad.2
The Truth, the Right, the Vast. Atharva Veda.3
1.33 - The Gardens of Adonis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
women. fostered by the sun's heat, the plants shot up rapidly, but
having no root they withered as rapidly away, and at the end of
1.41 - Speaks of the fear of God and of how we must keep ourselves from venial sins., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
previously have helped to foster their weaknesses, we shall now be helping to repress them, because
they will restrain themselves in our presence, and this is a compliment which they will pay us
1.42 - This Self Introversion, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
In these cases, even though I have often been successful in "curing" the condition, so that the man has been able to carry on with satisfaction to himself and his family the normal functions of a husband, I have never really got rid of the peculiar mental and moral characteristics which have been, if not implanted, at least encouraged and fostered, by this devastating habit.
Now do remember this; it is the guarantee of wholesomeness in any Invocation that there should be contact with another. It is better to conjure up the most obnoxious demons from the most noisome pit of Hell than to take one's own exhilarations for Divine benediction; if only because there was never a demon yet so atrocious as that same old Ego.
1.63 - The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
latitude, is a genial creative power which fosters the growth of
plants and the development of all that makes for health and
17.01 - Hymn to Dawn, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You disperse the enemies, you foster the truth, you are born
of the truth, you are made of felicity, you impel the right movements.
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She is the fosterer, she brings desirable things:
and as she awakes, she creates a varied knowledge.
17.06 - Hymn of the Supreme Goddess, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I bear the Soma that is to be pressed, I bear the Fashioner and the fosterer and the Enjoyer. I give the Treasure to the sacrificer who carries the offering and delivers it, one who has brought out the perfect Soma drink. [2]
I am the Imperial Power, all wealth I gather together. Being conscious of all, I am the first of all sacrificial elements. Me the gods have established widely, in multiple places, me who am seated multiply and multiply entered into things. [3]
17.10 - A Hymn, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
She brings into our path of vision the Essence however difficult to perceive, she brings into the sphere of speech even that which is too remote for words; she draws from the dry being the flow of the sap of life: she sustains the smallest of the small to the end of the ages. A Force indefinable, of marvellous plenitude, she is fostered and impelledas though herself possessing no autonomy of her ownby the ever-victorious golden glance gleaming from the divine lotus-eyes of our Lord.
We bow, we bow to the resplendent Light of the Master, the Light that has assumed the supreme form of a woman, the Light that liberates the imprisoned power of humanity from the bonds of weakness and ignorance and fashions it for the New Age.
18.02 - Ramprasad, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Love and devotion are showering their fostering rains
day and night. . .
1914 02 23p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Grant O Lord, that we may be more and more conscious of Thy law, that is, be one with it, so that we may foster its manifestation in all things.
Lord, grant that I may become master of my vagabond thought, that living in Thee I may see life only through Thee, and the illusion of material reality may come to an end and be replaced by a perception more in conformity with Thy eternal reality.
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Grant that I may be an efficient and clear-sighted collaborator and that everything within me may foster the plenitude of Thy manifestation.
I know all my imperfections, my difficulties, my weaknesses, I feel all my ignorance, but I put my full trust in Thee and bow down before Thee in silent devotion.
1914 03 17p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed that when one enters into an activity that necessitates great physical endurance, what tires one most is anticipating beforeh and all the difficulties to which one will be exposed. It is much wiser to see at every moment only the difficulty of the present instant; in this way the effort becomes much easier for it is always proportionate to the amount of strength, the resistance at ones disposal. The body is a marvellous tool, it is our mind that does not know how to use it and, instead of fostering its suppleness, its plasticity, it brings a certain fixity into it which comes from preconceived ideas and unfavourable suggestions.
But the supreme science, O Lord, is to unite with Thee, to trust in Thee, to live in Thee, to be Thyself; and then nothing is any longer impossible to a man who manifests Thy omnipotence.
1914 03 23p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is only one recourse; to unite as perfectly as possible with the highest and purest light that one can conceive, to identify ones consciousness as completely as possible with the absolute Consciousness, to strive to receive all inspirations from that Consciousness alone so as to foster as best one can its manifestation upon earth, and, trusting in its power, to regard all events with serenity.
Since everything is necessarily mixed in the present manifestation, the wisest thing is to do ones best, striving towards an ever higher light and to resign oneself to the fact that absolute perfection is for the moment unrealisable.
1951-04-12 - Japan, its art, landscapes, life, etc - Fairy-lore of Japan - Culture- its spiral movement - Indian and European- the spiritual life - Art and Truth, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And people travel by train as easily as one goes from house to house; they have a small packet like this which they carry; in it they have a change of clothes, thats quite enough for them; on their feet they wear rope or fibre sandals; when these get worn out they throw them away and take others, for they costs nothing at all. All their life is like that. They have paper handkerchiefs, when they have used them they get rid of them, and so onthey dont burden themselves with anything. When they go by train, at the stations small meals are sold in boxes (it is quite clean, quite neat), small meals in boxes of white wood with little chop-sticks for eating; then, as all this has no value, when one has finished, one puts them aside, doesnt bother about them or encumber oneself. They live like that. When they have a garden or a park, they plant trees, and they plant them just at the place where when the tree has grown it will create a landscape, will fit into a landscape. And as they want the tree to have a particular shape, they trim it, cut it, they manage to give it all the shapes they want. You have trees with fantastic forms; they have cut off the unnecessary branches, fostered others, contrived things as they liked. Then you come to a place and you see a house which seems to be altogether a part of the landscape; it has exactly the right colour, it is made of the right materials; it is not like a blow in your face, as are all those European buildings which spoil the whole landscape. It is just there where it should be, hidden under the trees; then you see a creeper and suddenly a wonderful tree: it is there at the right place, it has the right form. I had everything to learn in Japan. For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.
And in the cities, a city like Tokyo, for example, which is the biggest city in the world, bigger than London, and which extends far, far (now the houses are modernised, the whole centre of the city is very unpleasant, but when I was there, it was still good), in the outlying parts of the city, those which are not business quarters, every house has at the most two storeys and a garden there is always a garden, there are always one or two trees which are quite lovely. And then, if you go for a walkit is very difficult to find your way in Tokyo; there are no straight streets with houses on either side according to the number, and you lose your way easily. Then you go wandering aroundalways one wanders at random in that countryyou go wandering and all of a sudden you turn the corner of a street and come to a kind of paradise: there are magnificent trees, a temple as beautiful as everything else, you see nothing of the city any longer, no more traffic, no tramways; a corner, a corner of trees with magnificent colours, and it is beautiful, beautiful like everything else. You do not know how you have reached there, you seem to have come by luck. And then you turn, you seek your way, you wander off again and go elsewhere. And some days later you want to come back to this very place, but it is impossible, it is as though it had disappeared. And this is so frequent, this is so true that such stories are often told in Japan. Their literature is full of fairy-lore. They tell you a story in which the hero comes suddenly to an enchanted place: he sees fairies, he sees marvellous beings, he spends exquisite hours among flowers, music; all is splendid. The next day he is obliged to leave; it is the law of the place, he goes away. He tries to come back, but never does. He can no longer find the place: it was there, it has disappeared! And everything in this city, in this country, from beginning to end, gives you the impression of impermanence, of the unexpected, the exceptional. You always come to things you did not expect; you want to find them again and they are lostthey have made something else which is equally charming. From the artistic point of view, the point of view of beauty, I dont think there is a country as beautiful as that.
1956-03-07 - Sacrifice, Animals, hostile forces, receive in proportion to consciousness - To be luminously open - Integral transformation - Pain of rejection, delight of progress - Spirit behind intention - Spirit, matter, over-simplified, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sweet Mother, here it is written: The vulgar conception of sacrifice is an act of painful self-immolation, austere self-mortification, difficult self-effacement. But the Gita discourages any excess of violence done to oneself; for the self within is really the Godhead evolving, it is Krishna, it is the Divine; it is not to be troubled and tortured as the Titans of the world trouble and torture it, but to be increasingly fostered, cherished, luminously opened to a divine Light.
The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 100
1963 03 06, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, in education, both tendencies should be encouraged side by side: the tendency to thirst for the marvellous, for what seems unrealisable, for something which fills you with the feeling of divinity; while at the same time encouraging exact, correct, sincere observation in the perception of the world as it is, the suppression of all imagination, a constant control, a highly practical and meticulous sense for exact details. Both should go side by side. Usually, you kill the one with the idea that this is necessary in order to foster the otherthis is completely wrong. Both can be simultaneous and there comes a time when one has enough knowledge to know that they are the two aspects of the same thing: insight, a higher discernment. But instead of a narrow, limited insight and discernment, the discernment becomes entirely sincere, correct, exact, but it is vast, it includes a whole domain that does not yet belong to the concrete manifestation.
From the point of view of education, this would be very important: to see the world as it is, exactly, unadorned, in the most down-to-earth and concrete manner; and to see the world as it can be, with the freest, highest vision, the one most full of hope and aspiration and marvellous certitudeas the two poles of discernment.
1969 10 01? - 166, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What has value at one period no longer has any at another as human consciousness goes on progressing. But one must take great care to replace a law one no longer obeys by a higher and truer law that fosters progress towards the future realisation.
One has no right to abandon a law until one is capable of knowing and following a higher and better law.
1969 12 23, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
248Men in the world have two lights, duty and principle; but he who has passed over to God, has done with both and replaced them by Gods will. If men abuse thee for this, care not, O divine instrument, but go on thy way like the wind or the sun fostering and destroying.
249Not to cull the praises of men has God made thee His own, but to do fearlessly His bidding.
1f.lovecraft - The Nameless City, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
fostered as a cheering illusion.
Still nearer the end of the passage were painted scenes of the utmost
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Among the pleasantly aimless amusements fostered by such a life, I took
to following the edge of the tide (where the waves left a damp
1f.lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
doubtless fostered a strange, secretive inner life in the boy, with
imagination as his one avenue of freedom.
--
his habits of childish dependence were fostered by overcareful parents;
so that he never travelled alone, made independent decisions, or
1f.lovecraft - Two Black Bottles, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
sexton, Abel foster. Hes in league with the devil, sures youre
alive. Twant two weeks ago Sam Pryor, when he passed the old
--
Old foster, Haines said, had come to Daalbergen about ten years before,
and had been immediately engaged by Vanderhoof to take care of the damp
--
It was not long after fosters establishment as a village fixture that
disaster began to lower. First came the failure of the mountain mine
--
foster made a weekly visit to what remained of the business section of
the village to buy provisions. He no longer bowed servilely to everyone
--
person in Daalbergen doubted that Abel foster was at the bottom of all
the towns ill luck, but not a one dared lift a finger against him, or
--
One morning, Haines went on to say, foster was seen digging a grave
where the steeple of the church throws its shadow in the afternoon,
--
from a distance saw foster bring a coffin from the parsonage on a
wheelbarrow, dump it into the grave with slender ceremony, and replace
--
which no one understood, foster made his way back along the road over
the swamp.
--
Take keer that old devil, foster, dont git ye! he warned, again and
again. I wouldnt go near him after dark fer love nr money. No
--
church. I then remembered what Haines had told me about fosters living
in the basement of the building. Advancing cautiously through the
--
that stared blankly through me. I recognized Abel foster, the old
sexton, in an instant. He did not move or speak as I came slowly and
--
Mr. foster? I asked, trembling with unaccountable fear when I heard
my voice echo within the close confines of the room. There was no
--
hour ago. Fear took possession of me again. I turned quickly. foster
sat in his chair watching me. His glance was saner than before.
--
midst, the congregation left one by one, and foster was able to do what
he pleased with the church and with Vanderhoof.
--
were two black bottles. foster muttered some peculiar words in a low
singsong voice. Everything began to turn gray before my eyes, and
--
foster, whom I had released when the bottle broke, was crouching
against the wall, looking smaller and more shriveled than before. His
--
been Abel foster were certain immense footprints.
After glancing at some of the books and papers strewn about the belfry
1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the half-belief of the four men, fostered by lives spent close to the
black, settled secrets of brooding Africa, which made them shiver so
1.fs - The Complaint Of Ceres, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Of light and darkness fosteredgrows!
If half with death the germs may sleep,
1.jk - Endymion - Book I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
And all ye gentle girls who foster up
Udderless lambs, and in a little cup
1.jk - Endymion - Book IV, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
O thou could'st foster me beyond the brink
Of recollection! make my watchful care
--
These raven horses, though they foster'd are
Of earth's splenetic fire, dully drop
1.jk - Epistle To My Brother George, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
One that I fostered in my youthful years:
The pearls, that on each glist'ning circlet sleep,
1.jk - Hyperion, A Vision - Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
By Great Apollo, thy dear foster-child,
And by thyself, forlorn divinity,
1.jk - Lamia. Part I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
But the God fostering her chilled hand,
She felt the warmth, her eyelids opend bland,
1.jk - Ode On A Grecian Urn, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
1.jk - Ode On Melancholy, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
1.ms - Old Creek, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
English version by Nelson foster and Josh Shoemaker Original Language Japanese Since before anyone remembers it has been clear shining like silver though the moonlight penetrates it and the wind ruffles it no trace of either remains Today I would not dare to expound the secret of the stream bed But I can tell you that the blue dragon is coiled there. [2207.jpg] -- from Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader, Edited by Nelson foster / Edited by Josh Shoemaker <
1.pbs - Marenghi, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
O foster-nurse of mans abandoned glory,
Since Athens, its great mother, sunk in splendour;
1.pbs - Peter Bell The Third, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
I need scarcely observe that nothing personal to the author of Peter Bell is intended in this poem. No man ever admired Wordsworth's poetry more; -- he read it perpetually, and taught others to appreciate its beauties. This poem is, like all others written by Shelley, ideal. He conceived the idealism of a poet -- a man of lofty and creative genius -- quitting the glorious calling of discovering and announcing the beautiful and good, to support and propagate ignorant prejudices and pernicious errors; imparting to the unenlightened, not that ardour for truth and spirit of toleration which Shelley looked on as the sources of the moral improvement and happiness of mankind, but false and injurious opinions, that evil was good, and that ignorance and force were the best allies of purity and virtue. His idea was that a man gifted, even as transcendently as the author of Peter Bell, with the highest qualities of genius, must, if he fostered such errors, be infected with dulness. This poem was written as a warning -- not as a narration of the reality. He was unaquainted personally with Wordsworth or with Coleridge (to whom he alludes in the fifth part of the poem), and therefore, I repeat, his poem is purely ideal; -- it contains something of criticism on the compositions of those great poets, but nothing injurious to the men themselves.
No poem contains more of Shelley's peculiar views with regard to the errors into which many of the wisest have fallen, and the pernicious effects of certain opinions on society. Much of it is beautifully written: and, though, like the burlesque drama of Swellfoot, it must be looked on as a plaything, it has so much merit and poetry -- so much of himself in it -- that it cannot failt to interest greatly, and by right belongs to the world for those whose instruction and benefit it was written.'
1.rb - Bishop Blougram's Apology, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
King Bomba's lazzaroni foster yet
The sacred flame, so Antonelli writes;
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part III - Paracelsus, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Yet (how crept in, how fostered, I know not)
Here am I with as passionate regret
1.rb - The Flight Of The Duchess, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
These are feelings it is not good to foster,-
I pushed the gate wide, she shook the bridle,
1.shvb - Columba aspexit - Sequence for Saint Maximin, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
English version by Barbara Newman Original Language Latin A dove gazed in through a latticed window: there balm rained down on her face, raining from lucent Maximin. The heat of the sun blazed out to irradiate the dark: a bud burst open, jewel-like, in the temple of the heart (limpid and kind his heart). A tower of cypress is he, and of Lebanon's cedars -- rubies and sapphires frame his turrets -- a city passing the arts of all other artisans. A swift stag is he who ran to the fountain -- pure wellspring from a stone of power -- to water sweet-smelling spices. O perfumers! you who dwell in the luxuriance of royal gardens, climbing high when you accomplish the holy sacrifice with rams: Among you this architect is shining, a wall of the temple, he who longed for an eagle's wings as he kissed his foster-mother Wisdom in Ecclesia's garden. O Maximin, mountain and valley, on your towering height the mountain goat leapt with the elephant, and Wisdom was in rapture. Strong and sweet in the sacred rites and the shimmer of the altar, you rise like incense to the pillar of praise -- where you pray for your people who strive toward the mirror of light. Praise him! Praise in the highest! [1826.jpg] -- from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celstium revelationum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Barbara Newman <
1.ww - A Whirl-Blast From Behind The Hill, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Her foster-mother's hut.
"To put your love to dangerous proof
--
You, foster-father dear,
Will guide me in my forward path;
--
The foster-parent sate;
Encouraged by the imperial eye,
1.ww - Book Fifth-Books, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Or pleasure sown, or fostered thus, may be
Peculiar to myself, let that remain
1.ww - Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ], #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
Of intellectual power, fostering love,
Dispensing truth, and, over men and things,
1.ww - Ode on Intimations of Immortality, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
1.ww - Personal Talk, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Are fostered by the comment and the gibe."
Even be it so; yet still among your tribe,
1.ww - Spanish Guerillas, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Or fostered, self-supported chiefs,--like those
Whom hardy Rome was fearful to oppose;
1.ww - The Excursion- IV- Book Third- Despondency, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
O fostering Nature! I rejected--smiled
At others' tears in pity; and in scorn
1.ww - The Excursion- IX- Book Eighth- The Parsonage, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
--What kindly warmth from touch of fostering hand,
What penetrating power of sun or breeze,
1.ww - The Excursion- VII- Book Sixth- The Churchyard Among the Mountains, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The Poet, fostering for his native land
Such hope, entreats that servants may abound
--
A foster-mother's office.
'Tis, perchance,
--
--At length the parents of the foster-child,
Noting that in despite of their commands
1.ww - Written in London. September, 1802, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
France. This must be borne in mind, or else the reader may think that in this and the succeeding sonnets I have exaggerated the mischief engendered and fostered among us by undisturbed wealth" (W. W., in 1843).O Friend!: Coleridge.
2.01 - Mandala One, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
(4) O Indra, increase our weal in the plenitudes and the things of thousand fold wealth by thy bold strong fosterings, since thou art strong and bold.
(5) To Indra we call in the matter of the little and the great wealth, the hurler of the thunderbolt our ally against the covering hosts.
--
(1) We foster for you, as one fattens a ram, Indra the strong slayer; sprinkle him with nectarous rain till he reaches his utmost fullness.
(2) He who is alike the tranquillity of the pure and the force of the strong enjoyers, comes upon us as if pouring from above.
--
(1) Indra, the Slayer of the Enemy,1 has increased by his men2 for the intoxication, for the puissance and him we call in the great courses of battle and him in the little. May he foster us in the fullnesses of plenty.3
(2) O Hero, thou art our Lord of hosts4 and thou art the giver over to us of the much, and thou art the increaser even of the little;5 and for the sacrificer who offers the Soma-wine thou bringest out (givest) thy much substance.
--
(8) Make with us the intoxication of the Soma-juice, O hero, for strength, for opulence; for we know thee to be of a manifold substance of riches and we cast loose towards thee our desires; become the fosterer of our being.
(9) Thine are these beings born, O Indra, who increase every desirable thing; for thou hast seen within the possession of knowledge12 of those who give not to thee, and thou art a noble warrior; bring to us the possession they guard.
--
(20) Soma giveth the fostering Cow, Soma giveth the swift Steed, Soma giveth the active Hero within who holdeth the seat, who winneth the knowledge, who is fit for the Wisdom, who hath the inspiration of the Father,these he giveth to the man who divideth for him the offering.
(21) Unconquered thou in our battles and art satisfied in the throngs of war, winner of Heaven, winner of the Waters and our defender in the Crookedness (or of our strength); born in our fullnesses, firmly dwelling in us thou art rich in inspirations and victorious,by thy raptures, O Soma, may we be intoxicated.
--
(7) Indra in his puissance is even to us a newer Ribhu and Ribhu joined with Vajas, lords of the plenty, and the Vasus, masters of riches, and giver of substance. O ye gods, by your fostering power may we assail in your cherished Day the armies of the powers who give not the nectar wine.
(8) The Ribhus pressed into shape the Cow of Light out of her skin and joined the Mother with the child. O children of Sudhanwan, in your desire of perfect works you made our aged Father and Mother young again.
2.01 - The Therapeutic value of Abreaction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
transference be fostered and the more sexual will be its form.
[277]
2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing -- too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance -- gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart is unfulfilled.
2.02 - The Mother Archetype, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
that fosters growth and fertility. The place of magic transforma-
tion and rebirth, together with the underworld and its inhabit-
2.03 - The Mother-Complex, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
an aesthetic sense which are fostered by the presence of a femi-
nine streak. Then he may be supremely gifted as a teacher be-
2.04 - Agni, the Illumined Will, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination, he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony by his perceptions.
COMMENTARY
--
Agni is Jatavedas, knower of the births, the worlds. He knows entirely the five worlds8 and is not confined in his consciousness to this limited and dependent physical harmony. He has access even to the three highest states9 of all, to the udder of the mystic Cow,10 the abundance of the Bull11 with the four horns. From that abundance he will foster the illumination in these Aryan seekers, swell the plenty of their divine faculties. By that fullness and plenty of his illumined perceptions he will unite thought with thought, word with word, till the human Intelligence is rich and harmonious enough to support and become the divine Idea.
The worlds in which, respectively, Matter, Life-Energy, Mind, Truth and Beatitude are the essential energies. They are called respectively Bhur, Bhuvar, Swar, Mahas and
2.05 - Infinite Worlds, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
The fostering mother, as she takes the drops
Of liquid moisture, pregnant bears her broods-
2.21 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES AT SYAMPUKUR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "That is good. There are different aspects of Radha. In Her seductive aspect She was Chandravali. In Her aspect of love She participated in Sri Krishna's lila at Vrindvan. Nandaghosh, Krishna's foster-father, had the vision of the Eternal Radha.
"First is the seductive Radha, then the Radha of love. If you go farther, you will see the Eternal Radha. It is like taking off the layers of an onion one by one. First the red layers, then the pink, then the white. Afterwards you don't find any more layers. Such is the nature of the Eternal Radha, Radha the Absolute. There the discrimination following the process of 'Not this, not this' comes to an end.
25.02 - HYMN TO DAWN, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We are rich in those riches, we the steadfast aspirants. O Goddess, born in perfection, Daughter of Heaven! We foster Thee with our thought-streams and Thou too holdest in our bosom the knowledge won and the Vast and the Seas of Delight.
Sri Aurobindo
2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
8. By thee fostered the horse of life goes undeviating, each one after that which preceded it, and the giver of sacrifices progresses, O Agni.
9. Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness of energy.
--
5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination, he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony by his perceptions.
KUTSA ANGIRASA
--
1. Fire is awake by the kindling of the peoples, he fronts the dawn that comes to him like a fostering milch-cow; like the mighty ones casting upward their branching his lustres spread towards heaven.
2. The priest of the call is awake for sacrifice to the gods, Fire with his right thinking has stood up high ablaze in the dawn. He is kindled, the red-glowing mass of him is seen: a great god has been delivered out of the darkness.
--
9. O maker of forms, hither benignant arrive all-pervading in thy fostering to us and in thyself; in sacrifice on sacrifice us upward guard.
7 Ila, goddess of revelation; Saraswati, goddess of inspiration; Mahi, goddess of the Vast Truth, Mahas or r.tam br.hat.
--
cast his shafts, may he foster us, may he be with us for the
conquest of the plenitude. Be with us in our battles that we
30.13 - Rabindranath the Artist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the root of Rabindranath's patriotism also there lies the same love for beauty. The lack of beauty in slavery tortured him more than anything else. The ugliness of poverty was more unbearable to him than the actual physical destitution. If he could have viewed the wants of life at their own value like Mahatma Gandhi then he would have at least once plied the spinning wheel. But to him ease or affluence by itself has no importance. Affluence would have its real value if it contri buted to the rhythm of life. That is why his patriotism laid a greater stress on construction than on destruction. To settle things amicably, instead of attacking the enemy, instead of wrangling with the foreigners, to put one's own house in order, to repair and beautify was considered by him a real work to be- done. To build is to create. To create is to fashion a thing beautifully. The ideal of his patriotic society has to foster all limbs of the collective life of the entire nation, to make it a united organism, to endow it with the beauty of forms and rhythm in action.
So we say that the beautiful poetry and the poetry of beauty written by him are even surpassed by the beauty that he brought down into our life, particularly in the life of Bengal. The whole contri bution of Rabindranath is not exhausted by his poetical works. Firstly, his was the inspiration that formed around him a world of fine arts, a new current of poetry, painting, music, dance and theatre. Secondly, his was the life-energy whose vibration created in our country a refined taste and a capacity for subtle experience. Through his influence a consciousness has awakened towards appreciation of beauty. Thirdly, the thing which is, in a way, of greater value is this that if there has been a gradual manifestation of order and beauty in our ordinary daily life, in dress and decoration, in our conversation and conduct, at home and in assemblies, in articles of beauty and their use, then, at the root of it all, directly or indirectly the personality of Rabindranath was undoubtedly at work.
3.04 - On Thought - III, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The star we allow to shine through us will foster the birth of similar stars by its example; fortunately, not only darkness and ignorance, but also knowledge and light can be contagious.
In addition, the care we take to remain conscious of our highest thoughts will compel us to control our thoughts constantly, and this control is gradually obtained by the methods
3.06 - Death, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
consciousness fosters civilization and culture, but must fall short of the
goal unless man voluntarily places himself in its service. The alchemists
3.2.05 - Our Ideal, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The progress of humanity has therefore been a constant revolution with its rhythm of alternative darkness and light, but both the day and the night have helped to foster that which is evolving. The periods have not been the same for all parts of the globe. In the historic ages of the present cycle of civilisation the movement has been almost entirely centred in the twin continents of Asia and Europe. And there it has been often seen that when Asia was moving through the light, Europe was passing through one of her epochs of obscurity and on the other hand the nights of Asia's repose or stagnation have corresponded with the days of Europe's mental vigour and vital activity.
But the fundamental difference has been that Asia has served predominantly (not exclusively) as a field for man's spiritual experience and progression, Europe has been rather a workshop for his mental and vital activities. As the cycle progressed, the
3.3.1 - Agni, the Divine Will-Force, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Agni's birth here from these fostering Cows, these Mothers of
Plenty, is the greatest of his terrestrial births; fostered by them as the swift Mares of Life he grows at once to his divine greatness, fills all the planes with his vast and shining limbs and forms their kingdoms in the soul of man into the image of a divine Truth.
392
34.02 - Hymn To All-Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Zen
Him, the Supreme Master, Lord of the moving and the unmoving, approachable through the understanding, we call for protection. May the fosterer be there too to increase our realms of knowledge. May he be there for our welfare, the inviolable guardian and saviour.
(6)
May lndra of the full-grown hearing bring to us the Supreme Welfare. May the all-knowing fosterer also bring to us the Supreme Welfare. And the Fashioner whose chariot wheels move on unhurt, may he too bring to us the Supreme Welfare. And the same Supreme Welfare may Brihaspati establish in us.
(7)
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
When, later, I read Leibniz' prediction of the moral force of his Universal Characteristic, I realized that he had known what he was talking about, and that his prediction had been fulfilled at Brooklyn College. Even our first, Cartesian model of his General Characteristic had redirected the Cold War on the Brooklyn campus: it had damped the conflict, fostered by the Marxist Club's negative value-bias, changing most of that conflict into the cooperation furthered by the Plus, Plus Club's positive value-bias. In due course, this experience, and others like it, led Harold Cassidy and me to write, and privately distribute, Plain Truth--And Redirection of the Cold War.35
With this as background, I can now hope to convey some of the meaning of the following experience: One afternoon at Brooklyn College, when everyone had left the classroom and I was picking up my books and papers, one of the students, a quite pretty girl came back. Closing the door, she asked whether she could speak with me.
36.08 - A Commentary on the First Six Suktas of Rigveda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Zen
" foster by this the gods and let the gods foster you; fostering each other, you shall attain to the supreme good."
This mutual exchange of sacrifice between man and the divine forces leading to progression, to evolution of life, is guarded by Fire, the light and heat that signify the power born of spiritual discipline. It is this energy that enables the practicant to go forward on his way of sacrifice. The aspirant offers as an oblation every limb of his being into this energy of spiritual practice which in its turn carries the self offering of the aspirant to his divinity, and continues to work for its establishment; that is why Fire is the offerer. Fire is also called the carrier, for he brings down the divine powers into the aspirant and carries him up into their region. This work Fire has undertaken to perform without the least violation of the rhythm of Truth day after day through the evolutionary process. Hence he is called the priest. The priest is he who knows the proper time for the performance of the seasonal sacrifices. The energy born of spiritual practice too has the spontaneous tendency to determine the spiritual course of the practicant. The Fire of spiritual discipline burns up all the dross contained in the receptacle of the aspirant making him more capable and bringing down into him the divine power, knowledge and bliss - complete success. The power of Fire is no other than the dynamis of the Divine vision, the activity born of direct realisation (kavikratu); therefore Fire is called the protecting power of Truth (gopam rtasya). That which is the foundation of Truth, the Right, the Vast, the fourth world, is indeed svarloka, the own home (sva dama) of Agni and all the other gods. It is here that the gods reign supreme in their own real form, in their true nature. But, then, every god has his assigned field of activity here on earth through some suitable subtle embodiment. The seat of Fire, his field of action, is the earth, the gross sheath. The Energy of spiritual discipline first possesses the practicant in his body, the body-con- sciousness; and gradually with the help of the other gods this Fire-god leads him to the vital region and then to the sphere of the mind, thence to the Supermind, the fourth heaven. Each god represents the divine embodiment of the special virtue of a particular region or level. But Fire is the foremost God, and the aspirant who wants to have an access to the secrets of spiritual practice and is eager to progress must become a worshipper of Fire (angiras).
3.7.2.04 - The Higher Lines of Karma, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Meanwhile this third movement of mind discovers a law of the return of mental energies, pure in its kind and as certain as the vital and the physical, as faithful to itself, to the self of mind and to mind nature, a law not of vital returns to mental dynamis, but of progression of the soul in the being and force of good and beauty and powerof mind-power and soul-power and greatness and love and joy and knowledge. Mounting here the ethical mind no longer follows good for a reward now on earth or in another existence, but for the sake of good, and no longer shuns evil for fear of punishment on earth later on in this life or else in another life or in hell, but because to follow evil is a degradation and affliction of its being and a fall from its innate and imperative endeavour. This is to it a necessity of its moral nature, a truly categorical imperative, a call that in the total more complex nature of man may be dulled or suppressed or excluded by the claim of its other parts and their needs, but to the ethical mind is binding and absolute. The virtue that demands a reward for acting well and needs a penalty to keep it walking in the straight way, is no real portion, no true law of the ethical being, but rather a mixed creation, a rule of his practical reason that seeks always after utility and holds that to be right which is helpful and expedient, a rule that looks first not at the growth of the soul but at the mechanical securing of a regulated outward conduct and to secure it bribes and terrifies the vital being into acquiescence and a reluctant subordination of its own instincts and natural ventures. The virtue so created is an expediency, a social decency, a prudent limitation of egoism, a commercial substitute for the true thing; or, at best, it is a habit of the mind and not a truth of the soul, and in the mind a fabrication, mixed and of inferior stuff, a conventional virtue, insecure, destructible by the wear and tear of life, easily confused with other expediencies or purchasable or conquerable by them,it is not a high and clear upbuilding, an enduring and inwardly living self-creation of the soul. Whatever its practical utility or service as a step of the transition, the mental habit of confusion and vitalistic compromise it fosters and the more questionable confusions and compromises that habit favours, have made conventional morality one of the chief of the forces that hold back human life from progressing to a true ethical order. If humanity has made any lasting and true advance, it has been not through the virtue created by reward and punishment or any of the sanctions powerful on the little vital ego, but by an insistence from the higher mind on the lower, an insistence on right for its own sake, on imperative moral values, on an absolute law and truth of ethical being and ethical conduct that must be obeyed whatever the recalcitrances of the lower mind, whatever the pains of the vital problem, whatever the external result, the inferior issue.
This higher mind holds its pure and complete sway only on a few high souls, in others it acts upon the lower and outer mind but amidst much misprision, confusion and distortion of thought and will and perverting or abating mixture; on the mass of men governed by the lower egoistic, vital and conventional standards of conduct its influence is indirect and little. None the less it gives the clue we have to follow in order to pursue the spiral ascent of the lines of Karma. And first we observe that the just man follows the ethical law for its own sake and not for any other purpose whatsoever, is just for the sake of justice, righteous for the sake of righteousness, compassionate for the sake of compassion, true for the sake of truth alone. Harishchandra sacrificing self and wife and child and kingdom and subjects in an unswerving fidelity to the truth of the spoken word, Shivi giving his flesh to the hawk rather than fall from his kingly duty of protection to the fugitive, the Bodhisattwa laying his body before the famished tiger, images in which sacred or epic legend has consecrated this greater kind of virtue, illuminate an elevation of the ethical will and a law of moral energy that asks for no return from man or living thing or from the gods of Karma, lays down no conditions, makes no calculation of consequence, of less or more or of the greatest good of the greatest number, admits neither the hedonistic nor the utilitarian measure, but does simply the act as the thing to be done because it is right and virtue and therefore the very law of being of the ethical man, the categorical imperative of his nature.
3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
rushing one); p$qA the Sun, he who fosters, develops and perfects;
poq, increase; p$j^ to foster, cherish, adore, worship; p;r^ increase,
advance, forwardness, front (p;r,, p$v,, p;rA, before, O.S. p;rA (Gr.
--
develop", and "to cherish, foster, love". Cf p;/, Latin, pullus;
p$qA the Sun; p$j^ to worship, adore, developed from the sense
--
8. By thee fostered the horse of life goes undeviating, each
one after that which preceded it, and the giver of sacrifices
--
(vot, - see Appendix for av^ = foster, increase. Even with
Sayana's rendering of the rest of the verse " fostered" gives a
--
advances when fostered by thee and becomes vAjF like the one
who was superior to him." But this is very forced and clumsy.
--
after another goes forward () fostered by thee to the goal (aEB),
full of plenitude, straight in his course." It is possible, however,
--
and our earth, all-embracing, foster thee; sacrifice for a vast
right-mindedness to the gods.
--
which is seeking with the help of the Gods who [are] fostered by
its activities to express itself. g like many words used to mean
--
the seven fostering forms of divine consciousness and each of
them forms for itself a separate world in which it predominates
4.01 - Sweetness in Prayer, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
1.: Graces received in this mansion. 2. Mystic favours. 3. Temptations bring humility and merit. 4. Sensible devotion and natural joys. 5. Sweetness in devotion. 6. St. Teresa's experience of it. 7. Love of God, and how to foster it. 8. Distractions. 9. They do not destroy divine union. 10. St. Teresa's physical distractions. 11. How to treat distractions. 12. They should be disregarded. 13. Self-knowledge necessary.
1.: Now that I commence writing about the fourth mansions, it is requisite, as I said,1' to commend myself to the Holy Ghost and to beg Him henceforth to speak for me, that I may be enabled to treat these matters intelligibly. Henceforth they begin to be supernatural and it will be most difficult to speak clearly about them,2' unless His Majesty undertakes it for me, as He did when I explained the subject (as far as I understood it) somewhat about fourteen years ago.3' I believe I now possess more light about the favours God grants some souls, but that is different from being able to elucidate them.4' May His Majesty enable me to do so if it would be useful, but not otherwise.
4.2.1.06 - Living in the Psychic, #Letters On Yoga III, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are always unregenerate parts tugging people backwards and who is not divided? But it is best to put one's trust in the soul, the spark of the Divine within and foster that till it rises into a sufficient flame.
4.2 - Karma, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
247. Men in the world have two lights, duty and principle; but he who has passed over to God, has done with both and replaced them by God's will. If men abuse thee for this, care not, O divine instrument, but go on thy way like the wind or the sun fostering and destroying.
248. Not to cull the praises of men has God made thee His own, but to do fearlessly His bidding.
5.02 - Against Teleological Concept, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Doth Nature feed and foster on land and sea
The dreadful breed of savage beasts, the foes
5.03 - The World Is Not Eternal, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
In fostering and increasing aught
Is rendered back; and since, beyond a doubt,
5.07 - Beginnings Of Civilization, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Loathed the old life fostered by force. 'Tis thence
That fear of punishments defiles each prize
--
Of the wild fruits by fond and fostering care.
And day by day they'd force the woods to move
5.1.01.2 - The Book of the Statesman, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Earth who hast fostered our parents, earth who hast given us our offspring,
Soil that created our race where fed from the bosom of Nature
5.1.01.6 - The Book of the Chieftains, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
And with our blood and our anguish Heaven has fostered his greatness.
It is enough; let the dire gods choose between Greece and their offspring.
--
Then if they err, yet still obey lest anarchy fostered,
Discord and deaf rebellion that speed like a poison through kingdoms,
5.1.01.8 - The Book of the Gods, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Who then deserves the earth if not he who enriches and fosters?
But thou hast favoured thy sons, O Zeus; O Hera, earths sceptres
5 - The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
and fostered by consciousness. This may well be so, since that
is the best and most successful method of keeping the shadow
7.03 - Cheerfulness, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Surely it is not necessary to be always laughing; but liveliness, serenity, good humour are never out of place. And how helpful they are! With them the mother makes the home happy for her children; the nurse hastens the recovery of her patient; the master lightens the task of his servants; the workman inspires the goodwill of his comrades; the traveller helps his companions on their hard journey; the citizen fosters hope in the hearts of his countrymen.
And you, happy boys and girls, is there anything your cheerfulness cannot accomplish?
9.99 - Glossary, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Nanda(ghosh): Sri Krishna's foster-father.
Nandi: A follower of Siva.
--
Yasoda: Sri Krishna's foster-mother.
yatra: A country theatrical performance.
Aeneid, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
And I saw Tityos, the foster child
of Earth, mother of all, his body stretched
--
with weapons or use lust to foster war?
That was the time to care about your friends.
--
to Pallas, his beloved foster son,
beneath less happy auspices. And all
Blazing P1 - Preconventional consciousness, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
or the continuance of his tribes established way of life. He now feels the need to foster his
own individual survival a need which cannot dominate him until he becomes conscious of
--
conditioning learning system, to build a way of being that will foster his survival and to hell
with the other man.
BOOK III. - The external calamities of Rome, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
With what effrontery, then, with what assurance, with what impudence, with what folly, or rather insanity, do they refuse to impute these disasters to their own gods, and impute the present to our Christ! These bloody civil wars, more distressing, by the avowal of their own historians, than any foreign wars, and which were pronounced to be not merely calamitous, but absolutely ruinous to the republic, began long before the coming of Christ, and gave birth to one another; so that a concatenation of unjustifiable causes led from the wars of Marius and Sylla to those of Sertorius and Catiline, of whom the one was proscribed, the other brought up by Sylla; from this to the war of Lepidus and Catulus, of whom the one wished to rescind, the other to defend the acts of Sylla; from this to the war of[Pg 132] Pompey and Csar, of whom Pompey had been a partisan of Sylla, whose power he equalled or even surpassed, while Csar condemned Pompey's power because it was not his own, and yet exceeded it when Pompey was defeated and slain. From him the chain of civil wars extended to the second Csar, afterwards called Augustus, and in whose reign Christ was born. For even Augustus himself waged many civil wars; and in these wars many of the foremost men perished, among them that skilful manipulator of the republic, Cicero. Caius [Julius] Csar, when he had conquered Pompey, though he used his victory with clemency, and granted to men of the opposite faction both life and honours, was suspected of aiming at royalty, and was assassinated in the curia by a party of noble senators, who had conspired to defend the liberty of the republic. His power was then coveted by Antony, a man of very different character, polluted and debased by every kind of vice, who was strenuously resisted by Cicero on the same plea of defending the liberty of the republic. At this juncture that other Csar, the adopted son of Caius, and afterwards, as I said, known by the name of Augustus, had made his d but as a young man of remarkable genius. This youthful Csar was favoured by Cicero, in order that his influence might counteract that of Antony; for he hoped that Csar would overthrow and blast the power of Antony, and establish a free state,so blind and unaware of the future was he: for that very young man, whose advancement and influence he was fostering, allowed Cicero to be killed as the seal of an alliance with Antony, and subjected to his own rule the very liberty of the republic in defence of which he had made so many orations.
31. That it is effrontery to impute the present troubles to Christ and the prohibition of polytheistic worship, since even when the gods were worshipped such calamities befell the people.
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
Amalthaea -- Jupiter's foster-mother. Pan, the god of Nature, had goat's feet, and changed himself into
a goat at the approach of Typhon. But this is a mystery which the writer dares not dwell upon at
Book of Imaginary Beings (text), #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
surrounding it could cause a mans death. Juno fostered the
Hydra in her efforts to lessen Hercules fame.
--
bird the foster father of Zal, father of the poems hero; Farid
al-Din Attar, in the twelfth century, makes it a symbol of
COSA - BOOK I, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
Myself have seen and known even a baby envious; it could not speak, yet it turned pale and looked bitterly on its foster-brother. Who knows not this? Mothers and nurses tell you that they allay these things by I know not what remedies. Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.
Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general good and safety, implanting in it all vital functions, Thou commandest me to praise Thee in these things, to confess unto Thee, and sing unto Thy name, Thou most Highest. For Thou art God, Almighty and Good, even hadst Thou done nought but only this, which none could do but Thou: whose Unity is the mould of all things; who out of Thy own fairness makest all things fair; and orderest all things by Thy law. This age then, Lord, whereof I have no remembrance, which I take on others' word, and guess from other infants that I have passed, true though the guess be, I am yet loth to count in this life of mine which I live in this world. For no less than that which I spent in my mother's womb, is it hid from me in the shadows of forgetfulness. But if I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, where, I beseech Thee, O my God, where, Lord, or when, was I Thy servant guiltless? But, lo! that period I pass by; and what have I now to do with that, of which I can recall no vestige?
Isha Upanishads, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
15: The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O fosterer,10 for the law of the Truth, for sight.
16: O fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form[p.9] of all, that in Thee I behold. The Purusha there and there, He am I.
17: The Breath of things11 is an immortal Life, but of this body ashes are the end. OM! O Will,12 remember, that which was done remember! O Will, remember, that which was done remember.
Medea - A Vergillian Cento, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
Hast power, [if strength is fostered in thy breast,]
And if a kingdom's so much to thy heart
--- Overview of noun foster
The noun foster has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster ::: (United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864))
--- Overview of verb foster
The verb foster has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (13) foster, further ::: (promote the growth of; "Foster our children's well-being and education")
2. foster ::: (bring up under fosterage; of children)
3. foster, nurture ::: (help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents")
--- Overview of adj foster
The adj foster has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. foster, surrogate ::: (providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
INSTANCE OF=> songwriter, songster, ballad maker
=> composer
=> musician
=> artist, creative person
=> creator
=> 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
--- Hyponyms of noun foster
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
INSTANCE OF=> songwriter, songster, ballad maker
--- Similarity of adj foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
foster, surrogate
=> adoptive (vs. biological)
--- Antonyms of adj foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
foster, surrogate
INDIRECT (VIA adoptive) -> biological
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
-> songwriter, songster, ballad maker
HAS INSTANCE=> Berlin, Irving Berlin, Israel Baline
HAS INSTANCE=> Carmichael, Hoagy Carmichael, Hoagland Howard Carmichael
HAS INSTANCE=> Cohan, George M. Cohan, George Michael Cohan
HAS INSTANCE=> Domino, Fats Domino, Antoine Domino
HAS INSTANCE=> Dylan, Bob Dylan
HAS INSTANCE=> Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
HAS INSTANCE=> Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
HAS INSTANCE=> Holly, Buddy Holly, Charles Hardin Holley
HAS INSTANCE=> Lennon, John Lennon
HAS INSTANCE=> McCartney, Paul McCartney, Sir James Paul McCartney
HAS INSTANCE=> Simon, Paul Simon
HAS INSTANCE=> Williams, Hank Williams, Hiram Williams, Hiram King Williams
--- Pertainyms of adj foster
1 sense of foster
Sense 1
foster, surrogate
--- Derived Forms of adj foster
--- Grep of noun foster
foster
foster-brother
foster-child
foster-daughter
foster-father
foster-mother
foster-nurse
foster-parent
foster-sister
foster-son
foster brother
foster care
foster child
foster daughter
foster family
foster father
foster home
foster mother
foster parent
foster sister
foster son
fosterage
fostering
fosterling
john foster dulles
stephen collins foster
stephen foster
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David Foster Wallace ::: Born: February 21, 1962; Died: September 12, 2008; Occupation: Novelist;
Lori Foster ::: Born: November 14, 1958; Occupation: Writer;
Richard J. Foster ::: Born: May 3, 1942; Occupation: Author;
Norman Foster ::: Born: June 1, 1935; Occupation: Architect;
Erin Foster ::: Born: August 23, 1982; Occupation: TV actor;
Stephen Foster ::: Born: July 4, 1826; Died: January 13, 1864; Occupation: Songwriter;
Bill Foster ::: Born: October 7, 1955; Occupation: U.S. Representative;
John Foster ::: Born: March 2, 1836; Died: November 15, 1917; Occupation: United States Secretary of State;
David Foster ::: Born: November 1, 1949; Occupation: Musician;
Scott Michael Foster ::: Born: March 4, 1985; Occupation: Actor;
Sutton Foster ::: Born: March 18, 1975; Occupation: Film actress;
John Foster Dulles ::: Born: February 25, 1888; Died: May 24, 1959; Occupation: Former U.S. Senator;
Radney Foster ::: Born: July 20, 1959; Occupation: Singer-songwriter;
William Z. Foster ::: Born: February 25, 1881; Died: September 1, 1961; Occupation: American Politician;
Paul Foster Case ::: Born: October 3, 1884; Died: March 2, 1954; Occupation: Author;
Alan Dean Foster ::: Born: November 18, 1946; Occupation: Author;
Jodie Foster ::: Born: November 19, 1962; Occupation: Actress;
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Step by Step (1991 - 1998) - Frank Lambert is a construction worker and a single father of 3 kids: JT, Al (Alicia) and Branden. Carol Foster, a beautician, also has 3 children: Dana, Karen and Mark. After Frank and Carol met while on vacation and spontaneously got married, they and their children (who appeared to have known and...
The Young and the Restless (1973 - Current) - A CBS Dramatic Serial which, at the time of it's debut, March 26th 1973, and for most of the 70's, revolved around the lives of the Brooks and Foster Families of Genoa City, Wisconsin. In the late 70's the episodes were extended from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and the series took on a new tone, and grad...
My Parents Are Aliens (1999 - 2006) - My Parents Are Aliens British children's comedy on CITV about an eccentric family, which started in 1999. It follows the lives of three orphaned children, Melanie, Josh and Lucy Barker, and their foster parents Brian and Sophie Johnson. In series 6, they were joined by adopted CJ. In series 7, Mel l...
Chip and pepper's cartoon madness (1991 - 1992) - Canadian twins Chip and Pepper Foster hosted this variety show for NBC. The two performed comedy sketches, interviewed celebrities and introduced vintage cartoon shorts from the likes of Captain Caveman and Casper. Also along for the ride was sidekick Buzz Belmondo, fresh off his role as "Buzz" on t...
First Wave (1998 - 2001) - Cade Foster is an ex-thief who gave up thievery to get married and have a family. All of a sudden his life is thrown apart when he gets fired, all his money disappears, his house gets vandalized and eventually his wife gets killed and he gets framed for murder.
Big Brother Jake (1990 - 1994) - A Hollywood stuntman (Jake Steinfeld) returns to Brooklyn to help his foster mother (Barbara Meek) raise a new generation of foster kids.
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends (2004 - 2009) - A boy and his beloved imaginary friend are able to stay together at an orphanage of sorts for imaginary friends that children have outgrown to be adopted by new children.
Life With Boys (2011 - Current) - Life with Boys is a Canadian teen sitcom that started broadcasting in Canada on YTV in September 2011. It follows Tess Foster as she copes with living in a home with just boys: her father, Jack, and three brothers, Gabe, Spencer and Sam.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird(1985) - When a pesky social worker thinks Big Bird should be with his own kind (other birds) instead of living on the diverse Sesame Street, she sends him to a foster with a family of Dodos, but he is not happy and runs away. Big Bird begins a long adventure wandering the country. In the mean time, his frie...
Pete's Dragon(1977) - Lively musical comedy in which a magical and sometimes mischievious dragon, Elliot, inadvertently causes chaos and confusion in Passamaquoddy, a Maine fishing village. To help a young orphan, Pete, break away from his evil fosterparents, the Gogans, and find a happy home with Nora and her father Lam...
Problem Child(1990) - Meet Ben and Flo Healy! They want a young child of their own, but Flo is incapable of having a child herself. Enter Junior, a little monster who has been to foster parents' homes since he was a baby and always made himself get thrown out so one day he goes to the orphanage and causes trouble for the...
Taxi Driver(1976) - Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is an ex-Marine lost and adrift in 1970's Manhatta when he finds a job driving a taxi through the hellish streets of the city. One night he encounters a young prostitute (Jodie Foster) and a phoney politician and his life shifts into a new direction. He wants to save t...
Let's Do It Again(1975) - Clyde Williams (Portier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. U...
Freeway(1996) - In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the uneducated daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute flees the foster-care system in search of her long-lost grandmother but meets up instead with a serial killer. Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate fireb...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken(1991) - Based on a true story, Disney's family film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken follows the adventures of a 1920s teenager named Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar), who runs away from her foster home to join a carnival. At the carnival, she gets a job as a stunt rider who leaps with her horse into a tank of w...
Foxes(1980) - Foxes is a 1980 English language drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Gerald Ayres. The film stars Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie. The original music score is composed by Giorgio Moroder. The film is marketed with the tagline "The city had it c...
Prince of Central Park(1999) - child discovers a whole new world when he runs away from home in the family drama Prince Of Central Park. JJ (played by Frankie Nasso) is a boy living in New York with his foster mother (Cathy Moriarty). To say they don't get along is an understatement; one day JJ decides he's so tired of her abuse...
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest(1995) - Two young Gatling residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. So, the terror of Gatling goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents. The younger brother bought some corn seeds along for the road and plants them in the courtyard of an abandone...
Stealing Home(1988) - Down-and-out amateur baseball player Billy Wyatt (Mark Harmon) recieves a letter one day that informs him of the passing of a very important person in his life. That person was a woman named Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster). From Billy's young days, he was in love with her. They had many great times to...
The Man In The Moon(1991) - After handsome 17-year-old Court Foster moves back into the long vacant Foster ranch, 14-year-old Dani Trant falls in love for the first time, while her older sister Maureen discovers true love.
Money Train(1995) - A pair of New York City cops collaborate on a plan to rob a cash-packed subway train in this action-comedy. Charlie (Woody Harrelson) and John (Wesley Snipes) are not just co-workers and close friends but also foster brothers. Because of this family connection, the reluctant John becomes involved in...
Jem: the movie(1985) - Jerrica Benton is the owner of Starlight Music and the Starlight Foundation, which is a foster home for young girls. But by using her earrings to project a holographic image over herself, she is transformed into her alter ego Jem, the lead singer for the successful music group, Jem and the Holograms...
Hey There, It's Yogi Bear(1964) - The animated musical film was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with a story by Hanna, Barbera, and former Warner Bros. Cartoons storyman Warren Foster. When the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed in May 1963, several of its animators, including Gerry Chiniquy, Friz Freleng...
The Accused(1988) - Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster) was raped in a bar, but her attackers went free. Outraged by this turn of events, Sarah goes to Deputy District Attorney Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) for assistance. Sarah decides to go after the men who stood by and cheered the rap
August Rush(2006)(2006) - A orphan boy with a natural ear for composing music..escape from the harsh foster home in upstate New York..to find his parents..when he arrives in NYC..his musical talents are being exploited by a street hustler.The late Robin Williams plays the hustler"Wizard".
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Gimme Shelter(2013) - 16-year-old Agnes "Apple" Bailey has never had a normal life. After being shuffled from one foster home to another and the constant abuse from her drug-addicted mother, Apple flees from her in search of the father she never knew. When she finally finds him -- a New York stock broker with a wife and...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939) - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film, starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington w...
Home for the Holidays(1995) - Home for the Holidays is a 1995 family comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Foster. The screenplay was written by W. D. Richter, based on a short story by Chris Radant. The film's score was composed by Mark Isham. The film's narrative follows Claudia Larson, a...
The House That Screamed(1969) - Sra. Forneau owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relat...
The Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection(1982) - Nursery Rhymes 2 is a Children's video directed by Mike Milburn-Foster and also sung and told by Isla St Clair, Floella Benjamin, Mike Berry, Martin Carthy, Valentine Dyall and the Children of Britannia Row, It was released by Screen Legends and Longman Video in 1982 in the United Kingdom. It includ...
The Sword in the Stone(1963) - Disney's 18th animated feature based on T.H. White's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of young King Arthur who is always bossed around by his foster family, mentored by a kind wizard named Merlin, learning about the world around him, and soon rises to fame as the new king of England...
Fat Albert(2004) - Fat Albert and the gang leave the cartoon world and enter the real world in order to help a teenage girl deal with the challenges of being unpopular, and not having any friends except her foster sister. Her unpopularity stemmed from her tendency to withdraw into a world of her own as a consequence o...
Maverick(1994) - Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner star in a Donner film, based on Warner Bros.' 1957-62 Western TV series.
The Last Days of Pompeii(1935) - A blacksmith (Preston Foster) becomes a gladiator and Pontius Pilate's (Basil Rathbone) partner, then sees Vesuvius erupt and finds Christ.
Annie(2014) - The third film adaptation of the famous musical now given a modern theme and taking place in the ghettos of Harlem New York. Annie is a foster kid who lives his her foster mother Colleen Hannigan who spends all day doing nothing but drinking and trying to snag a sweetheart. She later meets mayor can...
Big Daddy (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama | 25 June 1999 (USA) -- A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father. Director: Dennis Dugan Writers:
Born to Kill (1947) ::: 7.2/10 -- Approved | 1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 3 May 1947 (USA) -- A calculating divorce risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister. Director: Robert Wise Writers: Eve Greene (screen play), Richard Macaulay (screen play) | 1 more credit
Citizen Kane (1941) ::: 8.3/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Drama, Mystery | 5 September 1941 (USA) -- Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. Director: Orson Welles Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz (original screen play), Orson Welles (original
Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 25 May 1955 (USA) -- American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo. Director: Norman Foster Writer: Thomas W. Blackburn (as Tom Blackburn) Stars:
Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned ::: Doctor Foster (original tit ::: TV-MA | 1h | Drama | TV Series (20152017) -- A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of inquiry far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface. Creator:
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 12 August 2016 (USA) -- The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Director: Stephen Frears Writers: Nicholas Martin, Julia Kogan
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (20042009) -- A boy and his beloved imaginary friend are able to stay together at an orphanage of sorts for imaginary friends that children have outgrown to be adopted by new children. Creators:
Good Trouble ::: TV-14 | 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (2019 ) -- Callie and Mariana Foster move to Los Angeles and begin their lives as young adults. Creators: Bradley Bredeweg, Joanna Johnson, Peter Paige
Home for the Holidays (1995) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 November 1995 (USA) -- After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family. Director: Jodie Foster Writers:
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 1 July 2016 (USA) -- A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Director: Taika Waititi Writers: Taika Waititi, Barry Crump (based on the book "Wild Pork and
Instant Family (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama | 16 November 2018 (USA) -- A couple find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children. Director: Sean Anders Writers: Sean Anders, John Morris
Journey Into Fear (1943) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 8min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 12 February 1943 -- Journey Into Fear Poster An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Directors: Norman Foster, Orson Welles (uncredited) Writers: Orson Welles (screen play), Joseph Cotten (screen play) | 1 more credit
Life as We Know It ::: 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (20042005) Life through the eyes of Dino Whitman (Faris), Jonathan Fields (Lowell) and Ben Connor (Foster), three hormone-charged teenage boys. Creators: Jeff Judah, Gabe Sachs Stars:
Life Unexpected ::: TV-PG | 1h | Drama | TV Series (20102011) -- After 15 years in foster homes, Lux decides to get emancipated, which leads to her meeting her birth parents. Creator: Liz Tigelaar
Little Man Tate (1991) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 39min | Drama | 1 November 1991 (USA) -- A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift. Director: Jodie Foster Writer: Scott Frank
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008) ::: 6.8/10 -- TV-G | 1h 30min | Comedy, Family | TV Movie 5 December 2008 -- Step brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong. Director: Michael Grossman Writers: Dan Schneider, Steven Molaro Stars:
Mission Kashmir (2000) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 2h 34min | Action, Drama, Thriller | 27 October 2000 (India) -- A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did. Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Writers:
Money Monster (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 13 May 2016 (USA) -- Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage. Director: Jodie Foster Writers:
My Life as a Zucchini (2016) ::: 7.8/10 -- Ma vie de Courgette (original title) -- My Life as a Zucchini Poster -- After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. Director: Claude Barras Writers:
Shazam! (2019) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5 April 2019 (USA) -- A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy. Director: David F. Sandberg Writers: Henry Gayden (screenplay by), Henry Gayden (story by) | 3 more
Song of the South (1946) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 1h 34min | Animation, Comedy, Family | 20 November 1946 (USA) -- The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear. Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson Writers:
Swept from the Sea (1997) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 23 January 1998 (USA) -- The of story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy. Director: Beeban Kidron Writers: Joseph Conrad (short story "Amy Foster"), Tim Willocks Stars:
The Beaver (2011) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 31min | Drama | 19 May 2011 (Germany) -- A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication. Director: Jodie Foster Writer: Kyle Killen
The Being Frank Show ::: Talk-Show | TV Series (2010 ) Variety show hosted by Frank D'Angelo with celebrity interviews, comedy bits and much more. Stars: Frank D'Angelo, Glen Foster, Steven Joel Kerzner
The End of the Tour (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Biography, Drama | 12 November 2015 (Brazil) -- The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' Director: James Ponsoldt Writers:
The Exorcist ::: TV-14 | 45min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | TV Series (20162018) -- Follows three priests dealing with cases of a demonic presence targeting a family and a foster home. Creator: Jeremy Slater
The Fosters ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Romance | TV Series (20132018) -- Teenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children. Creators: Bradley Bredeweg, Peter Paige
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 October 2016 (USA) -- 12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter. Director: Stephen Herek Writers: David Paterson (screenplay by), Katherine Paterson (based on the book
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 37min | Drama | 19 January 2005 (France) -- Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah. Director: Asia Argento Writers: Laura Albert (short stories) (as J.T. LeRoy), Asia Argento (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Lying Game ::: TV-14 | 44min | Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20112013) -- Identical twins meet as teenagers after Sutton was adopted by a rich couple and Emma grew up a foster kid. Sutton investigates their bio mom etc., while Emma takes her place/identity. Creator:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 8 November 2013 (USA) -- When the Dark Elves attempt to plunge the universe into darkness, Thor must embark on a perilous and personal journey that will reunite him with doctor Jane Foster. Director: Alan Taylor Writers:
Time Trap (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 2 November 2018 -- Time Trap Poster -- A professor enters a cave and goes missing. Some of his students come looking for him and get trapped in the cave as well. Directors: Mark Dennis, Ben Foster Writer:
White Oleander (2002) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 49min | Drama | 11 October 2002 (USA) -- A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. Director: Peter Kosminsky Writers: Janet Fitch (novel), Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay)
Woman on the Run (1950) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 17min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 4 February 1951 -- Woman on the Run Poster Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer. Director: Norman Foster Writers: Alan Campbell (screenplay), Norman Foster (screenplay) | 1 more credit
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Adachi to Shimamura -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Romance School Shoujo Ai -- Adachi to Shimamura Adachi to Shimamura -- Somewhere in the school at noon, one might hear the sound of two girls playing table tennis together as they wait for time to pass by. -- -- As if by fate, two students—Sakura Adachi and Hougetsu Shimamura—stumble upon each other on the second floor of the school gymnasium. As they gradually foster a budding friendship, their feelings for one another only become more ambiguous. Growing closer by the day, the two must learn to navigate their contrasting personalities as well as determine the depth of their affection for each other. -- -- The nature of this relationship gradually shifts when one of them starts to develop feelings beyond the boundaries of a platonic relationship. Even so, Adachi and Shimamura must realize if forming a bond stronger than friendship will bring them closer or tear them apart. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 117,428 7.17
Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world. -- -- One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce? -- -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other. -- -- 135,584 7.75
Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world. -- -- One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce? -- -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 135,584 7.75
Fairy Tail -- -- A-1 Pictures, Satelight -- 175 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Fairy Tail Fairy Tail -- In the mystical land of Fiore, magic exists as an essential part of everyday life. Countless magic guilds lie at the core of all magical activity, and serve as venues for like-minded mages to band together and take on job requests. Among them, Fairy Tail stands out from the rest as a place of strength, spirit, and family. -- -- Lucy Heartfilia is a young mage searching for celestial gate keys, and her dream is to become a full-fledged wizard by joining this famous guild. In her search, she runs into Natsu Dragneel and his partner Happy, who are on a quest to find Natsu's foster father, the dragon Igneel. -- -- Upon being tricked by a man, Lucy falls under an abduction attempt, only to be saved by Natsu. To her shock, he reveals that he is a member of Fairy Tail and invites her to join them. There, Lucy meets the guild's strange members, such as the ice wizard Gray Fullbuster and magic swordswoman Erza Scarlet. Together as a family, they battle the forces of evil, help those in need, and gain new friends, all the while enjoying the never-ending adventure that is Fairy Tail. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,374,207 7.64
Fate/stay night -- -- Studio Deen -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Supernatural Magic Romance Fantasy -- Fate/stay night Fate/stay night -- After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice. -- -- One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber. The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself. -- -- Fate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. Will the boy become a hero like his foster father, or die trying? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA, Sentai Filmworks -- 759,575 7.32
Ga-Rei: Zero -- -- AIC Spirits, Asread -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Ga-Rei: Zero Ga-Rei: Zero -- In Japan, there exists a government agency known as the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division (SDCD), whose duty is to protect the citizens from creatures unseen. They are able to dispatch these monsters swiftly and without alerting the general public. But currently, they face a different challenge: the betrayal of one of their own. -- -- After the death of her mother several years ago, Kagura Tsuchimiya has been fostered by the Isayama family and forms a close sister-like bond with their daughter Yomi. The two become inseparable, and together they work for the SDCD as highly skilled exorcists. However, as the stress and consequences of their sacred duty weigh on them both, and family politics come into play, Kagura and Yomi begin to slowly drift apart. One of them grows earnestly into her role as an exorcist, and the other heads down a dark path from which there may be no redemption... -- -- 208,318 7.63
Ga-Rei: Zero -- -- AIC Spirits, Asread -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Ga-Rei: Zero Ga-Rei: Zero -- In Japan, there exists a government agency known as the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division (SDCD), whose duty is to protect the citizens from creatures unseen. They are able to dispatch these monsters swiftly and without alerting the general public. But currently, they face a different challenge: the betrayal of one of their own. -- -- After the death of her mother several years ago, Kagura Tsuchimiya has been fostered by the Isayama family and forms a close sister-like bond with their daughter Yomi. The two become inseparable, and together they work for the SDCD as highly skilled exorcists. However, as the stress and consequences of their sacred duty weigh on them both, and family politics come into play, Kagura and Yomi begin to slowly drift apart. One of them grows earnestly into her role as an exorcist, and the other heads down a dark path from which there may be no redemption... -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 208,318 7.63
Garo: Honoo no Kokuin - Home -- -- MAPPA -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Garo: Honoo no Kokuin - Home Garo: Honoo no Kokuin - Home -- Unaired episode included in the eighth Blu-ray and DVD volume. -- -- Ema visits Tina's house after a long time. While singing and spinning yarn, Tina and the children spend a peaceful time together. They reminiscence about Tina's foster mother, Natoria, who had the power to spin the yarn which once carried magic power. And now to the spinning wheel she used and left behind approaches an ominous shadow... -- -- (Source: Official Twitter) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Special - Sep 16, 2015 -- 9,231 6.79
Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Drama Magic Martial Arts Fantasy -- Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi -- In a world of magic and monsters, Krylancelo Finrandi and his foster sister Azalea Cait-Sith were once promising students of sorcery, prodigies at the famous Tower of Fangs. But an experiment gone horribly wrong warps Azalea's appearance, trapping her in the form of a dragon. -- -- Elders at the Tower—more interested in preserving their reputation rather than their students' lives—drive off the transformed Azalea and cover up the incident. Outraged, Krylancelo strikes out on his own, taking the new name of "Orphen" and vowing to return Azalea to her normal state. -- -- Five years later, Orphen's quest has stalled. A chance encounter brings him face to face with Azalea again, but he still has no way to restore her body. And with a hostile group of sorcerers hunting her down, he may be running out of time. The past and present collide as Orphen tries to find how to save Azalea from their former teachers and friends. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 51,556 5.79
Michiko to Hatchin -- -- Manglobe -- 22 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure -- Michiko to Hatchin Michiko to Hatchin -- Under the unrelenting heat of the South American sun, hardened criminal Michiko Malandro breaks out of a high security prison for the fourth time in search of a man from her past. Michiko finds a clue in the form of Hana Morenos, a young girl trapped under the fists of her abusive foster family. In her powerlessness, Hana fantasizes about the day when she is finally whisked away from her captors by her very own Prince Charming. Little does she know that her fated prince would turn out to be the buxom and husky convict who charges in atop a stolen motorbike, claiming to be her mother. -- -- The unlikely duo chase down their dreams in the sun-drenched land of Diamandra, navigating through the cacophony of betrayal, poverty, and child exploitation rings hiding in plain sight. However, wind of Michiko's manhunt soon reaches the ears of criminal syndicate Monstro Preto, and a storm of gang warfare begins brewing over the horizon… -- -- Michiko to Hatchin is the story of vibrant people and their clashing agendas, and of all the unlikely human connections drawn together by one elusive man. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 16, 2008 -- 153,950 7.85
NHK ni Youkoso! -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Novel -- Comedy Psychological Drama Romance -- NHK ni Youkoso! NHK ni Youkoso! -- Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) status is the Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai (NHK)—an evil and secret organization dedicated to fostering the spread of hikikomori culture. -- -- NHK ni Youkoso! is a psychological dramedy that follows Tatsuhiro as he strives to escape from the NHK's wicked machinations and the disease of self-wrought isolation, while struggling to even just leave his apartment and find a job. His unexpected encounter with the mysterious Misaki Nakahara might signal a reversal of fortune for Tatsuhiro, but with this meeting comes the inevitable cost of having to face his greatest fear—society. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Jul 10, 2006 -- 566,802 8.33
Omoide no Marnie -- -- Studio Ghibli -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Mystery Psychological Drama -- Omoide no Marnie Omoide no Marnie -- Suffering from frequent asthma attacks, young Anna Sasaki is quiet, unsociable, and isolated from her peers, causing her foster parent endless worry. Upon recommendation by the doctor, Anna is sent to the countryside, in hope that the cleaner air and more relaxing lifestyle will improve her health and help clear her mind. Engaging in her passion for sketching, Anna spends her summer days living with her aunt and uncle in a small town near the sea. -- -- One day while wandering outside, Anna discovers an abandoned mansion known as the Marsh House. However, she soon finds that the residence isn't as vacant as it appears to be, running into a mysterious girl named Marnie. Marnie's bubbly demeanor slowly begins to draw Anna out of her shell as she returns night after night to meet with her new friend. But it seems there is more to the strange girl than meets the eye—as her time in the town nears its end, Anna begins to discover the truth behind the walls of the Marsh House. -- -- Omoide no Marnie tells the touching story of a young girl's journey through self-discovery and friendship, and the summer that she will remember for the rest of her life. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS -- Movie - Jul 19, 2014 -- 200,826 8.10
Shuten Douji -- -- Studio Signal -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Space Supernatural Demons Historical Horror Sci-Fi Shounen -- Shuten Douji Shuten Douji -- As a baby Jiro was delivered to his foster parents by a massive oni, who said he would return for Jiro in 15 years. When the time comes Jiro must contend with enemy oni, dark cultists, and their minions while attempting to protect both his parents and girlfriend from their depredations. Ultimately he must embark on a journey through the past, future, and other dimensions to embrace his destiny as Shuten Doji reborn. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- OVA - Dec 21, 1989 -- 2,575 5.74
The iDOLM@STER Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e! -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Game -- Music Comedy Drama -- The iDOLM@STER Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e! The iDOLM@STER Movie: Kagayaki no Mukougawa e! -- The idols of 765 Production continue on their neverending journey—towards a new stage, towards a bright and shiny future! -- -- The girls and their producer have gone through thick and thin, and have stood face to face with all kinds of difficulties. -- -- It's time again for the girls to foster their friendship, and through great discipline, they step forward to their starry future. -- -- (Source: Official website) -- Movie - Jan 25, 2014 -- 20,731 7.60
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Fostertown, New Jersey
Foster Township
Foster Township, Michigan
Foster Township, Minnesota
Foster Township, Pennsylvania
Foster Trophy
Foster v British Gas plc
Foster V. Brown
Foster v. Wolkowitz
Foster Waterman Stearns
Foster Wheeler
Foster, Wikner Aircraft
Foster Wikner Wicko
Foster, Wisconsin
Foster, You're Dead!
Francis Foster Barham
Frank Foster
Frank Foster (country singer)
Frank Foster (musician)
Frank William Foster
Frederic Hervey Foster Quin
Frederick Foster
Friday Foster
Gary Evans Foster
Gary Foster
Gary Foster (musician)
G. C. Foster
Gen. Gideon Foster House
George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library
George Eulas Foster
George Foster
George Foster Herben
George Foster Platt
George Foster Shepley (judge)
George M. Foster
George M. Foster (anthropologist)
George P. Foster
George Spenton-Foster
Gerald Foster (painter)
Giraud Foster
Gladys Foster
Governor Foster
Graas Foster
Grace Foster Herben
Graeme Foster
Graham Foster
Greg Foster
Greg Foster (hurdler)
Greg Foster (The Young and the Restless)
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwin Foster
Hal Foster
Hannah Foster
Hannah Webster Foster
Harold E. Foster
Harold Foster
Harold Foster Hallett
Harris/Morgan House (Fosterville, Tennessee)
Harry Foster
Harry Foster Welch
Harry Hylton-Foster
Helen Foster
Helen Foster Snow
Henry A. Foster
Henry Donnel Foster
Henry Foster
Henry Foster (doctor)
Herman Foster
HolmesFosterHighlands Historic District
Hubert Foster
Hugh F. Foster Jr.
Ian Foster
Ian Foster (musician)
Idris Foster
III (Foster the People EP)
Israel Moore Foster
Jack Foster
Jacqueline Foster (bowls)
James Foster
James Foster (architect)
James Foster (Baptist minister)
James Foster (ironmaster)
James Foster (Mormon)
Jamie Foster
Jane Foster
Jane Foster (pilot)
Jane Foster Zlatovski
Jane McDowell Foster Wiley
J. D. Foster
Jeanne Robert Foster
Jeannette Howard Foster
Jeff Foster
Jen Foster
Jerome Foster II
J. Foster Warner
Jim Foster
Jimmy Foster
J. Morris Foster
Jodie Foster
Joey Foster Ellis
John B. Foster (artist)
John Foster
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel
John Foster (architect)
John Foster (architect, born 1830)
John Foster (by 1508 between 1547 and 1551)
John Foster (composer)
John Foster (died 1558)
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Fraser
John Foster (Italian singer)
John Foster Jr. (sailor)
John Foster McCreight
John Foster (paleontologist)
John Foster (philosopher)
John Foster (priest)
John Foster (sport shooter)
John Foster Sr. (engineer)
John Foster Sr. (sailor)
John Foster Symes
John Foster (textile manufacturer)
John Foster (water polo)
John G. Foster
John H. Foster
John S. Foster Jr.
John Stuart Foster
John W. Foster
Jonathan Foster
Jon Foster
Jon Foster (artist)
Jonny Foster
Joseph Andoh Foster
Joseph Foster
Joseph Foster Barham
Joseph Foster Barham I
Joseph Foster Cairns
Joseph Markell Foster
Joshua Foster Ober
Joshua L. Foster
Joy Foster
Judith Ellen Foster
Juliann Bluitt Foster
Justice Foster
Kaare Fostervoll
Kara Foster
Kre Fostervold
Katherine Foster
Kathleen Foster
Kathleen Foster Campbell
Kathy Foster
Kathy Foster (musician)
Kelly Foster
Kendell Foster Crossen
Kenneth Foster
Kenneth Foster (Coventry MP)
Kevin Foster
Kevin Foster (cyclist)
Kimberly N. Foster
Lafayette S. Foster
Lawrence Foster
Leroy Foster
Leroy Foster (musician)
Lewis R. Foster
Linda Foster
List of awards and nominations received by David Foster
List of awards and nominations received by Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
List of awards and nominations received by Jodie Foster
List of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends characters
List of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episodes
List of songs written by Stephen Foster
List of The Fosters episodes
List of works by Norman Foster
Long & Foster
Lori Foster
Lorraine Foster
Louis Foster
Lucas Foster
Lucia Foster
Lucia Foster Welch
Luke Foster
Luther H. Foster
Lyman D. Foster
M. A. Foster
Maggie Foster
Manduca fosteri
Marcus Foster
Margaret Foster
Margaret Foster Richardson
Marion Foster Welch
Mark Foster
Mark Foster Gage
Mark Foster (singer)
Martha Foster
Martin Foster
Mary Foster (biochemist)
Mary LeCron Foster
Mary Robinson Foster
Maud Foster Windmill
Maurice Foster
Max Foster
Mayhew Foster
Mercedes S. Foster
Michael Foster
Michael Foster (academic)
Michael Foster (Hastings and Rye MP)
Michael Foster (philosopher)
Michael Foster (physiologist)
Michael John Foster
Michael John Foster (scoutmaster)
Mike Foster (Worcester MP)
Mitchell Foster Young House
Morgan Foster Larson
Mulford B. Foster
Murder of Hannah Foster
Murphy J. Foster
Myles Birket Foster
Nathaniel Greene Foster
Nick Foster
Nigel Foster
NOAAS Nancy Foster (R 352)
Noble Foster Hoggson
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Norman Foster (bass)
Norman Foster (director)
Norman Foster (disambiguation)
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
Norm Foster (playwright)
Norris Foster
Orient Fosterville Border Crossing
Otha Foster
Paracles fosteri
Paul Foster
Paul Foster-Bell
Paul Foster (cartoonist)
Paul Foster Case
Paul Foster (soccer)
Paul Frederick Foster
Paul H. Foster
Penn Foster
Penn Foster College
Persis Foster Eames Albee
Peter Foster
Peter Foster (canoeist)
Peter le Neve Foster
Philip Foster
Philip Foster Farm
Pops Foster
Preston Foster
Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act
Rachel Foster Avery
Ralph D. Foster
Ralph Foster
Ralph G. Foster
Randolph Sinks Foster
Reece Webb-Foster
R. E. Foster
Reginald Foster
Reginald Foster Dagnall
Reginald Foster (Latinist)
R. F. Foster
R. F. Foster (historian)
R. Foster Winans
Richard Foster
Richard Foster (abolitionist)
Richard Foster (architect)
Richard Foster Flint
Richard Foster Jones
Richard Foster (painter)
Richard Foster (Royal Marines officer)
Richard Foster (theologian)
Richard N. Foster
Richard Witty Foster
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
Roberta Foster
Robert Coleman Foster
Robert Foster
Robert Foster (RAF officer)
Robert Frederick Foster
Robert Sanford Foster
Robert Sidney Foster
Rod Foster
Roger Sherman Baldwin Foster
Ronald M. Foster
Ron Foster
Ron Foster (actor)
Ronnie Foster Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux
Roy Foster
Rube Foster
Rube Foster (AL pitcher)
Rufus Edward Foster
Russell Foster
Ruthie Foster
S. A. Foster House and Stable
Sally Foster
Samuel Foster
Samuel Foster (disambiguation)
Sara Foster
Sara Foster (chef)
Sarah Foster
Saskatoon foster parent scandal
Scott Foster
Senator Foster
Sewell Foster
S. Foster Damon
Shawn Foster
Sidney Foster
Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet
Snapper Foster
Stafford Foster-Sutton
Stanley Foster Reed
Stephanie Foster
Stephen Clark Foster
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster (album)
Stephen Foster Collection and archive
Stephen Foster Handicap top three finishers
Stephen Foster Memorial
Stephen Foster (sculpture)
Stephen Foster Stakes
Stephen Symonds Foster
Sterling Foster Black
Steve Foster
Steve Foster (disambiguation)
Steve Foster (singer)
St Leonard, Foster Lane
St Vedast Foster Lane
Sue Foster
Suicide of Vince Foster
Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act
Talk:Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends
Tameka Foster
Tandy & Foster
Tania Foster
The Best of Me (David Foster song)
The Fairer Fostering Partnership
The Foster Boy
The Fosters (American TV series)
The Fosters (British TV series)
The Mind of Simon Foster
The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire
The Towers by Foster + Partners
Thomas Flournoy Foster
Thomas Foster
Thomas Foster (author)
Thomas Foster (Los Angeles)
Thomas Jefferson Foster
Tim Foster
Timothy Foster
Timothy Foster (settler)
Tina Monshipour Foster
Tony Foster
Tulipa fosteriana
USS Paul F. Foster
Utah Foster Care
Vere Henry Louis Foster
Veronica Foster
Vince Foster
V. W. H. Priestley-Foster
Walter Edward Foster
Walter Foster
Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston
Walter T. Foster
Wendy Foster
Wilder D. Foster
William A. Foster
William Chapman Foster
William D. Foster
William E. Foster
William Foster
William Foster & Co.
William Foster Apthorp
William Foster Barham
William Foster (British Army officer)
William Foster Cockshutt
William Foster (Iowa architect)
William Foster MacNeece Foster
William Foster (Medal of Honor)
William Gilbert Foster
William Henry Foster (Bridgnorth MP)
William Henry Foster (Lancaster MP)
William P. Foster
William Trufant Foster
William Wasbrough Foster
William Z. Foster
World Series of Fighting 17: Shields vs. Foster
World Series of Fighting 29: Gaethje vs. Foster
Yip Foster
Zo Foster Blake
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