TERMS STARTING WITH
half ::: a. --> Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
Part; side; behalf.
One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an
half a dozen other memunim, i.e., deputy angels.]
half-and-half ::: n. --> A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
half-angle formulae: A set of formulae derived from the double angle formulae, so that trigonometric ratios can be used to find trigonometric ratios with half the angle.
half-angle identities: See half-angle formulae.
halfbeak ::: n. --> Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.
half-blooded ::: a. --> Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
Degenerate; mean.
half blood ::: --> The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4. ::: n. --> A person so related to another.
A person whose father and mother are of different
half-boot ::: n. --> A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
half-bound ::: n. --> Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
half-bred ::: a. --> Half-blooded.
Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
half-breed ::: a. --> Half-blooded. ::: n. --> A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.
half-brother ::: n. --> A brother by one parent, but not by both.
half-caste ::: n. --> One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
half-clammed ::: a. --> Half-filled.
halfcocked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Halfcock
halfcocking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Halfcock
halfcock ::: v. t. --> To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
half-cracked ::: a. --> Half-demented; half-witted.
half-cuts ::: partial or incomplete acts to shorten, lessen, curtail, or reduce by, or as by cutting.
half-decked ::: a. --> Partially decked.
half-deck ::: n. --> A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
See Half deck, under Deck.
half-duplex "communications" (hdx, from {telegraphy}) 1. A type of communication channel using a single circuit which can carry data in either direction but not both directions at once. Compare: {simplex}, {full-duplex}. 2. An obsolete term for {local echo}. (2001-07-21)
half-duplex ::: (communications) (hdx, from telegraphy) 1. A type of communication channel using a single circuit which can carry data in either direction but not both directions at once.Compare: simplex, full-duplex.2. An obsolete term for local echo.(2001-07-21)
halfen ::: a. --> Wanting half its due qualities.
halfendeal ::: adv. --> Half; by the part. ::: n. --> A half part.
halfer ::: n. --> One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.
A male fallow deer gelded.
half-faced ::: a. --> Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
half-fish ::: n. --> A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
half-hatched ::: a. --> Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
half-heard ::: a. --> Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
half-hearted ::: a. --> Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
half-hourly ::: a. --> Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
half-learned ::: a. --> Imperfectly learned.
half-length ::: a. --> Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
half life The interval of time (or other independent variable) in which the quantity (a dependent variable) in exponential decay is halved.
half-line A (straight) line extending from a point indefinitely in a direction. The equation theta=k for any real values of k in a polar coordinate system describes such a line.
half-mast ::: n. --> A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
half-moon ::: n. --> The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.
halfness ::: n. --> The quality of being half; incompleteness.
halfpace ::: n. --> A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
half-pike ::: n. --> A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
half-plane A (flat) plane extending from a line in a direction.
half-port ::: n. --> One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
half-ray ::: n. --> A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.
half-read ::: a. --> Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
half-rhyme: See inexact rhyme.
half seas over ::: --> Half drunk.
half-side formulae: Formulae relating the sides and angles of a spherical triangles in spherical trigonometry:
half-sighted ::: a. --> Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
half-sister ::: n. --> A sister by one parent only.
half-space One of the two sections that a plane in three dimensions divide into.
half-strained ::: a. --> Half-bred; imperfect.
half-sword ::: n. --> Half the length of a sword; close fight.
half-timbered ::: a. --> Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
halftone "graphics" The reproducion of {greyscale} {images} using dots of a single shade but varying size to simulate the different shades of grey. {Laser printers} that cannot print different sized dots, halftones are produced by varying the numbers of dots in a given area. This process is also used to produce a black and white version of a colour original using shades of grey in place of colours. See also {device independent bitmap}. (1996-09-20)
halftone ::: (graphics) The reproducion of greyscale images using dots of a single shade but varying size to simulate the different shades of grey.Laser printers that cannot print different sized dots, halftones are produced by varying the numbers of dots in a given area.This process is also used to produce a black and white version of a colour original using shades of grey in place of colours.See also device independent bitmap. (1996-09-20)
half-tounue ::: n. --> A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
half-way ::: adv. 1. At or to half the distance; at or to the middle. adj. **2.** Midway between two points or conditions.
halfway ::: adv. --> In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. ::: a. --> Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
half-wit ::: n. --> A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
half-witted ::: a. --> Weak in intellect; silly.
half-yearly ::: a. --> Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
Half-life ::: The time in which half the atoms of a radioactive substance will have disintegrated, leaving half the original amount. Half of the residue will disintegrate in another equal period of time.
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. Not hidden by a veil or other covering; bare. 2. Made evident or manifest. half-unveiled.
"1. ‘The Golden Embryo" in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative"; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State"; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
“1. ‘The Golden Embryo’ in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative’; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State’; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works.
1. To give light to; illuminate; shine on. 2. Make lighter or brighter. 3. To bestow spiritual enlightenment. 4. To enlighten, as with knowledge. 5. To make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject). 6. To make resplendent or illustrious. 7. To decorate (a manuscript, book, etc.) with colours and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages. illumines, illumined, illumining, half-illumined.
addition ::: n. --> The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.
That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
A title annexed to a man&
again ::: adv. --> In return, back; as, bring us word again.
Another time; once more; anew.
Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.
In any other place.
On the other hand.
Moreover; besides; further.
::: "A gnostic Supernature transcends all the values of our normal ignorant Nature; our standards and values are created by ignorance and therefore cannot determine the life of Supernature. At the same time our present nature is a derivation from Supernature and is not a pure ignorance but a half-knowledge; . . . .” The Life Divine*
“A gnostic Supernature transcends all the values of our normal ignorant Nature; our standards and values are created by ignorance and therefore cannot determine the life of Supernature. At the same time our present nature is a derivation from Supernature and is not a pure ignorance but a half-knowledge; …” The Life Divine
alto-rilievo ::: n. --> High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.
amphitropous ::: a. --> Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
angelet ::: n. --> A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.
animate ::: alive; possessing life , endowed with life. half-animate. half-animated. Giving the appearance of moving, of being alive.
annat ::: n. --> A half years&
APARARDHA. ::: Lower half of world-existence ::: Mind, Life, Matter.
::: "As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not, — they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not — or if the lines of power change, one"s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces, — spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces — and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
“As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not,—they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not—or if the lines of power change, one’s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces,—spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces—and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
astragal ::: n. --> A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.
A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.
atlantes ::: n. pl. --> Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
attempt ::: n. 1. An effort made to accomplish something. 2. The thing attempted, object aimed at, aim. attempts, half-attempts. v. 3. To make an effort at; try; undertake; seek. attempted, attempting.
auger ::: n. --> A carpenter&
ave mary ::: --> A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church.
A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria.
avenge ::: to inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; take vengeance on behalf of. avenges.
awakened ::: 1. Aroused from sleep, sloth, or inaction. 2. Made aware; cognizant; conscious. half-awakened.
awake ::: v. 1. To arouse from sleep or inactivity. 2. Fig. To rise from a state resembling sleep, such as death, indifference, inaction; to become active or vigilant. 3. To come or bring to an awareness, to become cognizant, to be fully conscious, to appreciate fully (often followed by to). awakes, awoke, awaking. *adj.* 4. Not asleep; conscious; vigilant, alert. half-awake.
bajocco ::: n. --> A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
bas-relief ::: n. --> Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
bawbee ::: n. --> A halfpenny.
behalf ::: n. --> Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
"Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
bekah ::: n. --> Half a shekel.
bendlet ::: n. --> A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
bezant ::: n. --> A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
half ::: a. --> Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
Part; side; behalf.
One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an
half-and-half ::: n. --> A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
halfbeak ::: n. --> Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.
half-blooded ::: a. --> Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
Degenerate; mean.
half blood ::: --> The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4. ::: n. --> A person so related to another.
A person whose father and mother are of different
half-boot ::: n. --> A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
half-bound ::: n. --> Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
half-bred ::: a. --> Half-blooded.
Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
half-breed ::: a. --> Half-blooded. ::: n. --> A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.
half-brother ::: n. --> A brother by one parent, but not by both.
half-caste ::: n. --> One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
half-clammed ::: a. --> Half-filled.
halfcocked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Halfcock
halfcocking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Halfcock
halfcock ::: v. t. --> To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
half-cracked ::: a. --> Half-demented; half-witted.
half-cuts ::: partial or incomplete acts to shorten, lessen, curtail, or reduce by, or as by cutting.
half-decked ::: a. --> Partially decked.
half-deck ::: n. --> A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
See Half deck, under Deck.
halfen ::: a. --> Wanting half its due qualities.
halfendeal ::: adv. --> Half; by the part. ::: n. --> A half part.
halfer ::: n. --> One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.
A male fallow deer gelded.
half-faced ::: a. --> Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
half-fish ::: n. --> A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
half-hatched ::: a. --> Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
half-heard ::: a. --> Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
half-hearted ::: a. --> Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
half-hourly ::: a. --> Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
half-learned ::: a. --> Imperfectly learned.
half-length ::: a. --> Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
half-mast ::: n. --> A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
half-moon ::: n. --> The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.
halfness ::: n. --> The quality of being half; incompleteness.
halfpace ::: n. --> A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
half-pike ::: n. --> A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
half-port ::: n. --> One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
half-ray ::: n. --> A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.
half-read ::: a. --> Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
half seas over ::: --> Half drunk.
half-sighted ::: a. --> Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
half-sister ::: n. --> A sister by one parent only.
half-strained ::: a. --> Half-bred; imperfect.
half-sword ::: n. --> Half the length of a sword; close fight.
half-timbered ::: a. --> Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
half-tounue ::: n. --> A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
half-way ::: adv. 1. At or to half the distance; at or to the middle. adj. **2.** Midway between two points or conditions.
halfway ::: adv. --> In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. ::: a. --> Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
half-wit ::: n. --> A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
half-witted ::: a. --> Weak in intellect; silly.
half-yearly ::: a. --> Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
bicarbonate ::: n. --> A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.
bisulphate ::: n. --> A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.
bisulphite ::: n. --> A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.
bitartrate ::: n. --> A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
blind ::: adj. 1. Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless. Also fig. 2. Unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 3. Lacking all consciousness or awareness. 4. Not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning. 5. Not characterized or determined by reason or control. 6. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. 7. Undiscriminating; heedless; reckless. 8. Enveloped in darkness; dark, dim, obscure. 9. Dense enough to form a screen. 10. Covered or concealed from sight; hidden from immediate view. 11. Having no openings or passages for light; (a window or door) walled up. blindest, half-blind. v. 12. To deprive of sight permanently or temporarily. 13. To make sightless momentarily; dazzle. blinded.* n. 14. A blind person, esp. as pl., those who are blind. 15. Fig.* Any thing or action intended to conceal one"s real intention; a pretence, a pretext; subterfuge.
blink ::: n. **1. A glance, often with half-shut eyes; a wink. v. 2. To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly; shut the eyelids momentarily and involuntarily; to wink for an instant. 3. To shut the eyes to; to evade, shirk, pass by, ignore. blinks, blinked.**
blink ::: v. i. --> To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
A glimpse or glance.
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
bloater ::: n. --> The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
blucher ::: n. --> A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher.
bodied ::: v. 1. Furnished or provided with a body; embodied. 2. Gave shape to, gave bodily form to, exhibited in outward reality. 3. Represented; symbolized, typified. adj. 4. Possessing or existing in bodily form, endowed with material form. half-bodied, million-bodied, three-bodied, two-bodied.
boomerang ::: n. --> A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a
bootee ::: n. --> A half boot or short boot.
breastwheel ::: n. --> A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
broadcloth ::: n. --> A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men&
broad gauge ::: --> A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
brodekin ::: n. --> A buskin or half-boot.
brother ::: n. --> A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive
bucentaur ::: n. --> A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
buckler ::: n. --> A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
by-bidder ::: n. --> One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.
cantarro ::: n. --> A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.
capybara ::: n. --> A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.
caracole ::: n. --> A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
A staircase in a spiral form. ::: v. i. --> To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.
centaur ::: Amal: “In Greek mythology the centaur was figured not only as half-man and half-horse but also as singing a magical song to lure one to one’s destruction.”
centaur ::: n. --> A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
chappion ::: n. --> One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another&
chevronel ::: n. --> A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
chlorine ::: n. --> One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
chopin ::: n. --> A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
See Chopine.
chromatic ::: a. --> Relating to color, or to colors.
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
chronometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.
A metronome.
cocktail ::: n. --> A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
combust ::: a. --> Burnt; consumed.
So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.
comma ::: n. --> A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
conchiform ::: a. --> Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
conchoidal ::: a. --> Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
CONSCIENCE. ::: A power of perception, half mental, half intuitive.
conscience ::: that part of one"s mind which holds one"s knowledge or sense of right and wrong; inner knowledge. half-conscience.
conscious ::: 1. Having an awareness of one"s environment and one"s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. 2. Conscious implies being awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition. half-conscious, half-consciously.
console ::: v. t. --> To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. ::: n. --> A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
Any small bracket; also, a console table.
coomb ::: n. --> A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
Alt. of Coombe
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
coss ::: n. --> A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
A thing (only in phrase below).
cottise ::: n. --> A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
cotton ::: n. --> A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
Cloth made of cotton. ::: v. i.
creation ::: 1. The act or process of creating, esp. the universe as thus brought into being by God. 2. Something that has been brought into existence or created, esp. a product of human intelligence or imagination, as a work of art, music, etc. creation"s, creations, half-creations, **self-creation.
crotchet ::: n. --> A forked support; a crotch.
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line
cubbridge-head ::: n. --> A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
defeated or overcome; subdued. half-vanquished. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
demi- ::: --> A prefix, signifying half.
demibastion ::: n. --> A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
demibrigade ::: n. --> A half brigade.
demicadence ::: n. --> An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
demidevil ::: n. --> A half devil.
demigod ::: n. --> A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
demigorge ::: n. --> Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
demigroat ::: n. --> A half groat.
demilance ::: n. --> A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
demiman ::: n. --> A half man.
deminatured ::: a. --> Having half the nature of another.
demiquaver ::: n. --> A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.
demirelievo ::: n. --> Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.
demi-rilievo ::: n. --> Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.
demisemiquaver ::: n. --> A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
demitint ::: n. --> That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.
The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.
demivill ::: n. --> A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.
demivolt ::: n. --> A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
demiwolf ::: n. --> A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
demy ::: n. --> A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.
deputation ::: n. --> The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
deputy ::: a person appointed to act on behalf of or represent another; agent, representative, surrogate, envoy.
deputy ::: n. --> One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
derringer ::: n. --> A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.
dichotomize ::: v. t. --> To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3. ::: v. i. --> To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
dichotomy ::: n. --> A cutting in two; a division.
Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
dimidiate ::: a. --> Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.
Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.
Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.
diminish ::: v. t. --> To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
To take away; to subtract.
divine ::: adj. **1. Of or pertaining to God or the Supreme Being. 2. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity. 3. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. 4. Heavenly, celestial. 5. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent. diviner, divinest, divinely, half-divine. v. 6. To perceive by intuition or insight. divines, divined, divining.**
dodo ::: n. --> A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
dogwatch ::: n. --> A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o&
doit ::: n. --> A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.
A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
domino ::: n. --> A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
doted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dote ::: a. --> Stupid; foolish.
Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
doty ::: a. --> Half-rotten; as, doty timber.
doze ::: v. i. --> To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. ::: v. t. --> To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one&
dream ::: 1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. 2. A vision occurring to a person while awake. 3. A person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream 4. An ideal or aspiration; goal; aim. 5. A wild or vain fancy. Dream, dream"s, Dream"s, dreams, dream-brood, dream-brush, dream-built, dream-caught, dream-fact, dream-fate, dream-god"s, dream-happiness, dream-hued, dream-life, dream-light, dream-made, dream-mind, dream-notes, dream-print, dream-sculptured, dream-shores, dream-smiles, dream-splendour, dream-truth, dream-vasts, dream-white, dream-world, half-dream, self-dream, sun-dream, world-dream. *adj. 6. Of a colour: misty, dim, or cloudy. v. 7. To have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream. dreams, dreamed, *dreaming.
drowse ::: a sleepy condition; the state of being half asleep; sluggishness, lethargy, torpor. drowsy, half-drowse, world-drowse.
d ::: --> The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
earthly life ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This earthly life need not be necessarily and for ever a wheel of half-joyous half-anguished effort; attainment may also be intended and the glory and joy of God made manifest upon earth.” The Life Divine
earthquake ::: n. --> A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. ::: a.
echidna ::: n. --> A monster, half maid and half serpent.
A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.
en ::: n. --> Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.
enthusiasm ::: n. --> Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.
A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with
erf ::: n. --> A garden plot, usually about half an acre.
error ::: “In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal.” The Life Divine
ethics ::: “In other words, ethics is a stage in evolution. That which is common to all stages is the urge of Sachchidananda towards self-expression. This urge is at first non-ethical, then infra-ethical in the animal, then in the intelligent animal even anti-ethical for it permits us to approve hurt done to others which we disapprove when done to ourselves. In this respect man even now is only half-ethical. And just as all below us is infra-ethical, so there may be that above us whither we shall eventually arrive, which is supra-ethical, has no need of ethics. The ethical impulse and attitude, so all-important to humanity, is a means by which it struggles out of the lower harmony and universality based upon inconscience and broken up by Life into individual discords towards a higher harmony and universality based upon conscient oneness with all existences. Arriving at that goal, this means will no longer be necessary or even possible, since the qualities and oppositions on which it depends will naturally dissolve and disappear in the final reconciliation.” The Life Divine
faun ::: n. --> A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
finished ::: 1. Ended or brought to an end. 2. Completed. 3. (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state. half-finished.
fippenny bit ::: --> The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.
flax ::: n. --> A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
foible ::: a. --> Weak; feeble. ::: n. --> A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
forbid ::: 1. To command (someone) not to do something. 2. To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit. forbids, forbade, forbidding, forbidden, half-forbidden.
::: " . . . for Dawn is the illumination of the Truth rising upon the mentality to bring the day of full consciousness into the darkness or half-lit night of our being.” The Secret of the Veda
formeret ::: n. --> One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
forte ::: n. --> The strong point; that in which one excels.
The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible. ::: a. & adv. --> Loudly; strongly; powerfully.
found ::: 1. To set up or establish on a firm basis or for enduring existence; to originate, create, initiate. 2. To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence. Also fig. (All other references are to the word as the pp. or pt. of find. **half-found*.*) founds, founded.**
fourpence ::: n. --> A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
from any general prohibitory rule. What is forbidden to anyone with a strong spiritual sense is to be a miracle-monger, perform- ing extraordinary ^things for show, for gain, for fame, out ot vanity or pride. It is forbidden to use powers from mere vital motives, to make an Asuric ostentation of them or turn them into a support for arrogance, conceit, ambition or any other of the amiable weaknesses to which human nature is prone. It is because half-baked yogins so often fall into these traps* of the hostile forces that the use of yogic powers is sometimes discou- raged as harmful to the user.
fuller ::: v. t. --> One whose occupation is to full cloth.
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. ::: a. --> A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
gazet ::: n. --> A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.
gibbous ::: a. --> Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
Hunched; hump-backed.
glucose ::: n. --> A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable
god ::: a being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. gods, gods", God"s, Gods, God-bliss, God-born, god-chant, God-child, god-children, God-ecstasy, God-face, God-frame, God-Force, God-given, god-haunts, God-instinct"s, God-joy, God-Light, god-kind, God-knowledge, God-language, God-light, god-mind, god-phase, God-spark, god-speech, God-state, god-touch, God-vision"s, god-wings, child-god, dream-god"s, half-god, Sun-god"s.
graille ::: n. --> A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
griffon ::: n. --> A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir.
An English early apple.
halved ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Halve ::: a. --> Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
halve ::: n. --> A half. ::: v. t. --> To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.
To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
halves ::: pl. --> of Half ::: n. --> pl. of Half.
harquebuse ::: n. --> A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
hemapophysis ::: n. --> The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
hemi- ::: --> A prefix signifying half.
hemicardia ::: n. --> A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
hemicerebrum ::: n. --> A lateral half of the cerebrum.
hemicycle ::: n. --> A half circle; a semicircle.
A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.
hemiglyph ::: n. --> The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
hemihedral ::: a. --> Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
hemiholohedral ::: a. --> Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.
hemimellitic ::: a. --> Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.
hemina ::: n. --> A measure of half a sextary.
A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.
hemiopsia ::: n. --> A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.
hemisphere ::: 1. Half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere. 2. The area within which something occurs or dominates; sphere; realm. hemispheres.
hemisphere ::: n. --> A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.
The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
hemispheroid ::: n. --> A half of a spheroid.
hemispherule ::: n. --> A half spherule.
hemistich ::: n. --> Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
hemitrope ::: a. --> Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure. ::: n. --> That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
hemitropous ::: a. --> Turned half round; half inverted.
Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.
hem ::: pron. --> Them ::: interj. --> An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
hew ::: 1. To cut something by repeated blows, as of an axe. 2. To make or shape as with an axe. 3. To sever from a larger or another portion as with a blow. 4. To cut down with an axe; fell; slay. hews, hewed, hewn, hewing, hewer, half-hewn, rock-hewn. ::: rough-hewn. Shaped out roughly, given crude form to; worked or executed in the rough. (Here in reference to Satyavan"s abode.)
hippogriff ::: n. --> A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
hogshead ::: n. --> An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.
A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.
horseback ::: n. --> The back of a horse.
An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
hydrogen ::: n. --> A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and
hydrosulphide ::: n. --> One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.
hypnagogic ::: a. --> Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.
"I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights, — yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
“I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,—yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
::: "If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself, — or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also, — not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
“If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself,—or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also,—not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
“Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth,—truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
ignorance ::: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information. Ignorance, ignorance"s, Ignorance"s, ignorance", world-ignorance, World-Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"Ignorance is the consciousness of being in the successions of Time, divided in its knowledge by dwelling in the moment, divided in its conception of self-being by dwelling in the divisions of Space and the relations of circumstance, self-prisoned in the multiple working of the unity. It is called the Ignorance because it has put behind it the knowledge of unity and by that very fact is unable to know truly or completely either itself or the world, either the transcendent or the universal reality.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, — truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
". . . all ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge . . . .”The Life Divine
"This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Knowledge is no doubt the knowledge of the One, the realisation of the Being; Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being, the experience of separateness in the multiplicity and a dwelling or circling in the ill-understood maze of becomings: . . . .” The Life Divine*
Ignorance to Divine Knowledge, from darkness through half- light to Light, from death to Immortality, from suflfering to the
ilium ::: n. --> The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
Indirect hostile attaclcs arc done through covert suggestions, half-truth, half-falsehood, attempts to represent the falsehood in the garb of the Divine Truth or to raix the lower consciousness cleverly with the higher. Their attempt is to mislead by guile rather than to conquer by force.
indobriton ::: n. --> A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste.
(In later Hinduism) “The Preserver.” The second member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Shiva the Destroyer. 2. (In popular Hinduism) a deity believed to have descended from heaven to earth in several incarnations, or avatars, varying in number from nine to twenty-two, but always including animals. His most important human incarnation is the Krishna of the Bhagavad-Gita. 3. “The Pervader,” one of a half-dozen solar deities in the Rig-Veda, daily traversing the sky in three strides, morning, afternoon, and night.
"In our errors is the substance of a truth which labours to reveal its meaning to our groping intelligence. The human intellect cuts out the error and the truth with it and replaces it by another half-truth half-error; but the Divine Wisdom suffers our mistakes to continue until we are able to arrive at the truth hidden and protected under every false cover.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“In our errors is the substance of a truth which labours to reveal its meaning to our groping intelligence. The human intellect cuts out the error and the truth with it and replaces it by another half-truth half-error; but the Divine Wisdom suffers our mistakes to continue until we are able to arrive at the truth hidden and protected under every false cover.” The Synthesis of Yoga
::: "Intellect is part of Mind and an instrument of half-truth like the rest of the Mind.” Letters on Yoga
“Intellect is part of Mind and an instrument of half-truth like the rest of the Mind.” Letters on Yoga
intercede ::: to act or interpose on behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition. interceding.
intercede ::: v. i. --> To pass between; to intervene.
To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you. ::: v. t.
intercession ::: an interposing or pleading on behalf of another person. intercessors.
intercessor ::: n. --> One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another.
A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.
interest ::: n. --> To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.
To cause or permit to share.
Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
ischium ::: n. --> The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.
One of the pleurae of insects.
jacksnipe ::: n. --> A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
jacqueminot ::: n. --> A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.
Jhumur: “ I think Amal and many others have talked about it. Sri Aurobindo is talking about the mind. Two powers and yet it is the same bird. At a certain level of our mental approach we perceive by opposites, we only see half the truth and only understand this half in relation only to the other. If this is white, this has to be black. And yet, it is one bird. It is fundamentally one truth, that is the mystic truth. Beyond the opposition there is the wholeness which sometimes we don’t perceive. We are so busy looking at the black head or the white tail and finding opposites.”
johannes ::: n. --> A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.
kilting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Kilt ::: n. --> A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.
ladino ::: n. --> One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
leash ::: n. --> A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
light ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.” *The Life Divine
"Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision"s limited range.
For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.
God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light.” *The Hour of God
"Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.” The Mother
The Mother: "The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15. ::: *Light, light"s, lights, light-petalled, light-tasselled, half-light.
limned ::: depicted by or as painting or drawing. half-limned.
liquidator ::: n. --> One who, or that which, liquidates.
An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company.
luddite ::: n. --> One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
luminous ::: 1. Emitting light, especially emitting self-generated light. 2. Full of light; illuminated; radiant; resplendent; lucid. luminousness, luminosity, half-luminous, luminous-eyed.
lune ::: n. --> Anything in the shape of a half moon.
A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
lunette ::: n. --> A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially,
lunulet ::: n. --> A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.
mail ::: n. --> A spot.
A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
Rent; tribute.
A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose
majority ::: n. --> The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one&
malleolus ::: n. --> A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
" A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too imperfect for that, too imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too imperfect in will and action, too imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity. The inmost need of man is not to perfect his humanity, but to be greater than himself, to be more than man, to be divine, even to be the Divine.” Essays Divine and Human
“Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too imperfect for that, too imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too imperfect in will and action, too imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity. The inmost need of man is not to perfect his humanity, but to be greater than himself, to be more than man, to be divine, even to be the Divine.” Essays Divine and Human
medialuna ::: n. --> See Half-moon.
mediety ::: n. --> The middle part; half; moiety.
metayer ::: a. --> One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
microcrith ::: n. --> The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith.
midshipman ::: n. --> Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
mince ::: v. t. --> To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
To affect; to make a parade of. ::: v. i.
Mind and the Divine Sakti ::: Be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that arc beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrow reasonings and erring impressions, its bottomless aggressive ignorance and its petty self-confident knowledge. The human mind shut in the prison of its half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti. The rapidity and com- plexity of her vision and action outrun its stumbling comprehen- sion ; the measures of her movement are not its measures. Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone make a straight response to the Truth.
minotaur ::: n. --> A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
minute ::: n. --> The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (&
moiety ::: a. --> One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.
An indefinite part; a small part.
“Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces.” The Synthesis of Yoga
mulch ::: n. --> Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture. ::: v. t. --> To cover or dress with mulch.
murmur ::: v. i. --> A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.
To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.
To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often
mustang ::: n. --> The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.
neutral ::: 1. Not aligned with or supporting any side or position. 2. Possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics. half-neutral.
“Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes,—towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” The Life Divine
Next, as a consequence, it follows that only a limited part of the action of the vital or other higher plane is concerned with the earth-existence. But even this creates a mass of possibilities which is far greater than the earth can at one time mainfest or contain in its own less plastic formulas. All these possibilities do not realise themselves ; some fail altogether and leave at the most an idea that comes to nothing ; some try seriously and are repelled and defeated and, even if in action for a time, come to nothing. Others effectuate a half manifestation, and this is the most usual result, the more so as these vital or other supraphysical forces come Into conflict and have not only to overcome the resistance of the physical consciousness and of matter, but their own internecine resistance to each other. A certain number succeed in precipitating their results in a more complete and successful creation, so that if you compare this creation with its original in the higher plane, there is something
nicker ::: v. t. --> One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
ninepence ::: n. --> An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
n ::: n. --> A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.
nombril ::: n. --> A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.
obole ::: n. --> A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.
octant ::: n. --> The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by
ootocoid ::: n. --> A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.
Openness is not always complete from the first ; a part of the being opens, other parts of the consciousness remain still closed or half open only ; one has to aspire till all is open. The full opening takes time.
“Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind,—but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin,—as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit-born conceptual knowledge. An all-awareness emerging from the original identity, carrying the truths the identity held in itself, conceiving swiftly, victoriously, multitudinously, formulating and by self-power of the Idea effectually realising its conceptions, is the character of this greater mind of knowledge.” The Life Divine
“Our self-ignorance and our world-ignorance can only grow towards integral self-knowledge and integral world-knowledge in proportion as our limited ego and its half-blind consciousness open to a greater inner existence and consciousness and a true self-being and become aware too of the not-self outside it also as self,—on one side a Nature constituent of our own nature, on the other an Existence which is a boundless continuation of our own self-being. Our being has to break the walls of ego-consciousness which it has created, it has to extend itself beyond its body and inhabit the body of the universe.” The Life Divine
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
Overmind ::: “The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental)—the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” Letters on Yoga
pagoda ::: n. --> A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
An idol.
A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
paleolithic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.
palet ::: n. --> Same as Palea.
A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
palmatifid ::: a. --> Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
palmatilobed ::: a. --> Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
paraplegy ::: n. --> Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.
parasang ::: n. --> A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.
part ::: n. 1. An essential portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole. 2. Participation, interest, or concern in something; role. 3. Region; area. parts, part-experience. *adj. 4. Partial. v. 5. To go or come apart; separate, as two or more things. 6. To go apart from or leave one another, as persons. 7. To put or keep apart; separate. *parts, parted, parting, half-parted.
passeres ::: n. pl. --> An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.
pecan ::: n. --> A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
peek ::: v. i. --> To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
pentamera ::: n. pl. --> An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.
phalangist ::: n. --> Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.
piaster ::: n. --> A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
pint ::: n. --> A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
The laughing gull.
platoon ::: n. --> Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
pleurapophysis ::: n. --> One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib.
portague ::: n. --> A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
poundal ::: n. --> A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and Ss liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half-closed within us and have to be op>ened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical.- nature ::: but once they are opened and completely active, no limit can easily be set to the develop- ment of their potencies and the total transformation to be possible.
premaxilla ::: n. --> A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillae become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
pro ::: a. --> A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth. ::: adv. --> For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
pro- ::: --> A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.
profile ::: n. --> An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
prosecution ::: n. --> The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.
The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.
pubis ::: n. --> The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
quadrin ::: n. --> A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.
quarterpace ::: n. --> A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
que ::: n. --> A half farthing.
quinquefid ::: a. --> Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.
quinquelobared ::: a. --> Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.
rap ::: n. --> A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. ::: v. i.
rapparee ::: n. --> A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.
ravelin ::: n. --> A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
ravissant ::: a. --> In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
::: ". . . reason can only establish half-lights and a provisional order.” *The Human Cycle
“… reason can only establish half-lights and a provisional order.” The Human Cycle
refracted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Refract ::: a. --> Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
relator ::: n. --> One who relates; a relater.
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
rhatanhy ::: n. --> The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.
ridgeling ::: n. --> A half-castrated male animal.
rood ::: n. --> A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
rosalia ::: n. --> A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
sacrifice ::: n. --> The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher
sagittary ::: n. --> A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.
The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door. ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.
saturn ::: n. --> One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a
scarp ::: n. --> A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
A steep descent or declivity. ::: v. t. --> To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp
schilling ::: n. --> Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
schisma ::: n. --> An interval equal to half a comma.
score ::: n. --> A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient
screened ::: 1. Concealed, hidden. 2. Sifted or filtered by means of a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, etc. half-screened, thought-screened.
sea horse ::: --> A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.
The walrus.
Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
semblance ::: 1. An appearance or likeness; a resemblance to something or someone similar. 2. An outward token or appearance, esp. without any inner substance or reality. semblances, half-semblances.
semiacidified ::: a. --> Half acidified.
semiamplexicaul ::: a. --> Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.
semiangle ::: n. --> The half of a given, or measuring, angle.
semiannually ::: adv. --> Every half year.
semiannular ::: a. --> Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
semi- ::: --> A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.
semiaxis ::: n. --> One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.
semibarbarian ::: a. --> Half barbarous; partially civilized. ::: n. --> One partly civilized.
semibarbaric ::: a. --> Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
semibarbarism ::: n. --> The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
semibarbarous ::: a. --> Half barbarous.
semibreve ::: n. --> A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.
semicalcareous ::: a. --> Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
semicalcined ::: a. --> Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.
semicentennial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration. ::: n. --> A fiftieth anniversary.
semichorus ::: n. --> A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.
semi-christianized ::: a. --> Half Christianized.
semicircle ::: n. --> The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
A semicircumference.
A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
An instrument for measuring angles.
semicircular ::: a. --> Having the form of half of a circle.
semi circumference ::: n. --> Half of a circumference.
semicolumn ::: n. --> A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
semicompact ::: a. --> Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
semiconscious ::: a. --> Half conscious; imperfectly conscious.
semi crustaceous ::: a. --> Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.
semicrystalline ::: a. --> Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
semicupium ::: n. --> A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.
semicylyndrical ::: a. --> Half cylindrical.
semideistical ::: a. --> Half deisticsl; bordering on deism.
semidetached ::: a. --> Half detached; partly distinct or separate.
semidiameter ::: n. --> Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
semidiaphaneity ::: n. --> Half or imperfect transparency; translucency.
semidiaphanous ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.
semidiurnal ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.
semiflexed ::: a. --> Half bent.
semiformed ::: a. --> Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
semiform ::: n. --> A half form; an imperfect form.
semihistorical ::: a. --> Half or party historical.
semihoral ::: a. --> Half-hourly.
semiiannual ::: a. --> Half-yearly.
semilens ::: n. --> The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.
semilenticular ::: a. --> Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
semiligneous ::: a. --> Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
semiliquid ::: a. --> Half liquid; semifluid.
semilogical ::: a. --> Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies.
semilunar ::: a. --> Shaped like a half moon. ::: n. --> The semilunar bone.
semilune ::: n. --> The half of a lune.
semimonthly ::: a. --> Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. ::: n. --> Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical.
seminude ::: a. --> Partially nude; half naked.
semiofficial ::: a. --> Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.
semiopaque ::: a. --> Half opaque; only half transparent.
semiorbicular ::: a. --> Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
semioval ::: a. --> Half oval.
semiovate ::: a. --> Half ovate.
semipagan ::: a. --> Half pagan.
semipalmated ::: a. --> Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.
semipedal ::: a. --> Containing a half foot.
semiped ::: n. --> A half foot in poetry.
semipellucid ::: a. --> Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
semipenniform ::: a. --> Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.
semiperspicuous ::: a. --> Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
semiproof ::: n. --> Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
semiquartile ::: n. --> An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
semiquaver ::: n. --> A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.
semiquintile ::: n. --> An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
semirecondite ::: a. --> Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.
semisavage ::: a. --> Half savage. ::: n. --> One who is half savage.
semi-saxon ::: a. --> Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.
semisoun ::: n. --> A half sound; a low tone.
semispherical ::: a. --> Having the figure of a half sphere.
semispheroidal ::: a. --> Formed like a half spheroid.
semitangent ::: n. --> The tangent of half an arc.
semiterete ::: a. --> Half terete.
semitone ::: n. --> Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
semitransept ::: n. --> The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.
semitransparent ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly transparent.
semivif ::: a. --> Only half alive.
semivitrified ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
semivocal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
semiweekly ::: a. --> Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. ::: n. --> That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.
semopermanent ::: n. --> Half or partly permanent.
sen ::: n. --> A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent. ::: adv., prep., & conj. --> Since.
serve ::: v. t. --> To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one&
sesquialterate ::: a. --> Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one.
sesquiduplicate ::: a. --> Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.
sesquipedalian ::: a. --> Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.
sesterce ::: n. --> A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.
shingles ::: n. --> A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
sister ::: n. --> A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
sixpence ::: n. --> An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
slaughter ::: the brutal or violent killing of a person or large numbers of people indiscriminately in war, battle, etc.; massacre, carnage. slaughter"s, slaughtered, half-slaughtered.
slugs ::: n. pl. --> Half-roasted ore.
slush ::: n. --> Soft mud.
A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are
slushy ::: a. --> Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.
snicker ::: v. i. --> To laugh slyly; to laugh in one&
somnambulist ::: Tehmi: “Half-asleep.”
spiegel iron ::: --> A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
spokesman ::: a man who speaks on behalf of another or others. spokesmen.
sponsion ::: n. --> The act of becoming surety for another.
An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
spontoon ::: n. --> A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
squireen ::: n. --> One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.
(Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj. See titanic.) Titan’s, titans, Titan-statured, Titan-striding, half-titan, dwarf-Titan.
*Sri Aurobindo: "In other words, ethics is a stage in evolution. That which is common to all stages is the urge of Sachchidananda towards self-expression. This urge is at first non-ethical, then infra-ethical in the animal, then in the intelligent animal even anti-ethical for it permits us to approve hurt done to others which we disapprove when done to ourselves. In this respect man even now is only half-ethical. And just as all below us is infra-ethical, so there may be that above us whither we shall eventually arrive, which is supra-ethical, has no need of ethics. The ethical impulse and attitude, so all-important to humanity, is a means by which it struggles out of the lower harmony and universality based upon inconscience and broken up by Life into individual discords towards a higher harmony and universality based upon conscient oneness with all existences. Arriving at that goal, this means will no longer be necessary or even possible, since the qualities and oppositions on which it depends will naturally dissolve and disappear in the final reconciliation.” The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
star-blind ::: a. --> Half blind.
steel ::: n. --> A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
An instrument or implement made of steel
A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
subconscious ::: not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious; existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness. . . .” The Life Divine
subconscious ::: “The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness….” The Life Divine
subtle Matter ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All that manifested from the Eternal has already been arranged in worlds or planes of its own nature, planes of subtle Matter, planes of Life, planes of Mind, planes of Supermind, planes of the triune luminous Infinite. But these worlds or planes are not evolutionary but typal. A typal world is one in which some ruling principle manifests itself in its free and full capacity and energy and form are plastic and subservient to its purpose. Its expressions are therefore automatic and satisfying and do not need to evolve; they stand so long as need be and do not need to be born, develop, decline and disintegrate.” Essays Divine and Human*
tablespoonful ::: n. --> As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
"The animal is a vital and sensational being; . . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga*Animal, animal"s, animals, animal-soul, half-animal.
The field of vision, like every other field of activity of the human mind, is a mixed world and there is in it not only truth but much half-inith and error. For the rash and unwary to enter into it may bring confusion and misleading inspiration and false voices, and it is safer to have some sure guidance from those who know and have spiritual and psychic experience One must look at this field calmly and with discrimination, but to shut the gates and reject this or other supraphysical experiences is to limit oneself and arrest the inner development.
"The gospel of true supermanhood gives us a generous ideal for the progressive human race and should not be turned into an arrogant claim for a class or individuals. It is a call to man to do what no species has yet done or aspired to do in terrestrial history, evolve itself consciously into the next superior type already half foreseen by the continual cyclic development of the world-idea in Nature"s fruitful musings . . . .” The Supramental Manifestation*
“The gospel of true supermanhood gives us a generous ideal for the progressive human race and should not be turned into an arrogant claim for a class or individuals. It is a call to man to do what no species has yet done or aspired to do in terrestrial history, evolve itself consciously into the next superior type already half foreseen by the continual cyclic development of the world-idea in Nature’s fruitful musings ….” The Supramental Manifestation
“The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
“There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
There is no condition more dangerous for the sex-imagination to come than lying in bed in a half-awake or else a relaxed inert condition unoccupied by any activity or any experience.
"The supermind contains all its knowledge in itself, is in its highest divine wisdom in eternal possession of all truth and even in its lower, limited or individualised forms has only to bring the latent truth out of itself, — the perception which the old thinkers tried to express when they said that all knowing was in its real origin and nature only a memory of inwardly existing knowledge.” The Synthesis of Yoga ::: *knowledge-bales, knowledge-scrap, half-knowledge, self-knowledge, world-knowledge.
“The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
This opening is a throwing wide of all the nature on ail its levels and in all its parts to receive into itself without limits the greater divine Consciousness which is there already above and behind and englobing this mortal half-conscious existence.
"Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
“Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
thought-Mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind, — but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin, — as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit-born conceptual knowledge. An all-awareness emerging from the original identity, carrying the truths the identity held in itself, conceiving swiftly, victoriously, multitudinously, formulating and by self-power of the Idea effectually realising its conceptions, is the character of this greater mind of knowledge. " *The Life Divine
throttle ::: n. --> The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
The throttle valve. ::: v. t. --> To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
titan. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj. See titanic.) Titan’s, titans, Titan-statured, Titan-striding, half-titan, dwarf-Titan.
titan.** (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj. See* titanic.) Titan"s, titans, Titan-statured, Titan-striding, half-titan, dwarf-Titan.**
" To become ourselves by exceeding ourselves, — so we may turn the inspired phrases of a half-blind seer who knew not the self of which he spoke, — is the difficult and dangerous necessity, the cross surmounted by an invisible crown which is imposed on us, the riddle of the true nature of his being proposed to man by the dark Sphinx of the Inconscience below and from within and above by the luminous veiled Sphinx of the infinite Consciousness and eternal Wisdom confronting him as an inscrutable divine Maya. To exceed ego and be our true self, to be aware of our real being, to possess it, to possess a real delight of being, is therefore the ultimate meaning of our life here; it is the concealed sense of our individual and terrestrial existence.” The Life Divine*
“ To become ourselves by exceeding ourselves,—so we may turn the inspired phrases of a half-blind seer who knew not the self of which he spoke,—is the difficult and dangerous necessity, the cross surmounted by an invisible crown which is imposed on us, the riddle of the true nature of his being proposed to man by the dark Sphinx of the Inconscience below and from within and above by the luminous veiled Sphinx of the infinite Consciousness and eternal Wisdom confronting him as an inscrutable divine Maya. To exceed ego and be our true self, to be aware of our real being, to possess it, to possess a real delight of being, is therefore the ultimate meaning of our life here; it is the concealed sense of our individual and terrestrial existence.” The Life Divine
“To become ourselves by exceeding ourselves,—so we may turn the inspired phrases of a half-blind seer who knew not the self of which he spoke,—is the difficult and dangerous necessity, the cross surmounted by an invisible crown which is imposed on us, the riddle of the true nature of his being proposed to man by the dark Sphinx of the Inconscience below and from within and above by the luminous veiled Sphinx of the infinite Consciousness and eternal Wisdom confronting him as an inscrutable divine Maya. To exceed ego and be our true self, to be aware of our real being, to possess it, to possess a real delight of being, is therefore the ultimate meaning of our life here; it is the concealed sense of our individual and terrestrial existence.” The Life Divine
toman ::: n. --> A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.
tot ::: n. --> Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.
A foolish fellow.
towards ::: prep. --> In the direction of; to.
With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.
Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
Near; about; approaching to. ::: adv.
true ::: 1. Faithful, as to a friend, vow, or cause; loyal. 2. Real, genuine, authentic. 3. Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous. 4. Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something. 5. Proper. 6. Sincere; not deceitful. 7. Reliable; accurate: truer, truest, half-true.
truth ::: 1. (Often cap.) Ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience. 2. Conformity to fact or actuality. Truth, truth"s, Truth"s, truths, Truths, truth-conscious, Truth-gaze, Truth-speaking, All-Truth, dream-truth, half-Truth, half-truths, heaven-truth, soul-truth.
veiled ::: 1. Not distinct; obscured; muffled. 2. Fig. Disguised. ever-veiled, half-veiled.
vishnu ::: 1. (In later Hinduism) "The Preserver.” The second member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Shiva the Destroyer. 2. (In popular Hinduism) a deity believed to have descended from heaven to earth in several incarnations, or avatars, varying in number from nine to twenty-two, but always including animals. His most important human incarnation is the Krishna of the Bhagavad-Gita. 3. "The Pervader,” one of a half-dozen solar deities in the Rig-Veda, daily traversing the sky in three strides, morning, afternoon, and night.
visible ::: 1. Possible to see; perceptible to the eye. 2. Capable of being perceived by the mind; evident. half-visible.
wake ::: 1. To cease to sleep; become awake. 2. To be brought into a state of awareness or alertness. 3. To become roused from sleep. 4. To become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken. 5. To be or continue to be awake. 6. To become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken. wakes, half-waked.
wakened ::: waken. 1. To wake, or become awake; awaken. 2. To rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.3. To rouse from inactivity; stir up or excite; arouse; awaken. wakens, wakened. *adj. 4. wakened. Conscious; cognizant; aware. *half-wakened.
way ::: 1. A road, path, or highway affording passage from one place to another. Also fig. 2. Any line of passage or progression, esp. in a particular direction. 3. A direction or vicinity. 4. A course of life, action, or experience. 5. A prescribed course of life or conduct; also in pl. 6. A method, plan, or means for attaining a goal. 7. A method, plan, or means for attaining a goal. 8. Space for passing or advancing. 9. Characteristic or habitual manner. 10. Distance. ways, earth-ways, half-way, world-ways, Angel of the Way, evolving Way, heavenly Way, middle Way, shining upward Way, terrestrial Way, the Way.
(When the psychic comes in front) one is aware of the psy- chic being with its simple, spontaneous self-giving and feels its increasing direct control (not merely a veiled or half-veiled influence) over mind, vital and physical. Especially there is the psychic discernment which at once lights up the thoughts, emo- tional movements, vital pushes, physical habits and leaves nothing there obscure, substituting the right movements for the wrong ones.
will, human ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
world-ignorance ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Our self-ignorance and our world-ignorance can only grow towards integral self-knowledge and integral world-knowledge in proportion as our limited ego and its half-blind consciousness open to a greater inner existence and consciousness and a true self-being and become aware too of the not-self outside it also as self, — on one side a Nature constituent of our own nature, on the other an Existence which is a boundless continuation of our own self-being. Our being has to break the walls of ego-consciousness which it has created, it has to extend itself beyond its body and inhabit the body of the universe.” The Life Divine
KEYS (10k)
54 Sri Aurobindo
5 The Mother
2 Sigmund Freud
2 Majjhima Nikaya
2 Sri Ramakrishna
2 Kobayashi Issa
1 "The Cloud of Unknowing
1 Terence McKenna
1 Solomon Ibn Gabirol
1 Sogyal Rinpoche
1 Shakti Gawain
1 Satprem
1 Saint Therese of Lisieux
1 Saint Maximus the Confessor
1 Saint John Chrysostom
1 Saint Ignatius of Loyola
1 Saint Ignatius
1 Saint Basil the Great
1 Roger Bacon
1 Robert Heinlein
1 Rev. 12:13-14).
1 Pseudo-Chrysostom
1 Philip Greenspun
1 Peter J Carroll
1 Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 P.D. Ouspensky
1 Ovid
1 Meher Baba
1 Marilyn Monroe
1 James S A Corey
1 James Austin
1 Jalaluddin Rumi
1 "Isha Upanishad" one of the shortest Upanishads
1 H P Lovecraft
1 Horace
1 Henry Suso
1 Henry David Thoreau
1 George Eliot
1 George Carlin
1 Francis Bacon
1 Edgar Allan Poe
1 Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
1 Dion Fortune
1 Dakotsu Iida 1883-196
1 collab summer & fall 2011
1 Carl Sagan
1 Carl Jung
1 Buckminster Fuller
1 Bertrand Russell
1 and yet
1 and we are hoping that someone else will fill in the missing parts so that we don't have to.
1 Ali
1 Alfred North Whitehead
1 Alain de Botton
1 Saint Teresa of Avila
1 Saint Augustine of Hippo
1 Ogawa
1 Lao Tzu
1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1 Jalaluddin Rumi
1 Epictetus
1 Aristotle
1 Aristophanes
1 Aleister Crowley
1 Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
NEW FULL DB (2.4M)
17 Anonymous
16 Rick Riordan
13 Jane Austen
12 Mark Twain
11 Horace
9 George Herbert
8 Theodore Roosevelt
8 Ralph Waldo Emerson
8 Patrick Rothfuss
8 Benjamin Franklin
7 Carl Jung
7 Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 Yogi Berra
6 William Shakespeare
6 Rob Halford
6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6 Haruki Murakami
6 Cassandra Clare
5 Thomas Hardy
5 Stephen King
1:Who has begun has half done.
~ Horace,#KEYS
2:Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. ~ Ovid, #KEYS
3:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon,#KEYS
4:Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle, #KEYS
5:If we have a good comrade, half the battle is won. ~ Henry Suso, #KEYS
6:A good half of the art of living is resilience." ~ Alain de Botton, #KEYS
7:A slave is but half a man. ~ Aristophanes, #KEYS
8:A wise man's questions contain half the answer. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, #KEYS
9:Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS
10:We are caught half asleep by every appearance. ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
11:The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #KEYS
12:The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
13:When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. ~ P.D. Ouspensky, #KEYS
14:All in calmness - the earth with half-opened eyes moves into winter. ~ Dakotsu Iida 1883-196, #KEYS
15:Only God can see what is in the bottom of our hearts; we are half-blind. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #KEYS
16:Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae. (To ask the proper question is half of knowing.) ~ Roger Bacon, Doctor Mirabilis, #KEYS
17:I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
18:Pronouns no longer apply in the tavern’s mud-world of excited confusion and half-articulated wantings. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
19:half-moon
in raindrops
sleepless night
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
20:The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
21:There are no whole truths, all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #KEYS
22:According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
23:The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
24:Reason can only establish half-lights and a provisional order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Suprarational Ultimate of Life, #KEYS
25:the half moon
drifting with the tide
a little boat
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
26:The half moon moves
across standing water
spring air
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
27:Evil forces can always attack in moments of unconsciousness or half-consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Dealing with Hostile Attacks, #KEYS
28:Our present nature is a derivation from Supernature and is not a pure ignorance but a half-knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life, #KEYS
29:Let not night herself be all, as it were, the special and peculiar property of sleep. Let not half thy life be useless through the senselessness of slumber. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
30:Intellect is part of Mind and an instrument of half-truth like the rest of the Mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Intellect and the Intellectual, #KEYS
31:Verily, the weight of half of disbelief in the world is carried by religious people who made God detestable to His servants. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
32:Here in a difficult half-finished world
Is a slow toiling of unconscious Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
33:Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs
On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
34:The wife unsung remains
Sharing his pleasures, taking half his pains
While to dream faces mounts the poet's song. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Euphrosyne#KEYS
35:No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. ~ Sigmund Freud, #KEYS
36:Earth's eyes half-see, her forces half-create;
Her rarest works are copies of heaven's art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
37:Man within the community is now at least a half-civilised creature, but his international existence is still primitive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Inadequacy of the State Idea, #KEYS
38:Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation, #KEYS
39:Half-poised on equal wings of thought and doubt
Toiled ceaselessly twixt being's hidden ends. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
40:Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engeineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. ~ Terence McKenna, #KEYS
41:This is All, and so is that; All comes out of the All, taking away the All from the All, the All remains for ever." ~ "Isha Upanishad" one of the shortest Upanishads, composed in the 1st half of 1st millennium BC, Wikipedia., #KEYS
42:A half attention prepares the way for new illusions and allows the old to grow. By a sustained attention prevent the birth of new errors and destroy the old. ~ Majjhima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
43:An attempt, a drawing half-done is the world's life;
Its lines doubt their concealed significance,
Its curves join not their high intended close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
44:There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. ~ Aleister Crowley, #KEYS
45:Half-heard lowings drew the listening ear,
As if the Sun-god's brilliant kine were there
Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
46:A half-attention prepares the way for fresh errors, fresh illusions and allows the old to increase. Prevent by a sustained attention the birth of new errors and destroy the old. ~ Majjhima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
47:Beware that thou conceive not bodily that which is meant ghostly, although it be spoken in bodily words." ~ "The Cloud of Unknowing," anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century, Wikipedia., #KEYS
48:The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ George Eliot, #KEYS
49:The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
~ Robert Heinlein, Ira Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset.,#KEYS
50:If you become addicted to looking back, half your life will be spent in distraction and the other half in regret." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, ( 1207 - 1273), Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, Wikipedia., #KEYS
51:The mind of mortal man is led by words,
His sight retires behind the walls of Thought
And looks out only through half-opened doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
52:The little Mind is tied to little things:
Its sense is but the spirit's outward touch,
Half-waked in a world of dark Inconscience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
53:The nature of mind is that it lives between half-lights and darkness, amid probabilities and possibilities, amid partly grasped aspects, amid incertitudes and half certitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
54:Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
Night's dusk tiara was his matted hair,
The ashes of the pyre his forehead's sign. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
55:The kingdom of the animal self arose,
Where deed is all and mind is still half-born
And the heart obeys a dumb unseen control. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
56:The intuitive mind is not yet the wide sunlight of truth, but a constant play of flashes of it keeping lighted up a basic state of ignorance or of half-knowledge and indirect knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
57:An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart.
A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves
As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
58:To love one another is… half of wisdom. Grief… is half of old age." ~ Ali, (601 - 661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661, Wikipedia. Quote from "The Sufi Bible,", (latest ed. 2016). Trans. Paul Smith., #KEYS
59:A Consciousness that knows not its own truth,
A vagrant hunter of misleading dawns,
Between the being's dark and luminous ends
Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
60:The dragon ... pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time ~ Rev. 12:13-14)., #KEYS
61:A thinking mind had come to lift life's moods,
The keen-edged tool of a Nature mixed and vague,
An intelligence half-witness, half-machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
62:Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract word
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
I could not live the truth it spoke and thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
63:Winter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands
On Nature's bosom still in a half sleep
And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
The tranquil beauty of the waning year. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
64:Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles that states: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. ~ Philip Greenspun, #KEYS
65:A creature of his own grey ignorance,
A mind half shadow and half gleam, a breath
That wrestles, captive in a world of death,
To live some lame brief years. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Man the Thinking Animal,#KEYS
66:A natural inclination toward the darker side of magic is as good a point as any from which to begin the ultimate quest, and half this book is devoted to the black arts. ... We will begin by discussing the Spirit of Black Magic. Magical power is the key to the heaven-hell of the now.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
67:In this investiture of fleshly life
A soul that is a spark of God survives
And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen
And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
68:Has put the stars out ere the light,
And from their dewy cushions rise
Sweet flowers half-opening their eyes.
O pleasant then to feel as if new-born
The sweet, unripe and virgin air, the air of morn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Songs to Myrtilla,#KEYS
69:Till Nature is ready, the supramental Force has to act indirectly; it puts the intermediary powers of overmind or intuition in front, or it works through a modification of itself to which the already half-transformed being can be wholly or partially respo ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Ascent towards Supermind, #KEYS
70:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God.
Then larger dawns arrive and Wisdom's pomps
Cross through the being's dim half-li ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
71:Sometimes we say that we met people at the wrong time. But maybe we meet them when we are the wrong person, when we have not yet met and fallen in love with ourselves. We are only half of a thing~even if we can imagine that there is a better version of us out there~and we are hoping that someone else will fill in the missing parts so that we don't have to. ~ Chelsea Fagan, #KEYS
72:Wherever love and light and largeness lack,
These crooked fashioners take up their task.
To all half-conscious worlds they extend their reign.
Here too these godlings drive our human hearts,
Our nature's twilight is their lurking-place: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
73:All evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being so that it may be raised into the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest, from matter into life, from life into mind, from mind into the spirit. It is this that must be the method of our growth from a mental into a spiritual and supramental manifestation, out of a still half-animal humanity into a divine being and divine living.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
74:After the doctors and nurses had left, I whispered an awestruck question: "Good God, Manton, but what was it? Those scars - was it like that?"
And I was too dazed to exult when he whispered back a thing I had half expected "No - it wasn't that way at all. It was everywhere - a gelatin - a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes - and a blemish. It was the pit - the maelstrom - the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnamable! ~ H P Lovecraft, The Unnamable,#KEYS
75:I AM NOW CLOSE TO 88 and I am confident that the only thing important about me is that I am an average healthy human. I am also a living case history of a thoroughly documented, half-century, search-and-research project designed to discover what, if anything, an unknown, moneyless individual, with a dependent wife and newborn child, might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity that could not be accomplished by great nations, great religions or private enterprise, no matter how rich or powerfully armed. ~ Buckminster Fuller, 1983, #KEYS
76:Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it ~ and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you ~ for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. ~ Søren Kierkegaard, #KEYS
77:When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,-are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness? ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
78:Patrul Rinpoche tells the story of an old frog who had lived all his life in a dank well. One day a frog from the sea paid him a visit. "Where do you come from?" asked the frog in the well. "From the great ocean," he replied. "How big is your ocean?" "It's gigantic." "You mean about a quarter of the size of my well here?" "Bigger." "Bigger? You mean half as big?" "No, even bigger." "Is it . . . as big as this well?" "There's no comparison." "That's impossible! I've got to see this for myself." They set off together. When the frog from the well saw the ocean, it was such a shock that his head just exploded into pieces. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, #KEYS
79:I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias,#KEYS
80:I Have A Hundred Lives:::
I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O spirit ethereal,
Be sure I will with heart insatiate
Pursue thee like a hunter through them all.
Thou yet shalt turn back on the eternal way
And with awakened vision watch me come
Smiling a little at errors past, and lay
Thy eager hand in mine, its proper home.
Meanwhile made happy by thy happiness
I shall approach thee in things and people dear
And in thy spirit's motions half-possess
Loving what thou hast loved, shall feel thee near,
Until I lay my hands on thee indeed
Somewhere among the stars, as 'twas decreed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, 180,#KEYS
81:Although our fallen minds forget to climb,
Although our human stuff resists or breaks,
She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;
Failure cannot repress, defeat o'erthrow;
Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,
The ages have not made her passion less;
No victory she admits of Death or Fate.
Always she drives the soul to new attempt;
Always her magical infinitude
Forces to aspire the inert brute elements;
As one who has all infinity to waste,
She scatters the seed of the Eternal's strength
On a half-animate and crumbling mould,
Plants heaven's delight in the heart's passionate mire,
Pours godhead's seekings into a bare beast frame,
Hides immortality in a mask of death.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
82:A union of the Real with the unique,
A gaze of the Alone from every face,
The Presence of the Eternal in the hours
Widening the mortal mind’s half-look on things,
Bridging the gap between man’s force and Fate
Made whole the fragment-being we are here. (7.15)
A firm spiritual poise,
A constant lodging in the Eternal's realm,
A safety in the Silence and the Ray,
A settlement in the Immutable. (7.16)
His heights of being lived in the still Self;
His mind could rest on a supernal ground
And look down on the magic and the play
Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn
And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise. (7.17)
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3, || 7.15 - 7.17 ||,#KEYS
83:Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough. "They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas;" but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? ~ Henry David Thoreau, #KEYS
84:Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind,-but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin,-as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of spirit-born conceptual knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
85:Ah, yeah. We're gonna go to Mars. And then of course we're gonna colonize deep space. With our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit, fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss, lemon-scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels. And all these other impressive things we've done down here. But let me ask you this: what are we gonna tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws their newborn baby into a dumpster? How are we gonna explain that to the space people? How are we gonna let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out, its just a local custom, that over 80 million women in the Third world have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up? ~ George Carlin, #KEYS
86:Few poets can keep for a very long time a sustained level of the highest inspiration. The best poetry does not usually come by streams except in poets of a supreme greatness though there may be in others than the greatest long-continued wingings at a considerable height. The very best comes by intermittent drops, though sometimes three or four gleaming drops at a time. Even in the greatest poets, even in those with the most opulent flow of riches like Shakespeare, the very best is comparatively rare. All statements are subject to qualification. What Lawrence states1 is true in principle, but in practice most poets have to sustain the inspiration by industry. Milton in his later days used to write every day fifty lines; Virgil nine which he corrected and recorrected till it was within half way of what he wanted. In other words he used to write under any conditions and pull at his inspiration till it came. Usually the best lines, passages, etc. come like that.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Inspiration and Effort - II,#KEYS
87:This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #KEYS
88:Sails across the sea of life in the twinkling of an eye.' One attains the vision of God if Mahamaya steps aside from the door. Mahamaya's grace is necessary: hence the worship of Sakti. You see, God is near us, but it is not possible to know Him because Mahamaya stands between. Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita were walking along. Rama walked ahead, Sita in the middle, and Lakshmana last. Lakshmana was only two and a half cubits away from Rama, but he couldn't see Rama because Sita - Mahamaya - was in the way.
"While worshipping God, one should assume a definite attitude. I have three attitudes: the attitude of a child, the attitude or a maidservant, and the attitude of a friend. For a long time I regarded myself as a maidservant and a woman companion of God; at that time I used to wear skirts and ornaments, like a woman. The attitude of a child is very good.
"The attitude of a 'hero' is not good. Some people cherish it. They regard themselves as Purusha and woman as Prakriti; they want to propitiate woman through intercourse with her. But this method often causes disaster. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
89:O soul, it is too early to rejoice!
Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power?
On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?
One was within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the secret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?
This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
90:It proceeds by a personal effort to a conversion through a divine influence and possession; but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. The conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into a working of the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even in the end a divine conversion of the vital and physical being. It regards all the previous life as an involuntary and unconscious or half-conscious preparatory growing towards this change and Yoga as the voluntary and conscious
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
91:I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind. For what I have said, whether early or late, I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds. I claim only, at best, that the opinion expressed was a sensible one to hold at the time when it was expressed. I should be much surprised if subsequent research did not show that it needed to be modified. I hope, therefore, that whoever uses this dictionary will not suppose the remarks which it quotes to be intended as pontifical pronouncements, but only as the best I could do at the time towards the promotion of clear and accurate thinking. Clarity, above all, has been my aim.
~ Bertrand Russell,#KEYS
92:understanding fails when pulled down by lower movements ::: By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human beingnot subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. Certainly, the reason of man as he is at present does not even at its best act entirely in this free and sovereign fashion; but so far as it fails, it fails because it is still mixed with the lower half-animal action, because it is impure and constantly hampered and pulled down from its characteristic action. In its purity it should not be involved in these lower movements, but stand back from the object, and observe disinterestedly, put it in its right place in the whole by force of comparison, contrast, analogy, reason from its rightly observed data by deduction, induction, inference and holding all its gains in memory and supplementing them by a chastened and rightly-guided imagination view all in the light of a trained and disciplined judgment. Such is the pure intellectual understanding of which disinterested observation, judgment and reasoning are the law and characterising action.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Knowledge, The Purified Understanding,#KEYS
93:If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine and in the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yoga.
It is the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 165, [T2],#KEYS
94:need for the soul's spiritualization :::
And yet even the leading of the inmost psychic being is not found sufficient until it has succeeded in raising itself out of this mass of inferior Nature to the highest spiritual levels and the divine spark and flame descended here have rejoined themselves to their original fiery Ether. For there is there no longer a spiritual consciousness still imperfect and half lost to itself in the thick sheaths of human mind, life and body, but the full spiritual consciousness in its purity, freedom and intense wideness. There, as it is the eternal Knower that becomes the Knower in us and mover and user of all knowledge, so it is the eternal All-Blissful who is the Adored attracting to himself the eternal divine portion of his being and joy that has gone out into the play of the universe, the infinite Lover pouring himself out in the multiplicity of his own manifested selves in a happy Oneness. All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment, happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 168,#KEYS
95:The Lord has veiled himself and his absolute wisdom and eternal consciousness in ignorant Nature-Force and suffers her to drive the individual being, with its complicity, as the ego; this lower action of Nature continues to prevail, often even in spite of man's half-lit imperfect efforts at a nobler motive and a purer self-knowledge. Our human effort at perfection fails, or progresses very incompletely, owing to the force of Nature's past actions in us, her past formations, her long-rooted associations; it turns towards a true and high-climbing success only when a greater Knowledge and Power than our own breaks through the lid of our ignorance and guides or takes up our personal will. For our human will is a misled and wandering ray that has parted from the supreme Puissance. The period of slow emergence out of this lower working into a higher light and purer force is the valley of the shadow of death for the striver after perfection; it is a dreadful passage full of trials, sufferings, sorrows, obscurations, stumblings, errors, pitfalls. To abridge and alleviate this ordeal or to penetrate it with the divine delight faith is necessary, an increasing surrender of the mind to the knowledge that imposes itself from within and, above all, a true aspiration and a right and unfaltering and sincere practice. "Practise unfalteringly," says the Gita, "with a heart free from despondency," the Yoga; for even though in the earlier stage of the path we drink deep of the bitter poison of internal discord and suffering, the last taste of this cup is the sweetness of the nectar of immortality and the honey-wine of an eternal Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 219, #KEYS
96:the aim of our yoga :::
The aim set before our Yoga is nothing less than to hasten this supreme object of our existence here. Its process leaves behind the ordinary tardy method of slow and confused growth through the evolution of Nature. For the natural evolution is at its best an uncertain growth under cover, partly by the pressure of the environment, partly by a groping education and an ill-lighted purposeful effort, an only partially illumined and half-automatic use of opportunities with many blunders and lapses and relapses; a great portion of it is made up of apparent accidents and circumstances and vicissitudes, - though veiling a secret divine intervention and guidance. In Yoga we replace this confused crooked crab-motion by a rapid, conscious and self-directed evolution which is planned to carry us, as far as can be, in a straight line towards the goal set before us. In a certain sense it may be an error to speak of a goal anywhere in a progression which may well be infinite. Still we can conceive of an immediate goal, an ulterior objective beyond our present achievement towards which the soul in man can aspire. There lies before him the possibility of a new birth; there can be an ascent into a higher and wider plane of being and its descent to transform his members. An enlarged and illumined consciousness is possible that shall make of him a liberated spirit and a perfected force - and, if spread beyond the individual, it might even constitute a divine humanity or else a new, a supramental and therefore a superhuman race. It is this new birth that we make our aim: a growth into a divine consciousness is the whole meaning of our Yoga, an integral conversion to divinity not only of the soul but of all the parts of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, 89-90,#KEYS
97:19 - When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them. - Sri Aurobindo
Is there really nothing ugly and repellent in the world? Is it our reason alone that sees things in that way?
To understand truly what Sri Aurobindo means here, you must yourself have had the experience of transcending reason and establishing your consciousness in a world higher than the mental intelligence. For from up there you can see, firstly, that everything that exists in the universe is an expression of Sachchidananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and therefore behind any appearance whatever, if you go deeply enough, you can perceive Sachchidananda, which is the principle of Supreme Beauty.
Secondly, you see that everything in the manifested universe is relative, so much so that there is no beauty which may not appear ugly in comparison with a greater beauty, no ugliness which may not appear beautiful in comparison with a yet uglier ugliness.
When you can see and feel in this way, you immediately become aware of the extreme relativity of these impressions and their unreality from the absolute point of view. However, so long as we dwell in the rational consciousness, it is, in a way, natural that everything that offends our aspiration for perfection, our will for progress, everything we seek to transcend and surmount, should seem ugly and repellent to us, since we are in search of a greater ideal and we want to rise higher.
And yet it is still only a half-wisdom which is very far from the true wisdom, a wisdom that appears wise only in the midst of ignorance and unconsciousness.
In the Truth everything is different, and the Divine shines in all things. 17 February 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
98:Shastra is the knowledge and teaching laid down by intuition, experience and wisdom, the science and art and ethic of life, the best standards available to the race. The half-awakened man who leaves the observance of its rule to follow the guidance of his instincts and desires, can get pleasure but not happiness; for the inner happiness can only come by right living. He cannot move to perfection, cannot acquire the highest spiritual status. The law of instinct and desire seems to come first in the animal world, but the manhood of man grows by the pursuit of truth and religion and knowledge and a right life. The Shastra, the recognised Right that he has set up to govern his lower members by his reason and intelligent will, must therefore first be observed and made the authority for conduct and works and for what should or should not be done, till the instinctive desire nature is schooled and abated and put down by the habit of self-control and man is ready first for a freer intelligent self-guidance and then for the highest supreme law and supreme liberty of the spiritual nature.
For the Shastra in its ordinary aspect is not that spiritual law, although at its loftiest point, when it becomes a science and art of spiritual living, Adhyatma-shastra, - the Gita itself describes its own teaching as the highest and most secret Shastra, - it formulates a rule of the self-transcendence of the sattwic nature and develops the discipline which leads to spiritual transmutation. Yet all Shastra is built on a number of preparatory conditions, dharmas; it is a means, not an end. The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit when abandoning all dharmas the soul turns to God for its sole law of action, acts straight from the divine will and lives in the freedom of the divine nature, not in the Law, but in the Spirit. This is the development of the teaching which is prepared by the next question of Arjuna. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita,#KEYS
99:More often, he listened to the voice of Eros. Sometimes he watched the video feeds too, but usually, he just listened. Over the hours and days, he began to hear, if not patterns, at least common structures. Some of the voices spooling out of the dying station were consistent-broadcasters and entertainers who were overrepresented in the audio files archives, he guessed. There seemed to be some specific tendencies in, for want of a better term, the music of it too. Hours of random, fluting static and snatched bits of phrases would give way, and Eros would latch on to some word or phrase, fixating on it with greater and greater intensity until it broke apart and the randomness poured back in.
"... are, are, are, ARE, ARE, ARE... "
Aren't, Miller thought, and the ship suddenly shoved itself up, leaving Miller's stomach about half a foot from where it had been. A series of loud clanks followed, and then the brief wail of a Klaxon. "Dieu! Dieu!" someone shouted. "Bombs son vamen roja! Going to fry it! Fry us toda!"
There was the usual polite chuckle that the same joke had occasioned over the course of the trip, and the boy who'd made it-a pimply Belter no more than fifteen years old-grinned with pleasure at his own wit. If he didn't stop that shit, someone was going to beat him with a crowbar before they got back to Tycho. But Miller figured that someone wasn't him.
A massive jolt forward pushed him hard into the couch, and then gravity was back, the familiar 0.3 g. Maybe a little more. Except that with the airlocks pointing toward ship's down, the pilot had to grapple the spinning skin of Eros' belly first. The spin gravity made what had been the ceiling the new floor; the lowest rank of couches was now the top; and while they rigged the fusion bombs to the docks, they were all going to have to climb up onto a cold, dark rock that was trying to fling them off into the vacuum.
Such were the joys of sabotage. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
100:Disciple : What part does breathing exercise - Pranayama - play in bringing about the higher consciousness?
Sri Aurobindo : It sets the Pranic - vital - currents free and removes dullness of the brain so that the higher consciousness can come down. Pranayama does not bring dullness in the brain. My own experience, on the contrary, is that brain becomes illumined. When I was practising Pranayama at Baroda, I used to do it for about five hours in the day, - three hours in the morning and two in the evening. I found that the mind began to work with great illumination and power. I used to write poetry in those days. Before the Pranayama practice, usually I wrote five to eight lines per day; and about two hundred lines in a month. After the practice I could write 200 lines within half an hour. That was not the only result. Formerly my memory was dull. But after this practice I found that when the inspiration came I could remember all the lines in their order and write them down correctly at any time. Along with these enhanced functionings I could see an electrical activity all round the brain, and I could feel that it was made up of a subtle substance. I could feel everything as the working of that substance. That was far from your carbon-dioxide!
Disciple : How is it that Pranayama develops mental capacities? What part does it play in bringing about the higher consciousness?
Sri Aurobindo : It is the Pranic - vital - currents which sustain mental activity. When these currents are changed by Pranayama, they bring about a change in the brain. The cause of dullness of the brain is some obstruction in it which does not allow the higher thought to be communicated to it. When this obstruction is removed the higher mental being is able to communicate its action easily to the brain. When the higher consciousness is attained the brain does not become dull. My experience is that it becomes illumined.
~ Sri Aurobindo, A B Purani, Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, 19-9-1926,#KEYS
101:I know some individuals who make this their daily practice: starting at the beginning and reading a canto or half a canto every day till they reach the end and then starting at the beginning again, and in that way they have gone through the whole of Savitri many times. When this is done in groups there's really no doubt that by this going through the whole soundbody of the epic from beginning to end aloud, there must be built up a very strong force field of vibrations. It is definitely of benefit to the people who participate in it. But again I would say that the effect or benefit of this sacrifice will be richer to the extent that the reading is done with understanding and above all with soul surrender. It shouldn't become a mere ritual.
Sri Aurobindo's mantric lines, repeated one after the other, will always have their power; but the power will be much greater if the mind can participate, and the will and the heart.
I have also heard of some groups who select one line that seems to have a particular mantric power and then within the group they chant that line many, many times. They concentrate on that one special line, and try to take its vibrations deep into themselves. Again I am sure that this is very beneficial to those who practice it.
In that way the words enter very deeply into the consciousness. There they resonate and do their work, and perhaps not just the surface meaning but the deeper meaning and the deeper vibrations may reveal their full depth to those who undertake this exercise if it is done with self-dedication, with a true aspiration to internalise the heart of the meaning, not just as a mere repetition.
At another end of the spectrum of possible approaches to Savitri, we can say there would be the aesthetic approach, the approach of enjoying it for its poetic beauty. I met a gentleman a couple of months ago, who told me, "We have faith in Sri Aurobindo, but it is so difficult to understand his books. We tried with The Life Divine, we tried with The Synthesis of Yoga but we found them so difficult. ~ collab summer & fall 2011,#KEYS
102:Many men think and write through inspiration. From where does it come?
Many! That is indeed a wonderful thing. I did not think there have been so many.... So?
Poets, when they write poems...
Ah! Inspirations come from very many different places. There are inspirations that may be very material, there are inspirations that may be vital, there are inspirations that come from all kinds of mental planes, and there are very, very rare inspirations that come from the higher mind or from a still higher region. All inspirations do not come from the same place. Hence, to be inspired does not necessarily mean that one is a higher be- ing.... One may be inspired also to do and say many stupid things!
What does "inspired" mean?
It means receiving something which is beyond you, which was not within you; to open yourself to an influence which is outside your individual conscious being.
Indeed, one can have also an inspiration to commit a murder! In countries where they decapitate murderers, cut off their heads, this causes a very brutal death which throws out the vital being, not allowing it the time to decompose for coming out of the body; the vital being is violently thrown out of the body, with all its impulses; and generally it goes and lodges itself in one of those present there, men half horrified, half with a kind of unhealthy curiosity. That makes the opening and it enters within. Statistics have proved that most young murderers admit that the impulse came to them when they were present at the death of another murderer. It was an "inspiration", but of a detestable kind.
Fundamentally it is a moment of openness to something which was not within your personal consciousness, which comes from outside and rushes into you and makes you do something. This is the widest formula that can be given.
Now, generally, when people say: "Oh! he is an inspired poet", it means he has received something from high above and expressed it in a remarkable manneR But one should rather say that his inspiration is of a high quality. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
103:Accumulating Prostrations
Why Prostrate at All?
Why fling yourself full-length on an often filthy floor, then get up and do it again hundreds of thousands of times?
Prostrations are a very immediate method for taking refuge and one of the best available for destroying pride. They are an outer gesture of surrender to the truth of dharma, and an expression of our intention to give up and expose our pride.
So, as we take refuge, we prostrate to demonstrate our complete surrender by throwing ourselves at the feet of our guru and pressing the five points of our body — forehead, hands and knees — to the floor as many times as we can.
(In the Tibetan tradition there are two ways of doing prostrations: one is the full-length and the other the half-length prostration, and we usually accumulate the full-length version.)
Prostrations are said to bring a number of benefits, such as being reborn with an attractive appearance, or our words carry weight and are valued, or our influence over friends and colleagues is positive, or that we are able to manage those who work for us.
It is said that practitioners who accumulate prostrations will one day keep company with sublime beings and as a result become majestic, wealthy, attain a higher rebirth and eventually attain liberation.
For worldly beings, though, to contemplate all the spiritual benefits of prostrations and the amount of merit they accumulate is not necessarily the most effective way of motivating ourselves. The fact that prostrations are good for our health, on the other hand, is often just the incentive we need to get started.
It's true, doing prostrations for the sake of taking healthy exercise is a worldly motivation, but not one I would ever discourage.
In these degenerate times, absolutely anything that will inspire you to practise dharma has some value, so please go ahead and start your prostrations for the sake of the exercise. If you do, not only will you save money on your gym membership, you will build up muscle and a great deal of merit.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness - A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practises, Shambhala Publications,#KEYS
104:The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order. Moreover, we find that inwardly too, no less than outwardly, we are not alone in the world; the sharp separateness of our ego was no more than a strong imposition and delusion; we do not exist in ourselves, we do not really live apart in an inner privacy or solitude. Our mind is a receiving, developing and modifying machine into which there is being constantly passed from moment to moment a ceaseless foreign flux, a streaming mass of disparate materials from above, from below, from outside. Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use offer the manifestation of their forms and forces. The difficulty of our separate salvation is immensely increased by this complexity and manifold openness and subjection to tile in-streaming energies of the universe. Of all this we have to take account, to deal with it, to know what is the secret stuff of our nature and its constituent and resultant motions and to create in it all a divine centre and a true harmony and luminous order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 1.02, #KEYS
105:Self-Abuse by Drugs
Not a drop of alcohol is to be brought into this temple.
Master Bassui (1327-1387)1
(His dying instructions: first rule)
In swinging between liberal tolerance one moment and outraged repression the next,
modern societies seem chronically incapable of reaching consistent attitudes about
drugs.
Stephen Batchelor2
Drugs won't show you the truth. Drugs will only show you what it's like to be on drugs.
Brad Warner3
Implicit in the authentic Buddhist Path is sila. It is the time-honored practice
of exercising sensible restraints [Z:73-74]. Sila's ethical guidelines provide the
bedrock foundation for one's personal behavior in daily life. At the core of every
religion are some self-disciplined renunciations corresponding to sila. Yet, a profound irony has been reshaping the human condition in most cultures during the
last half century. It dates from the years when psychoactive drugs became readily
available. During this era, many naturally curious persons could try psychedelic
short-cuts and experience the way their consciousness might seem to ''expand.'' A
fortunate few of these experimenters would become motivated to follow the nondrug meditative route when they pursued various spiritual paths.
One fact is often overlooked. Meditation itself has many mind-expanding, psychedelic properties [Z:418-426]. These meditative experiences can also stimulate a
drug-free spiritual quest.
Meanwhile, we live in a drug culture. It is increasingly a drugged culture, for which overprescribing physicians must shoulder part of the blame. Do
drugs have any place along the spiritual path? This issue will always be hotly
debated.4
In Zen, the central issue is not whether each spiritual aspirant has the ''right''
to exercise their own curiosity, or the ''right'' to experiment on their own brains in
the name of freedom of religion. It is a free country. Drugs are out there. The real
questions are:
Can you exercise the requisite self-discipline to follow the Zen Buddhist Path?
Do you already have enough common sense to ask that seemingly naive question,
''What would Buddha do?'' (WWBD).
~ James Austin, Zen-Brain_Reflections,_Reviewing_Recent_Developments_in_Meditation_and_States_of_Consciousness,#KEYS
106:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
107:But even before that highest approach to identity is achieved, something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous self-determining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, lateR But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single command or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above spontaneously fulfilled by the lower members. When the Yoga is imperfect, only some actions can be done in this way, or else a general action may so proceed but only during periods of exaltation and illumination. When the Yoga is perfect, all action becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working of Prakriti no longer through or for the ego but at the will and for the enjoyment of the supreme Purusha. At a higher level this becomes the Truth of the absolute and universal Supreme expressed through the individual soul and worked out consciously through the nature, - no longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218, #KEYS
108:Fundamentally, whatever be the path one follows - whe- ther the path of surrender, consecration, knowledge-if one wants it to be perfect, it is always equally difficult, and there is but one way, one only, I know of only one: that is perfect sincerity, but perfect sincerity!
Do you know what perfect sincerity is?...
Never to try to deceive oneself, never let any part of the being try to find out a way of convincing the others, never to explain favourably what one does in order to have an excuse for what one wants to do, never to close one's eyes when something is unpleasant, never to let anything pass, telling oneself, "That is not important, next time it will be better."
Oh! It is very difficult. Just try for one hour and you will see how very difficult it is. Only one hour, to be totally, absolutely sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is exclusively the Divine.
"I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine."
Try - try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! And during that time take great care that there isn't a part of the vital or a part of the mind or a part of the physical being nicely hidden there, at the back, so that you don't see it (Mother hides her hands behind her back) and don't notice that it is not collaborating - sitting quietly there so that you don't unearth it... it says nothing, but it does not change, it hides itself. How many such parts! How many parts hide themselves! You put them in your pocket because you don't want to see them or else they get behind your back and sit there well-hidden, right in the middle of your back, so as not to be seen. When you go there with your torch - your torch of sincerity - you ferret out all the corners, everywhere, all the small corners which do not consent, the things which say "No" or those which do not move: "I am not going to budge. I am glued to this place of mine and nothing will make me move."... You have a torch there with you, and you flash it upon the thing, upon everything. You will see there are many of them there, behind your back, well stuck.
Try, just for an hour, try!
No more questions?
Nobody has anything to say? Then, au revoir, my children! ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-6, page no.132-133),#KEYS
109:Who could have thought that this tanned young man with gentle, dreamy eyes, long wavy hair parted in the middle and falling to the neck, clad in a common coarse Ahmedabad dhoti, a close-fitting Indian jacket, and old-fashioned slippers with upturned toes, and whose face was slightly marked with smallpox, was no other than Mister Aurobindo Ghose, living treasure of French, Latin and Greek?" Actually, Sri Aurobindo was not yet through with books; the Western momentum was still there; he devoured books ordered from Bombay and Calcutta by the case. "Aurobindo would sit at his desk," his Bengali teacher continues, "and read by the light of an oil lamp till one in the morning, oblivious of the intolerable mosquito bites. I would see him seated there in the same posture for hours on end, his eyes fixed on his book, like a yogi lost in the contemplation of the Divine, unaware of all that went on around him. Even if the house had caught fire, it would not have broken this concentration." He read English, Russian, German, and French novels, but also, in ever larger numbers, the sacred books of India, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, although he had never been in a temple except as an observer. "Once, having returned from the College," one of his friends recalls, "Sri Aurobindo sat down, picked up a book at random and started to read, while Z and some friends began a noisy game of chess. After half an hour, he put the book down and took a cup of tea. We had already seen him do this many times and were waiting eagerly for a chance to verify whether he read the books from cover to cover or only scanned a few pages here and there. Soon the test began. Z opened the book, read a line aloud and asked Sri Aurobindo to recite what followed. Sri Aurobindo concentrated for a moment, and then repeated the entire page without a single mistake. If he could read a hundred pages in half an hour, no wonder he could go through a case of books in such an incredibly short time." But Sri Aurobindo did not stop at the translations of the sacred texts; he began to study Sanskrit, which, typically, he learned by himself. When a subject was known to be difficult or impossible, he would refuse to take anyone's word for it, whether he were a grammarian, pandit, or clergyman, and would insist upon trying it himself. The method seemed to have some merit, for not only did he learn Sanskrit, but a few years later he discovered the lost meaning of the Veda. ~ Satprem, Sri Aurobindo Or The Adventure of Consciousness, #KEYS
110:10000 ::: The True Object of Spiritual Seeking:
To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiritual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable and all the rest is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to manifest Him,-that is, first of all to transform one's own limited consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, to live in the infinite Peace, Light, Love, Strength, Bliss, to become that in one's essential nature and, as a consequence, to be its vessel, channel, instrument in one's active nature. To bring into activity the principle of oneness on the material plane or to work for humanity is a mental mistranslation of the Truth-these things cannot be the first or true object of spiritual seeking. We must find the Self, the Divine, then only can we know what is the work the Self or the Divine demands from us. Until then our life and action can only be a help or means towards finding the Divine and it ought not to have any other purpose. As we grow in the inner consciousness, or as the spiritual Truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and action must indeed more and more flow from that, be one with that. But to decide beforehand by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, substituting the pure gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the material plane. To hold up a mental ideal or principle and impose that on the inner working brings the danger of limiting ourselves to a mental realisation or of impeding or even falsifying by a half-way formation the true growth into the full communion and union with the Divine and the free and intimate outflowing of His will in our life. This is a mistake of orientation to which the mind of today is especially prone. It is far better to approach the Divine for the Peace or Light or Bliss that the realisation of Him gives than to bring in these minor things which can divert us from the one thing needful. The divinisation of the material life also as well as the inner life is part of what we see as the Divine Plan, but it can only be fulfilled by an outflowing of the inner realisation, something that grows from within outward, not by the working out of a mental principle.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [T1],#KEYS
111:One can learn how to identify oneself. One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one's ego. For so long as one is shut up in one's ego, one can't make any progress.
How can it be done?
There are many ways. I'll tell you one.
When I was in Paris, I used to go to many places where there were gatherings of all kinds, people making all sorts of researches, spiritual (so-called spiritual), occult researches, etc. And once I was invited to meet a young lady (I believe she was Swedish) who had found a method of knowledge, exactly a method for learning. And so she explained it to us. We were three or four (her French was not very good but she was quite sure about what she was saying!); she said: "It's like this, you take an object or make a sign on a blackboard or take a drawing - that is not important - take whatever is most convenient for you. Suppose, for instance, that I draw for you... (she had a blackboard) I draw a design." She drew a kind of half-geometric design. "Now, you sit in front of the design and concentrate all your attention upon it - upon that design which is there. You concentrate, concentrate without letting anything else enter your consciousness - except that. Your eyes are fixed on the drawing and don't move at all. You are as it were hypnotised by the drawing. You look (and so she sat there, looking), you look, look, look.... I don't know, it takes more or less time, but still for one who is used to it, it goes pretty fast. You look, look, look, you become that drawing you are looking at. Nothing else exists in the world any longer except the drawing, and then, suddenly, you pass to the other side; and when you pass to the other side you enter a new consciousness, and you know."
We had a good laugh, for it was amusing. But it is quite true, it is an excellent method to practise. Naturally, instead of taking a drawing or any object, you may take, for instance, an idea, a few words. You have a problem preoccupying you, you don't know the solution of the problem; well, you objectify your problem in your mind, put it in the most precise, exact, succinct terms possible, and then concentrate, make an effort; you concentrate only on the words, and if possible on the idea they represent, that is, upon your problem - you concentrate, concentrate, concentrate until nothing else exists but that. And it is true that, all of a sudden, you have the feeling of something opening, and one is on the other side. The other side of what?... It means that you have opened a door of your consciousness, and instantaneously you have the solution of your problem. It is an excellent method of learning "how" to identify oneself.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 217 [T1],#KEYS
112:
Sweet Mother, is there a spiritual being in everybody?
That depends on what we call "being". If for "being" we substitute "presence", yes, there is a spiritual presence in everyone. If we call "being" an organised entity, fully conscious of itself, independent, and having the power of asserting itself and ruling the rest of the nature - no! The possibility of this independent and all-powerful being is in everybody, but the realisation is the result of long efforts which sometimes extend over many lives.
In everyone, even at the very beginning, this spiritual presence, this inner light is there.... In fact, it is everywhere. I have seen it many a time in certain animals. It is like a shining point which is the basis of a certain control and protection, something which, even in half-consciousness, makes possible a certain harmony with the rest of creation so that irreparable catastrophes may not be constant and general. Without this presence the disorder created by the violences and passions of the vital would be so great that at any moment they could bring about a general catastrophe, a sort of total destruction which would prevent the progress of Nature. That presence, that spiritual light - which could almost be called a spiritual consciousness - is within each being and all things, and because of it, in spite of all discordance, all passion, all violence, there is a minimum of general harmony which allows Nature's work to be accomplished.
And this presence becomes quite obvious in the human being, even the most rudimentary. Even in the most monstrous human being, in one who gives the impression of being an incarnation of a devil or a monster, there is something within exercising a sort of irresistible control - even in the worst, some things are impossible. And without this presence, if the being were controlled exclusively by the adverse forces, the forces of the vital, this impossibility would not exist.
Each time a wave of these monstrous adverse forces sweeps over the earth, one feels that nothing can ever stop the disorder and horror from spreading, and always, at a certain time, unexpectedly and inexplicably a control intervenes, and the wave is arrested, the catastrophe is not total. And this is because of the Presence, the supreme Presence, in matter.
But only in a few exceptional beings and after a long, very long work of preparation extending over many, many lives does this Presence change into a conscious, independent, fully organised being, all-powerful master of his dwelling-place, conscious enough, powerful enough, to be able to control not only this dwelling but what surrounds it and in a field of radiation and action that is more and more extensive... and effective.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, 339-340,#KEYS
113:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
114:root of the falsification and withdrawl of divine love :::
At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of the psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. Afterwards too, even when the seeker has opened to the Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries to pour it into life, he meets the power of obscuration and perversion of these lower Nature-forces. Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture the descending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego. Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light, they would hold it here prisoner as a tremendous sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and mental idealised chimera. If that falsification is permitted, the higher Light and Power and Bliss withdraw, there is a fall back to a lower status; or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way and mixture or is covered and even submerged by an inferior exaltation that is not the true Ananda. It is for this reason that Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrifice. It is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and the blind enthusiasms of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 166,#KEYS
115:In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal. Well, if it could always be, as it has been in the great period we are leaving, the faithful handmaid, severe, conscientious, clean-handed, luminous within its limits, a half-truth and not a reckless and presumptuous aberration.
A certain kind of Agnosticism is the final truth of all knowledge. For when we come to the end of whatever path, the universe appears as only a symbol or an appearance of an unknowable Reality which translates itself here into different systems of values, physical values, vital and sensational values, intellectual, ideal and spiritual values. The more That becomes real to us, the more it is seen to be always beyond defining thought and beyond formulating expression. "Mind attains not there, nor speech."3 And yet as it is possible to exaggerate, with the Illusionists, the unreality of the appearance, so it is possible to exaggerate the unknowableness of the Unknowable. When we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; but if not knowable by thought, It is attainable by a supreme effort of consciousness. There is even a kind of Knowledge which is one with Identity and by which, in a sense, It can be known. Certainly, that Knowledge cannot be reproduced successfully in the terms of thought and speech, but when we have attained to it, the result is a revaluation of That in the symbols of our cosmic consciousness, not only in one but in all the ranges of symbols, which results in a revolution of our internal being and, through the internal, of our external life. Moreover, there is also a kind of Knowledge through which That does reveal itself by all these names and forms of phenomenal existence which to the ordinary intelligence only conceal It. It is this higher but not highest process of Knowledge to which we can attain by passing the limits of the materialistic formula and scrutinising Life, Mind and Supermind in the phenomena that are characteristic of them and not merely in those subordinate movements by which they link themselves to Matter.
The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, 'Forth now and push forward also in other fields.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
116:It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less have any true control over the vast life around it. The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and newmodels increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 183, #KEYS
117:Of course we do." Dresden's voice was cutting. "But you're thinking too small. Building humanity's greatest empire is like building the world's largest anthill. Insignificant. There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point. What have they become since then? With another two billion years to advance?"
With a growing dread, Holden listened to Dresden speak. This speech had the air of something spoken before. Perhaps many times. And it had worked. It had convinced powerful people. It was why Protogen had stealth ships from the Earth shipyards and seemingly limitless behind-the-scenes support.
"We have a terrifying amount of catching up to do, gentlemen," Dresden was saying. "But fortunately we have the tool of our enemy to use in doing it."
"Catching up?" a soldier to Holden's left said. Dresden nodded at the man and smiled.
"The protomolecule can alter the host organism at the molecular level; it can create genetic change on the fly. Not just DNA, but any stable replicatoR But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change."
Holden interrupted. "If it was supposed to wipe out life on Earth and replace it with whatever the protomolecule's creators wanted, why turn it loose?"
"Excellent question," Dresden said, holding up one finger like a college professor about to deliver a lecture. "The protomolecule doesn't come with a user's manual. In fact, we've never before been able to actually watch it carry out its program. The molecule requires significant mass before it develops enough processing power to fulfill its directives. Whatever they are."
Dresden pointed at the screens covered with data around them.
"We are going to watch it at work. See what it intends to do. How it goes about doing it. And, hopefully, learn how to change that program in the process."
"You could do that with a vat of bacteria," Holden said.
"I'm not interested in remaking bacteria," Dresden said.
"You're fucking insane," Amos said, and took another step toward Dresden. Holden put a hand on the big mechanic's shoulder.
"So," Holden said. "You figure out how the bug works, and then what?"
"Then everything. Belters who can work outside a ship without wearing a suit. Humans capable of sleeping for hundreds of years at a time flying colony ships to the stars. No longer being bound to the millions of years of evolution inside one atmosphere of pressure at one g, slaves to oxygen and water. We decide what we want to be, and we reprogram ourselves to be that. That's what the protomolecule gives us."
Dresden had stood back up as he'd delivered this speech, his face shining with the zeal of a prophet.
"What we are doing is the best and only hope of humanity's survival. When we go out there, we will be facing gods."
"And if we don't go out?" Fred asked. He sounded thoughtful.
"They've already fired a doomsday weapon at us once," Dresden said.
The room was silent for a moment. Holden felt his certainty slip. He hated everything about Dresden's argument, but he couldn't quite see his way past it. He knew in his bones that something about it was dead wrong, but he couldn't find the words. Naomi's voice startled him.
"Did it convince them?" she asked.
"Excuse me?" Dresden said.
"The scientists. The technicians. Everyone you needed to make it happen. They actually had to do this. They had to watch the video of people dying all over Eros. They had to design those radioactive murder chambers. So unless you managed to round up every serial killer in the solar system and send them through a postgraduate program, how did you do this?"
"We modified our science team to remove ethical restraints."
Half a dozen clues clicked into place in Holden's head. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
118:Sweet Mother, how can we make our resolution very firm?
By wanting it to be very firm! (Laughter)
No, this seems like a joke... but it is absolutely true. One does not want it truly. There is always, if you... It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will see that you have decided that it will be like this, and then, beneath there is something which has not decided at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in order to rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are sincere and get hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which knows that there will come a second of indecision when it can rush out and make you do the thing you have decided not to do...
[] But if you really want it, nothing in the world can prevent you from doing what you want. It is because one doesn't know how to will it. It is because one is divided in one's will. If you are not divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody in the world can make you change your will.
But one doesn't know how to will it. In fact one doesn't even want to. These are velleities: "Well, it is like this.... It would be good if it were like that... yes, it would be better if it were like that... yes, it would be preferable if it were like that." But this is not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere in a corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and saying, "Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as well want the opposite." And to try, you see... Not like that, just wait... But one can always find a thousand excuses to do the opposite. And ah, just a tiny little wavering is enough... pftt... the thing swoops down and there it is. But if one wills, if one really knows that this is the thing, and truly wants this, and if one is oneself entirely concentrated in the will, I say that there is nothing in the world that can prevent one from doing it, from doing it or being obliged to do it. It depends on what it is.
One wants. Yes, one wants, like this (gestures). One wants: "Yes, yes, it would be better if it were like that. Yes, it would be finer also, more elegant."... But, eh, eh, after all one is a weak creature, isn't that so? And then one can always put the blame upon something else: "It is the influence coming from outside, it is all kinds of circumstances."
A breath has passed, you see. You don't know... something... a moment of unconsciousness... "Oh, I was not conscious." You are not conscious because you do not accept... And all this because you don't know how to will.
[] To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends three-fourths of one's life without being conscious of oneself and the reasons why one does things, is one a real being? One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when one begins to have a will. And one can't have a will unless one is unified.
And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish... there... a mass of good wills - and I am considering the better side of things and forgetting the bad wills - a mass of good wills, half-conscious and fluctuating....
Ah, that's all, my children. That's enough for today. There we are.
Only, put this into practice; just a little of what I have said, not all, eh, just a very little. There.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
119:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#KEYS
120:The ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians had some very interesting, dramatic ideas about that. For example-very briefly-there was a deity known as Marduk. Marduk was a Mesopotamian deity, and imagine this is sort of what happened. As an empire grew out of the post-ice age-15,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago-all these tribes came together. These tribes each had their own deity-their own image of the ideal. But then they started to occupy the same territory. One tribe had God A, and one tribe had God B, and one could wipe the other one out, and then it would just be God A, who wins. That's not so good, because maybe you want to trade with those people, or maybe you don't want to lose half your population in a war. So then you have to have an argument about whose God is going to take priority-which ideal is going to take priority.
What seems to happen is represented in mythology as a battle of the gods in celestial space. From a practical perspective, it's more like an ongoing dialog. You believe this; I believe this. You believe that; I believe this. How are we going to meld that together? You take God A, and you take God B, and maybe what you do is extract God C from them, and you say, 'God C now has the attributes of A and B.' And then some other tribes come in, and C takes them over, too. Take Marduk, for example. He has 50 different names, at least in part, of the subordinate gods-that represented the tribes that came together to make the civilization. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted. You think, 'this is important, and it works, because your tribe is alive, and so we'll take the best of both, if we can manage it, and extract out something, that's even more abstract, that covers both of us.'
I'll give you a couple of Marduk's interesting features. He has eyes all the way around his head. He's elected by all the other gods to be king God. That's the first thing. That's quite cool. They elect him because they're facing a terrible threat-sort of like a flood and a monster combined. Marduk basically says that, if they elect him top God, he'll go out and stop the flood monster, and they won't all get wiped out. It's a serious threat. It's chaos itself making its comeback. All the gods agree, and Marduk is the new manifestation. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. When he fights, he fights this deity called Tiamat. We need to know that, because the word 'Tiamat' is associated with the word 'tehom.' Tehom is the chaos that God makes order out of at the beginning of time in Genesis, so it's linked very tightly to this story. Marduk, with his eyes and his capacity to speak magic words, goes out and confronts Tiamat, who's like this watery sea dragon. It's a classic Saint George story: go out and wreak havoc on the dragon. He cuts her into pieces, and he makes the world out of her pieces. That's the world that human beings live in.
The Mesopotamian emperor acted out Marduk. He was allowed to be emperor insofar as he was a good Marduk. That meant that he had eyes all the way around his head, and he could speak magic; he could speak properly. We are starting to understand, at that point, the essence of leadership. Because what's leadership? It's the capacity to see what the hell's in front of your face, and maybe in every direction, and maybe the capacity to use your language properly to transform chaos into order. God only knows how long it took the Mesopotamians to figure that out. The best they could do was dramatize it, but it's staggeringly brilliant. It's by no means obvious, and this chaos is a very strange thing. This is a chaos that God wrestled with at the beginning of time.
Chaos is half psychological and half real. There's no other way to really describe it. Chaos is what you encounter when you're blown into pieces and thrown into deep confusion-when your world falls apart, when your dreams die, when you're betrayed. It's the chaos that emerges, and the chaos is everything it wants, and it's too much for you. That's for sure. It pulls you down into the underworld, and that's where the dragons are. All you've got at that point is your capacity to bloody well keep your eyes open, and to speak as carefully and as clearly as you can. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get through it that way and come out the other side. It's taken people a very long time to figure that out, and it looks, to me, that the idea is erected on the platform of our ancient ancestors, maybe tens of millions of years ago, because we seem to represent that which disturbs us deeply using the same system that we used to represent serpentile, or other, carnivorous predators. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,#KEYS
121:Death & Fame
When I die
I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East River bury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey, B'nai Israel Cemetery
But I want a big funeral St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Mark's Church, the largest synagogue in Manhattan
First, there's family, brother, nephews, spry aged Edith stepmother 96, Aunt Honey from old Newark,
Doctor Joel, cousin Mindy, brother Gene one eyed one ear'd, sister-in-law blonde Connie, five nephews, stepbrothers & sisters their grandchildren, companion Peter Orlovsky, caretakers Rosenthal & Hale, Bill Morgan--
Next, teacher Trungpa Vajracharya's ghost mind, Gelek Rinpoche, there Sakyong Mipham, Dalai Lama alert, chance visiting America, Satchitananda Swami Shivananda, Dehorahava Baba, Karmapa XVI, Dudjom Rinpoche, Katagiri & Suzuki Roshi's phantoms Baker, Whalen, Daido Loorie, Qwong, Frail White-haired Kapleau Roshis, Lama Tarchen --
Then, most important, lovers over half-century Dozens, a hundred, more, older fellows bald & rich young boys met naked recently in bed, crowds surprised to see each other, innumerable, intimate, exchanging memories
"He taught me to meditate, now I'm an old veteran of the thousandday retreat --"
"I played music on subway platforms, I'm straight but loved him he loved me"
"I felt more love from him at 19 than ever from anyone"
"We'd lie under covers gossip, read my poetry, hug & kiss belly to belly arms round each other"
"I'd always get into his bed with underwear on & by morning my skivvies would be on the floor"
"Japanese, always wanted take it up my bum with a master"
"We'd talk all night about Kerouac & Cassady sit Buddhalike then sleep in his captain's bed."
"He seemed to need so much affection, a shame not to make him happy"
"I was lonely never in bed nude with anyone before, he was so gentle my stomach shuddered when he traced his finger along my abdomen nipple to hips-- "
"All I did was lay back eyes closed, he'd bring me to come with mouth & fingers along my waist"
"He gave great head"
So there be gossip from loves of 1948, ghost of Neal Cassady commin-gling with flesh and youthful blood of 1997 and surprise -- "You too? But I thought you were straight!"
"I am but Ginsberg an exception, for some reason he pleased me."
"I forgot whether I was straight gay queer or funny, was myself, tender and affectionate to be kissed on the top of my head, my forehead throat heart & solar plexus, mid-belly. on my prick, tickled with his tongue my behind"
"I loved the way he'd recite 'But at my back allways hear/ time's winged chariot hurrying near,' heads together, eye to eye, on a pillow --"
Among lovers one handsome youth straggling the rear
"I studied his poetry class, 17 year-old kid, ran some errands to his walk-up flat, seduced me didn't want to, made me come, went home, never saw him again never wanted to... "
"He couldn't get it up but loved me," "A clean old man." "He made sure I came first"
This the crowd most surprised proud at ceremonial place of honor--
Then poets & musicians -- college boys' grunge bands -- age-old rock star Beatles, faithful guitar accompanists, gay classical con-ductors, unknown high Jazz music composers, funky trum-peters, bowed bass & french horn black geniuses, folksinger fiddlers with dobro tamborine harmonica mandolin auto-harp pennywhistles & kazoos
Next, artist Italian romantic realists schooled in mystic 60's India, Late fauve Tuscan painter-poets, Classic draftsman Massa-chusets surreal jackanapes with continental wives, poverty sketchbook gesso oil watercolor masters from American provinces
Then highschool teachers, lonely Irish librarians, delicate biblio-philes, sex liberation troops nay armies, ladies of either sex
"I met him dozens of times he never remembered my name I loved him anyway, true artist"
"Nervous breakdown after menopause, his poetry humor saved me from suicide hospitals"
"Charmant, genius with modest manners, washed sink, dishes my studio guest a week in Budapest"
Thousands of readers, "Howl changed my life in Libertyville Illinois"
"I saw him read Montclair State Teachers College decided be a poet-- "
"He turned me on, I started with garage rock sang my songs in Kansas City"
"Kaddish made me weep for myself & father alive in Nevada City"
"Father Death comforted me when my sister died Boston l982"
"I read what he said in a newsmagazine, blew my mind, realized others like me out there"
Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gestures
Then Journalists, editors's secretaries, agents, portraitists & photo-graphy aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural historians come to witness the historic funeral Super-fans, poetasters, aging Beatnicks & Deadheads, autograph-hunters, distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkers
Everyone knew they were part of 'History" except the deceased who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was alive
February 22, 1997
~ Allen Ginsberg,#KEYS
122:It is natural from the point of view of the Yoga to divide into two categories the activities of the human mind in its pursuit of knowledge. There is the supreme supra-intellectual knowledge which concentrates itself on the discovery of the One and Infinite in its transcendence or tries to penetrate by intuition, contemplation, direct inner contact into the ultimate truths behind the appearances of Nature; there is the lower science which diffuses itself in an outward knowledge of phenomena, the disguises of the One and Infinite as it appears to us in or through the more exterior forms of the world-manifestation around us. These two, an upper and a lower hemisphere, in the form of them constructed or conceived by men within the mind's ignorant limits, have even there separated themselves, as they developed, with some sharpness.... Philosophy, sometimes spiritual or at least intuitive, sometimes abstract and intellectual, sometimes intellectualising spiritual experience or supporting with a logical apparatus the discoveries of the spirit, has claimed always to take the fixation of ultimate Truth as its province. But even when it did not separate itself on rarefied metaphysical heights from the knowledge that belongs to the practical world and the pursuit of ephemeral objects, intellectual Philosophy by its habit of abstraction has seldom been a power for life. It has been sometimes powerful for high speculation, pursuing mental Truth for its own sake without any ulterior utility or object, sometimes for a subtle gymnastic of the mind in a mistily bright cloud-land of words and ideas, but it has walked or acrobatised far from the more tangible realities of existence. Ancient Philosophy in Europe was more dynamic, but only for the few; in India in its more spiritualised forms, it strongly influenced but without transforming the life of the race.... Religion did not attempt, like Philosophy, to live alone on the heights; its aim was rather to take hold of man's parts of life even more than his parts of mind and draw them Godwards; it professed to build a bridge between spiritual Truth and the vital and material human existence; it strove to subordinate and reconcile the lower to the higher, make life serviceable to God, Earth obedient to Heaven. It has to be admitted that too often this necessary effort had the opposite result of making Heaven a sanction for Earth's desires; for, continually, the religious idea has been turned into an excuse for the worship and service of the human ego. Religion, leaving constantly its little shining core of spiritual experience, has lost itself in the obscure mass of its ever extending ambiguous compromises with life: in attempting to satisfy the thinking mind, it more often succeeded in oppressing or fettering it with a mass of theological dogmas; while seeking to net the human heart, it fell itself into pits of pietistic emotionalism and sensationalism; in the act of annexing the vital nature of man to dominate it, it grew itself vitiated and fell a prey to all the fanaticism, homicidal fury, savage or harsh turn for oppression, pullulating falsehood, obstinate attachment to ignorance to which that vital nature is prone; its desire to draw the physical in man towards God betrayed it into chaining itself to ecclesiastic mechanism, hollow ceremony and lifeless ritual. The corruption of the best produced the worst by that strange chemistry of the power of life which generates evil out of good even as it can also generate good out of evil. At the same time in a vain effort at self-defence against this downward gravitation, Religion was driven to cut existence into two by a division of knowledge, works, art, life itself into two opposite categories, the spiritual and the worldly, religious and mundane, sacred and profane; but this defensive distinction itself became conventional and artificial and aggravated rather than healed the disease.... On their side Science and Art and the knowledge of Life, although at first they served or lived in the shadow of Religion, ended by emancipating themselves, became estranged or hostile, or have even recoiled with indifference, contempt or scepticism from what seem to them the cold, barren and distant or unsubstantial and illusory heights of unreality to which metaphysical Philosophy and Religion aspire. For a time the divorce has been as complete as the one-sided intolerance of the human mind could make it and threatened even to end in a complete extinction of all attempt at a higher or a more spiritual knowledge. Yet even in the earthward life a higher knowledge is indeed the one thing that is throughout needful, and without it the lower sciences and pursuits, however fruitful, however rich, free, miraculous in the abundance of their results, become easily a sacrifice offered without due order and to false gods; corrupting, hardening in the end the heart of man, limiting his mind's horizons, they confine in a stony material imprisonment or lead to a final baffling incertitude and disillusionment. A sterile agnosticism awaits us above the brilliant phosphorescence of a half-knowledge that is still the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, #KEYS
123:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
124:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
125:
Can a Yogi attain to a state of consciousness in which he can know all things, answer all questions, relating even to abstruse scientific problems, such as, for example, the theory of relativity?
Theoretically and in principle it is not impossible for a Yogi to know everything; all depends upon the Yogi.
But there is knowledge and knowledge. The Yogi does not know in the way of the mind. He does not know everything in the sense that he has access to all possible information or because he contains all the facts of the universe in his mind or because his consciousness is a sort of miraculous encyclopaedia. He knows by his capacity for a containing or dynamic identity with things and persons and forces. Or he knows because he lives in a plane of consciousness or is in contact with a consciousness in which there is the truth and the knowledge.
If you are in the true consciousness, the knowledge you have will also be of the truth. Then, too, you can know directly, by being one with what you know. If a problem is put before you, if you are asked what is to be done in a particular matter, you can then, by looking with enough attention and concentration, receive spontaneously the required knowledge and the true answer. It is not by any careful application of theory that you reach the knowledge or by working it out through a mental process. The scientific mind needs these methods to come to its conclusions. But the Yogi's knowledge is direct and immediate; it is not deductive. If an engineer has to find out the exact position for the building of an arch, the line of its curve and the size of its opening, he does it by calculation, collating and deducing from his information and data. But a Yogi needs none of these things; he looks, has the vision of the thing, sees that it is to be done in this way and not in another, and this seeing is his knowledge.
Although it may be true in a general way and in a certain sense that a Yogi can know all things and can answer all questions from his own field of vision and consciousness, yet it does not follow that there are no questions whatever of any kind to which he would not or could not answer. A Yogi who has the direct knowledge, the knowledge of the true truth of things, would not care or perhaps would find it difficult to answer questions that belong entirely to the domain of human mental constructions. It may be, he could not or would not wish to solve problems and difficulties you might put to him which touch only the illusion of things and their appearances. The working of his knowledge is not in the mind. If you put him some silly mental query of that character, he probably would not answer. The very common conception that you can put any ignorant question to him as to some super-schoolmaster or demand from him any kind of information past, present or future and that he is bound to answer, is a foolish idea. It is as inept as the expectation from the spiritual man of feats and miracles that would satisfy the vulgar external mind and leave it gaping with wonder.
Moreover, the term "Yogi" is very vague and wide. There are many types of Yogis, many lines or ranges of spiritual or occult endeavour and different heights of achievement, there are some whose powers do not extend beyond the mental level; there are others who have gone beyond it. Everything depends on the field or nature of their effort, the height to which they have arrived, the consciousness with which they have contact or into which they enter.
Do not scientists go sometimes beyond the mental plane? It is said that Einstein found his theory of relativity not through any process of reasoning, but through some kind of sudden inspiration. Has that inspiration anything to do with the Supermind?
The scientist who gets an inspiration revealing to him a new truth, receives it from the intuitive mind. The knowledge comes as a direct perception in the higher mental plane illumined by some other light still farther above. But all that has nothing to do with the action of Supermind and this higher mental level is far removed from the supramental plane. Men are too easily inclined to believe that they have climbed into regions quite divine when they have only gone above the average level. There are many stages between the ordinary human mind and the Supermind, many grades and many intervening planes. If an ordinary man were to get into direct contact even with one of these intermediate planes, he would be dazzled and blinded, would be crushed under the weight of the sense of immensity or would lose his balance; and yet it is not the Supermind.
Behind the common idea that a Yogi can know all things and answer all questions is the actual fact that there is a plane in the mind where the memory of everything is stored and remains always in existence. All mental movements that belong to the life of the earth are memorised and registered in this plane. Those who are capable of going there and care to take the trouble, can read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of the body. Then only you can enter into that region and see. But if you are sufficiently interested to make this effort, you can arrive there and read what is written in the earth's memory.
Thus, if you go deep into silence, you can reach a level of consciousness on which it is not impossible for you to receive answers to all your questions. And if there is one who is consciously open to the plenary truth of the supermind, in constant contact with it, he can certainly answer any question that is worth an answer from the supramental Light. The queries put must come from some sense of the truth and reality behind things. There are many questions and much debated problems that are cobwebs woven of mere mental abstractions or move on the illusory surface of things. These do not pertain to real knowledge; they are a deformation of knowledge, their very substance is of the ignorance. Certainly the supramental knowledge may give an answer, its own answer, to the problems set by the mind's ignorance; but it is likely that it would not be at all satisfactory or perhaps even intelligible to those who ask from the mental level. You must not expect the supramental to work in the way of the mind or demand that the knowledge in truth should be capable of being pieced together with the half-knowledge in ignorance. The scheme of the mind is one thing, but Supermind is quite another and it would no longer be supramental if it adapted itself to the exigencies of the mental scheme. The two are incommensurable and cannot be put together.
When the consciousness has attained to supramental joys, does it no longer take interest in the things of the mind?
The supramental does not take interest in mental things in the same way as the mind. It takes its own interest in all the movements of the universe, but it is from a different point of view and with a different vision. The world presents to it an entirely different appearance; there is a reversal of outlook and everything is seen from there as other than what it seems to the mind and often even the opposite. Things have another meaning; their aspect, their motion and process, everything about them, are watched with other eyes. Everything here is followed by the supermind; the mind movements and not less the vital, the material movements, all the play of the universe have for it a very deep interest, but of another kind. It is about the same difference as that between the interest taken in a puppet-play by one who holds the strings and knows what the puppets are to do and the will that moves them and that they can do only what it moves them to do, and the interest taken by another who observes the play but sees only what is happening from moment to moment and knows nothing else. The one who follows the play and is outside its secret has a stronger, an eager and passionate interest in what will happen and he gives an excited attention to its unforeseen or dramatic events; the other, who holds the strings and moves the show, is unmoved and tranquil. There is a certain intensity of interest which comes from ignorance and is bound up with illusion, and that must disappear when you are out of the ignorance. The interest that human beings take in things founds itself on the illusion; if that were removed, they would have no interest at all in the play; they would find it dry and dull. That is why all this ignorance, all this illusion has lasted so long; it is because men like it, because they cling to it and its peculiar kind of appeal that it endures.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 93?
,#KEYS
126:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Well begun is half done. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 2:What's well begun is half done. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 3:Loving is half of believing. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 4:Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 5:Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 6:To love is the half of to believe. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 7:Happiness has a very short half-life. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 8:Social sorrow loses half its pain. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 9:The first blow is half the battle. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 10:He hears but half who hears one party only. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 11:Half the truth is often a great lie. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 12:A bird in a cage is not half a bird. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 13:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 14:To pray well is the better half of study. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 15:Half the people you know are below average. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 16:Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 17:He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 18:He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 19:His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 20:You have to break in half to love somebody. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 21:Docility is the observable half of reason. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 22:Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 23:You would have to be half-mad to dream me up. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 24:Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 25:One's not half two. It's two are halves of one. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 26:To pray diligently is more than half the task. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 27:Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 28:Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 29:A good front is half the battle in love or war. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 30:A man prepared has half fought the battle. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 31:He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin! ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 32:To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 33:A good half of the art of living is resilience. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 34:I broke that town in half like a wooden match. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 35:She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 36:Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 37:He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 38:What happens if you get scared half to death twice? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 39:Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 40:Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 41:A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 42:Half of the people in the world are below average. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 43:The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 44:The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 45:A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 46:Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 47:God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 48:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 49:The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 50:Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 51:He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 52:A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 53:Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 54:Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 55:I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 56:To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 57:In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 58:One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 59:Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 60:I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 61:Night is the other half of life, and the better half. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 62:So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 63:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 64:The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 65:Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 66:Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 67:The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 68:To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 69:In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 70:In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 71:…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half… ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 72:If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 73:Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 74:A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 75:Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 76:After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 77:If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 78:I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 79:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 80:Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 81:Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 82:Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 83:Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 84:It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 85:Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 86:When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 87:It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 88:The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 89:A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 90:He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 91:Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees? ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 92:There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 93:To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 94:A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 95:My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 96:Uncertain whose the narrowest span,& 97:For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 98:Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 99:If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 100:I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 101:In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 102:One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 103:There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 104:You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 105:Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 106:The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 107:Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 108:I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 109:My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 110:The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 111:A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 112:Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 113:A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 114:A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 115:If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 116:A fly was very close to being called a "land" because that's what it does half the time. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 117:The Absolute can be reached by absolute devotion only. Don't be half-hearted. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 118:And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 119:Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 120:Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 121:Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 122:The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 123:Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 124:Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 125:If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 126:The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 127:An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 128:The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 129:I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 130:A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 131:I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 132:God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 133:She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 134:If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 135:No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 136:No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My √Åntonia. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 137:Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 138:Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 139:I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 140:Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 141:You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 142:We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 143:We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 144:A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 145:We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 146:Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 147:Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 148:I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 149:If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 150:Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 151:You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 152:It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 153:Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 154:Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 155:We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 156:Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 157:If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 158:Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 159:A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 160:To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 161:Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 162:We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 163:We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 164:Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 165:Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 166:The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 167:At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 168:He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 169:If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 170:A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 171:If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 172:Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 173:Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 174:It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 175:Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 176:The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 177:There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 178:If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half... God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 179:I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 180:Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 181:A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; & 182:A drainless shower / Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme power; / & 183:Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 184:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 185:This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 186:The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 187:What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 188:Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 189:Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 190:.. is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 191:I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 192:Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 193:Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 194:If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 195:If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half! ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 196:We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 197:We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 198:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 199:Speak English!' said the Eaglet. & 200:They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 201:Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 202:Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 203:The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 204:I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 205:That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 206:The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 207:I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 208:Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 209:... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 210:A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 211:Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 212:It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 213:Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 214:It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 215:The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 216:The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 217:I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 218:We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 219:Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 220:I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 221:I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever& 222:Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 223:I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 224:It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 225:If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 226:The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 227:There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 228:Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 229:I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 230:Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 231:A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 232:I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 233:It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 234:Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 235:The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 236:About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 237:If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 238:What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 239:Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 240:If general perception changes from seeing the glass as & 241:It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 242:I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 243:Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 244:A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 245:... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 246:The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 247:There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 248:I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 249:Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 250:I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 251:Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole - two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone! ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 252:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 253:To avoid falling into treacherous traps, it is best to consider that you have covered half your journey only when you have walked ninety percent of the road. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 254:With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet! ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 255:So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 256:I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 257:I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after & 258:The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 259:If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 260:One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 261:Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 262:I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 263:Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 264:If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 265:I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 266:Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 267:If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 268:It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 269:It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 270:Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 271:Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 272:A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 273:I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 274:My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 275:She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 276:Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 277:Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 278:I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 279:So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 280:There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 281:While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 282:People are always asking me when Im going to retire. Why should I? Ive got it two ways - Im still making movies, and Im a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 283:I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 284:People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 285:The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 286:I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 287:Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 288:Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 289:Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 290:Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 291:I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 292:There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 293:If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 294:One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 295:Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion) ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 296:I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 297:To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 298:Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 299:It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law... that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 300:It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 301:I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 302:there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 303:This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine& 304:Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 305:Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 306:Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 307:And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ringÔªø passed out of all knowledge. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 308:I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along‚Ķand then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‚Äòdark ages‚Äô! ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 309:I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 310:No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 311:Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 312:Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 313:The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges? ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 314:It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 315:In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 316:He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 317:The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 318:You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 319:.. is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 320:Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 321:I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons? ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 322:Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 323:Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 324:We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 325:A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal... having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 326:Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 327:There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 328:Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 329:Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 330:Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 331:Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 332:I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 333:He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 334:They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 335:What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.So why is it I get to thinking that way?I puzzled. That’s because you’re only half-living.she said briskly. The other half is still untapped somewhere. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 336:Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. & 337:God is favourable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 338:I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 339:I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 340:Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 341:I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 342:Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 343:The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 344:darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 345:Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 346:God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll." ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 347:... the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him... " - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 348:... those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 349:Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 350:Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 351:In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 352:When I become embroiled with my story I find myself living in a sort of trance. I’m certain I know what’s going on, even though I really don’t. I exist in a state of numbness that I call normality and I feel only half alive. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 353:When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 354:Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 355:We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 356:You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 357:I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 358:Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 359:I think it's just a case in the second half where we stopped penetrating and dishing the ball out. We're an effective team when we do that. We just played the way Union wanted us to - or probably better put, the way they made us. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 360:Denying grief her power squelches your vitality. You can dream and laugh and march on, but until you swallow the bitter tea that Grief has brewed, things won’t be as vibrant or grounded as they could be. And that’s half dead. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 361:and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting? ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 362:If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 363:For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 364:I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 365:I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 366:... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 367:Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 368:I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 369:After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat? ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 370:It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 371:When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 372:All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 373:[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 374:I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 375:What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 376:At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 377:After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 378:We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 379:George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 380:In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 381:It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 382:We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 383:Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 384:if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 385:Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain& 386:The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 387:Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 388:Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 389:The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 390:As you move to the top, remember the story of the pump. If you start pumping casually or half -heartedly, you will pump forever before anything happens. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 391:I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 392:let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 393:Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 394:Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 395:I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 396:The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 397:The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 398:He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 399:He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 400:The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 401:Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 402:I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 403:All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 404:Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 405:If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 406:I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 407:The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment! ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 408:I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 409:While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 410:No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt& 411:It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 412:There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 413:The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 414:Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 415:Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass& 416:I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 417:Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, —lasting as space and time, —embosomed in time and space. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 418:There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 419:You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 420:Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 421:Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 422:Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 423:There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 424:Darwin speculated that music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 425:There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 426:We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 427:In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 428:Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he & 429:If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 430:I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 431:The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 432:Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have an idea or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through. I think it's half the battle right there. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 433:Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 434:Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 435:Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama! ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 436:Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 437:Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half people's hunger. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 438:A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 439:My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 440:All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 441:Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 442:A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 443:Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 444:Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 445:The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon& 446:All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 447:Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people." ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 448:ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (... ) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 449:Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 450:The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 451:This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 452:The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 453:Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 454:Alice laughed. & 455:Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 456:Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the morning, a family should sit together and worship. Archana may be performed by chanting the 108 or 1000 Names of Devi or our chosen deity. We can also chant our mantra, meditate or sing hymns at this time. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 457:Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 458:One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 459:The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 460:Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery. But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye, And all the little poisoned ways of wrong. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 461:So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 462:Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it& 463:The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 464:Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 465:Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 466:Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 467:Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?" ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 468:You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 469:We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 470:It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 471:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 472:There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 473:There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 474:I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 475:If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 476:Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 477:All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 478:There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think & 479:& 480:Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 481:Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 482:Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 483:I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 484:Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 485:My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 486:At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 487:There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over‚àíbrimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile of the Madonnas the soul is seen to flood the psyche. The moon of the face becomes full; the equation is perfect. A minute, a half‚àíminute, a second later, the miracle has passed. Something intangible , something inexplicable, was given out-and received. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 488:Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block! ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 489:No person can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teachers who walk in the shadow of the temple, among their followers, give not of their wisdom but rather of their faith and their lovingness. If they are indeed wise they do not bid you enter the house of their wisdom, but rather lead you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 490:To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 491:Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 492:…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 493:Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 494:Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour? ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 495:Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 496:A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 497:For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‚ÄòWe came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 498:Approximately one-third of all homes in 1940 did not have running water, indoor toilets, or bathtub/showers, and more than half had no central heating. If you were twenty-five years or older in 1940, you would have stood only a 40 percent chance of having completed the eighth grade, a 25 percent chance of having graduated from high school, and only a 5 percent chance of having finished college. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 499:It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 500:A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:half-sovereign ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
2:Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
3:Half-learn'd witlings ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
4:I am half child, half ancient. ~ Bj rk, #NFDB
5:Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
6:Believing is half the cure. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
7:Hell ain't half full. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
8:My life is only half full ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
9:Pete sat half up, ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
10:When half-gods go ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
11:A work well begun is half-ended. ~ Plato, #NFDB
12:Bewitched is half of everything. ~ Nelly, #NFDB
13:Half as sober as a judge. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
14:Half of sex is the dreaming ~ Sasha Grey, #NFDB
15:Music is half the film. ~ Matthew Vaughn, #NFDB
16:What's well begun is half done. ~ Horace, #NFDB
17:Who has begun has half done.
~ Horace,#NFDB
18:Women hold up half the sky. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
19:A slave is but half a man. ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB
20:Half the fun is plan to plan ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
21:I am half agony, half hope. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
22:Welcome to Camp Half-Blood ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
23:Who's started has half finished. ~ Horace, #NFDB
24:All people are half actors. ~ Dana Andrews, #NFDB
25:Loving is half of believing. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
26:The wife, or bitter half. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
27:Beginning is half done. ~ Robert H Schuller, #NFDB
28:Half Asleep in Frogg pajamas. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
29:Half of tradition is a lie. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
30:I am half agony, half hope... ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
31:I'm too old to do things by half ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
32:The beginning is half of the whole. ~ Plato, #NFDB
33:90% of the game is half mental. ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
34:are obsessed with health—half ~ Ben Goldacre, #NFDB
35:Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
36:Pleasing ware is half sold. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
37:Suddenly I'm not half the girl ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
38:The half is greater than the whole. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
39:be the half-day at the Grammar ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
40:Brooklyn praise is half slander. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
41:Rub a half potato on your wart ~ Richard Hugo, #NFDB
42:The half-life of love is forever ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
43:Trials and half a dozen smaller ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
44:A bus cuts the world in half... ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
45:half-finished meatball sandwich ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
46:I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
47:The half life of love is forever. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
48:The half-life of love is forever. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
49:The half-life of love is forever. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
50:A half-blood of the eldest dogs… ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
51:a problem well put is half solved. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
52:Courage in danger is half the battle. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
53:Half a loaf is better than none. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
54:Half my fan mail comes from Japan. ~ Ben Barnes, #NFDB
55:Half of bravery is perspective. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
56:Hesitation is a half way to death ~ Jan Guillou, #NFDB
57:I do not sleep. I half-exist. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
58:showed trees, sky, half a cat, ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
59:The world meets nobody half way. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
60:watermelon cut in half and it was ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
61:Half obedience is full rebellion. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
62:half the size of the whites. There ~ Maureen Lee, #NFDB
63:Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
64:... I'm a half-empty kind of girl. ~ T Greenwood, #NFDB
65:Thou, sun, art half as happy as we. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
66:To love is the half of to believe. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
67:You are half fairytale, half girl. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
68:A half-blood of the eldest dogs... ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
69:Aren't all dreads half desires? ~ Howard Jacobson, #NFDB
70:Half is done when the beginning is done. ~ Horace, #NFDB
71:Half my life is an act of revision. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
72:Half of an Assassin is just an Ass. ~ Eve Forward, #NFDB
73:Half of my employees are women. ~ Christie Hefner, #NFDB
74:Half talent is no talent. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
75:I am a stranger to half measures. ~ Marita Golden, #NFDB
76:I'm not greedy. I just want my half. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
77:Half done is far from done. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
78:I've spent half my life on planes. ~ Alice Englert, #NFDB
79:Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
80:Often, too, they would slip half a ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
81:Only the half-mad are wholly alive. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
82:Staring is half the victory in love. ~ R K Narayan, #NFDB
83:What is the half-life of information? ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
84:You find a flower half-buried in leaves, ~ Hanshan, #NFDB
85:Better is half a loaf than no bread. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
86:Can't you see I'm already half dead. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
87:Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
88:Happiness has a very short half-life. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
89:Lynn gave him a half-hearted shrug. ~ Barbara Davis, #NFDB
90:ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
91:Not seeing is half-believing. ~ Vita Sackville West, #NFDB
92:out the wrong signal, half a dozen ~ K Natwar Singh, #NFDB
93:Social sorrow loses half its pain. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
94:were half dead from too little water, ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
95:A bird half wakened in the lunar noon ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
96:A City that parlies is half gotten. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
97:And if you dare to put so much as half ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB
98:first half of the fifteenth century, ~ Thupten Jinpa, #NFDB
99:Half a league, half a league, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
100:Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
101:Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season. ~ Charles Barkley, #NFDB
102:He who is afraid is half beaten. ~ Alexander Suvorov, #NFDB
103:I have not told the half of what I saw. ~ Marco Polo, #NFDB
104:I’m one half of a two-piece puzzle. ~ Charles Martin, #NFDB
105:O lyric love! half angel half bird ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
106:She's half mad and three parts drunk. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
107:The beginning is half of every action. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
108:There is always half a truth in cliche. ~ Sarah Hall, #NFDB
109:There’s no such thing as half family. ~ Sasha Martin, #NFDB
110:You broke me in half when you left. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
111:A bold onset is half the battle. ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi, #NFDB
112:Does my being half-naked bother you? ~ Taylor Lautner, #NFDB
113:Half a truth is often a great lie ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
114:Half the battle is just showing up. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
115:I am completely half afraid to think. ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
116:I had glanced half down the list of ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
117:it’s half-past nowhere everywhere. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
118:Karma was a bitch and a half. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
119:Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
120:Sorry. I’m too much man for half a woman. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
121:The bastards murdered half my family. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
122:The first blow is half the battle. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
123:There are no half-hearted champions. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
124:understanding a question is half an answer ~ Socrates, #NFDB
125:We only half live when we only half think. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
126:As God is my witness, he is broken in half! ~ Jim Ross, #NFDB
127:Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word. ~ Glenn Frey, #NFDB
128:Half a loaf is better than no bread ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
129:I was drunk and half killed with fuckin ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
130:Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
131:Two half truths do not make a truth. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
132:Understanding a question is half an answer. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
133:A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
134:Either sex alone is half itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
135:Half-heartedness never won a battle. ~ William McKinley, #NFDB
136:He hears but half who hears one party only. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
137:Nobody will buy a half-cooked food! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
138:Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
139:To live a life half dead, a living death. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
140:A fault confessed is half redressed. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
141:does he not remember he is half woman. ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
142:Don't waste your death on a half assed life ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
143:exactly half the phenomenal world is gone ~ Paul Monette, #NFDB
144:Floods lit the other half of the building. ~ Gwenda Bond, #NFDB
145:Give me a chance, Half-Pint, I'm all in. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
146:Half a loaf being better than none, I ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
147:Half the truth is often a great lie. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
148:Half-truths are the devil's IOUs. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
149:Half-wits talk much, but say little. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
150:I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag. ~ Randy Newman, #NFDB
151:Im a hoot and a half, I like to think. ~ Xosha Roquemore, #NFDB
152:I'm the definition of half man, half drugs. ~ Puff Daddy, #NFDB
153:I see the glass half full...but of poison. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
154:I, the half-mad mourner of buried days, ~ Anna Akhmatova, #NFDB
155:It's 90% mental. The other half is physical ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
156:I wondered about the half-life of regret. ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
157:Ninety percent of this game is half mental. ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
158:Reason, you'll always be half-blind. ~ Marguerite Porete, #NFDB
159:Two heads are twice as good as half many. ~ James D Doss, #NFDB
160:We talked filth for a pleasant half hour. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
161:You'd have to be half mad to dream me up ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
162:A bird in a cage is not half a bird. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
163:A life lived in fear is a life half lived. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
164:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
165:Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
166:I know when something is kind of half-baked. ~ Bill Budge, #NFDB
167:Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
168:Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
169:Talent without tact is only half talent. ~ Horace Greeley, #NFDB
170:the pile again. A half hour later, I got ~ Paul Kemprecos, #NFDB
171:They mean half-Jew. Keep your voice down. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
172:To pray well is the better half of study. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
173:Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. ~ Horace, #NFDB
174:America is half a world gone mad. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
175:Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
176:can’t do it while caught in this half-life! ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
177:cut you in half then I’d have a half-brother! ~ Judy Blume, #NFDB
178:Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream ~ Julia Louis Dreyfus, #NFDB
179:Half a calamity is better than a whole one. ~ T E Lawrence, #NFDB
180:Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
181:He is half of my soul, as the poets say. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
182:He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
183:I am too full of life to be half-loved. ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo, #NFDB
184:I dont know you. And you don't know the half of it. ~ Bono, #NFDB
185:in a voice with half the steps missing. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
186:In half an hour, I'll know more than you do. ~ Alfred Delp, #NFDB
187:I work out two, two and a half hours a day. ~ Henry Cavill, #NFDB
188:Pay twice as much and buy half as many. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
189:She was not a half. She was wholly her own. ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
190:That's half of heroing. Noticing things. ~ G Willow Wilson, #NFDB
191:Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? ~ Emilie Autumn, #NFDB
192:A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
193:Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month. ~ Geri Halliwell, #NFDB
194:Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
195:Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
196:Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
197:I eat the same foods but half the quantity. ~ Myleene Klass, #NFDB
198:I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
199:I have one half of one half second to decide. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
200:I never met a man half so true as a dog. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
201:Self-pity was for children and half-wits. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
202:then opened the container. Half an order of ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
203:The tilt of his head cracks gravity in half. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
204:They've come out at half time and gone bang. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
205:Two heads are twice as good as half as many. ~ James D Doss, #NFDB
206:Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth. ~ Anne Cameron, #NFDB
207:A half truth is a whole lie. —Jewish proverb I ~ Jane Healey, #NFDB
208:A junkie spends half his life waiting. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
209:An evil discovered is half healed. ~ Jane Frances de Chantal, #NFDB
210:A problem well defined is a problem half solved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
211:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon,#NFDB
212:Asking good questions is half of learning. ~ Elijah Muhammad, #NFDB
213:Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay. ~ Aravind Adiga, #NFDB
214:He half said, half mumbled, "I'm not that nice. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
215:He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ~ Horace, #NFDB
216:His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
217:I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. ~ Philip Larkin, #NFDB
218:Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
219:One's not half of two; two are halves of one. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
220:Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
221:The man who puts into the marriage only half ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
222:To ask the proper question is half of knowing. ~ Roger Bacon, #NFDB
223:upon opening the door. Half of the small ~ Lauraine Snelling, #NFDB
224:You have to break in half to love somebody. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
225:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
226:You pierce my soul. I'm half agony, half hope. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
227:Docility is the observable half of reason. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
228:Don't bother. The glass is half-empty. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
229:Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
230:half the feeling of home is usually a person. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
231:Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
232:Half-truths only added up to a whole lie. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
233:I am too full of life
to be half-loved. ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo,#NFDB
234:It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
235:I wish people had half the honor of dragons. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
236:...one half leaning in, one half pulling away. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
237:To know if only half; to love is the other half. ~ Chet Raymo, #NFDB
238:You are half my soul … The best part of it. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
239:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
240:You would have to be half-mad to dream me up. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
241:admired him. If half the allegations were true, ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
242:A life lived in fear is a life half-lived! ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
243:A problem defined, is a problem half solved. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
244:First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
245:God loves me by giving me a half-ass sandwich? ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
246:Half-Christian, half-Jewish, a ‘cathjew nut’, ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
247:{I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind) ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
248:it is not half so important to know as to feel ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
249:Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
250:Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
251:Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
252:maybe the books can get us half out of the cave ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
253:My prophecy is but half his journey yet, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
254:One's not half two. It's two are halves of one. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
255:Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. ~ John Yau, #NFDB
256:Smart leaders believe only half of what they ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
257:Sometimes I can't believe half of the love that I get. ~ Rakim, #NFDB
258:To pray diligently is more than half the task. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
259:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
260:Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
261:Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
262:Half a truth is better than no politics. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
263:He’s like a half-baked cookie. - Aunt Polly ~ Michelle M Pillow, #NFDB
264:If you know the question, you know half. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
265:I never said half the crap people said I did. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
266:It is not half so important to know as to feel. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
267:LIFE is about meeting strangers in half way. ~ Windy Ariestanty, #NFDB
268:There was no half-assing a descent into hell. ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
269:You have to trust or you're only living half a life. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
270:A good front is half the battle in love or war. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
271:A man prepared has half fought the battle. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
272:average life span was only ten and a half years. ~ John Hargrove, #NFDB
273:But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie. ~ Lillian Hellman, #NFDB
274:Errors once discovered are more than half amended, ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
275:Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
276:Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics. ~ Pat Barker, #NFDB
277:He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin! ~ Horace, #NFDB
278:He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! ~ Horace, #NFDB
279:If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
280:I love being one half of a romantic couple. ~ Julianna Margulies, #NFDB
281:said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
282:The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
283:This Book is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
284:To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible. ~ Horace, #NFDB
285:You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
286:75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
287:A good half of the art of living is resilience. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
288:A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. ~ David Mitchell, #NFDB
289:A life lived in fear is a life half lived. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
290:Bonsoir, ma moitié. Good evening, my other half. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
291:Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
~ Norman Vincent Peale,#NFDB
292:I broke that town in half like a wooden match. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
293:Is a pea cut in half one wounded thing or two? ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
294:Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
295:May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
296:One is always half mad when one is shy of people. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
297:She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
298:This Book is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
299:Together, baby, all we need is half to make a whole. ~ Ella James, #NFDB
300:You want him so much that half of me wants him too. ~ Talia Vance, #NFDB
301:A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be. ~ Joshua Ferris, #NFDB
302:A favor is half granted, when graciously refused. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
303:A new study says that over half of all Californians are ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
304:Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. ~ Georges Carpentier, #NFDB
305:Bonsoir, ma moitié.' Good evening, my other half. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
306:Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
307:Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
308:Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
309:Half the world knows not how the other half lies. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
310:Half-truths are worth more than outright lies. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
311:Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. ~ David Limbaugh, #NFDB
312:Most of us tend to think of the second half of life ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
313:see perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
314:She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
315:The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
316:The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
317:The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
318:the second half of joy is shorter than the first ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
319:To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
320:Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ~ Homer, #NFDB
321:You are the beautiful half
of a golden hurt. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks,#NFDB
322:A half-moon later, Frostkit and Brindlekit were born. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
323:A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
324:A painting that is well composed is half finished. ~ Pierre Bonnard, #NFDB
325:A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
326:Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. ~ William James, #NFDB
327:Every man at three years old is half his height ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
328:Experience is only half of experience. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
329:For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done. ~ Horace, #NFDB
330:Half an hour ago I was itching to knock his block off. ~ A J Cronin, #NFDB
331:Half of today is better than all of tomorrow. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
332:I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! ~ John Candy, #NFDB
333:It’s like an endless chain of half-built houses, ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
334:I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes. ~ Rachel Hartman, #NFDB
335:I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. ~ Bradley Cooper, #NFDB
336:Once more the storm is howling, and half hid ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
337:Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
338:Sean Parker, and Half.com founder Josh Kopelman—not to ~ Adam Grant, #NFDB
339:She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her. ~ Jardine Libaire, #NFDB
340:The beginning is half of every action. —Greek proverb ~ David Allen, #NFDB
341:The beginning is half of every action." Greek Proverb ~ Leo Babauta, #NFDB
342:The best way to save face is not to use the lower half. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
343:The sincere wish to be good is half the battle. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
344:We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
345:What happens if you get scared half to death twice? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
346:You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
347:Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now. ~ Jason Wu, #NFDB
348:A garden is half made when it is well planned. ~ Liberty Hyde Bailey, #NFDB
349:An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
350:a scratch could be found, but the lower half of her ~ Richard C Hale, #NFDB
351:Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
352:Half-closes her eyes — eyelids heavy with
poems. ~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
353:He imagines himself a wit, but he's only half that. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
354:He smiles with half his mouth and neither of his eyes. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
355:I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. ~ Jay Inslee, #NFDB
356:I got to watch you fight a hammock for a half hour. ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
357:In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
358:Q: What do you call a blonde with half a brain? A: Gifted! ~ Various, #NFDB
359:So, is the human scrotum half-empty or half-full? ~ Christopher Ryan, #NFDB
360:the knife she was using to cut Auggie’s grapes in half ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
361:The plays should have the half-life of plutonium. ~ Suzan Lori Parks, #NFDB
362:USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
363:What happens when you get scared half to death twice? ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
364:A wise man's questions contain half the answer. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, #NFDB
365:Better know nothing than half-know many things. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
366:Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad) ~ Arnold Lobel, #NFDB
367:Cotton never competed in the first half of the race. ~ Victoria Scott, #NFDB
368:Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
369:Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
370:half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
371:half-life of a startup VP of Sales is about nine months ~ Steve Blank, #NFDB
372:Half of science is putting forth the right questions. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
373:Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
374:He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage, ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
375:I began the second half of my life by making coffee. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
376:I’m not searching for my other half because I’m not a half. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
377:In a good marriage each is the others better half. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, #NFDB
378:I’ve been told I’m a glass half-empty sort of person. ~ Maria Malonzo, #NFDB
379:I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off. ~ Rob Corddry, #NFDB
380:Jesus was five feet and three and a half inches long. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
381:Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
382:My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
383:Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
384:...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
385:To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. ~ Eddie Money, #NFDB
386:Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
387:who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
388:Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
389:You are my other half, Amy. I have to protect you. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
390:Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
391:Your waist size should not be more than half your height. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
392:A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
393:A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
394:Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
395:Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
396:Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun. ~ Robert Townsend, #NFDB
397:Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ~ Scott Hamilton, #NFDB
398:Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
399:Half the things we do in life we do because of other people. ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
400:He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk ~ Russell Hoban, #NFDB
401:I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for. ~ Shania Twain, #NFDB
402:If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
403:I’m living with K-Fed’s retarded half brotha/sista. ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
404:I'm probably half in love with a boy I don't really like. ~ Gwen Hayes, #NFDB
405:I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
406:Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
407:over the next four and a half months. By fall he would ~ Lori Copeland, #NFDB
408:What if they’re half-Crab, half-Archer mutant babies? ~ Romina Russell, #NFDB
409:Wings of a half finished book across his chest. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
410:Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense. ~ Jason Statham, #NFDB
411:Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time? ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
412:For the sincere wish to be good is half the battle. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
413:Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
414:Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
415:Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
416:Half of the people in the world are below average. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
417:I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
418:I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
419:I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him. ~ Raymond Carver, #NFDB
420:I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half. ~ Patsy Cline, #NFDB
421:I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good. ~ Sela Ward, #NFDB
422:London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh. ~ Peter Ackroyd, #NFDB
423:my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
424:Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half ~ John Milton, #NFDB
425:The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated. ~ Jimmy Armfield, #NFDB
426:We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
427:we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
428:A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, #NFDB
429:A half-hearted commitment provides halfway results, while ~ Tim Challies, #NFDB
430:Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her. ~ Richard Bacon, #NFDB
431:Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. ~ William James, #NFDB
432:Go fold yourself in half,” said Locke, “and lick your ass. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
433:Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair. ~ Steven Van Zandt, #NFDB
434:Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
435:He gave me a half smile. I gave him the other half. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
436:I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court. ~ John Ashcroft, #NFDB
437:I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
438:Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
439:Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA. ~ Thad Cochran, #NFDB
440:That which you fear the most will meet you half way. ~ Victoria Williams, #NFDB
441:The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour. ~ Toni Onley, #NFDB
442:The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
443:There were half a dozen villas burning on the Woking border. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
444:To live your life even half right seems extraordinary. ~ Cristina Garc a, #NFDB
445:Two and a half relaxing months passed in the blink of an eye. ~ L T Ryan, #NFDB
446:When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price? ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
447:Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
448:You love her. The half-breed daughter of the Summer lord. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
449:A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
450:Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
451:For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat. ~ Alphonso Jackson, #NFDB
452:Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
453:Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
454:Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
455:He looked maybe half an egg sandwich away from a coronary. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
456:In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king! ~ Chris Farley, #NFDB
457:Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
458:The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
459:The wish for healing has always been half of health. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
460:This was my woman, my Kisa-Anna, the other half of my soul. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
461:Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
462:We share half our genes with the banana. ~ Robert May Baron May of Oxford, #NFDB
463:You would have to be half mad to dream me up.” -Lewis Carroll ~ E K Blair, #NFDB
464:A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home ~ Rumi, #NFDB
465:At least half of the genes in the human genome are duplicates. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
466:Because she is my sister, and therefore one-half of me. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
467:Did you know that half of all people are below average? ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
468:Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
469:Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake. ~ Emily Carr, #NFDB
470:Half-men don’t fight like people. More like hurricanes. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB
471:Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life. ~ Cormega, #NFDB
472:Half the world does not know how the other half lives. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
473:If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
474:I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
475:I had a new cabin mate. I had a monster for a half-brother. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
476:I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
477:I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs. ~ Matt Berninger, #NFDB
478:I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be. ~ Brad Paisley, #NFDB
479:In war, morale and opinion are more than half the battle. ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
480:I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
481:I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting. ~ Jane Badler, #NFDB
482:I’ve never wanted to be inside anyone half as much as you, Em, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
483:I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. ~ Emily Bront, #NFDB
484:Pain has its own half-life; words don’t change that. There ~ Will McIntosh, #NFDB
485:The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! ~ Alan Hansen, #NFDB
486:What do you mean, likeable? He acts like a half-daft yokel.” “I ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
487:Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
488:A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
489:All cats are half jinn, but I think she’s three-quarters. ~ G Willow Wilson, #NFDB
490:A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
491:Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
492:Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
493:Blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
494:God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
495:Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere. ~ Bill Griffith, #NFDB
496:Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. ~ Wendy Lesser, #NFDB
497:husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
498:I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me. ~ Placido Domingo, #NFDB
499:I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
500:I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
501:Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
502:Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
503:named Tom Bird, a half-breed who took a sentimental turn ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
504:One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
505:Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
506:Remember, half the people you know are below average. ~ Larry the Cable Guy, #NFDB
507:Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
508:The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. ~ William Greider, #NFDB
509:There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
510:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
511:We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
512:We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
513:We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year. ~ George Shearing, #NFDB
514:Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses the whole. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
515:Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
516:You are never more than a half-step away from a right note. ~ Victor Wooten, #NFDB
517:About half the people in the world dislike their own name. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
518:Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height. ~ M C Beaton, #NFDB
519:Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat. ~ Karen Walker, #NFDB
520:At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? ~ Merle Haggard, #NFDB
521:Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
522:but philosophy at half-past ten at night is somewhat late; ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
523:Emotions would be half starved if there were no candle-light. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
524:G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
525:Half demon, half human, wholly f*cked." ~ Pippa DaCosta Muse ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
526:He means none of what he says and only half of what he doesn’t. ~ Marie Hall, #NFDB
527:I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
528:I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. ~ Jay Gould, #NFDB
529:I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step. ~ Eddie Huang, #NFDB
530:I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
531:I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
532:In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
533:I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester. ~ Peter Krause, #NFDB
534:I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
535:people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big ~ Sean Lock, #NFDB
536:Pete half smiled. It was his way of giving vigorous applause. ~ Peter Heller, #NFDB
537:Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
538:The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
539:The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
540:The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. ~ Steve Toltz, #NFDB
541:Then Eric talked for half an hour about the Albanian word for ~ Kory Stamper, #NFDB
542:The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
543:They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
544:Those who love only half of him do not live him at all. ~ Natalie Standiford, #NFDB
545:A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight. ~ Patricia Wentworth, #NFDB
546:All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
547:A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation. ~ Thomas Davis, #NFDB
548:Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
549:Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
550:between one-third and one-half of all marriages fail, ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
551:Did a show and got a half a mil and spent it like it's nothing. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
552:For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done. ~ Nas, #NFDB
553:God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
554:Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
555:He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. ~ Carlo Goldoni, #NFDB
556:He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. ~ Horace, #NFDB
557:I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
558:I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career. ~ Al Jarreau, #NFDB
559:I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives. ~ Chesley Sullenberger, #NFDB
560:Jingle all the way…’cause nobody likes a half assed jingler. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
561:John Dewey’s dictum that “a problem well put is half-solved ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
562:Lives like sponges:half sponge, half filled with something else. ~ Jim Krusoe, #NFDB
563:No society can thrive when half its people are left behind. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
564:Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
565:The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
566:TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
567:With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
568:Yes, sir!’ from one half. ‘No, sir!’ from the other. ‘Of ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
569:You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented. ~ Amy Lee, #NFDB
570:You’re better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
571:A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
572:A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
573:A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes. ~ Radney Foster, #NFDB
574:Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
575:Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
576:Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear. ~ Phil Gramm, #NFDB
577:How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half? ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
578:I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough. ~ Kevin Kling, #NFDB
579:I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
580:I'm your other half. (...) I'll carry your heartbeat in mine. ~ Jessica Verday, #NFDB
581:Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical. ~ Yogi Berra, #NFDB
582:Oh, mercy, did it just get warm in here? I half-fan myself. “Like ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
583:sea ice covers just half the area it did thirty years ago, ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
584:That was half the problem with kids these days. No responsibility. ~ Susan May, #NFDB
585:The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
586:The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we. ~ Jennifer Lynch, #NFDB
587:The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness ~ Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB
588:Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
589:We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
590:We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
591:You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
592:You’d be surprised how far away half dead is from fully dead, ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
593:you’re involved with, if you get half a chance. I treated ~ Marianne Faithfull, #NFDB
594:Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. ~ Malcolm Forbes, #NFDB
595:Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
596:Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
597:Half the charm in old books is the marks of living they acquire; ~ Erika Swyler, #NFDB
598:He ain’t bloody human, he’s half-penguin and half-billy goat.” All ~ Tim Curran, #NFDB
599:If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
600:I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness. ~ Jan Morris, #NFDB
601:I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. ~ Benny Hill, #NFDB
602:It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved. ~ Louise Colet, #NFDB
603:It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. ~ Norman Douglas, #NFDB
604:I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays. ~ Christopher Meloni, #NFDB
605:I was one of the many millions who read half of The Goldfinch. ~ Robert Bryndza, #NFDB
606:of cash and apologized to his stepmother and half sisters for meeting ~ C J Box, #NFDB
607:Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB
608:Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
609:There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
610:You can’t have half a child. You’re either in or you’re out. ~ Karen McQuestion, #NFDB
611:You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
612:Your broker is a half-naked blue-and-orange crypto-anarchist? ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
613:Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
614:A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
615:A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted. ~ Tony Clark, #NFDB
616:Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
617:Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
618:Every time Sky smiled at him, he felt like he lost half his brain. ~ Lisa McMann, #NFDB
619:Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
620:For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music. ~ Amy Grant, #NFDB
621:Half?” Ceony asked. “How do you have half of an apprentice? ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
622:Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
623:Half of winning, my dear wallet, is simply looking victorious. ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
624:I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels. ~ Darynda Jones, #NFDB
625:I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic. ~ Hank Stuever, #NFDB
626:I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
627:It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. ~ Greta Garbo, #NFDB
628:I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt. ~ Robert Iler, #NFDB
629:Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
630:No one should have to go through life with only half a heart. ~ Katherine Allred, #NFDB
631:Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention... ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
632:Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
633:"The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
634:There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well. ~ Delmon Young, #NFDB
635:To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
636:We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
637:What’s a tiny woman like you doing with this half-pint sword? ~ Rebecca Chastain, #NFDB
638:When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed ~ Ray Allen, #NFDB
639:With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
640:With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
641:Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
642:A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
643:All right, sweetheart. I’ll see you in an hour and a half, ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds, #NFDB
644:A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
645:But half the things in life people never know. Thank God for that. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB
646:Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. ~ Paul Bryant, #NFDB
647:Don’t settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
648:Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it ~ Glenn Frank, #NFDB
649:Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
650:Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
651:Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
652:I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
653:I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
654:In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
655:I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
656:In matchmaking, you should know, telegrams are half the battle. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
657:In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
658:Male or female, your waist should be less than half your height. ~ Michael Mosley, #NFDB
659:My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it. ~ Judy Nichols, #NFDB
660:One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
661:One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
662:Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ~ Lorenz Hart, #NFDB
663:Success? It has the shortest half-life of any known substance. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
664:Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
665:Tell me half a cup’s worth of story and we’ll call it a night. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
666:The easiest way to save face, is to keep the lower half shut. ~ Heather Gudenkauf, #NFDB
667:The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB
668:There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
669:We know we only have about half of our population that's voting. ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
670:We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half. ~ Richard Jeni, #NFDB
671:We stood at the turning point... Half-measures availed us nothing. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
672:We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious. ~ Charlie Higson, #NFDB
673:You're a tall drink of half drunk whiskey, my pigeon toed gypsy. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
674:A half-truth masquerading as a whole truth becomes a complete untruth ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
675:at least half of all developers make less than $500 per app per month. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
677:Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
678:Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
679:Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
680:Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever. ~ Ngaio Marsh, #NFDB
681:He’s my fucking half brother. Dominic Casso is his father and mine. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
682:If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am. ~ Charles Yu, #NFDB
683:I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. ~ David Duchovny, #NFDB
684:I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
685:Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
686:Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
687:My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. ~ Sebastian Bach, #NFDB
688:My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel. ~ Roberto Alomar, #NFDB
689:My subconscious eyes me warily over her tortoiseshell half-moon specs. ~ E L James, #NFDB
690:Night is the other half of life, and the better half. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
691:Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night. ~ Peter Straub, #NFDB
692:Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
693:six inches off the floor. His head was half off and his face wore an ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
694:So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
695:This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
696:This is the stuff we’re made of, half indifference and half malice. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
697:"To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
698:“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
699:What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
700:All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
701:Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. ~ Sarah Dunant, #NFDB
702:But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. ~ Richard Cobden, #NFDB
703:By night an atheist half believes a God. ~ Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), #NFDB
704:Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
705:Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
706:Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
707:How much blow can Charlie Sheen do? Enough to kill two and a half men. ~ Jon Lovitz, #NFDB
708:I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed ~ Marco Polo, #NFDB
709:I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry ~ Jean Claude Izzo, #NFDB
710:I'd take half of you over anything else that's whole in this world. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
711:If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy. ~ Ray Bourque, #NFDB
712:I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley. ~ Cheech Marin, #NFDB
713:I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It’s hardly an arsenal. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
714:I kept searching for another half when what I needed was to be whole. ~ Kayla Aimee, #NFDB
715:I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective. ~ Emilio Estevez, #NFDB
716:It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
717:It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive. ~ Kathleen Winsor, #NFDB
718:I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
719:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
720:My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. ~ Huddie William Ledbetter, #NFDB
721:Never trust someone who isn’t miserable at least half of the time. ~ Matthew Norman, #NFDB
722:Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
723:The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
724:There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ~ David Lloyd George, #NFDB
725:This is the stuff we are made of, half indifference and half malice. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
726:To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
727:We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like. ~ Tony Sunshine, #NFDB
728:We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know ~ Nancy Astor, #NFDB
729:When a Hathaway caused a scandal, they never did it by half measures ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
730:Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
731:A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper. ~ Wafa Sultan, #NFDB
732:An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
733:Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
734:A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
735:A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
736:Esther obviously intelligent, for she wrote half of fucking Bleak House. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
737:Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
738:Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide ~ Gary Haugen, #NFDB
739:Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
740:I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay. ~ Joel Edgerton, #NFDB
741:I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person. ~ Pamela Anderson, #NFDB
742:I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full. ~ Nigahiga, #NFDB
743:I'm half italian"
"Which half" asked Tessa
"From the waist down ~ Pamela Clare,#NFDB
744:I’m half Puerto Rican and half Mexican, baby. We’re smooth motherfuckers. ~ K C Lynn, #NFDB
745:I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time. ~ Ashton Irwin, #NFDB
746:I want you to need me but not half as much as I want you to want me. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
747:Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
748:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”24 ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
749:Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
750:More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
751:No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind. ~ Melanne Verveer, #NFDB
752:Q: How many people are working in Oak Ridge? A: About half of them. ~ Denise Kiernan, #NFDB
753:Some people might only recognize me half naked in my bikini and bra! ~ Ashley Graham, #NFDB
754:STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
755:The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
756:The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB
757:There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
758:The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB
759:We talked for a half hour, and they supplicated to me the whole time. ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
760:You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
761:After two weeks at Half-Blood Hill, the real world seemed like a fantasy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
762:A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
763:A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
764:A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
765:Anybody with one eye and half a brain could tell what a tool that guy is. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
766:As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
767:Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. ~ J E B Stuart, #NFDB
768:Breakers. Ian was the president of the Miami Thunder. Half brothers. ~ Carly Phillips, #NFDB
769:Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
770:I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right. ~ Satoshi Kon, #NFDB
771:I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that? ~ Michelle Rowen, #NFDB
772:I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
773:Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts. ~ Jimmy Magee, #NFDB
774:May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you're dead. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
775:Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating. ~ Evelyn Underhill, #NFDB
776:nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
777:Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers, ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
778:One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
779:Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
780:Satyrs aren't dryads, but we have roots, too. Camp Half Blood is mine. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
781:She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
782:The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
783:There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
784:The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
785:three billion—one half of humanity—live on less than two dollars a day. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
786:To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
787:To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
788:To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
789:triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors ~ Christian Cameron, #NFDB
790:Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. ~ Eric Kripke, #NFDB
791:About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to. ~ Eric Topol, #NFDB
792:Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
793:… all that matters is how to rise, for you are half out of your mind. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
794:A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost. ~ Evangeline Lilly, #NFDB
795:And so because he was half bastard, half gentleman, he asked for her bra ~ Alison Kent, #NFDB
796:Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive. ~ Thomas Dubay, #NFDB
797:Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
798:For my father and for my son.
I hope I can be half as good of a dad. ~ Bill Simmons,#NFDB
799:Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
800:Halfhearted effort does not produce half results; it produces no results. ~ Shiv Khera, #NFDB
801:Here is a new game,” said Scrooge. “One half hour, Spirit, only one! ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
802:I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi. ~ Chris Tucker, #NFDB
803:If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am. ~ Charles Yu, #NFDB
804:If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils. ~ Trisha, #NFDB
805:If you put two of us together, baby, all we need is half to make a whole. ~ Ella James, #NFDB
806:I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American. ~ Gabriel Iglesias, #NFDB
807:I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest. ~ Errol Flynn, #NFDB
808:i live for that first second in the morning when i am still half-conscious ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
809:In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
810:In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
811:I would rather have half of your attention than all of anyone else's ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
812:Muse. Holy-hell. You’re the half-blood who ruined the Prince of Greed. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
813:Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time ~ George Bradt, #NFDB
814:…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half… ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
815:opponent was half pillbug, half octopus, and all butt ugly. I closed ~ Richard Roberts, #NFDB
816:Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
817:Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
818:The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original. ~ Luise Rainer, #NFDB
819:The brain works best between half past six and eleven. After that it’s mush, ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
820:The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
821:The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
822:the rape will
tear you
in half
but it
will not
end you ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
823:The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
824:The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
825:They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
826:we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have
to do. ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
827:When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ~ Gracie Allen, #NFDB
828:which was caused by my lungs swimming in fluid, a liter and a half (!!!!) ~ John Green, #NFDB
829:Your hair doesn’t look half bad today,” Star Sapphire said to Wonder Woman. ~ Lisa Yee, #NFDB
830:A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. ~ Solon, #NFDB
831:and my third oath—oh, yes, I got my half-guilder back that very same night. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
832:Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
833:But his laugh was a radioactive seduction and had a half-life of infinity. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
834:Half full, half empty - it doesn't matter. It's the same glass of water. ~ Debbie Vigui, #NFDB
835:If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
836:I hate him. Except for all the places where I love him half to death. ~ Charlotte Stein, #NFDB
837:I have half a mind to take you home and put you to bed properly. ~ Nicole Andrews Moore, #NFDB
838:I just hope he is capable of loving even half as much as you love him. ~ Fiona Mountain, #NFDB
839:I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
840:I want to be a Half Code. I want to be Black and White, the best of both. ~ Sally Green, #NFDB
841:Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
842:one thing I know for certain is that a life half lived is no life at all. ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
843:Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live. ~ Jim Palmer, #NFDB
844:The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
845:Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
846:You are not yet grown. But you, little half-blood, will be magnificent. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
847:You know you can’t believe half the stuff they print in the newspapers. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
848:A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
849:As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth. ~ Chauncey Depew, #NFDB
850:Caesar, Now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will"? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
851:Chapter One: The Half-Point Fold.” It was going to be a long night. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
852:Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. ~ Mark Batterson, #NFDB
853:Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
854:Half the pleasure in life comes from learning to choose between things. ~ Denise Kiernan, #NFDB
855:Half the time, people just want to be assholes, so they call it rebellion. ~ Leah Konen, #NFDB
856:He winced as he rolled over, almost snapping his morning wood in half. Fuck. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
857:"If I was afraid of dying, I couldn't do half the shit I do." I told him. ~ Rachel Bach, #NFDB
858:I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
859:I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?" ~ Damon Lindelof, #NFDB
860:In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen ~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer, #NFDB
861:I stopped being half-witted and became sly whenever I took the trouble. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
862:It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry. ~ Amber Heard, #NFDB
863:I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene, #NFDB
864:jalapeño peppers snapped in half and ground into our lips for saying “fuck ~ Paul Beatty, #NFDB
865:Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?"
"What?"
"Half-imaginary. ~ William Gibson,#NFDB
866:Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
867:Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ~ Martha Reeves, #NFDB
868:My name is Calla Price. I’m eighteen years old, and I’m half of a whole. ~ Courtney Cole, #NFDB
869:Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home. ~ F Matthias Alexander, #NFDB
870:So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn’t see her bottom half? ~ Jonathan Dunne, #NFDB
871:Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. ~ Robert Hass, #NFDB
872:There will never be another woman that completes the other half of my soul. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
873:True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
874:Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
875:Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
876:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
877:A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
878:After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
879:A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
880:A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
881:Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing. ~ Jack Kevorkian, #NFDB
882:And really, half of beauty is attitude. You feel sexy, they you are sexy. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
883:But in a period of abundance any half-wit with a spoon can please a palate. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
884:Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
885:Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
886:Don’t half ass anything. Whatever you do, use your full ass. -Coffee Cup ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
887:Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
888:Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone. ~ Tomas Transtr mer,#NFDB
889:For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ~ Michael Oakeshott, #NFDB
890:Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left. ~ Steve Krug, #NFDB
891:Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
892:He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
893:her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face. Hans ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
894:I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
895:I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy. ~ Gregg Popovich, #NFDB
896:I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books. ~ Max Cannon, #NFDB
897:I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna. ~ Antonio Banderas, #NFDB
898:If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
899:If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
900:I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing! ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
901:I rooted around in the bowl for a half-popped kernel—my favorite. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
902:It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play. ~ Bart Starr, #NFDB
903:I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet. ~ Jesse McCartney, #NFDB
904:Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. ~ Malcolm Fraser, #NFDB
905:My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time. ~ Marc Maron, #NFDB
906:My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack. ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
907:Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race. ~ Bella Abzug, #NFDB
908:Never mind that he got detention for flipping off half the student body. ~ Victoria Scott, #NFDB
909:Nicholas began, wondering if he looked half as diabolical as he felt. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
910:One is not born a woman—one becomes one,” she didn’t know the half of it. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
911:'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half. ~ Hannibal Buress, #NFDB
912:Take your time and do it right, even if it takes another half second. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
913:That won’t satisfy them at all.” “I know. That’s half the appeal.” Cinder ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
914:The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished in a few days. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
915:The night’s memories slowly filed in like half-dead soldiers for roll call. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
916:There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
917:There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
918:The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
919:The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half. ~ Harry Houdini, #NFDB
920:Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
921:What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump? ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
922:With life as short as half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
923:You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
924:Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty. ~ Maria Bamford, #NFDB
925:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
926:Zane . . . for the last year and a half, you have been my assignment.” The ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
927:A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand! ~ Dylan Moran, #NFDB
928:A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
929:and as a general rule she did not call the doctor until Theo was half dead. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
930:A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
931:A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?’ Tillie said. ‘Good God, ~ Lily King, #NFDB
932:Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write. ~ Jeph Loeb, #NFDB
933:bristling with half-baked knowledge from the books we had read. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
934:Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, #NFDB
935:For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
936:Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now. ~ Maurice Jones Drew, #NFDB
937:Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already! ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
938:If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. ~ Paul Lynde, #NFDB
939:If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
940:If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life. ~ Gloria Jones, #NFDB
941:I love Carlos like the weird, half-dead son I never particularly wanted ~ Daniel Jos Older, #NFDB
942:I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself. ~ Judy Tenuta, #NFDB
943:I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day. ~ Elisabeth Harnois, #NFDB
944:I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
945:More sharply, Steinem argued that marriage rendered women “half people, ~ Rebecca Traister, #NFDB
946:No more living life at half-mast; the lights have gone out on our marriage. ~ Josie Silver, #NFDB
947:One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people. ~ Steve Carell, #NFDB
948:other half of which had the image of the old woman on page 53. He passed ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
949:Peoples think I’s a harmless idiot,” he said. “They’s only half right. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
950:some half-dozen children running in the fields or about the wetus—fewer ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
951:They talked business for half an hour. (Centuries passed beyond the hull.) ~ Poul Anderson, #NFDB
952:Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
953:We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. ~ Rae Armantrout, #NFDB
954:What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth. ~ Tom Rachman, #NFDB
955:When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ~ Ir ne N mirovsky, #NFDB
956:When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life ~, #NFDB
957:When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures. ~ Joe Schreiber, #NFDB
958:When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. ~ P D Ouspensky, #NFDB
959:When one realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. ~ P D Ouspensky, #NFDB
960:When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
961:Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. ~ Maria Goeppert Mayer, #NFDB
962:With life as short as a half taken breath,Don't plant anything but Love. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
963:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
964:You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson, #NFDB
965:A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
966:And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done ~ Pierre Bonnard, #NFDB
967:A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
968:But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
969:But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
970:Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ~ Brooks Atkinson, #NFDB
971:Do you seek to bribe Death?” Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious. ~ Piers Anthony, #NFDB
972:Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
973:Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
974:Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
975:Half of life—the interesting half of life—we don’t have a name for. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
976:Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. So ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
977:Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
978:I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
979:I’m a ‘the glass is half-empty and filled with poison’ kind of guy, actually, ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
980:It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
981:Link flexed his muscles. To be fair, he did nearly split his t-shirt in half. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
982:Make a memory with me so that when you're half a world away I still feel it. ~ Z A Maxfield, #NFDB
983:Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
984:Making each other’s tea was half the reason they had such a happy marriage. ~ Saladin Ahmed, #NFDB
985:My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. ~ Wilkie Collins, #NFDB
986:Now I knew what it felt like touching your perfect other—the missing half. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
987:No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
988:One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
989:Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
990:So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair. ~ Charisma Carpenter, #NFDB
991:Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
992:The glass can be half empty or half full.” Leni knew the glass was broken. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
993:The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
994:The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
995:The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. ~ James Lafferty, #NFDB
996:There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
997:The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
998:Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told... ~ Phil Collins, #NFDB
999:We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J Smith, #NFDB
1000:with the face of an angel. A devil more like, if half the tabloid reports ~ Magda Alexander, #NFDB
1001:A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1002:Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1003:An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception. ~ John Rawls, #NFDB
1004:Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
1005:Cut your goal in half. Choose what you’ll bomb. Make it fun if you want it done. ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
1006:find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys. ~ Robert Aickman, #NFDB
1007:Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1008:He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
1009:History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. ~ James Monroe, #NFDB
1010:I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
1011:I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
1012:I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1013:If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn’t like to be half of what I should be. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1014:If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1015:I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. ~ Sheena Easton, #NFDB
1016:I know when I’m speaking to the other half of me. I’ve always known, my love. ~ Kate Stewart, #NFDB
1017:I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, #NFDB
1018:I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
1019:It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1020:it was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
1021:Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1022:My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
1023:Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
1024:Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me ~ Kevin Mitnick, #NFDB
1025:People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions. ~ Alex Jones, #NFDB
1026:Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1027:Puzzles don’t work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts. ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
1028:So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1029:Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1030:When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. ~ Richard Lewis, #NFDB
1031:Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru. ~ Q orianka Kilcher, #NFDB
1032:You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
1033:A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
1034:A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind. ~ Melanne Verveer, #NFDB
1035:Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new! ~ Paul Park, #NFDB
1036:Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1037:another pang of half-remembered days long gone made my chest ache for a second. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1038:A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid! ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
1039:Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1040:Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1041:Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
1042:Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise. ~ William Hague, #NFDB
1043:Half blade and half silk, difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
1044:Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1045:Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1046:Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
1047:Half the world’s awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
1048:I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. ~ Robert Asprin, #NFDB
1049:Ideas have a short half-life: if you don't put them to action, they die off. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1050:I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time. ~ Kevin Keegan, #NFDB
1051:I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
1052:It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. ~ Roland Gift, #NFDB
1053:It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
1054:I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien. ~ Michael Pena, #NFDB
1055:Kid, if you never remember your dreams you lose out on half of your life ~ Carla Speed McNeil, #NFDB
1056:My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination. ~ Nico, #NFDB
1057:There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone. ~ Satyajit Ray, #NFDB
1058:The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
1059:To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. ~ Gwen Cooper, #NFDB
1060:What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1061:What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
1062:You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
1063:You have saved me more than money can ever pay for. Take this extra half-crown. ~ Anna Sewell, #NFDB
1064:You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. ~ Barbara Bush, #NFDB
1065:Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1066:A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
1067:And with dark red half-moons in the palms of my hands, from clenching my fists. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1068:been read by half a million people and the Washington Post has called her “One of ~ Lucy Kevin, #NFDB
1069:Go, brother! If I’m not back aboard in half an hour, tell your wife I love her! ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
1070:half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
1071:half the beauty of a gift lies in the manner in which it is received. ~ A A World Services Inc, #NFDB
1072:Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
1073:I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour. ~ George Hamilton, #NFDB
1074:If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1075:I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
1076:I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more. ~ Catherine Deneuve, #NFDB
1077:In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1078:I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am. ~ Craig Nicholls, #NFDB
1079:Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions? ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
1080:I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
1081:Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most. ~ Katherine Allred, #NFDB
1082:Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
1083:Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1084:O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
1085:One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1086:people spend half a century in bed together and wind up strangers at the end. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
1087:Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. ~ Jim Cornette, #NFDB
1088:The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so ~ Guy de Maupassant, #NFDB
1089:There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
1090:[...] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality ~ Jacques Barzun, #NFDB
1091:Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over. ~ Daniel Polansky, #NFDB
1092:Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
1093:What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar. ~ John O Keefe, #NFDB
1094:When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1095:you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
1096:You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
1097:Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints ~ Edith Sitwell,#NFDB
1098:A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold. ~ Robert W Service, #NFDB
1099:An Englishman without an umbrella is less than half a man,” he said. Matteo ~ Katherine Rundell, #NFDB
1100:Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
1101:A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. ~ Mike Royko, #NFDB
1102:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ~ Max Allan Collins, #NFDB
1103:Could you really love two people at once? Could you split your heart in half? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1104:Florida and half of Georgia comprised a trigger-happy xenophobic lunatic asylum. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
1105:Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
1106:Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
1107:Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1108:half the generation already lost, the other half just trying to get home each day. ~ Jeff Hobbs, #NFDB
1109:He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1110:How do you go back to doing what you did before, when half of you is gone forever? ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
1111:I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. ~ Ben Elton, #NFDB
1112:if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we’re half way to wisdom. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1113:I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin. ~ Nicola Formichetti, #NFDB
1114:It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. ~ John Jay Chapman, #NFDB
1115:I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money. ~ Jean Marie Eveillard, #NFDB
1116:Marriage (noun): betting someone half your stuff that you'll love them forever. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB
1117:More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
1118:My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1119:Oh, and lots of chocolate truffles. Godiva. And oysters. Oysters on the half shell. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1120:Perhaps that false Oracle at Camp Half-Blood is working some sort of witchcraft. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1121:Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
1122:Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1123:Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
1124:Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
1125:This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. ~ Diane Keaton, #NFDB
1126:When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door. ~ Laraine Day, #NFDB
1127:With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. ~ Seth MacFarlane, #NFDB
1128:With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. ~ Placido Domingo, #NFDB
1129:You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1130:A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1131:COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on. ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
1132:Didn’t they realize that love was slow, shy, baffled half the time by pride? The ~ Victor Lodato, #NFDB
1133:Even if one half of her heart was gone forever, the other half was still here. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1134:Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done ~ Warren Spector, #NFDB
1135:He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
1136:I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1137:If he hadn’t seen a woman half naked before, then he seriously needed to get laid. ~ Mina Carter, #NFDB
1138:If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled. ~ Gabrielle Union, #NFDB
1139:If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1140:I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
1141:Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
1142:I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
1143:I stayed sober for a year and a half, which is like dog years to a 25-year-old. I ~ Sarah Hepola, #NFDB
1144:It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1145:I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible. ~ Michael Bloomberg, #NFDB
1146:People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy ~ Robert A Caro, #NFDB
1147:Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees? ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
1148:The problem with half-truths, I'm discovering, is that they are also half-lies. ~ Kimberly Belle, #NFDB
1149:There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1150:There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ~ Josh Groban, #NFDB
1151:To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1152:To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1153:Vitaly owns half a carton of Lucky Strikes, an electric guitar, and a hangover ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1154:We spend all our time trying to protect these people, and half of them hate us. ~ Lilo Abernathy, #NFDB
1155:Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. ~ Homer, #NFDB
1156:You are the other half of my freedom. I believe I can fly now because I have you. ~ Cameron Dane, #NFDB
1157:Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. (2) ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1158:Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. ~ Derek Bok, #NFDB
1159:Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters. ~ Tristan Wilds, #NFDB
1160:God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident. ~ Shirley Jump, #NFDB
1161:Half a million dead wops
And he got a kick out of it
The son of a bitch. ~ Ernest Hemingway,#NFDB
1162:Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
1163:Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
1164:half-ton did. He said, “No one is here to work with you, boy. We’re here to kick your ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1165:I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life. ~ Alli Simpson, #NFDB
1166:I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1167:I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. ~ Babe Ruth, #NFDB
1168:If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is ~ Mark Hateley, #NFDB
1169:I miss your cock when it's not around. And the rest of you isn't half bad, either ~ Jessica Scott, #NFDB
1170:I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal. ~ Lenny Bruce, #NFDB
1171:Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
1172:My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1173:Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1174:Never trust someone who isn't miserable at least half the time. That's my motto. ~ Matthew Norman, #NFDB
1175:Not only do women hold up half the sky; we do it while carrying a 500-pound purse. ~ Gina Barreca, #NFDB
1176:…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1177:Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. ~ Daniel Taylor, #NFDB
1178:Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
1179:taking the half-invented into the invented is often the real breakthrough ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1180:There’s nothing. I’ve gone through half my speed dials, and there’s not anything. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB
1181:We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1182:When the opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1183:You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1184:A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
1185:A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
1186:For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1187:For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up. ~ Rowena Cory Daniells, #NFDB
1188:Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them. ~ Jack Lambert, #NFDB
1189:Green vegetables are about half protein, a quarter carbohydrate, and a quarter fat. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
1190:Half of great writing or speaking is not saying everything that you can say. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1191:I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. ~ Robert Lynn Asprin, #NFDB
1192:If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1193:In 2005, my mad half, HER was born...
ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012. ~ Karen Tyrrell,#NFDB
1194:It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
1195:It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself. ~ Andrew Bird, #NFDB
1196:May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. (Irish blessing) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1197:Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
1198:Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
1199:Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1200:The quick, daily glance into the half darkness became an integral part of his life. ~ Fritz Leiber, #NFDB
1201:To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1202:Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it... ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
1203:You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1204:An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
1205:But Mary suffering for an hour and a half—that wasn’t what her audiences wanted. ~ Melanie Benjamin, #NFDB
1206:First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
1207:Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1208:half of the population of the United States is prescribed some medication by a doctor, ~ David Rose, #NFDB
1209:Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half. ~ Arthur Kornberg, #NFDB
1210:half-smile formed in one corner of his mouth. “Does he know you’re in love with me? ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
1211:He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1212:Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures. ~ Rachel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1213:If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1214:I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
1215:I’m thirteen—and a half.” He looks at me suspiciously. “Weren’t you eleven last ~ Regina Calcaterra, #NFDB
1216:In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1217:I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1218:I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1219:Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
1220:Magpie Murders pays quiet homage to Agatha Christie at least half a dozen times. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
1221:Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
1222:Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1223:My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
1224:One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1225:Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. ~ Samuel P Huntington, #NFDB
1226:Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla. ~ Eden Robinson, #NFDB
1227:The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1228:There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1229:Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
1230:You always have a choice," he said, which was a half-truth if ever there was one. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1231:A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but a half lie will never be half true ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
1232:A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
1233:A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
1234:And may he be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows he’s dead.” Standing ~ Max Allan Collins, #NFDB
1235:Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1236:Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it! ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1237:Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages. ~ Steven Tyler,#NFDB
1238:Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing. ~ Peter J Carroll, #NFDB
1239:Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
1240:he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
1241:If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1242:I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1243:In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1244:I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby. ~ Eamon Dunphy, #NFDB
1245:My half brothers, like so many men and boys, have the impatience of the entitled. ~ Rabih Alameddine, #NFDB
1246:My shadow is only half of what it should be."
"Everyone has their shortcomings. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
1247:Never trust someone who isn’t miserable at least half of the time. That’s my motto. ~ Matthew Norman, #NFDB
1248:One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
1249:Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. ~ Al McGuire, #NFDB
1250:Tam. O cruel, irreligious piety! 135 Chi. Was ever Scythia half so barbarous? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1251:the Japanese always ate half-cooked rice and had marvellous brains in consequence. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1252:The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1253:We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here! ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
1254:You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
1255:You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1256:A move well planned is a move half-done, and I tried to think through every phase. We ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
1257:...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1258:Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.” — Tom Robbins ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB
1259:As everybody knows, being raised Catholic with half a brain means becoming an atheist. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
1260:Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1261:Drake always thinks the glass is half full. Me, I think the glass is half full of poison. ~ Tim Pratt, #NFDB
1262:first snow
falling on
the half-finished bridge
~ Matsuo Basho, first snow
,#NFDB
1263:For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis;
Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer,#NFDB
1264:For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. ~ Bret Harte, #NFDB
1265:Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics. ~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, #NFDB
1266:Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1267:I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun. ~ Paris Hilton, #NFDB
1268:I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1269:I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1270:In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1271:In two worlds," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1272:I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off. ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
1273:It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
1274:It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1275:Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. ~ Henry Steele Commager, #NFDB
1276:I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1277:Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century. ~ Herbie Hancock, #NFDB
1278:More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1279:My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip! ~ Craig Shoemaker, #NFDB
1280:One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~ Sidney Howard, #NFDB
1281:Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1282:The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1283:The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1284:the new age of liberated women and how most women were fighting to pay half the expenses. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1285:The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1286:To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards? ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
1287:True admiration,” said Mrs. Keith, “is one half respect and the other half self-denial. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
1288:We looked at each other in the half-light, searching for words that didn't exist. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1289:What is so bad about being compared to women?” Kuni said. “Half the world is made of women. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
1290:When the people you love hate the person you choose, it’s like being torn in half. ~ Corinne Michaels, #NFDB
1291:Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen. ~ Josip Novakovich, #NFDB
1292:With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
1293:...with the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1294:you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour’s shut-eye. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1295:You're half-dead, yet you have the vigor to philander?
I was stabbed, not castrated. ~ Cheryl Holt,#NFDB
1296:A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1297:A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
1298:Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
1299:Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1300:Conform or die. That was his motto. I am oddly doing bits of both, each half-assedly. ~ Rivers Solomon, #NFDB
1301:Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death... ~ John Keats,#NFDB
1302:Dead people are bad for business.” She gave a half smile. “Except for in your business. ~ Sarah Morgan, #NFDB
1303:Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
1304:Gabe, if you love that man half as much as I think you do then you tell him.” My ~ Aimee Nicole Walker, #NFDB
1305:Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture. Hence ~ Mick Herron, #NFDB
1306:Heed this warning: four and a half hours in Surfers Paradise is four hours too long. ~ Rachel Friedman, #NFDB
1307:He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1308:I always forget that half of the people who watch us fly are waiting to see us die. ~ Maureen F McHugh, #NFDB
1309:If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road. ~ Sheldon Vanauken, #NFDB
1310:If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true. ~ Garth Hudson, #NFDB
1311:I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure. ~ Malcolm Lowry, #NFDB
1312:In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1313:I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
1314:Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
1315:I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1316:It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
1317:I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1318:I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1319:Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it. ~ Jonathan Hickman,#NFDB
1320:Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~ Madeleine de Scudery, #NFDB
1321:More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers. ~ Jay Conrad Levinson, #NFDB
1322:off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1323:the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1324:What a strange family you have, Marigold.” Lady, you don’t know the half of it. ~ Stephanie Bond, #NFDB
1325:You can’t just leave a Mississippi Mud Mountain half-eaten! We leave no cupcake behind! ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
1326:A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
1327:A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1328:A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1329:Any white man with half a brain in America can make a good living if he really wants to ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1330:Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
1331:But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead. ~ Samantha Sotto, #NFDB
1332:By night an atheist half believes in God. ~ Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 177, #NFDB
1333:Corollary to Moore’s Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.* ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1334:He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant. ~ Padraic Colum, #NFDB
1335:If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1336:In that moment, I don’t think I had ever loved anything half as much as I loved Aiden. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1337:I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1338:I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin. ~ Josephine Baker, #NFDB
1339:It must be a weary life, being in a permanent state of rage or at least at half-cock. ~ Patrick O Brian, #NFDB
1340:it’s that we don’t know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1341:I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
1342:I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
1343:I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
1344:Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1345:The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
1346:The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1347:The talent of essentially half of the Czech athletic population has been squandered. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1348:They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1349:To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides. ~ Ray Manzarek, #NFDB
1350:Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1351:Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul? ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, #NFDB
1352:Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own. ~ Shelagh Delaney, #NFDB
1353:Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
1354:You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... ~ Kevin Drum, #NFDB
1355:A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting. ~ Armistead Maupin, #NFDB
1356:A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1357:Amelia blushed once more, amazed she hadn’t caught fire in the past hour and a half, ~ Kristi Ann Hunter, #NFDB
1358:...and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1359:As far as Nicholas was concerned, half-truths only added up to a whole lie. Glancing ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1360:As late as 1912, Britain carried more than half the goods shipped across the seas of the ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1361:Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour. ~ Lucy Lawless, #NFDB
1362:Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!"). ~ Horace, #NFDB
1363:For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
1364:Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1365:Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. ~ Don Rickles, #NFDB
1366:I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
1367:I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1368:I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
1369:I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself. ~ Lauren London, #NFDB
1370:In his half-sleep last night he had felt something writing on the insides of his eyelids. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1371:In Telugu there is a saying, Maradalu ardha mogudu: “Husband’s sister is half a husband. ~ Sujatha Gidla, #NFDB
1372:Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1373:It isn't done easily," he said with a half smile. "I'm just not one to complain overmuch. ~ Lynn Kurland, #NFDB
1374:...it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1375:It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
1376:It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do. ~ Geena Davis, #NFDB
1377:I’ve noticed you only talk ghetto half of the time.” “I’m multi-lingual,” Ranger said. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1378:I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest, #NFDB
1379:I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1380:Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1381:Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1382:No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1383:Now I no longer felt like little David, but like one of the bottles he had half washed out. ~ A J Cronin, #NFDB
1384:Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt. ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
1385:That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1386:The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won. ~ Maira Kalman, #NFDB
1387:The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. ~ Frederic Ozanam, #NFDB
1388:The World Bank estimates that half of the world’s population survives on less than $2 a day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1389:What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1390:When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ~ Gracie Allen, #NFDB
1391:...you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour’s shut eye. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1392:Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. ~ Mary Astell, #NFDB
1393:All in all, I was feeling the smug satisfaction of a job well begun and therefore half done. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB
1394:A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. ~ Wyclef Jean, #NFDB
1395:America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
1396:And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don’t you believe it to be so? ~ Kaye Gibbons, #NFDB
1397:And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1398:At any moment, a person can start over. And that’s not half a life, but simply a real one. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1399:At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place. ~ Catherine Tate, #NFDB
1400:A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter. ~ Czeslaw Milosz, #NFDB
1401:Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1402:Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me. ~ Chris Daughtry, #NFDB
1403:but he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth, ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1404:Can making half the print small save the whole thing from its inherent contradiction? ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1405:Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1406:Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope. ~ Michael Nava, #NFDB
1407:Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1408:Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. ~ Susan Estrich, #NFDB
1409:Half of me wanted to punch his gorgeous face, and the other half wanted to make out with it. ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
1410:How I envy so the half of me,
who lived before love's due,
who was yet to know of you. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
1411:. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . ~ Sarah Siddons, #NFDB
1412:If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1413:I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
1414:I’m a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1415:I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything. ~ Jacoby Ellsbury, #NFDB
1416:I tell you even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1417:I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
1418:I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian. ~ Jen Lancaster, #NFDB
1419:I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow. ~ Hannah Kent, #NFDB
1420:I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time... ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
1421:I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It's scary, this love. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
1422:I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! ~ Erin O Connor, #NFDB
1423:Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn’t learn much about the gym in half an hour. ~ Lisa Scottoline, #NFDB
1424:Logan is a damn psycho,” he mutters. “She’s not safe with him. You don’t know the half of it. ~ K Webster, #NFDB
1425:Of course I make mistakes," he said. His mouth curved into a half smile. "Just not often. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1426:The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1427:Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
1428:The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013. ~ Janet Yellen, #NFDB
1429:The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
1430:There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
1431:They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams. ~ Megan Abbott, #NFDB
1432:This is not lust I feel, dear Sara. And I hope you are half as frightened of it as I am. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
1433:Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
1434:Vagueness sucks. Lack of drive sucks. Half-assing things sucks. And so does the middle. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1435:Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life. ~ Jonny Lang, #NFDB
1436:When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1437:With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy ~ Lope de Vega, #NFDB
1438:you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. –immigrant ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
1439:A gorgeous woman falls into your arms, half naked, and all you can muster is “I’m fine”? ~ Krystal Shannan, #NFDB
1440:A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. ~ Giorgio Morandi, #NFDB
1441:(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1442:A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
1443:A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1444:An uneducated heart competes, a half educated heart cooperates but enlightened heart serves ~ Shubha Vilas, #NFDB
1445:Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1446:Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.' ~ Michael Muhney, #NFDB
1447:But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one. ~ Wilfred Owen,#NFDB
1448:Every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1449:Eve: "You already own half the universe"
Roarke: "Why settle for half when you can have all? ~ J D Robb,#NFDB
1450:Find your school satyr and get his help. You need to make it to Camp Half-Blood right away. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1451:Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1452:Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1453:half-formed ideas not yet worth sharing, puzzle pieces without a shape to fit them in. ~ Max Allan Collins, #NFDB
1454:half of Americans belonged, and today about 70 per cent are affiliated with a local church. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1455:Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don’t waste your time on the unworthy. ~ Aleksandr Voinov, #NFDB
1456:Half the world cries
Half the world laughs
Half the world tries
To be the other half ~ Neil Peart,#NFDB
1457:He wears a beard and his face is half Christ and half satyr and his face tells the truth. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1458:I don’t know, Half-Pint, something tells me reining you in is probably a pretty good time. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
1459:I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. ~ Oksana Baiul, #NFDB
1460:I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen. ~ Rakim, #NFDB
1461:I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. ~ Trey Anastasio, #NFDB
1462:Keep talking, and you'll eventually sound like a complete idiot instead of just a half-wit. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
1463:Nobody uses “whom” properly. How the hell was he able to do it when he was half wasted? ~ Georgina Guthrie, #NFDB
1464:Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other. ~ Louise Welsh, #NFDB
1465:Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1466:The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1467:The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world. ~ Gamaliel Bailey, #NFDB
1468:The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1469:There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats. ~ Kenneth Grahame, #NFDB
1470:What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1471:What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1472:when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1473:With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ~ Lope de Vega, #NFDB
1474:you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
1475:You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1476:After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
1477:And Sartre? I chuckle to myself. He was only half right. Heaven can be other people, too. ~ Steve Dublanica, #NFDB
1478:During one ghastly period in 1779, the continental dollar shed half its value in three weeks. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1479:Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. ~ Mike Greenberg, #NFDB
1480:Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1481:Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. ~ Ayya Khema, #NFDB
1482:I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half. ~ Melissa Joan Hart, #NFDB
1483:I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years. ~ Vinny Guadagnino, #NFDB
1484:In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
1485:...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
1486:I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh ~ Ingo F Walther, #NFDB
1487:Is that how you feel, my friend? That the air dislikes you and your lungs feel half-empty? ~ Stephen Dobyns, #NFDB
1488:I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
1489:July disappeared wherever used months go. Then half of August. Soon summer would be over. ~ Richard Bachman, #NFDB
1490:My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. ~ Tom Shadyac, #NFDB
1491:My heart slammed into a new kind of beat, one that knew it had the love of its other half. It ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
1492:Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1493:one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch. ~ Peter Robinson, #NFDB
1494:The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1495:The eastern half of the empire spoke Greek and boasted a culture that went back to Homer. ~ Anthony Everitt, #NFDB
1496:The woman scowled so hard, he half expected a laser beam to shoot out of her eyes. ‘This ~ Robert Muchamore, #NFDB
1497:Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1498:This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1499:Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well. ~ Michael Ende, #NFDB
1500:What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it! ~ Piers Anthony, #NFDB
676 Integral Yoga
403 Poetry
119 Fiction
96 Occultism
63 Mysticism
61 Philosophy
45 Yoga
42 Psychology
38 Christianity
16 Mythology
10 Hinduism
8 Integral Theory
5 Science
5 Philsophy
4 Cybernetics
3 Islam
2 Theosophy
2 Sufism
2 Buddhism
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
446 Sri Aurobindo
343 The Mother
247 Satprem
89 H P Lovecraft
75 Nolini Kanta Gupta
64 William Wordsworth
51 William Butler Yeats
43 John Keats
43 Aleister Crowley
41 Carl Jung
39 Percy Bysshe Shelley
38 Sri Ramakrishna
37 Robert Browning
34 Walt Whitman
29 James George Frazer
20 Friedrich Nietzsche
14 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
13 Saint Augustine of Hippo
13 A B Purani
11 Rabindranath Tagore
11 Ovid
11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10 Lucretius
10 Jorge Luis Borges
9 Vyasa
9 Plato
9 Edgar Allan Poe
8 George Van Vrekhem
7 Nirodbaran
7 Henry David Thoreau
6 Swami Krishnananda
6 Lewis Carroll
6 Anonymous
6 Aldous Huxley
5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 Rainer Maria Rilke
5 Joseph Campbell
4 Plotinus
4 Norbert Wiener
4 Jordan Peterson
3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Saint John of Climacus
3 Muhammad
3 Li Bai
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Paul Richard
2 Omar Khayyam
2 Kahlil Gibran
2 Kabir
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 H. P. Lovecraft
2 Hakim Sanai
2 Friedrich Schiller
2 Franz Bardon
142 Record of Yoga
89 Lovecraft - Poems
64 Wordsworth - Poems
59 The Synthesis Of Yoga
51 Yeats - Poems
43 Keats - Poems
39 Shelley - Poems
38 Savitri
37 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
37 Browning - Poems
33 The Life Divine
32 Whitman - Poems
29 The Golden Bough
27 Magick Without Tears
24 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
23 Agenda Vol 02
22 Agenda Vol 10
22 Agenda Vol 08
22 Agenda Vol 04
21 Agenda Vol 01
20 Letters On Yoga IV
20 Agenda Vol 03
19 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
18 The Human Cycle
18 Questions And Answers 1953
18 Agenda Vol 12
17 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
17 Agenda Vol 05
16 Questions And Answers 1956
16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
16 Agenda Vol 11
16 Agenda Vol 07
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
15 Collected Poems
15 Agenda Vol 13
15 Agenda Vol 06
14 Mysterium Coniunctionis
14 Liber ABA
13 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
12 Questions And Answers 1954
11 Tagore - Poems
11 Metamorphoses
11 Letters On Yoga I
11 Essays Divine And Human
10 The Practice of Psycho therapy
10 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
10 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
10 Of The Nature Of Things
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
9 Vishnu Purana
9 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
9 Questions And Answers 1955
9 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
9 City of God
8 The Phenomenon of Man
8 Preparing for the Miraculous
8 Poe - Poems
8 Letters On Yoga II
8 Labyrinths
8 Faust
8 Aion
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 Walden
7 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
7 The Bible
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
6 The Study and Practice of Yoga
6 The Perennial Philosophy
6 Alice in Wonderland
6 Agenda Vol 09
5 Vedic and Philological Studies
5 The Secret Of The Veda
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 The Future of Man
5 The Blue Cliff Records
5 Rilke - Poems
5 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
5 Letters On Poetry And Art
5 Essays On The Gita
5 Emerson - Poems
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
5 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
4 The Divine Comedy
4 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
4 Talks
4 On the Way to Supermanhood
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Isha Upanishad
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 Cybernetics
4 Anonymous - Poems
3 Twilight of the Idols
3 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
3 Quran
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
3 Li Bai - Poems
3 Goethe - Poems
3 Crowley - Poems
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Prophet
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Symposium
2 Song of Myself
2 Some Answers From The Mother
2 Selected Fictions
2 Schiller - Poems
2 Letters On Yoga III
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A scientist once thought that he had clinched the issue and cut the Gordian knot when he declared triumphantly with reference to spirit sances: "Very significant is the fact that spirits appear only in closed chambers, in half obscurity, to somnolent minds; they are nowhere in the open air, in broad daylight to the wide awake and vigilant intellect!" Well, if the fact is as it is stated, what does it prove? Night alone reveals the stars, during the day they vanish, but that is no proof that stars are not existent. Rather the true scientific spirit should seek to know why (or how) it is so, if it is so, and such a fact would exactly serve as a pointer, a significant starting ground. The attitude of the jesting Pilate is not helpful even to scientific inquiry. This matter of the Spirits we have taken only as an illustration and it must not be understood that this is a domain of high mysticism; rather the contrary. The spiritualists' approach to Mysticism is not the right one and is fraught with not only errors but dangers. For the spiritualists approach their subject with the entire scientific apparatus the only difference being that the scientist does not believe while the spiritualist believes.
Mystic realities cannot be reached by the scientific consciousness, because they are far more subtle than the subtlest object that science can contemplate. The neutrons and positrons are for science today the finest and profoundest object-forces; they belong, it is said, almost to a borderl and where physics ends. Nor for that reason is a mystic reality something like a mathematical abstraction, -n for example. The mystic reality is subtler than the subtlest of physical things and yet, paradoxical to say, more concrete than the most concrete thing that the senses apprehend.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Some Western and Westernised scholars have tried to show that the phenomenon described here is an exclusively natural phenomenon, actually visible in the polar region where the sun never sets for six months and moves in a circle whose plane is parallel to the plane of the horizon on the summer solstice and is gradually inclined as the sun regresses towards the equinox (on which day just half the solar disc is visible above the horizon). The sun may be said there to move in the direction East-South-West-North and again East. Indeed the Upanishad mentions the positions of the sun in that order and gives a character to each successive station. The Ray from the East is red, symbolising the Rik, the Southern Ray is white, symbolising the Yajur, the Western Ray is black symbolising the Atharva. The natural phenomenon, however, might have been or might not have been before the mind's eye of the Rishi, but the symbolism, the esotericism of it is clear enough in the way the Rishi speaks of it. Also, apart from the first four movements (which it is already sufficiently difficult to identify completely with what is visible), the fifth movement, as a separate descending movement from above appears to be a foreign element in the context. And although, with regard to the sixth movement or status, the sun is visible as such exactly from the point of the North Pole for a while, the ring of the Rishi's utterance is unmistakably spiritual, it cannot but refer to a fact of inner consciousness that is at least what the physical fact conveys to the Rishi and what he seeks to convey and express primarily.
Now this is what is sought to be conveyed and expressed. The five movements of the sun here also are nothing but the five smas and they refer to the cycle of the Cosmic or Universal Brahman. The sixth status where all movements cease, where there is no rising and setting, no ebb and flow, no waxing and waning, where there is the immutable, the ever-same unity, is very evidently the Transcendental Brahman. It is That to which the Vedic Rishi refers when he prays for a constant and fixed vision of the eternal Sunjyok ca sryam drie.
--
"How many Gods are there?" Yajnavalkya was once asked.13 The Rishi answered, they say there are three thousand and three of them, or three hundred and three, or again, thirty-three; it may be said too there are six or three or two or one and a half or one finally. Indeed as the Upanishad says elsewhere, it is the One Unique who wished to be many: and all the gods are the various glories (mahim) or emanations of the One Divine. The ancient of ancient Rishis had declared long long ago, in the earliest Veda, that there is one indivisible Reality, the seers name it in various ways.
In Yajnavalkya's enumeration, however, it is to be noted, first of all, that he stresses on the number three. The principle of triplicity is of very wide application: it permeates all fields of consciousness and is evidently based upon a fundamental fact of reality. It seems to embody a truth of synthesis and comprehension, points to the order and harmony that reigns in the cosmos, the spheric music. The metaphysical, that is to say, the original principles that constitute existence are the well-known triplets: (i) the superior: Sat, Chit, Ananda; and (ii) the inferior: Body, Life and Mindthis being a reflection or translation or concretisation of the former. We can see also here how the dual principle comes in, the twin godhead or the two gods to which Yajnavalkya refers. The same principle is found in the conception of Ardhanarishwara, Male and Female, Purusha-Prakriti. The Upanishad says 14 yet again that the One original Purusha was not pleased at being alone, so for a companion he created out of himself the original Female. The dual principle signifies creation, the manifesting activity of the Reality. But what is this one and a half to which Yajnavalkya refers? It simply means that the other created out of the one is not a wholly separate, independent entity: it is not an integer by itself, as in the Manichean system, but that it is a portion, a fraction of the One. And in the end, in the ultimate analysis, or rather synthesis, there is but one single undivided and indivisible unity. The thousands and hundreds, very often mentioned also in the Rig Veda, are not simply multiplications of the One, a graphic description of its many-sidedness; it indicates also the absolute fullness, the complete completeness (prasya pram) of the Reality. It includes and comprehends all and is a rounded totality, a full circle. The hundred-gated and the thousand-pillared cities of which the ancient Rishis chanted are formations and embodiments of consciousness human and divine, are realities whole and entire englobing all the layers and grades of consciousness.
Besides this metaphysics there is also an occult aspect in numerology of which Pythagoras was a well-known adept and in which the Vedic Rishis too seem to take special delight. The multiplication of numbers represents in a general way the principle of emanation. The One has divided and subdivided itself, but not in a haphazard way: it is not like the chaotic pulverisation of a piece of stone by hammer-blows. The process of division and subdivision follows a pattern almost as neat and methodical as a genealogical tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in assigning them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The marriage ceremony was duly performed. Such early marriage in India is in the nature of a betrothal, the marriage being consummated when the girl attains puberty. But in this case the marriage remained for ever unconsummated. Sri Ramakrishna lived at Kamarpukur about a year and a half and then returned to Dakshineswar.
Hardly had he crossed the threshold of the Kali temple when he found himself again in the whirlwind. His madness reappeared tenfold. The same meditation and prayer, the same ecstatic moods, the same burning sensation, the same weeping, the same sleeplessness, the same indifference to the body and the outside world, the same divine delirium. He subjected himself to fresh disciplines in order to eradicate greed and lust, the two great impediments to spiritual progress. With a rupee in one hand and some earth in the other, he would reflect on the comparative value of these two for the realization of God, and finding them equally worthless he would toss them, with equal indifference, into the Ganges. Women he regarded as the manifestations of the Divine Mother. Never even in a dream did he feel the impulses of lust. And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariahs house with his long and neglected hair. When he would sit in meditation, birds would perch on his head and peck in his hair for grains of food. Snakes would crawl over his body, and neither would be aware of the other. Sleep left him altogether. Day and night, visions flitted before him. He saw the sannyasi who had previously killed the "sinner" in him again coming out of his body, threatening him with the trident, and ordering him to concentrate on God. Or the same sannyasi would visit distant places, following a luminous path, and bring him reports of what was happening there. Sri Ramakrishna used to say later that in the case of an advanced devotee the mind itself becomes the guru, living and moving like an embodied being.
--
On the appointed day, in the small hours of the morning, a fire was lighted in the Panchavati. Totapuri and Sri Ramakrishna sat before it. The flame played on their faces. "Ramakrishna was a small brown man with a short beard and beautiful eyes, long dark eyes, full of light, obliquely set and slightly veiled, never very wide open, but seeing half-closed a great distance both outwardly and inwardly. His mouth was open over his white teeth in a bewitching smile, at once affectionate and mischievous. Of medium height, he was thin to emaciation and extremely delicate. His temperament was high-strung, for he was supersensitive to all the winds of joy and sorrow, both moral and physical. He was indeed a living reflection of all that happened before the mirror of his eyes, a two-sided mirror, turned both out and in." (Romain Rolland, Prophets of the New India, pp. 38-9.) Facing him, the other rose like a rock. He was very tall and robust, a sturdy and tough oak. His constitution and mind were of iron. He was the strong leader of men.
In the burning flame before him Sri Ramakrishna performed the rituals of destroying his attachment to relatives, friends, body, mind, sense-organs, ego, and the world. The leaping flame swallowed it all, making the initiate free and pure. The sacred thread and the tuft of hair were consigned to the fire, completing his severance from caste, sex, and society. Last of all he burnt in that fire, with all that is holy as his witness, his desire for enjoyment here and hereafter. He uttered the sacred mantras giving assurance of safety and fearlessness to all beings, who were only manifestations of his own Self. The rites completed, the disciple received from the guru the loin-cloth and ochre robe, the emblems of his new life.
--
Keshab Chandra Sen and Sri Ramakrishna met for the first time in the garden house of Jaygopal Sen at Belgharia, a few miles from Dakshineswar, where the great Brahmo leader was staying with some of his disciples. In many respects the two were poles apart, though an irresistible inner attraction was to make them intimate friends. The Master had realized God as Pure Spirit and Consciousness, but he believed in the various forms of God as well. Keshab, on the other hand, regarded image worship as idolatry and gave allegorical explanations of the Hindu deities. Keshab was an orator and a writer of books and magazine articles; Sri Ramakrishna had a horror of lecturing and hardly knew how to write his own name, Keshab's fame spread far and wide, even reaching the distant shores of England; the Master still led a secluded life in the village of Dakshineswar. Keshab emphasized social reforms for India's regeneration; to Sri Ramakrishna God-realization was the only goal of life. Keshab considered himself a disciple of Christ and accepted in a diluted form the Christian sacraments and Trinity; Sri Ramakrishna was the simple child of Kali, the Divine Mother, though he too, in a different way, acknowledged Christ's divinity. Keshab was a householder holder and took a real interest in the welfare of his children, whereas Sri Ramakrishna was a paramahamsa and completely indifferent to the life of the world. Yet, as their acquaintance ripened into friendship, Sri Ramakrishna and Keshab held each other in great love and respect. Years later, at the news of Keshab's death, the Master felt as if half his body had become paralyzed. Keshab's concepts of the harmony of religions and the Motherhood of God were deepened and enriched by his contact with Sri Ramakrishna.
Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely delicate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisticated men of Bengal, the best products of Western education, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
--
Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
The Brahmo leaders received much inspiration from their contact with Sri Ramakrishna. It broadened their religious views and kindled in their hearts the yearning for God-realization; it made them understand and appreciate the rituals and symbols of Hindu religion, convinced them of the manifestation of God in diverse forms, and deepened their thoughts about the harmony of religions. The Master, too, was impressed by the sincerity of many of the Brahmo devotees. He told them about his own realizations and explained to them the essence of his teachings, such as the necessity of renunciation, sincerity in the pursuit of one's own course of discipline, faith in God, the performance of one's duties without thought of results, and discrimination between the Real and the unreal.
--
The words were tender and touching. Like a mother he caressed Narendra and Rakhal, gently stroking their faces. He said in a half whisper to M., "Had this body been allowed to last a little longer, many more souls would have been illumined." He paused a moment and then said: "But Mother has ordained otherwise. She will take me away lest, finding me guileless and foolish, people should take advantage of me and persuade me to bestow on them the rare gifts of spirituality." A few minutes later he touched his chest and said: "Here are two beings. One is She and the other is Her devotee. It is the latter who broke his arm, and it is he again who is now ill. Do you understand me?" After a pause he added: "Alas! To whom shall I tell all this? Who will understand me?" "Pain", he consoled them again, 'is unavoidable as long as there is a body. The Lord takes on the body for the sake of His devotees."
Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
--
Dr. Sarkar arrived the following noon and pronounced that life had departed not more than half an hour before. At five o'clock the Masters body was brought downstairs, laid on a cot, dressed in ochre clothes, and decorated with sandal-paste and flowers. A procession was formed. The passers-by wept as the body was taken to the cremation ground at the Baranagore Ghat on the Ganges.
While the devotees were returning to the garden house, carrying the urn with the sacred ashes, a calm resignation came to their souls and they cried, "Victory unto the Guru!"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
single word, more frequently from a half-dozen to
twenty paragraphs. The subject of each chapter is
--
perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy,
at breakfast at "Au Chien qui Fume".
--
minute and a half. That is how you must know the Qabalah.)
NOTE
--
one conceives the half-humorous attitude of the expert towards the beginner.
Paragraph 3 is a comment in the same tone of rough good nature. The word
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The reader will find mentioned in this work many visions and experiences that fall outside the ken of physical science and even psychology. With the development of modern knowledge the border line between the natural and the supernatural is ever shifting its position. Genuine mystical experiences are not as suspect now as they were half a century ago. The words of Sri Ramakrishna have already exerted a tremendous influence in the land of his birth. Savants of Europe have found in his words the ring of universal truth.
But these words were not the product of intellectual cogitation; they were rooted in direct experience. Hence, to students of religion, psychology, and physical science, these experiences of the Master are of immense value for the understanding of religious phenomena in general. No doubt Sri Ramakrishna was a Hindu of the Hindus; yet his experiences transcended the limits of the dogmas and creeds of Hinduism. Mystics of religions other than Hinduism will find in Sri Ramakrishna's experiences a corroboration of the experiences of their own prophets and seers. And this is very important today for the resuscitation of religious values. The sceptical reader may pass by the supernatural experiences; he will yet find in the book enough material to provoke his serious thought and solve many of his spiritual problems.
--
In addition to this instinct for diary-keeping, M. had great endowments contri buting to success in this line. Writes Swami Nityatmananda who lived in close association with M., in his book entitled M - The Apostle and Evangelist: "M.'s prodigious memory combined with his extraordinary power of imagination completely annihilated the distance of time and place for him. Even after the lapse of half a century he could always visualise vividly, scenes from the life of Sri Ramakrishna. Superb too was his power to portray pictures by words."
Besides the prompting of his inherent instinct, the main inducement for M. to keep this diary of his experiences at Dakshineswar was his desire to provide himself with a means for living in holy company at all times. Being a school teacher, he could be with the Master only on Sundays and other holidays, and it was on his diary that he depended for 'holy company' on other days. The devotional scriptures like the Bhagavata say that holy company is the first and most important means for the generation and growth of devotion. For, in such company man could hear talks on spiritual matters and listen to the glorification of Divine attri butes, charged with the fervour and conviction emanating from the hearts of great lovers of God. Such company is therefore the one certain means through which Sraddha (Faith), Rati (attachment to God) and Bhakti (loving devotion) are generated. The diary of his visits to Dakshineswar provided M. with material for re-living, through reading and contemplation, the holy company he had had earlier, even on days when he was not able to visit Dakshineswar. The wealth of details and the vivid description of men and things in the midst of which the sublime conversations are set, provide excellent material to re-live those experiences for any one with imaginative powers. It was observed by M.'s disciples and admirers that in later life also whenever he was free or alone, he would be pouring over his diary, transporting himself on the wings of imagination to the glorious days he spent at the feet of the Master.
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
Science's self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical-because synergetically weightless. Metaphysical has been science's designation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected-like it or not-life is but a dream.Science has found no up or down directions of Universe, yet scientists are personally so ill-coordinated that they all still personally and sensorially see "solids" going up or down-as, for instance, they see the Sun "going down." Sensorially disconnected from their theoretically evolved information, scientists discern no need on their part to suggest any educational reforms to correct the misconceiving that science has tolerated for half a millennium.
Society depends upon its scientists for just such educational reform guidance.
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
take one and a half months to finish the bathroom. I
said Yes. In fact, I expected it to be finished within a
--
will take one and a half months, naturally that should be
correct; there may be some delays I cannot foresee. (2)
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
So dazzling is even a glimpse of this supreme existence and so absorbing its attraction that, once seen, we feel readily justified in neglecting all else for its pursuit. Even, by an opposite exaggeration to that which sees all things in Mind and the mental life as an exclusive ideal, Mind comes to be regarded as an unworthy deformation and a supreme obstacle, the source of an illusory universe, a negation of the Truth and itself to be denied and all its works and results annulled if we desire the final liberation. But this is a half-truth which errs by regarding only the actual limitations of Mind and ignores its divine intention.
The ultimate knowledge is that which perceives and accepts God in the universe as well as beyond the universe; the integral Yoga is that which, having found the Transcendent, can return upon the universe and possess it, retaining the power freely to descend
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiritual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable and all the resit is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to manifest Him, - that is, first of all to transform one's own limited consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, to live in the infinite Peace, Light, Love, Strength, Bliss, to become that in one's essential nature and, as a consequence, to be its vessel, channel, instrument in one's active nature. To bring into activity the principle of oneness on the material plane or to work for humanity is a mental mistranslation of the Truth - these things cannot be the first true object of spiritual seeking. We must find the Self, the Divine, then only can we know what is the work the Self or the Divine demands from us. Until then our life and action can only be a help or a means towards finding the Divine and it ought not to have any other purpose. As we grow in inner consciousness, or as the spiritual Truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and action must indeed more and more flow from that, be one with that. But to decide beforeh and by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, substituting the pure Gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the material plane. To hold up a mental ideal or principle and impose that on the inner working brings the danger of limiting ourselves to a mental realisation or of impeding or even falsifying by a halfway formation the truth growth into the full communion and union with the Divine and the free and intimate outflowing of His will in our life. This is a mistake of orientation to which the mind of today is especially prone. It is far better to approach the Divine for the Peace or Light or Bliss that the realisation of Him gives than to bring in these minor things which can divert us from the one thing needful. The divinisation of the material life also as well as the inner life is part of what we see as the Divine Plan, but it can only be fulfilled by an ourflowing of the inner realisation, something that grows from within outwards, not by the working out of a mental principle.
The realisation of the Divine is the one thing needful and the rest is desirable only in so far as it helps or leads towards that or when it is realised, extends and manifests the realisation. Manifestation and organisation of the whole life for the divine work, - first, the sadhana personal and collective necessary for the realisation and a common life of God-realised men, secondly, for help to the world to move towards that, and to live in the Light - is the whole meaning and purpose of my Yoga. But the realisation is the first need and it is that round which all the rest moves, for apart from it all the rest would have no meaning.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Once she half looked behind for her veiled sun,
Then, thoughtful, went to her immortal work.
--
Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs
On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth,
--
Even her humanity was half divine:
Her spirit opened to the Spirit in all,
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A veiled reality half-known, ever missed,
A search for something or someone never found,
--
Refining half-hewn blocks of natural strength
It built his soul into a statued god.
--
Into the half-ordered chaos of mortal life
The formless Power, the Self of eternal light
--
Leaving a half-saved world to its dubious fate.
Nature would ever labour unredeemed;
--
Widening the mortal mind's half-look on things,
Bridging the gap between man's force and Fate
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Still, it must be noted that Coleridge is a rare example, for the recording apparatus is not usually so faithful but puts up its own formations that disturb and alter the perfection of the original. The passivity or neutrality of the intermediary is relative, and there are infinite grades of it. Even when the larger waves that play in it in the normal waking state are quieted down, smaller ripples of unconscious or half-conscious habitual formations are thrown up and they are sufficient to cause the scattering and dispersal of the pure light from above.
The absolute passivity is attainable, perhaps, only by the Yogi. And in this sense the supreme poet is a Yogi, for in his consciousness the higher, deeper, subtler or other modes of experiences pass through and are recorded with the minimum aberration or diffraction.
But the Yogi is a wholly conscious being; a perfect Yogi is he who possesses a conscious and willed control over his instruments, he silences them, as and when he likes, and makes them convey and express with as little deviation as possible truths and realities from the Beyond. Now the question is, is it possible for the poet also to do something like that, to consciously create and not to be a mere unconscious or helpless channel? Conscious artistry, as we have said, means to be conscious on two levels of consciousness at the same time, to be at home in both equally and simultaneously. The general experience, however, is that of "one at a time": if the artist dwells more in the one, the other retires into the background to the same measure. If he is in the over-consciousness, he is only half-conscious in his brain consciousness, or even not conscious at allhe does not know how he has created, the sources or process of his creative activity, he is quite oblivious of them" gone through them all as if per saltum. Such seems to have been the case with the primitives, as they are called, the elemental poetsShakespeare and Homer and Valmiki. In some others, who come very near to them in poetic genius, yet not quite on a par, the instrumental intelligence is strong and active, it helps in its own way but in helping circumscribes and limits the original impulsion. The art here becomes consciously artistic, but loses something of the initial freshness and spontaneity: it gains in correctness, polish and elegance and has now a style in lieu of Nature's own naturalness. I am thinking of Virgil and Milton and Kalidasa. Dante's place is perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versificationalthough here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille are of this order in French poetry.
The three or four major orders I speak of in reference to conscious artistry are exampled characteristically in the history of the evolution of Greek poetry. It must be remembered, however, at the very outset that the Greeks as a race were nothing if not rational and intellectual. It was an element of strong self-consciousness that they brought into human culture that was their special gift. Leaving out of account Homer who was, as I said, a primitive, their classical age began with Aeschylus who was the first and the most spontaneous and intuitive of the Great Three. Sophocles, who comes next, is more balanced and self-controlled and pregnant with a reasoned thought-content clothed in polished phrasing. We feel here that the artist knew what he was about and was exercising a conscious control over his instruments and materials, unlike his predecessor who seemed to be completely carried away by the onrush of the poetic enthousiasmos. Sophocles, in spite of his artistic perfection or perhaps because of it, appears to be just a little, one remove, away from the purity of the central inspiration there is a veil, although a thin transparent veil, yet a veil between which intervenes. With the third of the Brotherhood, Euripides, we slide lower downwe arrive at a predominantly mental transcription of an experience or inner conception; but something of the major breath continues, an aura, a rhythm that maintains the inner contact and thus saves the poetry. In a subsequent age, in Theocritus, for example, poetry became truly very much 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought', so much of virtuosity and precocity entered into it; in other words, the poet then was an excessively self-conscious artist. That seems to be the general trend of all literature.
--
Ifso long the poet was more or less a passive, a half-conscious or unconscious intermediary between the higher and the lower lights and delights, his role in the future will be better fulfilled when he becomes fully aware of it and consciously moulds and directs his creative energies. The poet is and has to be the harbinger and minstrel of unheard-of melodies: he is the fashioner of the creative word that brings down and embodies the deepest aspirations and experiences of the human consciousness. The poet is a missionary: he is missioned by Divine Beauty to radiate upon earth something of her charm and wizardry. The fullness of his role he can only play up when he is fully conscious for it is under that condition that all obstructing and obscuring elements lying across the path of inspiration can be completely and wholly eradicated: the instrument purified and tempered and transmuted can hold and express golden truths and beauties and puissances that otherwise escape the too human mould.
"The Last Voyage" by Charles Williams-A Little Book of Modern Verse, (Faber and Faber).
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Seed of a perishing body and half-lit mind,
Uplifts its lonely tongue of conscious fire
--
Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole:
An interregnum in Reality
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Amid half-semblances of diviner things.
These now could serve no more his regal turn;
--
Or all seems a misfit of half ideas,
Or we saddle with the vice of earthly form
--
A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes,
A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire,
--
Once in a dreaded half-light formidable,
Overtaken in her mighty privacy
--
Beginnings of the half-screened Invisible.
23.7A magic porch of entry glimmering
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine Love is a greater fire than the low smouldering fire that our secular unregenerate life is. One has to choose and declare his adhesion. Indeed, the stage of conversion, the crucial turn from the ordinary life to the spiritual life Eliot has characterised in a very striking manner. We usually say, sometimes in an outburst of grief, sometimes in a spirit of sudden disgust and renunciation that the world is dark and dismal and lonesome, the only thing to do here is to be done with it. The true renunciation, that which is deep and abiding, is not, however, so simple a thing, such a short cut. So our poet says, but the world is not dark enough, it is not lonesome enough: the world lives and moves in a superficial half-light, it is neither real death nor real life, it is death in life. It is this miserable mediocrity, the shallow uncertainty of consciousness that spells danger and ruin for the soul. Hence the poet exclaims:
. . . . Not here
--
But Thompson was not an intellectual, his doubts and despondencies were not of the mental order, he was a boiling, swelling life-surge, a geyser, a volcano. He, too, crossed the Night and saw the light of Day, but in a different way. Well, I he did not march into the day, it was the Day that marched I into him! Yes, the Divine Grace came and seized him from behind with violence. A modern, a modernist consciousness cannot expect that indulgence. God meets him only halfway, he has to work up himself the other half. He has laid so many demands and conditions: the knots in his case are not cut asunder but slowly disengaged.
The modern temper is especially partial to harmony: it cannot assert and reject unilaterally and categorically, it wishes to go round an object and view all its sides; it asks for a synthesis and reconciliation of differences and contraries. Two major chords of life-experience that demand accord are Life and Death, Time and Eternity. Indeed, the problem of Time hangs heavy on the human consciousness. It has touched to the quick philosophers and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying soul for solution.
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
others remain half conscious like the vast majority of human
beings.
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And how many years have you all been here, half-asleep? Naturally, youre happy to think about it now and thenespecially when I speak to you about it or sometimes when you read. But THATthat fire, that will which plows through all barriers, that concentration which can triumph over EVERYTHING
Now who was it that asked me what you should do?
0 1958-05-11 - the ship that said OM, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And then I wondered, If we were to repeat the mantra we heard the other day4 (Om Namo Bhagavateh) during the half-hour meditation, what would happen?
What would happen?
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At the new moon, when I felt very down, he gave me the first tantric mantraa mantra to Durga. For a period of 41 days, I must repeat it 125,000 times and go every morning to the Temple, stand before Parvati and recite this mantra within me for at least one hour. Then I must go to the sanctuary of Shiva and recite another mantra for half an hour. Practically speaking, I have to repeat constantly within me the mantra to Durga in a silent concentration, whatever I may be doing on the outside. In these conditions, it is difficult to think of you and this has created a slight conflict in me, but I believe that your Grace is acting through Swami and through Durga, whom I am invoking all the time I remember what you told me about the necessity for intermediaries and I am obeying Swami unreservedly.
Mother, things are far from being what they were the first time in Rameswaram, and I am living through certain moments that are hell the enemy seems to have been unleashed with an extraordinary violence. It comes in waves, and after it recedes, I am literally SHATTEREDphysically, mentally and vitally drained. This morning, while going to the temple, I lived through one of these moments. All this suffering that suddenly sweeps down upon me is horrible. Yes, I had the feeling of being BACKED UP AGAINST A WALL, exactly as in your vision I was up against a wall. I was walking among these immense arcades of sculptured granite and I could see myself walking, very small, all alone, alone, ravaged with pain, filled with a nameless despair, for nowhere was there a way out. The sea was nearby and I could have thrown myself into it; otherwise, there was only the sanctuary of Parvati but there was no more Africa to flee to, everything closed in all around me, and I kept repeating, Why? Why? This much suffering was truly inhuman, as if my last twenty years of nightmare were crashing down upon me. I gritted my teeth and went to the sanctuary to say my mantra. The pain in me was so strong that I broke into a cold sweat and almost fainted. Then it subsided. Yet even now I feel completely battered.
0 1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Two or three days after I retired to my room upstairs,1 early in the night I fell into a very heavy sleep and found myself out of the body much more materially than I do usually. This degree of density in which you can see the material surroundings exactly as they are. The part that was out seemed to be under a spell and only half conscious. When I found myself at the first floor where everything was absolutely black, I wanted to go up again, but then I discovered that my hand was held by a young girl whom I could not see in the darkness but whose contact was very familiar. She pulled me by the hand telling me laughingly, No, come, come down with me, we shall kill the young princess. I could not understand what she meant by this young princess and, rather unwillingly, I followed her to see what it was. Arriving in the anteroom which is at the top of the staircase leading to the ground floor, my attention was drawn in the midst of all this total obscurity to the white figure of Kamala2 standing in the middle of the passage between the hall and Sri Aurobindos room. She was as it were in full light while everything else was black. Then I saw on her face such an expression of intense anxiety that to comfort her I said, I am coming back. The sound of my voice shook off from me the semi-trance in which I was before and suddenly I thought, Where am I going? and I pushed away from me the dark figure who was pulling me and in whom, while she was running down the steps, I recognized a young girl who lived with Sri Aurobindo and me for many years and died five years back. This girl during her life was under the most diabolical influence. And then I saw very distinctly (as through the walls of the staircase) down below a small black tent which could scarcely be perceived in the surrounding darkness and standing in the middle of the tent the figure of a man, head and face shaved (like the sannyasin or the Buddhist monks) covered from head to foot with a knitted outfit following tightly the form of his body which was tall and slim. No other cloth or garment could give an indication as to who he could be. He was standing in front of a black pot placed on a dark red fire which was throwing its reddish glow on him. He had his right arm stretched over the pot, holding between two fingers a thin gold chain which looked like one of mine and was unnaturally visible and bright. Shaking gently the chain he was chanting some words which translated in my mind, She must die the young princess, she must pay for all she has done, she must die the young princess.
Then I suddenly realized that it was I the young Princess and as I burst into laughter, I found myself awake in my bed.
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The earthquake he mentioned promises to be a kind of pralaya (as X put it), for not only Bombay will be touched. This is what he said: America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. half of western Pakistan, including Karachi, will go into the sea. The sea will enter into Rajasthan and touch India also
X then said that India would side with America against the Communist bloc (in spite of Americas support to Pakistan), and furthermore, that the day India sides with America, America will cease supporting Pakistan. In any case, it will be the end of Pakistan.
0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To begin with, I must tell you a dream that I had here in Rameswaram a few days after my arrival. I was being pursued and I fled like an assassinit is a dream I have had hundreds of times for years, but in this dream, there was a new element: while being pursued, I climbed a kind of stairway to try to escape when suddenly, in a flash, I saw a feminine form hurtling into a void. I saw only the lower half of her body (with a kind of mauve-colored saree), because she was already falling. And I had the horrible sensation of having pushed this woman into the void, and I fled. I climbed, I climbed these stairs with my pursuers close at my heels, and the image of this falling woman gave me a horrible feeling. When I reached the top of the stairs, I tried to close a door behind me to stop my pursuers, but there they were, it was too late and I woke up.
The last time I was in Rameswaram, I had two other very poignant dreams, but I could not make out what they meant. In one dream I was strangling someone with my bare hands; it was an abominable feeling. And in the other, I saw, in a kind of nocturnal setting, a hanged man being taken down, with all kinds of people bustling about the corpse with lamps, and suddenly I knew that this hanged man was me.
--
X gave me a new mantra. My body is exhausted from too much nervous tension. I am living in a kind of cellar with four inches of filth on the floor and walls, and two openings, one onto the street of the bazaar the other onto a dilapidated courtyard with a well. On my right lives a madwoman who screams half the day. There is only my mantra which burns almost constantly in my heart, and who knows what hope that some day the future will be happy and reconciled. There is also Sujata and you.
Your child,
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And when I awoke, I didnt have this feeling of returning from afar and of having to re-enter my body, as I usually do. No, it was simply as though I were in this other world, then I took a step backwards and found myself here again. It took me a good half an hour to understand that this world here existed as much as the other and that I was no longer on the other side but here, in the world of falsehood. I had forgotten everythingpeople, things, what I had to do; everything had gone, as if it had no reality at all.
You see, its not as if this world of Truth had to be created from nothing: it is fully ready, it is there, like a lining of our own present world. Everything is there, EVERYTHING is there.
0 1960-05-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And in that kind of physical eternity (which lasted two and a half hoursits a long time for an experience), I was aware of something missing, something not there: the joy of the consciousness. Because throughout my life I have developed the habit of being conscious of everything, always, at each second. And the joy of the consciousness was not there. So I thanked the Grace that made me see that this kind of nirvana was quite simply physical tamas.2
(silence)
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And the concentration grew stronger and stronger. The day before yesterday it became very, very powerful, and yesterday morning, around half past noon, it pulled me inward; he came to me in a kind of sleep, a conscious sleep, and I even said almost aloud, Oh, K!
It lasted fifteen minutes; I was completely within, inside, as if to receive him.
--
So its probably during this period that people are resuscitated, as they say. It must be during this period, for they have not left their bodies, they are not really dead, though the heart may give every appearance of having stopped. So K left his body at around half past noon, and officially it was at 11:45. Forty-five minutes later, in other words.
And it takes place very gently, very gently (when its done right), very gently, very gently, smoothly, without any shock.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I also use my mantra to go into trance. After relaxing on the bed and making as total a self-offering as possible of everything, from top to bottom, and after removing as fully as possible all resistance of the ego, I start repeating the mantra.1 After repeating it two or three times, I am in trance (at the beginning it took longer). And from this trance I pass into sleep; the trance lasts as long as necessary and, quite naturally, spontaneously, I pass into sleep. And when I come back, I remember everything. The sleep was like a continuation of the trance. And essentially, the only reason for sleep is to allow the body to assimilate the results of the trance, then to allow these results to be accepted throughout and to let the body do its natural nights work of eliminating toxins. My periods of sleep practically dont exist sometimes they are as short as half an hour or 15 minutes. But in the beginning, I had long periods of sleep, one or even two hours in succession. And when I woke up, I did not feel this residue of heaviness which comes from sleep the effects of the trance continued.
It is even good for people whove never been in trance to repeat a mantra (or a word, a prayer) before going to sleep. But the words must have a life of their ownby this I dont mean an intellectual meaning, nothing of the kind, but rather a vibration. And this has an extraordinary effect on the body, it starts vibrating, vibrating, vibrating and so calm, you let yourself go, like falling off to sleep. And the body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and you drift off.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, Mothers Force is with you. When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates inside, it makes living vibrations of every color. And it goes on and on and on. Sometimes it lasts half an hour, three-quarters of an hour, an hournothing goes out. And it keeps constantly entering. And it piles up. Its as if it is all being accumulated or compressed together.
So, the observing mind, the intelligence that watches, looked at all thisAh, thats what its like (an intelligence that watches without interfering in the least). Its like a spectator talking to himself.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then when I woke up, I immediately said to myself, Hmm, its truehow would I spell that? It took me half a minute to remember. It was really funny!
Coming at the end of the night as it did, it means that its an exploration in some part or another of a subconscious mental activity. And you can make so many discoveries there it is unbelievable! But its lovely. And rarely unpleasant. There was a time when it was very unpleasant, oppressive, full of effort and resistance. I would want to go somewhere, but it would be impossible; I toiled and struggled, but everything would go wrong the straight paths would suddenly plunge into an abyss, and Id have to cross the abyss. For years it was like that. Just recently, I looked back over this whole period But now it is over. Now its something its lovely, its enjoyable, its a little it has a childlike simplicity.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This lasted a good half hour before I could calm it down, make it quiet, quiet. And I saw that this came from the fact that he wanted to bring the Power down, to transmit the Power into the physical mind! But as soon as Im put in contact with the Power, you understand, it makes everything explode! (Mother laughs) It felt exactly like my head was going to explode!
I felt better that night because I was concentrated, but my head was still hurting a little. Then the following day I said to myself, or rather I told him inwardly, Whether you like it or not, I am bringing down whats up above; it is the only way I can feel comfortable! And I told you what happenedas soon as I sat down I was so surprised, for he didnt start doing what he had done the day before; I myself did the same thing, I participated, so to speak, in his will (so as to find out), but with the resolve to remain consciously in contact with the highest consciousness, as always, and to bring it down. And it came in a marvelous flood. He was quite happy, he did not protest! All the pain was gone, there was nothing left, it was perfect. Only towards the end of the meditation did he again want to start doing his little trick of enclosing my physical mind in this construction, but it didnt last I watched all this from above.
--
He saw me the next day for half an hour. I sat downit was on the verandah of the Guest House, I was sitting there on the verandah. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. Myself, I was seated at his feet, very small, with the table just in front of meit came to my forehead, which gave me a little protection I didnt say anything, I didnt think anything, try anything, want anything I merely sat near him. When I stood up half an hour later, he had put silence in my head, thats all, without my even having asked himperhaps even without his trying.
Oh, I had tried for years I had tried to catch silence in my head I never succeeded. I could detach myself from it, but it would keep on turning But at that moment, all the mental constructions, all the mental, speculative structures none of it remaineda big hole.
--
This lasted about half an hour. I quietly remained there I heard the noise of their conversation, but I wasnt listening. And then when I got up, I no longer knew anything, I no longer thought anything, I no longer had any mental constructioneverything was gone, absolutely gone, blank!as if I had just been born.
***
--
The most recent incident took place a few days ago, for there was a general excitement in the factory due to the expected visit of a government minister during the day. That afternoon, exactly at half past three, I felt that I had to make a little concentration. So I paid attention and saw poor L11 praying to me. He was praying, praying, calling mesuch a strong call that it pulled me. I was having my bath (you know what happens when Im very strongly pulled Im stopped right in the very midst of a gesture, then the consciousness goes wandering off! And I cant do anything, it stops me dead. Thats exactly what happened to me in the bathroom). When I saw what was happening, I straightened things out. Then they must have had their ceremony, for suddenly I felt, Ah, now it has calmed down, its all right. And I went on to something else.
The next day, L came to see me. He told me that shortly before 3:30, the machine had stopped once again, but this time it was quickly set right; they found out right away what had to be done. And then he told me that at 3:45 he had started praying to me that all should go well. Oh, I know! I said.
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My nights contain so many things that I dont always do the necessary work to remember that takes up a lot of time. Sometimes I get up during the night and sit there recalling precisely everything that has already happened, but that sometimes takes half an hour!and as urgent work still calls, I dont take the time to remember and it gets erased. But then, you know, with all thats coming you could write volumes!
From a documentary standpoint, my nights are getting quite interesting. In the Yoga of Self-Perfection, Sri Aurobindo describes precisely this state you reach in which all things assume meaning and a quality of inner significance, clarification of various points, and help. From this point of view, my nights have become extraordinary. I see infinitely more things than I saw before. Before, it was very limited to a personal contact with people. Now In my nights, each thing and each person has the appearance, the gesture, the word or the action that describes EXACTLY his condition. Its becoming quite interesting.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The experience I havewhat I mean by I is this aggregate here (Mother indicates her body), this particular individualityis that the more quiet and calm it is, the more work it can do and the faster the work can be done. What is most disturbing and time consuming are all these agitated vibrations that fall on me (truly speaking, each person who comes throws them on me). And this is what makes the work difficultit stirs up a whirlwind. And you cant do anything in this whirlwind, its impossible. If you try to do something material, your fingers stumble; if you try to do something intellectual, your thoughts get all entangled and you no longer see clearly. Ive had the experience, for example, of wanting to look up a word in the dictionary while this agitation was in the atmosphere, and everything jumps up and down (yet the lighting is the same and Im using the same magnifying glass), I no longer see a thing, its all jumping! I go page by page, but the word simply doesnt exist in the dictionary! Then I remain quiet, I do this (Mother makes a gesture of bringing down the Peace) and after half a minute I open the dictionary: the very spot, and the word leaps out at me! And I see clearly and distinctly. Consequently I have now the indisputable proof that if you want to do anything properly, you must FIRST be calm but not only be calm yourself; you must either isolate yourself or be capable of imposing a calm on this whirlwind of forces that comes upon you all the time from all around.
All the teachers are wanting to quit the schoolweary! Which means theyll begin the year with half the teachers gone. They live in constant tension, they dont know how to relax thats really what it is. They dont know how to act without agitation.
I think thats what this head came to tell me, and its precisely whats wrong in the Ashrameverything here is done in agitation, absolutely everything. So its constantly a comedy of errors; someone speaks, the other doesnt listen and responds all wrong, and nothing gets done. Someone asks one thing, another answers to something elsebah! Its a dreadful con-fu-sion.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sometime later (he doesnt know how long, for until he returned he had no sense of time), he woke up in a rather dark, low-roofed house way out in the country; there were five persons now, not four. They were busy eating, so he was careful not to budge. Mainly they were drinking (they have prohibition there). Four of them were already dead drunk. So he got up to have a look. The fifth one, whom he hadnt seen before (he must have been the chief), was not yet totally drunk; when he saw the boy stirring, he let out a fearful growlso the poor boy threw himself flat in the corner and lay stillhe waited. After awhile, the fifth one (after downing another bottle) was also dead drunk. So now that he saw them all fast asleep, he got up very cautiously and he said he ran for an hour and a half! A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadnt eaten for four days! I think thats a miracle.
After running for an hour and a half, he found himself back at the Poona station, he doesnt know how. He caught a train back to Bombay, scarcely knowing how he managed it.
When I found this out, I immediately thought, Good, this boy caught the formation2 X had made for the other one, and it got him back. For its really miraculous that he succeeded. But the other one, the nephew, was left stranded, nowhere to be found. It was obviously the same gang and the same method.
--
But I was mainly interested by the fact that I felt the danger these people representednot because they were brigands, but because they had some powerbrigands with a power and from what I saw, it was not merely an hypnotic power. There must have been a tantric force in it, otherwise they would not have been so powerful, and especially so powerful from a distance. I had said to myself, They MUST be caught. Which was why (the Force kept on working, you see). And yesterday, the newspaper said that a gang of five men, eight women and half a dozen children had been arrested by the police in Allahabad for using what the newspaper called mesmeric means to rob people, attack them, etc. (They were operating in Poona, Bombay and Ahmedabad, but they were caught in Allahabad). Probably when they realized that the boy was gone, they got frightened and fled to the North. And they were arrested in Allahabad I had made a very strong formation and had said, They MUST be caught.
As of now, I have no other news Theyve been caught, so they cant do any wrong OUTWARDLY, but still their power is there. Were going to have to be And everyone here says the same thinglike a black veil of unconsciousness that has fallen upon us. Even those who arent accustomed to such things have felt it. Im presently cleaning the whole placeits not easy. Everything is upside down.
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But then, just before that, there was this powdering of golden light coming down. And as it descended, it was white with a touch of gold (but it was white) and it came down in a column, with such POWER! And then, just at the end, this powdering of gold came and settled into this white light which had remained there the whole timeoh, it was so abundant. A great power of realization. I had a hard time coming out of it! At the start, I had decided to come out of it at half past, so I came out, but still not completely
So there, my child. And you, what did you feel?
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All this came to me yesterday. I kept Z with me for more than half an hour, nearly 45 minutes. He told me some very interesting things. What he said was quite good and I encouraged him a great dealsome action on the right lines which will be quite useful, and then a book unfortunately mixed with an influence from that artificial world (but actually, even that can be used as a link to attract people). He must have spoken to you about this. He wants to write a kind of dialogue to introduce Sri Aurobindos ideasits a good idealike the conversations in Les Hommes de Bonne Volont by Jules Romain. He wants to do it, and I told him it was an excellent idea. And not only one typehe should take all types of people who for the moment are closed to this vision of life, from the Catholic, the fervent believer, right to the utmost materialist, men of science, etc. It could be very interesting.
This is what you see in life, its all like thateach thing has its place and its necessity. This has made me see a whole current of life I was very, very involved with people from this milieu during a whole period of my existence and in fact, its the first approach to Beauty. But it gets mixed.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You asked me just now if we have a say in the matter. Well, last year I didnt go out; I had no intention of going to the Sportsground or to the theater for the December 2 program, but I was often asked to see that the weather be good. So while I was doing my japa upstairs, I started saying that it shouldnt rain. But they werent in a very good mood! (When I used to go out myself, it had an effect, for it kept the thing in check, and even if it had been raining earlier, that day it would stop.) So they said, But you arent going out, so what does it matter. I said I wascounting on it. Then they answered, Are you prepared to have it rain the next time you go out?Do what you like, I replied. And when I went out on November 24 for the prize distribution, there was a deluge. It came pouring down and we had to run for shelter in the gymnasiumeveryone was splashing around, the band playing on the verandah was half-drenched, it was dreadful!the day before it hadnt rained, the day after it didnt rain. But on that day they had their revenge!
I dont want that to happen this time. Once is enough. So Im going to see about it.
0 1960-12-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I want to tell you that X completely changed my japa this morning. Instead of ten hours a day, I now have only about half an hour to do three times a day!
He told me that everything is in this new japa.
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
X seemed happy about his visit this time. We had long meditations of half an hourhe never seemed to want to leave at all! There was above all a kind of extremely calm universalization. An absolute and universal calm in all the cells of the body. I dont know if it was only me, but it seemed he was in the same stateunable to move, quite content, smiling. Once I heard the clock chime, and as I thought it was time and that perhaps he was ready to leave, I looked; he had removed the mala3 that he wears around his neck and I found him doing japa. As soon as he saw me looking, he quickly put it back on!
But whats most surprising is that with me, not a word, nothing, neither he nor I. And it seems to be just as comfortable for him as it is for me!
0 1961-01-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I came down at 9:30 sharp, thinking half an hour would be enough to cross the corridor and get here. Apparently not!
(Mother gives Satprem a rose.) This is the Tenderness of the Divine for for himself! The tenderness He has for his creation. Creation I dont like that word, as if it all were created from nothing! It is He himself, creating with all his tenderness. Some of these roses get quite big; theyre so lovely!
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body doesnt ask (its so docile), it doesnt even ask for its sufferings to stopit adapts to them. Its mainly my contact with people that makes the thing difficult: when I am all alone upstairs, everything goes well, quite well. But when I spend one or one and a half hours in the afternoon seeing people, afterwards I feel exhausted. That, obviously, is whats making the thing difficult. But the body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain, its ready. The other day when it went back upstairs, it felt a bitwell, at the end of its resources, as though it had pushed itself to the limit. It said to the Lord (and it said this so clearly, as though the consciousness of the cells were speaking; I noted it down): If this (I cant call it an illness there is no illness! Its a condition of general disequilibrium), if this condition is necessary for Your Work, then so be it, let it go on. But if its an effect of my stupidity (you see, its the BODY saying, If its because I dont understand or I am not adapting or not doing what I should or not taking the proper attitude), if it is an effect of my stupidity, then truly I pray that. It asks only to changeto know and to change!
It is attached to nothing: none of its habits, none of its ways of being-nothing. It says in all sincerity, I ask only for the Light, only to change. That is its state. it has never, never said, Oh, Im tired, Ive had enough! Bah! Its not like that. It is attached to nothing for a long, long time it has ceased to have desiresit is attached to nothing at all, to nothing. There isnt a single thing for which it says, Oh, I cant do without that! Not one. It doesnt care-if something comes, it takes it; if it doesnt come, the body doesnt think about it. In other words, its truly good-natured. But if this isnt sufficient, then it doesnt know and it says, If there is something I cant do or I dont know or I am not doing It asks for nothing more than to make the necessary effort!
--
You see, theres a curious fluctuation possibly indicating that your dream is part of the present attack which continues with such violence. The night before last, between midnight and half-past, there was a formidable attack. When I emerged from it, I felt that something had lifted, a victory had been won and that the bodys condition had improved. It happens like that, the horizon clears and this Certainty comes with. (The presence is always hereSri Aurobindo and I are together almost every night but the night when I saw that formation, the illness spell over the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo was quite sick in his bed, just as I saw him in 1950.) So when it lifts, all is well: once again there is harmony, there is joy, there is force and again the whole thing continues, the effort continues, consciously. Yet there is a kind of fluctuation: it will go on like that for a few moments or a few hours and then suddenly everything becomes muddled again and I am beset by a fatigue. A fatigue which is I cant say almost unbearable, because nothing in the consciousness feels it to be unbearable but it makes me like this (Mother clenches her fist tightly in a tension to hold on).
For example, at five-thirty in the evening, after Ive spent an hour and a half here with people, its a labor to climb the stairs; and by the time I get upstairs, I feel strained to the breaking point. Then I begin to walk (I dont stop, I dont rest), I immediately begin to walk with my japa, and within half an hour, pfft! it has lifted.
But the bodys fatigue doesnt go: its there its contained but it is there.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now the body has a kind of extraordinary smile for everything. At the end of the day, with the accumulation of everything coming from the people I have seen and the work I have done, when I have to push and pull myself just to climb the stairs because my legs are like iron rods, without any will (thats the most terrible part: they dont respond to the will), even at times like these, when my arms are what pull me up the stairs (no longer my legs), the body doesnt protest, doesnt protest. Then it begins walking back and forth for japa. And after half an hour of walking, things are infinitely better (Mother makes a gesture of the Force descending into her body).
(silence)
0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, I dont claim to be totally universal, but in any case I am open enough to receive. You see, given the quantity of material I have taken into my consciousness, its quite natural that the body bears the consequences. There is nothing, not one wrong movement, that my body doesnt feel5; generally, though, things are automatically set in order (gesture indicating that Mother automatically purifies and masters the vibrations coming to her). But there are timesespecially when it coincides with a revolt of adverse forces who dont want to give up their domain and enter into battle with all their mightwhen I must admit its hard. If I had some hours of solitude it would be easier. But particularly during the period of my Playground activities, I was badgered, harassed; I would rush from one thing to the next, one thing to the next, I had no nights to speak ofnights of two and a half or three hours rest, which isnt enough, theres no time to put things in order.
Under those conditions I could only hold the thing like this (same gesture of muzzling the illness or holding it in abeyance).
--
It was a mosquito but there was an INSTANTANEOUS, localized poisoning. It was hideous! I knew it when I got the bite and I tried but it was at the Playground, I was busy and I couldnt do anything about it until an hour or an hour and a half later. Then it was too late, it was already circulating in the blood.
I have had three bites like that, but not of the same thing; I knew this last bite was filariasis. It was on the arm. Since my legs are covered when I am outside they dont get bitten; but my arms.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know he said someone has been doing black magic against me; but I have never felt anything of the sort in the room where we meditate, because I make a point of coming half an hour early and this of course clears the atmosphere: everything is always ready when he arrives, in silence, in perfect peace. Hasnt he always told you that when he comes into that room he enters another world, like Kailas?1 And thats the way it has always been. If there has been a change, its that now its even more like thatbecause (how to put it?) its more stable. Before, it fluctuated a bit: it came, went, came. But now its like a tranquil mass (Mother lowers her arms) that doesnt stir. Yesterday in particular, this was the experience: I felt him coming (when he is about to come in, I always sense something drawing me outward a little so that I wont be completely in trance and can stand up), and this prayer came so spontaneously, oh! And then (laughing) in the afternoon N. tells me, Oh, X said he had some difficulty at the start of todays meditationa hostile force was present and it took him five minutes to clarify the atmosphere!
It gave me the impression you get in outer life: all the pieces more or less dovetail but with no inner unitytheres not ONE thing, not one, that is true, essentially and always true. We know it is like that outwardly, of course; but I have always felt that with people who have an inner life, one could attain a kind of identity of vibration and knowledge but no!
--
Still, it surprises me. Because sitting in that room, one has the feeling (I say one, its probably I dont know what it is), I thought he had the same feeling I did: oh, it could last an eternity! Its like that: tranquil, tranquil, peaceful, balanced, strong. On other occasions there was a kind of movement: it came, went, came, went; but this time (Mother stretches forth her arms as if time had stopped) and I am like that (not the I here, the I above), I see it like that. Then just as the clock is about to strike, when the half-hour is finished, something comes and tells my body, Now! A tiny shock, and two or three seconds later the clock strikes. I always feel beforehand, Now its over. Otherwise there would be no reason for it to endits so peaceful! And not something diluted, as it were, but strong, compact. Compact. Then that tiny shock and the body comes to attention: Ah, Im going to have to move! And always after about two seconds, the clock strikes. I open my eyes, look at X and wait. Three or four seconds later, or after a minute or two, he opens his eyes, bows to me and gets up. Then I get up. Its always the same. So I dont know why. I dont understand what goes on in his consciousness. I no longer understand.
Im not so sure about what he said to N.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day, I told N. (and I told him loud enough for everyone to hear): We can dispense with a good half of the ashramites straight-away and not lose a single sadhak.4
Well, his jaw dropped! People imagine that by the simple fact of being here they become disciples and apprentice yogis! But its not true.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
But the curious thing is that these vital beings are aware of what is happening. I knew nothing about any of it, neither the story, nor the being, nor the head sticking out of the ground and she wanted me to get her out of it. They feel the atmosphere. They are awarethey may not be conscious on higher planes, but they are conscious on vital planes, aware of vital power and the vital force it represents. Its like this asura from M.: when I came in he suddenly seemed to tremble on his pedestal; then he left his idol and came to seek my alliance.
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I see that the translation would go quickly if one moved into another domain. In one domain it is laborious, terrible, difficult, and the result is never very satisfying. But contrary to what I had thought, the domain of comprehension does not suffice, even the domain of experience does not suffice: something else is needed (oh, how to explain it?), a state in which effort is left totally behind. There is a state (which probably must be beyond the mind, because one no longer thinks at all, not at all) where everything is smiling and easy, and the sentences come to you all by themselves. Its peculiar I read, and even before I finish reading the sentence to be translated I know whats in it; and then without waitingalmost without waiting to know whats in it I know what to put for it. When its like that I can translate a page in half an hour.
But it doesnt lastit ought to last. Usually it ends in a trance: I go off into the experience, I am in a beatific state and ten minutes later I notice that Ive been in that state with my pen poised in my hand. Its not favorable to the work! But otherwise its I cant even say its like someone dictating (its not that, I dont hear); it comes by itself. Oh, the other day there were one or two sentences! I wrote something and suddenly saw what I was writing and doing so pulled me out of that state. Well, I said to myself, how nicely put! And plop! (Mother laughs) Everything was gone.
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, it doesnt matter I assure you that for the half-hour he is here with me he is splendid.
Oh, he is splendid! There is such a sweet warmth in him, so good, and a mastery (mastery of inner movements, of the vital movement) and the ability to bring into the physical this peace, this absolute immobility. Its splendid! I have been doing this for something like forty years and you cant imagine how difficult it is, how much effort it takes to achieve it! With him it comes all by itself. Thats the tantric mastery.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was an experience like that quite recently. A.s mother was illold and seriously ill. Seeing her declining, A. wrote to me: If the time has come, make it happen quicklydont let her suffer. Then I saw very clearly that there was still something in her which didnt want to go; and when I applied the Force for the best to happen she suddenly began to recover! It must have coincided with a kind of inner aspiration in herno more fever, she was feeling well. And A. began preparing to come back here. If shes recovering, he said, theres no longer any point in my staying! The same evening she had a relapse and he sent me a telegram. Meanwhile (it was evening) I had gone upstairs to walk; suddenly The Will came (which is a very, very rare thing), The Will: Enough, now it must finishits enough as it is. Within half an hour she was dead.
These things are very interesting. They must form part of the work I have come on earth to do. Because even before encountering Theon, before knowing anything, I had experiences at night, certain types of activities looking after people who were leaving their bodiesand with a knowledge of the process; I didnt know what I was doing nor did I seek to know, yet I knew exactly what had to be done and I did it. I was around twenty.
--
I will give you a concrete example, then youll understand. When I.B. was killed, I had to gather up all his states of being and activities, which had been dispersed by the violence of the accident2it was terrible, he was in a dreadful state of dispersion. For two or two and a half days the doctors fought in the hope of reviving him, but it was impossible. During those two days I gathered up all his consciousness, all of it; I collected it over his body, to the point where, when it had come and formed itself there, such vitality, such life was coming back into his body that after some hours the doctors believed he would be saved. But it couldnt last (it wasnt possiblea part of the brain had come out). Well, when not only his soul but his mental being, his vital being, and all the rest had been properly collected and organized over his body and had realized that the body had become quite unusable, it was overthey gave up the body and it was over.
I was keeping I.B. near me because I already had the idea of putting him immediately back into another bodyhis soul was not satisfied, it had not finished its experience (there was a whole combination of circumstances) and it wanted to continue to live on earth. Then, that night, his inner being went to find V., lamenting, saying he was dead and hadnt wanted to die, that he had lost his body and wanted to continue to live. V. was very perplexed. He let me know about it in the morning: Heres what has happened. I sent word to him of what I was doing, that I was keeping I.B. in my atmosphere and that he should stay very calm and not get excited, for I was going to put him back into a body as soon as possible I already had something in view. The same evening I.B. again went to find V., with the same complaint. V. told him very clearly, Here is what Mother says, here is what she is going to do; come now, be calm and dont torment yourself. And he saw in I.B.s face that he had understood (the inner being was taking on I.B.s physical appearance, naturally); his face relaxed, he became content.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, since I believerightly or wrongly, I dont know that the doctor has more experience than I, that from the therapeutic and biological standpoint he knows a bit more, I showed him the eye and asked, Can I read? Better not read until its finished, he replied, and told me to wash my eyes with glucose. (Its a useful piece of information for those with tired eyes: mix the glucoseliquid glucose, the kind that comes in ampoules for injectionwith something like the blue water we make here, half and half. Open the ample, put a third of it in the eye-cup, then add the blue water.) I have already tried it once and found that it gives a great deal of strength to the eyes. Tomorrow Im going to start doing it regularly. There you are.
What made Sri Aurobindo stop?
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo always said that cruelty was one of the things most repugnant to him, but he explained it as the deformation of an intensity. We could almost call it the deformation of an intensity of love something not satisfied with half-measures, something driven to extremes (which is legitimate)its the deformation of the need for extremely strong sensations.
I have always known that cruelty, like sadism, is the need to cut through a thick layer of totally insensitive tamas1 by means of extremely violent sensationan extreme is needed if anything is to be felt through that tamas. I was always told, for example (in Japan it was strongly emphasized to me), that the people of the Far East are very tamasic physically. The Chinese in particular are said to be the remnants of a race that inhabited the moon before it froze over and forced them to seek refuge on earth (this is supposed to account for their round faces and the shape of their eyes!). Anyway (laughing), its a story people tell! But theyre extremely tamasic; their physical sensibility is almost nilappalling things are required to make them feel anything! And since they naturally presume that what applies to them applies to everyone, they are capable of appalling cruelty. Not all of them, of course! But this is their reputation. Have you read Mirbeaus book? (I believe thats his name.) I read it sixty years ago something on Chinese torture.
--
This eye [hemorrhage], for instance, resulted from such a disorder, a very dark force that someone allowed to enter, not deliberately, not knowingly, but through weakness and ignorance, always mingled, of course, with desire and ego and all the rest. (Without desire and ego, such things would find no access but desire and ego are very widespread.) At any rate, that was plainly the cause and I sensed it immediately. Sometimes when it comes, it creeps up like this (Mother brings her hand to her throat), a black shadow strangling you. Yet inwardly nothing is affected at all, to such an extent that if I didnt pay attention to the purely external reaction, I wouldnt know anything had happened (its the great Play); but externally the indication is immediate: half an hour later I had this eye hemorrhage. I was struggling against a wholly undesirable intrusion, and I knew italthough from an outer point of view, the cause was insignificant. Its not always the events we consider serious or important that produce the most harmful effectsfar from it. Sometimes its an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reasonwhat is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness.
The incomprehension generated by doubt (the kind of doubt that always results from an egoistic movement) is very dangerous. Very dangerous. Its not even necessary to be in a psychic consciousness even for an enlightened vital consciousness, it produces no effect; but HERE, in this material swarm.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Evolution begins with the Inconscient, complete Inconscience; and from this Inconscient a Subconscient gradually emerges that is, a half or quarter-consciousness. There are two different things here. Consider life on earth (because the process is slightly different in the universe); earth-life begins with total Inconscience and little by little what was involved within it works out and changes this Inconscience into semi-consciousness or subconsciousness. At the same time, there is an individual working that awakens the INDIVIDUAL inconscient to an individual semiconsciousness, and here, of course, the individual has controlalthough its not actually individualized because individualization begins with consciousness. The subconscient of plants or animals, for example, isnt individualized; what we call an animals behavior doesnt arise from individualization but from the genius of the species. Consequently, the individual subconscient is something already evolved out of the general Subconscient. But when one descends to accomplish a work of transformationto bring Light into the different layers of life, for instanceone descends into a cosmic, terrestrial Subconscient, not an individual Subconscient. And the work of transformation is done within the wholenot through individualization, but through the opposite movement, through a sort of universalization.
No, what I mean is that as we progress, we automatically become universalized.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, no. Most of the time in sleep, with very few exceptions, one is in contact with all that rises up from the subconscient: a cerebral subconscient, an emotive subconscient, a material subconscient; this is what produces ninety-nine percent of the dreams people have. Sometimesusually the mind goes wandering, but ninety-nine and a half percent of the time, one remembers nothing when it returns, because the link is not properly established.
The purpose of sleep is to re-establish contact with the consciousness of Sachchidananda. But I dont think one person in a hundred does so! They enter into unconsciousness far more than into Sachchidananda.
--
He made me drink half a glass of cognac (he always made me take some every day after the trance because I would work in trance for more than an hour, which is generally a forbidden practice). Still, I am quite sure that with anybody but me and him, this would have been the end. I would not have reentered.
So I know a little bit, even in my outermost consciousness. A little bit, thats all.
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I had an experience. It didnt last long, no more than an hour or an hour and a half, but it was interesting. Experiences always take place here for me now, on the completely material plane. Well, in action, in relation to the world and things (it was quite a general feeling, in any case terrestrialnot universal, terrestrial), there was no more center. From the standpoint of sensations and reactions, exchangesno more center. Everything was dispersed like that, everywhere. There was only ONE center, the highest Center (highest or deepest)the sole Center. All sensations, all contacts, all exchangeseverything was like that.
It was rather interesting in that I wasnt expecting it; it came suddenly when I was walking in my room in the evening the feeling not positively that the body no longer existed, since it kept walking, but that there was no more center. I cant put it any other waythere was no more center. There was only one Center. It was all, all the same thing, and from the absolutely material standpoint, the standpoint of sensationsmaterial sensations, exchanges, vibrationseverything. At one point it even became so strong that something laughed and said, Ah! So thats how to no longer exist!
0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I go there almost every night for half or three-quarters of an hour, and Sri Aurobindo shows it all to me. Some people are waiting for himin certain corners everything is ready and waiting and when he comes they show him what they have done. Then he explains: a word, a gesture, not much, and then, ah! It takes a form. Its an interesting place. I am putting you in touch with it all the time, all the time, every dayit doesnt matter if you dont remember, its not important.
(Satprem doesnt seem to agree)
0 1961-09-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The night before last, around 3 in the morning, I was in a place where there were a lot of people from here (you were there), and I was trying to play some music, precisely in order to SAY something. There were three pianos there, which seemed to be interlocked into each other, so I leaned over sideways to get at one of the three and began playing on it. It was in a large hall with people seated at a distance, but you were just at my left alongside a young lady who was a symbol figure (that is, the vibration or impression I received from her and the relationship I had with her could be applied as well to four or five persons here: it was like relating to an amalgam something that is very interesting and often happens to me). Anyway, I was leaning over one of the keyboards and trying trying to work something out, to illustrate how this would translate into that. Finally I realized that playing half-standing, half-leaning was unnecessary acrobatics, because a grand piano was right there in front, so I sat down before it. Well, the most amusing part of it was that the keys (there were two keyboards) were all bluelike the marbled paper we are making now, all blue, and with every possible marbled effect. Black keys, white keys, high keys, low keys (all of them were the same width, quite wide, like this), all seemed to be coated but it wasnt paperwith this blue. Facing the piano I said to myself, Well now, this cant be played with physical eyesit has to be played FROM ABOVE.
While I was playing, I kept telling myself, But this is what Ive tried to do with music all my lifeplay on the blue keyboard!
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The story began with an entirely concrete and material incident something very amusing; this is not the first time it has happened, but it was so concrete and so precise that it became interesting. Someone was complaining of being ill, quite a serious, psychological illness: periodic possession by a spirit of falsehood, recurring regularly every month, of more or less long duration. This person comes to see me, and the moment shes here theres an upwelling of that profound Compassion of Love, with a considerable, concentrated Power to drive away the possession; and all of this accompanied, even outwardly, by quite an affectionate gesture. This person leaves and within half an hour I receive a letter: Now I know: you hate me, you want me to be ill and you want me to die because I disgust you.
It was interesting because it was so concrete. I was conscious of my movement of compassion and love and of what it had become in the other persons consciousness!
Its very easy to explain: she was already more than half possessed, and of course this spirit of falsehood hardly felt comfortable! And the identification2 (not only mental but sensory, vital) was so complete that she felt this love as a movement of hatred. When I saw the two phenomena, I also saw that this is exactly what happens in the world! Its exactly what EVERYONE is.
I must add that the experience came after I had been concentrating for three days (concentrating almost constantly) on finding an explanation for this: why has it become this way? It is impossible to find the why because its the reason asking and this goes beyond reason but what is the MECHANISM? Finding the mechanism would already be somethingto have the experience of the mechanism. And then came this CONCRETE superposition of the vibration of Love and the reception of hate. But this is exactly what happens! I said. The Lord is All-Love, All-Truth, All-Bliss, All-Deligh tHe is CONSTANTLY like thatand the world, especially the human world, constantly receives him in the other way. And the two things are superposed (Mother covers her left hand with her right).
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And within all this, I no longer existed. I seemed to vanish into a kind of trance, yet I was consciousnot I: the consciousness was conscious of what Sri Aurobindo was conscious of. And he was following the reading. But I couldnt remember anything; at the time, it was impossible to observe. I can only describe it all to you now because the experience remained for at least an hour and a half afterwards; when I left here, I began to objectify it, to see what it wasaside from that, it was merely a STATE I found myself in. But in this state there was an awareness of what he was hearing, and at two or three places in your reading he seemed to be saying (I cant be exact, I can only give the impression), Not necessary. In fact, thats what made me call this passage too philosophical (although when you first asked my opinion I was in a peculiar condition, nothing was active in me). With him, it was very clear, it was almost as if there were a certain number of words about which he said, That, not necessary. That, not necessary. Not many, not often, but once in a while. Especially at the end (he was still there inside my head while you were talking), when you were saying that its necessary to explain to people; there he very clearly said, No, not necessary.
But I was incapable of remembering or of registering anything the only head present there was his.
--
I dont know, I didnt hear the beginning, but certainly everything dealing with physical events [of Sri Aurobindos life] will be expressed in a very reasonable and normal style so that there will be no danger of people saying, Hes a half-cracked visionary! I dont know, the first part of what you read to me was so good! Gusts of golden light kept coming. Perhaps you wanted to explain too much. You dont know what happened?
Yes, its precisely this need to explain.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since the time of Adam, it seems we have been choosing to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and there can be no half-measures or regrets along this way, for if we remain prostrate in a false humility, our noses in the dust, the titans or the djinns among us will know all too well how to snatch the Power left unclaimed; this is in fact what they are doingthey would crush the god within us. It is a question of knowingyes or nowhether we want to escape once again into our various paradises, abandoning the earth to the hands of Darkness, or find and seize hold of the Power to refashion this earth into a diviner imagein the words of the Rishis, make earth and heaven equal and one.
There is obviously a Secret, and all the traditions bear witness to it the Rishis, the Mages of Iran, the priests of Chaldea or Memphis or Yucatan.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Seconds that could last for half an hour!
Mother does not reply directly to this question (although she would probably have answered in the affirmative, since the point is indeed to LIVE this supramental consciousness), but she does reply directly to what is BEHIND Satprem's question that is, this fundamental, deep-rooted assumption that physical life is the sole, concrete reality.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother sits at the organ, plays, then turns halfway around on her stool and says:)
I shut my eyes (thats how I hear best) but then sometimes my fingers make mistakes; they slip. Because I see with other eyes; and when I do see with those other eyes, the music comes much better. When I open my eyes it doesnt come. Its always with eyes closed that I hear clearly, clearly. But then my fingers sometimes slip.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Coming from here, of course, it will take much more time to touch the general public, but I see how things work in the universe: it will go far more surely and directly to those who are ready to receive it. And we mustnt believe that only an elite public of especially intelligent and refined people will be touched: among very simple, open-hearted people there is a deep intelligence that understands and responds to these things far better than very cultivated people dofar betterbecause they feel, they feel the vibration of this profound Hope, this profound Joy, something corresponding to the intense need of their being. While the others begin to reason and sophisticate, which takes away half the power.
From the practical standpoint, I would much prefer the book to be printed here and for us to make the necessary effort for it to go out and touch as many people as possible. The publisher may be a handy and less troublesome channel, but hes not at all the best onefar from it. THAT I know, because I am constantly seeing your book with Sri Aurobindos perception, and I am absolutely positive that he likes it very much; he has put a lot into it and he sees that it can be an enormous help but not in the short run. There is always the sense of it needing a hundred years to have its full effect. With your publisher, on the other hand, the effects are far more violent, more external and noisy, but they fade far more quickly.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He was a professor at Montpellier University and lived nearby. And there were several roads leading to his house. This man would leave the university and come to the crossing where all those roads branched out, all eventually leading to his house, one this way, one that way, one from this side. So he himself used to explain how every day he would stop there at the crossroads and deliberate, Which one shall I take? Each had its advantages and disadvantages. So all this would go through his head, the advantages and disadvantages and this and that, and he would waste half an hour choosing which road to take home!
He gave this as an example of thoughts inadequacy for action: if you begin to think, you cant act.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Sri Aurobindo's play, Andromeda, daughter of the King of Syria, is condemned by her own people to be devoured by Poseidon, the Sea-god, for some impiety she had committed against him. The story is actually about the passage of a half-primitive tribe, living in terror of the old dark and cruel gods, to a more evolved and sunlit stage. Perseus, son of Diana and Zeus, and protected by Pallas Athene, goddess of wisdom and intelligence, comes to deliver Andromeda from the rock she is chained to (the rock symbolizes the Inconscient for the Rishis), and founds the religion of Athene, "... the Omnipotent / Made from His being to lead and discipline / The immortal spirit of man, till it attain / To order and magnificent mastery / Of all his outward world" (in the words of Sri Aurobindo). It is the force of progress pitted against the old priests of the old religions, symbolized by the cruel and ambitious Polydaon. Here Mother is scrutinizing an old problem"Always the same problem"that she must have encountered in many existences (Egypt included) and would encounter again eleven years later: the acceptance of the death she is forced into as the Supreme's Will, and then this "love of Life" she twice mentions here.
***
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I cant express it the minute you try to express it, most of it evaporates. And even if I did tell what little I could, surely a good nine and a half people out of ten would say, Shes batty! If I spoke to the people here that way, they would probably say, Shes soft in the head!
Strange. This morning it was strange, for both were there: the feeling of physical weaknessalmost a physical decomposition and AT THE SAME TIME, SIMULTANEOUSLY (not even one behind the other, but both together), a glory of divine splendor.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just recently, as I told you, things truly became a little disgusting, dangerous, and for an hour or an hour and a half I did a sadhana like this (Mother clenches her fists), keeping hold of this body and body-consciousness. And the whole time the Force was at work there (it was like kneading a very resistant dough), something was saying to me, Look, you cant deny miracles any longer. It was being said to this consciousness (not to me, of course), this body-consciousness: Now you cant deny it miracles do happen. It was forced to see; there it was, gaping like an idiot being shown the skyAh! And its so stupid that it didnt even have any joy of discovery! But it was forced to see, the thing was right under its nosethere was no escaping it, it had to be admitted. But you know what, mon petit, as soon as I let up on the pressureforgotten!
I remember the whole experience, of course, but the body-consciousness forgot. The slightest difficulty, even the shadow or the recollection of a difficulty, was enough for it to start up all over again: Oh oh! Now whats going to happen? The same old anxieties and stupidities.
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then began the process of descent,1 and the Voice was explaining it to me I lived through it all in detail, and it wasnt pleasant. It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer herewhat was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness.
The first sign of the return to individuality was a prick of pain, a tiny point (Mother holds between her fingers a minuscule point in the space of her being). Yes, because I have a sore, a sore in a rather awkward place, and it hurts2 (Mother laughs). So I felt the pain: it was the sign of individuality coming back. Other than that, there was nothing any moreno body, no individual, no limits. But its strange, I have made a strange discovery3: I used to think it was the individual (Mother touches her body) who experienced pain and disabilities and all the misfortunes of human life; well, I perceived that what experiences misfortunes is not the individual not my body, but that each misfortune, each pain, each disability has its own individuality as it were, and each one represents a battle.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and the lightness of the mountainsit was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.
After that half hour I hadnt the slightest wish to go!
Id had the FULL spiritual experience of the Himalayas.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And what nights I have! Nights like the one I told you about the other day, with visions and actions; and then I have nights. All night last night, I didnt lose consciousness, I dont feel I slept for a minute; and it was like being in a sort of temporal Infinity (both hands open above the head). From time to time, I look at the clock (all at once I feel something pulling me and I look at the clock): two or two and a half hours have passedlike a second. Did I sleep, you ask? Did the consciousness fall asleep? No, not for a second. But the sense of time completely disappears into into an inner immobility. But an immobility in motion!
If it keeps on like this, they will put me in a padded cell!
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a child, when I was around ten or twelve years old, I had some rather interesting experiences which I didnt understand at all. I had some history booksyou know, the textbooks they give you to learn history. Well, Id read and suddenly the book would seem to become transparent, or the printed words would become transparent, and Id see other words or even pictures. I hadnt the faintest idea what was happening to me! And it appeared so natural to me that I thought it was the same for everybody. But my brother and I were great chums (he was only a year and a half older), so I would tell him: They talk nonsense in history, you knowit is LIKE THIS; it isnt like that: it is LIKE THIS! And several times the corrections I got on one person or another turned out to be quite exact and detailed. And (I see it now I understood it later on) they were certainly memories. About some passages I would even say, How stupid! It was never that; THIS is what was said. It never happened like that; THIS is how it happened. And the book was simply open before me; I was just reading along like any other child and suddenly something would occur. It was something in me, of course, but I used to think it was in the book!
I found out many, many things about Joan of Arcmany things. And with stunning precision, which made it extremely interesting. I wont repeat them because I dont remember with exactness, and these things have no value unless they are exact. And then, for the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa; and for the French Renaissance: Franois I, Marguerite de Valois,2 and so forth.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day, Pavitra said to me in passing, Modern science would neither follow nor believe us. According to him, scientists acknowledge only essential hypotheses, and not having the experience, would take our science for a set of non-essential hypotheses. I didnt argue, or else I would have told him, We dont make any hypotheses, far from it, we simply state our experiences. They are free to disbelieve us or to think were half crazy or hallucinating thats up to them, its their business. But we dont make hypotheses, we speak of things we know and have experienced.
For several hours afterwards I had a vision of this state of mind and found absolutely no need to make hypotheses (you see, Pavitra was speaking of hypothesizing the existence of different states of being). Its just as I told you: I have passed that stage; I dont need inner dimensions any more.1 And observing this materialistic state of mind, it occurred to me that, on the basis of their own experiments, they are bound to admit onenessat least the oneness of matter; and to admit oneness is enough to obtain the key to the whole problem!
--
They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead (by the way, according to doctors, when the body dies the heart beats on faintly for a few seconds; then it stops and its all over). In his case, those faint beats (not strong enough to pump blood) continued for half an hour the kind of heartbeats typical of the trance state. (They all seem to be crassly ignorant! But anyway, it doesnt matter.) And they all said, even the doctors, Oooh, he must be a great yogi, this only happens to yogis! I have no idea what they mean by that. But I do know that although those heartbeats arent strong enough to pump blood through the body (thus putting the body into a cataleptic state), they do suffice to maintain life, and thats how yogis can remain in trance for months on end. Well, I dont know what type of doctors they are (probably very modern), but theyre ignorant of this fact. Anyway, according to them he had those pulsations for half an hour (normally they last a few seconds). All right. Hence their remarks. And he was here the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I lookedhe was gone. I was busy and didnt note the time, but it was in the afternoon, thats all I know. Later I was told that they had decided to cremate him, and had done so at that time.
The violence of the accident had brutally exteriorized him, but when it happened he must have been thinking of me with trust. He came and didnt budgehe never knew what was happening to his body. He didnt know he was dead! And if.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, people want to while away the time, they want to be diverted and forget their worries, their family cares, their businesses for half an hour.
I am not being critical, its just a prediction!
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
Its a problem. When you contact the Supraconscient and the Shakti emerges at the crown of the head, its something rising from below, isnt it? Is it then another movement, an ascending movement?
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten oclock.2 At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a total silence. And then I cant say Sri Aurobindo came, for he is always here, but he manifested in a special way. Concretely, in the subtle physical, he became so tall that, sitting cross-legged as they do here, he covered the whole compoundeven extended a bit beyond it! He was literally sitting upon the compound; so to the extent that the people meditating were not closed, they were all inside him. He was sitting like that (not on their heads!), and I could feel (I was here, you see) the FRICTION of his presence in the subtle physicalan utterly physical friction! And I saw him (as you well know, I am not shut up in here [the body]), I saw him sitting there, very tall and perfectly proportioned; and then he started gently, gently descendingthis descent is what caused the frictiongently, very gently, so as not to give people a shock. Then he settled there and stayed for a little more than half an hour, a few minutes more, like that, absolutely still, but fully concentrated on all the people they were inside him.
I was sitting here smiling, almost almost laughing, really; you could feel him like that everywhere (Mother touches her whole body), everywhere. And with such peace! Such peace, such force, such power. And a sense of eternity, immensity, and absoluteness. A sense of absoluteness, as if all were fulfilled, so to speak, and one lived in Eternity.
--
One thing, though (he didnt inform me he was going to do it!)when I was told that people would be gathering for a half hour of meditation, at once something in me took it quite seriously: Very well. So I arranged everything for the meditation, and at about 9:45 I sat down at the table then it began. It took about five minutes to take shape. Ah! Then I understood.
He has given us a beautiful gift.
--
Truly, the half-hour passed and I didnt move, nothing moved.
Thats it.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, theres no longer the slightest feeling of being ill or anything like that. The day before yesterday I felt clearly that it was an attacka very violent one. I had to battle for more than half an hour.
It always feels as if something wants to tear the life out of the body. It takes that form.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, if you can get a suitable half page for the Bulletin out of this.
No, I am incapable of speaking, I cant say anything publishable; its impossible, impossible. It seems so artificial to me, so artificial. And besides, it gives me a headache.
0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother is alluding to the passage in Savitri where Sri Aurobindo speaks of "the dark half of Truth."
The most recent battle.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I myself had an experience lasting the full half hour of the meditation.
Nothing was left but an immensity, without beginning, without end, neither in space nor in timeoutside time. Outside time and space: an immensity of light. It was something of the same nature as light, but not lightfar brighter, far not bright: far more intense than light. It was white, but not our physical white; it was a white at the time I couldnt define it. Afterwards, looking at it again in my consciousness, it seemed to be the light of a gold turned white, you understand: like when you bring something to white heat. Well, it was like gold becoming white through its intensity. It was ABSOLUTELY immobile that is, I had the feeling you get in Sat.2 Yet that immobility contained (how shall I put it?) yes, it actively containedalthough its action wasnt perceptiblea sort of infinite Power, which could be the creative Power. And directed by an unmanifest Consciousness. If you can make anything out of this, good for you!
--
The experience lasted half an hour, unwavering.
Afterwards I began to remember, and as I began to remember, I began to explain, but of course the total truth is somewhere else!
--
The habit of not understanding something unless it can be mentally explained is disastrous, for instance. This feeling we have that we dont understand something unless we can explain it thats really disastrous. That half-hours experience was something absolute, you see, not for one second was there any concern to know what was going on (naturally!); it was absolute. And only when the time was up and I had to come out of it did I start wondering, What happened? What does it mean? It wasnt even that pronounced. Its simply an old habit, what we call understanding.
A bad habit.
0 1962-11-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
2) The struggle will go on for one and a half years. There will be victory for India.
3) Struggle is more in the spiritual (subtle) than on the physical and the struggle need not be a shooting war.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in the past, you see, I used to go up and down the stairs four or five times a day; I would go out, go down the other stairs, it gave me some exercise. Nowadays I dont get any exercise, except walking for half an hour twice a day, but thats no substitute: my legs are a bit stiff from lack of exercise. So I didnt feel like walking on the balcony like a puppet before of all those people waiting and wondering. You see, more than three-quarters of them think I was very sick (Mother laughs), practically dying (thats the form it takes in their consciousness). I couldnt show them someone who seemed to be emerging from a serious illness! So I clearly saw I had to tell my body, Now dont walk like that! Youve got to walk like thisthis is how you used to walk. And the body was listening like a little child. Youre going to walk, I had to tell it, youre going to walk like this. And it started walking! It was funny.
(Mother hands a box to Satprem) F. and R. have come and she brought me some candied chestnuts from Paris.
0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I made no reply, not a word: in half an hour I had undone everything I undid it all, really everything, cut the connection between the gods and the people here, demolished absolutely everything. Because you see, I knew it was so attractive for people (they were constantly seeing the most astonishing things) that the obvious temptation was to hang on to it and say, Well improve on itwhich was impossible. So I sat down quietly for half an hour, and I undid it all.
We had to start over again with something else.
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was all a living, palpable experience which lasted for a day and a half. The entire universal movement was LIVED and sensed. Not merely seen but lived and in what light! What stupendous power! With that kind of certitude at the core of everything something very odd. Its very difficult to express. But the experience lasted so long that it became perfectly familiar. To translate it into words I might say: it is the Supremes way of seeingof feeling, of living. I was living things the way He does. And it gives a power of certitude of realization. In the sense that what we are heading for is already here; the road we look back on, the road we have traveled and the road yet to travel, it all lives simultaneously. And with such logic! An eternal, wonderful superlogic which makes it obviousness itselfeverything is obviousness itself. Struggle, effort, fear, all of that, oh, absolutely, absolutely nonexistent. And together with this, the explanation of the feeling we have of not wanting certain things any more: they leave the Manifest. You see, its like a sieve into which everything is thrown and where He to Him, everything, but everything is the same, but there is the vision of what He wants, and also of what is useless for what He wants or would prevent the fullness and totality of what He wants (contradictions of sorts, I dont know how to explain it)so with that He just goes this way (gesture of reswallowing) and it goes out of the Manifestation.
At the time I could have said it in a more understandable language, while now
--
Yes, exactly. More than half of my correspondence doesnt arrive. But do you know why? Its not at all that they find it suspicious or anything, its that they are snowed under with work, tired, on edge: so instead of opening a letter carefully and making it possible to close it again, they tear it open in such a way that they cant decently pass it on! Its nothing but that. Its the same with parcels, you cant imagine! The way they open parcels a child would do it better! Its disgusting. They break things, spoil everything, spill bottles. Then, of course, what can they do about it? Sometimes they cant even forward the parcel, its too damaged.
Now, I must say that whenever people complain I tell them, Well, imagine for a minute you had to do this idiotic work (it is an idiotic work) and that day after day, hour after hour, all day long, with too few people (or half of them twiddling their thumbs), you were forced to do this workafter a while you would end up botching it the same way.
Thats what I always tell those who criticize the government: You deserve to be put in the place of the Prime Minister, or any other minister, with decisions to make; and with the responsibility placed on you, suppose you suddenly had to decide on things of which you know nothingyoud soon see what fun it is! You see, to govern properly, you have to be you have to be a sage! You should have a universal vision and be above all personal questions. There is not onenot one.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I found a far lovelier miracle. It was at Tlemcen, I was playing the piano, I dont recall what (a Beethoven or a Mozart piece). Thon had a piano (because his English secretary used to play the piano), and this piano was in his drawing room, which was on a level with the mountain, halfway up, almost at the top. That is to say, you had to climb two flights of stairs inside the house to reach the drawing room, but the drawing room had large French doors opening out onto the mountainsideit was very beautiful. So then, I used to play in the afternoon, with the French doors wide open. One day, when I finished playing, I turned around to get up, and what did I see but a big toad, all wartsa huge toad and it was going puff, puff, puff (you know how they inflate and deflate), it was inflating and deflating, inflating and deflating as though it were in seventh heaven! It had never heard anything so marvelous! It was all alone, as big as this, all round, all black, all warts, between those high doorsFrench doors wide open to the sun and light. It sat in the middle. It went on for a little while, then when it saw the music was over, it turned around, hop-hop-hopped and vanished.
That admiration of a toad filled me with joy! It was charming.
--
In the following conversation, Mother gave a very recent example of someone cured by the supramental force acting in the material mind: "After three warnings which he didn't heed, A. [a Paris disciple], one morning, found himself half-paralyzed. And the next day, it started spreading to the other side, the left side. At that point, he gave a callit struck him to see one side completely paralyzed and the other following suit, he saw himself going down, so he gave a call. And he says that inside a few minutes, a stupendous Force came into him and that Force said, "No!" And almost automatically, everything came to a stop. Nothing came over the left side, and the right side started to improve. And when I received the first telegram informing me that A. had to take to his bed because of an 'attack' (a 'heart attack,' they said, but it wasn't the heart, it was an embolism in the brain), with the telegram in my hands, I saw, written OVER the telegram's words: 'It's nothing, no need to worry'! So I said coolly, 'Oh' it's nothing, no need to worry.' (Mother laughs) Then the letter came with all the details: thrombosis, and so on. But he says he feels a Force [near Mother] that's not in his ordinary little life over there, he finds it makes all the differenceit's something which gives a LIFE that's not in his ordinary little life in France. Anyhow, this is something like a miracle."
Just what presides over the "inevitability" of accidents, including gravitation, illness and death.
0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
half way between his free and fallen selves,
Interceding twixt Gods day and the mortal night,
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I began reading the letter, it was four or five pages long and I didnt have time. Nolini didnt say anything (of course, he is much too well-mannered to say anything), but within himself, he thought, Why does Mother waste her time reading this letter when we barely have time to do our work? It entered the atmosphere, and even before it reached me, as soon as I saw one, two, three, four, five pages, I said, Oh, enough! At the end of the first page, I said, Enough! and put the letter aside. But the thought from Nolini and the fact that my decision was made just a moment too late, a few seconds too late my body was in a sweat from head to toe! It felt terribly exhausted. It took me at least half a minute of concentration to set things right. You understand, it has become so sensitive that in ordinary life it would be impossible but for its transformation it was a necessity. Still, it surprised me. Naturally, after half a minute it was all over, but I had to concentrate and call for calm.
So the body thought, Oh, I havent got beyond that. If I have to do the right thing in the right way and right on the dot to keep my balance You understand, a sense of insecurity! And very strong, very strong. Of course, there is something like reason (not quite ordinary reason), something like reason that says, When you automatically and always do exactly what should be done, it will vanish. (Mother laughs) Thank you very much! But as it cannot be a mental decision, then how? You see, you can learn only through experience, and since everything is in perpetual motion, the experience of the past cannot help for the future: its a matter of every minute. So how can you know? It means well know that we are free from error only when we are all the time, all the time in perfect harmony! But then there will be no point in knowing it, it will be done! Thats the situation. If the body is transformed and lives naturally in the divine rhythm, why would I need to know it! (Laughing) It will be immaterial to me, because it will BE. We want to know things when they arent yet.
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Like a bang on the head I was completely dazed. They called a doctor. There were no medicines left in the citythere werent enough medicines for people, but as we were considered important people (!) the doctor brought two tablets. I told him (laughing), Doctor, I never take any medicines. What! he said. Its so hard to get them!Thats just the point, I replied, theyre very good for others! Then, then suddenly (I was in bed, of course, with a first-rate fever), suddenly I felt seized by trance the real trance, the kind that pushes you out of your body and I knew. I knew: Its the end; if I cant resist it, its the end. So I looked. I looked and I saw it was a being whose head had been half blown off by a bomb and who didnt know he was dead, so he was hooking on to anybody he could to suck life. And each of those beings (I saw one over me, doing his business!) was one of the countless dead. Each had a sort of atmospherea very widespread atmosphereof human decomposition, utterly pestilential, and thats what gave the illness. If it was merely that, you recovered, but if it was one of those beings with half a head or half a body, a being who had been killed so brutally that he didnt know he was dead and was trying to get hold of a body in order to continue his life (the atmosphere made thousands of people catch the illness every day, it was swarming, an infection), well, with such beings, you died. Within three days it was overeven before, within a day, sometimes. So once I saw and knew, I collected all the occult energy, all the occult power, and (Mother bangs down her fist, as if to force her way into her body) I found myself back in my bed, awake, and it was over. Not only was it over, but I stayed very quiet and began to work in the atmosphere. From that moment on, mon petit, there were no new cases! It was so extraordinary that it appeared in the Japanese papers. They didnt know how it happened, but from that day on, from that night on, not a single fresh case. And people recovered little by little.
I told the story to our Japanese friend in whose house we were living, I told him, Well, thats what this illness isa remnant of the war; and heres the way it happens. And that being was repaid for his attempt! Naturally, the fact that I repelled his influence by turning around and fighting [dissolved the formation]. But what power it takes to do that! Extraordinary.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The drawing starts here (Mother draws the first half of the 8): its the Supreme leaning forward. Then, Nature in its base, Nature in sleep (the base of the 8). And here (the top of the 8), I put two little drawings (as if to symbolize an eye, a nose and a mouth) to evoke the summit of consciousness. So the Supreme is leaning forward like this and Nature rises like this (Mother draws the second half of the 8). All this (the top of the 8) is golden, then it becomes prismatic (the middle of the 8), and deep blue here (the base of the 8), in the most material part of the creation, and the blue becomes lighter and lighter (going upward again), and finally golden. Perpetually.
Eight is the symbol of infinity for mathematicians ().
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was accompanied by three or four people (but they are symbolic people). Everything was taking place in a half-night, and outside it was complete night. But when I reached the terrace, there was one of those big electric street lights, which turned on and gave a white light (like the half-light of an electric lamp in the nightwhich is nothing). The terrace was a very long one, but with a drop on every side: there was no way to get out; at one end, the way was blocked by a sort of house, and on both sides it plunged straight down into a black hole. And then that sense of powerlessness, of knowing nothingyou dont know where to go, you dont know what to do. It was And it is THE ORDINARY STATE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS the consciousness of human activity. But in my consciousness (I was shut in there, you understand), it was truly it was almost a torture, last night; it was frightful.
I was saying to myself, But whats the way to get out of here? I concentrated, became conscious again of the divine Presence, but there was something telling me, Nothing is responding, its not working. It was horrible. Nothing is responding, its not working; its not working, it cant change, nothing is responding; nothing is responding, its not working. I was there like that, with two or three people. I sat down (some rooms were higher than others and it made a difference in level between the terraces), I sat down on a ledge, questioning intensely within, What can I do? What can I do? Whats the way? What can I do? Wheres the lever? I was trying to find the lever for changing it all. But I was unable to find it. Suddenly, from the room at the end a little old man came out, very old, who gave the impression of an attachment to old things; just the same (he was all blue), just the same when he arrived (it must be the symbol of an old method or an old discipline), I told him, Ah, now that you are here, can you tell me the way out of this place? Whats the way to get free, the way out? That started him laughing: No, no! Theres no way, no way out, you must be content with what you have. Then he looked at that poor light above, which really didnt give much light at all, and he said (in a high-sounding tone): But in the first place, I came to tell you that you must put out that sun! I dont want that dazzling sun here. Ah! I thought, Thats what he calls a sun! I was so disgusted that finally I woke up. Something pulled me out abruptly. But with such a strong impressionso strong that I was gripped by anguish: What can be done to change that? The WAY, you see, the way was inadequateinadequate. That was the anguish: My own experience is inadequate, it has no effect THERE, so whats to be done? Whats to be done? What can be done? So thats how I was for hours this morning: Whats the way? Whats the way? Whats the way to change that darkness into light?
--
But those who do not have that experience (its not a question of words, its a question of experience), those who do not have that experience, were they to have that half-knowledge, the knowledge that we live in Ignorance, that we live in Ignorance with a sort of incapacity to get outThere is no way out, no way to get outand that human wisdom is like that little old man who comes and tells you, But why should you want to get out? Why should you thats the way things are, just the way things are. Its appalling. I felt, you know, like when you concentrate forces to the bursting point, as they do with their bombs; it was exactly like that: so concentrated, so overwhelming that I felt as if everything were about to burst. So much so that it would be utterly impossible for humanity to live with the awareness of the state it is in, if, at the same time, there werent the key to get out (the key hasnt been found yet), or the assurance that we will get out.
Im not speaking of things of the higher mind, because there the key to the way out was found long ago, a long time ago: I mean down below, in the material world the material world. Thats why all those people, like the old man last night, go somewhere elseits all the same to them, why should they bother! Why do you want to change that? And dont try to give light here, its no use and in addition its a nuisance. Leave this Ignorance in peace.
0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not much, not a large part of the being that would like to know. It happens when the body feels quite bizarre, not at all, AT ALL as it was before, but also not at all as it thinks it should be. A transitional period which is truly unsatisfactory, in the sense that you no longer feel the strength you had, the capacities you had, but you dont feel at all the Power and capacities you expect eitheryou are halfway between, neither like this nor like that. With, now and then, some absolutely bewildering things, things that make you stare wide-eyed, Oh, thats how it is! But at the same time, such tiresome limitations, tiresome.
That is the part (a completely childish part) which needs a little encouragement: Come on, dont worry, youre on the right track. But thats childish. The only way is to keep quiet and go on without worrying.
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo seems to have taken interest in the Popes successor because two nights ago (not in the night, at four in the morning), I was with him I spent a half hour with him (a half hour of OUR time, which is very long), he had just returned from a tour, in Italy especially. We didnt directly talk about it, but some people were there (there were all kinds of things, many things), and from his comments to this or that person, or on this or that, I knew he was returning from Italy, where he had gone for the nomination of the new Pope. And he said something like: Its the best that could be done under the present circumstances. That is, he appeared satisfied on the whole.
I told you, didnt I, that I saw the death of Pope [John XXIII] without even knowing he was ill? One night, I suddenly saw in the mental atmosphere of the EARTH quite an awesome movement, that is to say, quite global: there were great mental waves (nothing but mental), great waves of anxiety, as though all human thought were very upset; but it wasnt the anxiety of the believers, it was a very global movement the earths mental atmosphere was stirring with great movements of upheaval and anxiety (Mother draws waves in the air). I thought, Whats happening? Whats happening that can so upset men? (as would happen, for instance, with a world war or events of that kind), Whats happening that can draw the attention of the whole earths atmosphere, its mental atmosphere? And the next day, I was told that just at that time, the Pope died. So I thought, Indeed!
0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For some time (I mean a year or maybe a year and a half), I have quite often been seeing some very ugly faces pass before me, and also all kinds of queer objectsthings I didnt use to see formerly. I had seen ugly beings only once, when I was with Sri Aurobindo: during the day I caught a sort of influenza (it was more vital than physical), because I had attended and, so to say, presided over the festival of arms2 of the workers here. And they threw all their woes on me, asking to be protected, relieved and so onthere is a sort of spontaneous sincerity in those people, and I answered straightforwardly, without protecting myself. I didnt even think for a minute of protecting myself: I answered all of them (inwardly, of course). I came back inside. In the night, I had a frightful fever. But in the midst of that fever I was entirely conscious; I had the fever people call delirium, and I saw what delirium is: there were hordes of beings from the most material vital rushing at me with such violence! It was a real battle against an army of beings from the lowest, most material and also most violent vitalthey came in waves and I kept throwing them back (which probably people are unable to do): one wave and I threw them back, another wave and I threw them back, and so on the whole night long. I had a fantastic fever. Sri Aurobindo was there, sitting beside my bed, and I told him, Well, thats what gives what people call delirium. It attacks the cerebral region, its really a frightful battle. The next morning, I had an influenza that looked like typhoid fever I knew where it was coming from, I had seen it, I saw the whole thing, you understand.
It happened once and then it was over: quite naturally the atmosphere gave protection. This time it had the same character, in the sense that twisted faces, very base instincts, very ugly things come and ENTER, which means there must be some work going on on that level, and for it to be done some contact is necessary (naturally when I have my white atmosphere around me, try as they may, they cannot touch it), but this time they entered. Well, I peered at the thing (laughing), not without some curiosity. (The first times, I was surprised, I thought, Why am I starting to see such ugly things! But then I soon understood it was because a work had to be done.) I peer at the thing with some curiosity, and I see I just have to do this (gesture like the flick of a feather duster), simply a little effortless movement and prrt! off it runs with fantastic speed.
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This translation will not serve any purposeit serves a purpose only for me. But I dont even have the time, I can hardly spare half an hour a day for this work I hope I can offer myself half an hour a day!
***
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems to me (Ive been feeling that for a long time now, more than a year, almost a year and a half), it seems to me that all the work was done only to teach every single element of the body to have a physical, material consciousness, but at the same time to maintain that state of peacea positive, full, thoroughly comfortable peace: something that can last indefinitely. That is to say, I progressively teach the body what I could call all the divine states; I teach it to feel and live in the divine states. Well, the closest things (two things are close enough, but one is more comfortable, if I may say soits the word ease in Englishthan the other; the other is more tense [Mother makes a fist], there is a will in it) the closest things are the sense of eternity and the sense of silence. Because behind the whole creation (I mean the material creation), there is a perfect Silence, not the opposite of noise but a positive silence, which is at the same time a complete immobility thats very good as an antidote to disorder. But the sense of eternity is still better, and it has a sweetness the other hasnt; the sense of eternity includes the sense of sweetness (but not sweetness as we understand it). Its extremely comfortable. That is, there is no reason why it should changeor cease or start anew. It is selfexistent, perfect in itself. And these are the best antidotes to the other state [of disorder]: peace, simple peace, isnt always sufficient.
After all, the body is an utterly wretched thing. Yesterday, I think, it was complaining, really complaining (I said it was a whiner, but yesterday it was complaining), really asking, Why, why was such a wretched thing ever made?Incapacity, incomprehension, oh! Nothing but limitations and impossibilities. A sterile goodwill, a complete lack of power, and as soon as some little vital power comes, its turned into violencedisgusting.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last experience (which Ive had these last few days), in which apparently there was a hitch (it wasnt really one) was a sort of demonstration. I told you what it was, you remember: its like a purge of all the vibrations that are false vibrations, that arent the pure and simple response to the supreme Influence (all that in the cells still responds to the vibrations of falsehood, either from habit or from the people around or the food takenfifty thousand things). Then, with an aspiration or a decision, almost a prayer for purification coming from the body, something happens which, naturally, upsets the balance; the imbalance in turn brings about a general discomfort. The form discomfort takes is habitually the same: first, pains and all kinds of sensations I need not describe; if that state goes on developing, if it is allowed to assume its full proportions, it results in the past it resulted in a faint. But this time, I followed the process for about two hours from the moment I got up: the struggle between the new balance, the new Influence that was getting established, and the resistance of all the existing elements forced to go away. That created a sort of conflict. The consciousness remained very clear the consciousness of the BODY remained very clear, very quiet, perfectly trusting. So for two hours I was able to follow the process (while going on with all my usual activities, without changing anything), until I felt, or rather was told sufficiently clearly that the Lord wanted my body to be completely immobile for a while so that He might complete His work. But I am not all alone: there are other people here to help me and watch over everything (but I dont say or explain anything to them, those are things I dont talk about I dont say what goes on, I dont say anything), so I sat there wondering, Is it really and truly indispensable? (Mother laughs) Then I felt the Lord exert a little more pressure, which heightened the intensity of the conflict, so that I had all the signs of fainting I understood (!) I stood up, let my body moan a little to make it plain it didnt feel too well (!) and I stretched out. Then I was immobile, and in that immobility, I saw the work that was being donea work that cannot be done if you go on moving about. I saw the work. It took nearly half an hour; in half an hour it was over. Which means there is really there is a fact I cannot doubt, even if all the surrounding thoughts and forces contradict it: I cannot doubt that the consciousness is increasing more and more the consciousness in the body. It is growing more and more precise, luminous, exactQUIETvery peaceful. Yet very conscious of a TREMENDOUS battle against millennial habits. Do you follow?
When it was over, I saw that even physically, bodily, there is a strength: the result is an increased strength. A very clearly increased strength.
--
When the experience began, there was something looking on (you know, there is always in me something looking on somewhat ironically, always amused) which said, Very well! If that happened to someone else, he would think he was quite sick! (laughing) Or half mad. So I stayed very quiet and thought, All right, let it be, Ill watch, Ill see Ill see soon enough! It has started, so it will have to end! Indescribable! Indescribable (the experience will have to recur several times before I can understand), fantastic! It started at 8:30 and went on till 2:30 in the morning; that is to say, not for a second did I lose consciousness, I was there watching the most extraordinary things for six hours.
I dont know where this is going.
--
At the time, there was still a lot of mental activity, and those experiences took all the forms the mind gives to thingsvery nice, very literary! Now, all that is overhappily, thank God! A complete silence I dont make speeches on the thing. But the experience of last night! And to think that when an experience lasts half an hour, three quarters of an hour, one hour, its considered extraordinaryit lasted from 8:30 till 2:15, nonstop.
A sort of ubiquity in the cells?
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that very recently; its something insignificant, the circumstances are completely unimportant in themselves (its only the study of the whole that makes it interesting). Its the only phenomenon that has recurred several times in my life and which for that reason I know well. And as the being progresses, the power of dissolution increases, becomes more and more immediate, and the resistance lessens. But I remember the time when the resistances were at their highest (more than half a century ago), and it never worked in any other way: it was always something outside menot outside my consciousness but outside my will something that resists the will. I never had the feeling I had to renounce things but I felt as if I had to exert a pressure on them to dissolve them. Whereas now, the farther I go, the more imperceptible the pressure becomes, its immediate: as soon as the Force that comes to dissolve a collection of things manifests, theres no resistance, everything gets dissolved; on the contrary, theres hardly any sense of liberation theres something that is amused every time and says, Ah, again! How many times you limit yourself. How many times you think youre constantly moving on, smoothly, without stopping, and how many times you set a little limit to your action (it isnt a big limit because its a very little thing within an immense whole, but its a limit nonetheless). And then when the Force acts to dissolve the limit, at first you feel liberated, you feel a joy; but now its not even like that any more: there is a smile. Because its not a sense of liberationyou very simply remove a stone that stands in your way.
Thats more or less what I told you last night, but I told it to you complete with illustrations! It would take pages, you understand! (Laughing) Thats why the illustrations are gone, otherwise it would fill a volume. There were all the explanations, all the details.
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It should have been said objectively, not as my experience. But if I start saying my experience, I have to go right to the end of my experience, I cant stop halfway.
But thats just the point: its really striking only when its YOUR experience.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And such details! There was a whole story (which lasted even more than an hour and a half) with all the details. Because where I was with him was an upper floor and when I came down I met people, did some things and so on. It was the upper floor. And it all went on in a dazzling light, dazzling, dazzling; everything was as though in a blazing sun much brighter than the sun the sun is dark in such a case.
And when I came downstairs (it wasnt like here: everyone had his own house and garden, it was a huge estate), I went straight to my bathroom. I open the door and whom do I find there but someone (I recognized him, but I wont name him) who was using itWell, I thought, thats a fine thing! And I closed the door again. All kinds of details, it lasted more than an hour. And you know, the number of things that can happen in an hour and a half at night.
Once again I was tall I am always tall. But I hadnt dressed as I do usually: I wore a short dress. There were lots of people there; I recognized everyone, I could hear everyones voice, it was very, very distinct. And there were two girls (not girls, theyre women now, but to me they were like girls), two girls talking to each other and saying, How strong her legs are! (Its symbolic.) And at the same time, I saw my legs as if there were a mirror to show them to me! I had a short dress and I saw my legs and my two feet with shoes onmy feet had shoes on. And a short dress. Very active.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, I know those things, I have seen thousands of them! Only, as it happens, for more than half a century I have sensed the difference in a most sharp way. I think I told you already that when I returned here from Japan, there were difficulties: once, I was in danger and I called Sri Aurobindo; he appeared, and the danger went away2he appeared, meaning, he came, something from him came, an EMANATION of him came, living, absolutely concrete. The next day (or rather later the same day), I told him my experience and how I saw him; that worried him (it was an unceasing danger, you see), and he very strongly thought that he should concentrate on me to protect me. And the next day, I saw him but it was an image, a mental formation! I told him, Yes, you came in a mental formation, it wasnt the same thing. Then he told me that this capacity of discernment is an extremely rare thing. But I always had it, even when I was small. Its a sensitiveness in the perception. And indeed I believe that very few people can sense the difference. So with X, my first impression was, My goodness, to do this to me! Well, really, I have some experience of the world, I cant be so easily made to believe that the moon is made of green cheese!
And yesterday, it was all very peaceful: X was there all the time with nobody in front of him, not pretending anything. But the first time, as he expected some result, he stayed on for ten minutesprobably he was expecting some reaction (I never told him that Sri Aurobindo is with me all the time, that we talk to each other every night). Anyhow, he was probably expecting some enthusiasm on my part (!) There you are.
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and- half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
(long silence)
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I tried to find out why your physical life began (well, not quite began, but you were very, very young, just the same) with such a painful experience [the concentration camps]. And I saw why: it was like a separationnot separation, but disentanglement, you understand? There are two things in every human being: what comes from the past and has persisted because it is formed and conscious, and then all that dark, unconscious mass, really muddy, that is added in every new life. Then the other thing gets into that and finds itself imprisoned, you knowadulterated and imprisoned and generally it takes more than half ones life to emerge from that entanglement. Well, for you, care was taken to more than double the dose at the beginning, and it caused a kind of tearing apart: one part went up above, another part fell down below. And the part (it acted almost like a filter), the part that rose up was very cleansed, very cleansed of all that swarming: its becoming very, very conscious of the mixture. Just see, today, the whole morning until I was swamped with work by people, till then there was a sharp awareness of the part of the being that still belongs, as I said, to Unconsciousness, to Ignorance, to Darkness, to Stupidity, and is not even as harmonious as a tree or a flower; something thats not even as tranquil as a stone, not even as harmonious and not even as strong as the animal something that is really a downfall. That is really human inferiority. And maybe (no, I shouldnt say maybe: I know) it was necessary for things to settle downsettle, you know, as when you let a liquid settle? Thats exactly it: its the Light that settles, the Consciousness that settles. And indeed its true, there is in you a part that has entirely settled. Every time I see it (it comes in the course of the work, you understand), its lovely in its quality of light, its quality of vibration, and it has settled considerably. But its true that there is also a kind of sediment, a deposit (deposit, you know?) which is a bit heavy thats what youre conscious of.
But you shouldnt say me! Its not you, that residue isnt you! But you are indeed conscious of the Light, arent you?
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was only one difficulty: the little children, who cannot be conscious of a test, of course, and who remained four and a half hours in the rain. I didnt want it to do any damage there were about a hundred small ones, tiny tots. I spent the night in concentration to bring into their material sensation the true reaction (because, for a short while, children love rain, they have a lot of fun in it), so I said to myself, That part of their consciousness should predominate so there is no damage. And I waited for the day after. The day after, no one was sick.
Then I received a letter from M., the captain, saying that they had felt it was a test, the lila2 of the Lord (he called it the lila of the universal Mother) and asking me if it was true. I was happy and answered him that it was true and that I was happy. And everyone told me, They were wonderful. As if doing that performance in the rain had given rise to a kind of will in them, and they were remarkable: everybody was enthusiastic. So instead of saying to the Lord, Thats not nice, I thanked Him heartily! And I laughed, I thought, There you have it! Its always that way.
0 1963-12-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I was always accompanied by a form, not a very precise one, but which was the materialization in that realm of the Lords Presence. I remember having for the work entered a huge room, completely bare, without anything, in a half-light, when suddenly I felt something grabbing hold of me here (gesture at the nape of the neck), something I even felt physically (I was lying in my bed, but I felt it physically). So I pointed it out to that Form which was accompanying me everywhereso attentive, so closeto explain and show things to me; I complained, saying, Look, something has grabbed hold of me, it even hurts physically. So I saw a kind of arm come and take that thing on my neck, pull it away and present it to me: it was like one of those big bats that are called flying fox (there are some here, they eat little birds, chicks), it was clinging to my neck! He said, Oh, its nothing! Its only that. (Mother laughs) And it was a big thing like this (about three feet) which had grabbed hold of me here and had its two claws still out (he had wrenched it off my neck). It had become flat and almost inert, but it was still as vicious as anything.
It was quite simply an incidentto mention just one.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost half past ten.
Do you have anything to tell me? You want to hear more in a minor keythis was a major key!
--
So Ill keep the keyboards as they are. And tomorrow at half past twelve when I play [for the Ashram], maybe it wont be as free as today!
(To Sujata:) You put everything back in place.
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had X told about a rather interesting encounter of mine with Ganapati1 (quite a few years ago), and how he had promised to give me whatever I needed and actually gave it for quite a long time, certainly more than ten years, and generously so. Then everything changed in the Ashram. It was after the war, the children came and we spilled over; we became much more complex, much larger, and began to be in touch with foreign countries, particularly America. And I continued to be in contact with Ganapati; I cant say I used to do a puja to him (!), but every morning I would put a flower in front of his image. Then one morning I asked him, Why have you stopped doing what you had been doing for such a long time? I listened, and he clearly replied, Your need has grown too large. I didnt quite understand, because he has at his disposal fortunes larger than what I needed. But then, some time afterwards, I had this told to X, who answered me from the height of his punditism, Let her not be concerned with the gods, I will look after that! It was needlessly insolent. Then I turned to Ganapati and asked him, What does all that mean? And I clearly saw (it wasnt he who answered, it was Sri Aurobindo), I clearly saw that Ganapati has power only over those who have faith in him, which means its limited to India, while I needed money from America, France, England, Africa and that he has no power there, so he couldnt help. It became very clear, I was at peace, I understood: Very well, he did his best, thats all. And its true that I keep receiving from India, though not sufficiently; especially as since Independence half of India has been ruined, and all those who used to give me a lot of money no longer do, because they no longer canit isnt that they no longer want to, but that they no longer can.
For instance, M. was greatly interested in my story about Ganapati, and I saw that there was a connection between him and Ganapati, so I told him, But turn to him and he will give you the right inspiration. And since then M. has been perfect, really; all that he can do he does to the utmost of his ability. So all this is very good.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the conclusion (afterwards, naturally, when the whole thing had been seen and studied carefully), the conclusion is that the Lord has neither cause nor effect; and all that is is like those pulsations in my experience two years ago (or a year and a half ago, I dont rememberit was in April), the pulsations of Love bursting forth and creating the word, which followed one another but had neither cause nor effect: one pulsation wasnt the result of the one before or the cause of the one afternot at alleach one was a whole in itself.
Each moment of the Supreme is a whole in itself.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you last time that when I returned from the balcony on the 29th, it was as if in my concentration I said to the Lord, Well, well wait another four years. That was the impression. And since then (today is the same day as the 29th, it was just a week ago), everything has been like this (quivering gesture in the atmosphere), like hosts of little promises but promises that havent come to fruition, in other words, its always something that IS to come, something that IS to be, something that IS to be realized; something thats drawing near, but nothing tangible. And last night, when I awoke from my usual concentration (its almost always at the same time: between midnight and half past midnight), I felt something special in the atmosphere, so immediately I let myself flow into it and made contact with it.
I noticed (Ive known it for some time, but it was quite concrete this time) that in my rest, as soon as I am at rest, the body is completely identified with the material substance of the earth, that is to say, the experience of the material substance of the earth becomes its ownwhich may be expressed by all sorts of things (it depends on the day, on the occasion). I had known for a long time that it was no longer the individual consciousness; it isnt the collective consciousness of mankind: its a terrestrial consciousness, meaning it also contains the material substance of the earth, including the unconscious substance. Because I have prayed a lot, concentrated a lot, aspired a lot for the transformation of the Inconscient (since it is the essential condition for the thing to happen)because of that there has been a kind of identification.
0 1964-04-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How empty the days arethey are full of empty things, of empty people and empty movement. You feel you must constantly pull down the Force in order to fill up this enormous Emptiness, or else you would be utterly crushed. I keep my watch by Indian time, so that I always know where you are, although I never know what time it is in France! I have to make a complicated calculation and subtract four and a half hours: its now 2:30 P.M. in our garden, therefore 10 A.M. here, and I have an appointment. I will probably see Corra1 tomorrow. My friend M. tells me that they definitely agree to publish the book, but they would like to cut certain passages! So I will have to argue to try and keep my book more or less whole! What a world! I will write to Mother tomorrow, once I know what the publishers demands are.
I have to see a doctor day after tomorrow but no doctor can close the hole in my heart.
0 1964-04-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know whats going on, but all your letters arrive opencensored in India?? Its the third letter from you that has arrived like that, open, with the envelope half torn. Apart from that, the contract with Corra has been signed and they will publish the book in September, without cuts, 4,000 copies. They wanted to put me on television for an interview about this book, imagine! But I refusedthose advertising organizations are as full of falsehood as all the rest. They also wanted my photo; I told them it would be in bad taste to stick my photo in a book on Sri Aurobindo. Anyway, its done, the book will be published. I am writing to Mother to tell her (its my second letter).
My own little mother looks so much younger and radianttruly a natural, living soul, a living force.
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was an experience the night of the 8th, which lasted at least two hours by the clock, maybe more. An experience I had never had before. In fact, it wasnt at all the experience of a person, because I was very conscious of the return to the personal consciousness, and in a very interesting way: everything was felt as a diminishing. The return lasted nearly half an hour. Its inexpressible with words.
For two hours, it was the experience of Omnipotenceof THE LORDS Omnipotence for two hours, with all the decisions that were made then, that is to say, the expression of what was going to be translated in the earth consciousness. There was such a simplicity about it! Such obviousnesswhat we customarily call natural. So obvious, so simple, so natural, so spontaneous, without even the memory of what might be an effort the constant effort you have to make in material life just to live, just to keep all those cells together.
The strange thing is that (I was very conscious, perfectly conscious; the Witness consciousness is never canceled, but it isnt in the way) is that I knew, I saw (yet my eyes were closed, I was lying in my bed), I saw my body movingit had movements of such a Rhythm! You see, every movement, every gesture, every finger, every attitude was a thing that was being realized. Then what I studied, what I saw during the half-hour that followed (with my eyes closed, seeing much more clearly than with my ordinary eyes) was the difference in the body the difference in the bodys movements between that moment [during the experience] and after [when Mother returned to the personal consciousness]. At that moment, the movements were it was creation! And with an EXACTNESS, a majesty! (Mother stretches out her arms and moves them slowly in a vast Rhythm.) I dont know what other people might have seen, I have no idea, but as for me, I saw myself; I saw especially the arms because it was the arms that acted: they were like the realizing intermediaries I dont know how to put it. But it was as vast as the world. It was the earth (its always the earth consciousness), not the universe: the earth, the earth consciousness. But I was conscious then of the universe and of the action on the earth (both things), of the earth as a very small thing in the universe (Mother holds a small ball in her hands). I dont know, its hard to say, but when it expressed itself, there was also the perception of the difference in vision between that moment [during the experience] and afterwards. But all this is inexpressible. Yet it is an absolute knowledgeits another way of knowing. Sri Aurobindo explained this, that all mental knowledge is a seeking: you seek; while this knowledge has another quality, another flavor. And then the power of the Harmony is so wonderful! (Mother again depicts a great Rhythm, her arms outstretched) So wonderful, so spontaneous, so SIMPLE. And It stays there, as if It supported the entire world as it is; it is a kind of inner support of the world the world leans on it.
But outwardly, that sort of film its like a thin film of difficulties, of complications, added on by the human consciousness (its much stronger with man than with the animal; the animal doesnt have that, very littleit has it more and more because of man, but very little; its something specific to man and the mental function), its something very thinas thin as an onion skin, as dry as an onion skinyet it spoils everything. It spoils everything ONLY FOR THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. At the time [of the experience], it was unimportant. Unimportant, in the sense that it takes away all the Beauty, all the Power, all the Magnificence of the thing for the human consciousness. For man, it is of paramount importance. But for the Action, its almost negligible. Basically, its rather that it makes it difficult for man to become conscious and PARTICIPATE; otherwise, my feeling is that truly the time has come for things to get done: that experience was a NEW descent, that is, something new entering the terrestrial manifestation; it wasnt that I became conscious of how the world is: I WAS the Lords Will coming into the world to change it. Thats what it was. And that action was only very slightly affected (assuming it was affected at all) by that stupid onion skin of human mentality.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same thing again: when you feel the need to proclaim what you are doing, you spoil half of your action.
And yet, at the same time, it helps you to take stock and know exactly where you stand.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For those three hours (three or three and a half hours), its constant, constant, without stop. So then the words well up (gesture from the heart). And when the situation becomes critical, when that disorder, that disintegration seem to be gaining in power, its as if the mantra were becoming swollen with force, and it restores order.
And that wasnt just once, or for a month, or a year: it has been like that for years, and it goes on increasing.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I quite understand: some people dont like the idea of a Divine because it immediately gets mixed up with all the European or Western conceptions (which are dreadful), and so it makes their lives a little bit more complicated but we dont need that! The something we need, the Perfection we need, the Light we need, the Love we need, the Truth we need, the supreme Perfection we need and thats all. The formulas the fewer the formulas, the better. A need, a need, a need that THE Thing alone can satisfy, nothing else, no half measure. That alone. And then, move on! Move on! Your path will be your path, it doesnt matter; any path, any path whatever, even the follies of todays American youth can be a path, it doesnt matter.
As Sri Aurobindo said, if you cant have Gods love (I am translating), well then, find a way to fight with God and have a wrestlers relationship with Him.1
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These last few nights, an experience has been developing. There is a sort of objectification, like scenes unfolding in which I am one of the characters; but it isnt me, it is some character or other that I play in order to have the double consciousness, the ordinary consciousness and the true consciousness at the same time. There was a whole series of experiences to show simultaneously the True Thing and the sort of half-death (its his word that makes me think of this I am too dead), the half-death of the mind. In those experiences, the state of ordinary mentality is something dry (not exactly hard because its crumbly), lifeless, without vibrationdry, cold; and as a color, its always grayish. And then, there is a maximum tension, an effort to understand and remember and knowknow what you should do; when you go somewhere, know how you should go there; know what people are going to do, know Everything, you see, is a perpetual question of the mind (its subconscious in the mindsome are conscious of it, but even in those who are apparently quiet, its there constantly that tension to know). And its a sort of superficial thing, shallow, cold and dry, WITHOUT VIBRATION. At the same time, as if in gusts, the true consciousness comes, as a contrast. And it happens in almost cinematographic circumstances (there is always a story, to make it more living). For instance, last night (its one story among many, many others), the I that was conscious then (which isnt me, you understand), the I that was playing had to go somewhere: it was with other people in a certain place and had to go through the town to another place. And she knew nothing, neither the way nor the name of the place she was going to, nor the person she had to seeshe knew nothing. She knew nothing, but she knew she had to go. So then, that tension: how, how can you know? How can you know? And questioning people, asking questions, trying to explain, You know, its like this and like that, innumerable details (it lasts for hours). And now and then, a flood of lighta warm, golden, living, comfortable lightand the feeling that everything is prearranged, that all that will have to be known will be known, that the way has been prepared beforeh and that all you have to do is let yourself live! It comes like that, in gusts. But then, there is an intensity of contrast between that constant effort of the mind, which is an enormous effort of tension and concentrated will, and then and then that glory. That comfortable glory, you know, in which you let yourself go in trusting happiness: But everything is ready, everything is luminous, everything is known! All you have to do is let yourself live. All you have to do is let yourself live.
Its as if a play were performed to make it more living, more realone subject, another subject, this, that. If you enter a certain state, then another time enter the other state, you can remember the difference and its useful, but in this form of a play, with the double consciousness, the opposition becomes so real, so concrete that you come out of it wondering, How can you go on living in this aberration when you have once TOUCHEDtouched, experienced the True Thing?
0 1964-10-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night I dont remember at all now, only the impression; and the impression is so strong that after getting up it takes me at least half an hour to emerge from the atmosphere I was in!
All sorts of people. I dont know their names, I dont know their countries, I dont know their languages, yet we communicate very well.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Before the meditation, I told him, You will let me know when you have finished I dont want to let you know. So I finished what I had to do, then I took a look and said to myself, Lets see now, lets try. And I simply made a formation and put it on him, saying, Now, its over. Then I didnt move, I stayed very quiet. It took about half a minute, even less; he opened his eyes, and then it was over. But when I saw him again at lunchtime, I asked him, When you indicated to me it was over, what did you feel? He told me, I felt (Mother laughs) the Force was going, so I thought it was over Well, his answer showed me the exact difference. He should hew felt. Mother is calling me, Mother is telling me its over, but he felt the Force was going.
Then, as he saw I was talking to him, he took the opportunity to ask me, I would really like to have visions. I answered him all that had to be answered, and I told him that, in the last analysis, its only the Lord who decides when we should have visions, when we shouldnt have them, when we are making progress, when we arent, and so on. Then, in the most hypocritical tone (laughing), like someone who says something to be polite but doesnt believe a word of it, he said, Oh, then we are indeed fortunate, because we have the Lord among us. I pretended to believe he was sincere, and I answered him, No, no, no! You cant say that, its not possible I AM NOT the Lord! And I explained a little the consciousness I have of the Lord, I said, You shouldnt think I am the Lord (in my thought, it was: I am not the Lord as YOU imagine Him), because if I were the Lord (Mother smiles, amused), you would have visions and you would be cured.
This took place around 11:30. In the afternoon, usually I take my bath and stretch out a little, a good while, over there. I said to the Lord, And after all, why (laughing) cant I do something for people like this who are really nice? Why cant I work miracles? I asked Him this half seriously, half in jest. Then all of a sudden, it became very serious. All of a sudden, the Presence was very intense and it was very serious. Then l felt something that said in an absolutely positive way (it was translated into words), You MUST NOT have powers. And the total understanding.
You must not have powers.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now and then, when I am perfectly at rest and perfectly quiet (when I know, for instance, that I have half an hour of perfect quiet and no one will disturb me), at such time, the Lord becomes very close, very close, and often I feel Him saying (not with words), saying to my body, Let yourself go, let yourself go; be joyous, be joyous, let yourself go, relax, and the immediate result is that it completely relaxes, and I go into a bliss but I no longer have any contact with the outside! The body goes into a deep trance, I think, and it loses all contact; for instance, the clock strikes, but I dont hear it.
One should be able to keep that bliss while being quite active and hard at work. I am not referring to the inner joy, not at all, theres no question of that, its out of the question, its immutably established: I am referring to that Joy IN THE BODY ITSELF.
0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first time it came was the day before yesterday; I was resting (after lunch I rest for half an hour), and at the end of my rest, suddenly I see myself I see myself standing near my bed, very tall, with a magnificent dress, and with someone dressed in white beside me. And I saw this just when I seemed about to faint: I was at once the person standing and the person on the bed who was watching, and at the same time I felt that thing flowing downward, flowing downward from the head the head empties completely. And the person standing smiled, while the person in the bed wondered, What! I am fainting but I am in my bed! There. And as it was time for me to wake up (that is, to return to the outer consciousness), I came back.
And I was left with this problem: who was standing there? Very tall, with a splendid dress, and then a person (who was a human person, but much shorter), a white person beside me, all white. And just when I become conscious of this, when I see this, the head empties completely of something, and the face of the person standing (who was me) smiles. And then, the other part of me that was lying down in my bed said, What! Its odd, I am fainting; how is it that I am fainting?I am in my bed!
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I also noted something down, an experience I had this morning. It lasted half an hour, and during that half-hour (Mother looks for her notes among a series of little scraps of paper) You know that with people who have a revelation, their state of consciousness changes all at once, and at that moment they have the feeling that everything is changed; then, the next moment, or after a certain time, they realize that all the work (how should I put it?) of working out the experience remains to be done; that it was only like a flash lasting a certain length of time and that they have to work it out through a process of transformation. This is the usual idea.
And all of a sudden, I saw thats not it at all! When they have the experience, at the time of the experience, it is the thing ITSELF, the perfection ITSELF that has been reached, and they are in a state of perfection; and it is because they COME OUT of it that they feel they have to slowly prepare themselves for the result. I dont know if I am expressing myself clearly, but my notation was like this: perfection is there, always, coexisting with imperfectionperfection and imperfection are coexistent, always, and not only simultaneous, but in the SAME PLACE (Mother presses her two hands together), I dont know how to put itcoexistent. Which means that at any second and in any conditions, you can attain perfection: it isnt something that has to be gained little by little, through successive progress; perfection is THERE, and YOU change states, from the state of imperfection to the state of perfection; and it is the capacity to remain in that state of perfection that grows for some reason or other and gives you the feeling that you must prepare yourself or transform yourself.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Absolutely nonexistence. And I wondered, But where is that person I used to call me? Where is she, what is she doing?It had evaporated (Mother blows air between her fingers), absolutely evaporated. Oh, how I laughed, mon petit, how delighted I was! For half an hour I laughed within. I said to myself, Well, its a success! Then I looked at that poor body and thought, If this too could be changed into something else, it would be magnificent!
(Looking at Satprem out of the corner of her eyes) Its very goodits very good, its a sure sign that one has emerged from ones ego.
0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the first time, because even when I have an experience, even the first time, I remember, when we began collective meditations and Sri Aurobindo came down and literally sat on the [Ashram] compound, it was very interesting, of course, and very compelling,2 but I was conscious of time. And this time There have been ups and downs, good experiences and bad ones, all kinds of things, but I have always been conscious of time, while yesterday I myself was astounded. I heard the gong and I had the feeling it had just started. There was even something in the body that was jubilant like a child: Its going to last half an hour, its going to be like this for half an hour (it was funny, you know) ah, the true life at last! That was the bodys feeling, and it was going to last half an hour. Bong! bong! As if it had been robbed of its joy!
Its curious.
It started in a strange way: I have a beeswax candle, which smells of honey when it burns, a big candle I was sent from Switzerland. I have already burned half of it: I light it for the meditations. But there was a defect in the wick, it was carbonized, and yesterday it refused to burn. We lighted itlighted it twice just before and it went out just at the start of the meditation when they rang the gong. So the body consciousness said, O Lord, we are so impure that we cannot even burn in front of You! It was full of spontaneous simplicity: O Lord, we are so impure And immediately, the answer (gesture of massive descent): everything stopped.
Perhaps it was that very childlike, but very spontaneous and very simple movement of the body, conscious of Matters imperfection, We are so impure that we cannot even burn in front of You!perhaps thats what provoked that answer.
0 1965-02-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Previously it took an inner discomfort, a feeling of some friction to make me aware that it wasnt the true thing; but now it isnt like that: it is seen BEFOREHAND in the space of half a second.
Thats what I have tried to say here. If people could receive THAT, those who have goodwill would quite naturally follow the indication every minute.
0 1965-03-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the nerves have really calmed down because one has eaten well, one can go into a blissful contemplationdont be occupied with anything, above all dont try to think: like this (gesture of floating, offered), invoking the Lord and his Harmonya luminous harmony and then lying like that at least half an hour, three quarters of an hour after the meal. Its very good, its excellent. Dont fall asleep: blissfulnothing, being nothing. Nothing but a blissful tranquillity. Thats the best remedy.
I think thats easier after eating well!
0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The transition between the two appears really possible only through the entry the conscious and willed entryof a supramentalized consciousness into a body that we could call an improved physical body, in other words, the human physical body as it is now, but improved: the improvement produced, for instance, by a TRUE physical training, not in its present exaggerated form but in its true sense. Its something I have seen fairly clearly: in an evolution (physical training is developing very fast nowadays, its not even half a century since it started), in evolution, that physical training will bring an improvement, that is, a suppleness, a balance, an endurance, and a harmony; these are the four qualitiessuppleness (plasticity), balance between the various parts of the being, endurance, and harmony of the body that will make it a more supple instrument for the supramentalized consciousness.
So the transition: a conscious and willed utilization by a supramentalized consciousness of a body prepared in that way. This body must be brought to the peak of its development and of the utilization of the cells in order to be yes, consciously impregnated with the supreme forces (which is being done here [in Mother] at the moment), and this to the utmost of its capacities. And if the consciousness that inhabits that body, that animates that body, has the required qualities in sufficient amount, it should normally be able to utilize that body to the utmost of its capacity of transformation, with the result that the waste caused by the death of decomposing cells should be reduced to a minimumto what extent? Thats precisely what still belongs to the unknown.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another thing, yesterday Something being prepared. In the past, when Sri Aurobindo was there and I lived in that house which is now the dormitory annex, there was a large verandah, and I used to walk up and down on the verandah (Sri Aurobindo was in his room, working), and I would walk alone; but I was never alone: Krishna was always thereKrishna, the god Krishna as he is known, but taller, more beautiful, and not with that ridiculous blue, you know, that slate blue! Not like that. And always, we always walked up and down togetherwe would walk together. He was just a little behind (gesture behind, almost against the nape of the neck and the shoulders); I was a little in front, as if my head was on his shoulder, and he would walk (I didnt have the feeling of my head resting on his shoulder, but thats how it was), and we would walk, we would communicate. That lasted more than a year, you know, every day. Then it ended. Afterwards I saw him from time to time (when we moved to the new house I saw him); sometimes at night when I was very tired, he would come and I would sleep on his shoulder. But I knew very well that it was a way Sri Aurobindo had of showing himself. Then when I came here [to Mothers present room], Sri Aurobindo had left, and I began walking up and down while reciting my mantra. Sri Aurobindo came, and he was at exactly the same place as Krishna was (same gesture, just behind the head); I would walk, and he was there, and we would walk together day after day, day after day. And it was becoming so concrete, so marvelous that I started thinking, Why look after people and things, I want to remain like this for ever! He caught my thought, and he said, I am not coming anymore. And he stopped. I said, Very well, and I started my mantra to the supreme Lord, and I tried a lot to have Him come and walk with me, but in no other form but Himself. And the Force, the Presence, everything was there, and I would feel Him more and more clearly, staying like that, just behind me, impersonal. For a few days, Ive had a sort of feeling that I was close to something; and yesterday, for half an hour: THE Presencea Presence An absolutely concrete presence. And it is He who told me, First Krishna, then Sri Aurobindo, then I.
Only (laughing), He doesnt want the effect to be the same and me to say, Now I am fed up with people!
0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, there was a lot like that, I had all sorts of adventures. Then I looked to see if Sri Aurobindo really needed his cup of tea because it seemed so difficult! I saw him, there was that wonderful French window, so clear, and then as if recessed into the wall (I dont know) a sort of platform couch, a place to sit, but it was very pretty, and he was seated or half-reclining on it, and very comfortable. And there was a boy (or a boy had come to ask him something), and there were kinds of stairs leading up to the couch; the boy was reclining on the stairs, asking questions, and Sri Aurobindo was explaining something. I recognized the boy. I thought, Ah, (laughing) hes no longer thinking of his cup of tea, fortunately! Then I woke up. But I thought, If this is how he sees us having gobbled up everything, you understand.
But a few years ago you told me an almost identical vision in which you were also in search of food for Sri Aurobindo, and you couldnt find anything: the people who were supposed to prepare it hadnt prepared it or didnt know how to.2
--
In fact the cyst has grown smaller almost by half since Sujata mentioned it to Mother four days ago. But "out of habit" it was still operated upon!
See conversation of March 17, 1961, Agenda II, p. 129 ff.
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And usually my nightly activities are never in the material, they are always in the subtle physical, its densest part, if I may say so. Maybe I havent even had in my life half a dozen visions with the material reality as it is: I saw the room as it is and heard the sound of Champaklals voice clearly. Then I understood it was this physical mind dreaming, having an activity, and that it was to show me that attraction You understand, the door opening abruptly, the man coming in and telling me (Mother takes on a tragic tone), I am bringing very bad news, and that tense atmosphere, and then, He has fallen down and broken his head. Then I tried to know who the he was, and little by little and so on.
With this sort of work to establish perfect equality, I never drive something away immediately, saying, No, thats not possible. One must be calm and collected in the face of all things. I was calm and collected, thinking, Let us see, let me wait for two days, and if he has really broken his head (laughing), Ill find out! Of course, nothing happened. And when I got your letter, I had the feeling it was the same thing, but I thought, Let us see, let us wait. I looked, and didnt see anything. Through your letter and your words I looked, but didnt see anything. And I had the feeling it was this same physical mind that made contact with a formationa malicious formation, because such is the habit of the physical mind.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, if you like, I propose one thing (they wont be happy, but itll do them good!), thats to tell them, Here is what I can say in answer to your question, and thats all. And it will be one sentence, two sentences, half a page, thats all. You wont have told them no, and at the same time you wont have yielded to their ignorant insistence.
I didnt intend to tell you all this, but anyway that is how I see the problem. To start writing pages on that is pure chatter (of course, their whole affair will be nothing but pure chatter,1 but thats no reason to do as they do). And at the same time, its a good lesson: we are showing goodwillWell, I am giving you the truth here; if thats not what you were expecting, too bad for you. Its a very good lesson.
0 1965-08-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, for example, several times for a certain length of time (I dont know how long, but not a very short time: a quarter of an hour, half an hour, I dont know), the bodys cells, that is, the bodys form had the experience that staying together or dissolving depends on a certain attitudean attitude or a will; something that has to do with will and attitude. And with the perception (sometimes simultaneously an almost double perception, one being more a memory and the other a lived thing) of what makes you move, act, know; the old way like a memory, and the new way in which, obviously, there is no reason at all to dissolve, except if you choose to do soits meaningless, its something meaningless: why dissolve?
That was there yesterday a little, and very much there this morning.
0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Wait, Ill show you (Mother gets up and goes to get a photo of General Chaudhuri.) A little over a month ago (I dont remember, it was about one week before S.M. came4) I was looking for a man, I felt the need of a man in India, and then they proposed sending me the photo of the army chief. I said yes (he happens to be a cousin of K. here). The photo isnt good, but I see what I wanted to see; I saw it perhaps a month or a month and a half ago, and I have kept it under the accumulation of Forces, here (the photo is placed on a small table not far from Mother). He is the one who is now leading the armies.
The photo isnt good, but the man is good!
0 1965-10-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, theres a whole work going on at night. Oh! The whole petty subconscious working of habits, with all the gradations of the importance it assumes in the general consciousness, and, very interestingly, according to the proportion of the importance, it gives the scale. There was the whole scale, from the little manias people have, which of course are very superficial and mere habits, to the known maniacs or half-mad the whole scale, along with the whole working. And then, the perception that its just a question of dosage: we all belong to the same substance! It was seen so concretely that it was quite interesting. And in conclusion, one saw how to put that under the direct Influence of the supreme Force and Consciousness so as to break the inescapable chain of habits. It was very interesting.
Those are all the things that are considered unimportant, and its all that, the whole mass of all that, which prevents the physical transformation.
0 1965-11-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I was six or eight, I used to eat with my brother, and to get ourselves to eat we were obliged to tell each other a story! We were given meat, you see, pieces of beefsteak, it was a nightmare! So my trick was to tell my brother, I am an ogre andbefore me is half an ox, and with each slash of my knife I would carve my ox!I would tell a story to myself and end up swallowing my beefsteak!
(Sujata:) But he doesnt tell any stories. How many times I have asked him!
0 1965-11-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She kept me almost an hour! She told me, The next time, I wont chatter. So this time it was only half an hour! But she has a very pleasant way of saying things. And there is a strange phenomenon, which took place some two or three years ago, I dont remember now. It was after the consciousness had entirely spread all over the world (all over the earth, in reality), but as if progressively, in the sense that its more intense close at hand and less intense farther away. But then, with Bharatidi, its not just a physical closeness: its a sort of closeness of vibration in a certain domain; and in her, the closeness lay in a certain ironically benevolent observation. And while talking with someone, I dont know how many times I have caught myself having Bharatidis voice and using her words! And in my ingenuousness, I told her, Do you know, we have such an intimate relationship that at timesvery oftenwhen I speak I have your intonation and use your words. Ah, mon petit, since then But she isnt a bore! You can spend an hour with her without getting bored, which is remarkable.
***
0 1965-12-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But just when it left, just half a second before that, there came How can I explain? Its so simple and natural and unsophisticated, oh, so simple that it seems childish. It was as though I were told by a voice that would be like Sri Aurobindos voice, You are the stronger and you can send the ball away, something of that sort. But the words are nothing; it was the feeling of a sort of buoyancy, as they say in English, that feeling one has when one is young, full of boldness and enthusiasm the feeling of absolutely scoffing at them and at their formidable formation, as a lion would scoff at a rat. Absolutely that sort of relationship. And that kind of enthusiasm lasted just a flash, and at the same time, just at the same time (gesture of a hood being removed), pfft! like night and day.
Oh, it has taught me a lot, a whole lot of things, a world of things.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Truly, even materially and even in the present state of the world, nothing is impossible. All that is needed is the Lords Sanction (sanction in the English sense of the word). And it was He who wanted it, it was He who willed it. I, who cant remain standing for more than ten minutes without my head whirling, stayed there half an hour MOTIONLESS: I didnt feel anything, I was quite beyond all karmas! It took half an hour for everything to come to a stop, and it was clearly a momentary effect, meaning that it could have lasted one hour, two hours, I dont know, but with the inner vibrations of his being (lack of faith and so on) it could only be momentary.
But it happened. And it wasnt through an imposition: it was through a relaxation, with the Force descending like a mass, brrf! Tremendous, mon petit! Two or three times there was a loosening [in the doctor], then it resumed: it was as if driven out of the brain, and it came back into the brain; I drove it out and back it came. And the last time, there was a relaxation. Then I said, Thank You, Lord, I thank You.
0 1965-12-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(In answer to a letter from Satprem in which he said he was half dissolved and asked on which road he was or whether he was on any road at all, for he had no sign that he was moving forward or going anywhere.)
Thursday morning
0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The interesting point is that the experience arose from my encounter with Purani last night. I met Purani in a certain world and he was in a certain state, like the one I have just described, but then the difference between Purani as he was here and Purani as he is now suddenly, it was like a key. I spoke to him, he spoke to me, saying, Oh, now I am so happy, so happy! And it was in that state that I lived this morning for more than an hour and a half. Afterwards, I am obliged to come back to a state I find artificial, but which cant be helped because of others, the contact with others and things and the innumerable amount of things to be done. But still, the experience remains in the background. And you are left with a sort of amused smile at all the complications of life the state in which people are is the result of a choice, and individually the freedom of choice is there, but they have FORGOTTEN it. Thats what is so interesting!
At the same time, I saw the whole picture of human knowledge (because when those states are present, all human realizations, all human knowledge come like a panorama in front of the new state and are put back in their proper placewhen an experience comes, its always, always as though retrospective), and I saw all the theories, all the beliefs, all the philosophical ideas, how they were connected to the new state. Oh, it was such fun!
And it doesnt require rest; these experiences are so concrete and spontaneous and real (they arent the result of a will, still less of an effort) that they dont require rest: I was busy washing. I took my whole breakfast in that state, it was charming. It was only when those people came (and I even did the egg distribution I dont know if you are aware of it, but I am the one who puts your egg in your box every day I did my egg distribution in that state, I gave the flowers in that state), it was only afterwards, when letters came that I had to listen to and answer and all manner of things (gesture of a truckload being dumped)then it fades away, it gets erased. It still leaves me in a half-dream, but the experience is gone: its no longer that.
But those who got hold of this experience for some reason or other without having all the philosophical and mental preparation I had (the saints, or at any rate all the people who led a spiritual life) had instead a very acute impression of the unreality of life and the illusion of life. But thats only a narrow way of looking at it. Thats not it thats not it, EVERYTHING is a choice! Everything, everything. The Lords choice, but IN US; not there (gesture above): here. And we are unaware of it, its deep down in ourselves. But when we are aware of it, we can choosewe can choose our choice, thats wonderful!
0 1966-03-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, with vision, for instance, the objective precision is missing (Mother makes a gesture of not seeing through her eyes). I see through and with the consciousness. With hearing, I hear in a totally different way; there is a sort of discrimination (it isnt discernment), something that chooses in the perception, something that decides (that decides, but not arbitrarilyautomatically) what is heard and what isnt heard, what is perceived and what isnt perceived. Its already there in vision, but its still stronger with hearing: with certain things, all thats heard is a continuous drone; others are heard very clearly, as clear as crystal; still others are blurred, half heard. With sight, its the same thing: everything is behind a sort of luminous fog (very luminous, but its a fog, which means there is no precision), then all at once, a particular thing will be absolutely precise and clear, seen with a most precise vision of detail. The vision is generally the expression of the consciousness in things. That is, everything seems to become more and more subjective, less and less objective. And they arent visions that impose themselves on the sight, or noises that impose themselves on the hearing: its a sort of movement of consciousness that makes certain things perceptible and keeps others as if in a very imprecise background.
The consciousness chooses what it wants to see.
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I meet you there very regularly. Only, I must say that before going to bed I thought I would see you today and I wondered if I would have something to tell you, an experience or something else, and then, in the middle of the night (between half past midnight and one), I woke up, if I may say so, I awoke there, materially, and I remembered everything. I thought, Well, well!
What we tell each other, what we talk about with words, I dont know. I dont have a sense of uttering words, but we communicate very well: we each know what the other thinks; we speak, answer one another; and then we organize. And there were people from different countrieswe were arranging things. It seems to be the place of intellectual directives for the work in different countries.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, there was a very amusing story. I was rinsing my eyes and mouth; I do it before daybreak, that is, with electric light. And in my bathroom there is an emergency light. Its one of the latest inventions: its connected to the power and as long as there is power, the light remains off and a battery inside gets charged; as soon as the power fails, the light turns on and the battery is discharged to keep the light on. Its very well made, they invented it for hospitals and other places where any power failure must be avoided: as soon as the power goes, the light turns on instantaneously, and when the power returns, it goes off and gets recharged for the next time. They installed it for me in the bathroom. And this morning while I was washing my teeth, poff! the light went off. I continued, naturally, since I had that emergency light. But then, I did a study. The lights in C.s room (and everywhere) were on, it was only here, in this group of rooms. That was an odd phenomenon to begin with. Then I looked, and while I looked I noticed something I hadnt taken note of all these last few days: a will to disorganize all my personal life. And causing power failures is one of the known occult methods (I dont know how its done, in fact, but that man who wrote books and came here a very long time ago, Brunton, said it was one of the tricks known to those who practice occultism: a sudden failure of the lights). There are lots of other such tricks designed to disorganize peoples lives with the idea of frightening them or announcing catastrophes to them (I have always found this very childish). But then, I saw that there was (I think I know where, here, it comes from) a will for disorganization, and I saw the path it followed (winding gesture as if Mother were going back to the source). It had begun last night, in the middle of the night: when I got up around midnight, I saw a will wanting to preoccupy me with thoughts of money! And it was insisting: the thought that everything was going wrong, and so on. I saw that in the middle of the night. I was busy with other things, but I saw that will: formations; and naturally I dealt with them as they deserved. But I saw that it went on, trying to disturb people, to make them uncomprehending, and then to turn the power off, all sorts of silly things. Its not the first time it has happenedits not always the same people because generally, when they have tried and got a good knock in return, they dont try a second time, theyve had enough! But there are others who think they are very clever and want to prove to me (laughing) that they are right and I am wrongbecause ultimately it always comes to that! So I spent half an hour this morning, before they restored the power and I resumed my usual activities, half an hour having huge fun following the thread (same winding gesture going back to the source) wherever there was mischief, and then I very kindly answered.
In reality, people who live in the ordinary consciousness know very, very little of what goes on physicallyvery little. They think they know, but all they know is a very superficial appearance, just like like a sheet of paper wrapping a package; there is the whole package underneath with all that it contains, but all they see is an appearance (gesture of something as thin as cigarette paper). And they are so used to it that they always give an explanation. I asked, How is it that just this power connection here gave way? (Lights were on everywhere, only the connection here, which supplies my room, was off.) I asked to see. They told me, Oh, we dont know, maybe the wire was old and it broke! (Mother laughs) I said, Very well.
0 1966-04-13, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning again I got up more than half an hour late because of you!
Why is it so difficult?
--
But for this book, we meet in quite a new place, mon petit, quite new, and then so wonderful! Its a wonderful place that has nothing of the necessities and compulsions of this earth here. It is so luminous, so new, and so precise at the same time, so exact. Last night, it was in shades from a certain silver blue to pearl gray, and it had such precise forms, but at the same time with nothing of the hardness and commonplace quality of earthly things. And we were working so simply, effortlessly. I get up every day at the same time, half past four; well, for the second time (I told you the other day), instead of half past four it was ten to five. And I came from exactly the same place. And since that is the time when you are sleeping, it seems to me it must necessarily be getting in, no? When one is awake, it may not touch, but here And then, there is a thoroughly conscious part of you there. So what prevents you from being influenced by that must be a whole layer of old things.
Yes, the whole old form of the book is there.
0 1966-04-20, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some go in a glorynot many, but some do. And those who go like that dont even have a difficult passage. I was writing that line for her, and I felt (it was half an hour, three quarters of an hour ago) a liberation.
No, I do feel other peoples grief, I understand her mother, its going to be dreadful, its not that I dont feel, but I would so much like those who have trust to know how that can be a glory.
0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This eye [the left] sees extremely clearlyextremely clearlyalmost more clearly than before, but in the entire corner here, in the very corner, there is a sort of little fog, very, very small like a needle pointno, a pinhead. So that I cant read with it. With this one [the right] I can read, theres nothing, but its dimmed: there isnt half the clarity of the other. But the left is fantastically clear! Very well. So I am accustomed to reading with a magnifying glass [with the right eye], and it has become that way; but when I look at a photograph with a magnifying glass, the photo starts having three dimensions (gesture as if the photo were surging forward), so that I see the person not in colors but alive, the picture is alive. It has three dimensions and the person moves. So I look at the photo with my magnifying glassand I see the person moving!
With the left eye, oh, it has extraordinary precision, but I cant read because (and still I could read, its an idea, just an impression), there is a sort of very, very small cloud in the corner, here. Theres nothing (laughing), I have no cataract! There was a time when it was fairly widespread in that corner, and I showed it (long ago, two years ago), I showed it to the doctor, who told me it was inside: its not on the surface of the eye, its inside. He told me, It wont go. I told him, Ah, wont it!in six months it was gone, completely gone. It came back just a littleit has come back, but it will go!
--
But everything, absolutely everything is becoming strange. As if there were two, three, four realities (superimposed gesture) or appearances, I dont know (but they are rather realities), one behind another or one within another, like that, and in the space of a few minutes it changes (gesture as if one reality were surging forward to overtake and replace another), as though one world were just there, inside, and emerged all of a sudden. When I have peace and quiet, there is a slight not a movement, I dont know what it is: it might rather feel like pulsations, and depending on the case, there are different experiences. For instance, customary things take a usual amount of time when nothing abnormal happens, and then you have an exact sense of the time they take. So then, I am given the following experience, of the same thing done in the same way, accomplished a first time in its normal duration, and another time, when I am in another state, that is, when the consciousness seems to be placed elsewhere, the thing seems to be done in a second!Exactly the same thing: habitual gestures, things you do absolutely every day, quite ordinary things. Then, another time (and its not that I try to have it, I dont try at all: I am PUT in that state), another time I am put in another state (to me, it doesnt make much difference, they are like very small differences in the concentration), and in that state, the same thing, oh, takes a long, long time, an endless time to get done! Just to fold a towel, for instance (I am not the one who does it), someone folds a towel or someone puts a bottle away, wholly material and absolutely simple things devoid of any psychological value; someone folds a towel thats on the floor (I am giving that example): there is a normal time, which I perceive internally after a study; its the normal time, when everything is normal, that is, usual; then, I am in a certain concentration and without my even having the time to notice it, its done! I am in another state of concentration, with absolutely minimal differences as far as the concentration is concerned, and its endless! You feel it takes half an hour to get done.
If it occurred just once, youd say, Never mind, but it takes place with persistence and regularity, as when someone is trying to teach you something. A sort of insistence and regular repetition as if someone wanted to teach me something.
0 1966-06-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It would be far easier if those things were written in large characters. Its a pity about my eyes. I waste a lot of time, quite a lot. I am forced to ask, or else to take a magnifying glass. What I used to do in three minutes takes me half an hour. Thats how it is. But to recover my sight (that would be possible, nothing is damaged, its only worn), I would have to spend a lot of time on it; it would take me a lot of time in exercises, concentrations. I dont have the time.
But the promptness of the consciousness when I used to see! I dont find it with other eyes. That was so convenient.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, a few days ago the consciousness was under attack. All that is petty, sordid, ugly, oh poor, helpless, all thatit was such an avalanche! This poor body, it cried over its incapacity to express anything superior. And then, the answer was very simpleit was very clear, very strong and the experience came: the only solution the only way out of the difficulty is to BECOME divine Love. And the experience was there at the same time for a few moments (it lasted long enough, maybe more than half an hour). Then you understand that everything you have to go through, all these ordeals, all this suffering, all these miseries, is nothing in comparison with the experience of what will be (and what is). But we are still incapable, meaning that the cells havent the strength yet. They are beginning to have the capacity to be, but not the strength to keep ThatThat cannot stay yet.
And That has such an extraordinary power to transform what is! All our notions (and this had become visible), our notions of miracle, of marvelous change, all the stories of miracles that have been told, all of it becomes a childs prattleits nothing! Nothing. All that we try to have, all that we aspire to have, all that is childishness.
0 1966-08-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its totally absurd! If I hadnt cried out, they would have kept me for another half-hour. Its a stupid life. I begin a thing at the time I should end it. In the afternoon, its the same thing. I have to squeeze in forty-five, fifty people every day. The other day, I saw seventy-five people in a single day, let alone the ones I see every day in addition. So, to console myself, I remembered the time when I used to see two thousand of them at the Playground but it took only an hour.
As soon as a child is ill, they bring him to me. If he is deaf and dumb, they bring him to me; if he is a bit idiotic, they bring him to me; if he has epileptic fits, they bring him to me, and he literally throws them on me like that (laughing), with the idea that I am going to cure him!
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am not saying anything officially; because I have said and always repeat that politics is in complete Falsehood, based on Falsehood, and I am not dealing with it, meaning that I am not in politics, I dont want to be but that doesnt stop me from seeing clearly! People have come and asked me (from every side, by the way) for my opinion, view or advice; I said, No, I dont deal in politics. You see, all diplomacy is absolutely based on a DELIBERATE Falsehood. As long as it is like that, theres no hope: the inspirations will always come from the wrong side; inspirations, impulsions, ideas, everything will always come from the wrong sidewhich means the inescapable blunder, for everyone. A few rare individuals feel that and are aware of it, and they are half desperate because nobody listens to them.
Unfortunately, following the present tendencies, for Auroville they are trying to get UNESCOS support (!) I, of course, knew beforeh and that those [UNESCO] people couldnt understand, but they are trying. Because everywhere people (its a sort of superstition), everywhere people say, No, Ill open my purse strings only with UNESCOs approval and encouragement I am talking about those whose contri bution matters, lots of people, so
0 1966-10-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The conversation begins an hour and a half late.
All right. Its 11:30. I am not starting anythingnei ther talking nor keeping quiet (because that lasts a long time!)
0 1966-10-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We have half an hour of peace and quiet, unless there is something youd like to say?
Maybe you are the one whod like to say something?
--
But judging by the lettersall the mailthere is a kind of occult activity spreading over the earth in a very strange way. In Korea, there is a man who declares himself to be the New Avatar. There are scores and scores of them, everywhere. With the result that from a material point of view, people appear to have rather lost their balance. You feel as if the whole earth has gone half crazy. And with their new inventions, it can result in odd phenomena.
But since the beginning of this century and up till now, the change that has taken place on the earthin the realms of thought, activities, products, inventionsis fantastic! Its so fantastic that things dating from the beginning of the century appear antiquated, as if they were almost two hundred years old. Its strange.
0 1966-10-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you know that I played yesterday? I tried the organ. It was very entertaining: as soon as I sat down, something came into my hands, but something that LOVED music, and it came in so easily, so gently and intensely. And suddenly my hands found their past skill again the whole half of my arm was seized by a little being. It was really lovely, it sounded very childlike and was quite charming, quite charming.
Its the first time it has been so complete: it was no longer at all my hands that were playing, no longer at all. Its the first time. I dont know if it will be like that for the 30th [Satprems birthday].
--
But from that point of view, the body is growing very impersonal. Its like with my hands: it has never been as spontaneous and complete as it was yesterday I cant say I no longer had hands because there was no I anymore. Thats how it is, something comes (something from someone: an idea, a force, a movement, an expression), poff! and it becomes this [Mothers body, or her hands in this instance]. And it was very joyful and very sweet: there was a sort of joyful charm, very young. half an hour before, I didnt know I was going to play: it came just like that. And it wasnt to play, there was nothing serious or important, none of that existed: there only was something very young, very lively.
Its a phenomenon thats growing concrete. There are all sorts of they arent people: they are states of consciousness that expressed themselves or maybe even took a precise shape in the lives of all kinds of people; some of them are quite known to me: I have seen them often, they come back often and I know them very well I can put names to them. But these states of consciousness werent exclusively in this or that person: they were in many people and in many ages.
0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a matter of fact, in the book I am writing I show that when one has touched that Light, its the turning point before coming back down; that the truth isnt the end up aboveup above, its one half.
Yes, (laughing) its the beginning of the end!
0 1966-12-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And naturally, its the same thing in the Mind, but to a much lesser degree. Fortunately, its a little more fluid there. But you know, when I receive and note down those things from above, at the time of receiving and noting them down, they have an intense luminosity and an extraordinary power of conviction. I note them down, then pass them on to people (and to people who are supposedly able to understand), and then they say it back to me [their inner reaction comes back to Mother]. Mon petit! It becomes (laughing) like the bark of an old, half-dead tree!
Thats how it is.
0 1967-02-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, for instance (I return to the outward consciousness two or three times in the night), I noticed V. had gone out.2 Naturally I saw the consequences and I was considering how I could manage. Well, I noticed (she went out around two; every day I get up at 4:30), I noticed that during those two and a half hours I didnt sleep (didnt sleep, I mean I didnt exteriorize). And I wasnt thinking (thank God!), there was simply a kind of consciousness watching. And time went by with such fantastic speed that I was myself flabbergasted. I thought it was going to be a long wait before it was time to get up, at four-thirty, but it was absolutely timeless, absolutely timeless. Yet I remained in my body.
And then, this incident made me realize that I seem to be learning a way of resting without going out of the body. Because there, I was sure I was awake, as its called: there was nothing resembling sleep, and I wasnt thinking. There was only the consciousness watching, like that. But interiorized. And a will to get up at four-thirty. I looked at the time once in between (there was a clock near my bed, I looked at it), it was 3:15. I was surprised, I thought, How come? It was 2:30 a minute ago. Then I made a slight concentration to be sure of being quite awake at 4:30. And at exactly 4:30: How come? Ive just seen it was 3:15! It was astounding, because I didnt leave my body, I know I didnt sleep, and the consciousness was perfectly still, motionless, so to say; a consciousness concentrated like that (but a consciousness with foresight, which sees what has to be done), simply like that, without thought.
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The nature (of Mother) was rather shy, and as a matter of fact, there wasnt much confidence in the personal capacity (although there was the sense of being able to do anything, if the need arose). Till the age of twenty or twenty-one I spoke very little, and never, never anything like a speech. I wouldnt take part in conversations: I would listen, but speak very little. Then I was put in touch with Abdul Baha (the Bahai), who was then in Paris, and a sort of intimacy grew between us. I used to go to his gatherings because I was interested. And one day (when I was in his room), he said to me, I am sick, I cant speak; go and speak for me. I said, Me! But I dont speak. He replied, You just have to go there, sit quietly and concentrate, and what you have to say will come to you. Go and do it, you will see. Well then (laughing), I did as he said. There were some thirty or forty people. I went and sat in their midst, stayed very still, and then I sat like that, without a thought, nothing, and suddenly I started speaking. I spoke to them for half an hour (I dont even know what I told them), and when it was over everybody was quite pleased. I went to find Abdul Baha, who told me, You spoke admirably. I said, It wasnt me! And from that day (I had got the knack from him, you understand!), I would stay like that, very still, and everything would come. Its especially the sense of the I that must be lost thats the great art in everything, for everything, for everything you do: for painting, for (I did painting, sculpture, architecture even, I did music), for everything, but everything, if you are able to lose the sense of the I, then you open yourself to to the knowledge of the thing (sculpture, painting, etc.). Its not necessarily beings, but the spirit of the thing that uses you.
Well, I think it should be the same thing with language. One should be tuned in to someone in that way, or through that someone to something still higher: the Origin. And then, very, very passive. But not inertly passive: vibrantly passive, receptive, like that, attentive, letting that come in and be expressed. The result would be there to see. As I said, we are limited by what we know, but that may be because were still too much of a person; if we could be perfectly plastic it might be different: there have been instances of people speaking in a language they didnt know, consequently
0 1967-04-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I havent read the whole thing, only half of it, I am going to read the other half. But according to what they say there, now its, oh, tremendously widespread!
Now, we may ask if its necessary for mankind to fall into general imbalance in order to reach a higher equilibrium?
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They look half mada bit more than half!
Would you like to publish in the next Bulletin what you said about L.S.D.?
0 1967-04-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Flowers are very receptive to peoples vitalityto the QUALITY of the vitality. There are people, when they hold a flower it wilts instantly; with others, it opens. I myself saw several times Sri Aurobindo take a half-wilted flower in his hand, and it became quite fresh againit was quite happy!
And I knew a woman in Paris, who claimed to be a disciple (of Mothers), she would always bring me flowers when she came to see me, and always, always, without a single exception, the flowers had wilted. She would arrive and tell me, But they were quite fresh when I bought them! (Mother laughs) And they were absolutely finished. So in the end I told her, Its because you take all their life into yourself!
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I was walking (I always walk a half-hour in the morning, repeating the mantra), and he went on and on and on repeating it, this way, that way, until this form was arrived at. Then, when I had noted it on paper, it was over.
Afterwards, he told me to put it into French like this:
--
So, if one can make ones consciousness stable and bring those juxtaposed layers into contact with the consciousness of harmony, there are seemingly miraculous results. For instance, S. came back this morning, ten years younger; as you know, he was half-dead.
(Laughing) S. isnt you! Its someone from Calcutta.
0 1967-05-10, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a silence) Listen, Ill give you an example. Some two years ago, I had a vision about U.s son. She had brought him to me (he was almost one) and I had just seen him there (in the music room). He struck me as someone I knew very well, but I didnt know who. Then, that same day in the afternoon, I had a vision. A vision of ancient Egypt, that is I was someone, the high priestess or I dont know who. (Because you dont say to yourself, I am so and so! The identification is total, there is no objectivity, so I dont know.) I was inside a wonderful monument, immense, so high! But it was completely bare: there was nothing, except for one place where there were magnificent paintings. Thats where I recognized the paintings of ancient Egypt. I was coming out of my apartments and entering a sort of great hall: there was a kind of gutter to collect water (on the ground) running round the walls. And I saw the child (who was half-naked) playing in it. I was very shocked, I said, What! This is disgusting! (But the feelings, ideas and so on were all expressed in French in my consciousness.) The tutor came, I had him sent for. I scolded him. I heard soundswell, I dont know what I said, I dont remember those sounds. I heard the sounds I uttered, I knew what they meant, but the expression was in French, and I didnt retain a memory of the sounds. I spoke to him, telling him, What! You let this child play in that? And he answered me (I woke up with his answer), saying (I didnt hear the first words, but to my thought it was), Such is the will of Amenhotep. I heard Amenhotep, I remembered it. So I knew the child was Amenhotep.1
Therefore, I know I spoke; I spoke in a language, but I dont remember more. I remembered Amenhotep because I know the word Amenhotep in my active consciousness. But otherwise, the other sounds didnt stay. I dont have the memory of the sounds.
0 1967-05-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I go on seeing throngs of people whom I dont know. And with more than half of them, its per-fect-ly useless: curiosity, pride, bragging. Thats all. So they can say, Oh, you know, I saw the Mother. So what!
But the little children continue to be very nice. Very nice. About one in ten or twelve was born under an unlucky star, which means when they were conceived the parents were in a very bad state. It happens. But most of the little ones are nice, really nice; and a few are remarkable.
0 1967-05-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He lived for a time in that house at the corner, which has become the Auroville Office, and the roof of that house is uneven (one part is at a certain height, and without warning, it suddenly drops down half a story). Once while he was walking on the roof in meditation, he fell; it seems he had just taken his meal, and he had a blockage. And he claimed he cured himself with an hour of concentration. It may be
He was very childlike, very enthusiastic, and very boastful at the same time, but with a fervour which was rather fine. A sort of very young enthusiasm. Now he must be rather old. And I always see him in the middle of a large crowd. He knows how to comm and attention. He isnt quite indifferent. But I didnt work to send him away from here: he had quarrelled with someone or other, then started openly receiving a large number of disciples; I said, It would be better if you saw your disciples elsewhere. Then he left.
0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes into a long concentration lasting about a half an hour)
Nothing to say?
0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience lasted for half an hour, but everything, everything was differentdifferent not in its appearance, different in its deeper significance. Was the difference in my active consciousness? I dont know. I mean, did I make contact with a region of consciousness that was new to me? Possibly. But it seemed to me a wholly different vision of the earth and mans history.
During the experience I remembered what Sri Aurobindo had written: Men love suffering, therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem.1 And that was like (smiling) a sort of froth of thought quite on the surface, all the way up, bathed in the light from above, and like the intellectual way of expressing what I was seeing (gesture from above downward), which came from above. From the point of view of light, it was a very interesting experience.
--
To be clear, I should tell the whole thing. Yesterday I had an opportunity to speak to someone about this constant presence of Sri Aurobindo, here, who sees, says, does, all the time. Then, after I had spoken, I wondered, How is it that this brain Because, I think I told you, when Sri Aurobindo left his body, several times, several days in a row, I stood near his bed for one or two hours, and I feltMATERIALLY feltwhat came out of his body enter mine. To such a point that I remember having said, Well, if anyone denies afterlife, I have proof it exists. So I thought, Why does this brain (Mothers) go on working according to its usual routine now that the consciousness of the Presence is constant? Then this morning I had this experience, and while having the experience, I felt, This is how Sri Aurobindo used to see! (Laughing) That must be it! And for some time I have noticed that as soon as, for this body or for other bodies, for events, for as soon as something is formulated (its neither a desire nor an aspiration, but something like the living perception of a possibility that SHOULD be realizedit comes sometimes), it gets done! It gets done automatically and immediately. So this morning, for, oh, half an hour, the impression was so charming, so pleasant: Ah, there we are! THIS IS HOW we should see things!
Afterwards I had to be busy with other things, but its there. And the question was, Why? Why isnt there in this brain the capacity to perceive and transcribe things as he had it?
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw him yesterday and spoke to him for half an hour, but he was like you know, like iron bars; he had decided in advance that he wouldnt understand anything of what I would tell him. I tried to enter deep down, but He told me (its an old formation on him) that whatever he wants to do he does for a while, then he meets with disaster and the thing is stopped. And he says that now he is making his spiritual effort, and he has met with disaster (I dont know which one). Naturally, I told him it wasnt like that at all! That it was on the contrary the sign he had reached the point when the door could open and he could transform himself. But he refused to understand. You know, when people are obdurate like that, theres no way you can get through.
So I thought you could perhaps talk to him.
--
For half an hour he kept me here. It was half past twelve!
So if you explain that to him, I think it will do him good.
0 1967-08-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you know, I sat down, when it was nearly time, maybe half a minute before, and instantly, without warning like that, like a staggering blow: such a powerful descent (I was completely immobilised) of something. At the same time, it was as if Sri Aurobindo was telling me (because the definition came along with the thingit was a vision which wasnt a vision, which was absolutely concrete), and the word was: golden peace. But so strong! And it didnt budge at all. For the entire half-hour it didnt budge. Never before Its something new, I had never felt that before. I cant say. It was perceived, but not like an objective vision. And other people spontaneously told me that as soon as they sat down for the meditation (gesture of a massive descent), something came with a tremendous power and immobilised everything, with a sense of peace as they had never felt before in their life.
Golden peace
And indeed it gave a sense of the golden supramental light, but it was such a peace! A solid peace, you know, not the negation of disorder and activity, no: solid, a solid peace. I didnt want to stop: they sounded the gong, but I stayed on for two or three minutes. When I did stop, it withdrew. And it made such a difference for the body the body itselfsuch a difference that when the experience went away I felt a great uneasiness and it took me half a minute to find my balance again.
It came and then withdrew. It came for the meditation, then withdrew. For more than half an hour: thirty-five minutes.
Golden peace.
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is from the universal and spiritual point of view that, not exactly good as people understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the final word, that is well known. In other words, the Divine will eventually be victorious. That is what has been said, what all those who have lived a spiritual life have said and it is an absolute fact. When people transpose it, they say, I am a good boy, I live according to what I think to be true, consequently life should be a bed of roses for me! (Mother laughs) To begin with, self-appreciation is always dubious, and then, in the world as it now is, everything is mixed and what openly manifests to the half-blind human consciousnesses is not the Law of pure Truththey wouldnt even understand it. To put it more precisely, what is constantly realized is the supreme vision, but its realization in this mixed material world isnt seen by the ignorant human vision as the triumph of good (of what men call good and true). Butto put it humorouslyits not the Lords fault, its mens fault! That is, the Lord knows what he is doing, but men dont understand it.
In a true world, everything would perhaps be the same as now, but it would be seen differently.
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the amusing thing is that I received her letter, read it, then Sujata came into my room, stayed for five minutes and I saw her go out abruptly, just like that. And half an hour later she told me, But whats the matter in your room? I suddenly felt exhausted as if I had worked for twelve hours.
You see.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a long meditation, Mother, still deep within and half in trance, starts speaking:)
Did you feel anything special? Because the last two or three days, but especially last night and this morning, it was the body learning, the cells have learnt I told you that the work till now has been the change the transferfrom acting out of habit and reaction to letting the divine Consciousness act. And this morning, for a part of the night and the whole morning until people started coming, with every action, every movement, every gesture, all the tiny little things (when, for instance, a problem is put by someone or a decision has to be taken, since years the answer comes from above), but now with all material movements, also the inner movements, with the attitude of the body, the attitude of the cells, the absolutely material consciousness, with everything, everything the old method was gone.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a collective suggestion, mon petit, and so strong, so strong! I told you the story: some people, when they are awake, resist and fight; intellectually, they understand; then, when they are half conscious or in sleep, it seizes them and they are terrorized. Its over the WHOLE earth, the whole earth (there are Christians everywhere), its an atmosphere that I see like a huge spider over the whole earth.
(silence)
--
Thats what I said to T. (I dont think she understood), I told her that there isnt so much difference between what men call life and what they call death; the difference is very small, and grows still smaller when you go into the problem in depth and in all the details. One always make a clean cut between the twoits quite stupid: some living are already half dead, and many dead are VERY alive.
Mother is referring to Alalouf. See Plante No35, July-August 1967.
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This particular Ganesh (on the table) was given to me by a little boy maybe two and a half years old. When that little boy was a few months old and till the age of one, his mother always brought him to me and he would cry and scream and make scenes the parents were desperate. Each time I would tell them, Dont worry, all will be well, well be very good friends. Then the parents would look at me in disbelief. Now he is two and half or three, and as soon as he is in the stairway, waitingMo ther, Mother, Mother! (or Ma, I dont know). But when he comes in (he is the first of the family to enter the room), he comes with a flower; and it was he who gave me this Ganesh, but with such consciousness! He is wonderful. Yesterday, he was absolutely exquisite: he comes in first, so self-assured, so joyful, then gestures to me as if to say, Everything is just fine, dont worry! And I speak to himhe doesnt understand a thing of what I say, but he approves gravely. Absolutely exquisite.
There is great progress among children.
--
(Mother gives her note to the disciple) But water from the flowers fell on it, so its half erased!
The danger with all those people is that they want to codify things.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you switch the light on (I have a light in a tube, a fluorescent tube), they dont fade. When you put those flowers under the light, they dont fade, I even saw some that were half closed that opened. They like that light. In the afternoon I put some in a bowl of water (when they are already nearly closed), I put one or two there, under the lightand they open!
They have a sensitiveness unknown to us.
0 1967-11-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Four and a half billion years ago, they say.
The last Avatar, in Hindu tradition.
0 1967-12-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes into a long contemplation lasting over half an hour, then still in a slightly faraway state, she starts speaking in English:)
I saw a strange beast who came from there like that (Mother shows her left side), made a round around you and went away. It was a horse with a lions head.
0 1967-12-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is obviously a will to abolish the sense of time, because Its very interesting, there are all kinds of experiences like that. I have work that would normally take thirty-six hours out of twenty-four, so naturally, I get later and later every day: I go to bed later and later, and I have to do the nights work, so sometimes I am late in the morning, at times Ive been as much as one hour late. Then in the morning, with a certain concentration, in half an hour I do what would normally take me an hour. I have learned a lot in that respect.
Now, at this time (10:45 A.M.), I can see that the only fatigue is the sense of being late, otherwise one can work indefinitely. There is something to be learned. I mention it to you because its just occurred to me: it occurs to me that the purpose is to find the key to the mastery over time; not to be regular, but to do everything over a more or less longer or shorter time, in a contracted or expanded timeso time loses its concrete reality.
--
Oh, the correspondence has become something fantastic! Twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty, sometimes forty letters a day. So naturally, try as I may When its just a line, its all right, but I can barely reply to eight or ten a day: I have only an hour and a half, thats not muchnot even that much! No, no, the hour is too much: I have half an hour! But I extend it: I have from 7 to 7:30 in the evening, but every day I extend it till 8. Dinner is supposedly at 7: 30, I take it at 8. Supposedly too, I go to bed at 9:30 and get up at 4:30, but when I went to bed last night it was almost 1110:30 is frequent, which means an hour late. So from time to time I get up late. You understand, between about 1 and 2 A.M. (around 12:30, 1, or 2), I complete the first stage of concentration to give the body a good rest; after that I start working, and before working, a little concentration so that whatever the work, I should be back at 4:30; but sometimes its later sometimes its 4:45. Then, afterwards, I have a certain time in the morning for washing and dressing, and thats when there have been really interesting experiences: with a certain concentration (which has nothing to do with willpower or anything of the kind: its a concentration, a certain type of concentration and making contact with the Presence and the sense of the relativity, the very considerable relativity of material time), with an intensity of concentration, you can do the same thing much faster. I eventually found out that simply by concentration you can reduce the time by more than half. And you do things in exactly the same way, but they dont take timehow? Well, the secrets havent been revealed yet. But the phenomenon exists.
The same principle is at work (its not a principle, its a way of doing or a way of being), is at work for all things: with fatigue, the onset of illness, that is, the cause of the illness (the internal disorder or the receptivity to the disorder from outside), it works also in the same way. If you add to it the intensity of faith or adoration, then its much easier, but it works in the same way. So what exactly takes place? To the inner perception, the perception of the consciousness, it is a sort of principle of disordera principle, almost a taste for disorder, I dont know, its between a habit and a preference for disorderwhich gets replaced by yes (to be as general as possible), by a vibration of harmony. But that vibration of harmony is full of light, of sweetness, of warmth, intensity, and so wonderfully CALM! So when that takes the place of the other, then all that belongs to the world of disorder is dissolved. AND the rigidity of time disappears.2 Time perhaps we could say (its just a way of speaking), we could say that time is replaced by a succession (Mother remains absorbed for a long time).
--
I take the simplest and most concrete things like, for instance, brushing ones teeth; its extremely flexible and things are done, not out of habit but by a sort of choice based on personal experience and routine, so there is no necessity for a special concentration (the real purpose of routine is to avoid the need for a special concentration: things can be done almost automatically). But that automatism is very flexible, very plastic, because depending, as I said, on the intensity of the concentration, the time varies the time varies: you can (you can know by looking at your watch before and after), you can certainly reduce the time by more than half, yet things are done in exactly the same way. Thats right: you dont do away with anything, you do everything in the same way. To make sure, you can, for instance, count the number of times you brush your teeth or the number of times you rinse your mouth I am DELIBERATELY taking the most banal thing, because in other activities there is a natural suppleness that allows you to spread yourself and concentrate (and so its easier to understand with such things). But it works in the same way with the most concrete and banal things too. And there isnt any Oh, I wont do this today or I am neglecting thattheres none of that, nothing at all: everything is done in the same way, BUT with a sort of concentration and constant call the constant call is always there. The constant call which might find a material expression in saying the mantra, but its not even that: its the SENSE, the sense of the call, of the aspirationits above all a call. A call. You know, when the mind wants to make sentences, it says, Lord, take possession of Your kingdom. For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the concentration and the response [the disorder is dissolved]. Its almost a surrender, because its an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the Influence, not with an idea of getting cured, but like this (gesture like a flower opening out), simply like this, unconditionally that is the most potent gesture.
But the interesting part is that formulating it in words makes it sound artificialits much more sincere, much truer, much more spontaneous than anything expressed or expressible by the mind. No formula can render the sinceritysimplicity, sincerity, spontaneity, something uncalculatingof the material movement. There was a time when expressing or formulating caused a very unpleasant sensation, like putting something artificial on something spontaneously true; and that unpleasantness was cured only, to begin with, by a higher knowledge that all that is formulated must be surpassed. For instance, every experience expressed or described CALLS FOR a new progress, a new experience. In other words, it hastens the movement. That has been a consolation, because in fact, with the old sensation of something very stable and solid and immobile because of inertia (a past inertia, which is now being transformed but has left marks), because of that inertia there is a tendency to prefer things to be solid; so there is a thrill at being forced to No, no! No rest, no halt, go on!farther and farther and farther on When an experience has been very fruitful and highly pleasant, let us say, when its had a great force and a great effect, the first movement is to say, We wont talk about that, well keep it. Then after comes, Well say it in order to go farther onto go farther on, ever farther, ever farther.
0 1968-01-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Isnt there an ambiguity? Should we put Truth alone or Alone the Truth? When it comes, its with such precision! But then, when its put into words theres always something that sounds like a wavering. For a half-hour the other day, I sat there wondering, Should I put it this way or that way? For instance, the place of the word alone: The Truth alone, or Truth alone, or Alone Truth to insist on the fact that Truth isnt alone, without anything else, without the collaboration of the rest, but that its only the Principle of Truth that has the power to I dont even know how to explain myself!
I dont mean that only Truth is at work, or that when it works it will work alone; I mean that its presence is indispensable (thats very roughly the nuance). To magnify the meaning, I might say either Truth must work alone to do the thing, or Truth alone is capable But then, it becomes heavy and impossible. And what we want is Truth alone is capable, its not that it works alone.
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I had the visit of a young man (quite young) with his mother and grandmo ther: they have a jute factory in Pakistan. Its worth about twenty crores of rupees, of which half is theirs personally, their personal money. The Pakistani government took everything. But there was a trial (the court was in Pakistan), and the court decided that the factory should go back to its owner. So the Pakistani government has written to this young man, saying, Come and take possession of your factory. But he has been warned (I dont know how) that he should beware that he would be put in jail as soon as he arrived! Then he came to see me, quite embarrassed. He told me the situation. Very well, I said, well see.
Well try.
0 1968-05-08, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It started with a mental attackevery possible doubt: Sri Aurobindo is like Saint Augustine; Mother is like Virgin Mary, its the same thing. A mental attack, anyway. After that, he became unable to eat: every time he ate, he would vomit. Then he had fits of hysteria: convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and a kind of half madness.
Bah, bah!
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There have been two little things, very little things, but amusing. A year or a year and a half ago (I dont remember), someone had sent me an album of photos of France, and Paris in particular, and I had looked at it; I looked at it, and as I looked, I saw a photo of the banks [of the Seine in Paris]. I saw it, looked at it attentively, in detail, saw the banks with all the bouquinistes [secondh and booksellers]. There was a bookseller in front, seated in the foreground, I saw him. Then I closed the album and put it aside. I wanted to mention it to someone and said, Would you like to see what the bouquinistes in Paris look like? Theres a photo I turned page after page after pagenot a single photo of a bookseller! I looked again and again not a single photo of a bookseller.3 It was enough of a problem for me to view the book several more times and even to try to find an explanation. And then M. and G. went to Paris and sent me a postcard of the banks with the bouquinistesit was my photo! I received it yesterday. It wasnt in the album: I received it yesterday, exactly my photo.
The other thing is about R., who had had an attack of filariasis a few years ago. He had told me about it and it had passed. Then it came back. It came back after some three or four years, very strongly, and he couldnt get rid of it. He wrote to me complaining. I told him there was a drop in his faith. It appears it was the third time Id written that to him (I knew nothing about it I never know either why or how I write things). So he wrote back to ask me, Its the third time youve told me that, what does it mean? I explained it to him. But while receiving his letter and explaining it to him, I did what I always do (I always do it, all the time), I put him in contact with the Lord and asked for his intervention. He got my letter, and today he writes to me that while he was reading it, in the space of about ten minutes, he actually saw (his foot had grown twice as big, his leg was swollen, you know how it is with elephantiasis), he actually saw it shrink and shrink, and in ten or fifteen minutes it was gone! He wrote it to me this morning. I had told him that the Force was the same, it was his faith that was no longer the same, and that was why the Force no longer had the same effect. And he writes in his letter, I was simply reading your letter, and it went away before my very eyes!
0 1968-06-29, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, Mother, its half past eleven.
Is there anything you wanted to ask?
0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
!!! Thats half the population of the earth?
Not quite, I think, but
0 1969-01-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a frightful crush! And even as it is, I dont see half of the people whove asked to see me.
I started at 8 this morning without stop.
--
Its certainly less than half of what Ive been asked.
But naturally, there has to be a limit, otherwise it would start all over again as it was before. There was a time when I had only two hours for sleep and when I pretended to eat but One can do that for a time, but not for too long.
0 1969-01-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, did I tell you? The other day, when the [Jain] sadhu came, as soon as he came in (he stood there), this atmosphere came from here up to there (Mother draws a half circle in front of her), it surrounded me like a wall. It was thick, luminous, and what strength it had! But then, it was wholly directed at him (gesture of forward projection). For me, it was visible, very material, like a rampart, about this thick (gesture: about a foot and a half), and it remained there as long as he was there. It was as if to keep him still! (Mother laughs) It was very amusing.
So this consciousness is very consciously active.
0 1969-02-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It went on for several hours. It wasnt the conception of a work, it was THE work itself, like like when there are levers and things you move to set other things in motion (Mother draws a big control panel in an electronic room), it was something like that, but it wasnt that at all! It was the organization of those groups of figures that determined the events and the ORDER of events (especially the order of events) and their location on earth. And probably, while I was doing it, something wanted me to tell you, and left an impression that I had something to tell you; then everything went away. When I come back to this life, everything goes away; and its only because I now tried to remember that I could (gesture of contact with the memory) catch it: I tried, and it came back. But I realize (almost with surprise) that it must have lasted at least two hours, or moretwo to two and a half hours. I dont sleep at all, but I am active, absolutely active in the (Mother tries to situate the zone)whats being prepared to manifest on earth, I dont know if we should call it subtle physical or Its the creative zone of the physical, its there. And as I cant run from one place to another, what I do is linked through figures, like thatliving figures. Living figures: I organize them, group them together, and I remember what I did the previous day; I say, No, yesterday it was that way, but now it has to be this way, and with the knowledge that it will have to be changed again tomorrow. And thats what determines events. But the consciousness (the waking or ordinary consciousness) MUST NOT know whats decided there; it must know only a part necessary to the execution. Thats why there is a breakit remains, it keeps on living there like that (gesture behind the head), but it doesnt come through. Its wholly because at that time [during the dream] I made the decision to tell you about it that I could catch the memory, otherwise Although I SEE; I see those figures, thats why I can describe them, but they no longer mean anything for me. And I am not sure whether they are figures or letters. They were figures, I know they were; some figures were golden, others were blue (but those arent our material colors, neither our substance nor our material colors), and I kept arranging them: one group like this, another group like that (gesture like a moving puzzle), then I would choose. Strange. And I must have been very tall, because the figures were big; I would take them and place them (it was on a large surface), and as I placed them, it established a communication and organized the events immediately ahead.
Perhaps I do remember
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) Or one and a half?
Eating two at one go is a lot for me! One is enough. Do you crush them by hand?
--
This mornings experience was very curious. All of a sudden, it awakened the memory of something that took place in my childhood when I was about eight or ten (which I had completely forgotten). On Sundays (I suppose so, or anyway on holidays), I used to go and play with my first cousins, the children of a brother of my father. I would go and play with them. I remember their house, I can still see it. We would usually spend our time playing scenes or enacting a story in tableaux. And today, it showed me something I had really forgotten. Theres a story of Bluebeard, isnt there? (Bluebeard I forget, I only know what I remembered this morning.) One day, we did a tableau vivant, in several tableaux, with the story of Bluebeard who cut off his wives heads. (To Satprem:) Thats how the story went, isnt it? (Laughter) I only remember this morning, I dont recall the story. Now, we played in a big room, a sort of enclosed verandahin Paris, a big long room. We had stood (our playmates were little boys and girls), we had stood a certain number of girls against the wall: we had stuck them to the wall, with their hair strung above their heads (Mother laughs), and we had put a sheet in front to cover the rest of their bodies the sheet reached down to the floor so that we couldnt see their bodies, only their heads! I am saying that because I saw it this morning, otherwise I didnt remember in the least. I saw this scene, I saw the memory of that room and how it was all arranged. And at the same time there came You see, we found it quite natural, just a story we had read; I remembered my impression at the time: there was no sense of horror! We didnt find it monstrous (laughing), we were having great fun! So the experience came, and it remained for OVER AN HOUR to make me understand very deeply where this memory came from, how it acted and why we were in that state. And all of it not at all from a personal standpoint, not at all: from the general standpoint of the earth and humanity in general. It was exceedingly interesting! And then, at the same time, a vision showing how, with what swift movement, the universal consciousness moves (arrowlike gesture) in a progression towards the Divine the TRUE Divine, I mean, not religions, of coursetowards the TRUE Divine through all that. And with the consciousness of the WHOLEthe whole and nuances (Sade and all that line), from the highest to the lowest. For one hour I saw a whole stage of humanitya stage towards the late 1800s, the second half of the 1800sand how it moved on and progressed (gesture like a great curve). And thats I have no words or capacity to describe it, but its extraordinarily interesting. The vision of the human collectivity on earth, with all its stages, gradations, nuances, and how it all followed a movement (same arrowlike gesture). And this story (story this VISION, rather, because it wasnt a story: I didnt see what we said or anything, only the vision of what we did), this story came as the illustration of a certain state of mind of those times, and how children were given stories of that kind to readwe found it quite natural! (Mother laughs) And those things are so dreadful.
As soon as I am not busy talking or listening to people or doing a work, it goes on and on: certain samples, as it were, of this bodys life are taken up again, and through those samples, the whole is shown. A wonderful education! Never, never does any human education as its conceived resemble this, because its a vision of the whole, in which everything hangs together; youre shown everything together.
0 1969-02-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The special character of this new consciousness is: no halfmeasures, no approximations. Thats its character. It doesnt accept the idea, Oh, yes, well do that, and little by little well No, no, not like that: its yes or no, you can or cannot.
You know, theres a considerable increase in the people who want to see me, and in the influences when they see me, the effects when they see me (which dont at all correspond to a will or a consciousness or anything that no longer exists: it works or doesnt work), and seen like that, its: either you hold out and can do the work, or else, too bad.
0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So we have to use one means or another (people dont understand, they always half understand); as for me, I spend my time telling them, Be in peace, be in peace. But of course, they might also become inert, like that. Theres no knowing what to do.
One morning, with this Consciousness I had that experience of power (the true power): how, when it goes through a perfectly static, still, peaceful consciousness, theres no distortion; and how, going through it, it awakens in the individual a sense of power and the collaboration of the individual will. If it is (I saw the two things at the same time), if its a yogic consciousness with the calm and IMPERSONALITY (that is, without any desire and any preference), then its STILL MORE POWERFUL, because its directed towards a precise spot instead of working in a general wayits directed towards a precise spot, and the action is multiplied. But if, in the consciousness through which the force is to act, there is the LEAST desire, the LEAST preference, or the least recoil everything is spoilt. Everything is spoilt: it goes like this (gesture of trepidation), and its over. I saw that, with examples to back it up; not narrated examples, theres nothing mental: everything shownshown with vibrations. And thats really interesting. It means that in the superman consciousness, with the full impersonalization (that is, no preference, no desire, no refusal, nothingyou are like this [gesture of an immobile Witness]), there will be the capacity to direct the Power for it to act on a PRECISE POINT, and then it will be multiplied in Matter. A multiplication of power, that is, an intensification of power in Matter.
0 1969-04-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you are interested, little K. [aged nine and a half], J.s son,1 has had a dream. Would you like me to read it to you? Its about the Pope!
Really!
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with that experience, it was so real and intense! It said, Thats the condition the condition. Then, half an hour later, it said it to me in French; it was translated into French.
I gave the text to the person. It cant be published as it is, because it requires a whole explanation (and I think its better not to publish it, I dont know). It requires a whole explanation. Or else, we could put:
0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know that I used to see Pavitra every day, in the evening. He was in a poor state. But I had been forewarned (long ago) that his inner being was waiting for A.1 to return before it would leave. I dont know whether he was aware of something in his outward consciousness, but at any rate he had never said anything. But I knew The day A. arrived, that very day [May 13], just before coming here, Pavitra fell down. He came here with quite a few scratches. I thought it would stop there, but the day after A.s arrival (I dont remember, I never keep a clear memory of dates), at any rate between the 15th and 16th, at night, after 9 (I didnt look at the time, so I dont know precisely, but I was on my bed), Pavitras whole individualized consciousness (but not in a form), his conscious, fully awakened consciousness, down to all that can come out of the cells, began to come and enter into me according to the ancient, the very old yogic practice of merging into the Supremein that way, that practice. It came while I was lying on my bed; it began, and it was so material that there was a very strong friction in all the cells, everywhere. It went on for three hours. After three hours, it became not exactly still, but no longer active. Then, the next morning, I saw A. (it was on the 16th), I saw A. at about 8:30 (naturally, Pavitra had been in bed since the day before, they had put him to bed), and in the morning, A. told me that just as he was about to come here, Pavitra opened his eyes and looked at him So I told him, I dont know, but with a yogic knowledge of the process, quite an extraordinary knowledge (he had never boasted of having it), his conscious being melted last night and entered my body, this body2 I told him, Well see. But half an hour later, they told me that just as I was talking with A., the doctor declared he had left.
Have you seen him? I am told he looks very good.
0 1969-05-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the bodys cells (I dont know whether its specific to this body; I cant believe this body to be so exceptional), they are ABSOLUTELY convinced, and they keep trying and trying and trying all the time, all the time, for every misery, every difficulty, every Theres only one solution, only one thing: You, You alone, to YouYou alone exist. Thats what expressed itself as the illusion of the world in the consciousness of people such as Buddhists and others, but that was a half translation.
The true translation is, You alone exist, You alone. All the rest all the rest is misery. Misery, suffering darkness.
--
Maybe half-measures are no longer sufficient. I dont know. Maybe the time has come to take a clear stand.
This body has taken its stand. But I thought that One must be very, very enduringvery enduringso I wasnt urging others to do it; but that2 may be saying that perhaps THE TIME HAS COME. I dont know.
0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It tells us that we were born so many million years agoa molecule, a gene, a quivering bit of plasma and we have produced a dinosaur, a crab, an ape. Had our eyes stopped halfway along the road, we could have said with good reason (!) that the Baboon was the summit of the creation and nothing better could be done, except perhaps to improve our simian capacities and create a United Kingdom of Apes. And we may be committing the same error today in our jungle of concrete. We have invented enormous means at the service of microscopic consciousnesses, splendid devices at the service of mediocrity, and still more devices to be cured of the Device. But is man truly the goal of all these millions of years of striving?The secondary school for all and the washing machine?
The Great Sense, the True Sense, tells us that man is not the end. It is not the triumph of man that we want, not an improved version of the intelligent dwarfit is another man on the earth, another race in our midst.
0 1969-07-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For about half an hour. I dont know, but anyway I think its a long process and one has to be patient.
Yes, yes.
--
My sleep is no longer sleep at all, I dont know, its a sort of (gesture as if Mother drew her energies within) withdrawal, that is, I go within, and then I am active. And those people are in that same state. Among them, some are with people who still have a body: its not just those who no longer have a body. So then, I am also there, and in the same kind of state. But the strange thing is that when I supposedly wake up and get up, I go on with something (laughing) thats not physical! You understand, the state of over there goes on, and its as real, as tangible as physical things; and after half an hour I realize that I have moved about here and done all kinds of things ENTIRELY in that consciousness!10 Whats that consciousness?
Its a very clear, very harmonious consciousness, in which there are no difficulties, and very creative. I dont know what it is.11 This morning it was peculiar: for a half-hour I was literally there [in that world], and I wasnt aware of it! Its afterwards that I wondered, But is it physically like this? There was someone, you understand, I was with someone [in that world], and I wondered, But is this person physically like this? Is it physical? And I was standing! So its as if the two worlds were (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand through those of her left hand). Strange.
The physical appears to be less imperative, less Previously, there was the impression that, all right, it wasnt a dream as people call it, but a more subtle and less precise consciousness, and that the physical consciousness was quite concrete and precise (Mother gestures as if to knock against something). But now this distinction the other consciousness has become almost more concrete and real than the physical consciousness; the purely material consciousness is more wobbly: the impression of something not too not too steadynot too steady, its odd.12
0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Four of us went on a trek from I forgot from which place on the banks of the Rhone, to go to Geneva, crossing the mountains on foot, the four of ustwo men, two women.1 We walked on, and when we reached some place at lunch time and were hungry, we ate there; when we reached some place at nightfall, we slept there, and then we went onit was real adventure. We didnt even know the route, we had some kinds of maps. Well then, once, far from any town or any village, on a mountain road, we arrived at lunch time at a sort of inn something that looked like an inn, which stood by itself, miles from anywhere. We entered. An old man and an old woman were there They had a most peculiar look. They were very brisk, very alertthey had a peculiar look. We asked if we could eat there. They said yes. They looked at us, eyed us closely, then let us into a big room, with a table in one corner and chairs around it and also big benches I dont know what that room was used for. And they had us eat there. They asked us if we wanted they had a good little white wineif we wanted some of it. The other three said yes; as for me, I had already stopped drinking alcohol. They said yes, and they drank the wine (it was a light wine), they washed down their food with it. But I didnt touch it. At the end of the meal they said, Oh, how sleepy we are! Wed like to rest, well take a nap. So they lay down on the benches and slept. Now, I had a pair of shoes that didnt fit me and were hurting one of my big toes: it had caused an inflammation, it was painful, and I wanted to ba the my foot so as to disinfect it. I didnt feel sleepy in the least. I sat downthere was a basin and some water-and bathed my foot. half an hour later, the rooms entrance door slowly opened, and the old couple came in (furtive gesture). I was sitting rather low, so I was hidden by the tables and they didnt see me. They came in on tiptoe, looked this way and that, and were about to come up to the benches on which the others were lying, when suddenly they saw meah! (Mother gives a start of surprise) They stopped. Then I raised my head, looked at them, and said, You wanted?
Oh, they were very wily, they said, Oh, we just came to see if you needed anything. And they went out.
0 1969-09-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am very much struck, I must say. First of all, to put things physically, the first time I saw him, I remained with him for three and a half hourshe didnt stop talking.
Oh!
But the extraordinary thing is that usually, when I am with people, after half an hour I am exhaustedafter three and a half hours (I didnt budge, didnt stop looking at him), I was as fresh as a daisy! And so full of energy that I didnt sleep the whole night! And I spent three and a half hours listening to this man. Yesterday evening (I was tired, Id had a rather heavy day), I spent only half an hour chatting with him I was as fresh as a daisy.
Oh, but hes first-rate!
--
I think hes inspired. Because the first day, when I spent three hours and a half with him, the first hour (hes very slow to get started), it took a long time, he was groping for words, trying to express himself clearly. Later on, I tried to drive him into his experience, and it started flowing. What he said was beautiful, it sprang forth like that, spontaneously. It was really inspired. And at the same time, so moved, because for the first time in his life he can talk about these things with people who understand him. He told me, No one understands me but here, everyone understands me. So it comes out, it springs forth.
Ill see him tomorrow. But I think it would be better to tell him its only a first contact and wont last long, because tomorrow I have a list long like thisevery day its the same! And on Saturday hell come back with you, hell stay for some more time.
0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I spent half an hour in meditation there, then I had enough and left. You understand, one bathed in it was peace and peace and more peace and so what? I found it quite insubstantial. To me it had no material meaning.
Ah, but the aim was to withdraw from Matter. The aim was to withdraw here (gesture of drawing all energies upward) and reject Matter, like all illusionists, you understand. Its the continuation of Buddhism, too.
0 1969-11-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The conversation begins with a record delay of an hour and a half.)
Its becoming a bit difficult.
0 1969-11-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The conversation begins an hour and a half late.)
To tell the truth, I dont know what to do. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, I keep things to a minimum, that is to say, I turn down more than half the people. And this is how it is. And the other days, sometimes I keep working till noon. It has become
Yet I start early But the requests [to see Mother] come to me through at least one, two, three, four eight people: each of them brings requests. So there would be only one way, thats to have several bodies!
--
For instance, some people had rancor for a long time, without saying anything they are forced to say it. Thats how it is. Theres a very strong pressure for the transformation. And naturally, thats why I am flooded with people. Because theres one point on which I dont yield, its the hours of so-called sleep; from 8 at night till about 8 in the morning, it makes twelve hours during which the inner work can be done, and that I dont want to touch. Of course, twelve hours is a lot: its half of the day So the other twelve hours, its an avalanche. But I am holding on to that, because those are the hours when the most important work is done. (Its a little less, its really like that between 9 and 5 in the morning, rather; thats really when the work is concentrated on the transformation.) Its not that the rest of the time is a denial, not at all: that state of consciousness is immutable. Basically, I dont think there are many minutes, even in a days twenty-four hours, when the body isnt conscious of the divine Presence thats how the body is. But the daytime hours are spent in action, theyre for others; the night hours are for its own transformation.
So these hours of action are like that. Every day, I see at least three or four people whom it was quite unnecessary to see; so thats noted, but its not a lot; for most people, something is done, its really something getting done. It stirs, you understandit stirs. At times, there are even quite astonishing things.
0 1969-11-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Like these conversations which began an hour and a half late.
This conversation began at 9:50.
0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right. But recently (quite recently, once yesterday, and once last Friday), I had that sort of (whats the word? I dont know what they call it, but he thinks1 its a disease I said, I have no diseases!) its the nerves, the nerves which are nervously attacked by others nervous atmosphere it results in almost intolerable sufferings. Since I settled here, I had never had that, it was Sri Aurobindo who took it away from me (I had explained it to him: it had happened to me when I went back from India to France, and it was rather serious). But since I came here, never. And it came back the other day through someone who was here and who caused it. Yet that someone doesnt know at all and has no CONSCIOUS ill will. And yesterday again, with someone else, it was the same thing. So I had to put the Lord on the nerves forcefullyit took me more than half or three quarters of an hour to succeed in restoring order. Then I said to myself, Goodness! The battle is getting serious.
Its a disease. They call it a disease of the nerves: all the nerves are sensitized and suffer terribly. When I first had it, I could no longer eat, no longer sleep, no longer move, no longer And that was because2 I had done something mad: I went back to France after leaving my psychic being here; so it seized me as soon as I was far enough from the atmosphere; as soon as I entered the Mediterranean, it began. And it was very serious.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Have you brought anything special? Me, I have nothing, except a very small thing, which is that last night, for the first time, for about two hours continuously (I was simply as I always am, like that, quiet), the Force I seemed to be like a sponge. I dont know how to explain: its not that it was coming from above, or like this (horizontal gesture), but it was coming in I was like a pipe and then going out ceaselessly, ceaselessly. For one hour, the Force, with an intense golden color, went out like that, and then spread over the world. Its the first time I have felt it physically I felt physically. And it had such extraordinary power! And this [the body], it was as if I were a water tap or a pipe, you understand,but it didnt come from a precise spot: it was as though I were immersed in it, and, through me, it flowed and flowed (gesture through Mother and spreading out everywhere). It went on for more than two hours early this morning, that is, between one and four (I dont know exactly); my impression is that it lasted for more than two and a half hours like that. And I saw the Force. The body only acted as a way to touch the earth the Force came, then it went out and spread. And it went I saw that, I saw it go towards all those who call. It was directed by a wholly conscious consciousness, while I was quiet, (laughing) I just was the pipe!
Its the only thing I had to say.
0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the body had the experience. Something took place which I wont tell, and it had the true reaction; it didnt have the old reaction, it had the true one: it smiled, you know, with this Smile of the supreme Lordit smiled. That remained there for a day and a half. And that difficulty was what let the body make the last progress, let it live in that Consciousness; if everything had been harmonious, things might have dragged on for yearsits wonderful, you know, wonderful!
How stupid people are! When the Grace comes to them, they drive it away, saying, Oh, how horrible! Id known that for a long time, but my experience is a bedazzlement.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But even our children have such stupid reactions! One girl here wrote to me because I had mentioned to her that the Consciousness had descended on the earth, concentrated on the earth in order to help men prepare for the transformation. She asked me, How come men have been left unhelped for so long? Its enough to make you howl in despair! Theyve had their education here and they still ask questions of that sort! I had to control myself so as not to tell her, My poor girl, (laughing) what a half-wit you are!
(silence)
--
And no other windows, you understand. All the rest in a sort of half-light, and then this light like That would be fine, it can be very fine. Id like someone who could feel that. I dont know at all whether R. is capable of feeling that, but Paolo is.
If it were well realized, it would be very interesting for people. It would be a concretization of something. Theyll start saying its a religion of the sun! (laughing) Oh, you know, Im used to hearing all, ALL possible nonsense!
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But inside, there will be neither windows nor lights, it will always be in a sort of clear half-light, night and day: during the day with sunlight, at night with artificial light. And on the ground, nothing, except for a floor like this one [in Mothers room], that is, first a wooden floor (wooden or something else), then a sort of thick rubber foam, very soft, and then a carpet. A carpet covering everything, except for the center. And people will be able to sit anywhere. The twelve columns are for those who need a backrest!
But then, people will not come for regular meditations or anything of the kind (the internal organization will be taken care of later): it will be a place for concentration. Not everyone will be allowed in; there will be a time of the week or the day (I dont know) when visitors will be allowed, but anyway without mixture. There will be a fixed hour or day to show the visitors, and the rest of the time only for those who are seriousserious, sincere, who truly want to learn to concentrate.
--
It was there (gesture of vision above), I still see it when I talk about it I SEE. As I see it, its very beautiful, really very beautiful. A sort of half-light: you can see, but its very peaceful, and with very clear and strong beams of light on that globe (the projected, artificial light will have to be slightly golden, it shouldnt be coldit will depend on the spotlights). A globe that will be made of plastic or I dont know.
Crystal?
--
Oh, yes, it should be. There should be a sort of half-light with those sunbeams the sunbeam should be SEEN.
A sunbeam.
0 1970-01-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
T.F. has prepared a big scenario for a film (its remarkable). She has read me half of it (really remarkable), and shes just read a description of the vital world, of life. Mon petit, its certainly beyond the human consciousness: its the consciousness of a vital being that can write thatit gave me a fever. Its gone; now its completely gone, but it gave me a fever. And I didnt feel any discomfort, nothing: I just admired, saying to myself, Goodness, it takes some skill to describe that (it was unbelievably accurate, you understand, certainly beyond the human). And she herself told me, Oh, but I gave you a fever! And its true, I had a fever. Now its gone, its all over.
Things are like that, you understand, they become real.
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The columns arent near the wall, they are here, just halfway between the Center and the wall.
Because he saw that space in the center all bare, with just the symbol at the Center and that big, smooth carpet, without, any break caused by the columns. But instead, big blockstwelve big blockssignaling the place of the columns and also acting as supports. Twelve big blocks about two feet high.
--
In the sense that its a perfect circle: half above, half below. Thats all right.
Only, well need to arrange something for the sun.
--
All right, then. So they have to agree. But it must be half done already, since R. told me about the idea. If I had known it was Paolos idea, I would have said yes straight away. But it will be worked out. Its all right.
So Ill tell him to work on that basis. The only question that remains is the outside: should a void be left around the shell to make the descent of the shell clearly visible? Otherwise, if the gap is filled, it will simply look like an hemisphere placed on the ground. For the shells descent underground to be clearly understood, he thought there should be an opening all around.
--
If its a perfect circle, then the height should be half the distance between the walls.
Yes.
--
Oh, its very late, Mother, half past eleven.
Oh!
0 1970-02-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Africa. One entire African tribe (the Ibos) has been half annihilated with the complicity of the English, the Russians, these and those others and so on.
Why?
--
But I understand one thing, its that there should be EITHER the Supreme Consciousness OR inconscience; its the transition between the two thats horrible: a half consciousness is still worse.
(long silence)
0 1970-02-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It began this morning, it was full of something which I dont know what it is. And people are pressing and pressing and pressinghow many! Ive never seen so many. Yesterday morning I was almost cured, I thought it was over, and then I saw people till half past twelve. So after that
Do you have anything? Then I wont speak.
0 1970-02-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be vital entities that are the residues of dead peopleits possible. But it may also be kinds of half materializations of beings from the vital itself: beings from the vital.
But my whole life Ive had that sort of white lightnot transparent white, white like like WHITENESS, you understand. That light, which is extremely intense. Never, never did they come nearthey couldnt come near that. There was only that night when I had a fever (it was I think it was in 1918, something like that no, in 19202), but then, I had caught the fever with people. Otherwise, never, never could they come near.
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But anyway, things are moving, you understand, they feel as if everything is aroused, theyre no longer asleep and half inert, and thats
Health too is like that. The body will feel quite fine, and suddenly, as soon as some old movement comes back, ah things will grate and cry, oh! But the consciousness (in the body, I mean) is growing clearer and clearer, more and more precise.
0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For the body consciousness that remains conscious when the body is asleep, the world as it is is dark and muddyalways. That is, its always a half-darknessyou can hardly seeand mud. And that isnt an opinion or a thought: its a material FACT. Consequently, this [body] consciousness is already conscious of a world that would no longer be subject to the same laws.
The cells are quite, absolutely convinced that (Ill put it in the simplest way) the Lord is all-powerful, you understand? Only, what theyre not convinced of is whether He WANTS (laughing) it to be this way or that, that is to say, whether He wants the transformation to be done in an already existing body, or in stages.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The absence of fear is really the result of the yoga for so many years for half a century.
It was like this (gesture, hands open), offering its suffering, all the time like this.
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt say anything, I strongly felt, ITS NOT TRUE. Then afterwardslong afterwards they told me about the police and how, finally, he was half in the water, half on the shore, and with a blow to the head. Then I understood. I understood that the Lord had asked him to come and meet Him (Mother gestures as if taking Rishabhch and by the hand), had him leave his house. But in his consciousness (my dream must have stopped at the point where he physically lost consciousness), in his PHYSICAL consciousness, he could not see Him. Then it became clear!
You know, I found that so marvelous! Because the experiences I have now I never had such precise and concrete experiences, because these are experiences of the body. I had that experience, and when I got up in the morning, I wondered, What on earth can this mean? I knew it wasnt me, but I couldnt know who it was. I knew it wasnt me. The Lord asked me to come and meet Him, I went to meet Him, and I could not see Himhis body left, and he saw Him.
0 1970-05-27, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, money was symbolized as a certain food (asparagus, in fact! But not asparagus as we have here: it was big like this [gesture about a foot and a half]), and one could organize it, receive and arrange it, as you would arrange food, but it wasnt put into the mouth (thats symbolic).
But then, what would materialise isnt this world but the consciousness specific to this world, the state of consciousness?
0 1970-08-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Consciousness which came more than a year ago (a year and a half now), it seems to be working very, very hard, very positively for sincerity. It doesnt admit pretenses, people pretending to be something they arent. It wants it to be the TRUE THING.
Yes, everything is coming out into the open.
0 1970-10-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem starts reading half a dozen pages of the sixth chapter: The Tearing of Limits, then must stop as he still has a sore throat.)
Mother, I cant go on, its too long for me.
--
Is it half of the chapter?
Hardly: a third.
0 1970-11-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Weve readied half, Im reading you the eighth. There are sixteen.
Itll go on till January.
0 1970-11-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother translates a few extracts from Savitri, listens to half of the tenth chapter of Supermanhood and remains absorbed most of the time.)
It goes on inside.
0 1970-12-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From this day, Mother went through a long ordeal that lasted more than a month and a half. That will be the last turning point after those of 1962 and 1968. Satprem will see her again only on January 16. On December 31, her faithful cashier Satyakarma left his body, the last in the unhappy series that deprived Mother of her most reliable helpers. In the course of this ordeal, Mother was affected successively in the chest, the abdomen, then the legs and down to the feet. The first bedsores appeared on her back.
***
0 1971-01-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(This fragment was noted from memory by a disciple following the long physical ordeal Mother went through for nearly a month and a half.)
Physical vision requires a much more continuous concentration. The physical vision serves to stabilize. It gives continuity to things. The same with hearing. So when neither of them are there, you become conscious of the thing directly, which gives you the true knowledge of it. That is probably how the Supermind will work.
0 1971-01-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To translate into British English. For me England is a country half-dead but that doesnt matter, many countries speak English. But a special translation for America is a very good idea.
I havent concerned myself with anything for a long time, but now I am all right.
0 1971-01-30, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its half the chapter.
Its a pity. I could listen to it for hours, its really very good.
0 1971-02-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And always the idea that I am o-l-d, I am getting o-l-d, and so for them my consciousness must be half dead. They dont have faith, what can you do!
Not all.
0 1971-03-06, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother calls Satprem in an hour and a half late.)
Its an invasion! An invasion. Its dreadful. I dont know what to do.
0 1971-04-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, Mother, it should be done. Because, you see, they are so crafty that they all say they work: they putter around here and there, they go to work on the Matrimandir for half an hour or so. So, to them, theyve worked. You see, they just putter around.
(after a silence)
0 1971-05-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These past few days, Sujata had seen two eyes appear on Mother's forehead (a very high forehead), rather far above her physical eyes. She could clearly distinguish the eyelids and the half-closed eyes as if they were about to open.
***
0 1971-06-02, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes within, gasping for breath, she tries to speak half in trance without success)
To want only what God wants.
--
(Mother tries to speak half in trance)
All, we must be all aspiration, intense, intense and constant.
0 1971-07-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its a kind of half-conscious malice: you do this, they just do that (slight twist), they twist it a little, and everything becomes distorted; you say one thing, they add a word or take one out and its all distorted. Even what is written they read in their own way. Its stunning.
And its on a large scale, you see, almost a world scale, at least a national one, in this country, but it has repercussions in China, Russia, Europe, America. Theyve made such a mess, you know, with this whole [Bangladesh] affair, its dreadfuldreadful. Now, theyve found a solution: the Americans are trying to come to an agreement with the Chinese thats the last straw!to help Pakistan massacre people.
0 1971-07-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you were sitting here [in front of Mother] and I looked at you, you took your body and opened it like this (gesture as if Satprem were ripping his body in half from the stomach down), all, all the way.
Were you in pain?
0 1971-09-08, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother sits looking, her eyes luminously open, then goes within for a half hour)
It can last indefinitely. The impression of touching something and (gesture of something escaping).
0 1971-09-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes into the Calm for a half hour while holding Satprems hands)
Do you feel how concrete it is?
0 1971-09-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes within for a half hour)
Strange, theres a child beside you. A child who must be between one and two years oldblond. And he is looking, he is putting his hand on your shoulder. Hes. He seems very, very intelligent.
--
Its quite possible. I once saw him cut in half.
Oh!
0 1971-09-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother nods her head several times and goes within for a half hour. Then Satprem gets ready to leave and Sujata approaches Mother)
This can go on for hours.
0 1971-10-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother goes within for a half hour)
Youre not saying anything.
0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it was a very complete experience, because it wasnt the experience of a person but of all humanity: I saw absolutely concretely that all men who THOUGHT they knew they had Experience [of the Divine], well, it was (wavering gesture, just above the head), it was halfway, so to say. Whenever we rise a little higher than the ordinary consciousness, we at once think we have touched the Divine.
And that experience yesterday did not culminate in any knowledge; it culminated in (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of surrender).
0 1971-11-24, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have insisted on my writing and asked for the Truth and I have answered. But if you want to be a Mussulman, no one prevents you. If the Truth I bring is too great for you to understand or to bear, you are free to go and live in a half-truth or in your own ignorance. I am not here to convert anyone; I do not preach to the world to come to me and I call no one. I am here to establish the divine life and the divine consciousness in those who of themselves feel the call to come to me and cleave to it and in no others. I am not asking you and the Mother is not asking you to accept us. You can go any day and live either the worldly life or a religious life according to your own preference. But as you are free, so also are others free to stay here and follow their own way.
23 October 1929
0 1971-12-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Will they go to the end this time, without stopping halfway?
Dont know. It seems serious.
0 1972-01-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother was more than half an hour late that day.
***
0 1972-01-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Five or five and a half hours.
Which means?
0 1972-02-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother plunges in. half an hour goes by)
No inclination to speak unless you put questions.1
0 1972-03-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, this is it. Something like: No half measures, no compromises, no halfways, no Noneits like this (Mother brings down her fist).
And thats how it is for the body. Every instant is imperative: life or death. No halfways. You know, we have spent centuries being neither too uncomfortable nor too comfortable. Well, that time is over.
The body knows this is necessary for the supramental body to be formed: it must be ENTIRELY under the Influence of the Divine. No compromises, no half measures, no It will come later. Just like this (Mother brings down her fist): a dreadful Will.
And thats the only way for things to go fast.
0 1972-03-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads Mother some parts of the conversation of March 8 for the next "Bulletin": "No compromises, no half measures, no 'It will come later'... it's like a constant feeling of hovering between life and death...".)
Its very true. And it keeps getting more and more acute, more and more acute. Thats it. All the time, all the time like that.
0 1972-04-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The following conversation makes it necessary to explain the physical conditions Mother was living in. Alas, at the time I was still half-blind to these conditions, for Mother had wrapped me in such a cocoon of light that I could not really see what was happeningshe knew my impetuous nature, she knew I would never have tolerated the situation in her room nor peoples petty intrigues had I known what was really happening there. But gradually I did become aware of certain things.
Unknowingly, I was a witness to a tragedy.
0 1972-05-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother sees Sujata. On this day, thirty-four years before, Sujata decided to stay with Mother. She was twelve and a half years old, the youngest disciple in the Ashram. She had made her first visit to Pondicherry when she was nine. She gives Mother a spray of "Service" flowers. This will be the last May 29th.)
Its from your tree.
0 1972-07-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother plunges in for half an hour)
Mon petit.
0 1972-08-09, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Four and a half billion years, according to the current estimate.
It is said that in five billion years the sun will become a "red giant" and burn its planets. The cooling period would come much later.
0 1972-12-23, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
half past ten, Mother.
If you wake me (wake me is a way of speaking, of course!) at eleven, Ill give you an example!
0 1972-12-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother smiles, takes Satprems hands and plunges in for half an hour)
Did you feel something?
0 1973-01-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like this: two or three hours can go by in a second, and half an hour can last for hours. Everything, but everything is upside down.
(Mother gestures: what to do? silence)
0 1973-04-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Now Pranab explodes. half standing, half kneeling, his fist on one knee, he pours out a torrent on Mother)
WHO is disturbing her? If anybody is disturbing you, Mother, amongst us, he can be off! [The attendant laughs] Nobody disturbs.
0 1973-04-25, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother plunges in for half an hour, then suddenly moans1)
Sometimes, I feel like howling.
0 1973-05-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(then she sinks into a deep contemplation for half an hour)
What is the time?
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An attempt, a drawing half-done is the world's life;
Its lines doubt their concealed significance,
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The next steps, farther down or away, arrive when the drive towards differentiation and multiplication gathers momentum becomes accentuated, and separation and isolation increase in degree and emphasis. The lines of individuation fall more and more apart from each other, tending to form closed circles, each confining more and more exclusively to itself, stressing its own particular and special value and function, in contradistinction to or even against other lines. Thus the descent or fall from the Supermind leads, in the first instance, to the creation or appearance of the Overmind. It is the level of consciousness where the perfect balance of the One and the Many is disturbed and the emphasis begins to be laid on the many. The source of incompatibility between the two just starts here as if Many is notOne and One is not Many. It is the beginning of Ignorance, Avidya, Maya. Still in the higher hemisphere of the Overmind, the sense of unity is yet maintained, although there is no longer the sense of absolute identity of the two; they are experienced as complementaries, both form a harmony, a harmony as of different and distinct but conjoint notes. The Many has come forward, yet the unity is also there supporting it-the unity is an immanent godhead, controlling the patent reality of the Many. It is in the lower hemisphere of the Overmind that unity is thrown into the background half-submerged, flickering, and the principle of multiplicity comes forward with all insistence. Division and rivalry are the characteristic marks of its organisation. Yet the unity does not disappear altogether, only it remains very much inactive, like a sleeping partner. It is not directly perceived and envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred.
The next step of Descent is the Mind where the original unity and identity and harmony are disrupted to a yet greater degree, almost completely. The self-delimitation of consciousness which is proper to the Supermind and even to the Overmind, at least in its higher domainsgives way to self-limitation, to intolerant egoism and solipsism. The consciousness withdraws from its high and wide sweep, narrows down to introvert orbits. The sense of unity in the mind is, at most, a thing of idealism and imagination; it is an abstract notion, a supposition and a deduction. Here we enter into the very arcana of Maya, the rightful possession of Ignorance. The individualities here have become totally isolated and independent and mutually conflicting lines of movement. Hence the natural incapacity of mind, as it is said, to comprehend more than one object simultaneously. The Super mind and, less absolutely, the Overmind have a global and integral outlook: they can take in each one in its purview all at once the total assemblage of things, they differentiate but do not divide the Supermind not at all, the Overmind not categorically. The Mind has not this synthetic view, it proceeds analytically. It observes its object by division, taking the parts piecemeal, dismantling them, separating them, and attending to each one at a time. And when it observes it fixes itself on one point, withdrawing its attention from all the rest. If it bas to arrive at a synthesis, it can only do so by collating, aggregating and summing. Mental consciousness is thus narrowly one pointed: and in narrowing itself, being farther away from the source it becomes obscurer, more and more outward gazing (parci khni) and superficial. The One Absolute in its downward march towards multiplicity, fragmentation and partiality loses also gradually its subtlety, its suppleness, its refinement, becomes more and more obtuse, crude, rigid and dense.
--
Now this imprisoned consciousness in Matter forces Matter to be conscious again when driven on the upward gradient. This tension creates a fire, as it were, in the heart of Matter, a mighty combustion and whorl in the core of things, of which the blazing sun is an image and a symbol. All this pressure and heat and concussion and explosion mean a mighty struggle in Matter to give birth to that which is within. Consciousness that is latent must be made patent; it must reveal itself in Matter and through Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is the mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in Matter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream state. Its earliest and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in the plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still further up, to express itself to a greater degree and in a clearer mode, to become more free and plastic in its movements; hence the appearance of the animal as the next higher formulation. Here consciousness delivers itself as a psyche, a rudimentary one, no doubt, a being of feeling and sensation, and elementary mentality playing in a field of vitalised Matter. Even then it is not satisfied with itself, it asks for a still more free and clear articulation: it is not satisfied, for it has not yet found its own level. Hence after the animal, arrives man with a full-fledged Mind, with intelligence and self-consciousness and capacity for self-determination.
Thus we see that evolution, the unfolding of consciousness follows exactly the line of its involution, only the other way round: the mounting consciousness re-ascends step by step the same gradient, retraces the same path along which it had descended. The descending steps are broadly speaking (I) Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, (2) Supermind and its secondary form Overmind, (3) Mind(i) mind proper and (ii) the intermediary psyche, (4) Life, (5) Matter. The ascending consciousness starting from Matter rises into Life, passes on through Life and Psyche into Mind, driving towards the Supermind and Sachchidananda. At the present stage of evolution, consciousness has arrived at the higher levels of Mind; it is now striving to cross it altogether and enter the Overmind and the Supermind. It will not rest content until it arrives at the organisation in and through the Supermind: for that is the drive and purpose of Nature in the next cycle of evolution.
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is again a sphinx puzzle indeed. But what is the meaning? The universe, the creation has its fundamental truth in a Trinity: Agni (the Fire-god) upon earth, Vayu (the Wind-god) in the middle regions and in heaven the Sun. In other words, breaking up the symbolism we may say that the creation is a triple reality, three principles constitute its nature. Matter, Life and Consciousness or status, motion and Light. This triplicity however does not exhaust the whole of the mystery. For the ultimate mystery is imbedded within the heart of the third brother, for our rishis saw there the Universal Divine Being and his seven sons. In our familiar language we may say it is the Supreme Being, God himself (Purushottama) and his seven lines of self-manifestation. We have often heard of the seven worlds or levels of being and consciousness, the seven chords of the Divine Music. In more familiar terms we say that body and life and mind form the lower half of the cosmic reality and its upper half consists of Sat-Chit-Ananda (or Satya- Tap as-Jana). And the link, the nodus that joins the two spheres is the fourth principle (Turya), the Supermind, Vijnana. Such is the vision of Rishi Dirghatama, its fundamental truth in a nutshell. To know this mystery is the whole knowledge and knowing this, one need know nothing else.
A word is perhaps necessary to complete the sense of the commentary. Agni has been called old and ancient (Palita), but why? Agni is the first among the gods. He has come down upon earth, entered into matter with the very creation of the material existence. He is the secret energy hidden in the atom which is attracting, invoking all the other gods to manifest themselves. It is he who drives the material consciousness in its evolutionary re-course upward towards the radiant fullness in the solar Supra-Consciousness at the summit. He is however not only energy, he is also delight (vma). For he is the Soma, the nectarous flow, occult in the Earth's body. For Earth is the storehouse of the sap of Life, the source of the delightful growths of Life here below.
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A brute half-conscious body serves as means
A mind that must recover a knowledge lost
--
Earth's eyes half-see, her forces half-create;
Her rarest works are copies of heaven's art.
--
Here in a difficult half-finished world
Is a slow toiling of unconscious Powers;
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But here were worlds lifted half-way to heaven.
The Veil was there but not the Shadowy Wall;
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Show scarce so gross as beetles. half-way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire-dreadful trade!
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There was a writhing of half-conscious force
Hardly awakened from the Inconscient's sleep,
--
The grovel of a strength once half divine,
The graceless squalor of her beast desires,
--
He wandered among things half-seen, half-guessed,
Pursued by ungrasped beginnings and lost ends.
--
Himself was dim to himself, half-felt, obscure,
As if in a struggle of the Void to be.
--
When life broke through its half-drowse in the plant
That feels and suffers but cannot move or cry,
--
Of a half-seen Nature and a hidden Soul,
A game of hide-and-seek in twilit rooms,
--
Existences half-real and half-dream.
41.2
--
Luminous result of her half-conscious climb
On rungs twixt her sublimities and grotesques
--
Where deed is all and mind is still half-born
And the heart obeys a dumb unseen control.
--
A half-awakened Nescience struggled there
To know by sight and touch the outside of things.
--
Inverting into half-thought the quickened sense
She felt around for truth with fumbling hands,
--
All was an impetus of half-conscious Force,
A spirit sprawling drowned in dense life-foam,
--
It lit the impulse of the half-sentient flood,
Even an illusion gave of fixity
--
A half-illumined building in a mist,
Which from a void of Form arose to sight
02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Of course, in Sri Aurobindo we reach the inner and higher world through a luminous path, through worlds of light, ranging one upon another. It is a journey through pure air and clear light. Conversely the poet of the toadstool leads one by the passage of an acid drunkenness and a half-conscious drowse. If the goal here is a delight and a freedom they are arrived at after traversing a purgatory or undergoing a troubled purification. But this too leads verily to a world of the gods.
This "little slender lad, whose flesh is bitter, lightning engendered, born from dungs of mares" is perhaps a symbol of our human receptacle. We have to carry this mortal frame with its clay feet and make the effort towards self-transcendence: the alchemy's other name is self-purification and self-perfection. This tender shoot is a mysterious chemical storehouse, its fermentation and purification and use awaken in us the sleeping divine will, give a clear vision, guide us through the secret worlds and ultimately to the home of Immortality. The Vedic Rishis sang to the Soma creeper or god Soma,Tatra mm. amtam kdhi, O Somadeva, carry us where thou flowest down and there make us immortal. For there abound all delight, all ecstasy, all enjoyment, all lure and the supreme Desire ofdesirenanda, moda, mud, pramud, kma4are these not the five fruits of heaven the poet of the West mentions?
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
half-animal, half-god their mood, their shape.
43.11
--
To all half-conscious worlds they extend their reign.
43.17
--
An intelligence half-witness, half-machine.
44.35
--
Such is our scene in the half-light below.
46.33
--
And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine.
47.17
--
And climb to summits beyond mind's half-sleep;
Our hearts we must inform with heavenly strength,
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All was unsafe, miraculous and half-true.
It seemed a realm of lives that had no base.
--
There drawing her signs from things half true, half false,
She labours to replace by realised dreams
--
All was imperfect still, half-known, half-done:
The miracle of Inconscience overpassed,
--
As in a fragmentary half-lost design
Life's meanings fled from the pursuing eye.
--
It is not seen in its half-finished design.
In vain we hope to read the baffling signs
Or find the word of the half-played charade.
Only in that greater life a cryptic thought
--
In a half-lit air of hazardous mystery
The eye that looks at the dark half of truth
Made out an image mid a vivid blur
--
He saw a half-blind chained divinity
Bewildered by the world in which he moved,
--
But stopped half-way and failed, a silent word
Awake in some deep pause of waiting worlds,
--
A half-sight draws the horizon of her acts:
Her depths remember what she came to do,
--
Here the half-god, the half-titan are her peak:
This greater life wavers twixt earth and sky.
--
Piled always half-attempts on lost attempts
And saw a fragment as the eternal Whole.
02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A son of the soil, an eminent erstwhile collaborator of Hitler, who has paid for his apostasy, offered a compromise solution. He says, Germany, as a matter of fact, is not one but two: there is the Eastern Germany (the Northern and the Eastern portion) and there is the Western Germany (the South and the West) and the two are distinct and differenteven antagonisticin temperament and character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great musicians, poets and idealists, Goe the and Heine and Wagner and Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and was never thoroughly reclaimed and its union with the Western half was more political than psychological. So this ex-lieutenant of Hitler proposed to divide and separate the two altogether and form two countries or nations and thus eliminate the evil influence of Prussianism and Junkerism.
The more democratic and liberal elements among the Allies do not also consider that Germany as a whole is smitten with an original sin and is beyond redemption. They say Germany too has men and groups of men who are totally against Hitler and Hitlerism; they may have fallen on evil days, but yet they can be made the nucleus of a new and regenerated Germany.Furthermore, they say if Germany has come to be what she is, considerable portion of the responsibility must be shared by the unprogressive and old-world elements among the Allies themselves who helped or pitied or feared the dark Germany.
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In passionate responses half-unveiled
He reached the rim of ecstasies unknown;
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
On peaks they ceased whose tops half-way to Heaven
Pointed to an apex they could never mount,
--
From the half-conscience of the animal soul
Living in a crowded press of shape-events
--
It reasons from the half-known to the unknown,
Ever constructing its frail house of thought,
--
A judge in half-possession of his proofs,
A voice clamant of uncertainty's postulates,
--
And the regency of a half-risen sun.
66.22
--
That greater Power with her half-risen sun
Wrought within limits but possessed her field;
--
Peering into a shadow-hung half-light
It saw hued images scrawled on Fancy’s cave;
--
And flash-images of half-seen verities.
68.
--
A half-intuition purpled in its sense;
It threw the lightning’s fork and hit the unseen.
--
She multiplied her slow half-cuts at Truth:
Impatient of enigma and the unknown,
--
Its highest, widest seeing was a half-search,
Its mightiest acts a passage or a stage.
--
Of a traveller towards the half-found truth in things
Moving twixt nescience and nescience.
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In glamorous passages of half-veiled light
Wandering, a brilliant shadow of itself,
02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A labourer in the dark dazzled by half-light,
What it knew was an image in a broken glass,
--
Was only some half-seeing's delegate,
A veil that hung between the soul and Light,
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
One arm half-parted the eternal veil.
A light appeared still and imperishable.
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have said that this is not our path. The divine grace is a factwithout that nothing is possible. From one point of view, the divine grace is unconditioned. But it does not follow that the precedent of Jagai-Madhai is the invariable law of spiritual life. The law is rather this that the field must be ready, the being and the consciousness must get into a certain mould, attain certain order and disposition so that the descent of the Divine Grace, its manifestation and play may be possible. For, just as the divine grace is true, so it is equally true that the individual is essentially one with the Divine, sin and ignorance are his external sloughs, identity with the Divine is his natural right. We, therefore, Jay equal stress on this hidden aspect of man, on the freedom of his will, on his personal effort which is the determining factor of his destiny. For in the field of ignorance or half-knowledge, in the nether hemisphere of his consciousness, it is this power that directly builds up that ordered state of the being with whose support the divine grace can actualise itself and give a material shape to the integral fulfilment.
Hence the Mother gives the direction that though external lapses may be natural to our external nature, now that our inner consciousness has awakened, the vision and the earnestness to see and recognise our mistakes have developedassuming that this much of development has taken place in uswe must awake to the situation and be on the alert, we must bring such control to bear upon our vital impulses, upon our nervous centres as will prevent, for good and all, errors and stupidities from upsurging again and invading our physical self and our field of action. When we have reached this stage, we have acquired the capacity to ascend to another level of consciousness. It is then that we can lay the foundations of a new order in the worldit is then that along with the purification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form.
--
The scope of this New Year Prayer does not limit itself only to our individual sadhanait embraces also the collective consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the muffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given expression here. It is by the power of this mantra, protected by this invulnerable armour,if we choose to accept it as such,that the collective life of man will attain its fulfilment. We have often stated that the outstanding feature of the modern world is that it has become a Kurukshetra of Gods and Titans. It is no doubt an eternal truth of creation, this conflict between the divine and the anti-divine, and it has been going on in the heart of humanity since its advent upon earth. In the inner life of the world this is a fact of the utmost importance, its most significant principle and mystery. Still it must be said that never in the annals of the physical world has this truth taken such momentous proportions as in the grim present. It is pregnant with all good and evil that may make or mar human destiny in the near future. Whether man will transcend his half-animal state and rise to the full height of his manhood, nay even to the godhead in him, or descend back to the level of his gross brute naturethis is the problem of problems which is being dealt with and solved in the course of the mighty holocaust of the present World War.
In her last year's message1 the Mother gave a clear warning that we must have no more hesitation, that we must renounce one side, free ourselves from all its influence and embrace the other side without hesitation, without reservation. At the decisive moment in the life of the world and of mankind, one must definitely, irrevocably choose one's loyalty. It will not do to say, like the over-wise and the over-liberal, that both sides the Allies and the Axis Powersare equalequally right or equally wrong and that we can afford to be outside or above the prejudices or interests of either. There is no room today for a neutral. He who pretends to be a neutral is an enemy to the cause of truth. Whoever is Dot with us is against us.
03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Aspiring and half-sinking and upborne,
Invincibly he ascended without pause.
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
03.03 - Modernism - An Oriental Interpretation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Today, however, in pursuit of the mystery of life we have entered into darker and more obscure regionsof cells and genes, of colloid actions and neuron reactions: the elementary instincts, the primary reflexes, the tangle of short and brief vibrations, and half-articulate pulsations of the most physical and material consciousness are the stuff of the life we seek to live and to capture and mirror. The creative and active force in life as well as in art is now invested in the nervous dynamism and sensational perception. The old morals and sthetics and the sentiments and notions around them are considered today merely conventional and bourgeois; they have given place to a freer life-movement, the expression and embodiment of an unrestrained and au thentic life, life in its natural, original; unspoilt (and crude and coarse) verity. We are probing into the mystery of the crust.
It appears then that we have come down perilously near the level of the sheer animal; by a curious loop in the cycle of evolution, the most civilised and enlightened type of mankind seems to be retroverting to the status of his original ancestor.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Creating the error of a half-seen world
Where knowledge is a seeking ignorance,
--
There are no stumbling and half-seeing lives
Passing from chance to unexpected chance,
03.04 - The Body Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine means the All: whatever there is (manifest or beyond) is within Him and is Himself. Man too who is within that Divine is the Divine in a special way; for he is a replica or epitome of the Divine containing or embodying the threefold status and movement of the Divine the Transcendent, the Cosmic and the Individual. He is co-extensive with the Divine. Only, the Divine is conscious, supremely conscious, while Man is unconscious or at best half-conscious. God has made himself the world and its creatures, the transcendental has become the material cosmos, true; but God has made himself Man in a special sense and for a special purpose. Man is not a fabrication of the Lower Maya, a formation thrown up in the evolutionary course by a temporary idea in the Cosmic Mind and developed through the play of forces; on the other hand, it is a typal reality, a Real-Ideaa formation of the original truth-consciousness, the Divine's own transcendental existence. Man is the figure of the Divine Person. The Impersonal become or viewed as the Personal takes up the human aspect, the human, that is to say, as its original prototype in the superconscience.
The conception of a personal immortality the impersonal is naturally always immortal, there is no problem thereof a physical immortality even attains a significant value looked at from this standpoint. The urge for immortality is not merely a wish to continue indefinitely an earthly life, because of its pleasures or because of an unreasoning attachment; it means regaining and establishing the immortal body that one has or that one is essentially and potentially. The body seeks to be immortal, for it contains and secretly is its immortal Formal Cause (to make use of an Aristotelian term). The materialisation of an immortal being and figure of being that is the consummation demanded of human life on earth.
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Arrived from some half-luminous Beyond
He is a stranger in the mindless vasts;
--
Perturbing him with glimpses half divine.
He lays his hands sometimes on the Unknown;
--
In the vague light of man's half-conscious mind,
Why breaks not in some distant gleam of thee?
--
half-knowledge, half-creations that soon tire.
A foiled immortal soul in perishing limbs,
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The whole world, in fact, was more or less religious in the early stages of its evolution; for it is characteristic of the primitive nature of man to be god-fearing and addicted to religious rite and ceremony. And Europe too, when she entered on a new cycle of life and began to reconstruct herself after the ruin of the Grco-Latin culture, started with the religion of the Christ and experimented with it during a long period of time. But that is what wasTroja fuit. Europe has outgrown her nonage and for a century and a half, since the mighty upheaval of the French Revolution, she has been rapidly shaking off the last vestiges of her mediaevalism. Today she stands clean shorn of all superstition, which she only euphemistically calls religion or spirituality. Not Theology but Science, not Revelation but Reason, not Magic but Logic, not Fiction but Fact, governs her thoughts and guides her activities. Only India, in part under the stress of her own conservative nature, in part under compelling circumstances, still clings to her things of the past, darknesses that have been discarded by the modern illumination. Indian spirituality is nothing but consolidated mediaevalism; it has its companion shibboleth in the cry, "Back to the village" or "Back to the bullock-cart"! One of the main reasons, if not the one reason why India has today no place in the comity of nations, why she is not in the vanguard of civilisation, is precisely this obstinate atavism, this persistent survival of a spirit subversive of all that is modern and progressive.
It is not my purpose here to take up the cause of spirituality and defend it against materialism. Taking it for granted that real spirituality embodies a truth and power by far higher and mightier than anything materialism can offer, and that man's supreme ideal lies there, let us throw a comparing glance on the two types of spirituality,the one that India knows and the other that Europe knew in the Middle Ages.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Pact if it is to be a success must be implemented at three levels. First of all, at the highest level, at the source itself, that is to say, between the Governments who initiated the move. The ministers and members at the top should themselves maintain an entente cordiale (in the literal and true sense of the phrase) and set an example by their word and deed, and what is more difficult and important, in their thought and feeling. They that are on either side of the fence should meet and talk and intermix as real friends and comrades, devise ways and means as to how best to carry out what they sincerely wish and desire. If they do not believe in the agreement in their heart of hearts, if they accept it simply because forced by compelling circumstances and because there was no other way out, if they entertain doubts and reservations and take it up as a pis aller, than surely more than half the force of the Pact is already gone. If the Pact is not sealed by the truth of our heart, then it becomes a mere scrap of paper and is sure to go the way of all such papers. It will not be stronger than the hundred and one contracts that are made between states only to be broken at the earliest opportunity. We have taken as the motto of our government the flaming mantra of the Upanishad, Truth alone leads to victory; we should not forget the continuation of the text, and not false hood.
The leaders overhead should be actuated by the truth of the soul (indeed for that they should have first a soul). A mainly political deal covers up the fissure, an apparent solution or easing of the situation hides a festering sore. We should have understood by now, it has been the bitter lesson of the epoch comprising the last two great wars that mere politics does not save, on the contrary, it leads you into a greater and greater mess. And still if governments have not learnt the lesson, if they follow the old system of real-politick, well, we can say only God save us, for we are heading straight over the precipicea final crash or a terrible revolution.
03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
English and French are the two languages that hold and express today the culture of humanity at its best and at its largest. They are the two international languages recognised as such and indispensable for all international dealings: and although to be internationally minded one would do better to possess both, still as it stands at present, they appeal to two different groups, each in its own way and each has its hemisphere where it is prevalent, almost as a second mother tongue. Geographically, America and the British Commonwealth (including India) belong to the English sphere, while the European continent, South America and a good half of Canada are more at home in French. In Asia, the eastern part took more to English, while the western part (Turkey, Syria, even Persia and Afghanistan) seem to lean more towards French.
Almost till the end of the last century French was the language of culture all over Europe. It was taught there as part of liberal education in all the countries and a sojourn in France was considered necessary to complete the course. Those who were interested in human culture and wished to specialise inbelles lettres had to cultivate more or less an intimate acquaintance with the Gallic Minerva. English has since risen to eminence, due to the far-flung political and commercial net that the nation has spread; it has become almost an indispensable instrument for communication between races that are non-English and far from England. Once upon a time it was said of a European that he had two countries, his own and France; today it can be said with equal or even more truth that a citizen of the modern world has two mother tongues, his own and English.
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A mind but half-awake in the swing of the void
On the bosom of Inconscience dreamed out life
--
Day a half darkness wore as its dull dress.
Light looked into dawn's tarnished glass and met
Its own face there, twin to a half-lit night's:
Downpour and drip and seeping mist swayed all
--
On Nature's bosom still in a half sleep
And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
--
On a half-animate and crumbling mould,
Plants heaven's delight in the heart's passionate mire,
--
Some missioned Power in the half-wakened frame
Nursed a transcendent birth's dumb glorious seed
--
In the circuit of infinities half-known;
Nothing was alien or inanimate,
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is how the spirit of progress and evolution has worked and advanced in the European world. And one can take it as the pattern of human growth generally; but in the scheme described above we have left out one particular phase and purposely. I refer to the great event of Christ and Christianity. For without that European civilisation loses more than half of its import and value. After the Roman Decline began the ebbtide, the trough, the dark shadow of the deepening abyss of the Middle Ages. But even as the Night fell and darkness closed around, a new light glimmered, a star was born. A hope and a help shone "in a naughty world". It was a ray of consciousness that came from a secret cave, from a domain hidden behind and deep within in the human being. Christ brought a leaven into the normal manifest mode of consciousness, an otherworldly mode into the worldly life. He established a living and dynamic contact with the soul, the inner person in man, the person that is behind but still rules the external personality made of mind and life and body consciousness. The Christ revelation was also characteristic in the sense that it came as a large, almost a mass movementthis approach of the soul personality to earthly life. The movement faded or got adulterated, deformed like all human things; but something remained as a permanent possession of man's heritage.
This episode links up with the inner story of mankind, its spiritual history. The growing or evolving consciousness of man was not only an outgoing and widening movement: it was also a heightening, an ascent into ranges that are not normally perceived, towards summits of our true reality. We have spoken of the Grco-Roman culture as the source and foundation of European civilisation; but apart from that there was a secret vein of life that truly vivified it, led it by an occult but constant influence along channels and achievements that are meant to serve the final goal and purpose. The Mysteries prevalent and practised in Greece itself and Crete and the occult rites of Egyptian priests, the tradition of a secret knowledge and discipline found in the Kabbalah, the legendary worship of gods and goddesses sometimes confused, sometimes identified with Nature forcesall point to the existence of a line of culture which is known in India as Yoga. If all other culture means knowledge, Yoga is the knowledge of knowledge. As the Upanishad says, there are two categories of knowledge, the superior and-the inferior. The development of the mind and life and body belongs to the domain of Inferior Knowledge: the development of the soul, the discovery of the Spirit means the Superior Knowledge.
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Wise who know see but one half of Truth,
The strong climb hardly to a low-peaked height,
--
His tale half told, falters the secret Bard;
The gods are still too few in mortal forms."
04.03 - The Eternal East and West, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Such an individual will not be like the blind leading the blind, one ego, .in its half-light, with its small narrow mental formation imposing its ignorant and ineffective will upon others in the same state of consciousness, but, as I have said, a universalised individual, who has identified himself with all and everyone in his being and consciousness, who has also at the same time transcended himself and others and attained a supreme unitary consciousness and being. It is such a person who is called the leader of human or terrestrial evolution and they who are of the same make are the pioneers who shall build heaven upon earth.
Towards that consummation, these two great world currents, East and West, are moving carrying each its own truth and contri buting to the realisation of the integral truth that is to take body here below.
04.04 - The Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Received half-consciously their godlike stamp:
Formed in the type of the high thoughts they sang
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Suffering, incapacity and death are, it is said, the wages of earthly life; but they are, in fact, reverse aspects of divine truths. Whatever is here below has its divine counterpart above. What appears as matter, inertia, static existence here below is the devolution of pure Existence, Being or Substance up there. Life-force, vital dynamism here is the energy of Consciousness there. The pleasure of the heart and emotions and enjoyment is divine Delight. Finally, our mind with its half-lighted thinking power, its groping after knowledge has at its back the plenary light of the Supermind. So the aim is not to reject or withdraw from the material, vital and mental existence upon the earth and in this body, but house in them, make them concrete vehicles, expressions and embodiments of what they really are.
Pain and suffering, disease and incapacity, even age and death are fortuitous auxiliaries; they have come upon us simply because of the small and partial scale of our life to which we agreed. One can live here below, live a full life, upon a larger scale, upon the scale of infinity and eternity. That need not dissolve body and life and mind, the triple ranges that make up our earthly existence. In brief, man himself is not truly man, he is the reverse aspect of God; and when he becomes divine and remains not merely human, he but realises what he is truly and integrally himself.
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As though some secret nimbus half was seen;
Her inner vision still remembering knew
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
05.04 - The Measure of Time, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Looked at from the higher source of things, the time-factor itself appears as an illusion. What is true is a certain set of conditions in which forces work themselves out. And in this pattern of conditions, time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background, even if it is not a side-issue or a by-product. The conscious force at work in the world aims at a change in the conditions; it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actualityof ignorance and inertiais one of chaos. What the Divine Will behind, the Consciousness standing over, does is to develop a cosmos out of that chaos. Things are placed wrongly, at random, pell-mell: they have to be assorted, arranged, docketed, each item in its own place. We know, for example, of the material particle in which the atoms are huddled together, each pointing to a different direction, but when they are arranged in such a way that one half points in one way and the other half the contrary way, we have what is called a magnetised body.
It is when things are arranged in this manner, the right thing in the right place, that divine perfection, the Realisation in the material, is attained. And for this consummation to come about, the process that is followed is a greater and greater infiltration of higher and higher forces into the field of disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the Divine; the Supreme Consciousness that works, time itself has no separate meaning or intrinsic value; for it a thousand or a million years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply marks the steps of events in the lower ranges of creation: as we rise higher and higher, forces from there come down into the lower field, and the tempo of events quickens; finally, when the highest peak is attained and its forces descend and intervene in the ordering of the lowest levels, then the change, the arrangement that is being worked out, is accomplished immediately and without delay: the time lag is abolished altogether. Time may be compared to a kind of elastic bond connecting the highest and the lowest and running through the intermediate zones. It contracts as one moves upward and is telescoped, as it were, at the top.
05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The principle of indeterminacy carries two revolutionary implications. First, that it is not possible to determine the movement of the ultimate particles of matter individually and severally, it is not possible even theoretically to follow up the chain of modulations of an electron from its birth to its dissolution (if such is the curve of its destiny), as Laplace considered it quite possible for his super-mathematician. One cannot trace the complete evolution of each and every or even one particular particle, not because of a limitation in the human capacity, but because of an inherent impossibility in the nature of things. In radioactive substances, for example, there is no ground or data from which one can determine which particle will go off or not, whether it will go off the chance that seems to reign here. In radiation too, there is no formula, and no formula can be framed for determining the course of a photon in relation to a half-reflecting surface, whether it will pass through or be reflected. In this field of infinitesimals what we know is the total behaviour of an assemblage of particles, and the laws of nature are only laws of average computation. Statistics has ousted the more exact and rigid arithmetics. And statistics, we know, is a precarious science: the knowledge it gives is contingent, contingent upon the particular way of arranging and classifying the data. However, the certainty of classical mechanistic knowledge is gone, gone too the principle of uniformity of nature.
The second element brought in in the indeterminacy picture is the restoration of the "subject" to its honoured or even more than the honoured place it had in the Mediaeval Ages, and from which it was pulled down by young arrogant Science. A fundamental question is now raised in the very methodology of the scientific apparatus. For Science, needless to say, is first and foremost observation. Now it is observed that the very fact of observation affects and changes the observed fact. The path of an electron, for example, has to be observed; one has then to throw a ray of lighthurl a photonupon it: the impact is sufficient to deflect the electron from the original path. If it is suggested that by correction and computation, by a backward calculation we can deduce the previous position, that too is not possible. For we cannot fix any position or point that is not vitiated by the observer's interference. How to feel or note the consistency of a thing, if the touch itself, the temperature of the finger, were sufficient to change the consistency? The trouble is, as the popular Indian saying goes, the very amulet that is to exorcise the ghost is possessed by the ghost itself.
05.16 - A Modernist Mentality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Andre Gide, a very well-known name in French letter for the last half a century, is quoted, very appreciatively, in the editorial of the World Review(July 1950), as saying:
"The world can only be saved, if it can be, by the rebels. Without them there would be an end to our civilisation, our culture, all that we love and that gave to our presence on earth a secret justification. They are, these rebels, the salt of the earth and the men sent from God. For I am convinced that God does not exist, and that we have to create him."
The truth expressed in these well-chiselled lines ("purple patches", I was going to say perhaps somewhat uncharitably) is, as always happens when we are for a rounded phrase and a neat thought, only half-truth or even quarter-truth. It all depends on the meaning we attach to the words, the shade trailing behind the thought. For, first of all, it is true, it is even a truism that the rebel is a necessary agent in the economy of human evolution; but if by rebel we mean the sheer iconoclast, the mere or in the main destroyer and the word, especially since it is given preference, does carry that connotation then the sentence loses most of its truth or value and becomes only a shibboleth or slogan.
The old, fossilised or rotten past has to be destroyed and ruthlessly eradicated, no doubt: -but, how is it to be done and who will do it? By a simple process of sledge-hammeringbreaking, burning? By anybody who cares to do it? It does not require much sense or intelligence to see that that is not the ideal nor even the most effective way of doing the thing. The best way to destroy, the wise say, is to construct. Look at Nature, how she is going about the thing. Something is crumbling, precisely because something is growing within or behind. It is the drive of a living growth in secret that pushes a limb no longer necessary or useful to decay and death. Man too in his work of reformation or regeneration should learn that lesson, whether in respect of his individual or of his 'collective growth and evolution. Discover the truth that is to replace the 'old, live it intensely and wholly the old past will automatically slip down like old clothes or drop like yellow sapless leaves.
Further Monsieur Gide says, God is nowhere, he has to be created. If he means that God is not anywhere in the manifest physical world, especially, the physical world of today, it is true, though here too partially true. God is never truly absent; even in and through this dismal and distressed age of ours he is ever present, a living power of abounding Graceeven if behind the veil, even if not patent to the sense-bound observer. Still God has to be made patent, established concretely in the physical world also, in the everyday normal human affairs. But, again, how to do it? And who is to do it? You or I in our complete, at best half-lit hazy ignorance? By running blindly full tilt against any and all atheism and denial and egoism and arrogance, shouting at them, pointing the finger of scorn at them or being physically violent upon them? It were best if we moved with as much vigour against our own selves, against the ungodly within us. If one begins seriously at home, in dealing with oneself one will be best equipped to deal with the others and the world, in the process of new-creating in oneself one will be in a position to find out exactly what lies in the way of a new creation outside.
A deeper sense of truth and rectitude says: you have no right to break unless you have the power to make. Even an illusion you cannot and should not break if you do not know how and what to replace; you will only replace it by a greater and more disastrous illusion, you must yourself have the full vision of the truth, you must yourself realise and establish it in yourself, in your inner being as well as your outer personality. Then only you will have secured full authority (Ramakrishna's chaprash, badge) to make and unmake. If you have not the needed authority, then you must obey implicitly one who possesses the authority.
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.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or half-seen verge of waters moon-betrayed
Bringst thou this glory of enchanted eyes?
--
Awaited by a vague and half-seen force,
Aware of danger to his uncertain hours
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He camps in life's half-lit obscurity
Amid the debris of his thoughts and dreams.
--
He still must labour on, his work half done.
One yet may come armoured, invincible;
--
And the companionship of half-known souls
Or the solitary greatness and lonely force
--
And looks out only through half-opened doors.
He cuts the boundless Truth into sky-strips
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But Satyavan sometimes half understood,
Or felt at least with the uncertain answer
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At first appeared a dim half-neutral tide
Of being emerging out of infinite Nought:
--
We gaze through our world's glass at half-seen vasts,
We hunt for the Truth behind apparent things.
07.02 - The Spiral Universe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nature has a plan of its own. It is not like the coherent rational plan of man. Nature's plan is made of an aspiration, a decision and a goal. But the way is quite fantastic, so it appears to man. Nature seems to move from moment to moment, under the stress of the occasion; there are advances, withdrawals, trials, contradictions, demolitions of things, laborious building up, and again throwing down. It is a complete chaos. She begins a thing, leaves it half done, takes up another, rejects one thing altogether, begins anew something left off, makes, remakes, unmakes, separates, mixes up. She follows a million lines of advance at the same time but not from the same point and each with its own speed and rhythm. There is such a tangle that seems to make no sense. Still there is a plan, she pursues an object which seems to be very clear to her, although veiled to the human eye. The spiral globe I spoke of was meant to give some idea of this complex unity in Nature's plan.
You can bring in a better order, with less waste and more efficiency, a more conscious organisation. But for that man must change his own inner organisation first. In his own consciousness and being he must bring out a new order, a new cosmos.
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And fluttering shapes of vague half-bodied thought
And crude beginnings of incontinent force.
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul
His sin and error I will eliminate;
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart
Had bloomed and stood disclosed to the earthly ray;
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey;
It seemed to have no den from which it sprang:
--
A clutch of some half-seen Invisible,
An ocean of terror and of sovereign might,
--
Lifted the ideal's half-quenched or sinking torch
Or peered through the finite at the infinite.
07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I will tell you a story, I mean a true story, in this connection. There was a pilot who was considered what is called an ace among his fellowmen in the first Great War. He was an extraordinary aviator and the hero of many victories. Nothing had happened to him at any time. But towards the end of his life, an event occurredsome private tragedy and all at once he had the feeling that something was going to happen to him; an accident perhaps, and it was all finished with him. He had come out of the war but was still in the army. He wanted to make a flight to South Africa, from France right up to the south of Africa. He started from France and made for Madagascar, so far as I remember, and then wanted to fly back to France. Now, my brother was at that time the Governor of Congo and needed to join his post as soon as possible. He asked for a place in the aeroplane of the pilot I am speaking about. It was not a regular service plane, but one of those used for trial to show what the machines were capable of and the skills of the airmen. Many tried to dissuade my brother from making the journey, saying that these adventurous trips were, always dangerous. My brother however did not mind the risk. Nothing serious happened, but for a slight breakdown in the middle of the Sahara which was easily got over, and the plane made safe journey and dropped him at his place in Congo. The plane continued further down, to Madagascar, as I said. Now the pilot started back, he did half the journey, his plane crashed and he was killed forthwith. I shall explain to you what really the matter was. What happened had to happen, it was a foregone conclusion. My brother had an absolute faith in his destiny, a certainty that nothing would touch him. The consciousness of the other was on the contrary full of doubt and apprehension. So the mixture of the two atmospheres brought about this that in the first instance the accident could not be prevented, but it stopped short of a catastrophe. But once the destiny of my brother was not there with the machine,like Caesar's destiny that made the boatman row safely across the river through a storm the protection was also withdrawn and the pilot had to go down under the full blast of his bad fate. I can narrate another analogous story, it is with regard to a ship. There were two persons, husb and and wife. They went by air to Indo-China. They had an accident, a very serious accident. All were killed except only these two. Now they had to return to France. They did not want to travel by air, they had had an experience of it. So they took a boat, I mean a ship, which they thought would be quite safe. Now what happened was absolutely unexpected, quite extraordinary. In the middle of the Red Sea, in broad daylight, the ship struck against a reef and sanka thing that does not happen even once perhaps in a million cases. All the passengers were drowned except, miraculous again to say, the couple. There are people like thatthey carry misfortune with them, but the misfortune is for others, they themselves escape some-how.
If you look at the thing in an ordinary way, you do not notice it. But the fact is there. You must be very careful about your associations. An unfortunate association may prove disastrous to you. The karma of others may fall upon you, unless you have the inner knowledge, the vision and the necessary power. If you see a person with something like a dark whirl around avoid him at all cost. The moral of it all is that it is very useful to look into things a little more deeply than to observe the surface only.
07.24 - Meditation and Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Some people, when they sit for meditation, imagine they have gone into a remarkable condition and are proud of it. But most often what they do in meditation is simply to let loose their thoughts: it is a sort of kaleidoscope that moves in their head. There are some, however, who can remain without any thought for a while; but if they are called out all on a sudden at the time for some reason or other, they wake up furious, protesting that a nice meditation is spoilt and fret and fume against the whole world. There are all the same a few who know how to meditate, they do come to a sort of union with the Divine. Certainly, this is very good. There are others who can follow the train of an idea up to a point, even up to the central point of the idea. This is also very good. But most get into a half-sleepy condition, that is to say, very tamasic. The mind is inert, aspiration inert, the whole being is inert. They can remain in that condition for hours together. Well, nothing is more durable than inertia. And when they come out of it, they think they have achieved something very great. But they simply fell into unconsciousness.
Yes, some know how to meditate. But even supposing you know how to enter into the divine consciousness, that experience must have some effect upon your external lifenaturally it would differ according to the person concerned. There are some who cut themselves clean into two. These, as I have said, when they enter into meditation, have or think they have experiences and very fine experiences. But when they come back and begin to act, they become the most ordinary people, with the most ordinary reactions, doing all kinds of things that should not be done. They think of themselves alone, busy arranging their own life, without a thought for others, whether one could be useful to the world or not. And yet in meditation, they came into contact with some higher and deeper consciousness and reality. It is for this reason that people who have found it difficult to change human nature, have declared it an impossibility and advised that the one thing to do under the circumstances is to abandon the world and escape. Naturally, if all could run away there would no more be any world. But, luckily or unluckily, the existence of the world does not depend upon the will of individuals: they had no hand in the creation of the world and they do not know how it came about. Is it simply because some get away from the world that the world will cease to exist for them, perhaps, but for others? Although I am not sure whether even they really succeed in getting away. In any case, I do not believe that you can transform yourself by meditation. But when a work is there before you and you do it as well as you can, also while doing it you take care not to forget the Divine and you give yourself up to him so that he may change your being, change your reactions into something beautiful and luminous, then indeed the Divine will transform you.
--- Overview of noun half
The noun half has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (42) one-half, half ::: (one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf"; "half an hour"; "a century and one half")
2. half ::: (one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval)
--- Overview of adj half
The adj half has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (22) half ::: (consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour")
2. (11) half ::: (partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job")
3. half ::: ((of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister")
--- Overview of adv half
The adv half has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (18) half ::: (partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun half
2 senses of half
Sense 1
one-half, half
=> common fraction, simple fraction
=> fraction
=> rational number, rational
=> real number, real
=> complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number, imaginary
=> number
=> definite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
half
=> part, section, division
=> concept, conception, construct
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun half
2 senses of half
Sense 1
one-half, half
=> fifty percent
=> moiety, mediety
Sense 2
half
=> first half
=> second half, last half
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun half
2 senses of half
Sense 1
one-half, half
=> common fraction, simple fraction
Sense 2
half
=> part, section, division
--- Similarity of adj half
3 senses of half
Sense 1
half(prenominal)
=> fractional (vs. whole)
Sense 2
half(prenominal)
=> incomplete (vs. complete), uncomplete
Sense 3
half (vs. whole)
--- Antonyms of adj half
3 senses of half
Sense 1
half(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA fractional) -> whole
Sense 2
half(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA incomplete) -> complete
Sense 3
half (vs. whole)
whole (vs. half)
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun half
2 senses of half
Sense 1
one-half, half
-> common fraction, simple fraction
=> one-half, half
=> one-third, third, tierce
=> two-thirds
=> one-fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern
=> three-fourths, three-quarters
=> one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent
=> one-sixth, sixth
=> one-seventh, seventh
=> one-eighth, eighth
=> one-ninth, ninth
=> one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percent
=> one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal
=> one-sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth part
=> one-thirty-second, thirty-second, thirty-second part
=> one-sixtieth, sixtieth
=> one-sixty-fourth, sixty-fourth
=> one-hundredth, hundredth, one percent
=> one-thousandth, thousandth
=> one-ten-thousandth, ten-thousandth
=> one-hundred-thousandth
=> one-millionth, millionth
=> one-hundred-millionth
=> one-billionth, billionth
=> one-trillionth, trillionth
=> one-quadrillionth, quadrillionth
=> one-quintillionth, quintillionth
Sense 2
half
-> part, section, division
=> frame
=> beginning
=> middle
=> end
=> high point
=> component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient
=> chukker, chukka
=> inning, frame
=> game
=> turn, bout, round
=> first period
=> second period
=> final period
=> half
=> period
=> quarter
=> over
--- Pertainyms of adj half
3 senses of half
Sense 1
half(prenominal)
Sense 2
half(prenominal)
Sense 3
half (vs. whole)
--- Derived Forms of adj half
--- Grep of noun half
behalf
better half
chance-half correlation
first half
half
half-and-half
half-and-half dressing
half-breed
half-brother
half-caste
half-century
half-cock
half-free morel
half-holiday
half-hour
half-intensity
half-length
half-life
half-light
half-mast
half-moon
half-pay
half-pint
half-relief
half-sister
half-slip
half-staff
half-term
half-truth
half-wit
half a dozen
half binding
half blood
half boot
half brother
half cross stitch
half crown
half dollar
half door
half eagle
half gainer
half hatchet
half hitch
half life
half mask
half mile
half nelson
half note
half page
half pound
half rest
half sister
half snipe
half sole
half step
half title
half track
half volley
halfback
halfbeak
halfpenny
halfpennyworth
halftime
halftone
halftone engraving
hell's half acre
last half
one-half
second half
split-half correlation
time and a half
Wikipedia - 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts -- 1980 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - 1500-1550 in Western European fashion -- Costume in the first half of the 16th century
Wikipedia - 1550-1600 in Western European fashion -- Costume in the second half of the 16th century
Wikipedia - 1600-1650 in Western European fashion -- Costume in the first half of the 17th century
Wikipedia - 1650-1700 in Western European fashion -- Costume in the second half of the 17th century
Wikipedia - 1997 Asian financial crisis -- Financial crisis of many Asian countries during the second half of 1997
Wikipedia - 2019 Vuelta a EspaM-CM-1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21 -- Second half of the 2019 Grand Tour
Wikipedia - 2019 Vuelta a EspaM-CM-1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11 -- First half of the 2019 Grand Tour
Wikipedia - 20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval gun -- Japanese naval gun and coastal artillery used throughout the first half of the 20th century
Wikipedia - 45M-CM-^W90 points -- Four points on Earth which are halfway between the geographical poles, the equator, the Prime Meridian, and the 180th meridian
Wikipedia - 45th parallel north -- Circle of latitude often called the halfway point between the equator and the North Pole
Wikipedia - Aaron Halfaker -- American computer scientist
Wikipedia - Alabama Centennial half dollar -- US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Albany Charter half dollar -- American commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Alic Halford Smith
Wikipedia - Allel Boukhalfa -- Algerian Paralympic athlete
Wikipedia - Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont -- British politician
Wikipedia - Amiga Halfbrite mode
Wikipedia - Amityville: The Awakening -- 2017 film directed by Franck Khalfoun
Wikipedia - Antecedent (logic) -- First half of an hypothetic statement (in logic)
Wikipedia - Anthony Belleau -- French rugby union fly-half and he
Wikipedia - Area code 662 -- Telephone area code serving the northern half of Mississippi, US
Wikipedia - Arms-length management organisation -- not-for-profit company that provides housing services on behalf of a local authority
Wikipedia - Bangsaen21 Half Marathon -- Race in Bang Saen, Thailand
Wikipedia - Baserri -- Traditional half-timbered or stone-built type of housebarn farmhouse found in the Basque Country in Northern Spain and Southwestern France
Wikipedia - Ben-Zion Halfon -- Israeli politician
Wikipedia - Berniece Baker Miracle -- Marilyn Monroe's half-sister
Wikipedia - Better Half of Me -- song by Tom Walker
Wikipedia - Billiards at Half-Past Nine -- German novel by Heinrich Boll
Wikipedia - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film) -- 2016 film directed by Ang Lee
Wikipedia - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk -- 2012 novel by Ben Fountain
Wikipedia - Biological half-life
Wikipedia - Black and white cookie -- A round cookie iced or frosted on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate
Wikipedia - Black Mesa (video game) -- remake of Half-Life
Wikipedia - Bone Head -- 1997 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar -- Commemorative coin
Wikipedia - BOSU -- Rubber half-sphere used for fitness training
Wikipedia - Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar -- 1936 US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Broadhalfpenny Down -- Historic cricket ground in Hambledon, Hampshire
Wikipedia - Bronwyn Halfpenny -- Australian politician
Wikipedia - Bruce Smith (halfback)
Wikipedia - Buskin -- Laced half-boot of Ancient Rome
Wikipedia - California Diamond Jubilee half dollar -- United States commemorative silver fifty-cent piece
Wikipedia - California Pacific International Exposition half dollar -- United States commemorative fifty-cent piece
Wikipedia - Callum "Halfway" Highway -- Fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders
Wikipedia - Category:United States Navy rear admirals (lower half)
Wikipedia - Center tap -- a contact made to a point halfway along a winding of a transformer or inductor
Wikipedia - Chad Erskine -- American former rugby union scrum-half
Wikipedia - Chalfont & Latimer station -- London Underground and railway station
Wikipedia - Chalfont St Giles
Wikipedia - Chalfont St. Giles
Wikipedia - Chalfont St Peter -- Village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
Wikipedia - Chalfont Viaduct -- Railway viaduct in south-east England, built in 1906
Wikipedia - Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men) -- Fictional character from the television series Two and a Half Men
Wikipedia - Charmed Life (Half Japanese album) -- 1988 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Chelsea Halfpenny -- English actress
Wikipedia - Chicago Half Marathon -- Annual run in Chicago
Wikipedia - Chromatic scale -- Musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below another
Wikipedia - Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar -- US commemorative 50-cent piece
Wikipedia - Cleveland Centennial half dollar -- 1936 US coin
Wikipedia - Columbian half dollar -- United States commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar -- Commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar -- US commemorative fifty-cent piece
Wikipedia - Cop and a Half -- 1993 film by Henry Winkler
Wikipedia - Dashiki -- Colorful men's garment widely worn in West Africa that covers the top half of the body
Wikipedia - Delaware General Corporation Law -- Statute governing corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware, in which over half of all US public companies are domiciled
Wikipedia - Delhi Half Marathon -- Annual half marathon
Wikipedia - Dhampir -- Half vampire, half human creature
Wikipedia - Disneyland Paris Run Weekend -- Half marathon held in Marne-la-Valee, France
Wikipedia - Dome -- An architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere; there are many types
Wikipedia - Draft:Half-moon Cookie (Utica) -- Native Central New York cuisine. A fluffy and round cake-based cookie, buttercream frosted on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate
Wikipedia - Draft:Philippe Halfon -- Professor of Medicine
Wikipedia - Dragon Half
Wikipedia - Duty -- Commitment or obligation to someone or something or to perform an action on the behalf of
Wikipedia - Eastern Gemini Seamount -- A seamount in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Vanuatu's Tanna and Matthew Islands
Wikipedia - East Rennell -- Eastern half of Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands
Wikipedia - Elgin, Illinois, Centennial half dollar -- 1936 commemorative U.S. coin
Wikipedia - Elimination half-life
Wikipedia - Enduring power of attorney -- Authorisation under English law to act on someone else's behalf
Wikipedia - England, Half-English -- 2002 studio album by Billy Bragg and the Blokes
Wikipedia - Eowils and Halfdan
Wikipedia - Everglades National Park -- One-and-a-half million acres in Florida (US) managed by the National Park Service
Wikipedia - Falconry training and technique -- Methods for training birds of prey to hunt on a human's behalf
Wikipedia - Fifty pence (British coin) -- British decimal coin; half of one pound sterling
Wikipedia - Fire in the Sky (album) -- 1993 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Flying monkeys (popular psychology) -- People who act on behalf of a narcissist to a third party, usually for an abusive purpose
Wikipedia - Foerster Peak -- Foerster Peak is mountain in Yosemite National Park, east of Half Dome
Wikipedia - Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar -- U.S. commemorative fifty-cent piece
Wikipedia - Franklin half dollar -- US American coin
Wikipedia - Gadsden Purchase half dollar -- Proposed commemorative U.S. coin
Wikipedia - G-Man (Half-Life) -- Fictional character in the Half-Life series of video games
Wikipedia - Good Old Cause -- Rationale made by the New Model Army soldiers to justify their fighting on behalf of Parliament
Wikipedia - Gordon Freeman -- Video game protagonist of the Half-Life series
Wikipedia - Grant Memorial coinage -- US 1922 gold dollar and silver half dollar
Wikipedia - Half a Bride -- 1928 film
Wikipedia - Half-A-Dollar-Bill -- 1924 film by W. S. Van Dyke
Wikipedia - Half a Man (film) -- 1925 film
Wikipedia - Half & Half -- American sitcom
Wikipedia - Half Angel (1936 film) -- 1936 film by Sidney Lanfield
Wikipedia - Half an Hour -- 1920 film by Harley Knoles
Wikipedia - Half a Sinner (1934 film) -- 1934 film by Kurt Neumann
Wikipedia - Half a Sixpence -- Musical
Wikipedia - Half a Truth -- 1922 film
Wikipedia - Half Breed (film) -- 1914 film
Wikipedia - Halfbrick Studios -- Video games developer
Wikipedia - Half-Cocked (film) -- 1994 film directed by Suki Hawley
Wikipedia - Half.com
Wikipedia - Half crown (British coin) -- Denomination of British money worth half of a crown
Wikipedia - Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen Jr. -- Norwegian sailor
Wikipedia - Halfdan (floruit 782-807) -- (775-807)
Wikipedia - Halfdan Hansen -- Norwegian sailor
Wikipedia - Halfdan Jonsson -- Norwegian trade unionist
Wikipedia - Halfdan Lehmann -- Norwegian politician
Wikipedia - Halfdan Narfason -- Icelandic priest
Wikipedia - Halfdan Nielsen -- Norwegian speed skater
Wikipedia - Halfdan Petteroe (equestrian) -- Norwegian equestrian
Wikipedia - Halfdan Petteroe -- Norwegian businessperson
Wikipedia - Halfdan Ragnarsson
Wikipedia - Half dollar (United States coin) -- Current denomination of United States currency
Wikipedia - Half Dome -- Granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California
Wikipedia - Half duplex
Wikipedia - Half-duplex
Wikipedia - Half-Earth -- 2016 book by E.O. Wilson
Wikipedia - Half-elf (Dungeons > Dragons)
Wikipedia - Half farthing -- British coin valued at one eighth of a penny
Wikipedia - Half Full Glass of Wine -- 2008 song by Tame Impala
Wikipedia - Half-giant -- Fictional being
Wikipedia - Half Girlfriend (film) -- 2017 film by Mohit Suri
Wikipedia - Half guard -- Grappling position
Wikipedia - Half hull model ship -- Wooden model featuring only one half of a boat's hull
Wikipedia - Half-integer spin
Wikipedia - Half-Life 2: Episode One -- 2006 first-person shooter video game
Wikipedia - Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- 2007 video game
Wikipedia - Half-Life 2: Lost Coast -- Additional level for the 2004 video game Half-Life 2
Wikipedia - Half-Life 2 -- 2004 first-person shooter video game
Wikipedia - Half-Life: Alyx -- Video game developed by Valve
Wikipedia - Half-Life: Blue Shift -- 2001 video game
Wikipedia - Half Life Half Death -- Filipino alternative rock band
Wikipedia - Half-Life (Krach novel) -- 2004 novel by Aaron Krach
Wikipedia - Halflife (Michalowski novel) -- Doctor Who novel by Mark Michalowski
Wikipedia - Half-life of knowledge -- Metric measuring the decay of knowledge
Wikipedia - Half-Life: Opposing Force -- 1999 video game
Wikipedia - Half-Life (series) -- Series of first-person shooter games
Wikipedia - Half-Life (video game) -- 1998 first-person shooter game
Wikipedia - Half life
Wikipedia - Half-life
Wikipedia - Halfling (Dungeons > Dragons)
Wikipedia - Halfling
Wikipedia - Halflives -- French alternative rock band
Wikipedia - Half-logistic distribution
Wikipedia - Half Magic (film) -- 2018 film directed by Heather Graham
Wikipedia - Half Man Half Biscuit -- English rock band
Wikipedia - Half marathon -- Road running event of 21.0975 kilometres
Wikipedia - Half Marriage (film) -- 1929 film directed by William J. Cowen
Wikipedia - Half mask -- Diving mask covering the nose and eyes
Wikipedia - Half-mast -- Flag flying below the summit of a ship mast, a pole on land, or a pole on a building
Wikipedia - Half Moon Bay State Beach -- Group of beaches in San Mateo County, California
Wikipedia - Half Moon (film) -- 2006 film directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Wikipedia - Half Moon Island -- Antarctic island in the South Shetland Islands
Wikipedia - Half Moon Street (film) -- 1986 UK-US film by Bob Swaim
Wikipedia - Half-normal distribution
Wikipedia - Half Note Club -- Former jazz club in New York City
Wikipedia - Half of a Yellow Sun -- Novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wikipedia - Half of Heaven -- 1986 film
Wikipedia - Half-open connection
Wikipedia - Half-open file
Wikipedia - Half-open interval
Wikipedia - Half Past Dead -- 2002 American action movie by Don Michael Paul
Wikipedia - Halfpenny (British decimal coin) -- Demonetised unit of currency that was worth one two-hundredth of a pound sterling
Wikipedia - Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin) -- Pre-decimal unit of currency that equalled half of a penny or 1M-bM-^AM-^D480 of a pound sterling
Wikipedia - Half-precision floating-point format -- 16-bit computer number format
Wikipedia - Half precision
Wikipedia - Half Price Books -- American book retailer
Wikipedia - Half Rate -- speech coding standard
Wikipedia - Half sen coin -- Lowest Japanese sen denomination
Wikipedia - Half Shot at Sunrise -- 1930 film
Wikipedia - Half-sider budgerigar -- Budgerigar variant
Wikipedia - Half-space (geometry)
Wikipedia - Half the Perfect World
Wikipedia - Half the Picture -- 2018 documentary film
Wikipedia - Half the World Away -- 1994 song by Oasis
Wikipedia - Halftime Heat -- Professional wrestling Super Bowl counterprogramming that is produced by WWE
Wikipedia - Half-time (music) -- Type of metric change in music, that doubles the tempo resolution or metric division, in comparison to common-time
Wikipedia - Halftime (song) -- 1992 single by Nas
Wikipedia - Half-time -- Time when half of the regular playing time has expired
Wikipedia - Halftone characteristic -- characteristic in facsimile systems
Wikipedia - Half-uncial
Wikipedia - Half Waif -- American singer
Wikipedia - Halfway Around the World -- 2001 single by A-Teens
Wikipedia - Half-Way Covenant -- a historical form of church membership in American Christianity
Wikipedia - Halfway Home (TV series) -- US television series
Wikipedia - Halfway, Oregon -- City in Oregon, United States
Wikipedia - Halfway There (Big Time Rush song) -- 2010 single by Big Time Rush
Wikipedia - Halfway to Heaven (album) -- 2010 album by Brantley Gilbert
Wikipedia - Half Way to Heaven -- 1929 film
Wikipedia - Halfway to Shanghai -- 1942 film directed by John Rawlins
Wikipedia - Halfwidth and fullwidth forms -- Alternative width characters in East Asian typography
Wikipedia - Half-width kana
Wikipedia - Half Written Story -- 2020 EP by Hailee Steinfeld
Wikipedia - Harpy -- Half-bird half-woman monsters associated with storm winds
Wikipedia - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) -- 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates
Wikipedia - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- 2005 fantasy novel by J. K. Rowling
Wikipedia - Harry Randall (rugby union) -- English rugby union scrum half
Wikipedia - Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar -- 1928 United States coin
Wikipedia - Healthcare proxy -- Legal instrument with which a patient appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on their behalf
Wikipedia - Heaven Sent (Half Japanese album) -- 1997 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Heini Bock -- Namibian rugby union scrum-half
Wikipedia - Hello (Half Japanese album) -- 2001 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) -- Former red-light district in Fort Worth
Wikipedia - Hemipelvectomy -- Surgical removal of half of the pelvis and one of the legs
Wikipedia - Henry Halford -- 18th/19th-century English royal physician
Wikipedia - Hiro Peralta -- Half-Filipino quarter-German quarter-Portuguese actor
Wikipedia - Hodgemoor Wood -- Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, England
Wikipedia - Horrible -- 1982 EP by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Hot (Half Japanese album) -- 1995 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - House of Lambakanna I -- Powerful clan that ruled Sri Lanka in the first half of the first millennium
Wikipedia - Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar -- 1935 commemorative U.S. coin
Wikipedia - Huguenot-Walloon half dollar -- US commemorative coin issued in 1924
Wikipedia - Hyporhamphus ihi -- Species of halfbeak found all around New Zealand in shallow inshore waters
Wikipedia - I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott -- Painting by John William Waterhouse
Wikipedia - ICES Journal of Marine Science -- A peer-reviewed scientific journal covering oceanography and marine biology. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Wikipedia - Illinois Centennial half dollar -- American commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Indian agent -- Individual authorized to interact with Native Americans tribes on behalf of the U.S. government
Wikipedia - Indian half-bred -- horse type from India
Wikipedia - Integrated Diver Display Mask -- Diving half-mask with integrated head-up instrument display
Wikipedia - Intercession -- Religious prayer on behalf of others
Wikipedia - In the Dark Half -- 2012 film
Wikipedia - Is the glass half empty or half full? -- Common expression regarding optimism or pessimism
Wikipedia - Jamie Shillcock -- English rugby union fly-half
Wikipedia - John Drotsky -- Namibian rugby union scrum-half
Wikipedia - Johnny Halford -- Racecar driver from South Carolina
Wikipedia - Joshua ben Hananiah -- Leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple
Wikipedia - Kathleen Chalfant -- American actress
Wikipedia - Kennedy half dollar -- 50-cent piece depicting John F Kennedy minted after his assassination in 1963
Wikipedia - Khalfan Khamis Mohamed -- Member of al-Qaeda serving a life sentence in a US federal prison
Wikipedia - Kim Pyong-il -- Younger paternal half-brother of Kim Jong-il
Wikipedia - Kyiv Half Marathon -- Annual race in Ukraine held since 2011
Wikipedia - Lagoda -- Half-scale model of the whaling ship Lagoda, located at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Wikipedia - Lasting power of attorney -- Authorisation under English law to act on someone else's behalf
Wikipedia - Laura Halford -- British rhythmic gymnast
Wikipedia - League of Nations mandate -- Territories administered by countries on behalf of the League of Nations
Wikipedia - Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton -- British anthropologist
Wikipedia - Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar -- 1925 US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Liberty Cap half cent -- First half cents produced by the United States Mint
Wikipedia - List of awards and nominations received by Two and a Half Men -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Grey Cup halftime shows -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of half marathon races -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of It Ain't Half Hot Mum episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of radioactive nuclides by half-life -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Super Bowl halftime shows -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of The Half Sisters episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Two and a Half Men characters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Two and a Half Men episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon episodes -- Episode list of television series
Wikipedia - Little Moreton Hall -- Moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610.
Wikipedia - Long Island Tercentenary half dollar -- Commemorative half dollar in 1936
Wikipedia - Loud (Half Japanese album) -- 1981 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar -- Proposed United States commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Lou Sullivan -- American author and activist known for his work on behalf of trans men
Wikipedia - Lucius Fabius Gallus -- Roman senator during the first half of the second century AD
Wikipedia - Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar -- US coin worth 50 cents
Wikipedia - M3 half-track -- US military vehicle
Wikipedia - M5 half-track -- US Military Vehicle
Wikipedia - M9 half-track -- US military vehicle
Wikipedia - Maghrebi Tabrizi -- Iranian poet and Sufi of the second half of the eighth century AH
Wikipedia - Maine Centennial half dollar -- 1920 US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Majority -- Subset consisting of more than half of the set's elements
Wikipedia - Malik Obama -- Barack Obama's half-brother
Wikipedia - Marianne Halfdan-Nielsen -- Danish sailor
Wikipedia - Martin Chalfie -- American scientist
Wikipedia - Maryam Mohammed Khalfan Al Roumi -- Emirati politician
Wikipedia - Maryland Tercentenary half dollar -- US commemorative fifty-cent piece (1934)
Wikipedia - Median lethal dose -- A measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen required to kill half of a tested population
Wikipedia - Meet Me Halfway -- 2009 single by the Black Eyed Peas
Wikipedia - Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 -- U.S. law to implement the convention for the protection of migratory birds between the U.S. and U.K. (on behalf of Canada)
Wikipedia - Missouri Centennial half dollar -- US commemorative fifty-cent piece (1921)
Wikipedia - MIT Guyot -- Guyot in the Western Pacific northwest of Marcus Island and about halfway between Japan and the Marshall Islands
Wikipedia - Modular form -- Analytic function on the upper half-plane with a certain behavior under the modular group
Wikipedia - Monolith, the Face of Half Dome -- Iconic photograph of Half Dome envisioned by Ansel Adams
Wikipedia - Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar -- US commemorative fifty-cent piece (1923)
Wikipedia - Murder of Jane Britton -- Killing of Harvard graduate student solved a half-century later through DNA
Wikipedia - Music to Strip By -- 1987 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Mustapha El Khalfi -- Moroccan politician
Wikipedia - Nairobi Half Life -- 2012 film
Wikipedia - Nanda (half-brother of Buddha)
Wikipedia - Nature's Half Acre -- 1951 film
Wikipedia - Nejib Ben Khalfallah -- Tunisian dancer
Wikipedia - New Halfa Scheme -- Human settlement in Sudan
Wikipedia - Newport Half Marathon -- annual half marathon race in the city of Newport, Wales
Wikipedia - New Rochelle 250th Anniversary half dollar -- Commemorative coin
Wikipedia - New York City Half Marathon -- Annual race in the United States held since 2006
Wikipedia - Niece and nephew -- Child of one's sibling or half-sibling
Wikipedia - Nine and a Half Weeks (book) -- 1978 novel by Ingeborg Day
Wikipedia - Norfolk, Virginia, Bicentennial half dollar -- Commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Northern Hemisphere -- Half of Earth that is north of the equator
Wikipedia - Now, Not Yet -- 2019 studio album by Half Alive
Wikipedia - Ocean Science (journal) -- An open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
Wikipedia - Odo of Bayeux -- 11th-century Bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror
Wikipedia - Old Spanish Trail half dollar -- 1935 commemorative U.S. coin
Wikipedia - One half -- Reverse fraction
Wikipedia - On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1929 film) -- 1929 film
Wikipedia - On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954 film) -- 1954 film
Wikipedia - On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1969 film) -- 1969 film
Wikipedia - On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (song) -- Song by Ralph Arthur Roberts
Wikipedia - Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar -- US commemorative 50-cent coin
Wikipedia - Our Solar System -- 1984 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Overjoyed (Half Japanese album) -- 2014 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - P107 -- Type of Half-track prime mover/cargo transport
Wikipedia - P2 (film) -- 2007 film by Franck Khalfoun
Wikipedia - Pedro Halffter -- Spanish conductor and composer
Wikipedia - Persians -- Iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of Iran
Wikipedia - Pileus (hat) -- Conical or half-egg-shaped cap, often of felt, worn in Ancient Greece and Rome and by ecclesiastics
Wikipedia - Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar -- US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Politically Incorrect -- American late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher
Wikipedia - Profile Portrait of a Young Lady -- 1465 half-length portrait
Wikipedia - Proxy server -- Computer server that makes and receives requests on behalf of a user
Wikipedia - Push-to-talk -- Protocol in half-duplex telecommunication devices
Wikipedia - Quintus Volusius Saturninus (consul 92) -- Roman Senator during the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century AD
Wikipedia - Radiation angle -- Half the vertex angle of the cone of light emitted at the exit face of an optical fiber
Wikipedia - Raquel Chalfi -- Israeli poet
Wikipedia - Reading Half Marathon -- Half marathon road running event held on the streets of the English town of Reading
Wikipedia - Research and Development (mod) -- 2009 Half-Life mod and puzzle game
Wikipedia - Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar -- 1936 commemorative U.S. coin
Wikipedia - Robert, Count of Mortain -- 11th-century Norman nobleman and the uterine half-brother of William the Conqueror
Wikipedia - Rodolfo Halffter -- Spanish composer
Wikipedia - Roger Clinton Jr. -- American actor and musician, half brother of former President Bill Clinton
Wikipedia - Royal Parks Half Marathon -- Half-marathon in London, England
Wikipedia - Sabrina Spellman -- Fictional half-witch half-human
Wikipedia - Sale of UK gold reserves, 1999-2002 -- The sale of half of the UK's gold reserves between 1999-2002
Wikipedia - Salim Abdallah Khalfan -- Tanzanian politician
Wikipedia - Sancho Ochoa de Castro -- Governor of the island of Puerto Rico in the second half of the 16th century
Wikipedia - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar -- 1936 US commemorative coin
Wikipedia - Sd.Kfz. 9 -- German half-track family
Wikipedia - Seal script -- Ancient style of writing Chinese characters common in the latter half of the 1st millennium BCE
Wikipedia - Semi-basement -- Floor of a building that is half below ground
Wikipedia - Sentinel Range -- Mountain range in Antarctica, northward of Minnesota Glacier, forms the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains
Wikipedia - Seven and a Half Dates -- Nigerian film
Wikipedia - Seven and a Half -- 2006 film
Wikipedia - Sex Workers' Rights Movement -- Movement to improve working conditions, increase benefits and eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within the sex industry, whether legal or criminalized
Wikipedia - Sing No Evil -- 1985 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Six and One Half Times Eleven -- 1927 film
Wikipedia - Sky-Map.org -- A wiki and interactive sky map that covers more than half a billion celestial objects
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics - Men's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics - Women's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Men's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Women's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's halfpipe -- Snowboarding at the Olympics
Wikipedia - Stalking horse -- A figure used to test a concept or mount a challenge on behalf of an anonymous third party
Wikipedia - Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar -- American fifty-cent piece (1925)
Wikipedia - St Patrick halfpenny
Wikipedia - Sulphur Springs Valley -- valley in the eastern half of Cochise County, Arizona
Wikipedia - Super Bowl LIII halftime show -- Halftime show of the 2019 edition of the Super Bowl
Wikipedia - Super Bowl LIV halftime show -- Halftime show of the 2020 Super Bowl
Wikipedia - Super Bowl LV halftime show -- Halftime show of the 2021 Super Bowl
Wikipedia - Super Bowl XXXVI halftime show -- halftime show of the 2002 Super Bowl
Wikipedia - Tangent half-angle formula -- Relates the tangent of half of an angle to trigonometric functions of the entire angle
Wikipedia - The Band That Would Be King -- 1989 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - The Dark Half (film)
Wikipedia - The Half-Breed (1916 film) -- 1916 film by Allan Dwan
Wikipedia - The Half-Breed (short story)
Wikipedia - The Half-Hearted -- 1900 novel by John Buchan
Wikipedia - The Half-Naked Truth -- 1932 film
Wikipedia - The Half of It -- 2020 film by Alice Wu
Wikipedia - The Half Sisters -- Philippine television series
Wikipedia - The Half-Way Girl -- 1925 film
Wikipedia - The Halfway House -- 1944 film by Basil Dearden
Wikipedia - The Hidden Half -- 2001 film by Tahmineh Milani
Wikipedia - The Last Star -- 2001 studio album by Halfcocked
Wikipedia - The Old Wellington Inn -- Half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England
Wikipedia - The Other Half (1919 film) -- 1919 film by King Vidor
Wikipedia - The Other Half (2016 film) -- 2016 Canadian romantic drama film
Wikipedia - The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir -- 1975 film
Wikipedia - The Power of Half
Wikipedia - The Vanishing Half -- 2020 novel by Brit Bennett
Wikipedia - Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves -- 2016 film by Mathieu Denis
Wikipedia - Three halfpence (British coin) -- Archaic coin minted for the British colonies
Wikipedia - Three halfpence (English coin) -- Archaic English coin (1561-1582)
Wikipedia - Tim Donnelly (rugby union) -- Australian rugby union flyhalf
Wikipedia - Tom Whiteley -- English rugby union scrum half
Wikipedia - Two and a Half Men (season 10) -- Season of television series
Wikipedia - Two and a Half Men -- American television sitcom (2003-2015)
Wikipedia - United States Sesquicentennial coinage -- 1926 commemorative US half dollar and quarter eagle
Wikipedia - Unreleased Half-Life games -- Canceled video game projects
Wikipedia - Upper half plane
Wikipedia - User agent -- Software acting on behalf of a user
Wikipedia - USS Halfbeak (SS-352) -- US Navy submarine
Wikipedia - Valencia Half Marathon -- Annual race in Spain held since 1988
Wikipedia - Venloop -- Dutch annual half marathon in Venlo
Wikipedia - Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar -- 1927 American commemorative fifty-cent piece
Wikipedia - Volusia Saturnina -- Roman noble woman who lived during the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the 1st century AD
Wikipedia - Vortigaunt -- Fictional species in the Half-Life series
Wikipedia - WaiM-JM-;anae Range -- The eroded remains of an ancient shield volcano that comprises the western half of the Hawaiian Island of OM-JM-;ahu
Wikipedia - Walden Schmidt -- Fictional character from the television series Two and a Half Men
Wikipedia - Walking Liberty half dollar -- 1916-1947 coin issued by the United States Mint
Wikipedia - Wars in Lombardy -- Wars in Northern Italy in the first half of the 15th century.
Wikipedia - We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love -- 1990 album by Half Japanese
Wikipedia - Wild Man From Borneo -- British half-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Wikipedia - William Halfpenny -- British architect
Wikipedia - With a strong hand and an outstretched arm -- Phrase in the Bible describing God's use of his power on behalf of Israel
Wikipedia - Wokingham Half Marathon -- Half-marathon in England
Wikipedia - Woodlark Plate -- A small tectonic plate located in the eastern half of the island of New Guinea
Wikipedia - Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon -- 2020 Japanese anime television series
Wikipedia - Yogasopana Purvacatuska -- first hatha yoga manual with halftone illustrations
Wikipedia - Zapiekanka -- Open-face sandwich made of half of a baguette or other long roll of bread
Halford Mackinder ::: Born: February 15, 1861; Died: March 6, 1947; Occupation: Politician;
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10266063-half-moon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10366999-half-in-love
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10578304.Half_Upon_a_Time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10578304-half-upon-a-time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1061262.Half_the_Blood_of_Brooklyn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1082276.Halfway_Human
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11076123.Half_Blood_Blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11076123-half-blood-blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11164727-the-whole-story-of-half-a-girl
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11277218-i-am-half-sick-of-shadows
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11381977-the-other-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11525586.Half_of_the_Human_Race
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11597.The_Dark_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11625386-half-magic-five-children-and-it-the-egypt-game
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11625396-the-phantom-tollbooth-the-egypt-game-half-magic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11836518-halflings
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11836518.Halflings__Halflings___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12317217.Twice_Upon_a_Time__Half_Upon_a_Time___2_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12408238-the-half-stitched-amish-quilting-club
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125523.The_Half_Brother
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12608175-murder-on-the-half-shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12697251-the-half-breed-vampire
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1279970.Half_of_Man_Is_Woman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988505-camp-half-blood---the-heroes-of-olympus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12989382-camp-half-blood---the-heroes-of-olympus-characters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1307813.Halfbreed_Warrior
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13162852-halfing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13162861-half-black-soul
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13325079-billy-lynn-s-long-halftime-walk
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13357228-the-half-life-of-ryan-davis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1340730.Harland_s_Half_Acre
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13454170-confessions-of-an-average-half-vampire
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1350947.The_Other_Half_Of_The_Dream
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13514621-halfway-to-the-grave
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517621-half-lives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13580111-myths-lies-and-half-truths-of-language-usage
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13593341-the-three-and-a-half-minute-transaction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13596219-half-moon-rising
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13637385-one-and-a-half-wife
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13648678-billy-lynn-s-long-halftime-walk
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13699590-half-marathon-roadmap
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13819856-three-and-a-half-virgins
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1421990.Halfway_to_the_Grave
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1421990.Halfway_to_the_Grave__Night_Huntress___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1486910.A_Half_Red_Sea
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-told
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14898774-those-enchanted-four-and-half-years
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15758130-winter-garden-the-poacher-s-son-a-thread-so-thin-half-broke-horses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802794.Once_Upon_the_End__Half_Upon_a_Time___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818173-half-moon-hill
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15836745-twenty-nine-and-a-half-reasons
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15986588-the-half-life-of-hannah
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16042936-all-in-the-half-vampire-family
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16058649-mark-reads-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16068973-the-half-life-of-molly-pierce
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16127501-scandal-on-half-moon-street
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16193991-halfskin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16211559-the-dark-half-of-the-sun
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248241-a-half-forgotten-song
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16569811-my-better-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1681180.Half_Caste_and_Other_Poems
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171066.Venus_on_the_Half_Shell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17152015-thirty-and-a-half-excuses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230880-half-moon-bay
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17259197-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17287024-the-kennedy-half-century
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1733566.Half_Empty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17339727-meet-cute-at-the-end-of-the-world---four-and-a-half-short-stories
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17351138-billy-lynn-s-long-halftime-walk
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17655809-the-half-life-of-home
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17667009.Half_Off_Ragnarok__InCryptid___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176867.Elvenborn__Halfblood_Chronicles___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17737011-half-the-kingdom
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1773848.Half_Past_Human
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178083.Half_Broken_Things
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17827619-half-the-kingdom
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17857396-the-other-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17906245-hyperbole-and-a-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17923969-half-a-rupee-stories
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17993969-the-kennedy-half-dollar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18051159-the-half-upon-a-time-trilogy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079804-half-bad
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079804.Half_Bad__Half_Life___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079804.Half_Bad__The_Half_Bad_Trilogy___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144133-half-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18218630-a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222557.Half_a_Chance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18453658-the-missing-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460176-thirty-one-and-a-half-regrets
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18510235-half-a-world-away
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1851166.The_Magic_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18523447-the-halfshaft-games
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666047-half-a-king
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666047.Half_a_King__Shattered_Sea___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18698816-the-half-life-of-molly-pierce
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18749.Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188362.Hard_Facts_Dangerous_Half_Truths_and_Total_Nonsense
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1889819.A_Glass_Half_Full
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18906070-half-marathon-roadmap
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189112.Half_the_Day_is_Night
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18929331-killing-halfbreed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18932822-the-advance-of-science-in-the-last-half-century
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18960012-glass-half-full
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19104070-half-century-status
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19190724-the-second-half-of-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19279903-half-a-rupee
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19318982-half-life-wired-single-stories-002
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19371627-half-hearts
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195558.The_Cry_of_Nature_or_An_Appeal_to_Mercy_and_to_Justice_on_Behalf_of_the_Persecuted_Animals
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince__Harry_Potter___6_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2009106.The_Half_Known_World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201622.Half_a_Heart
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203992.Half_Past_Autumn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20437055-only-half-alive
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20639882.On_Behalf_of_the_Family
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20687181-thirty-two-and-a-half-complications
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20754945-glass-half-full
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20814989-half-wild
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20814993-half-lost
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2082730.Half_Assed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20985391-tales-from-the-half-continent
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2113152.Wales_Half_Welsh
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412507-things-half-in-shadow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413848-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21449652-the-half-sister
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217129.Half_Slave_and_Half_Free
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21912666-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-in-fifteen-minutes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21954964-half-of-a-yellow-sun-americanah-purple-hibiscus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22010341-project-halfsheep
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22040259-the-half-romance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055283-half-the-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22130290-the-girl-on-the-half-shell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222340.Hell_s_Half_Acre
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22381326-half-a-war
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22381326.Half_a_War__Shattered_Sea___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22393174-half-resurrection-blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22393174.Half_Resurrection_Blues__Bone_Street_Rumba___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224175.Mister_Cat_and_a_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22457037.A_Girl_is_a_Half_Formed_Thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225038.Half_Magic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22549202-half-a-prayer
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22550398.The_Dangers_of_Dating_a_Rebound_Vampire__Half_Moon_Hollow___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22662755-the-half-mother
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22847270-twenty-eight-and-a-half-wishes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22874559-half-girlfriend
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22874559-half-girlfriend\
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23006338-half-resurrection-blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23009278-halfway-heroes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23161011-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23263614-thirty-three-and-a-half-shenanigans
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23361016-half-lies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23437493-the-half-series
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23843470-the-girl-on-the-half-shell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23843470.The_Girl_on_the_Half_Shell__The_Half_Shell___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848505-half-an-inch-of-water
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23849067-halfway-home
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23965598-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24472779.The_Girl_of_Tokens_and_Tears__The_Half_Shell_Series___2_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612210-the-half-has-never-been-told
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24778061-thirty-four-and-a-half-predicaments
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479957.Killing_Halfbreed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24899303-half-truths-and-whole-lies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24909053-on-your-half-century
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25101899.The_Single_Undead_Moms_Club__Half_Moon_Hollow___4_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25202843.The_Girl_of_Diamonds_and_Rust__The_Half_Shell_Series___3_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25203398-half-full
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2527215.Mutha_Is_Half_a_Word
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25312797-half-moon-girls
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25366656-how-the-other-half-banks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25556963-half-my-blood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256151.The_Half_Mammals_of_Dixie
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25622872-half-earth
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25634338-the-broken-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25684996-a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25694706-half-in-love-with-death
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25708160.The_Girl_in_the_Comfortable_Quiet_The_Half_Shell_Series___4_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25731752-all-the-innuendo-half-the-fact
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25827242-halfway-dead
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25937741.Half_a_Lifelong_Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25937741-half-a-lifelong-romance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114357-half-light
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26172651-saga-six-pack-4---in-the-days-of-giants-halfdan-the-black-true-untru
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26197298-half-truths
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26337466-half-truths
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26811429-a-mile-and-a-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26829865-acne-asthma-and-other-signs-you-might-be-half-dragon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26876016-how-the-other-half-banks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270251.The_Half_You_Don_t_Know
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27067609-halfskin-boxed-set
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270851.Find_the_Job_You_ve_Always_Wanted_in_Half_the_Time_with_Half_the_Effort
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27188411-half-hearts
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27188435-half-hearts-ii
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27204788-half-of-what-i-say
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213246-half-wild
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27216984-halfskin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27274410.Where_the_Wild_Things_Bite__Half_Moon_Hollow___5_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27788493-half-irish
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27831204-the-heading-dog-who-split-in-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28139880-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28217813-one-half-from-the-east
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28434082-half-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28444587-the-halfling
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28444587.The_Halfling__The_Aria_Fae_Series__Book_1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28513872-half-hearts-iii
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28575784-halfway-hunted
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28758197-halfway-bitten
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28789732-the-hidden-half-of-nature
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28856656-the-halfling
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290058.Becoming_a_Man_Half_a_Life_Story__Perennial_Classics_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2906048-half-share
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29339972-thirty-six-and-a-half-motives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29342265-half-broke-horses-von-jeannette-walls
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29417027-the-halfling
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29489198-fenn-halflin-and-the-fearzero
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506841-the-vengeful-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297260.Half_In_Love
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30051328-100-simple-secrets-of-the-best-half-of-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3019645-a-half-life-of-cardio-pulmonary-function
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30310582-hyperbole-and-a-half-2017-wall-calendar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30366837.The_Accidental_Sire__Half_Moon_Hollow___6_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30734412-the-half-king
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31933417-half-finished
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32446960.The_Rules_of_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32572001-half-of-a-yellow-sun
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600758-the-half-drowned-king
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32605350-half-past
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32815361-autobiography-of-a-traitor-and-a-half-savage
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32877158-halfway-drowned
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3298088-half-a-crown
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33009716-kelby-the-halfling-princess
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33215762-i-am-half-sick-of-shadows
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33223206-the-other-half-of-happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33393124-half-blood-dragon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33407097-half-a-world-away
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33411394-the-half-drowned-king
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334296.Halfway_to_Half_Way
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342.The_Big_Oyster_History_on_the_Half_Shell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33571767-half-baked-harvest-cookbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33871449-how-the-other-half-lives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34116633-half-moon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34311624-a-day-and-a-half-of-paradise
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34398027-two-and-a-half-weeks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466445-the-half-of-me-trilogy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34599252-half-brother-blues-chasing-my-mother-s-ghost-and-finding-her-secret-son
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3467963-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34862202-half-the-sky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34871311-the-halfling
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35034004-half-sick-of-shadows
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35178488-the-other-half-of-happy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35285264-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35396553-half-of-what-you-hear
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354012.Proslogium_Monologium_Cur_Deus_Homo_In_Behalf_of_the_Fool
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35604898-fenn-halflin-and-the-seaborn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35607916-murder-at-half-moon-gate
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35607916-murder-at-half-moon-gate\
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35621955-hero-in-a-halfling
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36003395-too-clever-by-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36358352-half-a-heart
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36418591-the-half-sister
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36495890-half-moon-bay
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36547102-half-finished
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36604003-half-two
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374811.Halfway_Home
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37586799-half-a-king
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37647817-half-empty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378901.Half_in_Love
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37915346-half-lives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38327197-the-man-of-maybe-half-a-dozen-faces
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38357345-my-favorite-half-night-stand
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385016.The_Half_Inch_Himalayas
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38508132-the-art-of-halfbrick
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387812.The_Half_Finished_Heaven
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38815480-the-second-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38893833-the-lesser-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39081325-the-second-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39204176-half-spent-was-the-night
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39865920-half-a-buck
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39925892-the-house-on-half-moon-street
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39947203-my-favorite-half-night-stand
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3998883-the-half-mad-lord
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40118513-half-the-lies-you-tell-are-true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40198652-twenty-eight-and-a-half-wishes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40506766-half-the-night-is-gone
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604197-half-a-world-away
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40646232-half-blood-descendant
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40950646-the-half-truth
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41033814-under-half-empty-heaven
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41888.A_Giraffe_and_a_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42047608-half-blood-descendant
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42093880-amelia-fang-and-the-half-moon-holiday
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42097820-half-moon-house-series
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42099697-half-blood-secrets
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42585963-women-at-halftime
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42585964-women-at-halftime
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42599160-halfway-house-success
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42879875-half-burnt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43358682-the-art-of-halfbrick
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43581627-the-house-on-half-moon-street
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43898476-half-moon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45012867-half-blood-origins
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45027075-my-favorite-half-night-stand
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45145049-half-moon-street
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45299538-half-shell-prophecies
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453744.The_Half_Breed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4680339-the-world-in-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47079.Half_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496179.Half_and_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49852.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50438.100_Simple_Secrets_of_the_Best_Half_of_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5441773.Halfway_to_the_Grave__Night_Huntress___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5711912-the-other-half-lives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57534.Half_the_Way_Home
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5853.Half_a_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5873527-half-of-the-battle-is-to-surrender-all-i-have
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139012-the-halfway-house
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6178469-halfdollar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185615-the-half-healed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260997-half-the-sky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289599-half-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6358197-their-finest-hour-and-a-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6358586-the-half-mask
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6363664-america-s-half-blood-prince
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6366437.Half_Broke_Horses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6366437-half-broke-horses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64073.The_Muse_Is_Always_Half_Dressed_in_New_Orleans_and_Other_Essays
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660321.Half_Jew
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6614271-half-past-dead
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694856-outside-the-halfway-house
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68396.The_Halfling_s_Gem
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6911008-90-of-the-game-is-half-mental
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6936700-becoming-your-spouse-s-better-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6950724-meeting-your-half-orange
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6978406-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69882.Billiards_at_Half_Past_Nine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/706150.The_Halfmen_of_O
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7164205-half-were-house
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327326-half-upon-a-time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737529.Half_Truths_and_One_and_a_Half_Truths
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/742347.Halfway_Through_the_Door
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766089.Halfway_Down_the_Stairs
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841566-half-past-dawn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7942534.Half_Brother
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7942534-half-brother
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7957361-half-empty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7992873-the-trouble-with-half-a-moon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8097786.Dark_Designs__Half_Lives___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8114546-half-a-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8136527-half-in-love
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8198773.The_Half_Made_World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8198773-the-half-made-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8207711-the-smaller-half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8273002-halfway-hexed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/831893.Half_Moon_Investigations
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835435.Summer_Half
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8428984-half-way-home
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/844946.The_Second_Half_of_the_Double_Feature
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/856935.Half_a_Moon_and_One_Whole_Star
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8697533-half-a-candle
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905368.That_Extra_Half_an_Inch
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/912906.The_Man_of_Maybe_Half_A_Dozen_Faces
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/916652.Halfway_to_the_Sky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9258533-half-upon-a-time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9411279-half-past
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9470915-horton-halfpott-or-the-fiendish-mystery-of-smugwick-manor-or-the-loo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9567.Half_Asleep_in_Frog_Pajamas
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9680718-half-blood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9680718.Half_Blood__Covenant___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9690444.Shadow_Kin__The_Half_Light_City___1_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9809803-half-life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9909133-the-cry-of-nature-or-an-appeal-to-mercy-and-to-justice-on-behalf-of-t
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99574.Finding_Meaning_in_the_Second_Half_of_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99575.Half_a_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99576.The_Half_life_of_Happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99577.Half_Life_of_a_Zealot
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99578.The_Half_Life_of_Stars
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99583.The_Half_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1013969.Halfdan_W_Freihow
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13946277.Finn_Halfdan
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14735851.A_M_Halford
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15145083.Louise_B_Halfe_Sky_Dancer
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16178446.Keri_Halfacre
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16330931.Zack_Halford
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17449447.Katy_Halford
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1770387.Eduardo_Halfon
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17720603.Rob_Chalfen
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18621399.Amira_Gehanne_Khalfallah
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19209838.Kurt_Halfyard
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2750092.Scott_G_Halford
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3032350.Kathleen_Chalfant
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/501732.James_C_Halfpenny
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532562.Michelle_Chalfoun
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5471.Janet_Halfmann
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/625422.Louise_Bernice_Halfe
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6585429.Mercedes_Halfon
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7656966.half_and_half_studio
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8247504.Halfdan_Pisket
Goodreads author - Eduardo_Halfon
Goodreads author - Michelle_Chalfoun
Goodreads author - Janet_Halfmann
Goodreads author - Saul_E_Halfon
http://camphalfbloodroleplay.wikia.com/
http://camphalfblood.wikia.com/
https://greekmythology.wikia.org/wiki/File:Venus-half-shell-front-ss-ven.jpg
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Half-track
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Denis_Michael_Rohan#Response_by_and_on_behalf_of_Yasser_Arafat
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Halfway_to_concentration_by_Ayya_Khema
http://twohalfmen.wikia.com/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men_Wiki
Integral World - 'What Good is Half a Wing?', The Wilberian Evolution Debate Continues, Frank Visser
selforum - history of half century
selforum - brain is only halfway along in evolution
selforum - half revealed stuff of old days
dedroidify.blogspot - why-are-we-only-speaking-with-half-our
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/TheHalfWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/AnimeAndManga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/ComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/LiveActionTV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/VideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BrattyHalfPint/WesternAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ItAintHalfHotMum
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalfAkaneTendo
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalfRanmaSaotome
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalfRyogaHibiki
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalfShampoo
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RanmaOneHalfUkyoKuonji
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeries
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/JohnnyHiroHalfAsianAllHero
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HalfbrickStudios
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DieForOurShip/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FandomSpecificPlot/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/AWorldHalfFull
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/BoyScoutsOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/HalfPastAdventure
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LadybugInAHalfShell
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/PoniesOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TheCampHalfBloodSeries
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/SlayerAndAHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanon/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/TheCampHalfBloodSeries
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BillyLynnsLongHalftimeWalk
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CopAndAHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/EightAndAHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HalfBaked
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HalfBrothers
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HalfLives
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HalfPastDead
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NaturesHalfAcre
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHalfBreed
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHalfOfIt
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHalfwayHouse
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Haiku/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/Advertising
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/ComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/ComicStrips
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/LiveActionTV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/VideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/Webcomics
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/WesternAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/AnimeAndManga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/ComicBooks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/FanWorks
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/LiveActionTV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/TabletopGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/VideoGames
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/Webcomics
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfHumanHybrid/WesternAnimation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfwayPlotSwitch/LiveActionFilms
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HalfwayPlotSwitch/TheSimpsons
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/BrattyHalfPint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/HalfHumanHybrid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/HalfwayPlotSwitch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfMagic
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfMoonInvestigations
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfOfAYellowSun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfsSaga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfUponATime
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfwayAcrossTheGalaxyAndTurnLeft
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HalfWorld
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDarkHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheHalfbloodChronicles
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheHalfLifeTrilogy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWorldHalfFull
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrattyHalfPint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrattyHalfpint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DetachableLowerHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DramaticHalfHour
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrearyHalfLiddedEyes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfArcSeason
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfBreedAngst
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfBreedDiscrimination
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfEmptyTwoShot
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfemptyTwoShot
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfHeartedHenchman
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfheartedHenchman
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfHourComedy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfHumanHybrid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfHumanHybrids
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfIdenticalTwins
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfRememberedHomage
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfSiblingAngst
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfTruth
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfVampire
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfwayPlotSwitch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfwayPlotTwist
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfWittedHillbilly
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PickYourHumanHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SawAWomanInHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooCleverByHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoAndAHalfD
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldHalfEmpty
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldHalfFull
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/DragonHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/RanmaOneHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/HalfManHalfBiscuit
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Unhalfbricking
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/BrattyHalfPint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/HalfwayPlotSwitch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/BrattyHalfPint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/HalfHumanHybrid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/HalfwayPlotSwitch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/HancocksHalfHour
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TwoAndAHalfMen
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HalfAndHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HancocksHalfHour
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ItAintHalfHotMum
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TwoAndAHalfMen
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/HalfASixpence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/HalfCadence
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/BrattyHalfPint
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/HalfHumanHybrid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoExamples/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/HalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLife1
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/HalfLife1
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLifeDecay
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLifeResidualLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfMinuteHero
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfRatsAFeverDream
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Halfway
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/LastHalfOfDarkness
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SweetHalfLife
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/HalfFull
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/HalfLifeSideStoryGaidenHuntDownFreeMan
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/MortalHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheOnlyHalfSaga
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/HalfByteComms
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/HalfInTheBag
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/HeroesAndHalfwits
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfTheAbridgedChronicles
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HoneyHalfWitch
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/HalfLife2
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/HalfDemonCali
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/HalfHazard
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/HalfLight
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/HalflingDaniel
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Halfstep
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/HalfwayHome
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billy_Lynn's_Long_Halftime_Walk_(film)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Two_and_a_Half_Men
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:2005_Half_Dollar_Obv_Unc_P.png
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Earl_Warren_Portrait,_half_figure,_seated,_facing_front,_as_Governor.jpg
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Half_Human
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Halford_Edward_Luccock
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Halford_E._Luccock
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hancock's_Half_Hour
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(film)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/It_Ain't_Half_Hot_Mum
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsage/2005_Half_Dollar_Obv_Unc_P.png
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Advance_of_Science_in_the_Last_Half-Century
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tobias_and_the_Half-Pariah
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men
Beavis & Butt-Head (1992 - 2011) - Beavis and Butt-head was first aired on the U.S. cable network MTV in March 1993. This show, which combined animation and music videos, was an example of the unique programming that MTV has consistently provided for its youthful demographics. The half-hour program alternated between a simple narrati...
ThunderCats (1985 - 1988) - The inhabitants of the planet Thundera evacuate just before it is destroyed. They were pursued by a band of mutants. All but one of their escape ships was destroyed. Only a small group of Thunderans (Thundercats) remained. With only half engine power, the group, which was led by Jaga, had to set a c...
Lamb Chop's Play Along (1992 - 1997) - Lamb Chop's Play-Along is a children's television series that ran on PBS from 1992 until 1997. The half-hour program starred Shari Lewis, a puppeteer and ventriloquist, and Lambchop, described as a feisty 6-year-old girl. The goal of the show was to encourage kids to participate, to come play, inste...
Weinerville (1993 - 1996) - The show, a totally outrageous half-hour variety show, uses classic elements of kid's programming, which include puppeteering and interaction with a live studio audience, to entertain kids and their parents. Weinerville Productions also produces live nationally touring stage shows. Weinerville speci...
Street Sharks (1992 - 1996) - A university professor named Dr. Paradigm tested his gene-manipulation techniques on Dr. Bolton, a fellow professor, who became an inhuman monstrosity and escaped. Paradigm later kidnapped Bolton's four sons and turned them into huge creatures half-man, half-shark.
The Cramp Twins (2002 - 2005) - cramp twins is a frickin mediore show lucien is the dev of half life 3 and wayne is a fucking douche why would you do that to such a child
InuYasha (1997 - 2004) - Fifteen year old Kagome Higurashi falls into an old well on her family's Shinto shrine. The "Bone eater's well" transports Kagome back in time to Japan's feudal era. There she meets the half dog demon half human Inuyasha.An old priestess named Kaede explains to Kagome that she is the reincarnation...
Tales from The Darkside (1983 - 1988) - Tales from the Darkside was a weekly half hour horror series. The show ran from it's Halloween 1983 pilot episode until 1988, with a total of 90 episodes in all.Each episode of this TV series depicts a short, strange tale...with a twist! With eerie stories vaguely reminiscent of 'The Twilight Zone,...
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986 - 2000) - ABC's remade version of "The Bugs Bunny Show" after ABC picked it back up. In the first year, the show was a half-hour and aired Sylvester & Tweety cartoons along with Bugs Bunny. The show expanded to an hour in 1988. The show survived the FCC's 1996 educational/informational television rule and air...
Airwolf (1984 - 1987) - Airwolf is the most sophisticated helicopter imagainable (flies half way around the world, out runs jet planes). Stringfellow Hawk is it's pilot, essentially blackmailing a secret US agency into finding his brother (lost in Vietnam) while he flies dangerous assignments for the Firm, with orders comi...
The Adventures of McGee and Me (1986 - 1995) - The Adventures of McGee and Me! is an American Christian television series created by Ken C. Johnson and Bill Myers. The series premiered on June 4, 1989, spanning twelve episodes until its conclusion on June 11, 1995. Each half-hour long episode centers around Nicholas, his cartoon friend, McGee, a...
Garbage Pail Kids (1987 - 1988) - Based on the wildly popular Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, the main segments of the series followed five of the GPK's: half-punker/half-yuppie Split Kit, dripping, oozing Clogged Duane, Elliot Mess, whose body parts were rearranged carelessly, faceless Teri Cloth, and the elastic, body stretching...
Passions (1999 - 2008) - Passions follows the lives and loves, and various romantic and paranormal adventures of the residents of Harmony. Story-lines center around the interactions among members of its multi-racial core families the African American Russells, white Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican half-Irish Lopez-F...
Finders Keepers (1987 - 1990) - A Nickelodeon game show where children would run through a house and find hidden objects. The game was divided up into two rounds each with two halves for two teams. In the first half, the "Hidden Pictures" round, the contestants had to find objects (by circling it, Via the video writing pen) hidden...
Jem (1985 - 1988) - Jem & the Holograms. Jerrica Benton inherits half of her father's company, Starlight music. Eric Raymond has the other half. Eric wants to exploit Starlight topromote "The Misfits" Jerrica can't do anything until she discovers synergi. synergi is a computer her father invented. She projects lif...
The Red Green Show (1991 - 2006) - "The Red Green Show" is a unique half-hour comedy series targeted at family audiences. Its purpose is to entertain and to provide an escape from the pressures of urban living.
Raw Toonage (1992 - 1992) - Raw Toonage was a half-hour show airing on NBC Saturday mornings featuring a Disney classic character as the host (ex. Goofy) and three cartoon shorts: "He's Bonkers" featuring Bonkers D. Bobcat with Jitters A. Dog and Fawn Deer, "Marsupilami" featuring Marsupilami and Maurice the gorila, and "Total...
Donald's Quack Attack (1993 - 1993) - A half hour compilation of classic Disney cartoons featuring Donald Duck and his friends.
Danger Bay (1985 - 1990) - Danger Bay was a half hour-long family adventure series set in and around the city of Vancouver.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 - 1999) - The stable wormhole discovered by the Deep Space Nine crew is known to the Bajoran people as the Celestial Temple of their Prophets. Sisko, as discoverer of the wormhole and its inhabitants, is therefore the Emissary of Bajoran prophesy. The wormhole's other end is in the Gamma Quadrant, halfway aro...
Skeleton Warriors (1995 - 1996) - On planet Luminaire, the Lightstar Crystal has been split in half. The Legion of Light consisting of Justin Steele(Prince Lightstar), Joshua Steele(Grimskull), Jennifer Steele(Talyn), have been endowed with great powers through their half of the Crystal. The evil Baron Dark, who gained control of th...
A Bozo Christmas Carol (1988 - 1988) - Half hour television Christmas Special featuring the World's Most Famous Clown. Bozo the Clown (Gary Weir's version) retells Charles Dickens classic story "A Christmas Carol" to the children and his sidekick T.V. Prime (based on the local KLRT Channel 16 TV mascot). Bozo's tells the story of Ebeneze...
The Scooby-Doo Show (1976 - 1979) - This was a half hour version of "The Scooby-Doo Show" featuring just the Scooby episodes as featured on the "Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" (1976-77).
Mickey's Mouse Tracks (1993 - 1993) - A half hour compilation of classic Disney cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends.
The Bozo Super Weekend Show (1994 - 2001) - In 1994 the show moved from daily to an hour on weekends and was became ''The Bozo Super Weekend Show. They lost all of the clowns except for Bozo(Joey D' Auria) and Prof Andy(Andy Mitran). In place of the lost actors we got Rusty the Handyman(Robin Eurich) a bumbling half wit who breaks more than...
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979 - 1982) - The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. A total of sixteen episodes were produce...
The Joy of Painting (1983 - 1995) - Hosted by painter Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting debuted on PBS in 1983. During each episode Bob Ross would teach techniques in landscape painting. Despite the fact that Ross would complete a painting in only a half hour in each episode he maintained that the show wasn't about teaching speed painting...
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983 - 1983) - "The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show" is the sixth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 10, 1983, and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program made up of two eleven-minute short cartoons. (In 1984 for the second season, the name of t...
Mr. Spim's Cartoon Theatre (1993 - 1996) - Cartoon network series that aired movies and half hour tv specials!
The Wild Wild West (1965 - 1969) - James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. Half science fiction and half western, the Artemus designs a series of interesting gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget and James Bond proud...
Entertainment Tonight (1981 - Current) - Debuting in 1981, Entertainment Tonight set the trend for entertainment-oriented shows. This half-hour program, which has been hosted by John Tesh, Leeza Gibbons, Patrick O'Brien, and Mary Hart, focuses on the news of the movies, television and music industries.
Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends (1972 - 1995) - The Merrie Melodies Show was a long-lasting half-hour program for various Looney Tunes shorts. Before they run the third and final cartoon short. They would a 20-second clip of one of the Looney Tunes shorts (via Hip Clips). Each 20-second clip is introduce with Taz barfing out the letters that read...
Two and a Half Men (2003 - 2013) - Take a house, put in 2 guys in that are brothers and a gamer of a kid and you've got one great show called Two and a Half Men. It is a typical day 4 Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) who thinks that his life couldn't get any better. That is until his brother Alan (Jon Cryer) and his son Jake (Angus T....
Home and Away (1988 - Current) - Home and Away is an Australian weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since January 1988. It is broadcast on the Seven Network and its affiliates in Australia and is exported to many countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it briefly became the...
Android Kikaider (1972 - 1973) - An android created by a scientist who has half-complete circuits, which causes him to become unconcious by hearing Professor Gill's flute. When the android becomes Kikaider, he becomes harmless to Professor Gill's flute, and fights off the robotic Dark monsters.
Claymore (2007 - 2007) - When a shapeshifting demon with a thirst for human flesh, known as "youma," arrives in Raki's village, a lone woman with silver eyes walks into town with only a sword upon her back. She is a "Claymore," a being manufactured as half-human and half-youma, for the express purpose of exterminating these...
Power Block (1996 - 1997) - The Power Block was a weekday half hour program that showcased action-oriented animated cartoons, most of which were sequels or based off of 80's cartoons, with a different show airing each day.
Marvel Action Hour (1994 - 1996) - Marvel Action Hour was a syndicated television block from Marvel Productions featuring animated adaptions of Marvel Comic Book heroes the Fantastic Four and Iron Man. The Marvel Action Hour debuted in 1994. The first half of the hour was an episode of Iron Man; the second half an episode of Fantasti...
City Hunter (1987 - 1988) - A mostly episodic series that is half comedy, half crime drama.
Sealab 2020 (1972 - 1972) - This was an animated Hanna-Barbera series. The environmentally themed series was about an underwater research base that encountered various under-sea problems. It ran on NBC in 1972 and was canceled after only thirteen half-hour episodes. It was later revamped into the television series Sealab 2021...
The Second Half (1993 - 1994) -
Half Nelson (1985 - 1985) - Joe Pesci plays Rocky Nelson who was a former NY cop and now works as a security guard.
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 - 1981) - it is the 79th year of the universal century (uc 0079) and man has expanded into space. colonies orbiting the world hold more than half the human race. a distant cluster of colonies declares itself to be the principality of Zeon and declares war on the earth. it was assumed early on that the Earth F...
The Bobby Vinton Show (1975 - 1978) - Successful half-hour variety show that aired in the 70s. Hit song "Roses are Red (My Love) spent three weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Arguably his most famous song is 1963's "Blue Velvet" that also went to No.1. 23 years later, when David Lynch named his movie Blue Velvet after this song. I...
Later with Bob Costas (1988 - 1994) - Award-winning NBC sportscaster Bob Costas hosted this half-hour talk show after "Late Night with David Letterman".
The McLaughlin Group (1982 - Current) - The McLaughlin Group was a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, hosted by John McLaughlin from its first episode in 1982 until his death in 2016. A group of four pundits, prompted by McLaughlin, discussed current political issues in a round table format...
HBO Video Jukebox (1981 - 1986) - A half hour music video show on HBO.
KPRC-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - The newscasts are produced locally by KPRC-TV Channel 2 in Houston, Texas, 39 and a half hours each week. The Newscasts of KPRC-TV has been produced locally since the station was signed on the air on New Year's Day 1949.
KILL la KILL (2013 - 2013) - Ryuuko Matoi carries a large weapon shaped like half of a pair of scissors. She's looking for the woman with the other half, who killed her father. Satsuki Kiryuuin, student council president of Honnouji Academy, is said to know the woman's identity, so Ryuuko transfers there. Those who arrive at th...
Berserk (2016) (2016 - 2017) - This is a revived television adaptation of the manga after the 1997 anime of the same name, covering the Conviction arc from the manga. Also a second season, covering the first half of the Hawk of the Millennium Empire Arc.
In The Mix (1996 - 2012) - In the Mix is an American television series for young adults that covers a wide variety of critical issues and provides useful life skill information. In the Mix is a series for, by and with teenagers and young adults 14-21. Each half-hour single theme episode typically includes several segments dev...
Science Court (1997 - 2000) - The half-hour program mixed courtroom drama, science experiments, and humor to teach fundamental concepts in elementary and middle school science such as the water cycle, work, matter, gravity, flight, and energy. As each case unfolded, the characters in the trial used humor to highlight scientific...
Entourage (2004 - 2011) - Led by Vince, an actor deemed the next big thing, four buddies migrate west from Queens, N.Y. Usually within his reach are his less successful half brother, Drama; Vince's best friend, Eric; and their irrepressible pal, Turtle. As the foursome adjusts to Tinseltown's fast pace and frantic deal-makin...
The Magic of Oil Painting (1974 - 1982) - The Magic of Oil Painting is an American half-hour instructional television show hosted by painter Bill Alexander which ran from 1974 until 1982. In each episode, Alexander taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session.
The Biscuit Brothers (2005 - 2012) - a half-hour Emmy-award winning public television program produced in Austin, Texas. It first went on the air in Austin, Texas in 2004 and then premiered nationwide in 2005. The show uses a mixture of live-action, puppetry, and animation to teach music and cultural communication through music to chil...
Dumbo's Circus (1985 - 1986) - a live action/puppet television series that aired on The Disney Channel beginning on May 6, 1985,[1] and featured the character of Dumbo from the original film. The series was in production for three and a half seasons,[2] and reruns continued to air until February 28, 1997.
The Spirit of Christmas (1953) (1953 - 1960) - a Christmas television special performed by marionettes.[1] It first aired in 1953 in the United States.[1] Its half-hour showing time is divided into two marrionette segments, one dramatizing "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and one telling the story of the Nativity.[1] The live-action part of the film...
KCAL-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KCAL-TV in Los Angeles presently broadcasts a total of 32 and a half hours of locally produced news each week.
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (2007 - 2007) - Devil May Cry follows the story of the demon hunter known as Dante. As a half demon, half human, he uses his trusty sword Rebellion and his two guns Ebony and Ivory to take on missions. Dante owns and runs "Devil May Cry," a business that specializes in hunting and killing demon-related problems.
Tak and the Power of Juju (2007 - 2009) - an American CGI animated television series that formerly aired on Nickelodeon from August 31, 2007 to January 24, 2009. Based on the 2003 video game of the same name, the show consists of two eleven minute stories per half-hour episode. It is Nickelodeon's first all-CGI series (produced in house) an...
Lizzie the Lizard (1989 - 1991) - a children's television show[1] airing from 1989-1991 on ITV.[2] Four series were commissioned. Half of the series featured Lizzie and her pals (Patrick the Pig and Geoffrey the Donkey) discovering an item and then researching it. The other half featured the gang's normal life in school, at home and...
So Little Time (2001 - 2002) - an American sitcom starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in their second television series since the short-lived Two of a Kind ended in 1999. It aired on Fox Family: the first half of the series aired from June 2 to August 15, 2001, and the series then went on a four-month hiatus owing to network mana...
KDVR-TV Newscasts (2000 - Current) - KDVR-TV in Denver presently broadcasts 47 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
KSL-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - KSL-TV in Salt Lake City presently broadcasts 25 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
The Morning Show (Global News: National Edition) (2011 - Current) - This Canadian national weekday morning show provides half-hour smart conversations, lifestyle segments and big-name guests.
Sly Cooper (2019 - Current) - A television series alongside Technicolor Animation Productions.[65] The series will consist of 52 11-minute episodes, with half scheduled to premier in October 2019, and the remaining in July 2020, though the broadcast network has yet to be determined.The world of Sly Cooper is a version of the rea...
WSMV-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - WSMV-TV in Nashville broadcasts 40 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WGN-TV News (1948 - Current) - WGN-TV presently broadcasts 70 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week. News has played an important role on WGN-TV in Chicago since the station's beginnings.
KCRA-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - KCRA-TV in Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto presently broadcasts 42 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table (1979 - 1980) - a Japanese anime series based on Arthurian legend. Produced by Toei Animation, the series consists of 30 half-hour episodes released between 9 September 1979 and 3 March 1980. The series achieved great popularity in its non-English translations.The series tells the story of King Arthur and the Knigh...
Zak Tales (1990 - 1990) - Zak Tales consists of a series of thirteen half hours featuring Zak, Mayor of Fun Town who has shoulders large enough and a heart big enough for children of all ages to share their inner-thoughts with.
WHDH-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WHDH-TV in Boston presently broadcasts 76 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WMAR-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WMAR-TV in Baltimore presently broadcasts 23 & a half hours of locally produced news each week.
WMAQ-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - WMAQ-TV presently broadcasts 41 hours, 25 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week, and in addition, the station also produced the half-hour sports highlight program: Sports Sunday, which airs Sunday evenings after the 10PM newscast.
KPIX-TV Newscasts (1948 - Current) - KPIX-TV presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (5 hours on weekdays, and 2 and a half hours on weekends).
WNYW-TV Newscasts (1944 - Current) - WNYW Channel 5 broadcasts 43 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8 hours on weekdays, 2 hours on Saturdays, and 1 and a half hours on Sundays).
KNTV-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - KNTV-TV presently broadcasts 32 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
3x3 eyes (1991 - 1996) - The manga has received two Original Video Animation series based on 33 Eyes. They were first released in 1991 and 1995. The first consisted of four episodes averaging to half-hour of run time. The second consisted of three averaging out to 45 minutes of run time. They cover the storyline up to volu...
Kuwagata tumami (2005 - 2010) - Tsumami is the half-human, half stag beetle daughter of a female fashion model and a big male stag beetle. She has jaws on top of her head and loves to eat watermelons. She is a troublemaker, causing problems to other people!
WDIV-TV Newscasts (1947 - Current) - WDIV-TV in Detroit presently broadcasts 36 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
National Memorial Day Concert (1989 - Current) - Held every year since 1989 on the US Capitol's West Lawn, the National Memorial Day Concert is attended by half a million people and watched by millions more on PBS. The concert can also be seen overseas by U.S. military personnel in more than 175 countries and aboard more than 200 U.S. Navy ships a...
WCCO-TV Newscasts (1949 - Current) - WCCO presently broadcast 41 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Sid the Science Kid (2008 - 2013) - (also known as Jim Henson's Sid the Science Kid) is an American half-hour CGI animated series that aired on PBS Kids from September 1, 2008 to March 25, 2013, with a total of 68 half-hour episodes produced over two seasons. The computer generated show is produced by The Jim Henson Company and then-P...
Bumpety Boo (1985 - 1986) - an anime children's television show produced by the Nippon Animation company from 1985 to 1986. The series consists of 130 10-minute episodes, distributed as 43 half-hour segments..The show follows the adventures of a young boy named Ken, who has always dreamed of owning a car, and Bumpety Boo, a ta...
Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002) - Computer Chronicles was an American half-hour television series, broadcast from 1983 to 2002 on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television, which documented the rise of the personal computer from its infancy to the immense market at the turn of the 21st century. The show was created by Stew...
Calimero (1972 - 1975) - Calimero is an Italian/Japanese animated cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphized chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head.
Motormouse and Autocat (1970 - 1972) - These two rivals are seen in all sorts of contests trying to beat each other. It was a spin off of "The Cattanooga Cats" when that show went to the Sunday morning half-hour format. Premiered September 12, 1970.
Billy (1992 - 1992) - Billy Connolly reprises his role of Billy MacGregor,in this"Head of The Class"spinoff.Billy leaves New York,and moves to Berkley,California.To avoid getting deported,Billy marries(arranged marriage)a widow woman with 3 kids.The show lasted only half a season on ABC.
Sonshiny Day (1992 - 1994) - Sonshiny Day is a half-hour program geared for children ages 1-7 with host Audrey Meisner, two of her young children and puppets. With all original music (written by Audrey Meisner) and fun-filled action, the program became popular for it's happy outlook and emphasis on God being all-loving and prot...
The Marvel Super Heroes (1966 - 1966) - A series showcasing the legendary Marvel Superheroes, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Namor, and The Incredible Hulk. The series was a half hour show consisting of three seven minute segments.
Static Shock (2000 - 2004) - Static Shock is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered in September 2000 on the Kids' WB! block and ran for four seasons, with a total of 52 half-hour episodes.
Sid the Science Kid (2008 - 2013) - Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour PBS Kids series that debuted on September 1, 2008. The computer generated show is produced by The Jim Henson Company and then-PBS member KCET in Los Angeles, California using the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio. The show is produced by motion capture which allows pu...
Braceface (2001 - 2004) - Featuring Alicia Silverstone as the voice of Sharon Spitz, Braceface is an award winning half-hour animated comedy chronicling the perils of adolescence. Sharon also finds herself dealing with mysterious and embarrassing mishaps caused by her new braces. No one ever said that growing up is easy, and...
This is Your Day with Benny Hinn (1990 - Current) - This is Your Day is a half-hour Christian television show hosted by pastor Benny Hinn
The Big Cartoonie Show (1999 - 2000) - A compilation show originally airing on Kids WB in 1999 and originally known as The Cat & Birdy Warneroonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show. Originally running for an hour and a half in length, the first four episodes featured Looney Tunes shorts with newly-made title cards, as well as short segment...
USA Track & Field on NBC (2017 - Current) - NBC Coverage of the events from USA Track & Field, aired since 2017. NBC airs exclusive coverage of the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships, the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the USA Marathon Championships, the USA Half Marathon Championships, and the USA Cross Country Championships.
WTVT-TV Newscasts (1955 - Current) - WTVT presently broadcasts 72 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
WBBM-TV Newscasts (1946 - Current) - WBBM-TV in Chicago presently broadcasts 30 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week. The news department started in 1946, when its call letters at the time was WBKB-TV on Channel 4, and B&K News was the first regularly scheduled newscast, then in 1947, the re-name of the newscast ti...
KGO-TV Newscasts (1950 - Current) - KGO-TV presently broadcasts 42 and a half hours of locally produced news each week.
KHOU-TV Newscasts (1953 - Current) - KHOU in Houston presently broadcasts 33 & a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Unscripted with Chris Connelly (2001 - 2002) - Unscripted with Chris Connelly is a half-hour daily interview program that aired on ESPN from October 22, 2001 until June 25, 2002. Originating live Monday through Friday at 5PM ET from the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California, and hosted by Chris Connelly, Unscripted was designed to...
CITY-DT Newscasts (1977 - Current) - CITY-DT in Toronto broadcasts 34 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show (1976 - 1977) - 90 minute episodes which are a compilation of DFE produced series, mostly segments from The Pink Panther Show. The Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show also had live action segments.
CBS Morning News (1963 series) (1963 - 1987) - On September 2, 1963, CBS News debuted its newest original version of the weekday morning program: "CBS Morning News" as a half-hour program, with anchor Mike Wallace. In August 1965, the program was moved to 7:05 a.m. eastern time. In late 1968, Joseph Benti took over as anchor (until August 28,...
Four and a Half Friends (2015 - 2015) - Charly and his friends love solving mysteries while facing the challenges of growing up. This unlikely group of junior detectives - and their dog - will stop at nothing to find and solve cases they uncover in and around their home town.
The All-New Pink Panther Show (1978 - 1978) - After the failure of The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour Show, DFE went back to a simple 22 minute episode, and created a new Pink Panther series. It is also the final Pink Panther series before DFE closed down.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm(1993) - This stylish animated adventure is based on the '90s animated television series, which in turn is based on the original comics and Tim Burton's live action "Batman" films. Unlike the campy 1960s version of Batman, this version is half-mad from the superhero's obsession with justice. It is only his u...
Boyz N The Hood(1991) - John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick...
Aliens(1986) - The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. She finds life hard to adjust to with her former employees s...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master(1988) - I like to think of this movie as the second hour and a half of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Aside from some new actors and actresses, the sequel is outwardly similar to its predecessor: in story and cinematography. Although Freddy is dead and buried in the waking world, hes still very much ali...
Half Baked(1998) - After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings(1978) - Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's revered Middle-earth saga captures the dark mood of the books extraordinarily well. The film covers the first half of the trilogy--THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and the earlier part of THE TWO TOWERS--as Frodo (voiced by Christopher Guard), the cou...
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home(1995) - Two years ago the boy Jesse helped the whale Willy to jump into freedom. Jesse enjoys the life with his adoptive parents, when his half-brother Elvis arrives because the dead of their mother. During a holiday trip Jesse meets Willy again, as well as his indian friend Randolph. A tender love develope...
Vampire Hunter D(1985) - It is many thousand years in the future. Vampires once ruled the night but have seen their numbers reduced by fearless bounty hunters. One such hunter is D, the halfbreed son of a human mother and vampire father. When a girl from a rich family is taken from her home by the vampire Meier Link, her fa...
Bride of Boogedy(1987) - Boogedy's trying to come back to Lucifer Falls in this follow-up to the 1986 TV-movie, "Mr. Boogedy," which features half of the cast from the first film. This time around, Mr. Boogedy possesses several people and tries to get them to return his magic cloak to him, which plans to use to again wreak...
Ernest Rides Again(1993) - Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) inadvertently finds the long-missing British crown jewels (the tower of London contains fake jewels, according to the film) after he stumbles over a half-buried cannon from the Revolutionary War on the campus of the university where he works. This dim-bulbed comedy (th...
Moving(1988) - Meet Arlo Pear! He's a family man with a loving wife, a rebellious daughter, twin sons, and a half-dead dog, he's also got a nice job with the city in New Jersey. He's a mass transit engineer. But one day Arlo is fired so he must try to get another job. He finds a similar one to his old one, except...
The Dark Half(1993) - Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed T...
Buffalo '66(1998) - Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. Drifting into downtown Buffalo, Billy kidnaps teen Layla (Christina Ricci) and has her pose as his loving wife when he...
The Opposite of Sex(1998) - A selfish 16 year girl becomes pregnant when she seduces her homosexual half-brother's partner.
ml(1998) - Show Me Love (a.k.a. F---ing ml) is a coming-of-age comedy set in a sleepy little Swedish town called ml -- the most boring place on earth according to adolescent Agnes, who moved there a year and a half ago. Agnes is not able to make friends at school; the fact she has to sit next t...
Bugs bunny in space(1977) - Bugs bunny blasts into space in this half hour special.
9 1/2 Ninjas!(1990) - Some sources list John Morrissey as director of 9 1/2 Ninjas, while others credit Aaron Worth. There's no confusion, however, as to whom the "one-half" is. That honor goes to leading lady Andee Gray, who joins an all-male Ninja training group. Gray gets a big kick out of her lessons (no pun intended...
Othello(1995) - Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello, who returns a hero after crushing an invasion attem...
Johnny Mnemonic(1995) - In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half o
8 Mile(2002) - The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary boundaries to fulfill his dream of success in hip hop. With future and...
Aliens Next Door(1989) - Family moves to another planet in this half hour special.
Born Losers(1967) - The film that introduced Tom Laughlin's iconic character"Billy Jack".Billy Jack(Tom Laughlin)a half breed Vietnam Vet goes after a motorcycle gang who have kidnapped a young woman(Elizabeth James).
Tammy and the Millionaire(1967) - Four half hour episodes of the 1965"Tammy"tv series were re-edited into this 87 minute movie.Tammy(Debbie Watson) and her relatives(Denver Pyle and Frank McGrath) have some problems with a scheming,affluent family. The unofficial fourth,and final, film of the series that began with"Tammy and the Bac...
Scared Shrekless(2010) - A half-hour Halloween special set after "Shrek Forever After" that aired on NBC in 2010. It is Halloween night, and Shrek's family is celebrating by scaring trick-or-treaters. Inside their house, Donkey, Puss, Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf, and Gingy fail to scare the ogres, and Shr...
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1(2011) - Forever is only the beginning in the first half of the fourth and final chapter of the popular series. Bella and Edward are set to marry -- much to the dismay of Jacob who fears that Bella's consummation of the marriage is a death sentence. With the wedding behind them, the newlyweds enjoy their hon...
High Sierra(1941) - High Sierra is a 1941 early heist film and film noir written by W.R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett. The movie features Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and was directed by Raoul Walsh on location at Whitney Portal, halfway up Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevad
Prep & Landing(2009) - Prep & Landing is a computer animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton into a half-hour Christmas special. It first aired December 8, 2009 o
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth(1997) - Death and Rebirth is a highly condensed re-edit of the series (Death) plus the first half of The End of Evangelion
The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales(1982) - Released in United Kingdom by Pickwick Video Group in 1982 on behalf of Screen Legends and Longma
Flaming Star(1960) - Sam Burton's second wife Neddy is Indian, their son Pacer a half-breed. As struggle starts between the whites and the Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties. Neddy and Sam are killed; Pacer sides with the Indians, his half-brother Clint with the whites.
Duel In The Sun(1946) - Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
The Loners(1972) - On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and more death. The police intensify the search, but t...
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid(1973) - An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Humanoids From The Deep (1980)(1980) - Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half-man, half-fish which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.
The Twilight People(1973) - A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Pajama Game(1957) - Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they...
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince(2009) - As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Billy Two Hats(1974) - When someone gets killed during a bank robbery by Deans, half-breed Billy Two Hats and their partner, the robbers flee. Sheriff Gifford tracks the robbers, killing one of them and capturing Billy. Deans escapes, but during a successful plot to free Billy from the Sheriff, Deans is shot, leaving him...
Spider(2002) - A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Baadasssss!(2003) - Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Thank You For Smoking(2005) - Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart, based on the 1994 satirical novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley. It follows the efforts of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who lobbies on behalf of cigarettes usi...
Battlefield Earth(2000) - Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American dystopian science fiction action film based upon the first half of L. Ron Hubbard's novel of the same name. Directed by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper, and Forest Whitaker,...
Sleepless In Seattle(1993) - After Chicago architect Sam Baldwin loses his wife Maggie to cancer, he and his eight-year-old son Jonah start a new life in Seattle, but they continue to grieve. A year and a half later on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls in to a radio talk show. Jonah persuades a reluctant Sam to go on the air to talk a...
X-Men Origins Wolverine(2009) - X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics' fictional character Wolverine. Directed by Gavin Hood, the film is a prequel to the X-Men film trilogy, focusing on the violent past of the mutant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his relationship with his half-brothe...
Happily N'Ever After 2(2009) - The direct-to-video sequel to the 2006 film. Snow White and her family, Queen Grace and King Cole are going around the city waving at people. Queen Grace shows Snow White how to help peasants. In her room, Queen Grace quotes "Remember, the mirror tells half the story" as "beauty is given by helping...
The Family Man(2000) - A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
The Shaggy Dog(1959) - Wilby Daniels is constantly misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he has a hatred of dogs, and he can't understand why his younger son, Montgomery "Mo...
Half A Lifetime(1986) - A regular night of poker among for friends turns into a night full of conflict, accusations and self-examinations.
Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started(1986) - In this parody of "Spinal Tap," a documentary film crew follows comic Billy Crystal as he prepares for a concert; the second half of the film is the actual concert itself.
Nevada Smith(1966) - A half American Indian and half white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas(2014) - In a half-hour special based on the hit film and also on the musical, Santa narrates the story of Buddy, an Elf who comes to New York City to meet his father and transforms the lives of everyone he meets thanks to his holiday cheer. This special is animated in stop-motion versus being made with CGI.
Fun Size(2012) - Fun Size (known as Half Pint in some countries) is a 2012 American teen comedy film directed by Josh Schwartz and written by Max Werner. Starring Victoria Justice, Thomas Mann, Jane Levy and Chelsea Handler, the film tells the story of a teenage girl's Halloween plans gone awry when she's made to ba...
Terminal Choice(1985) - A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt is suspected - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting...
Soul(2020) - Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher, has long dreamed of performing jazz music onstage, and finally gets a chance after impressing other jazz musicians during an opening act at the Half Note Club. However, an untimely accident causes Gardner's soul to be separated from his body and begin to p...
The Voyages of Young Doctor Dolittle(2010) - The first CGI-animated Dolittle. Based on High Lofting's original stories, that span the previous movies (Nearly half a billion dollars in box office revenue and tens of millions units sold on DVD).
Red The Half Breed(1970) - A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any more at home there than in the white city. He decides to g...
https://myanimelist.net/anime/870/Dragon_Half -- Comedy, Parody, Fantasy
https://myanimelist.net/manga/14806/Halfway
https://myanimelist.net/manga/22870/Six_Half
https://myanimelist.net/manga/25306/Half_and_Half
https://myanimelist.net/manga/3239/Dragon_Half
https://myanimelist.net/manga/42545/Half___Half
10 Things I Hate About You ::: TV-PG | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (19992010) -- Based on the same-named hit movie from 1999 that starred Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, this half-hour series returns to Padua High, where newcomers Kat and Bianca Stratford attempt to navigate the popular crowd. Creator:
Alex Rider ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Family | TV Series (2020 ) -- Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy. Creator:
Atomised (2006) ::: 6.6/10 -- Elementarteilchen (original title) -- Atomised Poster Two half brothers in Berlin, 30+, one an introverted scientist, the other a sexually frustrated teacher, have no love life. That's about to change. Director: Oskar Roehler Writers: Michel Houellebecq (novel), Oskar Roehler
Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017) ::: 8.4/10 -- 2h 5min | Biography, Drama, History | 27 October 2017 (Turkey) -- In 1950, amid-st the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Sleyman stumbles upon a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared and on the verge of death, ... S Director: Can Ulkay Writer:
Baadasssss! (2003) ::: 7.3/10 -- How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (original title) -- Baadasssss! Poster -- Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). Director: Mario Van Peebles Writers:
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Drama, Sport | 9 March 1978 (Netherlands) -- The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season. Director: John D. Hancock (as John Hancock) Writers: Mark Harris (novel), Mark Harris (screenplay) Stars:
Beyond the Boundary ::: Kyoukai no kanata (original tit ::: TV-PG | 24min | Animation, Action, Comedy | TV Series (2013- ) Episode Guide 18 episodes Beyond the Boundary Poster The dark fantasy follows a high school sophomore named Akihito Kanbara. Although the boy appears human, he is half Youmu and invulnerable to wounds because he can heal quickly. One day, ... S Stars: Kenichiro Ohashi, Risa Taneda, Minori Chihara
Blade (1998) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 21 August 1998 (USA) -- A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. Director: Stephen Norrington Writer: David S. Goyer
Camelot ::: TV-MA | 45min | Drama, Fantasy, History | TV Series (2011) -- When King Uther dies and Britain faces chaos, Merlin presents an unknown named Arthur as the new king by birthright, as the late king's son, against the ambitious desires of his half-sister, Morgan. Creators:
Chato's Land (1972) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 40min | Western | June 1972 (UK) -- In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory. Director: Michael Winner Writer: Gerald Wilson Stars:
Claymore ::: Kureimoa (original tit ::: TV-MA | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007) Episode Guide 26 episodes Claymore Poster -- In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability... S
Copenhagen (2014) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 3 October 2014 (USA) -- When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it's time to grow up. Director: Mark Raso Writer: Mark Raso
Dance Academy ::: TV-PG | 24min | Drama, Family, Music | TV Series (20102013) -- Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster's dream of dancing comes true when she gets into a top dance academy. She soon realizes dancing is only half the battle. Creators:
Dead of Night (1945) ::: 7.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 17min | Drama, Horror | 15 February 1946 (Finland) -- Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales. Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti (as Cavalcanti), Charles Crichton | 2 more credits Writers:
Duel in the Sun (1946) ::: 6.8/10 -- Passed | 2h 9min | Drama, Romance, Western | 21 November 1947 (USA) -- Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower (uncredited) | 5 more credits Writers:
Frontier ::: TV-MA | 1h | Adventure, Drama, History | TV Series (20162018) -- Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada. Creators:
Gracie's Choice (2004) ::: 7.5/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 30min | Drama | TV Movie 12 January 2004 -- A teenage girl tries to raise her three half-brothers and one half-sister on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail. Director: Peter Werner Writers:
Half Baked (1998) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 22min | Comedy, Crime | 16 January 1998 (USA) -- The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail. Director: Tamra Davis Writers: Dave Chappelle, Neal Brennan
Half in the Bag ::: Unrated | 40min | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2011 ) Two VCR repairmen, Mike and Jay, scam an elderly man out of his fortune by discussing movies while on the job, and occasionally go on eccentric misadventures. Creators: Jay Bauman, Mike Stoklasa Stars:
Half Nelson (2006) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Drama | 22 September 2006 (USA) -- An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. Director: Ryan Fleck Writers:
Happy Town ::: 1h | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | TV Series (2010) A deputy sheriff is confronted with the unsolved mystery of a half-dozen child kidnappings over the past decade in a small town in Minnesota. Creators: Josh Appelbaum, Andr Nemec, Scott Rosenberg Stars:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 33min | Action, Adventure, Family | 15 July 2009 (USA) -- As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. Director: David Yates Writers:
Hart of Dixie ::: TV-PG | 1h | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (20112015) -- New Yorker and new doctor Zoe Hart accepts an offer from a stranger, Dr. Harley Wilkes, to work in his medical practice in Bluebell, Alabama. She arrives to find he has died and left half the practice to her in his will. Creator:
Hello, Dolly! (1969) ::: 7.1/10 -- G | 2h 26min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical | 16 December 1969 (USA) -- Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way. Director: Gene Kelly Writers:
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ::: TV-G | 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19951999) -- Hercules, aided by his best friend Iolaus, goes on many adventures helping people and slaying mythical monsters using his half-god strength. Creator:
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 29min | Animation, Comedy, Family | 25 September 2015 (USA) -- Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Writers: Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler | 1 more credit
In Good Company (2004) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 14 January 2005 (USA) -- A middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age... and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter. Director: Paul Weitz Writer: Paul Weitz
Inuyasha ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20002004) A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power. Creator: Rumiko Takahashi Stars:
Inuyasha ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2000-2004) Episode Guide 167 episodes Inuyasha Poster A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power. Creator: Rumiko Takahashi Stars:
It Boy (2013) ::: 6.4/10 -- 20 ans d'cart (original title) -- It Boy Poster Alice works for "Rebelle" magazine, where she needs to let her hair down to get a promotion. When Balthazar returns a lost USB to Alice, the appearance of dating someone half her age helps her. Does it get real? Director: David Moreau Writers: Amro Hamzawi (original idea), Amro Hamzawi (scenario and dialogue) | 4
Keoma (1976) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 45min | Drama, Western | 25 November 1976 (Italy) -- A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant. Director: Enzo G. Castellari Writers:
Last Love (2013) ::: 6.8/10 -- Mr. Morgan's Last Love (original title) -- Last Love Poster -- He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship? Director: Sandra Nettelbeck Writers:
Light of My Life (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 9 August 2019 (USA) -- Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond, and the character of humanity, is tested. Director: Casey Affleck Writer:
Mozart in the Jungle ::: TV-MA | 29min | Comedy, Drama, Music | TV Series (20142018) -- Love, money, ambition and music intertwine in Mozart in the Jungle, a half hour comedic drama that looks at finding yourself and finding love while conquering New York City. A brash new maestro Rodrigo stirs up the New York Symphony as young oboist Hailey hopes for her big chance. Creators:
Music Within (2007) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 34min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 5 January 2007 (USA) -- The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam deafened, and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities. Director: Steven Sawalich Writers:
My Babysitter's a Vampire ::: TV-PG | 22min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy | TV Series (20112012) -- Ethan Morgan, his half-vampire babysitter and pals battle against creatures from their nightmares. Creators: Jennifer Pertsch, Tom McGillis
Nevada Smith (1966) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 8min | Western | 23 July 1966 (Japan) -- A half-American Indian and half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers. Director: Henry Hathaway Writers: Harold Robbins (based on the character in "The Carpetbaggers" created by), John Michael Hayes (screen story) | 1 more credit Stars:
Okkupert ::: TV-14 | 45min | Drama, Thriller | TV Series (2015 ) -- In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea. Creators:
One Tree Hill ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Romance, Sport | TV Series (20032012) -- Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade between kinship and rivalry both on the basketball court and in the hearts of their friends in the small, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina. Creator:
Orange Is the New Black ::: TV-MA | 59min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | TV Series (20132019) -- Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, normally law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be. Creator:
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Biography, Drama, Western | 23 May 1973 (USA) -- Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid. Director: Sam Peckinpah Writer: Rudy Wurlitzer
Pu-239 (2006) ::: 6.9/10 -- The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (original title) -- Pu-239 Poster -- A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal. Director: Scott Z. Burns
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) ::: 7.4/10 -- PG | 1h 34min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 31 January 2003 (USA) -- In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback. Director: Phillip Noyce Writers:
Shattered Glass (2003) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 34min | Drama, History | 26 November 2003 (USA) -- The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine. Director: Billy Ray Writers:
Shotgun Stories (2007) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 32min | Drama, Thriller | 26 March 2008 (USA) -- Set in Arkansas, this poetic and powerful film directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) tracks a blood feud that erupts when two sets of half-brothers come to blows at their father's funeral. Director: Jeff Nichols Writer:
Sleepy Hollow ::: TV-14 | 45min | Action, Adventure, Crime | TV Series (20132017) -- Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Creators:
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 28 February 1997 (USA) -- A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland. Director: Bille August Writers:
Spaceballs (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 36min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 24 June 1987 (USA) -- A hero and his trusty half-man, half-dog set out to rescue a kidnapped princess from the clutches of an evil despot. Director: Mel Brooks Writers: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan | 1 more credit
Spider (2002) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 13 December 2002 (Canada) -- A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood. Director: David Cronenberg Writers:
Spin City ::: TV-14 | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (19962002) -- Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York City, and his team of half-wits must constantly save the Mayor from embarrassment and the media. Mike is later succeeded by Charlie Crawford. Creators:
Terminator Salvation (2009) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Sci-Fi | 21 May 2009 (USA) -- In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? Director: McG Writers:
Thank You for Smoking (2005) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 14 April 2006 (USA) -- Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year old son. Director: Jason Reitman Writers:
The Crown ::: TV-MA | 58min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Series (2016- ) Episode Guide 60 episodes The Crown Poster -- Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. Creator:
The Crown ::: TV-MA | 58min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Series (2016 ) -- Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. Creator:
The Family Man (2000) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 22 December 2000 (USA) -- A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife. Director: Brett Ratner Writers:
The Family Man (2000) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 22 December 2000 (USA) -- A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
The Half of It (2020) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1 May 2020 (USA) -- When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush. Director: Alice Wu Writer:
The Joy of Painting ::: TV-G | 30min | Documentary, Family | TV Series (19831994) In this half-hour program, artist Bob Ross paints on canvas a beautiful oil painting. Stars: Bob Ross, Steve Ross, Dana Jester Available on Amazon
The Mother (2003) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Drama, Romance | 18 June 2004 (USA) -- A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter. Director: Roger Michell Writer: Hanif Kureishi
The Pirates of Somalia (2017) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 56min | Biography, Drama | 8 December 2017 (USA) -- In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself with the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. Director: Bryan Buckley Writers:
The Third Half (2012) ::: 7.8/10 -- Treto poluvreme (original title) -- North Macedonia) The Third Half Poster -- Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but - when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca, the beautiful daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry's plans must change. Director:
The Tunnel ::: TV-MA | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20132018) -- A prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the U.K. and France, and two agents have to work together on behalf of their respective countries to find the murderer. Stars:
Tidelands ::: TV-MA | 1h | Crime, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (2018) -- After an ex-con returns to her fishing village, a dead body leads her to uncover the secrets of the town and its half-siren, half-human residents. Creators:
Two and a Half Men ::: TV-14 | 22min | Comedy, Romance | TV Series (20032015) -- A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house. Creators:
Underworld: Evolution (2006) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller | 20 January 2006 (USA) -- Picking up directly from the previous movie, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them. Director: Len Wiseman Writers:
Unstoppable (2010) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 38min | Action, Thriller | 12 November 2010 (USA) -- With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe. Director: Tony Scott Writer:
Up for Love (2016) ::: 6.3/10 -- Un homme la hauteur (original title) -- Up for Love Poster -- A lawyer dating a dashing, wealthy architect four and a half feet tall gets ribbed by her family, employees and jealous ex about his stature. Director: Laurent Tirard Writers:
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 21 August 2020 (USA) -- Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to not be defined by his condition. Director: Thor Freudenthal Writers:
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com
https://half-life.fandom.com
https://halflife.fandom.com
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Half.com
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/
https://camp-jupiter-and-halfblood.fandom.com/
https://half-life.fandom.com/
https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Barnacle_(Half-Life)
https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/A_World_Half_Full
https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life
https://ancardia.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc_bouncer
https://ancardia.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc_bouncers
https://annex.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Harper_(Two_and_a_Half_Men)
https://annex.fandom.com/wiki/Antlion_(Half-Life_2)
https://aoc.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Giant
https://aoc.fandom.com/wiki/Stygian_Halfbreed
https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/2-And-a-Half-Star_Wars_Out_Of_Five
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Elves
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Halflings
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Ogres
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Orcs
https://babylambandfriends.fandom.com/wiki/Halfoween
https://babylambandfriends.fandom.com/wiki/Merry_Half-Mas
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Sd._Kfz_251_Halftrack
https://ben-to.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Priced_Food_Lovers_Club
https://ben-to.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Priced_Food_Lovers_Club
https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Horizons_Half-Way_House
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Halfrek
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Adelaide_L
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Adopt_a_Newb
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Adrasteia_Eliopoulos
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aeolus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aetna
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aetna's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aglaea's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Apate's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aphrodite's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Apollo's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archery_Range
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Cecilia_Levine
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Dade_Avery
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Elisabetta_Modigliani
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Jacqueline_Sparrow
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Nicholas_Dare
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Preston_Blake_Prescott
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Rumour_Blackburn
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Archived:Valentina_La_Vern
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Ares
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Ares'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Ariadne's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Aristaeus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Armory
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Armory/Airship
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Armory/Completed_Armory_Projects
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Armory/St
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Artemis
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Artemis'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Building
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Asteria's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Astraeus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Athena's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Bonfire
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Cliffs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Harbor
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Ocean
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Pier
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Shore
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Beach/Volleyball_Courts
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Blog:Recent_posts
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Boreas'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Breeze_Nightingale
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Broken_Covenant
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Broken_Covenant_Character_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Byun_Aera
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Campfire
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Entrance
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Guide_to_Getting_Started
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Adoption
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Canon
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Characters
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Chat
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Images
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Multiple_Accounts
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Quests_&_Missions
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Roleplay
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/User_Activity
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/User_Blogs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/User_Levels
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/User_Sigs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Voting
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Policies_Overview/Warnings_&_Blocking
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki:Requesting_User_Rights
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half_Blood_Training_Arena
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Cato_Marks
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Poetry_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/CHB_Birthday_Corner
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Civitas_Popularis
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Animal_Nymphs_101
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Broken_Covenant
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Camp
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Champions_of_Othrys
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Missions
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:New_Athens
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Pets
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Claiming:Quests
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Climbing_Wall
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Conner_Grimaldi
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Big_Brother_CHB
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Cabin_Symbolic_Theme_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Anthony_-_Wonder
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Ashlee-Slaythehal
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Auvrea's_Poem_-_Wonder
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Cameron's_Poem_-_Kevin's_Entry
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Cody_-_Broken
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Elena_-_Brock
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Ember_-_Broken
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Hope's_Poem_-_Wonder's_Entry
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Jasmine_-_SoA_Jan
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Kyler_-_Broken
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Kyler_-_Broken_April
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Todd_-_Broken
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Uriel_-_Hyu
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Poetry_Contest/Zayden_-_Broken
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Character_Theme_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Demigods_in_World_War_II
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble/Round_1/Team_1_VS_4?t=20140803002635
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble/Round_1/Team_2_VS_5?t=20140729015048
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble/Round_1/Team_3_VS_6?t=20140803002218
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble/Round_2/Team_1_VS_2?t=20140823124652
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble/Round_2/Team_3_VS_4?t=20140819002815
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Double_Trouble?t=20140823124710
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:God/Goddess_of_the_Month
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:Half-Blood_in_History_Contest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Contest:The_Next_Apprentice
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Signatures
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Cybele's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Cynthia_Amor
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Dade_Avery
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Dante_Lejos
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Nymphs_of_the_Wiki
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Deimos'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Demeter's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Dining_Pavilion
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Dionysus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Do_Baekgyeol
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Elisabetta_Modigliani
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Elliot_Maeng
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Elpis
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Elpis'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Eris'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Eros'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Event:Champions_of_Othrys/Hephaestus'_Workshop
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Brook
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Deep_Forest
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Entrance_To_Dark_Cave
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Entrance_To_Dark_Cave/Dark_Cave
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Nymph_Sanctuary
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest_Pond
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/Pond
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Forest/The_Bethel
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel_Mun
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/God/Goddess_of_the_Month
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Greek_God_Encyclopedia
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Guide
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym/Dance_Studio
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym/Other_Amenities
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym/Pool
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym/Weight_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Gym/Yoga_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hades
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hades'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Harmonia's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hebe's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hecate's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Heinrich_Alten
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hephaestus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hermes'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hope
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hypnos
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Hypnos'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Infirmary
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Iris'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Kara_Rudikoff
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Kymopoleia
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Kymopoleia's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Lake
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Liberi_Superum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Limos'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:All_Powers
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Cabin_Counts_List
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Characters_up_for_Adoption
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Erotiads_of_the_Wiki
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:New_Athens_Masterlist
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Next_On_Thanatos'_Death_List
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Priests_&_Priestesses_of_the_Wiki
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Quest_Counts
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Template_Guide
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Time_Zones
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Users_&_Characters
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/List:Wiki_To_Do_List
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Local_Sitemap
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Lyssa's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Magnus_Keppler
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Makeda_Kane
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Melinoe's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Mnemosyne's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Model_Hunting_Agency
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Model_Registration
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Morpheus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Bookstore
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Coffee_Shop
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Corner_Store
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Minigolf
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Movie_Theater
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Park
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Plaza
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Post_Office
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nearby_Town/Pub
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nemesis'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Amazon's_Warehouse
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Amphitheatre
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Bakery
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Bar
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Bookstore
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Cafe
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Community_Center
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Corner_Store
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Forge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Gym
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Heraion
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Hospital
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Ice_Cream_Parlour
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Legacy_House
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/LGBTQ+_Bar
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Library
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Mall
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Mall/Arcade
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Movie_Theater
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Museum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Nightclub
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Park
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Parthenon
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Retro_Diner
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/Temple_of_Themis
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/New_Athens/University
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas_Dare
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nike's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Notus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nyx
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Nyx's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Oizys'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Opus_Superum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Ortu_Justitiae
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Palaemon's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Pandia's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Persephone
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Persephone's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Plutus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Contests
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Lists
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Poseidon's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Preston_Blake_Prescott
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Psyche's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Quinn_Cavanah
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Road_to_New_Athens
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Road_to_Town
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Forum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Role-Play_Location_Index
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/Expansions
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/General
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/General/An_Encounter_with_Death
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/General/slowly_becoming_lovers
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/New_Athens_Locations/New_Athens_Opening_Ball
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Roleplay:Main_Forum/Training_Arena
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/RP_Buddy
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Rumour_Blackburn
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Sawyer_Dahn
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Spencer_Sakiyama
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Stables
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Stevie_King
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Strawberry_Fields
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Thanatos'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House/Attic
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House/Basement
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House/First_Floor
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House/Second_Floor
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_House/Third_Floor
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Themis'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mortuary
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Oracles'_Cave
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recording_Studio
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recording_Studio/Dj_Booth
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Theresa_Tiraboschi
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Broken_Covenant
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/Armoury
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/Conference_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/Dorms
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/Lounge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/Study
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Civitas_Popularis/The_Basement
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Adelaide's_Office
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Brutalis'_Private_Lounge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Cliffs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Dorm
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Forge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Fountain_and_Garden
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Lounge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Main_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Mess_Hall
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Training_Ground
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Liberi_Superum/Vexuvius'_Balcony
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Mountain_Pond
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Old_Ruins
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Opus_Superum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Opus_Superum_Dorms
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Opus_Superum_Dorms/Pool
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Opus_Superum_HQ
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Opus_Superum_HQ/Secret_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Ortu_Justitiae_HQ
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Ortu_Justitiae_HQ/Dining_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Ortu_Justitiae_HQ/Dorms
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Ortu_Justitiae_HQ/Garden
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Ortu_Justitiae_HQ/Lounge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Prime_Pillar
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Prime_Pillar/Dungeons
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Prime_Pillar/Forge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Proving_Grounds
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Library
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Meeting_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Mess_Hall
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Mysterious_Stairs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Pool
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary/Veritum_Unitum_HQ/Rooms
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Armory
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Armory/Forge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Conference_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Council's_Quarters
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Dungeons
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Garden
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Infirmary
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Library
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Lieutenant
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Lounge
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Member's_Quarters
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Oracle's_Lair
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spire/Springs
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Town
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Tyche
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Tyche's_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Underworld
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Veritum_Unitum
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Version_6_Blank_Coding_Help
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Vineyard
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Vineyard/Tasting_Room
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Voting:Admin_Team
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Voting:Images
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Voting:Level_5's_and_Up
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Woo_Hoo
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Xavier_Yan
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Xu_Jinfeng
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Zephyrus'_Cabin
https://camphalfbloodroleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Zeus'_Cabin
https://celebrity.fandom.com/wiki/Sawing_a_Woman_in_Half
https://characters.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Halfini
https://cops.fandom.com/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Half_Pint_Hero
https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life
https://cycling.fandom.com/wiki/Halfords
https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Aerenal_Half-Life
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Half_damage
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Elf
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elf
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_Agility
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_Beast_Mastery
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_Quickblade
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Orc
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men_in_El_Kadsre
https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elf
https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc
https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://ecovillage.fandom.com/wiki/Half_of_farm_for_sale
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Bthalft
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Daljari_Half-Troll
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Garfrost_Halfmoon
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Halfara
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Halfas_Varn
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Burned_Note_to_Borodin
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Formed_Understandings
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Halfmoon_Arms
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Moon_Crest
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Moon_Mill
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Horik_Halfhand
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Kerks_Half-Ear
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Rigmor_Halfhand
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Ruins_of_Bthalft
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Thalfin
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Yngling_Half-Troll
https://elgoonishshive.fandom.com/wiki/Other_half_of_Main_Universe
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Bindo_Halfbottom
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Blumble's_Halfling_Hole
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Elf_(Character_Race)
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_(Character_Race)
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/The_Journey_is_Half_the_Fun
https://fanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/How_Two_and_a_Half_Men_Should_Have_Ended
https://fanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Rodent_in_a_Halfshell
https://fanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Rodent_in_a_Halfshell/Script
https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bundle_of_half-inscribed_scrolls
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Anadian_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Asathalfinare
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Drow-dragon_(half-deep)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Fortress_of_the_Half-Demon
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ghostwise_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfana_al-Yamini
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfaxe_Trail
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-celestial
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-dragon
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Drow
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-drow
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-dwarf
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elf
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elven
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elves
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-fiend
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfgar
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-goblin
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-golem
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_bounder
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_domain
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_Inc.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_language
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_outrider
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halflings
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling's_Help
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halflook
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Moon_Street
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-ogre
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-oni
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orcs
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halford
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half_plate
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Half-sea_elf
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Halfspear
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Hamhock_(halfling)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/H_as_in_"halfling"
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Halfling_Horticulture
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Kerr_Halfhand
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Lightfoot_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mace_(half-orc)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Reptilla_Half-elven
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Stout_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Strongheart_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tallfellow_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Complete_Book_of_Gnomes_%26_Halflings
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Complete_Book_of_Gnomes_&_Halflings
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Halfling's_Gem
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling%27s_Gem_2
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling%27s_Gem_3
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling%27s_Gem_(graphic_novel)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling's_Gem_1
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling's_Gem_2
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling's_Gem_3
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt:_The_Halfling's_Gem_(graphic_novel)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Wild_halfling
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/William_(halfling)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Yuan-ti_halfblood
https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/Godzilla:_The_Half-Century_War
https://halfcrits.fandom.com/wiki/
https://half-life.fandom.com/index.php?title=
https://halflife.fandom.com/language-wikis
https://half-life.fandom.com/lt/wiki/Half-Life_Wikia
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Adrian_Shephard
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Alyx's_Apartment
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Alyx's_Pistol
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Alyx_Vance
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Antlion
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Antlion_Grub
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Antlion_Soldier
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Antlion_Worker
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Aperture_Hand_Lab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Aperture_Science
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Aperture_Science_Handheld_Portal_Device
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Armored_Headcrab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Barney_Calhoun
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Mesa
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Ops
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Characters
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Citadel
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/City_17
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Civil_Protection
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Collette_Green
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Charger
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Grenade
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Grunt
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Ordinal
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Shotgun
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Suppressor
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Creatures
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Eli_Vance
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Enemies
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Fairview_Junction
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Future_of_the_Half-Life_series
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gary
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gearbox_Software
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gina_Cross
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gordon_Freeman
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_Gloves
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-life_2
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_Beta
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Deathmatch
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Four
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_One
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_One_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_One_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_One_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Three
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Two
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Two_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Two_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Episode_Two_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2:_Lost_Coast
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Alpha
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Alyx
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Alyx_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Alyx_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Alyx_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_and_Portal_universe
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Blue_Shift
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Deathmatch:_Classic
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Decay
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life:_Opposing_Force
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:About
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Administration
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Canon
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Editing
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Featured_article_queue
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Featured_articles
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Help
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Images
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:IRC
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Layout_Guide
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Manual_of_Style
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Projects
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Projects/Alyx
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Projects/Cleanup
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Projects/Portal
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Protection_policy
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:References
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Retcons
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Rollback
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Tables
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Life_Wiki:Talk_page_policy
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Hazardous_Environment_Combat_Unit
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Headcrab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Kim_Swift
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Larry
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Dog
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Local_Sitemap
https://halflife.fandom.com/wiki/Local_Sitemap
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Locations
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Valve
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Overwatch
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Poison_Headcrab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_2
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_2_Achievements_and_Trophies
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_2:_Lab_Rat
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_2_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_2_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_soundtrack
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_storyline
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Prospero
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Pulse_SMG
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Quarantine_Zone
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Resistance
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Russell
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Russell's_Lab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Snark
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Source_2
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Strider
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Synth
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Teleportation
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/The_G-Man
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lab
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/The_Orange_Box_Achievements
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/The_Vault
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Half-Life_universe
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_Scientist
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Valve
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Valve_Corporation
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Vortigaunt
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Xen
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Xen_Grenade
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Zombie
https://halfprince.fandom.com/wiki/
https://halloween.fandom.com/wiki/Honey_Halfwitch
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(film)
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(soundtrack)
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(video_game)
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(video_game_soundtrack)
https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Apollo_(Camp_Half-Blood)
https://historyfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://inheritance.fandom.com/wiki/Grimrr_Halfpaw
https://inheritance.fandom.com/wiki/Hand-and-a-Half_Sword
https://irishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Past_Danger
https://istaria.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Giant
https://kubera.fandom.com/wiki/Half
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Creatures_in_the_Half-Life_series
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half_Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Nelson
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Halfworld
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Halfworlders
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Helmut_Halfling_(Earth-616)
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Vali_Halfling_(Earth-616)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dodge_Half-Ton_Pickup_Truck
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dylan_Chalfy
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Half_a_Life_(episode)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Half_a_million_years_ago
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Half_saucer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rear_admiral_(lower_half)
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Half_a_Life
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Rear_admiral_lower_half
https://metallica.fandom.com/wiki/A_Year_and_a_Half_in_the_Life_of_Metallica_(video)
https://mixels.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Pipe_CD_Mix
https://mixels.fandom.com/wiki/Snow_Half_Pipe
https://mlg-parody.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Life_3
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Half
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ib_Halfheart
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Zhalfir
https://muppet.fandom.com/index.php?title=The+Great+Halfini&action=history
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Halfini
https://myheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Cold_Half-Hot
https://neverwinter.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Elf
https://neverwinter.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://neverwinter.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Orc
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Half
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Shantae:_Half_Genie_Hero
https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_(Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic)
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elf
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Half_plate
https://orange-is-the-new-black.fandom.com/wiki/Full_Bush,_Half_Snickers
https://paramore.fandom.com/wiki/HalfNoise_EP
https://pataponfanfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Halfprism
https://ppn.fandom.com/wiki/"Live_and_Let_Live_Tour_2003"_~Half_the_Battle~
https://regnum.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Elves
https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Confidential
https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Wiki:Affiliates
https://rohan.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Elf
https://roosterteeth.fandom.com/wiki/Heroes_and_Halfwits
https://scifi.fandom.com/wiki/Rear_Admiral,_lower_half
https://scratchpad.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas/Half-Life
https://shantae.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Genies
https://shantae.fandom.com/wiki/Shantae:_Half-Genie_Hero
https://sims.fandom.com/no/wiki/Leif_Halfdansen
https://stargatefanprod.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Last_Stand_(Half-Life_2_Modification)
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/camphalfbloodroleplay/images/e/e3/Ever_After_High_Fandom.png/revision/latest?cb=20160331175413
https://swfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Moonwater_Perfume/Written_at_half_past_The_Sixth_Veiled_Hour
https://talesofarcadia.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Trolls
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Blecplam_Two_and_a_Half
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Grandfather_Halfling
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Half-Face_Man
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Halflife_(novel)
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/How_The_Other_Half_Lives_(audio_story)
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/No_One_Goes_to_Halfway_There_(short_story)
https://taylorswift.fandom.com/wiki/Half_of_My_Heart
https://thegreenember.fandom.com/wiki/Halfwind_Citadel
https://theorder1886.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Breeds
https://totally-accurate-battle-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Destination_Halfling
https://totally-accurate-battle-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling
https://totally-accurate-battle-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Halfling_Grab
https://tovid.fandom.com/wiki/Progressive_half-speed
https://twoandahalfmen.fandom.com/wiki/
https://twoandahalfmen.fandom.com/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men_Wiki
https://vikings.fandom.com/wiki/Halfdan
https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Moon_Caste
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Half_Moon_(WTF)
https://wikiness.fandom.com/wiki/Half_life_3
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Garona_Halforcen
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-breed
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elf
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-elves
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Halfhill
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Halfhill_Market
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-human_half-ogre
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-night_elves
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-ogre
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-ogre_magi
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orc
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Half-orcs
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/High_Commander_Halford_Wyrmbane
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/The_Half_Shell
Appleseed XIII Remix Movie 1: Yuigon -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Mecha Military Sci-Fi Police -- Appleseed XIII Remix Movie 1: Yuigon Appleseed XIII Remix Movie 1: Yuigon -- This is a remix, theatrical release of the first half of the Appleseed XIII series. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jun 13, 2011 -- 3,778 6.36
Asobi ni Iku yo! -- -- AIC PLUS+ -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Ecchi Harem Romance Sci-Fi -- Asobi ni Iku yo! Asobi ni Iku yo! -- Kio is just another boring, nice guy with a boring, nice life until he meets a beautiful, curvaceous cat-girl while attending a memorial service for one of his ancestors. Next thing he knows, he's lying in bed with this half-naked beauty next to him! Her name is Eris, and she has come to Earth to learn more about its inhabitants as a representative of the planet Catian. And she's decided to set up shop at Kio's home for her stay on Earth! -- -- Unbeknownst to Kio, there are quite a few organizations who will attempt to capture Eris, looking to keep her existence a secret by any means necessary. What's worse is when people around Kio turn out to secretly be a part of those organizations! Kio will have to work hard to keep Eris safe from these shady groups. Things are about to get mysterious, exciting, and most importantly sexy in Asobi ni Iku yo! -- 165,560 6.64
Asobi ni Iku yo! -- -- AIC PLUS+ -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Ecchi Harem Romance Sci-Fi -- Asobi ni Iku yo! Asobi ni Iku yo! -- Kio is just another boring, nice guy with a boring, nice life until he meets a beautiful, curvaceous cat-girl while attending a memorial service for one of his ancestors. Next thing he knows, he's lying in bed with this half-naked beauty next to him! Her name is Eris, and she has come to Earth to learn more about its inhabitants as a representative of the planet Catian. And she's decided to set up shop at Kio's home for her stay on Earth! -- -- Unbeknownst to Kio, there are quite a few organizations who will attempt to capture Eris, looking to keep her existence a secret by any means necessary. What's worse is when people around Kio turn out to secretly be a part of those organizations! Kio will have to work hard to keep Eris safe from these shady groups. Things are about to get mysterious, exciting, and most importantly sexy in Asobi ni Iku yo! -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 165,560 6.64
Ben-To -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Martial Arts -- Ben-To Ben-To -- The supermarket is an important building in any city, for they provide a convenient way to purchase a variety of food in a family-friendly, safe environment. However, these stores changes in the blink of an eye once the unsold bento boxes go on their nightly half-off sales! War breaks out and friends become foes as each person fights for honor, pride, and dinner. There are no longer any people in these supermarkets, only Wolves and Dogs—winners and losers. -- -- High schooler You Satou is painfully introduced to these battles after unknowingly stumbling into the war zone, but instead of choosing to avoid these nightly fights, he wants to join in. After seeing Satou's lack of fighting skills, upperclassman and Wolf Sen Yarizui invites him and Hana Oshiroi, a girl who enjoys spectating the brawls, to join her Half-Priced Food Lovers Club to show them the distinction between the Dogs and the Wolves. Together, they learn what it truly means to fight for your food. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 9, 2011 -- 275,876 7.26
Ben-To -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Martial Arts -- Ben-To Ben-To -- The supermarket is an important building in any city, for they provide a convenient way to purchase a variety of food in a family-friendly, safe environment. However, these stores changes in the blink of an eye once the unsold bento boxes go on their nightly half-off sales! War breaks out and friends become foes as each person fights for honor, pride, and dinner. There are no longer any people in these supermarkets, only Wolves and Dogs—winners and losers. -- -- High schooler You Satou is painfully introduced to these battles after unknowingly stumbling into the war zone, but instead of choosing to avoid these nightly fights, he wants to join in. After seeing Satou's lack of fighting skills, upperclassman and Wolf Sen Yarizui invites him and Hana Oshiroi, a girl who enjoys spectating the brawls, to join her Half-Priced Food Lovers Club to show them the distinction between the Dogs and the Wolves. Together, they learn what it truly means to fight for your food. -- -- TV - Oct 9, 2011 -- 275,876 7.26
Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy -- A Shinigami named Baishin who was sealed by Soul Society long ago is set free on Earth. On a fateful day Ichigo encounters him and has roughly half of his reiatsu drained. Its now up to Ichigo and the Soul Society to finally put a stop to Baishin and his destruction. -- Special - Mar 23, 2006 -- 99,223 6.98
Blood Lad -- -- Brain's Base -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Demons Seinen Supernatural Vampire -- Blood Lad Blood Lad -- Staz Charlie Blood is a powerful vampire who rules the Eastern district of Demon World. According to rumors, he is a bloodthirsty and merciless monster, but in reality, Staz is just an otaku obsessed with Japanese culture and completely uninterested in human blood. Leaving the management of his territory to his underlings, Staz spends his days lazing around, indulging in anime, manga, and games. -- -- When Fuyumi Yanagi, a Japanese girl, accidentally wanders through a portal leading into the demon world, Staz is overjoyed. But just as he is starting to feel an unusual attraction to her, his territory is attacked, resulting in Fuyumi's untimely death. She turns into a wandering ghost and the crestfallen Staz vows to resurrect her as this would mean being able to travel to the human world, something he has always dreamed of. -- -- Blood Lad follows Staz and Fuyumi, soon joined by the spatial magician Bell and the half-werewolf Wolf, as they travel to find a magic that can bring humans back to life. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 554,443 7.32
Burn the Witch -- -- Studio Colorido -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Action Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Burn the Witch Burn the Witch -- Historically, 72% of all the deaths in London are related to dragons, fantastical beings invisible to the majority of the people. While unknown to most, some people have been standing up to these dragons. -- -- Only inhabitants of Reverse London who live in the hidden "reverse" side of London can see the dragons. Even then, only a selected few become qualified enough as witches or wizards to make direct contact with them. -- -- The protagonists of the story are witch duo Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole. They are protection agents for Wing Bind (WB), an organization for dragon conservation and management. Their mission is to protect and manage the dragons within London on behalf of the people. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- Movie - Oct 2, 2020 -- 142,807 7.16
Byousoku 5 Centimeter -- -- CoMix Wave Films -- 3 eps -- Original -- Drama Romance Slice of Life -- Byousoku 5 Centimeter Byousoku 5 Centimeter -- What happens when two people love each other but just aren't meant to be together? Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara are childhood friends, but circumstances beyond their control tear them apart. They promise to stay in contact, and although the progression of time widens the distance between them, the chain of memories remains ever-present. -- -- Byousoku 5 Centimeter is a romantic drama that focuses on the mundane and harsh reality of long-distance relationships. Stuck in the past and unable to make any new memories, Takaki and Akari cling to the hope of seeing each other again. They live their everyday lives half-heartedly, both hurting themselves and the people around them. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Crunchyroll, Discotek Media -- Movie - Mar 3, 2007 -- 725,001 7.70
Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 26 eps -- Card game -- Action Game Shounen -- Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis-hen Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis-hen -- The first half of the second season of Cardfight!! Vanguard G series. -- 8,097 6.65
Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Stride Gate-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 24 eps -- Card game -- Action Game Shounen -- Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Stride Gate-hen Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Stride Gate-hen -- The second half of the second season of Cardfight!! Vanguard G series. -- 7,066 6.65
Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji -- -- Phoenix Entertainment -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Drama Hentai -- Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji -- Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Juujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the "Choujin" (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko, must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth. -- OVA - Jan 21, 1987 -- 10,601 6.12
Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji: Mirai-hen -- -- - -- 4 eps -- - -- Fantasy Hentai Demons Horror Sci-Fi -- Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji: Mirai-hen Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji: Mirai-hen -- Twenty-five years ago, the world was annihilated. With the coming of the Overfiend, God of all Gods, the human, demon, and beast realms collapsed together in chaos. With the promise that he would be born in 100 years to re-create his failed world, the Overfiend settled back to sleep within his mother's womb. -- -- But something has gone terribly wrong... -- -- Now the Overfiend is born prematurely and awaits the coming of his natural the enemy, the Lord of Chaos. His only hope for survival are Amano Jyaku and his sister Megumi. But destiny has moved in ways that even the Overfiend could never predict, as a new race of half-breed demon beasts has evolved. -- -- As Amano travels to the kingdom of Azuma to investigate the appearance of the Lord of Chaos, he is swept up in the world-conquering schemes of Caesar, Azuma's dictator. -- -- Against the backdrop of a demon beast slave revolt and the return of the diabolical Munhihausen, only Amano and the demon beast Buju can save the world from another fiery destruction. With the fate of the earth and its inhabitants hanging in the balance, all wait to see what the coming of the Lord of Chaos will bring... -- OVA - Oct 1, 1992 -- 3,108 5.73
Claymore -- -- Madhouse -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Demons Supernatural Fantasy Shounen -- Claymore Claymore -- When a shapeshifting demon with a thirst for human flesh, known as "youma," arrives in Raki's village, a lone woman with silver eyes walks into town with only a sword upon her back. She is a "Claymore," a being manufactured as half-human and half-youma, for the express purpose of exterminating these monsters. After Raki's family is killed, the Claymore saves his life, but he is subsequently banished from his home. With nowhere else to go, Raki finds the Claymore, known as Clare, and decides to follow her on her journeys. -- -- As the pair travel from town to town, defeating youma along the way, more about Clare's organization and her fellow warriors comes to light. With every town cleansed and every demon destroyed, they come closer to the youma on which Clare has sought vengeance ever since she chose to become a Claymore. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 4, 2007 -- 556,969 7.77
Cuticle Tantei Inaba -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Supernatural Shounen -- Cuticle Tantei Inaba Cuticle Tantei Inaba -- In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the bunch. Unfortunately, half-human criminals means non-human clues that often leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf detectives like Hiroshi Inaba come in. He's literally part wolf and has the amazing ability to extract critical information just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course, that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants. (Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining much.) And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's nemesis, the omnivorous (and half goat) crime boss Don Valentino, who has an appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 4, 2013 -- 86,515 7.29
Cuticle Tantei Inaba -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Supernatural Shounen -- Cuticle Tantei Inaba Cuticle Tantei Inaba -- In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the bunch. Unfortunately, half-human criminals means non-human clues that often leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf detectives like Hiroshi Inaba come in. He's literally part wolf and has the amazing ability to extract critical information just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course, that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants. (Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining much.) And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's nemesis, the omnivorous (and half goat) crime boss Don Valentino, who has an appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- TV - Jan 4, 2013 -- 86,515 7.29
Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Vampire Fantasy School Seinen -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi may look like your average everyday instructor, but beneath his gentle appearance lies something less ordinary: his fascination for the "Ajin," more commonly known as "Demi." Although these half-human, half-monster beings have integrated into human society, Takahashi believes that much about them will remain unknown unless he interacts with them firsthand. -- -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai follows Takahashi's daily life in Shibasaki High School together with his three Demi students—Hikari Takanashi, an energetic vampire; Kyouko Machi, a gentle dullahan; and Yuki Kusakabe, the shy snow woman. Along the way, Takahashi also meets fellow teacher Sakie Satou, a succubus with an aversion towards men. To fulfill his goal of learning more about the Demi, Takahashi decides to conduct casual interviews with the girls to learn more about their abilities, psyche, and interaction with human society. As Takahashi strengthens his bond with his students, he soon discovers that the Demi are not as unusual as he initially believed. -- -- 328,868 7.60
Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Vampire Fantasy School Seinen -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai Demi-chan wa Kataritai -- High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi may look like your average everyday instructor, but beneath his gentle appearance lies something less ordinary: his fascination for the "Ajin," more commonly known as "Demi." Although these half-human, half-monster beings have integrated into human society, Takahashi believes that much about them will remain unknown unless he interacts with them firsthand. -- -- Demi-chan wa Kataritai follows Takahashi's daily life in Shibasaki High School together with his three Demi students—Hikari Takanashi, an energetic vampire; Kyouko Machi, a gentle dullahan; and Yuki Kusakabe, the shy snow woman. Along the way, Takahashi also meets fellow teacher Sakie Satou, a succubus with an aversion towards men. To fulfill his goal of learning more about the Demi, Takahashi decides to conduct casual interviews with the girls to learn more about their abilities, psyche, and interaction with human society. As Takahashi strengthens his bond with his students, he soon discovers that the Demi are not as unusual as he initially believed. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 328,868 7.60
Devil May Cry -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Demons Fantasy -- Devil May Cry Devil May Cry -- Devil May Cry follows the story of the demon hunter known as Dante. As a half demon, half human, he uses his trusty sword Rebellion and his two guns Ebony and Ivory to take on missions. Dante owns and runs "Devil May Cry," a business that specializes in hunting and killing demon-related problems. -- -- Based on the video game series "Devil May Cry." -- 265,293 6.97
Devil May Cry -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Demons Fantasy -- Devil May Cry Devil May Cry -- Devil May Cry follows the story of the demon hunter known as Dante. As a half demon, half human, he uses his trusty sword Rebellion and his two guns Ebony and Ivory to take on missions. Dante owns and runs "Devil May Cry," a business that specializes in hunting and killing demon-related problems. -- -- Based on the video game series "Devil May Cry." -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 265,293 6.97
Document Taiyou no Kiba Dagram -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Shounen -- Document Taiyou no Kiba Dagram Document Taiyou no Kiba Dagram -- In the planet Deloyer, a colony of the Earth federation, Colonel Von Stein stages a coup d'etat on behalf of the Federation chairman Donan Cashim. -- Movie - Jul 9, 1983 -- 688 6.12
Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Parody Super Power Demons Supernatural Magic Ecchi -- Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera -- Meet the Demon Patrol: a hotheaded demon prince; a sultry, half-naked ice princess; a lusty frog-demon spy; a talking wizard hat... and one little girl. This rag-tag group has been charged with the protection of Earth from a multitude of demons who would love nothing more than to bring their world crashing down around them. They'll face off against a vengeful squid, a somnambulant kitty cat, a pot full of snakes, a night-stalking deciduous, a hater of crotches, and even a literal butthead! Descend into an unreality filled with pratfalls, lewd behavior, and enough obscure cultural jetsam to drown us all! -- -- (Source: NIS America) -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- TV - Apr 8, 2011 -- 15,675 6.52
Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Parody Super Power Demons Supernatural Magic Ecchi -- Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera -- Meet the Demon Patrol: a hotheaded demon prince; a sultry, half-naked ice princess; a lusty frog-demon spy; a talking wizard hat... and one little girl. This rag-tag group has been charged with the protection of Earth from a multitude of demons who would love nothing more than to bring their world crashing down around them. They'll face off against a vengeful squid, a somnambulant kitty cat, a pot full of snakes, a night-stalking deciduous, a hater of crotches, and even a literal butthead! Descend into an unreality filled with pratfalls, lewd behavior, and enough obscure cultural jetsam to drown us all! -- -- (Source: NIS America) -- TV - Apr 8, 2011 -- 15,675 6.52
Furiko -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Slice of Life Drama Romance -- Furiko Furiko -- Furiko, meaning "pendulum," shows the highs and lows of a family of two—a high schooler, and his future wife, whom he rescues from delinquents. From the brilliant mind of comedian Tekken, comes a heartwarming story of a couple overcoming their differences even as they struggle through life. Not a moment goes by without meaning or expression in these four and a half minutes. -- -- -- In December of 2018, Tekken released an extended cut of film which features new music and adds one-and-a-half minutes of runtime. -- Special - Mar 16, 2012 -- 16,727 7.55
Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashibanashi -- -- Tomason -- 258 eps -- Other -- Historical Kids Supernatural -- Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashibanashi Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashibanashi -- Like in any culture, Japanese kids grow up listening to the stories repeatedly told by their parents and grandparents. The boy born from a peach; the princess from the moon who is discovered inside a bamboo; the old man who can make a dead cherry tree blossom, etc. These short stories that teach kids to see both the dark and bright sides of life have passed traditional moral values from generation to generation. -- -- Each half-hour episode of Folktales from Japan consists of three self-contained stories, well-known and unknown, with a special focus on heartwarming stories that originate from Tohoku, the northern region heavily touched by the earthquake of 2011. May this program help cheer up earthquake victims and cast a light of hope for them? -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- 9,749 6.98
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Ecchi Fantasy Harem Romance School Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk Gakusen Toshi Asterisk -- In the previous century, an unprecedented disaster known as the Invertia drastically reformed the world. The powers of existing nations declined significantly, paving the way for a conglomerate called the Integrated Empire Foundation to assume control. But more importantly, the Invertia led to the emergence of a new species of humans who are born with phenomenal physical capabilities—the Genestella. Its elite are hand-picked across the globe to attend the top six schools, and they duel amongst themselves in entertainment battles called Festas. -- -- Ayato Amagiri is a scholarship transfer student at the prestigious Seidoukan Academy, which has recently been suffering from declining performances. Through a series of events, he accidentally sees the popular Witch of Resplendent Flames, Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, half-dressed! Enraged, Julis challenges him to a duel for intruding on her privacy. After said duel is voided by the student council president, Ayato reveals that he has no interest in Festas. Instead, he has enrolled in the academy to investigate the whereabouts of his missing elder sister. But when a more devious plot unravels, Ayato sets out to achieve victory, while being surrounded by some of the most talented Genestella on the planet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 507,111 6.88
Gilgamesh -- -- Group TAC, Japan Vistec -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Gilgamesh Gilgamesh -- The half-divine King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, was considered but a paltry legend... until his majestic tomb was discovered in the Middle East. This imperial crypt drew scientists from across the globe to the land, and with that came recognition of their fame. In a joint effort, they built Heaven's Gate in pursuit of advancing human knowledge. -- -- One day, a group of terrorists driven by greed attack Heaven's Gate, causing an explosion within the facility for archaeological excavation. The resulting phenomenon had much more impact than anyone could have imagined. -- -- More specifically, it triggered the birth of supernatural beings. In the midst of this mess, two siblings by the names of Kiyoko and Tatsuya encounter mysterious men with supernatural powers who, despite the scientific crisis around them, claim the ability to restore good to the world. Nevertheless, these seemingly heroic and all-powerful creatures act under the rule of factions. Are they here to save the world, or destroy it? -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- TV - Nov 2, 2003 -- 34,423 6.65
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou -- For over a century and a half, two interstellar states have wrested for control of the Milky Way. The Galactic Empire, an absolute monarchy ruled by Kaiser Friedrich IV and an entrenched nobility, seeks to suppress the rebels daring to oppose the inviolable crown. The Free Planets Alliance, a representative democracy led by a corrupt High Council, degenerates as its elected leaders use war and conflict as a way to win popular support. -- -- But this long-standing stalemate between the Empire and the Alliance ends with the rise of two opposing military geniuses. Reinhard von Lohengramm, a minor noble and High Admiral of the Empire through his strategic brilliance and his sister's position as the favored concubine of the Kaiser, dreams of conquering the galaxy and uniting mankind under his iron fist. Meanwhile, Yang Wen-li of the Alliance, an avid historian and reluctant commodore hailed as the Hero of El Facil, uses his tactical prowess to navigate around his leaders' incompetence—and to carve the path to lasting peace. As the war rages on, Reinhard and Yang each strive for their ideals and to secure their place among the stars as the leaders of a new era of galactic heroes. -- -- 65,278 7.71
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou -- For over a century and a half, two interstellar states have wrested for control of the Milky Way. The Galactic Empire, an absolute monarchy ruled by Kaiser Friedrich IV and an entrenched nobility, seeks to suppress the rebels daring to oppose the inviolable crown. The Free Planets Alliance, a representative democracy led by a corrupt High Council, degenerates as its elected leaders use war and conflict as a way to win popular support. -- -- But this long-standing stalemate between the Empire and the Alliance ends with the rise of two opposing military geniuses. Reinhard von Lohengramm, a minor noble and High Admiral of the Empire through his strategic brilliance and his sister's position as the favored concubine of the Kaiser, dreams of conquering the galaxy and uniting mankind under his iron fist. Meanwhile, Yang Wen-li of the Alliance, an avid historian and reluctant commodore hailed as the Hero of El Facil, uses his tactical prowess to navigate around his leaders' incompetence—and to carve the path to lasting peace. As the war rages on, Reinhard and Yang each strive for their ideals and to secure their place among the stars as the leaders of a new era of galactic heroes. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 65,278 7.71
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden -- -- Artland, Magic Bus -- 24 eps -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden is the first of two OVA adaptations of side stories from the Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu novel series. This first adaptation follows the achievements of Reinhard von Müsel and Siegfried Kircheis of the Galactic Empire before the fateful Battle of Astarte. -- -- The Silver-White Valley -- Reinhard and Kircheis graduate from their military academy and are immediately sent to the frozen frontier planet Kapche-Lanka. Unbeknownst to them, their new superior schemes to kill Reinhard on behalf of a rival of Reinhard's sister Annerose von Grünewald. -- -- Dreams of the Morning, Songs of the Night -- Reinhard and Kircheis are assigned to the Imperial Military Police, where they uncover the corrupt and oppressive practices of the Empire's law enforcement. They are soon ordered to investigate the murder of a student at their alma mater. -- -- Dishonor -- As Reinhard awaits the bestowal of his new title of Count von Lohengramm, he sends Kircheis to the artificial resort satellite Kreuznach III for a vacation. Restless from the lack of work, Kircheis assists the local police with a drug trafficking case related to an attack on a disgraced former Vice Admiral. -- -- A Hundred Billion Stars, a Hundred Billion Lights -- While Reinhard is still a commodore in charge of only a single squadron, he laments the incompetence of his superiors during a battle against the Free Planets Alliance. Amassing military successes under the direct command of Vice Admiral Richard von Grimmelshausen, Reinhard repeatedly clashes with Hermann von Lüneburg, a commodore and former regimental commander of the Alliance's infamous Rosen Ritter. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- OVA - Feb 9, 1998 -- 18,932 8.15
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougon no Tsubasa -- -- Magic Bus -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougon no Tsubasa Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougon no Tsubasa -- The Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance have been locked in a seemingly endless war for more than a century and a half. In the Empire, a young Siegfried Kircheis meets Reinhard von Müsel and his older sister Annerose. Kircheis enjoys a happy friendship with the two beautiful blonde-haired siblings until the day that their alcoholic father, a lesser nobleman with low standing, accepts a request for Annerose to be sold as a concubine to the Kaiser. Although enraged, Reinhard is powerless to stop the whims of the Imperial Court. He and his father soon move away, leaving Kircheis behind. -- -- A few years later, Reinhard returns in a military uniform and declares his intent to rise through the ranks and free his sister from sexual servitude. Kircheis joins Reinhard on this daring journey to save Annerose, yearning to forever stay by the side of his friends. -- -- Movie - Dec 12, 1992 -- 12,113 6.27
Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince -- -- Doga Kobo, Orange -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Mecha School Sci-Fi Seinen Space -- Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince -- In the latter half of 21st century, humans leave the Earth and begin to live in space. In order to adapt to the environment in space and deal with the hostile aliens in Jupiter, genetically engineered children called "Princes" are artificially raised and trained to be pilots of armed robots "AHSMB (Advanced High Standard Multipurpose Battle Device). This is a story about one of the teenage "Princes," Hitachi O Izuru, who studies in an academic city Grandzehle. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 49,806 7.35
Ginga Tetsudou 999: Glass no Clair -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Drama Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Tetsudou 999: Glass no Clair Ginga Tetsudou 999: Glass no Clair -- This short movie is a remake of the first half of episode 3 of Ginga Tetsudou 999. -- Movie - Mar 15, 1980 -- 2,189 6.58
Girls & Panzer: Fushou Akiyama Yukari no Sensha Kouza - Extra -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Military School -- Girls & Panzer: Fushou Akiyama Yukari no Sensha Kouza - Extra Girls & Panzer: Fushou Akiyama Yukari no Sensha Kouza - Extra -- In honor of Girls & Panzer TV & OVA receiving a 5.1ch Blu-ray Disc BOX set, a new Akiyama Yukari's Tank Course "Extra" was made with nearly a half hour worth of content. -- -- A short ~7 minute watermarked 'preview' version was available on Bandai Namco's official YouTube Channel on September 29, 2018. -- Special - Dec 21, 2018 -- 2,673 6.29
Gundam: G no Reconguista Movie I - Ike! Core Fighter -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Space Mecha -- Gundam: G no Reconguista Movie I - Ike! Core Fighter Gundam: G no Reconguista Movie I - Ike! Core Fighter -- Summary of the first half of Gundam: G no Reconguista series. -- Movie - Nov 29, 2019 -- 2,081 6.50
Haikyuu!!: Lev Genzan! -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Shounen Sports -- Haikyuu!!: Lev Genzan! Haikyuu!!: Lev Genzan! -- Nekoma High School’s volleyball team recruits a new member: the half-Japanese, half-Russian Lev Haiba. Though the self-proclaimed ace is blessed with great height, he lacks basic volleyball techniques. This gives the team's setter, Kenma Kozume, a hard time when matching up with him. -- -- To everyone’s surprise, Nekoma’s coach suggests that Lev play in the Kunihira Senior High School’s practice match, leaving Kenma no choice but to cooperate with the tall player. Will Kenma be able to overcome this new challenge? -- -- OVA - Mar 4, 2015 -- 94,586 7.73
Haiyoru! Nyaruani -- -- DLE -- 9 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Parody Sci-Fi -- Haiyoru! Nyaruani Haiyoru! Nyaruani -- Animated Flash shorts based on the light novel series "Haiyore! Nyaruko-san." In these shorts, Nyarlko, an anthropomorphized female version of Nyarlathotep from the Cthulhu Mythos, is constantly being told off by Mahiro, a normal human boy, for all the crazy or stupid things she does. -- -- In one of the shorts, Nyarlko is drawing a cover design for a body pillow. It turns out that the pillow's subject is a half-dressed Mahiro in what appears to be a hot and heavy scene with Nyarlko. Naturally, Mahiro proceeds to stab Nyarlko in the hand with a fork and threatens to kill her if she releases the pillow design. -- -- Other shorts revolve around various gags and occasionally feature Cthuko, an anthropomorphized female version of Cthugha, who's madly in love with Nyarlko. -- OVA - Mar 17, 2010 -- 26,992 6.29
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- -- Satelight -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Mystery -- Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens -- Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Lin, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. -- -- One day, after Lin's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Lin requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Lin surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Lin have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 123,884 7.40
Hakuouki Reimeiroku -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Historical Supernatural Drama Samurai Josei -- Hakuouki Reimeiroku Hakuouki Reimeiroku -- The year is 1863 and as Japan's long festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is led by the brutal Serizawa Kamo and the lesser by the more honorable but less assertive Isami Kondo. It is into this pack of wolves that Ryunosuke Ibuki is dragged by the rabid Serizawa. Forced to be a virtual slave by blood debt, he hates the samurai and everything they stand for. But as he sees how the other half of the samurai live, he begins to believe that there may still be a chance, for both himself and Japan, if only Kondo will step up and take down the mad dog Serizawa! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 10, 2012 -- 49,621 7.47
Hakuouki Reimeiroku -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Historical Supernatural Drama Samurai Josei -- Hakuouki Reimeiroku Hakuouki Reimeiroku -- The year is 1863 and as Japan's long festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is led by the brutal Serizawa Kamo and the lesser by the more honorable but less assertive Isami Kondo. It is into this pack of wolves that Ryunosuke Ibuki is dragged by the rabid Serizawa. Forced to be a virtual slave by blood debt, he hates the samurai and everything they stand for. But as he sees how the other half of the samurai live, he begins to believe that there may still be a chance, for both himself and Japan, if only Kondo will step up and take down the mad dog Serizawa! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- TV - Jul 10, 2012 -- 49,621 7.47
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- -- Sunrise -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- Half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna were always together, living happily in Feudal Japan. But their joyous days come to an end when a forest fire separates them and Towa is thrown through a portal to modern-day Japan. There, she is found by Souta Higurashi, who raises her as his daughter after Towa finds herself unable to return to her time. -- -- Ten years later, 14-year-old Towa is a relatively well-adjusted student, despite the fact that she often gets into fights. However, unexpected trouble arrives on her doorstep in the form of three visitors from Feudal Japan; Moroha, a bounty hunter; Setsuna, a demon slayer and Towa's long-lost twin sister; and Mistress Three-Eyes, a demon seeking a mystical object. Working together, the girls defeat their foe, but in the process, Towa discovers to her horror that Setsuna has no memory of her at all. Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi follows the three girls as they endeavor to remedy Setsuna's memory loss, as well as discover the truth about their linked destinies. -- -- 85,116 6.73
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- -- Sunrise -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- Half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna were always together, living happily in Feudal Japan. But their joyous days come to an end when a forest fire separates them and Towa is thrown through a portal to modern-day Japan. There, she is found by Souta Higurashi, who raises her as his daughter after Towa finds herself unable to return to her time. -- -- Ten years later, 14-year-old Towa is a relatively well-adjusted student, despite the fact that she often gets into fights. However, unexpected trouble arrives on her doorstep in the form of three visitors from Feudal Japan; Moroha, a bounty hunter; Setsuna, a demon slayer and Towa's long-lost twin sister; and Mistress Three-Eyes, a demon seeking a mystical object. Working together, the girls defeat their foe, but in the process, Towa discovers to her horror that Setsuna has no memory of her at all. Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi follows the three girls as they endeavor to remedy Setsuna's memory loss, as well as discover the truth about their linked destinies. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 85,116 6.73
Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Nara Onryou Emaki -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Demons Fantasy Horror Shoujo Supernatural -- Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Nara Onryou Emaki Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Nara Onryou Emaki -- Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two sisters are powerful exorcists from the Karura temple. Each wields half the power...Shii-chan can "see" the spirits, and Mai-chan can banish them. This is the movie adaptation of a spooky series with heavy emphasis on traditionally Japanese occult themes. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo's Karura Mau OVA description; modified) -- Movie - Apr 8, 1989 -- 1,245 5.79
Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Sendai Kokeshi Enka -- -- - -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Horror Shoujo -- Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Sendai Kokeshi Enka Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Sendai Kokeshi Enka -- Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two sisters are powerful exorcists from the Karura temple. Each wields half the power... Shii-chan can "see" the spirits, and Mai-chan can banish them. This is a spooky series with heavy emphasis on traditionally Japanese occult themes. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- OVA - Sep 14, 1990 -- 721 6.19
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai -- -- Studio Deen -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Psychological Supernatural Thriller -- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai -- In the small village of Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and her friends live together in relative harmony. Beneath this mask of peace, however, lies a hidden darkness, one that Rika understands all too well. In this eternal summer, she has been witness to unspeakable horrors. Every time the clock resets, Rika must try to find the villain behind these senseless deaths before tragedy strikes again. However, trying to decipher a mystery when only half the clues are present proves time and again to be disastrous, and each time she believes that things will change, she inevitably fails. As the annual festival approaches, Rika begins her descent from hope to despair in her struggle to break the chains of fate entangling them all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 398,376 8.22
Hi no Tori -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Historical Supernatural Drama -- Hi no Tori Hi no Tori -- From prehistoric times to the distant future, Hi no Tori portrays how the legendary immortal bird Phoenix acts as a witness and chronicler for the history of mankind's endless struggle in search of power, justice, and freedom. -- -- The Dawn -- Since time immemorial, people have sought out the legendary Phoenix for its blood, which is known to grant eternal life. Hearing about rumored Phoenix sightings in the Land of Fire, Himiko—the cruel queen of Yamatai obsessed with immortality—sends her army to conquer the nation and retrieve the creature. Young Nagi, his elder sister Hinaku, and her foreign husband Guzuri are the only survivors of the slaughter. But while Nagi is taken prisoner by the enemy, elsewhere, Hinaku has a shocking revelation. -- -- The Resurrection -- In a distant future where Earth has become uninhabitable, Leona undergoes surgery on a space station to recover from a deadly accident. However, while also suffering from amnesia, his brain is now half cybernetic and causes him to see people as formless scraps and robots as humans. Falling in love with Chihiro, a discarded robot, they escape together from the space station to prevent Chihiro from being destroyed. Yet as his lost memories gradually return, Leona will have to confront the painful truth about his past. -- -- The Transformation -- Yearning for independence, Sakon no Suke—the only daughter of a tyrant ruler—kills priestess Yao Bikuni, the sole person capable of curing her father's illness. Consequently, she and her faithful servant, Kahei, are unexpectedly confined to the temple grounds of Bikuni's sanctuary. While searching for a way out, Sakon no Suke assumes the priestess's position and uses a miraculous feather to heal all those reaching out for help. -- -- The Sun -- After his faction loses the war, Prince Harima's head is replaced with a wolf's. An old medicine woman who recognizes his bloodline assists him and the wounded General Azumi-no-muraji Saruta in escaping to Wah Land. But their arrival at a small Wah village is met with unexpected trouble as Houben, a powerful Buddhist monk, wants Harima dead. With the aid of the Ku clan wolf gods that protect the village's surroundings, he survives the murder attempt. After tensions settle, Saruta uses his established reputation in Wah to persuade the villagers to welcome Harima into their community. Over a period of time, Harima becomes the village's respected leader under the name Inugami no Sukune. But while the young prince adapts to his new role, he must remain vigilant as new dangers soon arise and threaten his recently acquired tranquility. -- -- The Future -- Life on Earth has gradually ceased to exist, with the survivors taking refuge in underground cities. To avoid human extinction, Doctor Saruta unsuccessfully tries to recreate life in his laboratory. However, the unexpected visit of Masato Yamanobe, his alien girlfriend Tamami, and his colleague Rock Holmes reveals a disturbing crisis: the computers that regulate the subterranean cities have initiated a nuclear war that will eliminate all of mankind. -- -- TV - Mar 21, 2004 -- 7,595 7.10
Holy Knight -- -- Lilix -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Ecchi Fantasy Supernatural School Vampire Seinen -- Holy Knight Holy Knight -- The story centers around a timid orphan named Mizumura Shinta who goes to a missionary school in Tokyo. His seemingly normal life changes when a beautiful half-human Romanian girl named Lilith suddenly transfers into his school. Mizumura discovers that he is actually a vampire hunter and the successor of the Romuald lineage. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- OVA - Mar 21, 2012 -- 37,509 6.01
Hyper Police -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Police Romance Sci-Fi -- Hyper Police Hyper Police -- Sasahara Natsuki is a poor bounty hunter in a world where monsters and humans live together. Most of her cases involve monsters infringing upon the rights of humans, who are protected by law from their generally more powerful neighbors. Being half-human and half cat-beast, Natsuki straddles the two societies and tries to understand and respect both while enforcing the law. She is assisted by a werewolf named Batanen who is afraid to admit he loves her; another werewolf named Tommy; and a Kyubi fox demon named Sakura who has her own plans--which include eating Natsuki to complete her her nine tails and thereby her magical powers. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 8,654 6.94
I� -- Chu: Halfway Through the Idol -- -- Lay-duce -- 12 eps -- Game -- Music Slice of Life Comedy School -- I� -- Chu: Halfway Through the Idol I� -- Chu: Halfway Through the Idol -- School begins at Étoile Vio School, where idol-hopeful students known as "I-Chu" will undergo training to become full-fledged idols. However, things are off to a strange start when the new students are given a speech from their bear principal?! The I-Chu work steadily toward their goals and ask, "What is an idol?" Each boy will learn to shine as they struggle to find their answer. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 10,460 6.51
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation -- -- Satelight -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Historical Seinen -- Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation -- The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveler, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew and shop-owner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 52,278 7.43
Inu x Boku SS -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Shounen -- Inu x Boku SS Inu x Boku SS -- Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a renowned family. With her petite build and wealthy status, Ririchiyo has been a protected and dependent girl her entire life, but now she has decided to change all that. However, there is just one problem—the young girl has a sharp tongue she can't control, and terrible communication skills. -- -- With some help from a childhood friend, Ririchiyo takes up residence in Maison de Ayakashi, a secluded high-security apartment complex that, as the unsociable 15-year-old soon discovers, is home to a host of bizarre individuals. Furthermore, their quirky personalities are not the strangest things about them: each inhabitant of the Maison de Ayakashi, including Ririchiyo, is actually half-human, half-youkai. -- -- But Ririchiyo's troubles have only just begun. As a requirement of staying in her new home, she must be accompanied by a Secret Service agent. Ririchiyo's new partner, Soushi Miketsukami, is handsome, quiet... but ridiculously clingy and creepily submissive. With Soushi, her new supernatural neighbors, and the beginning of high school, Ririchiyo definitely seems to have a difficult path ahead of her. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 13, 2012 -- 416,781 7.45
Inu x Boku SS -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Shounen -- Inu x Boku SS Inu x Boku SS -- Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a renowned family. With her petite build and wealthy status, Ririchiyo has been a protected and dependent girl her entire life, but now she has decided to change all that. However, there is just one problem—the young girl has a sharp tongue she can't control, and terrible communication skills. -- -- With some help from a childhood friend, Ririchiyo takes up residence in Maison de Ayakashi, a secluded high-security apartment complex that, as the unsociable 15-year-old soon discovers, is home to a host of bizarre individuals. Furthermore, their quirky personalities are not the strangest things about them: each inhabitant of the Maison de Ayakashi, including Ririchiyo, is actually half-human, half-youkai. -- -- But Ririchiyo's troubles have only just begun. As a requirement of staying in her new home, she must be accompanied by a Secret Service agent. Ririchiyo's new partner, Soushi Miketsukami, is handsome, quiet... but ridiculously clingy and creepily submissive. With Soushi, her new supernatural neighbors, and the beginning of high school, Ririchiyo definitely seems to have a difficult path ahead of her. -- -- TV - Jan 13, 2012 -- 416,781 7.45
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders -- -- David Production -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Supernatural Drama Shounen -- JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders -- Years after an ancient evil was salvaged from the depths of the sea, Joutarou Kuujou sits peacefully within a Japanese jail cell. He's committed no crime yet demands he not be released, believing he's been possessed by an evil spirit capable of harming those around him. Concerned for her son, Holly Kuujou asks her father, Joseph Joestar, to convince Joutarou to leave the prison. Joseph informs his grandson that the "evil spirit" is in fact something called a "Stand," the physical manifestation of one's fighting spirit which can adopt a variety of deadly forms. After a fiery brawl with Joseph's friend Mohammed Avdol, Joutarou is forced out of his cell and begins learning how to control the power of his Stand. -- -- However, when a Stand awakens within Holly and threatens to consume her in 50 days, Joutarou, his grandfather, and their allies must seek out and destroy the immortal vampire responsible for her condition. They must travel halfway across the world to Cairo, Egypt and along the way, do battle with ferocious Stand users set on thwarting them. If Joutarou and his allies fail in their mission, humanity is destined for a grim fate. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 758,045 8.10
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV) -- -- David Production -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Supernatural Vampire Shounen -- JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV) JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV) -- In 1868, Dario Brando saves the life of an English nobleman, George Joestar. By taking in Dario's son Dio when the boy becomes fatherless, George hopes to repay the debt he owes to his savior. However Dio, unsatisfied with his station in life, aspires to seize the Joestar house for his own. Wielding an Aztec stone mask with supernatural properties, he sets out to destroy George and his son, Jonathan "JoJo" Joestar, and triggers a chain of events that will continue to echo through the years to come. -- -- Half a century later, in New York City, Jonathan's grandson Joseph Joestar discovers the legacy his grandfather left for him. When an archeological dig unearths the truth behind the stone mask, he realizes that he is the only one who can defeat the Pillar Men, mystical beings of immeasurable power who inadvertently began everything. -- -- Adapted from the first two arcs of Hirohiko Araki's outlandish manga series, JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken follows the many thrilling expeditions of JoJo and his descendants. Whether it's facing off with the evil Dio, or combatting the sinister Pillar Men, there's always plenty of bizarre adventures in store. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media, Warner Bros. Pictures -- 1,054,934 8.01
Juuni Taisen -- -- Graphinica -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action -- Juuni Taisen Juuni Taisen -- Every 12 years, mercenaries who possess the highest caliber of brute strength, cunning wit, and deadly precision gather to participate in the Zodiac Tournament. Each warrior bears the name and attributes of one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. With their pride and lives on the line, they engage in vicious combat until only the victor remains. -- -- The 12th Zodiac Tournament begins in a desolate city, devoid of any evidence of the half million people who recently lived there. To raise the stakes, each warrior ingests a poisonous gem, thus setting a time limit on the tournament—and on their life. With one wish for the victor up for grabs, the Zodiac Warriors start their cutthroat battle for survival. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 231,212 6.55
Juusenki L-Gaim I: Pentagona Window + Lady Gavlet -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Mecha Shounen -- Juusenki L-Gaim I: Pentagona Window + Lady Gavlet Juusenki L-Gaim I: Pentagona Window + Lady Gavlet -- A recap OVA that portrays the first half of the series Heavy Metal L-Gaim. After the credits, there is a short clip animated for the OVA entitled "Lady Gavlet", which is intended to be comic relief. -- OVA - Nov 5, 1986 -- 796 5.69
Kagaku na Yatsura -- -- Hoods Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Comedy Romance Ecchi School Seinen -- Kagaku na Yatsura Kagaku na Yatsura -- Choosing which high school club to join can be a daunting task. After all, there are only so many hours in the day, not to mention the power struggle between cyborgs and part canine-females. At least, that's the conundrum that Haruki Komaba finds himself trapped in. -- -- Airi Kuze is a mechanical science master with a crush on Haruki. Touko Hizuki is a half-dog, half-girl chemical science master who's also fond of Haruki. Unfortunately for Haruki, he accidentally promised to join both clubs and finds himself in the middle of a fierce battle for his membership and, if Airi has anything to say about it, his hand in marriage. -- -- As if things weren't complicated enough, Ayana's perverted older sister Touko has decided to intervene on her younger sibling's behalf, bringing her own brand of sexually charged chemical science into the mix. Haruki's going to have a difficult time deciding on a club. If the girls don't end up tearing each other apart first, that is. -- OVA - Feb 20, 2013 -- 20,984 5.72
Kamen no Maid Guy -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Super Power Ecchi Shounen -- Kamen no Maid Guy Kamen no Maid Guy -- Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17-year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She's really one of two surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- TV - Apr 6, 2008 -- 36,851 7.03
Kamen no Maid Guy -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Super Power Ecchi Shounen -- Kamen no Maid Guy Kamen no Maid Guy -- Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17-year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She's really one of two surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- TV - Apr 6, 2008 -- 36,851 7.03
Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 4 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Psychological Romance -- Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows -- For the longest time, it's just been the two of them. "Kanojo" and her cat Daru are inseparable, having grown up together. Now a junior in college, Tomoka—her roommate of a year and a half—moves out of their shared apartment, and in order to keep her living space, Kanojo must find a job. Day by day, Daru watches her continued efforts from a cat's-eye view, eagerly awaiting his owner's return. When she gets back, once again, it's just she and her cat. -- -- Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows is a charming short series about the bond between a pet and his owner. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 98,285 7.69
Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Fantasy Military Shounen -- Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- With the initiation of the Patrian civil war came the creation of half-beast, half-human soldiers—a development of the outnumbered Northerners in a desperate attempt to counter the overwhelming Southern forces. Able to quickly dominate battlefields and achieve victory with ease, the soldiers' godlike abilities earned them the name "Incarnates." However, as the war raged on, the Incarnates encountered a problem involving the beasts inside them that they were unable to rectify by ordinary means. -- -- Once the war was over, mysteries and accounts of the Incarnates submitting to the misfortune of their war days surfaced. Aware of the horrors they faced during the war, Special Sergeant Major and former captain of the Incarnates Hank Henriette becomes a Beast Hunter—those who take the lives of Incarnates who have succumbed to the issues they experienced on the battlefields. -- -- After witnessing her father, a former Incarnate soldier, meet his end at the hands of one such Beast Hunter, Nancy Schaal Bancroft resolves to hunt the man who took her father's life. However, Nancy's eye-opening encounter with the Beast Hunter influences her to instead seek the reason behind her father's death and the Incarnates' problematic existence in society. -- -- 95,746 6.40
Kengan Ashura 2nd Season -- -- Larx Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Action Martial Arts -- Kengan Ashura 2nd Season Kengan Ashura 2nd Season -- Second half of Kengan Ashura. -- ONA - Oct 31, 2019 -- 51,670 7.71
Kiddy GiRL-AND -- -- Satelight -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Sci-Fi Super Power -- Kiddy GiRL-AND Kiddy GiRL-AND -- Twenty-five years after Éclair and Lumière, (from the flagship Kiddy Grade series), rescued the galaxy from destruction's doorstep, the GTO (Galactic Trade Organization), created after the defeat of the GOTT (Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs), act on behalf of universal peace by combating criminal activity. -- -- Their special ES division mirrored after the GOTT's ES (Encounter of Shadow-work) force, now includes publicly acknowledged ES member candidates. The series follows two such trainees, Ascoeur and Q-feuille, as they work their way to ES membership. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 16, 2009 -- 16,353 6.87
Kill la Kill -- -- Trigger -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Super Power Ecchi School -- Kill la Kill Kill la Kill -- After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities. -- -- Thoroughly beaten in a fight against one of the students in uniform, Ryuuko retreats to her razed home where she stumbles across Senketsu, a rare and sentient "Kamui," or God Clothes. After coming into contact with Ryuuko's blood, Senketsu awakens, latching onto her and providing her with immense power. Now, armed with Senketsu and the Scissor Blade, Ryuuko makes a stand against the Elite Four, hoping to reach Satsuki and uncover the culprit behind her father's murder once and for all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 1,337,349 8.09
Kingdom -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 38 eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Military Seinen -- Kingdom Kingdom -- China’s Warring States period, a raging dragon that would raze the land for 500 years, saw many kingdoms rise and fall, making way for the next generation of kings and generals to fight for supremacy. Eventually, seven powerful states emerged from the endless cycle of warfare. -- -- In the kingdom of Qin, Li Xin, a war-orphaned slave, trains vigorously with fellow slave and best friend, Piao, who shares his proud dream of one day becoming a Great General of the Heavens. However, the two are suddenly forced to part ways when Piao is recruited to work in the royal palace by a retainer of the King. -- -- After a fierce coup d'état unfolds, Piao returns to Xin, half dead, with a mission that will lead him to a meeting with China's young King, Ying Zheng, who bears a striking resemblance to Piao. Kingdom follows Xin as he takes his first steps into the great blood-soaked pages of China's history. He must carve his own path to glory on his long quest to become a Great General of the historic Seven Warring States. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 140,915 8.03
Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen -- -- Shaft -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Vampire -- Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen -- No longer truly human, Koyomi Araragi decides to retrieve Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade's severed body parts that were stolen by three powerful vampire hunters. Awaiting him are Dramaturgie, a vampire hunter who is a vampire himself; Episode, a half-vampire with the ability to transform into mist; and Guillotinecutter, a human priest who is the most dangerous of them all. -- -- Unbeknownst to Araragi, each minute he spends trying to retrieve Kiss-shot's limbs makes him less of a human and more of a vampire. Will he be able to keep his wish of becoming human once again by the end of his battles? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Aug 19, 2016 -- 323,410 8.61
Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! -- -- Studio Gokumi -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Ecchi Harem Mystery Romance School -- Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! -- Shougo Mikadono's father has just passed away, and now he must become the head of Mikadono Group, his father's company. After completing the training to take over, there is just one other stipulation he must adhere to: he will need to find a girl he loves at his new school and marry her by the time he graduates high school. -- -- Shougo transfers to Miryuin Private Academy, and it seems like he has many girls to choose from, such as Konoe Suruma, the class representative as well as his first new friend; Miyabi Kannagi, a standoffish but kind girl; Rinka Kunitachi, the student council vice president; Mei Sagara, who runs a cafe and dresses like a witch; and Mana Tendou, the student council president. However, there is a complication: one of them is his long-lost half sister, and he has no idea which one, so how can he become romantically involved with any of them? -- -- TV - Jul 6, 2012 -- 176,408 6.58
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari -- Compilation film of the first half of the TV series. -- Movie - Dec 31, 2016 -- 32,124 7.48
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari -- Compilation film of the first half of the TV series. -- Movie - Dec 31, 2016 -- 32,358 7.48
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi -- Compilation film of the second half of the TV series. -- Movie - Jan 7, 2017 -- 31,959 7.47
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi -- Compilation film of the second half of the TV series. -- Movie - Jan 7, 2017 -- 32,175 7.47
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 3: Unato Kessen -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 3: Unato Kessen Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 3: Unato Kessen -- The movie is a continuation of the story from the original series that takes place half a year later. The original team joins an alliance to help take back the area around Unato Castle, however things do not go as planned. Will Ikoma and his friends be able to survive, or will they fall to the hordes of Kabane? -- Movie - May 10, 2019 -- 83,132 7.71
Kurokami: Tora to Tsubasa -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Super Power Martial Arts Seinen -- Kurokami: Tora to Tsubasa Kurokami: Tora to Tsubasa -- Half a year after the battle in Okinawa, Excel was looking for a new Mototsumitama to revenge on Reishin. Excel met Mikami and decided to contract with her. Before making the contract, Excel looked back at the encounter with Steiner. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, NYAV Post -- Special - Dec 22, 2009 -- 8,351 6.86
Kuroshitsuji Recap -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Kuroshitsuji Recap Kuroshitsuji Recap -- A recap episode of the first half of Kuroshituji told by Tanaka-san, aka episode 13.5. Including this recap episode, the series is 25 episodes long. -- Special - Jan 9, 2009 -- 34,072 7.20
Kyoukai no Kanata -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Supernatural Fantasy -- Kyoukai no Kanata Kyoukai no Kanata -- Mirai Kuriyama is the sole survivor of a clan of Spirit World warriors with the power to employ their blood as weapons. As such, Mirai is tasked with hunting down and killing "youmu"—creatures said to be the manifestation of negative human emotions. One day, while deep in thought on the school roof, Mirai comes across Akihito Kanbara, a rare half-breed of youmu in human form. In a panicked state, she plunges her blood saber into him only to realize that he's an immortal being. From then on, the two form an impromptu friendship that revolves around Mirai constantly trying to kill Akihito, in an effort to boost her own wavering confidence as a Spirit World warrior. Eventually, Akihito also manages to convince her to join the Literary Club, which houses two other powerful Spirit World warriors, Hiroomi and Mitsuki Nase. -- -- As the group's bond strengthens, however, so does the tenacity of the youmu around them. Their misadventures will soon turn into a fight for survival as the inevitable release of the most powerful youmu, Beyond the Boundary, approaches. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 891,494 7.77
Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen -- The first part of a two-part movie. The story is a recap of the TV series. -- -- Mirai Kuriyama is the sole survivor of a clan of Spirit World warriors with the power to employ their blood as weapons. As such, Mirai is tasked with hunting down and killing "youmu"—creatures said to be the manifestation of negative human emotions. One day, while deep in thought on the school roof, Mirai comes across Akihito Kanbara, a rare half-breed of youmu in human form. In a panicked state, she plunges her blood saber into him only to realize that he's an immortal being. From then on, the two form an impromptu friendship that revolves around Mirai constantly trying to kill Akihito, in an effort to boost her own wavering confidence as a Spirit World warrior. Eventually, Akihito also manages to convince her to join the Literary Club, which houses two other powerful Spirit World warriors, Hiroomi and Mitsuki Nase. -- -- As the group's bond strengthens, however, so does the tenacity of the youmu around them. Their misadventures will soon turn into a fight for survival as the inevitable release of the most powerful youmu, Beyond the Boundary, approaches. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Mar 14, 2015 -- 124,292 7.72
Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen Kyoukai no Kanata Movie 1: I'll Be Here - Kako-hen -- The first part of a two-part movie. The story is a recap of the TV series. -- -- Mirai Kuriyama is the sole survivor of a clan of Spirit World warriors with the power to employ their blood as weapons. As such, Mirai is tasked with hunting down and killing "youmu"—creatures said to be the manifestation of negative human emotions. One day, while deep in thought on the school roof, Mirai comes across Akihito Kanbara, a rare half-breed of youmu in human form. In a panicked state, she plunges her blood saber into him only to realize that he's an immortal being. From then on, the two form an impromptu friendship that revolves around Mirai constantly trying to kill Akihito, in an effort to boost her own wavering confidence as a Spirit World warrior. Eventually, Akihito also manages to convince her to join the Literary Club, which houses two other powerful Spirit World warriors, Hiroomi and Mitsuki Nase. -- -- As the group's bond strengthens, however, so does the tenacity of the youmu around them. Their misadventures will soon turn into a fight for survival as the inevitable release of the most powerful youmu, Beyond the Boundary, approaches. -- -- Movie - Mar 14, 2015 -- 124,292 7.72
Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Fantasy Slice of Life Supernatural -- Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome -- Taking place three years before the TV series, episode zero follows Hiroomi Nase's mission to subdue the infamous half-human, half-youmu Akihito Kanbara. Curious about the mission, Hiroomi's little sister, Mitsuki, tags along with him, and the siblings meet Akihito for the first time. However, they soon discover that they aren't the only ones seeking out Akihito, and thus begins the story of Kyoukai no Kanata. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Jul 2, 2014 -- 100,117 7.66
Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Fantasy Slice of Life Supernatural -- Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome Kyoukai no Kanata: Shinonome -- Taking place three years before the TV series, episode zero follows Hiroomi Nase's mission to subdue the infamous half-human, half-youmu Akihito Kanbara. Curious about the mission, Hiroomi's little sister, Mitsuki, tags along with him, and the siblings meet Akihito for the first time. However, they soon discover that they aren't the only ones seeking out Akihito, and thus begins the story of Kyoukai no Kanata. -- -- Special - Jul 2, 2014 -- 100,117 7.66
Ling Long: Incarnation Part 2 -- -- YHKT Entertainment -- 6 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Demons Drama Thriller -- Ling Long: Incarnation Part 2 Ling Long: Incarnation Part 2 -- Second half of Ling Long: Incarnation. -- ONA - Jul 31, 2020 -- 853 7.45
Little Busters!: EX -- -- J.C.Staff -- 8 eps -- Visual novel -- Slice of Life Comedy Supernatural Drama Romance School -- Little Busters!: EX Little Busters!: EX -- The main additions in "Little Busters! Ecstasy" are 3 heroine routes involving the characters Futaki Kanata, Sasasegawa Sasami and Tokido Saya. -- -- The 3 EX heroines' routes take place of the following: -- -- Saya's route - Before the events of Refrain. -- Sasami's route - After the events of Refrain. -- Kanata's route - First half of her story is before Refrain and second half is after Refrain. -- -- The episodes will be bundled with the BD/DVD releases of Little Busters!: Refrain. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Jan 29, 2014 -- 46,570 7.74
Little Busters!: EX -- -- J.C.Staff -- 8 eps -- Visual novel -- Slice of Life Comedy Supernatural Drama Romance School -- Little Busters!: EX Little Busters!: EX -- The main additions in "Little Busters! Ecstasy" are 3 heroine routes involving the characters Futaki Kanata, Sasasegawa Sasami and Tokido Saya. -- -- The 3 EX heroines' routes take place of the following: -- -- Saya's route - Before the events of Refrain. -- Sasami's route - After the events of Refrain. -- Kanata's route - First half of her story is before Refrain and second half is after Refrain. -- -- The episodes will be bundled with the BD/DVD releases of Little Busters!: Refrain. -- Special - Jan 29, 2014 -- 46,570 7.74
Macross F Movie 1: Itsuwari no Utahime -- -- 8bit, Satelight -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Mecha Military Music Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Macross F Movie 1: Itsuwari no Utahime Macross F Movie 1: Itsuwari no Utahime -- Half retelling of the original Frontier series, half new story. Conspiracies arise within the Frontier government when Sheryl Nome arrives to the colonial fleet for her concert and is soon marked as a spy for Galaxy while childhood friends, Alto Saotome and Ranka Lee both try to achieve their dreams as the battle between Frontier and the Vajra draws closer. -- -- This movie serves as part one of the Frontier retelling and will conclude with the second, The Wings of Goodbye. -- Movie - Nov 21, 2009 -- 27,312 7.82
Macross Plus Movie Edition -- -- Triangle Staff -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Mecha Military Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Macross Plus Movie Edition Macross Plus Movie Edition -- A.D. 2040—Thirty years have passed since the battle between the Earth and Zentraedi forces changed the lives of both races. On planet Eden, a top-secret project known as "Supernova" is being held to determine U.N. Spacy's next-generation variable fighter. Competing to win the funding are Shinsei Industries' YF-19 and General Galaxy's YF-21. Piloting the YF-21 is Guld Goa Bowman, a half-human, half-Zentraedi. Shinsei receives its new test pilot in the form of the unruly fighter pilot Isamu Dyson, who was once a friend of Guld. Meanwhile, as Isamu and Guld furiously battle to see which of their fighters is superior, a Virturoid Idol named Sharon Apple is to perform her debut concert on Eden. In charge of Sharon is producer Myung Fang Lone, another former friend of Isamu and Guld. When the three meet each other, old disputes spark from a troubled past. Little do they know that their past incidents—along with the Supernova Project and Sharon Apple—will somehow bring them together. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Oct 7, 1995 -- 13,787 7.72
Mahou Sensou -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Fantasy Magic -- Mahou Sensou Mahou Sensou -- The world as we know it is actually just half the story, as Takeshi Nanase finds out abruptly one summer morning. On his way to kendo practice, Takeshi comes across an unconscious girl in a uniform he doesn't recognize. Takeshi does the decent thing and saves her, and in return the girl wakes up and accidentally turns him into a magic-user. -- -- As Takeshi finds out, there is the world he lives in and the world of magic users. Most magic users just want to peacefully coexist with non-magicians, but there are some with bigger ambitions. Mui Aiba is a magician enrolled in the Subaru Magic Academy, where magic users can learn to control and channel their powers and how to live in peace with regular humans. After his fateful encounter with Mui, Takeshi and his newly magician friends Kurumi Isoshima and Kazumi Ida decide to enroll in the Magic Academy as well. -- -- All three friends have different reasons for fighting on, whether they're fighting to escape the past or catch up to the future. They wield different kinds of powers, which they must learn to harness in order to fight off the Ghost Trailers, a group of magicians who are willing to use violence to assert their superiority over humans. -- -- Pursued by the Ghost Trailers, Takeshi and his friends must train to become stronger, face the leader of the Trailers, and prevent the beginning of the Second Great Magic War. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 10, 2014 -- 209,000 6.01
Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- -- SILVER LINK. -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Demons Magic Fantasy School -- Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- Second half of Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Kayou 2nd Season. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 12,937 N/A -- -- Gokudou-kun Manyuuki -- -- Trans Arts -- 26 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic -- Gokudou-kun Manyuuki Gokudou-kun Manyuuki -- It all starts when Gokudou steals a pouch from a fortuneteller, thinking that it contains a gem. Instead, it turns out to be a rock, from which emerges Djinn. The genie grants Gokudou the standard three wishes, but our anti-hero doesn't think heavily about his wishes. Gokudou does get his wishes, though not exactly in the fashion that he expected. The best thing he gets out of his wishes is Honou no Maken, a magical sword that enables its owner to do fire attacks and it can be summoned from anywhere in the world. -- -- Even with an enchanted sword, Gokudou doesn't get much respect. He gets turned into a woman by Djinn, who is also a shapeshifter. He is followed by Rubette La Late, a potential love interest who is more interested in adventure, karaoke and outperforming Gokudou. He gets whapped on the head a lot, especially by the fortuneteller who reappears throughout the series just to plague Gokudou it seems. Later in the series, he gets another sidekick, a former evil magician named Prince, who is more handsome and a better womanizer than Gokudou. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Media Blasters -- 12,895 7.46
Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- -- SILVER LINK. -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Demons Magic Fantasy School -- Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e -- Second half of Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Kayou 2nd Season. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 12,937 N/A -- -- Queen's Blade Rebellion vs. Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica -- -- Arms -- 1 ep -- Other -- Action Ecchi Fantasy -- Queen's Blade Rebellion vs. Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica Queen's Blade Rebellion vs. Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica -- A promotional video for Hagure Yuusha no Estetica, with a little battle against Queen's Blade: Rebellion characters, as the first part. -- -- The second part is the real preview Hagure Yuusha no Estetica. -- Special - Jun ??, 2012 -- 12,927 6.12
Master Keaton -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Drama Historical Mystery Seinen Slice of Life -- Master Keaton Master Keaton -- Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- 19,713 7.60
Midori no Hibi -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Ecchi Shounen -- Midori no Hibi Midori no Hibi -- There isn't a single person in Sakuradamon High who hasn't heard the legends about Seiji "The Mad Dog" Sawamura's demonically powerful right hand. His reputation makes it fairly difficult for him to approach girls, and after being rejected 20 times straight, he half-jokingly vows to finish high school with his right hand for a girlfriend. -- -- Much to his surprise, after waking up the next morning, Seiji discovers that his demon right hand has mysteriously turned into a miniature girl, Midori Kasugano, who reveals that she has had a crush on Seiji for the past three years. Because their situation is not ideal for either of them, Seiji attempts to return Midori to normal. But after causing a big misunderstanding at the Kasugano household, the pair decide to keep their predicament between them until a solution is found. Thus begins an odd relationship, and what could be the only chance for Midori to finally be with the one she loves. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters, NYAV Post -- TV - Apr 4, 2004 -- 139,618 7.28
Midori no Hibi -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Ecchi Shounen -- Midori no Hibi Midori no Hibi -- There isn't a single person in Sakuradamon High who hasn't heard the legends about Seiji "The Mad Dog" Sawamura's demonically powerful right hand. His reputation makes it fairly difficult for him to approach girls, and after being rejected 20 times straight, he half-jokingly vows to finish high school with his right hand for a girlfriend. -- -- Much to his surprise, after waking up the next morning, Seiji discovers that his demon right hand has mysteriously turned into a miniature girl, Midori Kasugano, who reveals that she has had a crush on Seiji for the past three years. Because their situation is not ideal for either of them, Seiji attempts to return Midori to normal. But after causing a big misunderstanding at the Kasugano household, the pair decide to keep their predicament between them until a solution is found. Thus begins an odd relationship, and what could be the only chance for Midori to finally be with the one she loves. -- -- TV - Apr 4, 2004 -- 139,618 7.28
Monster Musume no Oishasan -- -- Arvo Animation -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Romance Ecchi Fantasy -- Monster Musume no Oishasan Monster Musume no Oishasan -- After years of conflict, humans and monsters have settled their differences and are now at peace. This post-war era led to the foundation of Lindworm—a town which has since become the focal point of racial harmony. -- -- As a human doctor specializing in monster biology, Glenn Litbeit runs a small clinic alongside his partner, Saphentite Neikes, who is a half-snake monster known as a lamia. He uses his knowledge to tend to any monsters who seek his aid. Whatever affliction, concern, or injury it may be, he will always be there, ready to help. -- -- 126,010 6.50
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural Fantasy Shounen -- Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA -- Bundled with the 19th and 20th volumes of the Ao no Exorcist manga. -- -- The first episode is based on the second chapter of the second Ao no Exorcist novel Home Sweet Home. -- -- The second episode is based on the title chapter from the Ao no Exorcist: Spy Game novel. -- OVA - Apr 4, 2017 -- 56,799 7.14
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre -- -- Nomad -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Drama Magic Seinen -- Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre -- As Jun Sakurada fights and lives alongside the Rozen Maidens, special lifelike dolls made to battle each other, he enjoys a rare break in which he is told a story during the events of Rozen Maiden: Träumend. -- -- When Jun buys a brooch as a present for Shinku, the fifth doll, she refuses to accept it at any cost. Souseiseki, the fourth doll, then recounts the story of how Shinku and the first doll, Suigintou, first met. This tale tells of the cruel and heartbreaking circumstances surrounding Suigintou's birth, and how the many misunderstandings between her and Shinku shaped their longstanding rivalry fueled by Suigintou's unfettered hate towards Shinku. -- -- The stage is set in Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre in 19th century London as the story delves into the past of these one-time friends and the secrets that they hold. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Dec 23, 2006 -- 55,918 7.73
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Gakuen Heaven -- -- Tokyo Kids -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen Ai -- Gakuen Heaven Gakuen Heaven -- Itou Keita, an average guy, is shocked when he's invited to attend the elite institution, "Bell Liberty Academy." Unnerved by the mystery, he's further distracted by the school's social dynamics. In a sea of amazing young men, Keita struggles to find out what makes him unique, and how he can possibly deserve to be treated as an equal by the boys of BL. Lacking any particular ability, just why has Itou been welcomed into the privileged world of the talented and the beautiful? -- -- Along the way, he develops intense relationships with the almost everyone at school but he is terribly drawn to the friendly, over-caring but very mysterious classmate, Kazuki Endou. -- TV - Apr 1, 2006 -- 56,764 6.52
Nanbaka -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Comedy Drama -- Nanbaka Nanbaka -- Nanba is the world's most formidable prison, built to incarcerate criminals who are too slippery to stay in ordinary confinement. The four inmates who occupy Cell 13 are particularly cunning on that behalf, having escaped every other prison with a perfect success rate. There is Juugo, a specialist in locks who has spent the majority of his life in prison; Uno, a gambler with great intuition; Nico, an otaku whose body reacts strangely to drugs; and Rock, a bruiser with a love for food. The daily shenanigans of the four prisoners always cause trouble for the building supervisor, Hajime Sugoroku, who desperately tries to prevent them from breaking out of Nanba. -- -- Nanbaka follows the comedic, sparkle-filled exploits of these prisoners and their guards. From three square meals a day to sports festivals, prison life in Nanba isn't actually that bad—and it is the closest these four have to a home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 247,115 7.34
Naruto: Shippuuden -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 500 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Martial Arts Shounen -- Naruto: Shippuuden Naruto: Shippuuden -- It has been two and a half years since Naruto Uzumaki left Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village, for intense training following events which fueled his desire to be stronger. Now Akatsuki, the mysterious organization of elite rogue ninja, is closing in on their grand plan which may threaten the safety of the entire shinobi world. -- -- Although Naruto is older and sinister events loom on the horizon, he has changed little in personality—still rambunctious and childish—though he is now far more confident and possesses an even greater determination to protect his friends and home. Come whatever may, Naruto will carry on with the fight for what is important to him, even at the expense of his own body, in the continuation of the saga about the boy who wishes to become Hokage. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 1,654,367 8.17
No Guns Life 2nd Season -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Drama Seinen -- No Guns Life 2nd Season No Guns Life 2nd Season -- Second half of No Guns Life. -- 58,687 7.05
No Guns Life 2nd Season -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Drama Seinen -- No Guns Life 2nd Season No Guns Life 2nd Season -- Second half of No Guns Life. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 58,687 7.05
Ousama Game The Animation -- -- Seven -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Mystery Dementia Horror Supernatural Drama School -- Ousama Game The Animation Ousama Game The Animation -- It can be rough transferring to a new school—even more so if you don't want to make any friends, like Nobuaki Kanazawa. But the reason for his antisocial behavior soon becomes clear when his class receives a text from someone called "The King." Included are instructions for the "King's Game," and all class members must participate. Those who refuse to play, quit halfway, or don't follow an order in the allotted time of 24 hours will receive a deadly punishment. -- -- Having played the game before and watched as those around him died, Nobuaki tries to warn his clueless classmates. Unfortunately, they only believe him after the King's Game claims its first casualties. Stuck in a horrific situation with no chance of escape, Nobuaki has a choice: put his own survival above those around him, or do what he couldn't before and save his classmates. -- -- 183,629 5.00
Ousama Game The Animation -- -- Seven -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Mystery Dementia Horror Supernatural Drama School -- Ousama Game The Animation Ousama Game The Animation -- It can be rough transferring to a new school—even more so if you don't want to make any friends, like Nobuaki Kanazawa. But the reason for his antisocial behavior soon becomes clear when his class receives a text from someone called "The King." Included are instructions for the "King's Game," and all class members must participate. Those who refuse to play, quit halfway, or don't follow an order in the allotted time of 24 hours will receive a deadly punishment. -- -- Having played the game before and watched as those around him died, Nobuaki tries to warn his clueless classmates. Unfortunately, they only believe him after the King's Game claims its first casualties. Stuck in a horrific situation with no chance of escape, Nobuaki has a choice: put his own survival above those around him, or do what he couldn't before and save his classmates. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 183,629 5.00
Outbreak Company -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Parody Fantasy -- Outbreak Company Outbreak Company -- Shinichi Kanou is a shut-in otaku with a vast knowledge of anime, manga, and video games. One day, after applying for a job in hopes of escaping his secluded lifestyle, he is kidnapped and transported to the Eldant Empire—a fantasy world filled with elves, dragons, and dwarves. Trapped in this strange land, Shinichi is given an unlikely task by the Japanese government: to spread otaku culture across the realm by becoming an "Otaku Missionary." -- -- To accomplish his mission, Shinichi has the full support of the Japanese government, as well as the half-elf maid Myucel and Princess Petralka of the Eldant Empire. Together with this ragtag bunch, he will overcome the obstacles of politics, social classes, and ethnic discrimination to promote the ways of the otaku in this holy land. -- -- TV - Oct 4, 2013 -- 289,591 7.27
Psycho-Pass 2 -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Police Psychological -- Psycho-Pass 2 Psycho-Pass 2 -- A year and a half after the events of the original sci-fi psychological thriller, Akane Tsunemori continues her work as an inspector—enforcing the Sibyl System's judgments. Joining her are new enforcers and junior inspector Mika Shimotsuki, a young woman blindly and inflexibly loyal to Sibyl. As Akane ponders both the nature of her job and the legitimacy of Sibyl's verdicts, a disturbing new menace emerges. -- -- A mysterious figure has discovered a way to control the Crime Coefficient—a number compiled from mental scans that allows Sibyl to gauge psychological health and identify potential criminals. Through these means, he is able to murder an enforcer, leaving behind a cryptic clue: "WC?" scrawled in blood on a wall. -- -- Akane and the rest of Division 1 soon find themselves playing a deadly game against their new foe, coming face-to-face with a conspiracy threatening not only the authority of the Sibyl System, but the very foundation of Akane's own convictions. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 524,843 7.42
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - Onshuu no Kanata ni＿＿ -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Police Psychological -- Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - Onshuu no Kanata ni＿＿ Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - Onshuu no Kanata ni＿＿ -- Shinya Kougami continues to wander the Southeast Asian Union (SEAUn) away from the eyes of the Sibyl System in Japan. While travelling through the Tibet-Himalayan Alliance Kingdom, Kougami encounters Guillermo Garcia—commander of a paramilitary group attempting to unite the local factions and bring peace to the war-torn nation. Wary of joining another mercenary group, Kougami declines to join his cause, but agrees to be driven to the nearby Tibetan capital by one of Garcia’s men. -- -- However, Kougami's plan to remain uninvolved is short-lived when a bus of refugees are ambushed by armed guerrillas. Among them is a half-Japanese, half-Tibetan girl named Tenzing Wangchuck. Impressed with Kougami's fighting prowess as he single-handedly takes the attackers out, Wangchuck requests him to teach her how to fight so she can take revenge against the warlord who murdered her family. -- -- Knowing first-hand that there's no turning back to the person you were once you take a human life, Kougami is initially reluctant to accept her request. But faced with the girl's desire for vengeance that mirrors the haunting abyss inside his own heart, will he train her? -- -- Movie - Mar 8, 2019 -- 60,997 7.74
Qiang Niang -- -- Hoods Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military Sci-Fi Slice of Life Space Comedy -- Qiang Niang Qiang Niang -- Qiang Niang mainly tells of the protagonist Carrie, who has lost her combat memories, searching for herself and the story of her final "Awakening". In the years between 2025 to 2030, a world war involving the entire world has resulted in the demise of half the world's population, and humanity has already lost control of the direction the war shall go in. In order to seize ultimate victory, war has gradually been turned into a battle without people, similar to a game. War has already become about Satellite lasers, Bomb drones, Intelligent AI, a battlefield between unmanned gun turrets and tanks... Then, there are also a group of young maidens who uses outdated firearms to engage in battle —— the Gun Girls. -- ONA - Aug 18, 2017 -- 600 N/A -- -- Fuku-chan no Sensuikan -- -- Asahi Production, Shochiku Animation Institute -- 1 ep -- Other -- Military Comedy Historical -- Fuku-chan no Sensuikan Fuku-chan no Sensuikan -- Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew cooked in the submarine kitchen. Released in November of the same year, the food shortage was quite serious in Japan, and the abundant food supply in the submarine kitchen -- vegetables, fruit, fish, rice, and more which were already luxury items in Japan at the time -- was prepared into various dishes along with a merry, rhythmic song. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Nov 9, 1944 -- 579 5.03
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- White Fox -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Psychological Drama Thriller Fantasy -- Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season Part 2 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season. -- 456,224 8.62
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna -- -- White Fox -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Psychological Drama Thriller Fantasy -- Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna -- Covered in ice and snow, Elior Forest is the home to dangerous magical beasts and 50 elves frozen in ice. One day, the great spirit Puck helps a young girl break out of her ice prison. Her name is Emilia, a half-elf born with silver hair, long ears, and amethyst eyes—features that resemble the evil Witch who destroyed half the world long ago. -- -- Shunned by society because of her appearance, Emilia dwells in the forest with Puck as her sole companion and family. Burdened with a sin of destruction she does not remember committing, she spends her days trying to find a way to help her frozen kin. But when the great spirit Melakuera, the Arbitrator of the world, finds Emilia, her right to stay alive is brought into question. Will the bonds of ice she formed with Puck prove to be the warm thread that defies fate? -- -- Movie - Nov 8, 2019 -- 157,555 7.61
Rifle Is Beautiful -- -- Studio 3Hz -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Rifle Is Beautiful Rifle Is Beautiful -- Rifle-shooting sports are competitive activities testing accuracy and precision using a rifle. In Japan, carrying firearms is prohibited, so most of the participants are members of the defense force. When the use of rifles using a light beam instead of real bullets as ammunition became common, rifle-shooting competitions became accessible to the younger population, giving way to school contests. -- -- First-year high school student and marksmanship enthusiast Hikari Kokura has just transferred to Chidori High School. She tries to join the club of her choice, but finds out that the club no longer exists due to the low popularity of the sport. Distraught, she tries to restore the club and somehow manages to recruit three other members: her childhood friend Izumi Shibusawa, the half-Russian Erika Meinohama, and the stoic Yukio Igarashi. -- -- This marks the beginning of the Chidori Rifle-Shooting Club, who have only one goal—to compete on the national stage! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 27,927 6.19
Rinkaku -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Dementia Horror Music -- Rinkaku Rinkaku -- Following the release of their 8th album "DUM SPIRO SPERO," Japanese rock band Dir en Grey went into hiatus following a vigorous touring schedule in Japan and abroad, a year and a half later returning with their single "RINKAKU" released on December 19th, 2012. Once again animator Keita Kurosaka was enlisted to create a hand drawn music video, that in many regards is much less shocking and grotesque than the band's previous collaboration with Kurosaka, the infamous "Agitated Screams of Maggots" music video. -- Music - Oct 16, 2012 -- 1,303 5.59
RobiHachi -- -- Studio Comet -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi Space -- RobiHachi RobiHachi -- Ever since they encountered aliens on the moon, humanity's technology has developed by leaps and bounds. Half a century later, even though most have it easy, Robby Yaji and Hacchi Kita cannot seem to catch a break in this advanced society. Robby—a man perpetually struck by misfortune—owes large sums of money to debt collectors due to his poor investments in shady get-rich-quick schemes, and Hacchi finds it difficult to get over the boredom of his mundane life. -- -- The two end up on an adventure of a lifetime when loan shark boss Yang sends Hacchi to collect the money Robby owes. Rather than pay up, Robby blasts off into space and heads to Isekandar, a planet that supposedly brings happiness to anyone who visits. Seeing a chance for some much needed excitement, Hacchi tags along with Robby on this journey filled with alien encounters, giant robot battles, and all sorts of troublemaking—all the while avoiding Yang and his cronies who are desperately combing the universe to find them. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 27,380 6.50
Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Card game -- Action Adventure Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis -- Thousands of years ago, the ancient dragon Bahamut wrought havoc upon the land of Mistarcia, a world where both gods and demons live amongst mankind. Working together to prevent the world's destruction, the rival deities barely managed to seal Bahamut, agreeing to split the key between them so that the dragon would remain eternally imprisoned. -- -- With the world safe from the destruction of Bahamut, it is business as usual for bounty hunters like Favaro Leone. Living a laid-back, self-serving lifestyle, the amoral Favaro goes about his work while on the run from fellow bounty hunter Kaisar Lidfard, a righteous man who swears vengeance upon Favaro. However, Favaro's carefree life is thrown into chaos when he meets Amira, a mysterious woman who holds half of the key to the world's fragile peace. -- -- Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis tells the story of a group of unlikely heroes who find themselves caught in the middle of an epic clash between gods and demons, forced to carve their own path in the face of the imminent storm. -- -- 339,162 7.66
Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Card game -- Action Adventure Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis -- Thousands of years ago, the ancient dragon Bahamut wrought havoc upon the land of Mistarcia, a world where both gods and demons live amongst mankind. Working together to prevent the world's destruction, the rival deities barely managed to seal Bahamut, agreeing to split the key between them so that the dragon would remain eternally imprisoned. -- -- With the world safe from the destruction of Bahamut, it is business as usual for bounty hunters like Favaro Leone. Living a laid-back, self-serving lifestyle, the amoral Favaro goes about his work while on the run from fellow bounty hunter Kaisar Lidfard, a righteous man who swears vengeance upon Favaro. However, Favaro's carefree life is thrown into chaos when he meets Amira, a mysterious woman who holds half of the key to the world's fragile peace. -- -- Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis tells the story of a group of unlikely heroes who find themselves caught in the middle of an epic clash between gods and demons, forced to carve their own path in the face of the imminent storm. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 339,162 7.66
Shirobako -- -- P.A. Works -- 24 eps -- Original -- Comedy Drama -- Shirobako Shirobako -- It all started in Kaminoyama High School, when five best friends—Aoi Miyamori, Ema Yasuhara, Midori Imai, Shizuka Sakaki, and Misa Toudou—discovered their collective love for all things anime and formed the animation club. After making their first amateur anime together and showcasing it at the culture festival, the group vow to pursue careers in the industry, aiming to one day work together and create their own mainstream show. -- -- Two and a half years later, Aoi and Ema have managed to land jobs at the illustrious Musashino Animation production company. The others, however, are finding it difficult to get their dream jobs. Shizuka is feeling the weight of not being recognized as a capable voice actor, Misa has a secure yet unsatisfying career designing 3D models for a car company, and Midori is a university student intent on pursuing her dream as a story writer. These five girls will learn that the path to success is one with many diversions, but dreams can still be achieved through perseverance and a touch of eccentric creativity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 359,940 8.34
Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai -- -- Artland, TNK -- 12 eps -- Other -- Ecchi Fantasy -- Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai -- Lucifer, an Archangel and former head of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, is banished from Heaven after revolting against the Lord's will.. While plummeting from the skies, she is halted halfway between Heaven and Hell after crashing through the roof of a high school church. Though she is witnessed by Maria Totsuka, a soft-spoken student at the academy, Lucifer swiftly continues her descent into the depths of Hell. -- -- Soon after her arrival, Lucifer is found by aspiring Demon Lord and fangirl Leviathan. The two decide to overthrow the Seven Sins, the authorities of Hell under the leadership of Belial. But with their combined powers, the Seven Sins are able to repel Lucifer and contain her divine powers by placing a Garb of Punishment over her body, transforming Lucifer into a Demon Lord. -- -- Longing for revenge and accompanied by Leviathan, Lucifer makes her way back to Earth, where she forces Maria to become her immortal slave. Together with her new accomplices, Lucifer sets out on a mission to subdue the Seven Sins so she may be free of the curse brought upon by her Garb. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 115,034 5.69
SK∞ -- -- Bones -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Sports -- SK∞ SK∞ -- High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about one thing: skateboarding. When night falls, he heads to "S," an illegal underground race inside a mine where skaters compete in highly dangerous situations. After a loss that results in his skateboard being destroyed and his arm being broken, Reki is now incapable of practicing at all. -- -- While working, Reki runs into his new classmate, Langa Hasegawa, a half-Canadian and half-Japanese boy with no skateboarding experience whatsoever. Langa is in desperate need of money. After they both visit "S" when tasked by Reki's boss, they get into trouble and are forced into a bet that requires Langa to skate in a race. However, the mysterious transfer student holds a trump card that Reki is unaware of, one which might help him win the race in the most unexpected way. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 245,982 8.03
Slayers Excellent -- -- J.C.Staff -- 3 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers Excellent Slayers Excellent -- In these earlier adventures of Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent, learn how the two rivals first met. In their first adventure, the two rivals meet and run into a vampire during a rescue mission. Next, Lina is hired to be the bodyguard of a rich man's daughter, Sirene. Lina is at first very enthusiastic about it at first, as she is being paid very well, but Sirene keeps spending all of Lina's first half of pay. (She gets the other half later) She puts together a fake kidnapping to teach Sirene a lesson, but when she really gets kidnapped, she must team up with Naga to save her. In the final episode, Lina and Naga find themselves on seperate sides in a fashion war. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- OVA - Oct 25, 1998 -- 18,080 7.33
Slayers Excellent -- -- J.C.Staff -- 3 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers Excellent Slayers Excellent -- In these earlier adventures of Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent, learn how the two rivals first met. In their first adventure, the two rivals meet and run into a vampire during a rescue mission. Next, Lina is hired to be the bodyguard of a rich man's daughter, Sirene. Lina is at first very enthusiastic about it at first, as she is being paid very well, but Sirene keeps spending all of Lina's first half of pay. (She gets the other half later) She puts together a fake kidnapping to teach Sirene a lesson, but when she really gets kidnapped, she must team up with Naga to save her. In the final episode, Lina and Naga find themselves on seperate sides in a fashion war. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Oct 25, 1998 -- 18,080 7.33
Slayers Special -- -- J.C.Staff -- 3 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Supernatural Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers Special Slayers Special -- In these three self-contained half-hour stories, Lina Inverse and her partner, Naga The Serpent, take on a variety of jobs for quick cash, food, and/or their own skins. The first episode, "The Scary Chimera Plan," pits them against a lunatic magician who intends to use Lina to create a fearsome, spell-slinging monster. Then, in "Jeffry's Knighthood," they're hired by an overprotective mother to see that her son - a young man barely capable of holding a sword - becomes a respected knight, by "helping" him fight off the marauding soldiers terrorizing the area. Finally, "Mirror, Mirror" puts the two in a race to hunt down and capture (for bounty, of course) a rogue sorceror who's found an ancient artifact that can create loyal duplicates of anything or anyone, including his enemies. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- OVA - Jul 25, 1996 -- 17,252 7.37
Slayers Special -- -- J.C.Staff -- 3 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Supernatural Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Slayers Special Slayers Special -- In these three self-contained half-hour stories, Lina Inverse and her partner, Naga The Serpent, take on a variety of jobs for quick cash, food, and/or their own skins. The first episode, "The Scary Chimera Plan," pits them against a lunatic magician who intends to use Lina to create a fearsome, spell-slinging monster. Then, in "Jeffry's Knighthood," they're hired by an overprotective mother to see that her son - a young man barely capable of holding a sword - becomes a respected knight, by "helping" him fight off the marauding soldiers terrorizing the area. Finally, "Mirror, Mirror" puts the two in a race to hunt down and capture (for bounty, of course) a rogue sorceror who's found an ancient artifact that can create loyal duplicates of anything or anyone, including his enemies. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Jul 25, 1996 -- 17,252 7.37
Soul Link Special -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Ecchi Adventure Space Comedy Romance Military Sci-Fi -- Soul Link Special Soul Link Special -- Recap Special. First half of the episode follows Cellaria from her point of view and her narration. Second part follows Nanami from her point of view with her narration. Takes place between episodes 10 and 11 (Episode 10.5). -- Special - Jun 11, 2006 -- 2,574 5.88
Spriggan (ONA) -- -- David Production -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Shounen -- Spriggan (ONA) Spriggan (ONA) -- Deep in the Ararat Mountains of Turkey, a secret organization known as ARCAM has found what is believed to be Noah's Ark. However, the U.S. Machine Corps., a rogue organization of the Pentagon, wants to take over the Ark as a means of global supremacy. Only a special ARCAM operative known as a Spriggan stands in their way. Japanese Spriggan Yu Ominae teams up with French Spriggan Jean-Jacques Mondo to combat members of the U.S. Machine Corps. led by Col. MacDougall—a genetically-enhanced boy with deadly psionic powers. However, they must act fast and stop MacDougall before he uses the Ark for his own agenda. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- ONA - ??? ??, 2021 -- 4,048 N/A -- -- Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light -- A movie retelling of the first half of the Turn A Gundam series. -- Movie - Feb 9, 2002 -- 4,048 6.52
Stand By Me Doraemon -- -- Shin-Ei Animation, Shirogumi -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Kids Sci-Fi Shounen -- Stand By Me Doraemon Stand By Me Doraemon -- Nobita Nobi is an elementary student who hates studying, is bad at sports, and does everything half-heartedly. He is a pushover, unlucky, and fearful of many things. His personality makes him a failure in life, even affecting his progeny. This causes his great-great-grandchild, Sewashi, to take control of the situation. -- -- Sewashi travels back in time from the 22nd century to the 20th century to meet Nobita, who is shocked to see him appear out of his drawer alongside a blue robotic cat. The robotic cat calls himself Doraemon, who claims to have been pressured by Sewashi to assist Nobita, with their ultimate goal being to provide Nobita happiness. Frustrated after seeing Nobita's hopeless state, Doraemon decides to go back to the future. However, Sewashi activates a program within Doraemon that prevents him from doing so. -- -- Forced to stay, Doraemon helps Nobita using futuristic gadgets through his four-dimensional pocket—a bag containing anything inside it. Can Doraemon bring Nobita happiness and return to the future? -- -- Movie - Aug 8, 2014 -- 31,200 8.06
Tales of Phantasia The Animation -- -- Actas -- 4 eps -- Game -- Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Tales of Phantasia The Animation Tales of Phantasia The Animation -- Tragedy strikes the lives of Cless Alvein, a young swordsman, and Chester Barklight, a young archer, as they return to their village of Totus to find it razed to the ground by the mysterious Black Knight. To take over the world, the Black Knight seeks to claim the power of the Demon King, Dhaos—sealed away by the ancestors of Cless and a young cleric named Mint Adnade. Dhaos's reawakening signals not only the end of the Black Knight, but potentially the world. Cless and Mint must now journey a century into the past to rally allies capable of vanquishing the Demon King for once and for all. -- -- Tales of Phantasia The Animation follows Cless and Mint's journey through time to long ago, where they forge an alliance with the half-elf sorceress Arche Klaine and the summoner Klarth F. Lester. Together, they strive to defeat Dhaos and his army in saving the past as well as the years to come. -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- OVA - Nov 25, 2004 -- 20,850 6.81
Tales of Phantasia The Animation -- -- Actas -- 4 eps -- Game -- Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Tales of Phantasia The Animation Tales of Phantasia The Animation -- Tragedy strikes the lives of Cless Alvein, a young swordsman, and Chester Barklight, a young archer, as they return to their village of Totus to find it razed to the ground by the mysterious Black Knight. To take over the world, the Black Knight seeks to claim the power of the Demon King, Dhaos—sealed away by the ancestors of Cless and a young cleric named Mint Adnade. Dhaos's reawakening signals not only the end of the Black Knight, but potentially the world. Cless and Mint must now journey a century into the past to rally allies capable of vanquishing the Demon King for once and for all. -- -- Tales of Phantasia The Animation follows Cless and Mint's journey through time to long ago, where they forge an alliance with the half-elf sorceress Arche Klaine and the summoner Klarth F. Lester. Together, they strive to defeat Dhaos and his army in saving the past as well as the years to come. -- OVA - Nov 25, 2004 -- 20,850 6.81
Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. -- -- ENGI -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Mystery Comedy Drama Romance -- Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. -- Kimizuka Kimihiko is a crisis-magnet. From getting caught up in a crime scene to accidentally witnessing a drug deal, trouble seems to find him around every corner. So it is no surprise when his rather mundane flight suddenly enters a state of emergency with a dire need of a detective onboard. Unfortunately, his attempt at avoiding trouble is foiled by a beautiful girl with silver hair who goes by the codename Siesta. Declaring herself a detective, she unceremoniously drags Kimizuka into the case as her assistant. -- -- That incident spelled the beginning of an adventure around the globe that went beyond his wildest imagination. Putting their lives on the line, the two took down criminal organizations, prevented disasters, and saved thousands. But the curtain closed to their epic journey with Siesta's untimely death three years later. -- -- Resolving to live an ordinary high school life this time, Kimizuka spends a year maintaining a low profile. However, as fate would have it, a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Siesta comes crashing into his life, threatening to throw his peaceful days into disarray. -- -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 19,730 N/A -- -- Master Keaton -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Drama Historical Mystery Seinen Slice of Life -- Master Keaton Master Keaton -- Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- 19,713 7.60
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 -- -- DR Movie, Kinema Citrus -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Drama Fantasy -- Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 -- Second season of Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari. -- TV - Oct ??, 2021 -- 251,232 N/A -- -- Nanbaka -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Comedy Drama -- Nanbaka Nanbaka -- Nanba is the world's most formidable prison, built to incarcerate criminals who are too slippery to stay in ordinary confinement. The four inmates who occupy Cell 13 are particularly cunning on that behalf, having escaped every other prison with a perfect success rate. There is Juugo, a specialist in locks who has spent the majority of his life in prison; Uno, a gambler with great intuition; Nico, an otaku whose body reacts strangely to drugs; and Rock, a bruiser with a love for food. The daily shenanigans of the four prisoners always cause trouble for the building supervisor, Hajime Sugoroku, who desperately tries to prevent them from breaking out of Nanba. -- -- Nanbaka follows the comedic, sparkle-filled exploits of these prisoners and their guards. From three square meals a day to sports festivals, prison life in Nanba isn't actually that bad—and it is the closest these four have to a home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 247,115 7.34
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/ABishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R -- -- Toei Animation -- 43 eps -- Manga -- Demons Magic Romance Shoujo -- Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R -- Usagi Tsukino and her friends have been living peacefully until they are called into action again as Sailor Guardians, planetary warriors fighting for the peace of the galaxy. Usagi, also known as Sailor Moon, leads their group into battle when a new threat from beyond the stars presents itself: two survivors of an alien race, An and Ail. In order to save the source of their life force, the Makai Tree, An and Ail begin harvesting energy from unsuspecting humans. The Sailor Guardians must stop their plot or face the annihilation of Earth. -- -- But as one threat subsides, another follows—this time in the form of a little girl from the future who seeks the source of Sailor Moon's power to save her family. However, she is not the only one vying for it, as a group known as the Black Moon Clan also wishes to obtain the power and use it for nefarious purposes. In order to protect their destinies and the harmony of the universe, Sailor Moon and the rest of the Sailor Guardians must fight to stop these forces from succeeding. -- -- TV - Mar 6, 1993 -- 125,035 7.69
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/A -- -- Isuca -- -- Arms -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Ecchi Romance School Seinen Supernatural -- Isuca Isuca -- Poor Shinichirou Asano has the worst of luck. His parents abandoned him and ran off to Europe. If that isn't bad enough on its own, they barely left him any money to take care of himself. In order to pay rent and keep a roof over his head, he has to work. Unfortunately, he was just fired from his last job and as a high school student, he doesn't have many other prospects. -- -- One evening, he's attacked by a centipede monster on his way home. Shinichirou is saved by a mysterious girl with a bow and arrow, who he later discovers is Sakuya Shimazu, a beautiful student who attends his school. But when he later helps an injured girl, he discovers two things. First, the injured girl isn't human at all but rather a nekomata, a two-tailed demon cat. And second, Sakuya comes from a family of exorcists, who've protected humanity from rogue monsters and spirits for generations. Because Shinichirou was responsible for releasing the nekomata, Sakuya enlists his help in recapturing the demon, but that's just the beginning of Shinichirou's relationship with Sakuya. It turns out the Shimazu family needs a housekeeper and it just so happens that Shinichirou excels at cooking and likes to clean! It may not be his dream job, but if it pays the rent and puts food on the table... -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 125,107 6.02
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/AGirls Bravo: First Season -- -- AIC Spirits -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi Fantasy School Shounen -- Girls Bravo: First Season Girls Bravo: First Season -- Small for his age, Yukinari has been bullied and abused by girls all his life. Now in high school, he has developed a rare condition: whenever girls touch him, or even come close, he breaks out in hives. Imagine his surprise, when he is suddenly transported to the city of Seiren on a mystic world invisibly orbiting the Earth, and populated with vast numbers of women and very few men. Fortunately, he has a new friend, Miharu-chan, whose touch inexplicably doesn't affect him. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Jul 5, 2004 -- 125,221 6.44
Tiger Mask -- -- Toei Animation -- 105 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Shounen Sports -- Tiger Mask Tiger Mask -- Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler. -- -- The main antagonist in the manga and anime was Tigers' Den, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tigers' Den under the name "Yellow Devil", but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- TV - Oct 2, 1969 -- 8,091 7.26
Tokkou -- -- AIC Spirits, Group TAC -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Horror Police Supernatural Seinen -- Tokkou Tokkou -- "Shindou Ranmaru has just graduated from police academy and assigned to Tokko: Special Mobile Investigation Force. On the day of his graduation, he meets the half-naked girl he has been seeing in his dreams. Her name is Rokujo Sakura and she works for a secret group within Tokki, known as Tokko: Special Public Safety Task Force. Shindou ends up joining Tokko to avenge his parents' death, and solve the mysterious mass murder of residents in his hometown of Machida. Meanwhile, bottomless pits begin appearing around Japan, and mysterious creatures emerge from them. Could these events be linked to Machida Massacre?" -- -- (Source: DVD Complete Series Back Cover) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- TV - Apr 16, 2006 -- 40,555 6.57
Tokkou -- -- AIC Spirits, Group TAC -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Horror Police Supernatural Seinen -- Tokkou Tokkou -- "Shindou Ranmaru has just graduated from police academy and assigned to Tokko: Special Mobile Investigation Force. On the day of his graduation, he meets the half-naked girl he has been seeing in his dreams. Her name is Rokujo Sakura and she works for a secret group within Tokki, known as Tokko: Special Public Safety Task Force. Shindou ends up joining Tokko to avenge his parents' death, and solve the mysterious mass murder of residents in his hometown of Machida. Meanwhile, bottomless pits begin appearing around Japan, and mysterious creatures emerge from them. Could these events be linked to Machida Massacre?" -- -- (Source: DVD Complete Series Back Cover) -- TV - Apr 16, 2006 -- 40,555 6.57
Tokyo Ghoul -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Tokyo Ghoul Tokyo Ghoul -- Tokyo has become a cruel and merciless city—a place where vicious creatures called "ghouls" exist alongside humans. The citizens of this once great metropolis live in constant fear of these bloodthirsty savages and their thirst for human flesh. However, the greatest threat these ghouls pose is their dangerous ability to masquerade as humans and blend in with society. -- -- Based on the best-selling supernatural horror manga by Sui Ishida, Tokyo Ghoul follows Ken Kaneki, a shy, bookish college student, who is instantly drawn to Rize Kamishiro, an avid reader like himself. However, Rize is not exactly who she seems, and this unfortunate meeting pushes Kaneki into the dark depths of the ghouls' inhuman world. In a twist of fate, Kaneki is saved by the enigmatic waitress Touka Kirishima, and thus begins his new, secret life as a half-ghoul/half-human who must find a way to integrate into both societies. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 2,034,029 7.80
Tokyo Ghoul:re -- -- Pierrot Plus, Studio Pierrot -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Psychological Supernatural Mystery Drama Horror Seinen -- Tokyo Ghoul:re Tokyo Ghoul:re -- Two years have passed since the CCG's raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organization Aogiri Tree, who acknowledge the CCG's growing threat to their existence. -- -- The creation of a special team, known as the Quinx Squad, may provide the CCG with the push they need to exterminate Tokyo's unwanted residents. As humans who have undergone surgery in order to make use of the special abilities of ghouls, they participate in operations to eradicate the dangerous creatures. The leader of this group, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human who has been trained by famed special class investigator, Kishou Arima. However, there's more to this young man than meets the eye, as unknown memories claw at his mind, slowly reminding him of the person he used to be. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 764,007 6.47
Top wo Nerae 3! -- -- Gaina -- ? eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Space Comedy Drama Mecha -- Top wo Nerae 3! Top wo Nerae 3! -- (No synopsis yet.) -- OVA - ??? ??, ???? -- 4,028 N/A -- -- Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly -- The movie retelling of the final half of the Turn A Gundam series. -- Movie - Feb 10, 2002 -- 3,893 6.64
Tsukiyo & Opal -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Tsukiyo & Opal Tsukiyo & Opal -- Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening. -- Movie - Mar 7, 2015 -- 222 5.39
Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly Turn A Gundam II Movie: Moonlight Butterfly -- The movie retelling of the final half of the Turn A Gundam series. -- Movie - Feb 10, 2002 -- 3,893 6.64
Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light Turn A Gundam I Movie: Earth Light -- A movie retelling of the first half of the Turn A Gundam series. -- Movie - Feb 9, 2002 -- 4,048 6.52
Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru! -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Shoujo Ai -- Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru! Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru! -- Having lost her mother at a young age, Misha Takanashi, a second grader who is half-Russian and half-Japanese, now lives with her Japanese father. Tsubame Kamoi, formerly a Japan Air Self-Defense Force, JASDF officer, comes to the Takanashi household as a housekeeper. This is a home comedy where Kamoi, a hardcore lolicon, attempts to get near Misha as she tries to fight against her. -- 92,140 6.95
Warau Salesman Dai SP-banashi -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 8 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Warau Salesman Dai SP-banashi Warau Salesman Dai SP-banashi -- Specials of Warau Salesman broadcasted intermittently during the main show not included in the episode count of the main show. They are 3 times the length of a normal episode and fill a half hour time-slot. -- Special - Jan 23, 1990 -- 461 N/A -- -- Kodomo no Kaitei no Koto -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Psychological -- Kodomo no Kaitei no Koto Kodomo no Kaitei no Koto -- For whom does a girl keep rotating? A story of a weird relationship between a child and adults. -- -- (Source: Official website) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2004 -- 449 4.36
Why -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Why Why -- A boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become indistinguishable. Tanaami shot a boxing match on a Motordrive camera, made two thousand offset prints, and rephotographed each of them. He explains his inspiration for the work being the experience of watching a boxing match on television but finding the newspaper print the next morning better capturing the exhilaration of the sport. -- -- (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1975 -- 364 4.90
Yarichin☆Bitch-bu -- -- GRIZZLY -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Yaoi -- Yarichin☆Bitch-bu Yarichin☆Bitch-bu -- Takashi Toono was unsure what to expect when he transferred to Morimori Academy, a private all-boys boarding school located deep in the mountains. However, it's no different from any other boys' school, and since he entered halfway through the year, he feels like an outcast—until the bright and friendly Kyousuke Yaguchi introduces himself. -- -- Due to the school's compulsory club policy, Toono chooses to join the low-effort "Photography Club," but the club is not what it seems. Nicknamed the "Yarichin Bitch Club," its members offer sexual services to pent-up boys at the academy—for no reason other than a love of sex. What's worse is his monthly sex quota—and the punishment for failure is severe: the club will forcefully take his innocence. However, as time runs out, Toono is left mortified and out of options. -- -- At Toono's side throughout his ordeal is Yaguchi, as well as Yuu Kashima—a fellow transfer student and club member who shares Toono's predicament. While the first years in the club struggle with their sticky dilemma, the club collectively has to deal with sex, secrets, and even stalkers! -- -- OVA - Sep 21, 2018 -- 65,573 6.51
Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka -- -- Lesprit -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Drama Shounen Ai -- Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka -- Kei Kunieda is a newscaster who strictly maintains an amiable and kind persona while at work. Although he smiles on the outside, he covertly curses at others to his heart's content. His everyday life is smooth, even if he keeps half of himself hidden at all times, but that changes when he meets Ushio Tsuzuki, an independent stop-motion animator. -- -- Soon, Kei finds himself caught in a lie borne from his two personas meeting Ushio under different conditions, with the other man unaware they are the very same person. As feelings begin to blossom between them, Kei cannot be sure if Ushio will love both sides of him—or only just half. -- -- Movie - Dec 11, 2020 -- 21,012 7.13
Yozakura Quartet -- -- Nomad -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Magic Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Yozakura Quartet Yozakura Quartet -- The world of Yozakura Quartet is actually not one, but two worlds: one of humans, and one of youkai. Despite appearing mostly human, youkai may have animal like physical traits, along with a number of special abilities. Normally youkai are confined to their world, but some have found their way into the realm of humanity. As a symbol of peace, and a bridge between the two realms, a city was constructed within the protective barrier of seven magical trees, otherwise known as the Seven Pillars. This city of Sakurashin is home to both humans and youkai, with the peace between them maintained by the Hizumi Life Counseling Office. -- -- The director of this office is Akina Hiizumi, a teenager with the inherited family ability to perform “tuning,” which can send harmful youkai back to their world permanently. He is aided by a group of girls, including the town’s 16 year old youkai mayor, Hime Yarizakura, their town’s announcer and resident telepath, Ao Nanami, and Kotoha Isone, a half-youkai who can summon objects just by stating the object’s name. -- -- As new residents enter and mysterious events begin to take place, this quartet of protectors and their closest friends must continue to guard the city of Sakurashin, and maintain the fragile balance of peace between humans and youkai. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 3, 2008 -- 122,344 6.83
Yozakura Quartet -- -- Nomad -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Magic Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Yozakura Quartet Yozakura Quartet -- The world of Yozakura Quartet is actually not one, but two worlds: one of humans, and one of youkai. Despite appearing mostly human, youkai may have animal like physical traits, along with a number of special abilities. Normally youkai are confined to their world, but some have found their way into the realm of humanity. As a symbol of peace, and a bridge between the two realms, a city was constructed within the protective barrier of seven magical trees, otherwise known as the Seven Pillars. This city of Sakurashin is home to both humans and youkai, with the peace between them maintained by the Hizumi Life Counseling Office. -- -- The director of this office is Akina Hiizumi, a teenager with the inherited family ability to perform “tuning,” which can send harmful youkai back to their world permanently. He is aided by a group of girls, including the town’s 16 year old youkai mayor, Hime Yarizakura, their town’s announcer and resident telepath, Ao Nanami, and Kotoha Isone, a half-youkai who can summon objects just by stating the object’s name. -- -- As new residents enter and mysterious events begin to take place, this quartet of protectors and their closest friends must continue to guard the city of Sakurashin, and maintain the fragile balance of peace between humans and youkai. -- TV - Oct 3, 2008 -- 122,344 6.83
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Super Power Supernatural Magic Shounen -- Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta -- Hundreds of years ago, the borders between the worlds of humans and youkai temporarily overlapped, resulting in many residents of both crossing over to the other side. In the years since this event, the city of Sakurashin has become a central hub for all inter-dimensional affairs—a result of both the sacred Seven Pillars around the city serving as a beacon for the youkai, and the efforts of the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office in keeping the townsfolk happy. This office is composed of Hime Yarizakura, the young mayor of the city; satori Ao Nanami, who can read people's minds; half-youkai Kotoha Isone, who can summon anything by speaking a word; oni siblings, Kyousuke and Touka Kishi; and the office director Akina Hiizumi, who inherited his family's ability to force youkai back to their world. -- -- Besides volunteer and arbitration work, the Life Counseling Office also suppresses any Strikes: rare occurrences where humans are suddenly infused with youkai powers and go on a rampage. But the appearance of a sinister man signals trouble as Strikes become increasingly common, political rivals make their moves, and malicious individuals descend upon the city. As the self-appointed defenders of Sakurashin, it's up to the Life Counseling Office to protect the idyllic city they call home! -- -- TV - Oct 6, 2013 -- 104,811 7.50
Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal -- -- Gallop -- 73 eps -- Manga -- Action Game Fantasy Shounen -- Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal -- In the bustling and futuristic city of Heartland, a young boy named Yuuma Tsukumo has a dream that everyone his age wants to achieve—earning the title of the greatest duelist! Sadly, due to his lackluster dueling skills, this dream is far from achievable. But when the school bully, Ryouga "Shark" Kamishiro, splits the key given to him by his father into two pieces, he inadvertently sets Yuuma on a collision course with his dream. -- -- Retaining one half of the key, Yuuma begins a duel with Shark, but soon realizes that his inexperienced skills are no match for him. In a sudden turn of events, Yuuma's key repairs itself, and the "Door of Destiny'' appears before him. Using the key to open it, Yuuma is greeted by an alien by the name of Astral—a being only he can see. -- -- The bewildered Yuuma soon learns that his memories have been divided into 100 "Number Cards," all of which he must retrieve. However, he is also not the only one looking for them. Bombarded by these revelations, Yuuma, alongside Astral, must defend the world from the upcoming threats that loom over Heartland City—regardless of any divine intervention that may occur. -- -- -- Licensor: -- 4Kids Entertainment, Konami -- TV - Apr 11, 2011 -- 57,016 6.34
Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season -- -- Production I.G -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Historical Psychological Thriller Shounen -- Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season -- Second half of Youkoku no Moriarty. -- 76,708 8.29
Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season -- -- Production I.G -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Historical Psychological Thriller Shounen -- Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season Yuukoku no Moriarty 2nd Season -- Second half of Youkoku no Moriarty. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 76,708 8.29
Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Movie) -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Supernatural Martial Arts Shounen -- Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Movie) Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Movie) -- Yusuke Urameshi is not exactly what you'd call an angel. In fact, some might call him down right devilish. But when he dies in an accident trying to save a child, he finds himself in the Spirit World. Unfortunately for Yusuke, his name is not listed in the Book of Enma, which means it was one big mistake! So he should return from the Spirit World, but must pass a few tests first, and become a detective of the spiritual world. -- -- So now Yusuke works in the Spirit World as a half-dead, half-alive agent for Koenma, son of the ruler of the Spirit World. This position does have its disadvantages, especially when you're trying to enjoy your summer vacation and Koenma gets kidnapped! So now Yusuke must interrupt his summer fun to find Koenma and trade the Golden Seal of King Enma for his life. But if someone other then King Enma has the Golden Seal there will be chaos in the Spirit World! What's a half-dead spirit detective to do? -- -- With the aide of his closest allies, Yusuke sets off for Magma Valley, to save the life of the one who saved his, and find out who's at the bottom of this evil conspiracy. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Media Blasters -- Movie - Jul 10, 1993 -- 24,728 6.82
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/17th-century_oil_portraits_of_standing_men_at_half_length
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2017_Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:'n_Half_miljoen
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:022_Half_of_the_500_Arahats_(25260682458).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2_Half_Adder.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg#file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg#filehistory
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg#filelinks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg#metadata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Half_light_radius_simple.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Half+Way+House+with+border.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_168_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11300587123).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_169_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11300040266).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_173_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11238783706).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_176_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11300995616).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_180_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11299552944).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_181_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11301973474).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_188_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11300143055).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_189_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11301675726).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_231_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11301643665).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_237_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11237196445).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_255_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11236164884).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_272_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11300272996).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_275_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11235782536).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_286_of_'Pictorial_Half-hours,_edited_by_C._K'_(11032411446).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_299_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11141755224).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_308_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11140511685).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_369_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11237463205).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_384_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11301074156).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_385_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11138114433).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_51_of_'The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers'_(11237194915).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'Portrait_of_a_Gentleman,_Half_Length,_Holding_a_Portrait_of_a_Lady'_by_Cariani.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk:Folkestone_Rotary_Half_Marathon_2017_0D2D4360_(37287625472).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=File:Folkestone+Rotary+Half+Marathon+2017+0D2D4360+(37287625472).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=File:Folkestone+Rotary+Half+Marathon+2017+0D2D4360+(37287625472).jpg
'The Half of It, Dearie' Blues
1792 half disme
1986 Chalfant Valley earthquake
2nd Half
Aaron Halfaker
Abraham Khalfon
Action Half-Life
thelstan Half-King
Affair of Half a Lifetime
Ain't No Half-Steppin'
Alabama Centennial half dollar
Alan Harper (Two and a Half Men)
Albany Charter half dollar
Albrecht Besserer von Thalfingen
Alic Halford Smith
Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont
America's Finest City Half Marathon
American halfbeak
Amiga Halfbrite mode
A Monster and a Half
ANCHalfords
Anchicyclocheilus halfibindus
Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour
Arsenio Halfhuid
Ashfaq Khalfan
Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2007 All-Africa Games Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2007 All-Africa Games Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2007 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2007 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2011 All-Africa Games Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2011 All-Africa Games Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2011 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2011 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2015 African Games Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2015 African Games Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2019 African Games Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2019 African Games Women's half marathon
Athletics at the 2019 Summer Universiade Men's half marathon
Athletics at the 2019 Summer Universiade Women's half marathon
Auray-Vannes Half Marathon
A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
Aziz Khalfi
Balao halfbeak
Bangsaen21 Half Marathon
Baringo Half Marathon
Battle of Alam el Halfa
Battle of Alam el Halfa order of battle
Beardmore Halford Pullinger
Ben Halfpenny
Ben Jones (halfback)
Ben-Zion Halfon
Besserer von Thalfingen
Better Half
...bez pPRDU...halfPLUGGED...
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Bill Schroeder (halfback)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Martin (halfback)
Biological half-life
Bipartite half
Bob Smith (halfback)
Bogot Half Marathon
Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar
Bord halfpenny
Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon
Brass Monkey Half Marathon
Brian Halfpenny
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar
British half penny
Bruce Smith (halfback)
Budapest Half Marathon
California Pacific International Exposition half dollar
Camp Half-Blood Chronicles
Cardiff Half Marathon
Carpathian Half-Brigade of National Defence
Centre half-forward
esk Budjovice Half Marathon
Chalfakhreh
Chalfant
Chalfant, California
Chalfant, Pennsylvania
Chalfont
Chalfont, Pennsylvania
Chalfont St Giles
Chalfont St Peter
Chalfont St Peter A.F.C.
Chalfont Viaduct
Chalfont Wasps F.C.
Chalford
Characters of Half-Life
Charles Churchill (of Chalfont)
Charles Halford
Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men)
Charlie Justice (halfback)
Cheap at Half the Price
Church of St Michael the Archangel, Shalfleet
Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar
Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Series Half Hour
City of Norwich Half Marathon
Columbian half dollar
Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar
Combine (Half-Life)
Combining Half Marks
Congaturi halfbeak
Cop and a Half
Cristbal Halffter
Daniel Boone Bicentennial half dollar
Daniel Halfar
Daniel Half Human
Darca Half Marathon
Darker Half
Dark Eyes (Half Moon Run album)
David Halfyard
Delaware Tercentenary half dollar
Delhi Half Marathon
Der Half-Machine 10"
Devil's Half Acre
Dhahi Khalfan Tamim
Don Zimmerman (halfback)
Draft:Half Rack Width Unit
Draft:Philippe Halfon
Draft:The Dark Half (upcoming film)
Dragon Half
Drinfeld upper half plane
Dussumier's halfbeak
Ealing Half Marathon
Eamonn & Ruth: How the Other Half Lives
Ed Smith (halfback)
Effective half-life
Egmond Half Marathon
lie Halvy (Chalfan)
England, Half-English
Eowils and Halfdan
Eric Halfvarson
Eric the Half-a-Bee
Ernesto Halffter
Eystein Halfdansson
Fahid Ben Khalfallah
Folded-t and half-t distributions
Frank Halford
Franklin half dollar
Frederic M. Halford
Freestyle skiing at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Boys' halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Girls' halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2015 Winter Universiade Men's ski halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2015 Winter Universiade Women's ski halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Boys' halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Girls' halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Boys' halfpipe
Freestyle skiing at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Girls' halfpipe
Full width at half maximum
Furzefield Wood and Lower Halfpenny Bottom
George Halford
George Halford (bishop)
George Washington 250th Anniversary half dollar
Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon
Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona
Glenn Davis (halfback)
G-Man (Half-Life)
Golden Half
Granollers Half Marathon
Great Bristol Half Marathon
Great Chalfield
Greg Halford
Guwahati Half Marathon
Halfa
Half a Century of Song
Half a Confession
Half a Cow
Half Acre
Half Acre, Alabama
Half Acre Beer Company
Half Acre, New Jersey
Half a Heart
Half a Klip
Half a Life
Half a Life (film)
Half a Life (short story collection)
Half a Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Half Alive
Half-Alive
Half Alive (band)
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu
Half a Man
Half a Mill
Half & Half
Half and half
Half and half nail
Half Angel
Halfaouine Child of the Terraces
Half a Photograph
Half-arch (crown)
Half a Sinner
Half a Sixpence
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Half as Much
Half Assini
Half Assini New Town Rd.
Half a World Away
Half a World Away (album)
Half a World Away (TV miniseries)
Halfaya
Halfaya massacre (2012)
Halfaya Pass
Half back
Half-back line
Halfback option play
Half Bad
Half Baked
Halfbeak
Half-birthday
Halfblack triplefin
Halfblind goby
Half-Blood Blues
Half-Breed
Half-breed
Half-Breed (album)
Halfbreed Billy Gram
Half Breed (film)
Half-Breed (short story)
Half-Breed (song)
Half-Breeds (politics)
Half-Breed Tract
Halfbrick Studios
Half bridge
Half Broken Things
Half Brother
Half Brother (album)
Half Brother (band)
Half-carry flag
Half-caste
Half-Caste Act
Half Caste (disambiguation)
Half-Caste (film)
Half Caste (poem)
Half-cell
Half-cent coin (Netherlands)
Half Chance Iron Bridge
Half-cock
Halfcocked
Half-cocked
Half-Cocked (film)
Half-collared kingfisher
Half-collared sparrow
Half.com
Half court
Half crown
Half crown (British coin)
Half crown (Irish coin)
Halfcut Records
Halfdan Bjlgerud
Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen Jr.
Halfdan (floruit 782807)
Halfdan Gran Olsen
Halfdan Hussey
Halfdan Hvitbeinn
Halfdan Jebe
Halfdan Jnsson
Halfdan Long-Leg
Halfdan (name)
Halfdan Olaus Christophersen
Halfdan Pettere
Halfdan Pettere (equestrian)
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Schjtt
Halfdan Scylding
Halfdan Strm
Halfdan the Black
Halfdan the Mild
Halfdan the Old
Halfdan the Valiant
Halfdan T. Mahler
Halfdan W. Freihow
Half Day
Half Day, Illinois
Half-Decent Proposal
Half dime
Half diminished scale
Half-diminished seventh chord
Half dollar
Half Dome
Half Dome Granodiorite
Half eagle
Half-Earth
Half-elf
Half-elf (Dungeons & Dragons)
Halfeli
Halfeti
Half-exponential function
Half-Fare Hare
Half farthing
Half-Fast Walking Club
Half florin
Half flux diameter
Half-forward line
Half-frame camera
Half-giant
Half Girlfriend
Half Girlfriend (film)
Half Girlfriend (soundtrack)
Half Gone
Half Good Killer
Half-graben
Half guard
Half guinea
Half-halt
Half-handed Cloud
Half-hanging
Half Heaven Half Heartache
Half hitch
Half Hitch (comic strip)
Half Horse, Half Musician
Half Hour of Power
Half hull model ship
Half Human
Half Hung MacNaghten
Half-integer
Half Japanese
Half-keyboard
Half knot
Half laurel
Half-life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Capture the Flag
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Decay
Half-life (disambiguation)
Half-Life E.P.
Halflife (EP)
Half-Life: Escape from City 17
Half Life Half Death
Halflife (Michalowski novel)
Half-life of knowledge
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life (series)
Half-Life (video game)
Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware
Half Light
Half-Light (album)
Half-light: Collected Poems 19652016
Halflives
Half-logistic distribution
Half Magic
Half Man
Half-Man
Half Man Half Biscuit
Half marathon
Half marathon world record progression
Half Marriage
Half-mask
Half-mast
Half-maximal concentration
Half Measures
Half-metal
Half-Minute Hero
Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming
Half-month
Half Moon
Halfmoon
Half Moon Bay, California
Half Moon Bay (disambiguation)
Half Moon Bay, Saudi Arabia
Halfmoon Bay (Stewart Island)
Half Moon Bay (Victoria)
Half Moon Beach
Half Moon Caye
Half Moon Caye Light
Half-moon cookie
Half-moon cookie (Philippines)
Half Moon Festival
Half Moon Investigations
Half Moon Investigations (TV series)
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Lake
Half Moon Lake, Alberta
Halfmoon Lake (Barnstead, New Hampshire)
Halfmoon Lake (Florida)
Halfmoon, New York
Half Moon, North Carolina
Halfmoon Reef Light
Half Moon Run
Half Moon (shipwreck)
Half Moon Shoal
Half Moon Street
Half Moon Theatre
Halfmoon triggerfish
Half-Mute
Half Naked & Almost Famous
Half Nelson
Half Nelson (album)
HalfNoise
Half-normal distribution
Half Note
Half note
Half Note Club
Half Note Records
Half nut
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun (film)
Half of Heaven
Half of Me
Half-open file
Halford
Halford (band)
Halford baronets
Halford E. Luccock
HalfordHayner Farmstead
Halfordia
Halford III: Winter Songs
Halford IV: Made of Metal
Halford Leicestershire Table Sauce
Halford Mackinder
Halfords
Halfords Autocentre
Half-pass
Half Past Dead
Half Past Human
Half-pay
Half penny
Halfpenny Bridge
Halfpenny (British decimal coin)
Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)
Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin)
Halfpenny (Irish pre-decimal coin)
Halfpenny Marvel
Half-period ratio
Half Pint
Half Pint Allen
Half Pint Brawlers
Half-Pint (disambiguation)
Half Pints Brewing Company
Half-pipe
Half-Pipe Hustle
Half Pipe (roller coaster)
Half-pipe skiing
Half-power point
Half-precision floating-point format
Half Price Books
Half range Fourier series
Half Rate
Half-Rate Honeymoon
Half-ration Nv
Half-reaction
Half-rubber
Half-Sack Epps
Half sandwich compound
Half sen coin
Half Shot Shooters
Half-side formula
Half-sider budgerigar
Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Half-smoke
Half sovereign
Half-space
Half-space (geometry)
Half-stripe bromeliad frog
Half-sword
Half Thang
Half the House: A Memoir
Half the Man
Half the Perfect World
Half the Picture
Half These Songs Are About You
Half the Sky
Half the sky
Half the Sky Feminist Theatre
Half the Way
Half the World
Half the World Away
Half the World Is Watching Me
Half Ticket
Half Ticket (2016 film)
Half tide dock
Half Tide Rock
Half-time
Half time (disambiguation)
Halftime Heat
Halftime in America
Half-time (music)
Halftime show
Halftime (song)
Half-title
Half Ton class
Halftone
Half-track
Half Tree Hollow
Half-Truism
Half-truth
Half union
Half-value layer
Half viaduct
Half volley
Half Waif
Halfway
Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
Halfway Around the World
Halfway Around the World (disambiguation)
Halfway Between Here and There
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Half-Way Covenant
Halfway Creek
Halfway Down
Halfway Down (poem)
Halfway Gardens
Halfway Home
Half Way Home (album)
Halfway Home (TV series)
Halfway house
Halfway House (album)
Halfway house (disambiguation)
Halfway House Outlier
Halfway House, Pennsylvania
Halfway Human (album)
Halfway Island
Halfway Island (Queensland)
Halfway Islet
Halfway Jam
Halfway Lake
Halfway Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Halfway, Maryland
Halfway, Missouri
Halfway, Oregon
Halfway, Pleased
Halfway Pond
Halfway Rock Light
Halfway, South Lanarkshire
Half Way There
Halfway There
Half Way There...Pt. 1
Halfway to Gone
Halfway to Hazard
Halfway to Heaven
Halfway to Heaven (album)
Halfway to Heaven (Harry Chapin song)
Half Way to Hell Club
Halfway to Nowhere
Halfway to Paradise
Halfway to Sanity
Halfway tram stop
Halfway tram stop (Great Orme)
Half Way Tree
Halfweg, Overijssel
Half Widow
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)
Half-width kana
Half-Windsor knot
Half-Wit
Half Written Story
Half Yellow Face
Hancock's Half Hour
Handels-og Kontorfunktionaerernes Forbund I Danmark v Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, acting on behalf of Danfoss
Harald Halfdansson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar
HBO Comedy Half-Hour
Heaven Is a Halfpipe
Hedi Khalfa
Hell's Half Acre
Hell's Half Acre (2006 film)
Hell's Half Acre (Hot Springs, Arkansas)
Hell's Half Acre (Wyoming)
Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival
Henry Chalfant
Henry Halford
Henry Halford Vaughan
Henry St John Halford
Herbert Smith (half-back)
HMS Shalford (P3101)
Hocine Khalfi
How the Other Half Lives
How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)
Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar
Huguenot-Walloon half dollar
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice
Illadelph Halflife
Illinois Centennial half dollar
Indecisive and Halfhearted
Indian half-bred
Istanbul Half Marathon
Is the glass half empty or half full?
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Itoshino Half Moon
It Sticks Out Half a Mile
Ivar Halfdansson
James Johnston House (Half Moon Bay, California)
Jamestown 400th Anniversary half eagle
John Halford
John Halfpenny
John Howell (halfback)
Joseph Halfpenny
JSAC Half Marathon
Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon
Karlovy Vary Half Marathon
Kashmir International Half Marathon
Kennedy half dollar
Khalfan Ibrahim
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed
Khalfan Mubarak
Khalfaraddin
Khalfehlu
Kuldga Half Marathon
Kyiv Half Marathon
Leigh Halfpenny
LexingtonConcord Sesquicentennial half dollar
Lille Half Marathon
Lisbon Half Marathon
List of awards and nominations received by Two and a Half Men
List of Dragon Half chapters
List of Dragon Half characters
List of Grey Cup halftime shows
List of radioactive nuclides by half-life
List of Super Bowl halftime shows
List of Two and a Half Men characters
List of Two and a Half Men episodes
Lists of habeas petitions filed on behalf of War on Terror detainees
Little Chalfont
Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up
Liverpool Half Marathon
Locations of Half-Life
Longfin halfbeak
Louise Bernice Halfe
Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar
Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar
M15 half-track
M2 half-track car
M3 half-track
M5 half-track
M9 half-track
Madrid Half Marathon
Marianne Halfdan-Nielsen
Martin Chalfie
Meet Me Halfway
Meet Me Halfway, at Least
Michael Halfacre
Miriam Barukh Chalfi
Modifier letter left half ring
Modifier letter right half ring
Mohammed Khalfan
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
Moosa Khalfan Said
Mother's Helper (Chalfant)
Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Mutha Is Half a Word
My Better Half (TV series)
Nanda (half-brother of Buddha)
Nature's Half Acre
Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation
New Halfa Scheme
Newland Park, Chalfont St Peter
New Rochelle 250th Anniversary half dollar
New York City Half Marathon
Nice Half Marathon
Nine and a Half Mystics
Nine and a Half Weeks (book)
Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic
Old Halfway, Indiana
Olomouc Half Marathon
merli, Halfeti
One-and-a-half-stripe hap
One and a Half Summer
One and a half syndrome
OneHalf
One half
On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1969 film)
Paris Half Marathon
Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour
Paul Miller (halfback)
Pedro Halffter
Philippine snubnose halfbeak
Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar
Pirate of the Half Moon
Planet Half-Life
Poincar half-plane model
Porto Half Marathon
Portugal Half Marathon
Poso halfbeak
Prague Half Marathon
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less)
Prince's Half-Tide Dock
Radomr Halfar
Ralph Baker (halfback)
Raquel Chalfi
Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon
Reading Half Marathon
Richard Halford
Right half-plane
Robert Half International
Robert Halfon
Rob Halford
Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon
Rock 'n' Roll San Jose Half Marathon
Roma-Ostia Half Marathon
Room and a Half
Ross Halfin
Rotterdam Half Marathon
Round turn and two half-hitches
Royal Parks Half Marathon
Sam Baker (halfback)
San Diego Half Marathon
San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge half dollar
Sanyo Women's Half Marathon
Sapporo Half Marathon
Sarajevo Half Marathon
Sawing a woman in half
Scotland Halfmoon
Scrum-half
Seabird Half Rater
Seven and a Half
Seven and a Half Dates
Shalford
Shalford Preceptory
Shalford, Surrey
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Sheffield Half Marathon
Shelter-half
Sidi Belhassen El Halfaoui Mosque
Siegel upper half-space
Six and One Half Times Eleven
Smokin' at the Half Note
Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Boys' halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Girls' halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2015 Winter Universiade Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2015 Winter Universiade Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics Men's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics Women's halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Boys' halfpipe
Snowboarding at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Girls' halfpipe
Sren Halfar
S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
Steve Halford
St. Michaels Half Marathon
Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar
St Patrick halfpenny
Super Bowl LIII halftime show
Super Bowl XLI halftime show
Super Bowl XLIX halftime show
Super Bowl XLVII halftime show
Super Bowl XXXI halftime show
Super Bowl XXXVI halftime show
Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy
Suwanee Half Marathon
Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon
Table of standard reduction potentials for half-reactions important in biochemistry
Talal Khalfan
Tangent half-angle formula
Tanis Half-Elven
Tarsus Half Marathon
TCP half-open
Texas Centennial half dollar
Thalfang am Erbeskopf
The Better Half (TV series)
The Big Half
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Bottom Half
The Chalfonte Hotel
The Dark Half
The Devil's Half-Acre, Pennsylvania
The Half-Breed (short story)
The Half Brother
The Half-Gallon Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise
The Half-Made World
The Half Moon, Putney
The Half of It
The Half-Pay Officers
The Half Sisters
The Helping Hand (halfway house)
The Hidden Half
The King Is Half-Undressed
The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces
The Other Half
The Other Half (2006 British film)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
The Power of Half
The Ronnie Johns Half Hour
The Third Half
The Third Half (2013 film)
The Vanishing Half
The View from Halfway Down
Thomas Halford
Three and One-half Fathom Ledge
Three halfpence
Three halfpence (British coin)
Three Women and A Half
Time-and-a-half
Traynor Ora Halftown
Twice as Long, Half as Fast
Two and a Half Deaths
Two and a Half Men
Two and One-Half Mile Village
Two half-hitches
Two Half Times in Hell
Type 98 20 mm AA half-track vehicle
Unhalfbricking
Unreleased Half-Life games
Upper half-plane
USS Halfbeak (SS-352)
USS Half Moon (AVP-26)
USS Halford (DD-480)
st nad Labem Half Marathon
Valencia Half Marathon
Venus on the Half-Shell
Wadi Halfa
Wadi Halfa Airport
Walking Liberty half dollar
William Halford
William Halfpenny
William Halfyard
Windsor Half Marathon
Wrestling halfbeak
Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
You Don't Know the Half of It
Zayed International Half Marathon
urrieq Half Marathon
convenience portal:
recent: Section Maps - index table - favoritesSavitri --Savitri extended toc Savitri Section Map --1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
authors -- Crowley - Peterson - Borges - Wilber - Teresa -Aurobindo -Ramakrishna - Maharshi -Mother
places -- Garden - Inf. Art Gallery - Inf. Building - Inf. Library - Labyrinth - Library - School -Temple - Tower - Tower of MEM
powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration -Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - studysubjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null -Savitri - SA O TAOC -SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel -TLD -TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs