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ignored ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Ignore
ignore
ignore ::: v. t. --> To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.
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A :::countertrend_strategy ::: is a trading method that attempts to make small gains by trading against the current trend. Traders also refer to the practice as "countertrend trading." Contrarian traders employ countertrend trading strategies. They attempt to purchase shares when a security’s price is low and sell when it’s high. Traders who use this strategy realize smaller gains and are prepared to forego the bulk of a trending move. A countertrend strategy ignores the popular investment philosophy "the trend is your friend."
absolute number: 1. A real value with its sign ignored - the result of applying the modulus function to a value. Also known as absolute value.
absolute value: 1. A real value with its sign ignored - the result of applying the modulus function to a value.
abstraction 1. Generalisation; ignoring or hiding details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances. Examples are {abstract data types} (the representation details are hidden), {abstract syntax} (the details of the {concrete syntax} are ignored), {abstract interpretation} (details are ignored to analyse specific properties). 2. "programming" Parameterisation, making something a function of something else. Examples are {lambda abstractions} (making a term into a function of some variable), {higher-order functions} (parameters are functions), {bracket abstraction} (making a term into a function of a variable). Opposite of {concretisation}. (1998-06-04)
abstraction ::: 1. Generalisation; ignoring or hiding details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances. Examples are abstract data types (the syntax are ignored), abstract interpretation (details are ignored to analyse specific properties).2. (programming) Parameterisation, making something a function of something else. Examples are lambda abstractions (making a term into a function of some variable), higher-order functions (parameters are functions), bracket abstraction (making a term into a function of a variable).Opposite of concretisation. (1998-06-04)
A capital mistake made by modern science and philosophy, producing momentous consequences in theory, has been the arbitrary division of natural forces into disjunct and unrelated energies. All forces of nature originally spring from a common source, a cosmic spiritual unit, which is the heart of nature itself, and hence it is no more possible to divorce attraction from its alter ego repulsion than it would be to have a stick which has only one end. This principle applies directly to such forces as gravitation, which is bipolar exactly as electricity is recognized to be, its two forms being attraction and repulsion, though the last has been ignored in scientific experimentation and deduction. Just as human beings, because of the bipolarity in their vital auras feel attracted to, repelled by, or both from other human beings, producing the strong sympathies and antipathies which are so well known, so does gravity operate. Celestial bodies are not only strongly or weakly attracted to each other, but are likewise strongly or weakly repelled by each other.
A lemming ::: refers to the act of an investor following the crowd into an investment, without doing research themselves; this usually results in losses. These investors are emotional and easily swayed by short-term market performance. This "herd" mentality can increase the chance of losing money, because investors either leave the market too early or get into it too late, when prices are already too high to make a profit. n the animal kingdom, a lemming is a rodent known for periodic mass migrations that occasionally end in drowning. To contradict the "herd" mentality, many proactive investors react in an opposite fashion than what the majority of investors are doing. For example, if investors are in a buying frenzy, anti-"herd" investors will sell and when the crowd sells, these investors will go against the lemmings by buying stocks, instead. The antidote to becoming a lemming investor is to keep emotions separate from trading judgment. Instead, concentrate on spotting lemming activity and consider exploiting it for gain by moving in a contrarian fashion. Here's why this is a better strategy that succumbing to the lemming mentality: extreme optimism often coincides with market tops. People think the sky's the limit and send stock prices flying. However, savvier investors know that the time to sell is when prices are high. Likewise, extreme pessimism can be bullish for a contrarian investor. Toward the end of a big decline, the last bulls throw in the towel and sell with a vengeance. Cooler heads in such situations can see the fire sale happening and buy. Studies have found that investors are most influenced by current events – market news, political events, earnings, etc. – and ignore long-term investment and economic fundamentals. Furthermore, if a movement starts in one direction, it tends to pick up more and more investors with time and momentum. The impact of such lemming-like behavior has been made worse in recent years because of more quantity of more sensationalist financial, economic, and other news than ever before. This proliferation of financial media inevitable affects investor psychology.
aliasing ::: 1. (jargon) When several different identifiers refer to the same object. The term is very general and is used in many contexts.See alias, aliasing bug, anti-aliasing.2. (hardware) (Or shadowing) Where a hardware device responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a subset of the address lines, so different values on the other lines are ignored. (1998-03-13)
aliasing 1. "jargon" When several different identifiers refer to the same object. The term is very general and is used in many contexts. See {alias}, {aliasing bug}, {anti-aliasing}. 2. "hardware" (Or "shadowing") Where a hardware device responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a subset of the {address lines}, so different values on the other lines are ignored. (1998-03-13)
alpha/beta bias: alpha bias refers to theories and research which assume real and enduring differences between men and women. Beta bias theories and research have traditionally ignored or minimised differences between men and women.
Alternating bit protocol ::: (networking) (ABP) A simple data link layer protocol that retransmits lost or corrupted messages.Messages are sent from transmitter A to receiver B. Assume that the channel from A to B is initialised and that there are no messages in transit. Each message contains a data part, a checksum, and a one-bit sequence number, i.e. a value that is 0 or 1.When A sends a message, it sends it continuously, with the same sequence number, until it receives an acknowledgment (ACK) from B that contains the same sequence number. When that happens, A complements (flips) the sequence number and starts transmitting the next message.When B receives a message from A, it checks the checksum. If the message is not corrupted B sends back an ACK with the same sequence number. If it is the first corrupted B sends back an negative/error acknowledgment (NAK). This is optional, as A will continue transmitting until it receives the correct ACK.A treats corrupted ACK messages, and NAK messages in the same way. The simplest behaviour is to ignore them all and continue transmitting.(2000-10-28)
Alternating bit protocol "networking" (ABP) A simple {data link layer} {protocol} that retransmits lost or corrupted messages. Messages are sent from transmitter A to receiver B. Assume that the channel from A to B is initialised and that there are no messages in transit. Each message contains a data part, a {checksum}, and a one-bit {sequence number}, i.e. a value that is 0 or 1. When A sends a message, it sends it continuously, with the same sequence number, until it receives an acknowledgment ({ACK}) from B that contains the same sequence number. When that happens, A complements (flips) the sequence number and starts transmitting the next message. When B receives a message from A, it checks the checksum. If the message is not corrupted B sends back an ACK with the same sequence number. If it is the first message with that sequence number then it is sent for processing. Subsequent messages with the same sequence bit are simply acknowledged. If the message is corrupted B sends back an negative/error acknowledgment ({NAK}). This is optional, as A will continue transmitting until it receives the correct ACK. A treats corrupted ACK messages, and NAK messages in the same way. The simplest behaviour is to ignore them all and continue transmitting. (2000-10-28)
AMBIT "language" Algebraic Manipulation by Identity Translation (also claimed: "Acronym May Be Ignored Totally"). An early {pattern-matching} language, developed by C. Christensen of Massachusetts Computer Assocs in 1964, aimed at algebraic manipulation. [Sammet 1969, pp. 454-457]. (1994-12-08)
AMBIT ::: (language) Algebraic Manipulation by Identity Translation (also claimed: Acronym May Be Ignored Totally).An early pattern-matching language, developed by C. Christensen of Massachusetts Computer Assocs in 1964, aimed at algebraic manipulation.[Sammet 1969, pp. 454-457]. (1994-12-08)
apple-touch-icon "programming" (apple-touch-icon.png) {Apple}'s default {icon} (image) used to represent a {website}, e.g. when saved as a {bookmark} or on the {home screen} of an {iOS} device such as an {iPhone} or {iPad}. Apple's scheme allows a site to offer images of different sizes so the client can choose the most appropriate one according to its screen size and resolution. Apple devices and applications completely ignore the {favicon}.ico {de facto standard} which, while somewhat quirky in its use of the {ico} format, has been pretty much universally adopted elsewhere. Conversely, apple-touch-icon.png will be ignored by non-Apple devices, possibly because its 16x16 resolution would look pretty shabby on most smart phones. The icon can be provided in various different resolutions for different screen sizes and resolutions, e.g. apple-touch-icon-152x152.png for {retina iPad} with {iOS7}. {(https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html) Apple documentation}. {(https://realfavicongenerator.net/faq)}. (2018-08-19)
base memory "hardware, jargon" The lowest 640 {kilobytes} of memory in an {IBM PC}-compatible computer running {MS-DOS}. Other PC {operating systems} can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original {CPU} - the {Intel 8088} - could only access one {megabyte} of memory, and {IBM} wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for {device drivers}. The {high memory area} (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an {A20 handler}. (1997-05-30)
Behaviorism: The contemporary American School of psychology which abandons the concepts of mind and consciousness, and restricts both animal and human psychology to the study of behavior. The impetus to behaviorism was given by the Russian physiologist, Pavlov, who through his investigation of the salivary reflex in dogs, developed the concept of the conditioned reflex. See Conditioned Reflex. The founder of American behaviorism is J.B. Watson, who formulated a program for psychology excluding all reference to consciousness and confining itself to behavioral responses. (Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology, 1914.) Thinking and emotion are interpreted as implicit behavior: the former is implicit or subvocal speech; the latter implicit visceral reactions. A distinction has been drawn between methodological and dogmatic behaviorism: the former ignores "consciousness" and advocates, in psychology, the objective study of behaviour; the latter denies consciousness entirely, and is, therefore, a form of metaphysical materialism. See Automatism. -- L.W.
ignored ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Ignore
ignore
ignore ::: v. t. --> To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.
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.**
B. The Probability-Relation. Considering the general grounds of probability, it is pertinent to analyze the proper characteristics of this concept and the valid conditions of its use in inferential processes. Probability presents itself as a special relation between the premisses and the conclusion of an argument, namely when the premisses are true but not completely sufficient to condition the truth of the conclusion. A probable inference must however be logical, even though its result is not certain, for its premisses must be a true sign of its conclusion. The probability-relation may take three aspects: it is inductive, probable or presumptive. In strict induction, there is an essential connection between the facts expressed in the premisses and in the conclusion, which almost forces a factual result from the circumstances of the predication. This type of probability-relation is prominent in induction proper and in statistics. In strict probability, there is a logical connection between the premisses and the conclusion which does not entail a definite factual value for the latter. This type of probability-relation is prominent in mathematical probability and circumstantial evidence. In strict presumption, there is a similarity of characteristics between the fact expressed in the conclusion and the real event if it does or did exist. This type of probability-relation is prominent in analogy and testimony. A presumptive conclusion should be accepted provisionally, and it should have definite consequences capable of being tested. The results of an inductive inference and of a probable inference may often be brought closer together when covering the same field, as the relations involved are fundamental enough for the purpose. This may be done by a qualitative analysis of their implications, or by a quantitative comparison of their elements, as it is done for example in the methods of correlation. But a presumptive inference cannot be reduced to either of the other two forms without losing its identity, because the connection between its elements is of an indefinite character. It may be said that inductive and probable inferences have an intrinsic reasonableness, while presumptive inferences have an extrinsic reasonableness. The former involve determinism within certain limits, while the latter display indeterminacy more prominently. That is why very poor, misleading or wrong conclusions are obtained when mathematical methods are applied to moral acts, judiciary decisions or indirect testimony The activity of the human will has an intricate complexity and variability not easily subjected to calculation. Hence the degree of probability of a presumptive inference can be estimated only by the character and circumstances of its suggested explanation. In moral cases, the discussion and application of the probability-relation leads to the consideration of the doctrines of Probabilism and Probabiliorism which are qualitative. The probability-relation as such has the following general implications which are compatible with its three different aspects, and which may serve as general inferential principle: Any generalization must be probable upon propositions entailing its exemplification in particular cases; Any generalization or system of generalizations forming a theory, must be probable upon propositions following from it by implication; The probability of a given proposition on the basis of other propositions constituting its evidence, is the degree of logical conclusiveness of this evidence with respect to the given proposition; The empirical probability (p = S/E) of a statement S increases as verifications accrue to the evidence E, provided the evidence is taken as a whole; and Numerical probabilities may be assigned to facts or statements only when the evidence includes statistical data or other numerical information which can be treated by the methods of mathematical probability. C. Mathematical Probability. The mathematical theory of probability, which is also called the theory of chances or the theory of relative possibilities, is concerned with the application of mathematical methods to the determination of the likelihood of any event, when there are not sufficient data to determine with certainty its occurrence or failure. As Laplace remarked, it is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. But its range goes far beyond that of common sense for it has not only conditioned the growth of various branches of mathematics, such as the theory of errors, the calculus of variations and mathematical statistics, but it has also made possible the establishment of a number of theories in the natural and social sciences, by its actual applications to concrete problems. A distinction is usually made between direct and inverse probability. The determination of a direct or a priori probability involves an inference from given situations or sets of possibilities numerically characterized, to future events related with them. By definition, the direct probability of the occurrence of any particular form of an event, is the ratio of the number of ways in which that form might occur, to the whole number of ways in which the event may occur, all these forms being equiprobable or equally likely. The basic principles referring to a priori probabilities are derived from the analysis of the various logical alternatives involved in any hypothetical questions such as the following: (a) To determine whether a cause, whose exact nature is or is not known, will prove operative or not in certain circumstances; (b) To determine how often an event happens or fails. The comparison of the number of occurrences with that of the failures of an event, considered in simple or complex circumstances, affords a baisis for several cases of probable inference. Thus, theorems may be established to deal with the probability of success and the probability of failure of an event, with the probability of the joint occurrence of several events, with the probability of the alternative occurrence of several events, with the different conditions of frequency of occurrence of an event; with mathematical expectation, and with similar questions. The determination of an a posteriori or inverse probability involves an inference from given situations or events, to past conditions or causes which rnay have contributed to their occurrence. By definition, an inverse probability is the numerical value assigned to each one of a number of possible causes of an actual event that has already occurred; or more generally, it is the numerical value assigned to hypotheses which attempt to explain actual events or circumstances. If an event has occurred as a result of any one of n several causes, the probability that C was the actual cause is Pp/E (Pnpn), when P is the probability that the event could be produced by C if present, and p the probability that C was present before the occurrence of that event. Inverse probability is based on general and special assumptions which cannot always be properly stated, and as there are many different sets of such assumptions, there cannot be a coercive reason for making a definite choice. In particular, the condition of the equiprobability of causes is seldom if ever fulfilled. The distinction between the two kinds of probability, which has led to some confusion in interpreting their grounds and their relations, can be technically ignored now as a result of the adoption of a statistical basis for measuring probabilities. In particular, it is the statistical treatment of correlation which led to the study of probabilities of concurrent phenomena irrespective of their direction in time. This distinction may be retained, howe\er, for the purpose of a general exposition of the subject. Thus, a number of probability theorems are obtained by using various cases of direct and inverse probability involving permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem, the theory of series, and the methods of integration. In turn, these theurems can be applied to concrete cases of the various sciences.
bystander behaviour: the behaviour shown by those who witness an emergency. This is often referred to as 'bystander apathy' because of the tendency of bystanders to ignore the emergency when in the company of others.
case sensitivity "text" Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper-{case} (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or not ("case insensitive"). Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). {MS-DOS} does not preserve case in file names, {Unix} preserves case and matches are case sensitive. Any decent {text editor} will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be {case sensitive}. Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of {identifiers}), and addressing ({Internet} {domain names} are case insensitive but {RFC 822} local {mailbox} names are case sensitive). Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to "fold case", from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative "smash case" is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a {misfeature} or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other. "{MS-DOS} will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create". (1997-07-09)
case sensitivity ::: (text) Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case (is case sensitive) or not (case insensitive).Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). MS-DOS does not preserve case in file names, Unix preserves case and matches are case sensitive.Any decent text editor will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be case sensitive.Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of identifiers), and addressing (Internet domain names are case insensitive but RFC 822 local mailbox names are case sensitive).Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to fold case, from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. this behaviour a misfeature or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other.MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create. (1997-07-09)
CENT, There is no connection between the Christian concep- tion (of the Kingdom of Heaven) and the idea of the Supra- mental descent. The Christian conception supposes a state of things brought about by religious emotion' and d'mdral'purifica- tion but ' these things are no more"capable of changing the world, 'whatever value they may base for the individual, than mental idealism or any bther power yet called upon for the pur- pose] The Christian proposes to substitute the sattsic religious ego for the rajasic and tamasic cgo| but although this can be donc-as an individual achievement, it has never succeeded and win never succeed in • accomplishing itself in the mass. It has no higher spiritual or psjchological knowledge behind it and ignores the' foundation -of htimao character and the source of the difBculty — the duality 6f mind, ‘life and body. Unless there is a descent of a new Power of Consdousness, not subject to the dualities but still dynamic which will preside a new foundation and a lifting of the centre of consciousness above the mind, the
cognitive pathology: a phenomenon whereby researchers selectively ignore simplifying assumptions and other limitations which are part of the foundations of their theories and methods.
comma separated values ::: (file format) (CSV) A file format used as a portable representation of a database. Each line is one entry or record and the fields in a record are characters which are ignored. If field includes a comma, the whole field must be surrounded with double quotes. (1995-05-06)
comma separated values "file format" (CSV) A {file format} used as a portable representation of a {database}. Each line is one entry or record and the fields in a record are separated by {commas}. Commas may be followed by arbitrary space and/or tab characters which are ignored. If field includes a comma, the whole field must be surrounded with {double quotes}. (1995-05-06)
condition out "programming" A programming technique that prevents a section of {code} from being executed by putting it in an {if statement} whose condition is always false. It is often easier to do this than to {comment out} the code because you don't need to modify the code itself (as you would if commenting out each line individually) or worry about {nested comments} within the code (as you would if putting nesting comment delimiters around it). For example, in {Perl} you could write: if (0) { ...code to be ignored... } In a compiled language, the {compiler} could simply generate no code for the whole if statement. Some compiled languages such as C provide {compile-time directives} that achieve the same effect, e.g.:
confirmation bias: a form of cognitive error based on the tendency to seek out information which supports one's beliefs, and ignore contradictory information.
Council, 2nd. The second council was held at VAIsALĪ, some one hundred years after the Buddha's death. It is said that the monk YAsAS was traveling in VaisAlī when he observed the monks from the city, identified as VṚJIPUTRAKAs, receiving alms in the form of gold and silver directly from the laity, in violation of the disciplinary prohibition against monks' handling gold and silver. He also found that the monks had identified ten points in the VINAYA that they considered were sufficiently minor to be ignored, despite the decision at the first council (see COUNCIL, FIRST) not to disregard any of the minor precepts. The ten violations in question were: (1) carrying salt in an animal horn; (2) eating when the shadow of the sundial is two fingerbreadths past noon; (3) after eating, traveling to another village on the same day to eat another meal; (4) holding several assemblies within the same boundary (SĪMA) during the same fortnight observance; (5) making a monastic decision with an incomplete assembly and subsequently receiving the approval of the absent monks; (6) citing precedent as a justification for violating monastic procedures; (7) drinking milk whey after mealtime; (8) drinking unfermented wine; (9) using mats with fringe; and (10) accepting gold and silver. Yasas informed the monks that these were indeed violations of the disciplinary code, at which point the monks are said to have offered him a share of the gold and silver they had collected; when he refused, they expelled him from the order. Yasas sought support of several respected monks in the west, including sAnAKAVASIN and REVATA, and together with other monks, they travelled together to VaisAlī. Once there, Revata went to SarvagAmin, the senior-most monk in the order, who was said to have been a disciple of ANANDA. However, when Revata questioned him about the ten points, the elder monk refused to discuss them in private. At Revata's suggestion, a jury of eight monks was appointed, with four representatives from each party. Revata was selected as one of four from the party declaring the ten practices to be violations, and it was Revata who publicly put the questions to SarvagAmin. In each case, he said that the practice in question was a violation of the vinaya. Seven hundred monks then gathered to recite the vinaya. Those who did not accept the decision of the council held their own convocation, which they called the MAHASAMGHIKA, or "Great Assembly." This event is sometimes referred to as "the great schism." The second council is generally accepted as a historical event. ¶ Some accounts make MAHADEVA a participant at the second council, which is said to have resulted in the schism of the SAMGHA into the conservative STHAVIRANIKAYA and the more liberal MahAsAMghika. However, the chief points of controversy that led to the convening of the council seem not to have been MahAdeva's five theses, but rather these ten relatively minor rules of monastic discipline. If MahAdeva was a historical figure, it is more likely that he was involved in a later schism that occurred within the MahAsAMghika, as a result of which the followers of MahAdeva formed the CAITYA sect. See also SAMGĪTI.
creationism The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population - and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of {management}, they are generally ignored. [{Jargon File}]
creationism ::: The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of management, they are generally ignored.[Jargon File]
cultural bias: a tendency in psychological theory and research to ignore the differences between cultures and impose understanding based on the study of one culture alone.
dead code elimination "programming" (DCE) A {compiler} {optimisation} that detects {dead code} (code that will never be executed) and ignores it rather than blindly compiling it. DCE reduces the size of the resulting {executable}, saving space and load time. (2018-06-26)
delete ::: 1. (operating system) (Or erase) To make a file inaccessible.Usually this operation only deletes information from the tables the file system uses to locate named files; the file's contents still exist on disk and can likely to reuse the same blocks and thus overwrite the deleted file's data permanently.2. (character) The control character with ASCII code 127. Usually entering this character from the keyboard deletes the last character typed from keyboard manufacturers as to whether this function should be assigned to the delete or backspace key/character.The choice of code 127 (binary 1111111) is not arbitrary but dates back to the use of paper tape for input. The delete key rewound the tape by one character and punched out all seven holes, thus obliterating whatever character was there before. The tape reading software ignored any delete characters in the input. (1996-12-01)
delete 1. "operating system" (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. Usually this operation only deletes information from the tables the {file system} uses to locate named files; the file's contents still exist on {disk} and can sometimes be recovered by scanning the whole disk for strings which are known to have been in the file. Files created subsequently on the same disk are quite likely to reuse the same blocks and thus overwrite the deleted file's data permanently. 2. "character" The {control character} with {ASCII} code 127. Usually entering this character from the keyboard deletes the last character typed from the {input buffer}. Sadly there is great confusion between {operating systems} and keyboard manufacturers as to whether this function should be assigned to the delete or {backspace} key/character. The choice of code 127 (binary 1111111) is not arbitrary but dates back to the use of {paper tape} for input. The delete key rewound the tape by one character and punched out all seven holes, thus obliterating whatever character was there before. The tape reading software ignored any delete characters in the input. (1996-12-01)
Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License "legal" (WTFPL) An obscenely permissive {license} for {software} and other scientific or artistic works. As the name suggests, the WTFPL does not restrict what you can do with the licenced work at all. The only restriction on the use of the license itself is that if you change it you also change the name. The WTFPL aims to expose and remove the problems of the popular but competing {GPL} and {BSD} licences. Since, according to its own terms, the license can be completely ignored, it can be little more than an amusing paradox. {Unlicense} is a more serious template for dedicating {software} to the {public domain}. {WTFPL Home (http://www.wtfpl.net/)}. (2013-11-05)
For brevity and simplicity in the preceding account we have ignored complications introduced by the theory of types, which are considerable and troublesome. Modifications are also required if the account is to be incorporated into the Zermelo set theory. -- A.C. G.
forward compatibility ::: (jargon) The ability to accept input from later versions of itself.Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible future compatibility is the stipulation that a web browser should ignore HTML tags it does not recognise.See also extensible.(2003-06-23)
forward compatibility "jargon" The ability to accept input from later versions of itself. Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than {backward compatibility}, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope gracefully with unknown future features. An example of future compatibility is the stipulation that a {web browser} should ignore {HTML tags} it does not recognise. See also {extensible}. (2003-06-23)
hihan Bukkyo. (C. pipan Fojiao; K. pip'an Pulgyo 批判佛教). In Japanese, "critical Buddhism." A contemporary intellectual controversy fostered largely by the Japanese Buddhist scholars and SoToSHu ZEN priests Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro and their followers. In a series of provocative essays and books, Hakamaya and Matsumoto have argued for a more engaged form of Buddhist scholarship that sought a critical pursuit of truth at the expense of the more traditional, accommodative approaches to Buddhist thought and history. "Critical" here refers to the critical analysis of Buddhist doctrines using modern historiographical and philological methodologies in order to ascertain the authentic teachings of Buddhism. "Critical" can also connote an authentic Buddhist perspective, which should be critical of intellectual misconstructions and/or societal faults. Critical Buddhists polemically dismiss many of the foundational doctrines long associated with East Asian Buddhism, and especially Japanese Zen, as corruptions of what they presume to have been the pristine, "original" teachings of the Buddha. In their interpretation, true Buddhist teachings derive from a critical perspective on the nature of reality, based on the doctrines of "dependent origination" (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA) and "nonself" (ANĀTMAN); for this reason, the style of critical philosophical analysis used in the MADHYAMAKA school represents an authentic approach to Buddhism. By contrast, more accommodative strands of Buddhism that are derived from such teachings as the "embryo of buddhahood" (TATHĀGATAGARBHA), buddha-nature (FOXING), and original enlightenment (HONGAKU) were considered heretical, because they represented the corruption of the pristine Buddhist message by Brahmanical notions of a perduring self (ĀTMAN). The Mahāyāna notion of the nonduality between such dichotomies as SAMSĀRA and NIRVĀnA, the Critical Buddhists also claim, fostered a tendency toward antinomianism or moral ambiguity that had corrupted such Buddhist schools as CHAN or Zen and encouraged those schools to accept social inequities and class-based persecution (as in Soto Zen's acquiescence to the persecution of Japanese "untouchables," or burakumin). Opponents of "Critical Buddhism" suggest that efforts to locate what is "original" in the teachings of Buddhism are inevitably doomed to failure and ignore the many local forms Buddhism has taken throughout its long history; the "Critical Buddhism" movement is therefore sometimes viewed as social criticism rather than academic scholarship.
HTTP cookie "web" A small string of information sent by a {web server} to a {web browser} that will be sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies were invented by {Netscape} to make it easier to maintain {state} between {HTTP} {transactions}. They can contain any arbitrary information the server chooses to put in them. The most common use of cookies is to identify and authenticate a user who has logged in to a {website}, so they don't have to sign in every time they visit. Other example uses are maintaining a {shopping basket} of goods you have selected to purchase during a session at an online shop or site {personalisation} (presenting different pages to different users). The browser limits the size of each cookie and the number each server can store. This prevents a malicious site consuming lots of disk space on the user's computer. The only information that cookies can return to the server is what that server previously sent out. The main privacy concern is that it is not obvious when a site is using cookies or what for. Even if you don't log in or supply any personal information to a site, it can still assign you a unique identifier and store it in a "tracking cookie". This can then be used to track every page you ever visit on the site. However, since it is possible to do the same thing without cookies, the UK law requiring sites to declare their use of cookies makes little sense and has been widely ignored. After using a shared computer, e.g. in an {Internet cafe}, you should remove all cookies to prevent the browser identifying the next user as you if they happen to visit the same sites. {Cookie Central (http://cookiecentral.com/c_concept.htm)}. {Stupid cookie law (http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/)}. (2013-12-05)
Hypertext Markup Language "hypertext, web, standard" (HTML) A {hypertext} document format used on the {web}. HTML is built on top of {SGML}. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a """, a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a """. Matched pairs of directives, like ""title"" and ""/title"" are used to delimit text which is to appear in a special place or style. Links to other documents are in the form "a href="http://machine.edu/subdir/file.html""foo"/a" where ""a"" and ""/a"" delimit an "anchor", "href" introduces a hypertext reference, which is most often a {Uniform Resource Locator} (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example above). The link will be represented in the browser by the text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different colour). A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a named anchor, e.g.: "a name="baz"" The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href by appending "
Hypertext Markup Language ::: (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. Tags are embedded in parameters and a >. Matched pairs of directives, like title> and /title> are used to delimit text which is to appear in a special place or style.Links to other documents are in the form a href=http://machine.edu/subdir/file.html>foo/a> browser by the text foo (typically shown underlined and in a different colour).A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a named anchor, e.g.: a name=baz> The fragment identifier, baz, can be used in an href by appending
ignoramus ::: n. --> We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used.
A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce.
ignoring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Ignore
In general, there are no orders attached to members of a set, and the same object cannot appear more than once within a set (repeated objects are simply ignored).
intelligent backtracking "algorithm" An improved {backtracking} {algorithm} for {Prolog} {interpreters}, which records the point at which each {logic variable} becomes bound and, when a given set of bindings leads to failure, ignores any {choice point} which does not bind any of those variables. No choice from such a choice point can succeed since it does not change the bindings which caused the failure. (1996-04-06)
interrupt priority level ::: The Motorola 68000 family of processors can be at an interrupt priority level from 0 (no interrupt in progress) up to 7. While the processor is handling an interrupt at one level, it will ignore other interrupts at that level or lower. (1994-11-23)
interrupt priority level The {Motorola 68000} family of processors can be at an interrupt priority level from 0 (no interrupt in progress) up to 7. While the processor is handling an interrupt at one level, it will ignore other interrupts at that level or lower. (1994-11-23)
It is deficiency of psychic perception and spiritual discrimination that makes people to ignore the importance of obedience.
KIBO /ki:'boh/ 1. [acronym] Knowledge In, Bullshit Out. A summary of what happens whenever valid data is passed through an organisation (or person) that deliberately or accidentally disregards or ignores its significance. Consider, for example, what an advertising campaign can do with a product's actual specifications. Compare {GIGO}; see also {SNAFU principle}. 2. James Parry "kibo@world.std.com", a {Usenet}ter infamous for various surrealist net.pranks and an uncanny, machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned. {(http://kibo.com/)}. [{Jargon File}] (2003-05-20)
kill file ::: [Usenet] Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media. See also plonk.[Jargon File]
kill file [{Usenet}] Per-user file(s) used by some {Usenet} reading programs (originally {Larry Wall}'s {rn}) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media. See also {plonk}. [{Jargon File}]
Logomachy: (Gr. logos, word + mache, battle) A contention in which words are involved without their references. A contention which lacks the real grounds of difference, or one in which allegedly opposed views are actually not on the same level of discourse. A battle of words alone, which ignores their symbolic character. -- J. K.
Mahākāsyapa. (P. Mahākassapa; T. 'Od srung chen po; C. Mohejiashe; J. Makakasho; K. Mahagasop 摩訶迦葉). Sanskrit name of one of the Buddha's leading disciples, regarded as foremost in the observance of ascetic practices (P. DHUTAnGA; S. dhutaguna). According to the Pāli accounts (where he is called Mahākassapa) his personal name was Pipphali and he was born to a brāhmana family in MAGADHA. Even as a child he was inclined toward renunciation and as a youth refused to marry. Finally, to placate his parents, he agreed to marry a woman matching in beauty a statue he had fashioned. His parents found a match in Bhaddā Kapilānī (S. BHADRA-KAPILĀNĪ), a beautiful maiden from Sāgala. But she likewise was inclined toward renunciation. Both sets of parents foiled their attempts to break off the engagement, so in the end they were wed but resolved not to consummate their marriage. Pipphali owned a vast estate with fertile soil, but one day he witnessed worms eaten by birds turned up by his plowman. Filled with pity for the creatures and fearful that he was ultimately to blame, he resolved then and there to renounce the world. At the same time, Bhaddā witnessed insects eaten by crows as they scurried among sesame seeds put out to dry. Feeling pity and fear at the sight, she also resolved to renounce the world. Realizing they were of like mind, Pipphali and Bhaddā put on the yellow robes of mendicants and abandoned their property. Although they left together, they parted ways lest they prove a hindrance to one another. Realizing what had transpired, the Buddha sat along Pipphali's path and showed himself resplendent with yogic power. Upon seeing the Buddha, Pipphali, whose name thenceforth became Kassapa, immediately recognized him as his teacher and was ordained. Traveling to Rājagaha (S. RĀJAGṚHA) with the Buddha, Mahākassapa requested to exchange his fine robe for the rag robe of the Buddha. The Buddha consented, and his conferral of his own rag robe on Mahākassapa was taken as a sign that, after the Buddha's demise, Mahākassapa would preside over the convention of the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST). Upon receiving the Buddha's robe, he took up the observance of thirteen ascetic practices (dhutanga) and in eight days became an arahant (S. ARHAT). Mahākassapa possessed great supranormal powers (P. iddhi; S. ṚDDHI) and was second only to the Buddha in his mastery of meditative absorption (P. JHĀNA; S. DHYĀNA). His body was said to be adorned with seven of the thirty-two marks of a superman (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA). So revered by the gods was he, that at the Buddha's funeral, the divinities would not allow the funeral pyre to be lit until Mahākassapa arrived and had one last chance to worship the Buddha's body. Mahākassapa seems to have been the most powerful monk after the death of the Buddha and is considered by some schools to have been the Buddha's successor as the first in a line of teachers (dharmācārya). He is said to have called and presided over the first Buddhist council, which he convened after the Buddha's death to counter the heresy of the wicked monk SUBHADRA (P. Subhadda). Before the council began, he demanded that ĀNANDA become an arhat in order to participate, which Ānanda finally did early in the morning just before the event. At the council, he questioned Ānanda and UPĀLI about what should be included in the SuTRA and VINAYA collections (PItAKA), respectively. He also chastised Ānanda for several deeds of commission and omission, including his entreaty of the Buddha to allow women to enter the order (see MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ), his allowing the tears of women to fall on the Buddha's corpse, his stepping on the robe of the Buddha while mending it, his failure to recall which minor monastic rules the Buddha said could be ignored after his death, and his failure to ask the Buddha to live for an eon or until the end of the eon (see CĀPĀLACAITYA). Pāli sources make no mention of Mahākassapa after the events of the first council, although the Sanskrit AsOKĀVADĀNA notes that he passed away beneath three hills where his body will remain uncorrupted until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. At that time, his body will reanimate itself and hand over to Maitreya the rag robe of sĀKYAMUNI, thus passing on the dispensation of the buddhas. It is said that the robe will be very small, barely fitting over the finger of the much larger Maitreya. ¶ Like many of the great arhats, Mahākāsyapa appears frequently in the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, sometimes merely listed as a member of the audience, sometimes playing a more significant role. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, he is one of the sRĀVAKA disciples who is reluctant to visit Vimalakīrti. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, he is one of four arhats who understands the parable of the burning house and rejoices in the teaching of a single vehicle (EKAYĀNA); later in the sutra, the Buddha prophesies his eventual attainment of buddhahood. Mahākāsyapa is a central figure in the CHAN schools of East Asia. In the famous Chan story in which the Buddha conveys his enlightenment by simply holding up a flower before the congregation and smiling subtly (see NIANHUA WEIXIAO), it is only Mahākāsyapa who understands the Buddha's intent, making him the first recipient of the Buddha's "mind-to-mind" transmission (YIXIN CHUANXIN). He is thus considered the first patriarch (ZUSHI) of the Chan school.
MahāsāMghika. (T. Dge 'dun phal chen pa'i sde; C. Dazhongbu; J. Daishubu; K. Taejungbu 大衆部). In Sanskrit, "Great Congregation"; one of the major "mainstream" (i.e., non-MAHĀYĀNA) schools of Indian Buddhism. The MahāsāMghika came into existence in a dispute over monastic practice with the STHAVIRANIKĀYA, which occurred about a century after the Buddha's death, at the so-called second Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI) held at VAIsĀLĪ (see COUNCIL, SECOND). The Sthaviranikāya resolved that ten specific rules of the VINAYA must be observed, while another faction, which came to call itself the "Great Congregation" (MahāsāMghika), held that these rules could be ignored. The ten violations of monastic practice that the Sthaviranikāya sought to proscribe were (1) carrying salt in an animal horn, (2) eating when the shadow of the sundial is two fingerbreadths past noon, (3) after eating, traveling to another village on the same day to eat another meal, (4) holding several monastic assemblies within the same boundary (SĪMĀ) during the same fortnight, (5) making a monastic decision with an incomplete assembly and subsequently receiving the approval of the absent monks, (6) citing precedent as a justification to violate monastic procedures, (7) drinking whey after mealtime, (8) drinking unfermented wine, (9) using mats with fringe, and (10) accepting gold and silver. A rival group held that these did not constitute violations of the vinaya and, since those who held this view were apparently the larger faction, they then called themselves the "great congregation." Other sources state that a MahāsāMghika monk named MAHĀDEVA claimed that the Sthaviranikāya ARHATs were not free from certain failings, such as nocturnal emissions, although these charges may have been leveled at a subsequent point. Because of a paucity of sources, little is known of the doctrinal positions held by the school, although they seem to have emphasized the career of the bodhisattva and the supramundane nature of the Buddha, with his career as sĀKYAMUNI being only a display. They also taught that there was a root consciousness (MuLAVIJNĀNA) that serves as the support for the six sensory consciousnesses, just as the root of a tree is the basis of the leaves; this concept may have been the antecedent of the YOGĀCĀRA school's storehouse consciousness (ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA). The famous biography of the Buddha, the MAHĀVASTU, is a product of the LOKOTTARAVĀDA, one of the three major branches of the MahāsāMghika; other major branches included the KUKKUtĀRĀMA and the CAITYA. The school was found throughout India and present-day Afghanistan, but eventually died out as an ordination lineage.
Materiality principle - Accountants should (GAAP) generally accepted accounting principles unless to do so would be to expensive and/or difficult, and further to this where it makes no real or material difference if the rules are not followed. If a rule is to be ignored, the principle states that the firms net income must not be in any way significantly affected. The principle also states the reader of the financial statements ability to judge the statements must not be impaired.
Mean deviation - The average deviation of all figures from the mean, which ignores plus or minus signs in its calculation.
Metaphors such as woman and mother are always symbolical when referring to motherhood, and have no associations with physical sex, for “esotericism ignores both sexes. Its highest Deity is sexless as it is formless, neither Father nor Mother; and its first manifested beings, celestial and terrestrial alike, become only gradually androgynous and finally separate into distinct sexes” (SD 1:136n). This was clearly understood originally, so that there was no degrading or misinterpreting of these figures of speech. With descending cycles, however, humanity’s religious conceptions equally materialized: the key ideas having been forgotten or lost, abstractions became concreted into materializations, a masculine Creator or feminine Creatrix were then placed at the summit of the various pantheons, and early religious philosophy — which was as scientific as it was religious and philosophical — cast upon the background of the spatial universe images of human surroundings and way of life; so that the deities in the mythologies finally became human images, more powerful but equally swayed by passion, driven by impulse, and restricted by these even as human beings are. Such projection of human attributes into the cosmic spaces led to a still more materialized visioning of the divinities, so that the feminine or productive characteristics of nature in the popular religious mythologies finally gave way before the masculine, and the earlier, essentially beautiful idea of the mother of nature was swallowed up in the purely masculine traits of national divinities, many of them distinctly male and evil, such as the Jewish Jehovah, who waxed wroth and smelt the sweet savor of burnt sacrifices, or again the Greek Zeus swayed by ignoble passions.
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monsignore ::: n. --> My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
monsignors ::: pl. --> of Monsignore
Mukai nanshin. [alt. Bukai nanshin] (霧海南針). In Japanese, "A Compass on the Misty Sea"; a Japanese vernacular sermon (kana hogo) written in 1666 for a lay woman by the Japanese oBAKUSHu monk CHoON DoKAI and published in 1672. The Mukai nanshin provides an explanation of ZEN practice with reference to the four great vows (SI HONGSHIYUAN) and the six perfections (PĀRAMITĀ) of the BODHISATTVA. The Mukai nanshin also contains criticisms of other contemporary teachings, especially that of Zen koan (C. GONG'AN) training as then practiced in Japanese Zen. Both the RINZAISHu and SoToSHu of the Zen school during the Tokugawa period relied heavily upon the rote memorization of koans and capping phrases (JAKUGO) and tended to ignore the study of the literary content of the koans due to their lack of formal training in classical Chinese. obaku monks like Choon, under the influence of their Chinese émigré teachers, began to criticize this tendency within the Zen community in Japan.
Nālāgiri. (T. Nor skyong; C. Hucai/Shoucai; J. Gozai/Shuzai; K. Hojae/Sujae 護財/守財). The Sanskrit and Pāli name of a ferocious elephant whom the Buddha tames, in a scene often depicted in Buddhist art. The elephant was so dangerous that the citizens of RĀJAGṚHA asked King AJĀTAsATRU to have a bell put around his neck to warn people of his approach. In an attempt to assassinate the Buddha and take control of the SAMGHA, the Buddha's cousin DEVADATTA bribed the king's elephant keeper to let loose the fierce elephant against the Buddha. After being given a large quantity of palm wine, the elephant was unleashed and rampaged through the city. Hearing the bell, the monks implored the Buddha not to collect alms in the city that day, but he ignored their pleas. A woman who was fleeing from the elephant dropped her child at the Buddha's feet. When the elephant charged, the Buddha spoke to him and suffused him with loving-kindness (MAITRĪ), causing the elephant to stop before him. When he stroked the elephant's head, it knelt at his feet and received teachings from the Buddha. The townspeople were so impressed by the miracle that they showered the elephant's body with jewelry; for this reason, the elephant was henceforth known as DHANAPĀLA, "Wealth Protector." In some sources, he is called Vasupāla.
Non-Maskable Interrupt ::: (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680x0 or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a priority interrupt (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored. (1994-12-13)
Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the {PDP-11} or {680x0} or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a {priority interrupt} (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored. (1994-12-13)
Nyams ::: Strange experiences that occur during spiritual development practices and meditation. Feelings of cracking, vibrations, rushing noises, and other strange sensations and visions characterize nyam and should be ignored as one continues the particular meditation.
Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world’s existence.” The Life Divine
overjump ::: v. t. --> To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.
overleap ::: v. t. --> To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.
Peng Shaosheng. (彭紹升) (1740-1796). A Confucian literatus turned Buddhist adherent during the Qing dynasty (1683-1839); his cognomen was Peng Jiqing. Peng authored several important biographical collections of Chinese Buddhist adherents who were mostly ignored in the traditional collections of biographies of eminent monks (GAOSENG ZHUAN); these include a collection of biographies of laypeople, the JUSHI ZHUAN ("Record of [Eminent] Laymen") and the SHANNÜREN ZHUAN ("Record of [Eminent] Laywomen"), along with a c. 1783 collection of biographies of pure land figures titled Jingtu shengxian lu ("A Record of Pure Land Sages"). See JUSHI ZHUAN; SHANNÜREN ZHUAN.
Planetesimal Hypothesis A modification of the nebular hypothesis — put forward by Lockyer and See, and developed by Chamberlin and Moulton in the early 20th century — according to which the nebulae from which planets originated were not gaseous but made up of a multitude of planetesimals or solid bodies varying in size from a mere particle up to a planetoid. According to theosophy, at a certain later stage in the formation of worlds there does take place such a concretion of large bodies out of small bodies and out of cosmic dust; but a particular and minor phase in the physical stage of development is far from a complete account of the origin of the solar system. It ignores all ultraphysical conditions, and therefore has to begin by assuming nine-tenths of the whole process, such as the eternity of physical matter, and the independent existence of such abstractions as gravitation, inertia, etc.
Pneumatology The study of gases; the study of beings intermediate between God or other divinity and man, including in the lower ranges angels, daimones, etc., and still lower possibly even demons and ghosts, etc.; the Christian theological doctrine of the Holy Ghost. G. de Purucker uses the term etymologically for the science of the pneuma or spirit, just as psychology is strictly speaking the science of the psyche. The psyche is the lower intermediate nature of man, kama-manas; pneuma pertains to the higher duad, atma-buddhi. Modern psychology and psychoanalysis unfortunately deal mainly with the activities of the lower quaternary of the septenary being that is man, and ignore the activities or even the existence of anything else higher.
Portable Pixmap ::: (file format) (PPM) A colour image file format.A PPM file contains the following: a two character {magic number} - P3,the width in pixels, represented as three values for red, green, and blue.All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a
Portable Pixmap "file format" (PPM) A colour {image} {file format}. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by {whitespace} and numbers are in decimal {ASCIII} representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "
precedence lossage ::: /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A C coding error in an expression due to unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical operators. Used especially of certain common ^, and >>. For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is parsed as x & (1 == 0) which the compiler would probably evaluate at compile-time to (x & 0) and then to 0.Precedence lossage can always be avoided by suitable use of parentheses. For this reason, some C programmers deliberately ignore the language's precedence can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere.Other sources of bugs include aliasing bug, memory leak, memory smash, smash the stack, fandango on core, overrun screw.[Jargon File] (1994-12-16)
precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A misunderstanding of {operator precedence} resulting in unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical {operators} when coding an {expression}. Used especially of mistakes in {C} code due to the nonintuitively low precedence of "&", "|", "^", """" and """". For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is {parsed} as x & (1 == 0) which is always zero (false). Some lazy programmers ignore precedence and parenthesise everything. {Lisp} fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16)
Quinary (Latin) A group of five, fivefold, the number five. A legitimate fivefold grouping of human and cosmic principles is found in some systems; the four commonly accepted elements or tattvas and their crown or synthesis, for example, make a quinary, but if the synthesis is regarded as a ternary, we get a septenary; and the same if we add to the five two higher principles which have been ignored.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
refutable "programming" In {lazy functional languages}, a refutable pattern is one which may fail to match. An expression being matched against a refutable pattern is first evaluated to {head normal form} (which may fail to terminate) and then the top-level constructor of the result is compared with that of the pattern. If they are the same then any arguments are matched against the pattern's arguments otherwise the match fails. An irrefutable pattern is one which always matches. An attempt to evaluate any {variable} in the pattern forces the pattern to be matched as though it were refutable which may fail to match (resulting in an error) or fail to terminate. Patterns in {Haskell} are normally refutable but may be made irrefutable by prefixing them with a tilde (~). For example, (\ (x,y) -" 1) undefined ==" undefined (\ ~(x,y) -" 1) undefined ==" 1 Patterns in {Miranda} are refutable, except for {tuples} which are irrefutable. Thus g [x] = 2 g undefined ==" undefined f (x,y) = 1 f undefined ==" 1 Pattern bindings in local definitions are irrefutable in both languages: h = 1 where [x] = undefined ==" 1 Irrefutable patterns can be used to simulate {unlifted products} because they effectively ignore the top-level constructor of the expression being matched and consider only its components. (2013-11-03)
Revata. (T. Nam gru; C. Lipoduo; J. Ribata; K. Ibada 離婆多). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of an important ARHAT who was foremost among the Buddha's monk disciples in mastery of meditative absorption (DHYĀNA; P. JHĀNA). He is typically known as "doubting Revata" (KĀnKsĀ-REVATA; P. Kankhā-Revata), to distinguish him from several other Revatas who appear in the literature, because prior to his enlightenment he is said to have been troubled by doubt concerning what was permissible and what was not. According to the Pāli account, Revata was born into a wealthy family in the city of Sāvitthi (S. sRĀVASTĪ). One day he heard the Buddha preach in Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU) and resolved to renounce the world and enter the order. He attained arhatship by relying on dhyāna, and his exceptional skill in these meditative states won him distinction. Revata had resolved to attain this distinction in a previous life as a brāhmana when, during the time of the buddha Padmottara, he heard the Buddha describe one of his disciples as preeminent in his attainment of dhyāna. In another famous story, the mother of Uttara had been reborn as a hungry ghost (S. PRETA, P. peta) and after fifty-five years of wandering, encountered Revata and begged him for relief. He relieved her suffering by making various offerings to the SAMGHA in her name. ¶ There was a later monk named Revata who played a major role at the second Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, SECOND) held at VAIsĀLĪ. Some one hundred years after the death of the Buddha, the monk YAsAS was traveling in Vaisālī when he observed the monks there receiving alms in the form of gold and silver directly from the laity, in violation of the prohibition against monks' touching gold and silver. He also found that the monks had identified ten points in the VINAYA that were classified as violations but that they had determined were sufficiently minor to be ignored. Yasas challenged the monks on these practices, but when he refused to accept their bribes to keep quiet, they expelled him from the order. Yasas sought support of several respected monks in the west, including sĀnAKAVĀSĪN and Revata, and together they traveled to Vaisālī. Once there, Revata went to Sarvagāmin, the eldest monk of his era, who is said to have been a disciple of ĀNANDA, to question him about these ten points. At Revata's suggestion, a jury of eight monks was appointed to adjudicate, with four representatives selected from each party. Revata was selected as one of four from the party declaring the ten practices to be violations, and it was Revata who publically put the questions to Sarvagāmin. In each case, the senior monk said that the practice in question was a violation of the vinaya. Seven hundred monks then gathered to recite the vinaya. Those who did not accept the decision of the council held their own convocation, which they called the MAHĀSĀMGHIKA, or "Great Assembly." This event is sometimes said to have led to the first "great schism" within the mainstream Buddhist tradition, between the STHAVIRANIKĀYA, or Fraternity of the Elders, and the MahāsāMghika.
RFC 1123 ::: (networking, standard) The RFC Requirements for Internet Hosts Application and Support which clarifies or changes the specification of protocols given in earlier RFCs.RFC 1123 defines the terms MUST, SHOULD, MAY, unconditionally compliant, conditionally compliant. Capitals are used to emphasise that the official definition of the word is being used.MUST or REQUIRED means an absolute requirement for conformance.SHOULD or RECOMMENDED means the item can be ignored under certain circumstances, although the full implications should be understood.MAY or OPTIONAL means the implementor can choose, usually depending on whether it is needed or not.Something unconditionally compliant meets all the MUST and SHOULD requirements, conditionally compliant meets all the MUST requirements and not compliant - does not meet some MUST requirement.For example, RFC 1123 amends RFC952 to say software MUST handle either a letter or a digit as the first character of a hostname. . (1996-01-13)
RFC 1123 "networking, standard" The {RFC} "Requirements for Internet Hosts Application and Support" which clarifies or changes the specification of protocols given in earlier RFCs. RFC 1123 defines the terms "MUST", "SHOULD", "MAY", "unconditionally compliant", "conditionally compliant". Capitals are used to emphasise that the official definition of the word is being used. MUST or REQUIRED means an absolute requirement for conformance. SHOULD or RECOMMENDED means the item can be ignored under certain circumstances, although the full implications should be understood. MAY or OPTIONAL means the implementor can choose, usually depending on whether it is needed or not. Something "unconditionally compliant" meets all the MUST and SHOULD requirements, "conditionally compliant" meets all the MUST requirements and "not compliant" - does not meet some MUST requirement. For example, RFC 1123 amends RFC952 to say software MUST handle either a letter or a digit as the first character of a {hostname}. {(rfc:1123)}. (1996-01-13)
saMskāraduḥkhatā. (T. 'du byed kyi sdug bsngal; C. xingku; J. gyoku; K. haenggo 行苦). In Sanskrit, "suffering inherent in conditioning," the third of the three types of suffering, together with DUḤKHADUḤKHATĀ and VIPARInĀMADUḤKHATĀ. This is the most subtle and most pernicious of the three types of suffering, since it conditions all of SAMSĀRA. SaMskāraduḥkhatā is identified as neutral sensations and their objects, which, due to impermanence, can turn into sensations of pain in the next instant. It is said that this form of suffering generally goes unnoticed by ordinary beings (PṚTHAGJANA), where it is like a wisp of wool in the palm of the hand, but it cannot be ignored by noble beings (ĀRYAPUDGALA), where it is like a wisp of wool in the eye. An example for the three types of suffering is a burn: as a conditioned event, it is suffering just because of what it is (saMskāraduḥkhatā); when soothed with a cooling ointment it feels better, but when the temporary relief ends it will inevitably become suffering again (viparināmaduḥkhatā); and when jabbed, it causes excruciating pain (duḥkhaduḥkhatā).
signore ::: n. --> Sir; Mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.
scorn ::: to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain. scorns, scorned
shebang "operating system" (Or "shebang line", "{bang path}") /sh*-bang'/ (From "{sharp}" and "{bang}") The {magic cookie} "
signor ::: n. --> Alt. of Signore
Simmel, Georg: (1858-1918) Occupying himself mostly with the reciprocal effects between individuals, he practically ignored the pioblem of the individual to the group. Calling attention to the psychical interactions as constituting the real foundation of community life, he stressed the reciprocity of relations. As alleged founder of the "formalistic" sociology, he regards the forms of socialization, the kinds of interactions of individuals upon each other as the distinctive subject of sociology. He defended in his earlier years a descriptive and relative, as opposed to a normative, absolutistic ethics. Subscribing to a metaphysics of life, he characterizes life as ceaseless self-transcendence. -- H.H.
slight ::: adj. 1. Small in size, degree, or amount.2. Unimportant, trifling, trivial. 3. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail. 4. Frail, flimsy, delicate. slightest. v. 5. To treat as of little importance; to disregard, disdain, ignore.
soundex "algorithm, text" An {algorithm} for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. The first letter is copied unchanged then subsequent letters are encoded as follows: bfpv -" "1" cgjkqsxz -" "2" dt -" "3" l -" "4" mn -" "5" r -" "6" Other characters are ignored and repeated characters are encoded as though they were a single character. Encoding stops when the resulting string is four characters long, adding trailing "0"s if it is shorter. For example, "SMITH" or "SMYTHE" would both be encoded as "S530". (1995-01-05)
space-cadet keyboard "hardware, history" A now-legendary device used on {MIT} {Lisp} machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of {Emacs}. It was equipped with no fewer than *seven* shift keys: four keys for {bucky bits} ("control", "meta", "hyper", and "super") and three like regular shift keys, called "shift", "top", and "front". Many keys had three symbols on them: a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek letter on the front. For example, the "L" key had an "L" and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. By pressing this key with the right hand while playing an appropriate "chord" with the left hand on the shift keys, you could get the following results: L lowercase l shift-L uppercase L front-L lowercase lambda front-shift-L uppercase lambda top-L two-way arrow (front and shift are ignored) And of course each of these might also be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys. On this keyboard, you could type over 8000 different characters! This allowed the user to type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands of single-character commands at his disposal. Many hackers were actually willing to memorise the command meanings of that many characters if it reduced typing time (this attitude obviously shaped the interface of {Emacs}). Other hackers, however, thought that many {bucky bits} was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate. See {cokebottle}, {double bucky}, {meta bit}, {quadruple bucky}. Note: early versions of this entry incorrectly identified the space-cadet keyboard with the "Knight keyboard". Though both were designed by Tom Knight, the latter term was properly applied only to a keyboard used for {ITS} on the {PDP-10} and modelled on the Stanford keyboard (as described under {bucky bits}). The true space-cadet keyboard evolved from the Knight keyboard. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-05)
Sri Aurobindo: "Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Stable monetary unit concept – This concept allows accountants to ignore the effect of inflation in the accounting records.
*Sthaviranikāya. (T. Gnas brtan sde pa; C. Shangzuo bu; J. Jozabu; K. Sangjwa pu 上座部). In Sanskrit, "School of the Elders"; one of the important "mainstream" (that is, non-MAHĀYĀNA) schools of Indian Buddhism, which later split into several other important MAINSTREAM BUDDHIST SCHOOLS. The Sthaviranikāya is thought to have come into existence in a dispute over monastic practice that occurred about a century after the Buddha's death, at the so-called second Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, SECOND) held at VAIsĀLĪ. The Sthaviranikāya resolved that ten rules of the VINAYA must be observed, while another faction, which came to call itself the MAHĀSĀMGHIKA ("Great Congregation") held that these rules could be ignored. The ten violations of monastic practice that the Sthaviranikāya sought to proscribe were: (1) carrying salt in an animal horn, (2) eating when the shadow of the sundial is two fingerbreadths past noon, (3) after eating, traveling to another village on the same day to eat another meal, (4) holding several monastic assemblies within the same boundary (SĪMĀ) during the same fortnight, (5) making an ecclesiastical decision with an incomplete assembly and subsequently receiving the approval of the absent monks, (6) citing precedent as a justification for violating monastic procedures, (7) drinking milk whey after mealtime, (8) drinking unfermented wine, (9) using mats with fringe, and (10) accepting gold and silver. A rival, and apparently larger, group of monks held that these actions did not constitute violations of the vinaya and thus called themselves the "Great Congregation." The other NIKĀYAs or schools subsequently branched off from the Sthaviranikāya and the MahāsāMghika strands of mainstream Buddhism. The Sthaviranikāya itself subsequently divided into three major branches. The earliest subgroup to evolve was the VĀTSĪPUTRĪYA or SAMMITĪYA, commonly known as the PUDGALAVĀDA (Teaching of the Person), which advocated that the continuity of karmic experience and the prospect of rebirth demanded some sort of entity (the person, or PUDGALA) that was neither identical to, nor distinct from, the aggregates (SKANDHA). Despite the reproach the school received from virtually all other mainstream schools-which viewed this doctrine of the person as tantamount to a teaching about a perduring self (ĀTMAN), anathema to the quintessential Buddhist teaching of ANĀTMAN-the Pudgalavāda seems in fact to have been widespread and popular. The second major school was the SARVĀSTIVĀDA (Teaching that All Exists), a highly influential school especially in the northwest regions of KASHMIR and GANDHĀRA, which developed one of the most elaborate ABHIDHARMA traditions in mainstream Buddhism, and which had a significant influence on the development of later MAHĀYĀNA scholasticism. The third was the VIBHAJYAVĀDA (Teaching of Differentiation), a broad designation for non-Sarvāstivāda strands of the Sthaviranikāya, which included such later mainstream schools as MAHĪsĀSAKA, DHARMAGUPTAKA, and KĀsYAPĪYA. The only surviving strand of the Sthaviranikāya is the THERAVĀDA. However, the Sanskrit form *Sthaviravāda, which would be the rendering for the Pāli term Theravāda, is not attested in any Indian source; attested Sanskrit forms (both very rare) include sthāvira or sthāvarīya ("followers of the elders"). In addition, the Tibetan and Sinographic renderings of the term would both be reconstructed in Sanskrit as *Sthaviranikāya, suggesting again that Sthaviravāda or Theravāda was not the traditional designation of this school. Scholars have therefore questioned the historical ties between the Sthaviranikāya and the Theravāda, especially given the rare use of the term Theravāda as a term of self-identification prior to the early twentieth century.
Summum Bonum: (Lat. the supreme good) A term applied to an ultimate end of human conduct the worth of which is intrinsically and substantively good. It is some end that is not subordinate to anything else. Happiness, pleasure, virtue, self-realization, power, obedience to the voice of duty, to conscience, to the will of God, good will, perfection have been claimed as ultimate aims of human conduct in the history of ethical theory. Those who interpret all ethical problems in terms of a conception of good they hold to be the highest ignore all complexities of conduct, focus attention wholly upon goals towards which deeds are directed, restrict their study by constructing every good in one single pattern, center all goodness in one model and thus reduce all other types of good to their model. -- H.H.
Suttanipāta. In Pāli, "Sutta Collection"; the fifth book of the KHUDDAKANIKĀYA of the Pāli SUTTAPItAKA, which includes texts that derive from the earliest stratum of the Pāli canon. It is comprised of five VAGGAs or chapters, the Uragavagga, Culavagga, MAHĀVAGGA, AttHAKAVAGGA, and the Pārāyanavagga. The Atthakavagga and Pārāyanavagga are believed to have been early collections that circulated independently, as there is a canonical commentary on them, the NIDDESA, that ignores the other vaggas. They also include verse passages that metrical evidence places as among the most archaic in the canon.
Tagged Image File Format ::: (file format, graphics) (TIFF) A file format used for still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities.While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. lossless 24-bit colour) extensions has led some to expand TIFF as Thousands of Incompatible File Formats.Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG. (1997-10-11)
Tagged Image File Format "file format, graphics" (TIFF) A {file format} used for still-image {bitmaps}, stored in tagged fields. {Application programs} can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities. While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. {lossless} 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of extensions has led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File Formats". Compare {GIF}, {PNG}, {JPEG}. (1997-10-11)
"There is always the personal and the impersonal side of the Divine and the Truth and it is a mistake to think the impersonal alone to be true or important, for that leads to a void incompleteness in part of the being, while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential.” Letters on Yoga ::: Impersonal"s.
“There is always the personal and the impersonal side of the Divine and the Truth and it is a mistake to think the impersonal alone to be true or important, for that leads to a void incompleteness in part of the being, while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential.” Letters on Yoga
these were ignored in New Testament gospels,
This representation does not reproduce faithfully all particulars of the traditional account. The fact is that the traditional doctrine, having grown up from various sources and under an inadequate formal analysis, is not altogether what seems to be the best representation, and simply note the four following points of divergence: We have defined the connectives ⊃x and ∧x in terms of universal and existential quantification, whereas the traditional account might be thought to be more closely reproduced if they were taken as primitive notations. (It would, however, not be difficult to reformulate the functional calculus of first order so that these connectives would be primitive and the usual quantifiers defined in terms of them.) The traditional account associates the negation in E and O with the copula (q. v.), whereas the negation symbol is here prefixed to the sub-formula P(x). (Notice that this sub-formula represents ambiguously a proposition and that, in fact, the notation of the functional calculus of first order provides for applying negation only to propositions.) The traditional account includes under A and E respectively, also (propositions denoted by) P(A) and ∼P(A), where A is an individual constant. These singular propositions are ignored in our account of opposition and immediate inference, but will appear in § 5 as giving variant forms of certain syllogisms. Some aspects of the traditional account require that A and E be represented as we have here, others that they be represented by [(Ex)S(x)][S(x) ⊃x P(x)] and [(Ex)S(x)][S(x) ⊃x ∼P(x)] respectively. The question concerning the choice between these two interpretations is known as the problem of existential import of propositions. We prefer to introduce (Ex)S(x) as a separate premiss at those places where it is required. Given a fixed subject S and a fixed predicate P, we have, according to the square of opposition, that A and O are contradictory, E and I are contradictory, A and E are contrary, I and O are subcontrary, A and I are subaltern, E and O are subaltern. The two propositions in a contradictory pair cannot be both true and cannot be both false (one is the exact negation of the other). The two propositions in a subaltern pair are so related that the first one, together with the premiss (Ex)S(x), implies the second (subalternation). Under the premiss (Ex)S(x), the contrary pair, A, E, cannot be both true, and the subcontrary pair, I, O, cannot be both false.
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
“This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty.” Letters on Savitri
token bus "networking" (IEEE 802.4) A networking protocol which mediates access to a {bus} topology network as though it were a {token ring}. This eliminates the {collisions} found in {carrier sense collision detect} protocols. {Nodes} can be configured to pass the token in any order, not necessarily related to their physical ordering on the bus. The token is sent from one node to its successor in the logical ring by broadcast on the bus and is ignored by the other nodes. (1996-12-13)
token bus ::: (networking) (IEEE 802.4) A networking protocol which mediates access to a bus topology network as though it were a token ring. This eliminates the physical ordering on the bus. The token is sent from one node to its successor in the logical ring by broadcast on the bus and is ignored by the other nodes. (1996-12-13)
underflow ::: (programming) (or floating point underflow, floating underflow, after overflow) A condition that can occur when the result of a floating-point an eight-bit twos complement exponent can represent multipliers of 10^-128 to 10^127. A result less than 10^-128 would cause underflow.Depending on the processor, the programming language and the run-time system, underflow may set a status bit, raise an exception or generate a hardware ignored and zero substituted for the unrepresentable value, though this might lead to a later divide by zero error which cannot be so easily ignored. (1997-08-25)
underflow "programming" (or "floating point underflow", "floating underflow", after "{overflow}") A condition that can occur when the result of a {floating-point} operation would be smaller in magnitude (closer to zero, either positive or negative) than the smallest quantity representable. Underflow is actually (negative) {overflow} of the {exponent} of the {floating point} quantity. For example, an eight-bit {twos complement} exponent can represent multipliers of 2^-128 to 2^127. A result less than 2^-128 would cause underflow. Depending on the {processor}, the programming language and the {run-time system}, underflow may set a status bit, raise an {exception} or generate a {hardware} {interrupt} or some combination of these effects. Alternatively, it may just be ignored and zero substituted for the unrepresentable value, though this might lead to a later {divide by zero} error which cannot be so easily ignored. (2006-11-09)
uuencode "communications" (Unix-to-Unix encode) A {Unix} program for encoding {binary} data as {ASCII}. Uuencode was originally used with {uucp} to transfer binary files over {serial lines} which did not preserve the top bit of characters, but is now used for sending binary files by {e-mail} and posting to {Usenet} newsgroups etc. The program uudecode reverses the effect of uuencode, recreating the original binary file exactly. Uuencoded data starts with a line of the form begin "mode" "file" where "mode" is the files read/write/execute permissions as three {octal} digits and "file" is the name to be used when recreating the binary data. Uuencode repeatedly takes in a group of three bytes, adding trailing zeros if there are less than three bytes left. These 24 bits are split into four groups of six which are treated as numbers between 0 and 63. Decimal 32 is added to each number and they are output as ASCII characters from 32 (space) to 32+63 = 95 (underscore). Each group of sixty output characters (corresponding to 45 input bytes) is output as a separate line preceded by an 'M' (ASCII code 77 = 32+45). At the end of the input, if there are N output characters left after the last group of sixty and N"0 then they will be preceded by the character whose code is 32+N. Finally, a line containing just a single space is output, followed by one containing just "end". Sometimes each data line has an extra dummy character added to avoid problems which mailers that strip trailing spaces. These characters are ignored by uudecode. Despite using this limited range of characters, there are still some problems encountered when uuencoded data passes through certain old computers. The worst offenders are computers using non-ASCII character sets such as EBCDIC. {Base 64} encoding is probably now more commonly used than uuencode. (2004-07-17)
uuencode ::: (communications) (Unix-to-Unix encode) A Unix program for encoding binary data as ASCII. Uuencode was originally used with uucp to transfer binary files The program uudecode reverses the effect of uuencode, recreating the original binary file exactly.Uuencoded data starts with a line of the form begin mode> file> digits and file> is the name to be used when recreating the binary data.Uuencode repeatedly takes in a group of three bytes, adding trailing zeros if there are less than three bytes left. These 24 bits are split into four groups code is 32+N. Finally, a line containing just a single space is output, followed by one containing just end.Sometimes each data line has an extra dummy character added to avoid problems which mailers that strip trailing spaces. These characters are ignored by uudecode.Despite using this limited range of characters, there are still some problems encountered when uuencoded data passes through certain old computers. The worst offenders are computers using non-ASCII character sets such as EBCDIC.Base 64 encoding is probably now more commonly used than uuencode.(2004-07-17)
weak typing "programming" Strict enforcement of {type} rules but with well-defined exceptions or an explicit type-violation mechanism. Weak typing is "friendlier" to the programmer than {strong typing}, but catches fewer errors at compile time. {C} and {C++} are weakly typed, as they automatically {coerce} many types e.g. {ints} and {floats}. E.g. int a = 5; float b = a; They also allow ignore {typedefs} for the purposes of type comparison; for example the following is allowed, which would probably be disallowed in a strongly typed language: typedef int Date; /* Type to represent a date */ Date a = 12345; int b = a; /* What does the coder intend? */ C++ is stricter than C in its handling of enumerated types: enum animal {CAT=0,DOG=2,ANT=3}; enum animal a = CAT; /* NB The enum is optional in C++ */ enum animal b = 1; /* This is a warning or error in C++ */ (2000-07-04)
whatis "tool" 1. A {Unix} command which searches for a given string in the headings of all {man} pages. 2. A command which searches the {archie} {Software Description Database} for a given string, with case being ignored. (1995-11-12)
whatis ::: (tool) 1. A Unix command which searches for a given string in the headings of all man pages.2. A command which searches the archie Software Description Database for a given string, with case being ignored. (1995-11-12)
“Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master.” The Synthesis of Yoga
will, free ::: Sri Aurobindo: Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
Wyck, the: Legendary name for the first primordial mages, descended from the Pure Ones; often translated as “the Wise (Ones).” Tradition Terminology For Council titles, see Chapter Five (p. 141). Entries featuring the designation (metaplot) describe optional characters or events in the published history of Mage that a Storyteller can include or ignore.
XEROX PARC ::: /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center.For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.[Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9)].[Jargon File] (1995-01-26)
XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ {Xerox Corporation}'s Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons ({WIMP}) style of software interface was invented there. So was the {laser printer} and the {local-area network}; {Smalltalk}; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful {personal computers} of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level {suits} has been well described in the reference below. ["Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer" by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9)]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-26)
Yasas. (P. Yasa; T. Grags pa; C. Yeshe; J. Yasha; K. Yasa 耶舍). An early ARHAT disciple of the Buddha. The son of a wealthy merchant of Vārānasī, Yasas was brought up in luxury. He had three mansions, one for the winter, one for the rainy season, and one for the summer, and was attended by a troupe of female musicians. Once, he happened to awake in the middle of the night and witnessed his attendants sleeping in an indecorous manner. Greatly disturbed, he put on a pair of golden sandals and wandered in the direction of the Deer Park (MṚGADĀVA) where the Buddha was dwelling, exclaiming, "Alas, what distress, what danger." The Buddha saw him approach and, knowing what he was experiencing, called out to him, "Yasas, come. Here there is neither distress nor danger." Yasas approached the Buddha, took off his golden sandals, and sat down beside him. The Buddha preached a graduated discourse (ANUPUBBIKATHĀ) to him, at the conclusion of which Yasas became a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA). He thus became the Buddha's sixth disciple and the first who had not known him prior to his achievement of enlightenment (as had his first five disciples, the bhadravargīya or PANCAVARGIKA). Yasas was also the first person to become an enlightened lay disciple (UPĀSAKA), although he ordained a few minutes later. Later, Yasas's father, who had come searching for his son, arrived at the Buddha's residence. The Buddha used his magical powers to make Yasas invisible and, inviting his father to sit, preached a discourse to him. Yasas's father also became a stream-enterer, while Yasas, who overheard the sermon from his invisible state, became an arhat. When the Buddha made Yasas visible to his father, he informed him that, since his son was now an arhat, it would be impossible for him to return home to a householder's life and he would have to become a monk. Yasas thus became the sixth member of the Buddha's monastic order. Yasas accompanied the Buddha to his father's house the next day to receive the morning meal. After the meal, the Buddha preached a sermon. Yasas's mother, SUJĀTĀ, and other members of the household became stream-enterers, his mother thus becoming the first female disciple (UPĀSIKĀ) of the Buddha and the first woman to become a stream-enterer. At that time, fifty-four of Yasas's friends also were converted and entered the order of monks, swelling its ranks to sixty members. It was at this time that the Buddha directed his disciples to go forth separately and preach the dharma they had realized for the welfare and benefit of the world. ¶ There was a later monk, also named Yasas, whose protest led to the second Buddhist council (COUNCIL, SECOND), held at VAIsĀLĪ. Some one hundred years after the Buddha's death, Yasas was traveling in Vaisālī when he observed the monks there receiving gold and silver as alms directly from the laity, in violation of the VINAYA prohibition against monks touching gold and silver. He also found that the monks had identified ten points in the vinaya that were identified as violations but that they felt were sufficiently minor to be ignored. The ten violations in question were: (1) carrying salt in an animal horn; (2) eating when the shadow of the sundial was two fingerbreadths past noon; (3) after eating, traveling to another village to eat another meal on the same day; (4) holding several assemblies within the same boundary (SĪMĀ) during the same fortnight; (5) making a monastic decision with an incomplete assembly and subsequently receiving the approval of the absent monks; (6) citing precedent as a justification to violate monastic procedures; (7) drinking milk whey after mealtime; (8) drinking unfermented wine; (9) using mats with a fringe; and (10) accepting gold and silver. Yasas told the monks that these were indeed violations, at which point the monks are said to have offered him a share of the gold and silver they had collected. When he refused the bribe, they expelled him from the order. Yasas sought the support of several respected monks in the west, including Sambhuta, sĀnAKAVĀSIN, and REVATA. Together with other monks, they went to Vaisālī, where they convened a council (SAMGĪTI) at which Revata submitted questions about each of the disputed points to Sarvagāmin, the eldest monk of the day, who is said to have been a disciple of ĀNANDA. In each case, he said that the practice in question was a violation of the vinaya. Seven hundred monks then gathered to recite the vinaya. Those who did not accept the decision of the council held their own convocation, which they called the MAHĀSĀMGHIKA or "Great Assembly," the rival group coming to be called the STHAVIRANIKĀYA, or "School of the Elders." This event is sometimes referred to as "the great schism," since it marks the first permanent schism in the order (SAMGHABHEDA).
Yogic equality ::: The equality of soul, equanimity founded on the sense of the one Self, the one Divine everywhere — seeing the One in spite of all differences, degrees, disparities in the manifestation. The mental principle of equality tries to ignore or else to destroy the differences, degrees and disparities, to act as if all were equal or to try and make all equal,
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1:You ignore what is real and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
2:The only calibration that count is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated." ~ Ted Hughes, #KEYS
3:You ignore the doubter but try to solve the doubts.
Hold on to the doubter and the doubts will disappear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 238,#KEYS
4:Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars. ~ Nico Lang, #KEYS
5:When tempted, invoke your Angel. He is more eager to help you than you are to be helped! Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him: He trembles and flees at the sight of your Guardian Angel. ~ Saint John Bosco, #KEYS
6:Divine Mother, My giant enemy ego is sitting directly in my path and will not let me pass. In what manner should I fight him?
Ignore him and go through.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
7:Catch the thoughts by becoming aware of the thinker, that's how you do it. Or, just look at the thoughts; ignore them; that stops thoughts. You cause the thoughts to cease by doing absolutely nothing; by being your self. ~ Robert Adams, #KEYS
8:This web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not.~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden Of Forking Paths, #KEYS
9:In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore. ~ Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus, #KEYS
10:Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~ Apple Inc., #KEYS
11:There is a story I would like to tell you about a woman who practices the invocation of the Buddha Amitabha's name. She is very tough, and she practices the invocation three times daily, using a wooden drum and a bell, reciting, "Namo Amitabha Buddha" for one hour each time. When she arrives at one thousand times, she invites the bell to sound. (In Vietnamese, we don't say "strike" or "hit" a bell.) Although she has been doing this for ten years, her personality has not changed. She is still quite mean, shouting at people all the time.
A friend wanted to teach her a lesson, so one afternoon when she had just lit the incense, invited the bell to sound three times, and was beginning to recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha," he came to her door, and said, "Mrs. Nguyen, Mrs. Nguyen!" She found it very annoying because this was her time of practice, but he just stood at the front gate shouting her name. She said to herself, "I have to struggle against my anger, so I will ignore that," and she went on, "Namo Amitabha Buddha, Namo Amitabha Buddha."
The gentleman continued to shout her name, and her anger became more and more oppressive. She struggled against it, wondering, "Should I stop my recitation and go and give him a piece of my mind?" But she continued chanting, and she struggled very hard. Fire mounted in her, but she still tried to chant "Namo Amitabha Buddha." The gentleman knew it, and he continued to shout, "Mrs. Nguyen! Mrs. Nguyen!"
She could not bear it any longer. She threw away the bell and the drum. She slammed the door, went out to the gate and said, "Why, why do you behave like that? Why do you call my name hundreds of times like that?" The gentleman smiled at her and said, "I just called your name for ten minutes, and you are so angry. You have been calling the Buddha's name for ten years. Think how angry he must be! ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Be so good they can't ignore you. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 2:I never fight with reason- I just ignore it. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 3:Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 4:To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 5:Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 6:When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 7:To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 8:Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 9:Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 10:We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 11:The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 12:I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 13:Ignore the negative rhetoric echoing from the peanut gallery. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 14:Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 15:As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 16:People have the right to their opinion and you have the right to ignore it. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 17:Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 18:Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 19:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 20:Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 21:Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 22:You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 23:The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 24:When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 25:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 26:Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 27:Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 28:Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 29:Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 30:Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 31:There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 32:Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 33:Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 34:Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 35:What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 36:If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 37:Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 38:When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 39:Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 40:Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 41:The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 42:When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 43:If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 44:We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 45:Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you. If you ignore it, if you waste it, You will only turn to dust. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove 46:The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 47:We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 48:You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 49:Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 50:If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 51:That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 52:Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 53:The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 54:To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 55:Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 56:The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 57:To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 58:All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 59:I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 60:Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 61:This web of time& 62:I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 63:Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 64:There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 65:Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 66:We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 67:War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 68:It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 69:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 70:I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood... . As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 71:Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 72:Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 73:It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 74:It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 75:Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy& 76:As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 77:You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 78:All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 79:When we’re conscious of the deep self and feel the deep love, it becomes much easier to acknowledge those parts of our personality that we would normally choose to ignore, because we’re able to love ourselves as we are. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 80:When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 81:How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 82:Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 83:A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 84:What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 85:The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 86:For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 87:When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 88:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 89:God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what! ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 90:All we have to do is to receive what we are given... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 91:Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 92:When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 93:Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 94:When people ask me, & 95:Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 96:The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 97:There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 98:The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 99:What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 100:Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 101:Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 102:Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 103:All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows? ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 104:Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires... . Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 105:We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 106:In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [... ] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 107:The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 108:We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 109:The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 110:To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 111:Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face? Do you think you're supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you? If you notice it, you own it. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 112:Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 113:Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 114:The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 115:You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 116:And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 117:God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 118:She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance& 119:The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 120:The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 121:We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 122:We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 123:Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 124:Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 125:So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 126:Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things... No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 127:We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 128:The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the & 129:You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 130:We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world... .No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 131:Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy). Do your own research, draw your own conclusions, set your own course, and stick to your guns. When you're just starting out, people will tell you you're wrong. After you've blown past them, they'll tell you you're crazy. A few years after that, they'll (privately) ask you to mentor them. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 132:Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 133:The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 134:Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 135:What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 136:A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel& 137:There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 138:“Happiness, like every other emotional state, has blindness and insensibility to opposing facts given it as its instinctive weapon for self-protection against disturbance. When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. He must ignore it; and to the bystander he may then seem perversely to shut his eyes to it and hush it up.” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove 139:In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 140:We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have? ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 141:Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility. Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Even today many refuse to believe it. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 142:Finally, we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals. Much of the vaunted material wealth that shields us from disease and famine was accumulated at the expense of laboratory monkeys, dairy cows and conveyor-belt chickens. Over the last two centuries tens of billions of them have been subjected to a regime of industrial exploitation whose cruelty has no precedent in the annals of planet Earth. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 143:Our feelings provide meaning not only for our private lives, but also for social and political processes. When we want to know who should rule the country, what foreign policy to adopt and what economic steps to take, we don’t look for the answers in scriptures. Nor do we obey the commands of the Pope or the Council of Nobel Laureates. Rather, in most countries, we hold democratic elections and ask people what they think about the matter at hand. We believe that the voter knows best, and that the free choices of individual humans are the ultimate political authority. Yet how does the voter know what to choose? Theoretically at least, the voter is supposed to consult his or her innermost feelings, and follow their lead. It is not always easy. In order to get in touch with my feelings, I need to filter out the empty propaganda slogans, the endless lies of ruthless politicians, the distracting noise created by cunning spin doctors, and the learned opinions of hired pundits. I need to ignore all this racket, and attend only to my authentic inner voice. And then my authentic inner voice whispers in my ear ‘Vote Cameron’ or ‘Vote Modi’ or ‘Vote Clinton’ or whomever, and I put a cross against that name on the ballot paper – and that’s how we know who should rule the country. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:I always ignore money. ~ Damien Hirst, #NFDB
2:I'm busy now. Can I ignore you ~ Various, #NFDB
3:Learn to ignore everything ~ Marilyn Lee, #NFDB
4:ignore user abort в конфиге PHP. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
5:our brains can’t ignore novelty. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
6:the judge ignore it and drop ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
7:Be so good they can’t ignore you. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
8:Be So Good They Can't Ignore You! ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
9:Be so good they can't ignore you. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
10:Be so good they can’t ignore you. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
11:Kerry pretended to ignore Dante ~ Sara Humphreys, #NFDB
12:Awards that ignore me are losers. ~ Shahrukh Khan, #NFDB
13:Control what you can. Ignore the rest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
14:Pursue excellence; ignore success. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
15:The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore ~ Rumi, #NFDB
16:The art of knowing is knowing who to ignore. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
17:I ignore the mention of the bitch-troll. ~ E L James, #NFDB
18:I normally ignore the History Channel. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
19:The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
20:Ignore past failures and forge ahead. ~ Maxwell Maltz, #NFDB
21:Never ignore a possible. ~Charles ~ Katherine Rundell, #NFDB
22:We ignore intuition at our peril, ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
23:Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen! ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
24:Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions. ~ Mel Gussow, #NFDB
25:I don’t rave against politics. I ignore it. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
26:It's only advice. Ignore it if you want. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
27:Life is too short to ignore the possibilities ~ Unknown, #NFDB
28:To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ. ~ Saint Jerome, #NFDB
29:We cannot ignore our gift of the future. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
30:Endure the criticism, but never ignore it. ~ M M Lindelo, #NFDB
31:I am all the days that you choose to ignore. ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
32:Leaders who ignore change risk extinction. ~ Pat Williams, #NFDB
33:Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
34:Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice. ~ Anne Taintor, #NFDB
35:They may ignore you now but will need you later. ~ Various, #NFDB
36:Don’t ignore me, Pauline says. How dare you? ~ Sally Rooney, #NFDB
37:Hope and despair ignore one another's cries. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
38:Ignore the loneliness, enjoy your presence. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
39:I never fight with reason- I just ignore it. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
40:Ignore girls and they can’t leave you alone. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
41:preety girls behave best when you ignore them ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
42:We Ignore the Complexity of Human Motivations ~ Douglas Stone, #NFDB
43:Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
44:The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
45:To have a better life, ignore your fears! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
46:You must ignore the bad and adopt the good. ~ Gichin Funakoshi, #NFDB
47:There are truths we face and truths we ignore. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
48:Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
49:How dare he give her no opportunity to ignore him? ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
50:pretty girls behave better when you ignore them. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
51:Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
52:train were harder than usual to ignore. They were ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
53:You gotta ignore people until they get in line. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
54:A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments. ~ Douglas Crockford, #NFDB
55:My first piece of advice is this: Ignore all advice. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
56:Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away. ~ T I, #NFDB
57:As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
58:If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks. ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
59:See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
60:Strength acknowledges weakness, it doesn’t ignore it. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
61:To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
62:In lying fashion you ignore what even children know. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
63:My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
64:They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
65:Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
66:When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them ~ Confucius, #NFDB
67:You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me ~ Shahrukh Khan, #NFDB
68:Ignore the world and trust it to return the favor. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
69:They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
70:I knew I'd have to forget that, ignore what could be. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
71:I've always been taught to completely ignore the camera. ~ Jack Reynor, #NFDB
72:Send someone for me if you need any advice to ignore. ~ Brian Rathbone, #NFDB
73:We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
74:When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
75:You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
76:I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. ~ Juana In s de la Cruz, #NFDB
77:It is easy to ignore someone’s sins when love blinds you. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
78:Never ignore a possible. ~ Katherine RundellCharles ~ Katherine Rundell, #NFDB
79:our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
80:People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it. ~ John Newman, #NFDB
81:a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence ~ Reginald Hill, #NFDB
82:A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
83:Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. ~ Natalie Imbruglia, #NFDB
84:Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
85:To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
86:You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me: ~ Daniel Dumile, #NFDB
87:Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
88:Have we as a group ever met a warning we didn't ignore? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
89:Ignore the noise. Conquer the critical. Manage the minutiae. ~ Rory Vaden, #NFDB
90:Those who ignore history are doomed to get their nuts cut. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
91:Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. ~ Bradley Efron, #NFDB
92:Don’t ignore me while I’m trying to break
up with you! ~ Kristen Ashley,#NFDB
93:I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him. ~ Samuel Goldwyn Jr, #NFDB
94:In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
95:Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious. ~ Arnold Arre, #NFDB
96:You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
97:A loaded gun -- deadly, easy to reach, impossible to ignore. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
98:Cry if you need to, but don’t ignore what the tears are about. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
99:Ignore everything a politician says before the word but. ~ Frank Mankiewicz, #NFDB
100:single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can’t I ignore her, ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
101:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
102:To change the world, one has to ignore its residents. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
103:You touched me in places so deep
I wanted to ignore you. ~ Adrienne Rich,#NFDB
104:Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
105:The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
106:If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead. ~ Cory J Herndon, #NFDB
107:Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore. ~ Tao Lin, #NFDB
108:Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
109:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
110:We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril. ~ Bruce D Perry, #NFDB
111:When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
112:Forever could wait. The present was too intoxicating to ignore. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
113:I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics. ~ Ron Conway, #NFDB
114:Oh, Vasu. People always talk; you have to learn to ignore them. ~ Farahad Zama, #NFDB
115:Sometimes, it will ignore me completely, because it’s a cat. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
116:You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them. ~ Steve Erickson, #NFDB
117:Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. ~ Robert Heller, #NFDB
118:Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
119:Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many. ~ John Paul DeJoria, #NFDB
120:Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
121:The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time. ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
122:The ones we pretend to ignore are the ones we're most aware of. ~ Janice Pariat, #NFDB
123:Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
124:Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts. ~ Benny Hinn, #NFDB
125:If you ignore a cop for twenty years, then he's not there anymore... ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
126:Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
127:Sometimes, it will ignore me completely, because it’s a cat. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
128:There might be too many stairs to go up; ignore the stairs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
129:We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
130:When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
131:You chose to use your own body as a canvas that no one could ignore. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
132:You're only free up to the point where you ignore the truth. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
133:God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
134:It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense. ~ Debra Doyle, #NFDB
135:The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
136:Always accept all compliments. Ignore any other remarks.” —Kay Oss ~ Bart King, #NFDB
137:Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB
138:Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ~ Anne Stevenson, #NFDB
139:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
140:C'mon," I said, choosing to ignore his statement of the bloody obvious. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
141:Ignore me. I don’t want to talk about my nonexistent love life today. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
142:ignore the wisdom of the crowd in favor of the wisdom of the confident. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
143:The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
144:The leather made rude noises that we both thought best to ignore. “Wait, ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
145:Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap ~ Jayne Ann Krentz, #NFDB
146:To ignore Satan and his strategies is to commit spiritual suicide. ~ Mark Hitchcock, #NFDB
147:We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
148:Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart. ~ Paula Abdul, #NFDB
149:Don’t ignore pain; appreciate its message: You need to change now! ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
150:First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
151:If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me. ~ Carolyn Forche, #NFDB
152:I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
153:Practice makes perfect Ha, ha, ha, I don’t think so Ignore my sobbing ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
154:That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
155:We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
156:Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold? ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
157:Even if you choose to ignore the truth, the truth still changes you. ~ Victor LaValle, #NFDB
158:I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it. ~ Mayer Hawthorne, #NFDB
159:Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. ~ Robert J Sawyer, #NFDB
160:The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
161:To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
162:You can’t ignore stories like this when you talk about equal opportunity. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
163:Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
164:Ignore the mean voice in your head. It never does any good - ever. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
165:Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy. ~ Nathan Lowell, #NFDB
166:I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
167:In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
168:I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics. ~ Janet Fish, #NFDB
169:Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles) ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
170:The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
171:To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
172:When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
173:...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people. ~ Margaret Willey, #NFDB
174:Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
175:You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
176:How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday? ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
177:If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
178:It’s always easier to ignore the things we don’t really want to know. ~ Lauren K Denton, #NFDB
179:It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right. ~ Randy Singer, #NFDB
180:It took guts to ignore public opinion and so what you thought was right. ~ Randy Singer, #NFDB
181:It was simply unheard of for a member of the firm to ignore his billing. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
182:School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
183:That's a horrible plan."
"Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that. ~ Christopher Moore,#NFDB
184:We all find reasons to accept sugary fables and ignore unwelcome tidings. ~ Dave Duncan, #NFDB
185:You will then ignore, deny, or sabotage the positive in your life. This ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
186:Ignore the tall, dark, and handsome vibe. Book boyfriends exist for a reason. ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
187:Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
188:Ignore what people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
189:Never pass a lady’s room. Never ignore an erection. Never trust a fart! ~ Patricia Sands, #NFDB
190:The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer. ~ Wayne Koestenbaum, #NFDB
191:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
192:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
193:Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
194:You have no idea what's going on until you can't ignore it any longer. ~ Rebecca Donovan, #NFDB
195:As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
196:Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
197:It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious. ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
198:It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
199:It seemed she would not be able to ignore her duty; it had just arrived. ~ Monica McCarty, #NFDB
200:Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
201:Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
202:Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
203:That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
204:there are few problems that won’t go away if you ignore them long enough. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
205:To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
206:To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem. ~ Tom Bowman, #NFDB
207:You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it ~ Emma Bull, #NFDB
208:And what’s the point of being young if you can’t ignore all advice?” Master ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
209:Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
210:Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, #NFDB
211:I’d rather be taken for a ride than ignore someone who might need my help. ~ Katie Pierson, #NFDB
212:I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing. ~ Lisa Nicole Carson, #NFDB
213:Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
214:newborns eventually ignore the lonely silence of a world without heartbeats. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
215:Rule #72: Never depend upon luck, but don’t ignore how really valuable it is. ~ Dave Lowry, #NFDB
216:We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges. ~ Chris Chocola, #NFDB
217:We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us. ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
218:I chose to ignore her remark on the grounds that it simply didn’t suit me. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
219:I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
220:People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~ Mary E Pearson ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
221:The worst thing you can do in life is ignore an opportunity out of fear. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
222:To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
223:You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
224:And just as he done for thriteen years, he forced his mind to ignore the hurt ~ Ben Sherwood, #NFDB
225:Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings. ~ Laurie David, #NFDB
226:How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do. ~ John Edward, #NFDB
227:Ignore thoughts. They are merely endless rationalizations of inner feelings. ~ Richard Dotts, #NFDB
228:Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power. ~ Tom Kenyon, #NFDB
229:You shouldn't ignore me, because I'm someone you need to get to know to love. " (: ~ Unknown, #NFDB
230:Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
231:Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. ~ Chris Pine, #NFDB
232:Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
233:Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
234:Rape culture” doesn’t mean most people like rape, it means most people ignore it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
235:The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek. ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
236:To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
237:You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
238:You ignore the little voices that tell you it's all stupid, and you keep going. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
239:Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
240:Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
241:Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
242:Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
243:What is it about you that I can’t ignore? Why do you have this power over me? ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
244:Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives. ~ Gail Buckley, #NFDB
245:Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."
SHOW YOUR TONGUE ~ G nter Grass,#NFDB
246:It's her privilege to say or think whatever she wants. It's mine to ignore her. ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
247:Magic" is simply a way of talking to the universe in a way that it cannot ignore. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
248:The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them. ~ Celia Green, #NFDB
249:The Russians didn't tell Hillary Clinton to ignore Wisconsin and Michigan, OK? ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
250:This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
251:To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
252:You gotta ignore people until they get in line, especially spoiled rich kids. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
253:You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB
254:Celui qui t'a dit qu'un homme ne doit pas pleurer ignore ce qu'homme veut dire. ~ Yasmina Khadra, #NFDB
255:free, white and eighteen. Do what you want to and ignore all them self-righteous ~ Lorelei James, #NFDB
256:If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead."
- Cory Herndon ~ Cory J Herndon,#NFDB
257:Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
258:It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious. “Front ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
259:It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
260:It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair. ~ India Arie, #NFDB
261:We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
262:What’s the point of knowing the warrior code if all you do is ignore what it says? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
263:With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. ~ Helena Bonham Carter, #NFDB
264:But instead she freezes. She looks away, as if she can ignore her way out of it. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
265:but there’s a surprising sadness in his eyes. As much as I try, I can’t ignore ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
266:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
267:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
268:If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
269:Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
270:Ignore the critics… Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! ~ Dita Von Teese, #NFDB
271:I have never been one to ignore the signs. Unless, of course, it works in my favor. ~ Jaida Jones, #NFDB
272:in order to function, most people have to ignore reality, or at least most of it. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
273:it is difficult to ignore challenges once one is aware that they exist. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
274:It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
275:People tend to pay attention to the guy who shouts and ignore the one who whispers. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
276:Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
277:Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
278:The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
279:You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
280:And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ~ John Green, #NFDB
281:Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
282:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
283:When you hear that something can’t be done, ignore that advice and push forward. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
284:You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
285:You’re human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore. ~ Deborah Wiles, #NFDB
286:But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me.” GOD’S Decree. 7-8 ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
287:Consciously we may ignore them, but unconsciously we respond to them . . . p. 98 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
288:Everyone has their ghosts; it's just a matter of knowing how to ignore them. ~ Maurizio de Giovanni, #NFDB
289:If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, ignore them. I ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
290:Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
291:Ignore you, sweetheart? I think it would be easier to stop breathing."
-Vasili ~ Johanna Lindsey,#NFDB
292:I guess all I can do is ignore her. If that fails, I have rat poison and a shovel. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
293:It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around. ~ Lori Singer, #NFDB
294:mystery another time. Or better yet, she would try harder to ignore it. “What ~ Julie Lawson Timmer, #NFDB
295:Them haters in your face you just ignore them. Don't know what they talking sh-t for. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
296:The whole point of having enemies abroad is getting to ignore the once back home. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
297:Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB
298:When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
299:Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ~ Alan Perlis, #NFDB
300:Miss Steele can a man make a greater blunder than to ignore the intuition of a woman? ~ Lyndsay Faye, #NFDB
301:Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
302:plants and leave the bulbs in the ground, ignore ears of corn, or carelessly drop cabbage ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
303:To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. ~ Hans Hofmann, #NFDB
304:Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision. ~ Michael Dell, #NFDB
305:J'ignore si les grandes époques font les grands hommes, mais je sais qu'elles les tuent. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
306:Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
307:There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
308:There was pain too, though Aeduan could ignore that. After all, pain was nothing new. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
309:weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
310:You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
311:You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
312:You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
313:disappears when she turns. I hold up my hands, trying to ignore the sinking feeling in my ~ Ella James, #NFDB
314:If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy. ~ Lisa Anderson, #NFDB
315:Ignore her. She hasn't been laid in, like, in a week. It's a wonder she's still alive. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
316:I'm afraid if I listen to my heart nce, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
317:In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
318:It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first. ~ Etgar Keret, #NFDB
319:The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present. ~ James Frey, #NFDB
320:The thought is absurd, but I can’t ignore it. Am I coming up here right now to kill me? ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
321:Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. ~ Maurice Allais, #NFDB
322:We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice. ~ Sheila Bender, #NFDB
323:Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life's imperfect wonder. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
324:Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen. ~ Hal Moore, #NFDB
325:I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
326:I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
327:The secret to solving big problems, I learned, is knowing which little problems to ignore. ~ David Litt, #NFDB
328:We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
329:Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you’d rather ignore. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
330:Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for. ~ Ogden Nash,#NFDB
331:Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest. ~ Joe Sacco, #NFDB
332:Fools cannot bear to have anyone over them, and so they ignore God or deny he exists. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
333:Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at? ~ Max Levchin, #NFDB
334:I learned how to live in my head, where I could ignore the world that refused to accept me, ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
335:Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” –Robert J. Sawyer ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
336:People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
337:We all carry secrets,” said the fox. “The more we ignore them, the heavier they become. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
338:We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
339:You have free will, so you can ignore the idea, or you can decide to bring it into reality. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
340:Ignore him and he is intrigued. Make him the center of attention all the time and he runs. ~ Sherry Argov, #NFDB
341:Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
342:Nothing like pointing out mistakes someone else is making to help you ignore your own. ~ Lauren Henderson, #NFDB
343:Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. ~ Galileo Galilei, #NFDB
344:That's how I operate best. I just ignore feelings and jump right into the next thing. ~ Melissa Rosenberg, #NFDB
345:We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
346:Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. ~ Andre Breton, #NFDB
347:If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you. ~ Sheila Kohler, #NFDB
348:I think if we ignore that night, that kiss, then we’re both denying a part of who we are. ~ Samantha Chase, #NFDB
349:Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction? ~ Stephanie Barron, #NFDB
350:Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
351:To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends. ~ Phil Callaway, #NFDB
352:Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
353:Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
354:Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy? ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
355:If you ignored a cake’s personality the cake would ignore you. It’ll be a rude, boring cake. I ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
356:If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
357:knew something to be, it was impossible to ignore how right it felt. Chapter 26 “Great seats. ~ L A Cotton, #NFDB
358:Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence. ~ Steven Moffat, #NFDB
359:No matter how badly you push it away and ignore it, the pain of loss never really goes away. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
360:Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
361:It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things. ~ Alexander McQueen, #NFDB
362:It turns out that trying to ignore somebody is about the most, exhausting thing in the world. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
363:There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. ~ Tim Robbins, #NFDB
364:Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
365:was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
366:We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
367:When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
368:Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. ~ Anne Stevenson, #NFDB
369:All men have limits. They learn what they are and they learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine. ~ Chuck Dixon, #NFDB
370:If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like ~ H Beam Piper, #NFDB
371:Ignore everything you think you know and listen only to your heart, without doubting anything. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
372:it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you— ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
373:I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
374:Our insanity isn't that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
375:Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
376:...so great was his feeling of rightness that he could ignore the dark shadow of the future. ~ Harry Harrison, #NFDB
377:When a stuffed bear asks you for help, you can … ignore him, check your sanity, or give in. ~ Suzanne LaFleur, #NFDB
378:When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
379:Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
380:I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems? ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
381:In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
382:Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible."
"No way, mama. Encourage me all you want. ~ Lucia Berlin,#NFDB
383:No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
384:Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
385:Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
386:People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
387:Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best." ~ Edward Smith, #NFDB
388:The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us. ~ Chip Conley, #NFDB
389:to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
390:If you’re not focusing on becoming so good they can’t ignore you, you’re going to be left behind. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
391:I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
392:Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
393:Our world is physical. Learn to play defense—ignore the head and keep your eyes on the body. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
394:there’s a certain lack of respect for physics and biology when you ignore the power of a firearm. ~ L H Thomson, #NFDB
395:To live is to choose and you should choose what is attainable and adequate. Ignore everything else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
396:When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
397:You ignore what is real and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
398:Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
399:I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
400:Ignore him,” Goldenflower advised. “He’s so full of himself that he’s got no room left for brains. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
401:it’s great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you’ll have to kill them. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
402:it’s the choices we make when we ignore our scornful intellects and follow our thumping hearts. ~ Kimmery Martin, #NFDB
403:The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it. ~ Robin Wasserman, #NFDB
404:theory is that in order to function, most people have to ignore reality, or at least most of it. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
405:(There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”) ~ Martha Wells, #NFDB
406:To hope and dream is not to ignore the practical. It is to dress it in colors and rainbows. ~ Anne Wilson Schaef, #NFDB
407:what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
408:Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy. ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
409:Everything that was magical was just a way of describing the world in words it couldn’t ignore. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
410:Getting on the floor also means joining in with play that we would rather ignore or eliminate. ~ Lawrence J Cohen, #NFDB
411:I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. ~ Helen Reddy, #NFDB
412:In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
413:It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. ~ Stanley Milgram, #NFDB
414:Loss is the hardest thing,” I said. “But it’s also the teacher that’s the most difficult to ignore. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
415:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
416:Sometimes the spirit knows things that the mind cannot; never ignore the urgings of your spirit. ~ Brian Rathbone, #NFDB
417:There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. ~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, #NFDB
418:To get the right things done, choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing where to focus. ~ Peter Bregman, #NFDB
419:Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? ~ Todd Strasser, #NFDB
420:We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city. ~ Richard Saul Wurman, #NFDB
421:We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another. ~ M Russell Ballard, #NFDB
422:While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
423:17 The wicked will go down to the grave.[*] This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
424:An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
425:If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
426:Our past brought us to where we are now. If we ignore part of it, we are ignoring part of ourselves. ~ Shay Savage, #NFDB
427:Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
428:The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept. ~ Erik Naggum, #NFDB
429:We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
430:You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book. ~ Matthew Vaughn, #NFDB
431:A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else. ~ Noah Kagan, #NFDB
432:Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
433:If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you. ~ Ziad K Abdelnour, #NFDB
434:ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one. ~ Daniel Coyle, #NFDB
435:I'm always asking God for direction, but I'll miss it if I constantly ignore His instruction. (11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
436:I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All. ~ Rachel Brady, #NFDB
437:It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact. ~ Sepp Blatter, #NFDB
438:It seemed the more he tried to ignore it, the more it would sneak up on him and catch him off guard. ~ Brandon Witt, #NFDB
439:So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia. ~ Lee H Hamilton, #NFDB
440:To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. ~ Ruth Marcus, #NFDB
441:What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
442:When humans’ nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one. ~ Fuminori Nakamura, #NFDB
443:You’ll never be able to manage yourself effectively if you ignore what you need to do to change. ~ Travis Bradberry, #NFDB
444:A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you. ~ Will Christopher Baer, #NFDB
445:did the echoes of ex-lives ever get quieter, or was it just a matter of learning to ignore the noise? ~ Tawna Fenske, #NFDB
446:His theory is that in order to function, most people have to ignore reality, or at least most of it. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
447:How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
448:I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. —Venus Williams ~ Jeb Blount, #NFDB
449:If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
450:It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
451:This is my wife, Trish. The Good Lord overwhelms her on occasion. I find it best to just ignore it, ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
452:was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
453:You can’t control when you’ll fall in love.” I ignore her comment because hell yes I can. And I will. ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
454:and the more I try to ignore the memory, it multiplies into a monster that can no longer be contained. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
455:But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB
456:Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters. ~ Tavis Smiley, #NFDB
457:Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. ~ Tibor Fischer, #NFDB
458:He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
459:Her body said yes, her mind said absolutely not. Her heart, well, she was learning to ignore the bitch. ~ J T Ellison, #NFDB
460:if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
461:The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me. ~ Jude Morgan, #NFDB
462:Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? ~ Todd Strasser, #NFDB
463:We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt. ~ Queen Latifah, #NFDB
464:When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
465:Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from — and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
466:Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. ~ Sherry Argov, #NFDB
467:I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them. ~ R J Anderson, #NFDB
468:In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
469:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
470:The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ~ V clav Havel, #NFDB
471:While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. When ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
472:A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
473:Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
474:Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
475:Do you know how impossible it is to ignore that woman? I'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to notice. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
476:Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
477:Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
478:If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. ~ Jerome Corsi, #NFDB
479:Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
480:Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. ~ Thomas Friedman, #NFDB
481:The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. ~ William James, #NFDB
482:A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
483:Are the Trojans wise or foolish? If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
484:I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
485:Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
486:Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
487:People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. ~ Julia Kent, #NFDB
488:people won’t ignore alternatives if they don’t realize that too many alternatives can create a problem. ~ Barry Schwartz, #NFDB
489:A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
490:Do we ignore the needy
to spite the greedy?
Or share and defend
despite those who pretend? ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
491:Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down. ~ Bruce H Lipton, #NFDB
492:For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
493:From the beginning, the only thing I couldn’t tolerate about you was how impossible you were to ignore. ~ Jennifer DeLucy, #NFDB
494:Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB
495:I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
496:I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
497:The Indian government wants foreign investment but ignore the basic expectations that come with it. Hence ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
498:The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
499:They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip— ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
500:To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
501:when humans see things that challenge our mental models, we tend not just to resist them but to ignore them. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
502:When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
503:When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. ~ Philip Kerr, #NFDB
504:All I know is, she's a pounding in my chest that I can't ignore. . . hell, that I don't WANT to ignore. [Rhage] ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
505:All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
506:I think your work likes you. You find beauty where others don’t see it. Or rather, they choose to ignore. ~ Kerry Lonsdale, #NFDB
507:It is so much easier for most people to ignore an insult than it is for them to ignore a compliment. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
508:It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
509:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, You are being used, listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
510:But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora ~ Candace Knoebel, #NFDB
511:Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
512:Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers. ~ Stewart Brand, #NFDB
513:I could not ignore their withering glances. They looked at me the way real vampires look at Count Chocula. ~ Norm Macdonald, #NFDB
514:if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
515:I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
516:Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart. ~ Liam Payne, #NFDB
517:Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
518:The guys I owed were serious people. I was so busy raising cash; I barely had time to ignore my creditors. ~ Billy O Connor, #NFDB
519:The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
520:"When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is ignorance." ~ Zhuangzi|, #NFDB
521:Wishes grow inside of you. They attach themselves to your bones and make you ache when you try to ignore them. ~ T E Carter, #NFDB
522:All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. ~ Camille Pissarro, #NFDB
523:Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
524:... he had learned from repeated error not to ignore these quiet proddings, whether of conscience or of God. ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
525:Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
526:People treat you the way they feel about themselves, I reminded myself, trying to ignore the sting of his words. ~ Fran Seen, #NFDB
527:She had an internal clock set to her mother’s hunger for news, but sometimes it felt good to ignore it. ~ Elizabeth Mckenzie, #NFDB
528:The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
529:The troubles in my life stayed with me and were only as big as I chose to make them. The rest I could ignore. ~ Matthew Iden, #NFDB
530:Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
531:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
532:We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation. ~ Ahad Ha am, #NFDB
533:Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
534:You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you're strong enough to fight it when the time is right. ~ Eliot Schrefer, #NFDB
535:Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don’t matter much. ~ Calvin Miller, #NFDB
536:Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat. ~ M F K Fisher, #NFDB
537:It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
538:Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it. ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
539:men wrestle with the things they cannot change, and they ignore those that might bend to some economy of effort. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
540:Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast. ~ Jonathan Cainer, #NFDB
541:Speculation led to disaster, he realized, and he needed to always ignore the “mad crowd” and its inclinations. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
542:The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others. ~ Russell Edson, #NFDB
543:There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
544:There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
545:The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice. ~ Tom Bissell, #NFDB
546:Your hard dick is poking me in the ass. I can no more ignore it than if you slapped me in the face with it. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
547:Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. ~ Jackie Kennedy, #NFDB
548:Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
549:Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
550:I am a nobody. ... Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether. ~ Simon Winchester, #NFDB
551:I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh. ~ Clare Balding, #NFDB
552:I’m the type to ignore a pebble in my boot until it gives me a blister. I’ve made ignoring problems an art form. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
553:I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. ~ Paul Newman, #NFDB
554:It’s better to be aware of your thoughts and decide what you will ignore, and what you will give importance to. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB
555:It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore. ~ Jack Schwarz, #NFDB
556:Just sit down, be one with your thoughts, observe them, and then, ignore them. Thatš all there is to meditation ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB
557:MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
558:The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it; well, not until it kills you anyway. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
559:They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to? ~ Drake, #NFDB
560:When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
561:You can’t blame the people who can’t hear the warnings; you have to blame the ones who can, and who ignore them. ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
562:You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
563:Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
564:How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
565:Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
566:I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
567:Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors. ~ Philip Kotler, #NFDB
568:The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
569:We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) ~ Edward Said, #NFDB
570:Give your full attention to thoughts that make you feel happy, and ignore thoughts that don’t make you feel happy. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
571:If we’re supposed to ignore everything that’s wrong with our lives, then I can’t see how we’ll ever make things right. ~ A S King, #NFDB
572:It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
573:Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
574:Suspicion is an insidious thing; doubts have started creeping in, things that he’d previously been able to ignore. ~ Shari Lapena, #NFDB
575:There are people who will always come up with reasons why you can’t do what you want to do. Ignore them. 601 ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
576:The tendency to make poor decisions and ignore odds in favor of your gut feelings is called the affect heuristic. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
577:We lavish tremendous concern and care on scenery but we ignore the ravaging of environments from which our lives are drawn ~ Lupa, #NFDB
578:An organization must make a conscious decision about which segments to serve and which segments to ignore. ~ Alexander Osterwalder, #NFDB
579:By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life. ~ Parker J Palmer, #NFDB
580:Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you. ~ Dick Francis, #NFDB
581:God doesn’t want us to ignore the past; the past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
582:...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat... ~ M F K Fisher, #NFDB
583:how to quickly stuff my panic into a little black box and ignore it. Panic was the enemy of clear, quick thought and ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
584:Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to
ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru,#NFDB
585:Student: why do dumb people ignore wise people. Teacher: Because, the dumb people believe they are the wise people. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
586:We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) ~ Edward W Said, #NFDB
587:We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
588:We don’t just ignore the law when it suits us or when we find that we like the criminal more than we like his victim. ~ T E Kinsey, #NFDB
589:First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
590:If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
591:It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin. ~ Al Sharpton, #NFDB
592:There’s not much point in making logical arguments to someone who’s already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so ~ David Weber, #NFDB
593:Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
594:Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ~ Natalie Clifford Barney, #NFDB
595:Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes. ~ Roshon Fegan, #NFDB
596:If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
597:I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
598:Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
599:Today I'd like to sit and read, forget I have a job I need, ignore the things I have to do and just enjoy a book or two. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
600:Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it. ~ David Hockney, #NFDB
601:Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
602:Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher. ~ Anya Seton, #NFDB
603:I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
604:If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does. ~ John Green, #NFDB
605:It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
606:It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
607:[...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them. ~ Steven Brust, #NFDB
608:Most people ignore what's right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
609:So we should probably not ignore the fact that one of our deceased chap’s tattoos reads ‘GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
610:To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. ~ Alex Epstein, #NFDB
611:What are we doing, Axel?"
…
"I don’t know, Princess. I don’t know. But, it feels way too fucking good to ignore. ~ Harper Sloan,#NFDB
612:But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't finished. ~ Sandra Kring, #NFDB
613:I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni, #NFDB
614:Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works. ~ David Shore, #NFDB
615:We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
616:You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
617:58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ~ Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, 1982, #NFDB
618:An important tool against self-doubt is just to ignore it. Forge ahead anyway. Just keep going, keep going, keep going. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
619:Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
620:Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. ~ Richard Stallman, #NFDB
621:If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does ~ John Green, #NFDB
622:I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
623:I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore. ~ Linda Ronstadt, #NFDB
624:Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
625:Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of a being that does not exist. ~ Alom Shaha, #NFDB
626:The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
627:Those who forget the past, ignore the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and filled with anxiety. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
628:We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. ~ Aidan Chambers, #NFDB
629:if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does. ~ John Green, #NFDB
630:I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore. ~ Noomi Rapace, #NFDB
631:It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. ~ Jim Elliot, #NFDB
632:I was tied to this place by the loose elastic of ancient guilt, and every so often the pull became too insistent to ignore. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB
633:Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks. ~ Michelle Malkin, #NFDB
634:People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
635:People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text? ~ Gayle King, #NFDB
636:Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
637:That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly of all. ~ Rebecca Serle, #NFDB
638:We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
639:We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
640:I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
641:I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything. ~ Lena Headey, #NFDB
642:[I]t is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates. ~ Michael Parenti, #NFDB
643:People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human. ~ Julia Kent, #NFDB
644:She was okay. You know someone’s okay if they can ignore things they can’t do anything about and move on. Wish I was like that. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
645:The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
646:When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
647:You cut out what was once dear to you, ignore the ache in the back of your throat, erase the details you want to forget. ~ Garrard Conley, #NFDB
648:A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
649:After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! ~ Wes Nisker, #NFDB
650:An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
651:Could you warn me beforehand? The next time you decide to ignore me? For my own good, or whatever. Just so I’m prepared. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
652:Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
653:..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks. ~ Michelle Malkin, #NFDB
654:Most people ignore what's right before their eyes. They believe what they see, but oftentimes only view what they want. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
655:Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of
a being that does not exist. ~ Alom Shaha,#NFDB
656:There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
657:when someone points a finger at you, they point three at themselves (unless they have hooves; then ignore this expression). ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
658:A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
659:Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was unfruitful, a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
660:Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
661:Even if you're on a professional assignment, it's difficult to ignore the sounds of a couple going at it like wild animals. I ~ Jeff Strand, #NFDB
662:It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
663:It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced. ~ Twiggy, #NFDB
664:It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
665:The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore. ~ David Holmgren, #NFDB
666:The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
667:Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
668:Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
669:All of you revolutionary free thinkers!
Let us never ignore the wonderful taste
of coffee and chocolate of present world. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
670:Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
671:It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant. ~ David Icke, #NFDB
672:Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. ~ James MacGregor Burns, #NFDB
673:Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
674:Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.' ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
675:The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch, #NFDB
676:The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore. ~ Chuck Todd, #NFDB
677:🌀💎☯️💜#Trust in Your #HeartAnd what Feels TrueThe Art of KnowingIs knowingWhat to Ignore ☯️💜 ~ Jalaluddin Rumi#peacebewithyou#TrustYourselves, #NFDB
678:As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it’s even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
679:Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
680:Just because India is a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
681:Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
682:Proverbs 10:17 17 People who accept discipline are on the pathway to life, but those who ignore correction will go astray. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
683:so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does. ~ John Green, #NFDB
684:their official religious absolutes, the higher call was to ignore what the Bible said in favor of what they hoped it meant. ~ Frank Schaeffer, #NFDB
685:The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation. ~ Robert H Frank, #NFDB
686:Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
687:You're going to be the only one who can live your life, so ignore the haters and be whoever you want to be. Fucks given = zero. ~ Chris Kluwe, #NFDB
688:A part of her, the female, horny part she generally tried to ignore, sat up and took notice when he smiled, the shameless hussy. ~ Lexi George, #NFDB
689:I ask you to ignore everything you think you know and to listen only to your heart, without doubting anything. Can you do that? ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
690:It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
691:Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments. ~ Patrick Cockburn, #NFDB
692:Mimir sighed foam. “My regular minions never ask so many questions.” Blitz coughed. “Actually, we do, boss. You just ignore us. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
693:She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close. ~ Michael Schmicker, #NFDB
694:The human capacity to ignore facts and believe what they wanted to believe was a continued source of amazement and frustration ~ Craig Alanson, #NFDB
695:This is what greed does to humans, Abel thinks. It makes them ignore the love they have in favor of what they can never attain. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
696:Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO IGNORE THE WOLF AT THE DOOR. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
697:We don’t forget things, OK? We just choose to ignore them. Can you accept responsibility for your memory lapse and move on? ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
698:I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
699:I may be an angel, but I am not a saint.
My role is not to stoically ignore evil,
but to get close to it, then destroy it. ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
700:It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
701:Mothers are hormonally wired to respond to, not ignore, their baby’s cries. (Fathers, take note: You can’t argue with biology!) ~ William Sears, #NFDB
702:Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it ~ Unknown, #NFDB
703:(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
704:We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.' ~ Betty Friedan, #NFDB
705:We work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess—our emotions. ~ Karla McLaren, #NFDB
706:why can’t I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It’s hard enough just to do that in this world. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
707:You ignore the doubter but try to solve the doubts.
Hold on to the doubter and the doubts will disappear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 238,#NFDB
708:You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much. ~ Edward M Hallowell, #NFDB
709:After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! ~ Wes Scoop Nisker, #NFDB
710:As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
711:Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
712:He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
713:Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to ignore risks that threaten their livelihood, as though this will make them go away. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
714:Ignore that guy,” I said, pointing down. “He’s always intruding on my conversations and poking his head in where he’s not wanted. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
715:Never let it be said I’m not an equal opportunity insubordinate: I ignore my own advice just as often as I ignore anyone else’s. ~ Curtis C Chen, #NFDB
716:So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
717:the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
718:There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
719:There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
720:A book alone isn't always enough to get people to ignore you, but a book and headphones? Well, you might as well be a ghost. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
721:He tried to ignore the cacophony of problemrelated thoughts his restless mind was crapping out like stream of consciousness diarrhea. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
722:L'élément tragique pour l'homme moderne, ce n'est pas qu'il ignore
le sens de sa vie, mais que ça le dérange de moins en moins. ~ V clav Havel,#NFDB
723:Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
724:Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority. ~ Grant Cardone, #NFDB
725:Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars. ~ John O Callaghan, #NFDB
726:The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
727:There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
728:Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
729:But it is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
730:Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~ Steve HarveySteve Harvey ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
731:If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
732:I ignore the headlines. Italy is a nice place to eat dinner and sight see but I’m not going to ever think again about their debt. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
733:In times of despair, it’s best to ignore our feelings and simply do what God tells us to do, leaving the consequences with Him. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
734:Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don't invite any parts of them into your space. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
735:That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
736:There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
737:There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
738:The wise attend to the inner truth of things
and are not fooled by outward appearances.
They ignore matter and seek the spirit. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
739:When you don’t care, when you’re wrapped up in your own selfishness, man’s inhumanity to man becomes that much easier to ignore. ~ Steve Dublanica, #NFDB
740:Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
741:Would I feed chocolate to a dog? Ignore the fact that I fed chocolate to a werewolf last night. That’s not the same thing at ~ Meghan Ciana Doidge, #NFDB
742:You can only ignore the call so many times before you know it’s time to go.
Life is spreading her legs for me.
I’m going in. ~ Karina Halle,#NFDB
743:Blay thought of the text that he didn’t intend to ignore. “You suck.” “Yes, I do, don’t I.” Qhuinn licked his lips. “And you like me to. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
744:Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. ~ Merlin Mann, #NFDB
745:Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before. ~ Iain Banks, #NFDB
746:I’ve been told that conscience speaks in a small voice at the back of the mind, clear to some, to others muffled and easy to ignore ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
747:Look for affirmation from everyone around you. Ignore your own sorrows, passions, and music. Whine about how nobody understands you. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
748:Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
749:That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
750:That's one thing earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
751:Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
752:In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
753:It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
754:Lionpaw glared over his shoulder at the three cats, wishing he could ignore the stupid truce and rip a piece of fur from each of them. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
755:There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
756:To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry. ~ Antonin Scalia, #NFDB
757:X isn’t a pillar of Islam; ignore it.”
Neither are equality, social justice, human rights, or the many things you place over X. ~ Musa Furber,#NFDB
758:You just keep on talking and ignore me, and I’ll ignore you. Once the coffee hits me just right, I might be able to do the word thing. ~ Aaron Crash, #NFDB
759:I can still be sad. But I don’t have to wallow or completely ignore the good that is still waiting for me. That’s careless and wasteful. ~ Lucy Score, #NFDB
760:If you tell too much too soon, you’ll overload them and they’ll give up. If you confuse them, they’ll ignore the message altogether. ~ Paco Underhill, #NFDB
761:Ignore me.” She held up one of the empty shot glasses. It swayed in her fingers. “It’s the booze.” “If you say so, Princess.” Those ~ Jennifer Dawson, #NFDB
762:It kind of bugs me that we’re supposed to ignore our differences like we don’t see them, when seeing them doesn’t have to be a negative. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
763:Nunca ignore alguém que te ama e se importa com você. Porque um dia você pode perceber que perdeu a lua enquanto contava estrelas. ~ John O Callaghan, #NFDB
764:The flip and twist. No one can ignore the flip and twist. It only happens during certain occasions, and when it happens, you remember it. ~ J Daniels, #NFDB
765:Three of them have the gift of sight but two of them ignore it when what they want most is to believe "this one" will be different. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
766:Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
767:We ignore our bad feelings and inner demons because it’s easier, which leaves these beings free to pull on the puppet strings. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
768:Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
769:Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
770:History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call? ~ Brad Meltzer, #NFDB
771:I don’t get you, Jared. Did you think you could stay here and I’d just ignore you? I care about you.”
“Don’t say that,” he whispered ~ A L Jackson,#NFDB
772:Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do. ~ Nancy Moser, #NFDB
773:I think it's exactly like that. When you think you can't do it anymore. You have to ignore it and keep going. Trust in your training. ~ Amy Jo Cousins, #NFDB
774:It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now. ~ Greg Nickels, #NFDB
775:They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
776:Those who imagine that they can discover special gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s will and his grace. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
777:Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
778:You can ignore a giant wave and you can ignore a giant idea but you will be ignored by them too, like a dust ignored by the wind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
779:But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
780:Deflate your head a little and don’t ignore what’s right in front of you by thinking you can eliminate everything that sneaks up behind you ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
781:I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
782:Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
783:There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
784:Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
785:When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike. ~ Russell Banks, #NFDB
786:A crowd of people driven by anger or fear to ignore authoritarian hierarchies was not just immune to being shouted at, it was inflamed by ~ Matthew Iden, #NFDB
787:I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust. ~ Isabelle Huppert, #NFDB
788:My real nature, my real self, wanted that person to believe in me, to see the good, ignore the bad, and make me feel like I had a future. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
789:The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
790:The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it. ~ Sam Smith, #NFDB
791:The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
792:The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
793:They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
794:We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it. ~ Martin J Whitman, #NFDB
795:when I became a vegetarian. I missed the steak, although not as much as I’d anticipated, but I could no longer ignore the slaughterhouse. I ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
796:With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
797:I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy. ~ Lauren James, #NFDB
798:I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work. ~ Andrew Dominik, #NFDB
799:Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
800:She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
801:she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
802:They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—the relative you cringe to kiss. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
803:Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them … they may be forced to die by them. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
804:Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart. ~ Katharine McPhee, #NFDB
805:If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no. ~ Billy Eichner, #NFDB
806:If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can’t blame anyone when they don’t turn out right! ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
807:It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
808:Other people will look at you and see only their own shortcomings. Ignore them. You know your way around yourself--that is what matters. ~ G Willow Wilson, #NFDB
809:Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
810:Some friends are gossips and some are sloppy drunks. If you like them well enough, you ignore this trait and continue to be their friend. ~ Jennifer Close, #NFDB
811:They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
812:To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
813:To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
814:We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States. ~ John Yang, #NFDB
815:If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
816:Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
817:It is [every woman’s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality. ~ Lillie Langtry, #NFDB
818:I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction. ~ Rachael Yamagata, #NFDB
819:My advice to anyone who wishes to write is to know all the very best literature by heart, and ignore the rest as completely as possible. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
820:Nope, he changed tactics, because now his lips whispered over mine, nipping and sucking, drawing them apart gently as I tried to ignore him. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
821:Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
822:Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less. ~ John Elder Robison, #NFDB
823:Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
824:to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones—to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
825:We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney, #NFDB
826:And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
827:As for the men in power,
they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they
do their utmost to ignore truth. ~ Boris Pasternak,#NFDB
828:For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
829:Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread. ~ Stifyn Emrys, #NFDB
830:It's a small reminder, but it lingers, and the more I try to ignore the memory, it multiplies into a monster that can no longer be contained. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
831:Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. ~ Howard Gardner, #NFDB
832:The human capacity to ignore facts and believe what they wanted to believe was a continued source of amazement and frustration to Marcellus. ~ Craig Alanson, #NFDB
833:We search for life on others planets and in other regions of our galaxy. Meanwhile we destroy and ignore the other life on this planet. ~ Anthony D Williams, #NFDB
834:Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
835:A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
836:Every now and then in life, a truly serene moment hits where you’re infinitely content with where you are, and the magic is hard to ignore. ~ Melissa Brayden, #NFDB
837:Hum," said Morris, returning the note. "Terrible spelling. And it smells like a trap, you realize?" ''Yes. But I think I dare not ignore it ~ Patricia Veryan, #NFDB
838:Outwardly, the Municipality had come back to life in rather sprightly fashion. You just had to ignore the all pervading air of criminality. ~ Dave Hutchinson, #NFDB
839:The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
840:To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task ~ Etty Hillesum, #NFDB
841:As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on. ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
842:Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
843:Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that. ~ Diana Ross, #NFDB
844:If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
845:I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
846:I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful. ~ Keke Palmer, #NFDB
847:People spend a lot of time thinking about the planets that might orbit all those stars, but they ignore the worlds inside themselves. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson, #NFDB
848:Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
849:start ignoring people who threaten your joy.
literally, ignore them.
say nothing.
don’t invite any parts of them into your space. ~ Alexandra Elle,#NFDB
850:The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
851:You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. ~ Jeph Jacques, #NFDB
852:An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
853:For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it. ~ Edwidge Danticat, #NFDB
854:He was smirking the smirkiest smirk of all smirks to date. I laughed, even that smirk was hard to ignore. F**k, maybe I should call him Mr Smirk. ~ K M Golland, #NFDB
855:I knew this would happen," Marla says. "You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
856:People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
857:People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They ~ Clayton M Christensen, #NFDB
858:Sometimes, we hate ourselves for the feelings we ignore.
Maybe that is the problem; we do not listen to ourselves until it is too late. ~ Robert M Drake,#NFDB
859:Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting, and at the same time, we are all doing more. Consequently, ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
860:When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk. ~ Caroline Glick, #NFDB
861:Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
862:Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
863:I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. ~ Silvia Colloca, #NFDB
864:I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right. ~ A S King, #NFDB
865:In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~ Benoit Denizet Lewis, #NFDB
866:I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter. ~ Yayoi Kusama, #NFDB
867:I’ve been able to block things out for so long. Ignore emotions. Ignore everything, but you? You tear down walls I didn’t even know I was building. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
868:Luke, some truly idiotic people have said some truly inspired things. Are we supposed to ignore their words because they couldn't live up to them? ~ Antony John, #NFDB
869:Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
870:Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
871:because she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
872:He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety. ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
873:I took it as a sign. As a rule, I never ignore Allah’s signs, I catch them the first time around because who knows if Allah will warn you twice. ~ Sister Souljah, #NFDB
874:She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
875:She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
876:she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. Anyway, ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
877:Sky, you can't ignore this!" He stood under the street lamp, sleet settling in his hair, hands fisted at his side. "You're mine - you have to be. ~ Joss Stirling, #NFDB
878:But you know, the word ignorance has an even more important word at its heart: ignore. And I don’t think it’s right to ignore the truth any longer. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
879:Cheesy lines like that will get you nowhere with me, but, by all means, keep them coming. You're so much easier to ignore when you're being an idiot. ~ Kelly Oram, #NFDB
880:He tried to ignore the feather of longing that tickled his heart. But it kept tickling. Because he hadn't quite made up his mind to stay here. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins, #NFDB
881:In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
882:It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too. ~ Sophie Jordan, #NFDB
883:Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies. ~ Mary Lawson, #NFDB
884:People are more and more clear about their rights and about what they can express,” says Mr Shen. That is a trend the party would ignore at its peril. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
885:Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
886:Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
887:She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
888:You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative. ~ Jerry Rubin, #NFDB
889:Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they ~ Larry Osborne, #NFDB
890:Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. ~ Tim Wise, #NFDB
891:IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED, Livia played a new game every day. It was always some version of “Ignore Chris and Pretend Nothing’s Wrong With That. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
892:Never give other people another reason to ignore other animals. That's what we do when we come across as being so much better than the next guy or gal. ~ Tom Regan, #NFDB
893:She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
894:Why do the survivors remain anonymous—as if cursed—while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold? ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
895:Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possible. ~ Gary Gygax, #NFDB
896:If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
897:I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
898:I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
899:Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend following a good name! ~ Michael Covel, #NFDB
900:Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
901:Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
902:The worst kind of sad is the sad where you try to ignore it and then it gets so bad that one day you just breakdown. And you cant take anything anymore. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
903:To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
904:We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore. ~ Daniel Craig, #NFDB
905:Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it! ~ John C Reilly, #NFDB
906:All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
907:If a person knows not that he knows not, ignore him. If he knows that he knows not, go teach him. If he knows that he knows, go learn from him. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
908:I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore ~ Cristina Henriquez, #NFDB
909:It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway. ~ Felix Buxton, #NFDB
910:learned decades ago that if I ignore my inspired calling, my life is bumpy. When I decide to follow my inspiration, life is smooth. I prefer the latter. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
911:The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don’t ignore it or allow others to talk you out of it. Go get it! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
912:All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
913:By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time. ~ Rosalind Wiseman, #NFDB
914:First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. ~ Nicholson Baker, #NFDB
915:I am still stunned by my capacity to spin Scripture, see what I wanted, ignore what I didn’t, and use the Word to defend my life rather than define it. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
916:If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others.
If you ignore them, you can aim for the stars. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen,#NFDB
917:It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you. ~ Keigo Higashino, #NFDB
918:It’s okay if you don’t like science,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean you can just ignore things you don’t understand. It’ll come back to haunt you. ~ Keigo Higashino, #NFDB
919:No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment. ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB
920:Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life. ~ Bernie Glassman, #NFDB
921:the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the artworks on display, ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
922:We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can. ~ Sabrina Carpenter, #NFDB
923:What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers. ~ James Clavell, #NFDB
924:You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
925:Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
926:Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,#NFDB
927:The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
928:There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ~ Helen Frankenthaler, #NFDB
929:Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance—one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
930:We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science. ~ Eric Schlosser, #NFDB
931:Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual. ~ Beetlejuice, #NFDB
932:When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
933:Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
934:You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel. ~ Ami Ayalon, #NFDB
935:A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, #NFDB
936:Charlie: There's this really neat feature on your phone called, "read receipts." If you're going to ignore texts, you should probably turn that off. ;) ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
937:Fools, he used to say, will ignore whispers until they become shouts. And by the time a whisper is a shout, it’s usually too late to make a difference. ~ Scott Reintgen, #NFDB
938:I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place. ~ Quinlan Terry, #NFDB
939:If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
940:If your heart is racing, slow your breathing. Don't ignore your body just because your mind is scared. Your mind is a tool that can bring your body peace. ~ Hannah Hart, #NFDB
941:I spend all my time thinking things through. It’s acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore? ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
942:I wish somebody had told them all to go fill up a bunch of pages with blah-blah-blah and just publish it, for heaven’s sake, and ignore the outcome. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
943:J'ignore ce que c'est une dépression nerveuse, parce que pour moi c'est l'état normal de l'humanité."
- Vingt questions à Romain Gary - L'affaire homme ~ Romain Gary,#NFDB
944:Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them. ~ Kesha, #NFDB
945:One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
946:Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
947:sometimes you have to live your life with the motto...#NoRegrets. Sometimes you have to ignore the way people perceive you and do what you feel is right. ~ Meghan Quinn, #NFDB
948:Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
949:We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright. ~ Alan Weisman, #NFDB
950:You don't have to like your teacher. [...] But that woman's got the kind of math in her head that you need in yours. Focus on that and ignore the rest. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
951:All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
952:Ann grinned. “The more powerful people are, the more they ignore the little people.” Senator Bechtel chuckled. “And the little people all have eyes and ears. ~ D F Capps, #NFDB
953:for the public, it seemed, preferred to believe that which disturbed it least and to ignore troublesome information. Which is a failing common to all nations. ~ M M Kaye, #NFDB
954:From a young age I had learned to get over—to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
955:He’d make sure to impress upon the wench his displeasure with her actions if only she weren’t being so completely childish as to ignore him all morning. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt, #NFDB
956:I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
957:If you choose to ignore these factors, good luck to you. A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
958:Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. ~ Tim Waterstone, #NFDB
959:It must be that sometimes our assertions about higher order and hidden design are fables we’ve made up to help us ignore our own contingency. Accidents tear ~ Lewis Hyde, #NFDB
960:My philosophy in gadgets is simple: Use them until they fall apart. Ignore new models as long as you can; they're a plot to separate you from your money. ~ Jessica Zafra, #NFDB
961:Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today’s world are the result of such neglect. Not ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
962:We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or lots of pieces, it's all part of the paradox. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
963:What chest?’ I said, because everyone knows if you ignore persistent, throbbing pain then it goes away. Like toothache. And small children. And overdrafts. ~ Jodi Taylor, #NFDB
964:Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
965:and sensed a side of him that she’d been happy to ignore before—that of a solemn, desperate boy whose very desperation made people want to avoid him. ~ Matthew J Sullivan, #NFDB
966:From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
967:I don’t know how to feel about it, and I don’t like things I don’t know, so mostly I’m just trying to ignore it. Compartmentalize. I’m good at that shit. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
968:Maybe the keyword was “trying” to ignore the curve of her breasts, which appeared fuller than I’d expected. I was a total fucking creep sometimes. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
969:Our eyes lock and that tension and heat I’m always trying to ignore crackles between us.
She’s going to ruin me, I’m sure.
For once I might not mind. ~ Karina Halle,#NFDB
970:Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
971:They have alls these laws and social boundaries to keep the worst of them in check. The problem is, villains and bullies just ignore that kind of thing. ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
972:This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
973:We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
974:You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN) ~ Ann B Keller, #NFDB
975:If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
976:I know you can hear me. I’m sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him.” “That’s usually what we do,” said the other feminine voice. Cress ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
977:The lesson is that the medium is not the message, that we must not ignore uncomfortable truths just because they come through an unimpressive messenger. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
978:The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
979:There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
980:2 Note: If you’re ever trapped with me in a burning building, and I suggest an idea for how we could escape the situation, it’s probably best to ignore me. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
981:A Greek proverb says that a truth spoken before its time is dangerous. Ignore this thought; tell the truth everywhere and anytime! Let it be dangerous! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
982:Change is inevitable,” Stubin said. “You can’t ignore technology.” “Ignoring it and choosing not to embrace it are two different things, I think,” Josh said. ~ Jack Kilborn, #NFDB
983:Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
984:For they deliberately ignore this fact, that long ago there were heavens and an earth standing firmly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
985:I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
986:I shut the door behind me, headed over to my desk and slipped into my new leather chair. The leather made rude noises that we both thought best to ignore. “Wait, ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
987:I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me. ~ Lauren London, #NFDB
988:I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time. ~ Ellen Goodman, #NFDB
989:like Niemöller said, if you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest. ~ Rysa Walker, #NFDB
990:...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
991:Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
992:We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death. ~ Ted Trainer, #NFDB
993:You live for it. Like falling in love, moments that announce themselves as your subject are rare, and there's a magic to them. Ignore them at your own peril. ~ Dani Shapiro, #NFDB
994:Every day, I try to ignore my attraction to you. Every…damn…day. I tell myself I’m over you and can’t have these feelings, but it doesn’t help. Nothing helps. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
995:HAPPY SURVIVAL MOTIVES Dopamine: seek rewards Endorphin: ignore physical pain Oxytocin: build social alliances Serotonin: get respect from others ~ Loretta Graziano Breuning, #NFDB
996:If you gotta climb a tree to get an apple, you pick the nicest looking one you can reach. If the apple’s dropped into your lap, you ignore the spots and eat it. ~ D J Molles, #NFDB
997:I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.” Attavio ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
998:In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.
Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out. ~ Chitralekha Paul,#NFDB
999:No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best. ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
1000:The NSA knows about ghosts,” I assure her. “Some of their recording equipment is sensitive enough to pick us up. They just ignore us and hope we’ll go away. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1001:Beauty had a horrible power. It did not conceal faults so much as it persuaded the viewer to ignore them, and to disregard the instinct that screamed danger. ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
1002:I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1003:I couldn’t stop thinking about what he’d said. How had a teenage guy figured out what I worked hard to ignore? All in the span of a couple of conversations? ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
1004:If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1005:I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1006:I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is. ~ Rae Carson, #NFDB
1007:I've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow. ~ Cory Bernardi, #NFDB
1008:Sometimes the very loved ones who seem to be causing all our problems are just calling attention to deeper issues the rest of the family would rather ignore. ~ Koren Zailckas, #NFDB
1009:To steady our nerves To ignore what disturbs or limits others To place things in perspective To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1010:We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. . . ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1011:Animals loved that guy, especially dogs, who didn’t hold grudges and didn’t care how screwed up a human was. They’d ignore your faults and love you just the same. ~ M D Massey, #NFDB
1012:That doesn’t mean I want to rub my scars in people’s faces. I’m not that insensitive or naive. I know they’re hard to look at. They’re even harder to ignore. ~ Charmaine Pauls, #NFDB
1013:The government’s beating us down, and it all begins with those goddamn lines in the parking lot. Set yourself free, my brother. If you see a line, ignore it. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
1014:The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption. ~ Sheherazade Goldsmith, #NFDB
1015:We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1016:You ignore traffic lights, speed limits, and social niceties. It has an illicit, energizing feel not unlike being in a major city during a blackout or a blizzard. ~ Dan Harris, #NFDB
1017:A church can ignore the culture only until, as the divorce culture did in the past, that culture reshapes the church in a way that obscures the gospel itself. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
1018:Agree with the positive; ignore the negative was the rule. Don’t volunteer anything from your personal life, and never express a political opinion, even if asked. ~ Terrie Todd, #NFDB
1019:Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1020:If you can say without a doubt, “I really like this!” no matter what anyone else says, and if you like yourself for having it, then ignore what other people think. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
1021:I know I’m asking a lot, but I need for you to be able to ignore me when I’m pissed and saying shit that hurts you. I’ll try like hell not to do it, but I know me. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
1022:I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
1023:Life was, in short, ridiculously easy and for a while at least they were able to cope with the problems of aimlessness and isolation by deciding to ignore them. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1024:The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1025:WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE. ~ Jenny Holzer,#NFDB
1026:[…] either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1027:having a relationship with God still takes work on our part. If you ignore it long enough, it will wither and die. I’m talking about on the human end, not God’s. ~ Lynette Eason, #NFDB
1028:How beautifully blind are we to ignore the smallest things in us, for it is the smallest parts in us, that give us the power to do the most brilliant of things. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
1029:However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions. ~ Ed Koch, #NFDB
1030:I think when you get tired of something or someone annoys you, there's two things you can do. You can ignore it and keep going, or you can stand up and say stop. ~ Kevin Garnett, #NFDB
1031:It’s like Niemöller said, if you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest. ~ Rysa Walker, #NFDB
1032:Mary is…different to me. I’m not going to pretend I understand why. All I know is, she’s a pounding in my chest that I can’t ignore…hell, that I don’t want to ignore. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1033:One day we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1034:She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1035:She... tried to ignore what Aeron's presence did to her. What both of them did to her. Especially when they were watching her with barely concealed hunger. ... ~ Savannah Stuart, #NFDB
1036:There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1037:The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
1038:A few of the Japanese tourists looked over and then quickly away. I was a foreigner, so they made it their business to politely ignore the shenanigans I was causing. ~ Amanda Sun, #NFDB
1039:As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless. ~ Lydia Davis, #NFDB
1040:Because it is our nature to attach great significance to the patterns we witness, we ignore the things we cannot see and make deductions and predictions accordingly. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1041:Because our hearts are frivolous and because we ignore our faults we never discover the sickness in our souls, but idly we laugh when we have full reason to weep. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1042:...either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business... ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1043:He grabbed it back and my fingernails dug in to his hand as I pried the device away from him, trying to ignore this blissful pussy party going on in my panties. ~ Vanessa Fewings, #NFDB
1044:I’d made a plan: I would follow this road wherever it led me. I’d ignore all the others that crossed its path, no matter how intriguing or promising they looked. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1045:Oh, no you fucking don’t. You do not ignore me for five weeks, rub your toe in the dirt and say you need something from me, then bail when I bleed off some hurt. ~ Heidi Cullinan, #NFDB
1046:People say actions speak louder than words, but sometimes it’s the words that hurt the most. Actions are easy to ignore, but words hit you right where it hurts. ~ Sudeep Nagarkar, #NFDB
1047:She knows in her heart that it doesn't work like this. That misfortune doesn't give you the right to disregard others, ignore the rules, tell lies and half-truths. ~ Emily Giffin, #NFDB
1048:Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into a Lamaru hangout, right? ~ Stacia Kane, #NFDB
1049:The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
1050:we don’t need to outsmart everyone else. We need to stick to our investment discipline, ignore the actions of others, and stop listening to the so-called experts. ~ James Montier, #NFDB
1051:Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work. ~ Dave Sim, #NFDB
1052:How much weirder, thought Kline, is it possible for my life to get? And then he pushed the thought down and tried to ignore it, afraid of what the answer might be. ~ Brian Evenson, #NFDB
1053:I think it would be extremely helpful if people focused on the ideas being discussed here, rather than on calling you names—which is an easy way to ignore your ideas. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1054:Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
1055:Puck Connolly,” says the old man. “Don’t be looking at him like that.” Such a statement is too tantalizing to ignore. “Who is he?” “Lord, that’s Sean Kendrick, ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1056:The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison. ~ Vikas Swarup, #NFDB
1057:Dead people, dead ideas and supposedly dead moments are never really dead and they shape every moment of our lives. We ignore them and this makes them powerful. ~ Caitl n R Kiernan, #NFDB
1058:Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you.” To ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1059:I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910 ~ Ed Bearss, #NFDB
1060:It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1061:THE MISCONCEPTION: If you can’t trust someone, you should ignore that person’s claims. THE TRUTH: What someone says and why they say it should be judged separately. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
1062:We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future. ~ Thomas Traherne, #NFDB
1063:Here its stock-in-trade was ironies, coincidences, and the only true portents: those that revealed themselves, unmistakable and impossible to ignore, in retrospect. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
1064:I'd grown used to all the voices inside of my head and knew which ones to pay attention to and which ones to ignore. The same went for all the voices outside of my head ~ Ingrid Law, #NFDB
1065:Im used to being adored, but i have no interest in being adored. If you want me to fall in love with you, ignore me, pique my interest by being completely uninterested. ~ Jane Green, #NFDB
1066:It is the physicians who are psychologically disturbed because they ignore the data, and whatever data there is, they manipulate it to say what they want it to say. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
1067:September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1068:That was totally his fault-Kenji's.. He tried to cross on red.. You ignore the signal, you'll get hurt. every kindergartener knows.. red means stop."
-Slam Dunk ~ Takehiko Inoue,#NFDB
1069:We can't cure our narcissism by trying to ignore ourselves. The solution is to stare at God. When we actually stare at Him, everything else fades to its proper place. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1070:We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1071:Ailleurs, bien loin d'ici ! trop tard ! jamais peut-être !
Car j'ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais,
Ô toi que j'eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais ! ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB
1072:Find out why you’re after what you’re after. Ignore those who mess with your pace. Let them covet what you have, not the other way around. Because that’s independence. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1073:It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1074:Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies. ~ John Paul DeJoria, #NFDB
1075:read Margaret Heffernan’s book Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril and Liz Wiseman’s Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. To ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
1076:She would want me to forget all about him. But how could eyes not notice the light? How could lungs not acknowledge the air? There are just some things you can't ignore. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1077:The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1078:The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1079:We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike. ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
1080:Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1081:I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. ~ Rosario Dawson, #NFDB
1082:It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1083:I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1084:Markets can’t thrive and serve the common good without the constructive role of government. This is what conservatives ignore when they speak of the “free market.” THE ~ George Lakoff, #NFDB
1085:Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you. ~ Nadia Lee, #NFDB
1086:Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
1087:Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
1088:The heart can ignore the mind. Happens all the time. But the mind cannot ignore the heart. I tried, believe me. Doesn’t work. The heart rules when the mind is in doubt. ~ Marilyn Grey, #NFDB
1089:We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest. ~ Vince Staples, #NFDB
1090:When your target is too far away from you, you can make the distance shorter by ignoring the distance! When you ignore the difficulties, you obtain a great power! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1091:Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
1092:Ah well. When in Vegas, ignore the douches, let the good times roll, and always carry a spare set of panties in your purse, just in case. That’s what Mom used to tell me. ~ Lila Monroe, #NFDB
1093:It seems the older people get, the more shit they ignore. Or, like Dad, they pay attention to stuff that distracts them from the more important things that they’re ignoring. ~ A S King, #NFDB
1094:I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1095:Jennifer can no longer ignore the personal connection. Is there a copycat killer at work? Was the wrong man convicted? Or is there something more sinister at play … ~ Caroline Mitchell, #NFDB
1096:Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you. ~ Brian Michael Bendis, #NFDB
1097:The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas. ~ Gary Younge, #NFDB
1098:the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1099:We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
1100:We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1101:You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1102:College is an amazing experience, but it’s up to you to ignore the drama and focus on the good. Avoid silly boys, ignore spiteful girls, and don’t be afraid to have fun. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
1103:he smiled easily, drawing out a blush from Jaidyn. Yeah, Julieta figured he had that effect on most women. He was all boyish charm but with an edge that was hard to ignore. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
1104:How many times do I have to tell you not to call me Gingersnap?”
… “I hear every word, Gingersnap. I just choose to ignore the shit you say that doesn’t work for me. ~ Harper Kincaid,#NFDB
1105:If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1106:I’ve been able to block things out for so long. Ignore emotions. Ignore everything, but you? You tear down walls I didn’t even know I was building. You make me feel, Rylee. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
1107:La virtud, habrá aún quien lo ignore, siempre encuentra escollos en el durísimo camino a la perfección, pero el pecado y el vicio se ven tan favorecidos por la fortuna... ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1108:Well if you're going to ignore the fact that most of those women chose to die rather than do what other people told them to, then I think you're pretty close to blasphemy. ~ Katie Henry, #NFDB
1109:we train ourselves to ignore the constant impulses to be more comfortable, and we dive into reality instead. The irony of it is that real peace comes only when you ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB
1110:What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?
And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice? ~ Laini Taylor,#NFDB
1111:As an investor, you have one powerful way to keep from getting distressed by devilish Mr. Market: Ignore him. Just buy and hold one of the broad-based index funds that ~ Burton G Malkiel, #NFDB
1112:He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
1113:He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn’t quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
1114:I Ignore the unwelcome stab of disappointment. Why do I want to spend every single minute with this controlling sex god? Oh yes, I've fallen in love with him, and he can fly. ~ E L James, #NFDB
1115:Storytellers lie was right up there at the top of Johnnyboy's rules-to-live-by list with Ignore heroes and Never make decisions based on fear. ~ Thorn Kief Hillsbery, #NFDB
1116:Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1117:What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1118:You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore. ~ Adam Ross, #NFDB
1119:Your emotions make you human, Elias said to me weeks ago in the Serran Range. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
1120:Given any rule, however fundamental or necessary for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. ~ Paul Feyerabend, #NFDB
1121:His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned. ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
1122:I’d managed to ignore how the ceremony would take away the boy I knew for ever and also the fierce warrior girl who had loved him. It already had. Those children were gone. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1123:If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word equilibrium, or normal distribution, do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1124:Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress. ~ Walter E Williams, #NFDB
1125:My friend Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, famously said: If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, ignore them. ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB
1126:The only consistent response for a relativist is, "Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me. ~ Gregory Koukl, #NFDB
1127:There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1128:We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse. ~ E D Hirsch Jr, #NFDB
1129:We may think that if we ignore our fears, they’ll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1130:We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #NFDB
1131:We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people. ~ Ismail Haniyeh, #NFDB
1132:FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE. ~ Jenny Holzer,#NFDB
1133:I like gay men who don’t hate women, and I don’t mind being around rich white people, because there’s plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans. ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
1134:I think it would be extremely helpful if people focused on the ideas being discussed here, rather than on calling you names—which is an easy way to ignore your ideas. Besides, ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1135:It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1136:I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans. ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
1137:Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1138:Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else. ~ Keith Murray, #NFDB
1139:Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice? ~ Ward Churchill, #NFDB
1140:Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
1141:Don’t let foolish assumptions about what’s appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he’s the perfect age for you. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
1142:He’d look his fill of her creamy breasts every opportunity he got. To ignore their perfection would just be rude. Like staring at your shoes while walking through an art museum. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1143:I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do. ~ Bryce Pinkham, #NFDB
1144:I think so,” I said, trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then, before I could think about it, or analyze, or consider what I was doing, I leaned over and kissed him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1145:It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without ever having taken hallucinogens, an incomplete experience. ~ Stuart Rojstaczer, #NFDB
1146:I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts. ~ Ledisi, #NFDB
1147:John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan. ~ Steve Schmidt, #NFDB
1148:perhaps because we have at present no coherent world view, there is a widespread tendency to ignore the psychological and social importance of such questions almost altogether. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1149:Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
1150:Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we ignore this plain fact. ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
1151:Selling your company to the media is a necessary part of selling it to everyone else. Nerds who instinctively mistrust the media often make the mistake of trying to ignore it. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1152:The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them as they are about us. ~ Kenneth M Pollack, #NFDB
1153:When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics. ~ Bianca Jagger, #NFDB
1154:When you put yourself out there, a lot of people will reject, dismiss, or ignore you. But a few will embrace and champion you. While the nos may sting, only the yeses matter. ~ Jessica Hagy, #NFDB
1155:Haters' don't hate you, they hate self and project the energy outward because there is no courage to confront internal fears. Therefore, ignore hate or else it becomes you, also. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
1156:I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it. ~ Veerappa Moily, #NFDB
1157:if the fires at your start-up are burning money but not touching the customer, and if you’re able to afford the waste, you might be able to literally buy time and ignore them. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
1158:One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely. Sometimes ~ Timothy Zahn, #NFDB
1159:Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
1160:When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it. ~ Roberto Orci, #NFDB
1161:[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood. ~ Galileo Galilei, #NFDB
1162:I chose not to care. And if it scared me at first how easy it was to make myself feel differently about something by simply deciding it, I decided I could ignore that too. ~ Greer Macallister, #NFDB
1163:If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1164:It takes real guts to ignore or even alienate 93% of customers, focusing instead on the 7% of the market that is fanatical about you and willing to put up with the trade-offs. ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
1165:I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1166:One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1167:This is rape culture - this tendency for good men, the kind of men who say they're outraged by rape, to repeatedly ignore and maybe even support the behaviors that excuse rape. ~ Patty Blount, #NFDB
1168:To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
1169:A clock is a valuable possession, not only as a means of telling time, but also as something to ignore on particularly beautiful days.” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2002. ~ Nathan Van Coops, #NFDB
1170:Ignore the past all you want, Nico, but eventually its going to make you pay attention. Why not face it on your own terms instead of waiting for it to destroy you? - Raven Black ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
1171:One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1172:One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
1173:The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” And the longer we cling to our beliefs, the harder it is to let them go (even when presented with evidence to the contrary). The ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
1174:We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests! ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1175:ADVANCED STRATEGIES Many people ignore the whole DM thing altogether, and never even open their DM inbox. This is a valid strategy which increases your safety and saves you time. ~ Rayne Hall, #NFDB
1176:I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1177:It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it. ~ J Irwin Miller, #NFDB
1178:Listen to your inner callings, ignore how others might want to direct your life energies, and allow yourself to radiate outward what you feel so profoundly and deeply within you. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1179:Or how, for that matter, will hitting another person in the face stop the blood gushing from your own nose? I tried to suck it up and act like the pain was easy to ignore. She ~ Miroslav Penkov, #NFDB
1180:Sometimes we can thank our feelings for sharing and ignore them. Maybe wanting doesn’t have to perfectly coincide with getting. Maybe sometimes not-getting has a value of its own. ~ Ada Calhoun, #NFDB
1181:A commitment to integrity and a higher loyalty to truth are what separate the ethical leader from those who just happen to occupy leadership roles. We cannot ignore the difference. ~ James Comey, #NFDB
1182:But the truth of the matter—as I’ve come to understand it—is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It’s better to not be thirsty. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1183:Drinking in his scent, I curl around him, trying to ignore the loss and devasta- tion I felt in my dream, and in that moment, I know that my deepest, darkest fear would be losing him ~ E L James, #NFDB
1184:I couldn’t ignore my own name. Worse, it seemed I was the only one that had heard it. That, combined with the mist, could mean only one thing. A ghost. I half turned in my seat, ~ Leighann Dobbs, #NFDB
1185:If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1186:It is easy to understand why dreamers tend to ignore and even deny the message of their dreams. Consciousness naturally resists anything unconscious and unknown. ~ Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols, #NFDB
1187:I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.' ~ Troy Polamalu, #NFDB
1188:Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him. ~ Leon Trotsky, #NFDB
1189:Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But at other times it was like a cup that was always full and kept spilling over. ~ Lydia Davis, #NFDB
1190:The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB
1191:An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
1192:Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1193:Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him."
"That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
1194:I see myself beneath her.
Being taken and made love to.
I feel her.
I know her.
Taste her champagne mouth.
Ignore the ugly teeth.
Just shut my eyes and taste her. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
1195:Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1196:These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1197:Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. ~ Naomi Wolf, #NFDB
1198:Dare to rise, when all voices behind you say you can’t get there, ignore them and move on… it’s not about the talents and gifts you have; it’s about how wise you optimize them! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1199:Love happens. It’s what you do with it that matters. If you embrace it, it will give you a joy you have never known was possible. If you ignore it, it has the power to haunt you. ~ Kathleen Brooks, #NFDB
1200:Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ~ Queen Elizabeth II, #NFDB
1201:One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
1202:One often tends to be the most assertive when one knows the least. The listeners who know the truth ignore you, whereas those who do not, feel awed by your confidence and assertiveness. ~ Samarpan, #NFDB
1203:Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control. ~ Karen Traviss, #NFDB
1204:Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1205:There’s no denying where denial leads if we ignore data. The good news, dare I say the great news, is this: Data kills denial, which prevents disaster. But only if you’ll listen to it. ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
1206:We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. ~ Diane Watson, #NFDB
1207:116. "To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
1208:After all, how we experience the world is through communications and collaboration. If we are interested in machines that work with us, then we can’t ignore the humanistic approach. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
1209:Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form. ~ Alasdair Gray, #NFDB
1210:Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. ~ Brando Skyhorse, #NFDB
1211:if only we were crazy enough to be willing to ignore our mechanical and static perceptions we’d know that a half-filled coffee cup holds more secrets than, say, the Grand Canyon. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1212:If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1213:I totally ignore people who criticize me for coming to Israel, including whats-his-name [Roger Waters]. If he were to contact me, I would tell him to tell it where the sun don't shine. ~ Ian Gillan, #NFDB
1214:Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ~ Barbara Jordan, #NFDB
1215:My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am. ~ Harrison Salisbury, #NFDB
1216:Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we ignore this plain fact. History ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
1217:The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
1218:The united nations is the most concentrated assault on moral reality in the history of free institutions, and it does not do to ignore that fact or, worse, to get used to it. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
1219:While the gospel is certainly about new, abundant life in Christ now, not just in heaven, we should neither ignore nor scoff at the fact that it results in salvation (see Romans 1:16). ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
1220:Divine Mother, My giant enemy ego is sitting directly in my path and will not let me pass. In what manner should I fight him?
Ignore him and go through.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#NFDB
1221:Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly. ~ Beverly Jenkins, #NFDB
1222:Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs. ~ Imogen Binnie, #NFDB
1223:Eventually you can’t help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs. ~ Imogen Binnie, #NFDB
1224:Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time. ~ Rebecca Stead, #NFDB
1225:Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time. ~ Rebecca Stead, #NFDB
1226:You want to ignore it and leave things in the past. But you're always going to be scared that I can't love you through anything if you don't give me the chance to prove that I will. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
1227:Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom. ~ Lionel Robbins Baron Robbins, #NFDB
1228:Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1229:Hoping doesn’t mean I put myself in harm’s way. It doesn’t mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God’s sovereignty. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1230:I knew it the moment I saw the scar, saw the flatness behind her eyes, like a pool that has lost all its depth.
Either she doesn’t detect the challenge or she chooses to ignore it. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1231:In play pairs, even among children as young as two and a half, boys pay attention to protests from other boys. But when girls tell boys to stop doing something, the boys ignore them.9 ~ Valerie Young, #NFDB
1232:Kyra stood atop the grassy knoll, the frozen ground hard beneath her boots, snow falling around her, and tried to ignore the biting cold as she raised her bow and focused on her target. ~ Morgan Rice, #NFDB
1233:Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1234:She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness. ~ Margo Lanagan, #NFDB
1235:What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
1236:When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
1237:CUTHBERT: So we're going to sit here and ignore the reason that you've chained me to the bed while Armageddon goes on around us? ASHTON: (Apologetically) I figured we could play checkers? ~ Alan Ryker, #NFDB
1238:Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore. ~ Scott Weiss, #NFDB
1239:I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store. ~ Tyler Florence, #NFDB
1240:If things are not what they seem—and we are forever reminded that this is the case—then it must also be observed that enough of us ignore this truth to keep the world from collapsing. ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
1241:I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it. ~ Babatunde Adebimpe, #NFDB
1242:It is not sufficient to deny or ignore evil; it must be understood. It is not enough to pray to God to remove the evil; you must find out why it is there, and what lesson it has for you. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
1243:The Alar tale illustrates a basic limitation in the ability of our mind to deal with small risks: we either ignore them altogether or give them far too much weight—nothing in between ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1244:This is the problem with danger, isn't it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1245:War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1246:We ignore familiar patterns in ordinary contexts, so much so that we forget large portions of our days, which are spent doing routine things like brushing our teeth or getting dressed. ~ Bruce D Perry, #NFDB
1247:All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1248:her mother had never done what was expected of her, had seemed determined to ignore proprieties. In so doing she had broken the glass ceiling. And it was not all that she had broken. ~ Brian McGilloway, #NFDB
1249:It didn’t do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate—they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1250:It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
1251:Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago. ~ Philip Jenkins, #NFDB
1252:Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
1253:Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1254:To reach that conclusion, testing advocates had to ignore all sorts of experiences that could influence the scores—especially those in early childhood, when the brain is still developing. ~ Carl Zimmer, #NFDB
1255:To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact. ~ Edward W Said, #NFDB
1256:What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings and only bully and deceive them, the results will be negative. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1257:Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have. ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB
1258:Yeah, I did. And get ready, because I’m gonna ignore this one, too.” His jaw tightened and his eyes were pure and determined. “Go and put up your walls, Payton. They don’t stop me.” They ~ Nikki Sloane, #NFDB
1259:You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will even miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1260:Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1261:For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them. ~ Anthony Green, #NFDB
1262:I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sent me those pictures. (I'm very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.) ~ Gabourey Sidibe, #NFDB
1263:I understand, trust me, and it’s a noble pursuit. But I don’t believe you can improve humanity’s future by being so obsessed with your work that you ignore the human beings around you. ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
1264:Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself. ~ Pseudonymous Bosch, #NFDB
1265:These comments are so noisy that we learn to ignore them. As we read through code, our eyes simply skip over them. Eventually the comments begin to lie as the code around them changes. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
1266:The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
1267:We have to recover personal authority because the din and demand of the world is too huge to ignore, too intrusive to resist, even if we think we have rebelled and held to our own course. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1268:When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1269:For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that. ~ Jimmi Simpson, #NFDB
1270:They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1271:Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don’t act like a bully. Don’t hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live… ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
1272:You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way. ~ Aaron Rose, #NFDB
1273:I think there are only two ways to live in this place,’ said Sister Philippa, ‘you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it. ~ Rumer Godden, #NFDB
1274:The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple. ~ Byron Dorgan, #NFDB
1275:The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1276:This wasn’t about truth at all. The court didn’t want truth, the king didn’t want truth. Any truth I could give them, they could ignore as easily as the rest. It wouldn’t change their minds. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
1277:When I'm arguing with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, I'm going to tell him to ignore the Books Read column, and focus on the Books Bought instead. "This is *really* who I am," I'll tell him. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1278:You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
1279:America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1280:But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. ~ Roy Barnes, #NFDB
1281:The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition. ~ Mina Loy, #NFDB
1282:We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB
1283:You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co-exist with your present. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1284:You need your beauty sleep for tomorrow"
she tells us "don't stay up too late talking"
We ignore her of course.The whole point of a sleepover is to stay up too late talking. ~ Heather Vogel Frederick,#NFDB
1285:All these revisionist histories completely ignore the growing body of careful scholarship that shows there were a very large number of eyewitnesses to Jesus’s life who lived on for years. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1286:Don’t be scared... Be positive... Please don’t think that your life is about to end... Take the right advice and act as soon as you can... If there’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it. ~ Yuvraj Singh, #NFDB
1287:During this time I learned the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1288:Garan was not married, but that did not make him childless. Fire tried to ignore her own involuntary flash of resentment at the majority of humanity who had children as a matter of course. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1289:He was irresistible. Utterly charming and sexy and magnetic, and whatever puny power she’d had to ignore him had been well and truly incinerated by their marathon session on Saturday night. ~ Sarah Mayberry, #NFDB
1290:It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1291:I was trying to ignore it, thinking it was just something that would pass.’ ‘Typical bloke.’ ‘Yeah. I would rather die a slow, painful death than go to see a doctor. Eventually, I Googled it, ~ Mark Edwards, #NFDB
1292:Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
1293:Remember that this moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it “represents” or it “means” or “why it happened to you. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1294:Take seriously the criticisms on yourself, then you move forward; ignore the criticisms on yourself, then you move backwards because in every criticism there is at the least some truth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1295:The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril. ~ Simon Cowell, #NFDB
1296:This ancient Sufi story was told to teach a simple lesson but one that we often ignore: The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made. ~ Donella H Meadows, #NFDB
1297:Good night,” I call to Charlotte, and ignore her when she calls back, “Seriously?” I rest my face on a pillow. Close my eyes. Because all I want is eight hours to dream about Ava Garden Wilder. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
1298:He was a living, breathing fantasy. Her own rock and roll fantasy at that! And every minute of every day it was getting more and more difficult to ignore the attraction brewing between them. ~ Samantha Chase, #NFDB
1299:I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
1300:Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don’t experience them as feeling beings, we not only ignore them, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1301:You've got to take your chances in life, don't ignore the opportunities when the crop up as you don't get that many, every little helps, the small victories are important because that's your lot. ~ John King, #NFDB
1302:By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working. ~pg. 317~ ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1303:I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1304:If a dish could make a woman strong enough to ignore the call of her heart, then the world would be ruled by woman. There would be no tears or shattered dreams."- Komathi, Alphabet Soup for Lover ~ Anita Nair, #NFDB
1305:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1306:I'm sorry, all I hear was 'I'm having a really bad day, gorgeous man of mine, so please ignore everything I say until I'm back to your sweet Lizzie.' Which, the answer's 'yes, Siren, I can do that. ~ S E Hall, #NFDB
1307:Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1308:That’s how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you have the wrong ones, it’ll ignore its own hypocrisy to nail you to the wall. ~ Ben Shapiro, #NFDB
1309:You've got to take your chances in life, don't ignore the opportunities when they crop up as you don't get that many, every little helps, the small victories are important because that's your lot. ~ John King, #NFDB
1310:A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
1311:I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle. ~ Gregory Rabassa, #NFDB
1312:I may not be a role model, angel, nor a saint.
But my obligation and my sworn duty
is to never silently ignore evil,
Rather,
it is to get as close as I can to it,
then destroy it. ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
1313:I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists. ~ Charles Roven, #NFDB
1314:You
couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully coexist with your present. I ~ Tarryn Fisher,#NFDB
1315:you ignored a cake’s personality the cake would ignore you. It’ll be a rude, boring cake. I avoided making rude cake. These days, I avoided making cake, period. But if I had to do it, I made great ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1316:You know the saying, right? The one about an unaddressed subject being an elephant in the room. No matter how hard you try to ignore it, you simply can’t. It’s too damn big. It’s always in the way. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1317:As we came out of the hallway, I pretended that the whole world had secret tunnels, where people could walk straight to wherever they really wanted to be and ignore all the meanness in the middle. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1318:Honor isn’t about other people, it’s about what you want to be,” Louise said. “A hero does the good and noble thing. The villain allows fear or envy or selfishness to let him ignore what is right. ~ Wen Spencer, #NFDB
1319:I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you’re the thing that has made me wish it could stop. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1320:If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
1321:I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those. ~ Alan Palomo, #NFDB
1322:It's easier to ignore all the bad shit in the light. Distract yourself with work and TV and other people. The dark is just... bad memories. Bad dreams. I don't like to be left alone with all that. ~ Ruthie Knox, #NFDB
1323:To see the value of a library, ignore the adults. Find an inquisitive child who doesn't have an iPhone yet, take them to the library, and tell them that they can learn anything they want there. ~ Josh Hanagarne, #NFDB
1324:A particular personality trait that doesn’t come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations. ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB
1325:During this time I learned the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1326:glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.” At that point his voice became slightly more emphatic, excited, as if he were sitting right in front of the crowd, his ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1327:i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
1328:people with NPD bend the truth to fit their story of who they are. If reality suggests they’re not special, but flawed, fragile, and—even worse—mediocre, then they simply ignore or distort reality. ~ Bandy X Lee, #NFDB
1329:Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1330:Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want." Of course, you just ignore that. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
1331:Then I ignore the warning. His eyes widen as I shove my fingers through his hair and tug his head closer. “What—” He doesn’t get to finish that sentence, because I’m smashing my mouth against his. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1332:You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. ~ Lauren Bacall, #NFDB
1333:Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1334:In an op-ed in the Lexington Herald Leader, Mitch McConnell urged states to ignore Obama’s regulatory order limiting greenhouse gas emissions. It was a stunning undermining of federal authority. ~ Steven Levitsky, #NFDB
1335:John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
1336:Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones-to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1337:Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
1338:Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!" ~ Fred Armisen, #NFDB
1339:The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. “Well, as long as you’re my friend, I’ll never ignore you,” he said with conviction. “I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people. ~ Mike Resnick, #NFDB
1340:Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land! ~ Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, #NFDB
1341:We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1342:Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
1343:How are we going to handle dating and the newspaper?"
He rubs the tension at the base of my neck. "I tell you what to do and you'll ignore me."
"So...like normal?"
"Yeah."
"Sounds good. ~ Jenny B Jones,#NFDB
1344:I learned early that people don't like it when I take pills in front of them. It's one thing to know that someone is sick, and another to see direct evidence of it. It makes it less easy to ignore. ~ Michelle Krys, #NFDB
1345:I’ve been a lot of places,” I said, after a moment. “I’ve seen a lot things that people said I wouldn’t see. And one thing I never do is ignore what the people who live in a place say about a place. ~ Frank Tuttle, #NFDB
1346:Most messages for men ultimately fail. The reason is simple: they ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1347:Perhaps there comes a time in your life when you lose the ability to command attention, when the world starts to ignore you because it no longer believes you can have much of an effect on it. With ~ Rupert Thomson, #NFDB
1348:Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1349:Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
1350:We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1351:You can ignore me, push me away, and yell at me, but I’ll come back to you every time to stand by your side. I’ll hold your hand, hug your body, and soothe your worries, but I will not walk away. I ~ Michelle Lynn, #NFDB
1352:All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
1353:Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1354:God, that voice. I've been trying to ignore it because it's the kind of voice that can pull you under, make you lose your train of thought. Low and deep and powerful. He talks, and it's a melody. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
1355:I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world. ~ Common, #NFDB
1356:It's easy to misjudge others. The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1357:Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones - to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1358:Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening. ~ Ian Mortimer, #NFDB
1359:She smiled back, and for a split second she wanted to grab his hand and tell him to ignore what was happening out there, to stay with her instead, that they could be happy here, just the two of them. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
1360:The Universe is full of dots. Connect the right ones and you can draw anything. The important question is not whether the dots you picked are really there, but why you chose to ignore all the others. ~ Russ Roberts, #NFDB
1361:We are biased toward the meaning our mind has made, and we don’t want to let go of it. Even if we see evidence that contradicts the meaning we created, we often ignore it and keep on believing anyway. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1362:Alone on the steps, Vivi congratulated herself for surviving another round with David, and tried to ignore the heaviness settling in her chest. With Hank’s help, she just might make it through the week. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
1363:Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1364:Just as a rat can be conditioned to press a lever in return for a reward of food, so a human being can be conditioned by professional rewards to ignore the ethical issues raised by animal experiments. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1365:One: listen to your commander—he is always right. Two: ignore all hunches, unless suggested by your commander, who is always right. Three: if in doubt, call your commander. The one who is always right. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1366:The ability to ignore the instant chatter of the mind and to recognize there is something beyond it. There is wisdom beyond it, from the fountain of silence. This is the only way to choose yourself. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1367:The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.
They never liked us, did they?
Gods don't "like". They love, they hate, they ignore... ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1368:Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe. ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
1369:Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1370:Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1371:Ignore what other people are doing. Ignore what’s going on around you. There is no competition. There is no objective benchmark to hit. There is simply the best that you can do—that’s all that matters. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1372:Pull yourself together. You are a professional.
She didn't feel very professional. She felt like a girl out of her depth.
Your body is playing tricks on your mind. Ignore it. ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
1373:Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1374:There’s no sense in wasting your precious attention on pitiful jerks. They’re ordinary rowdies full of envy to any astounding individuals beyond average. You can ignore them; it’s what they’re worth. ~ Sahara Sanders, #NFDB
1375:We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
1376:We will also go wrong in our doctrine when we exalt ourselves and ignore our traditions. A little humility and awareness of our heritage will go a long way toward keeping us on the path of sound doctrine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1377:When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. ~ Scott McCloud, #NFDB
1378:While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. ~ Mitch McConnell, #NFDB
1379:Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1380:I'll stall them. You go," Logan says.
Quinn frowns and looks at me.
"Ignore him. He doesn't get to play the martyr today."
"Isn't that his choice?" Quinn asks.
"Not while I'm still breathing. ~ C J Redwine,#NFDB
1381:I've already gone through all the reasons to ignore her. I've already tried to fight this for far too long. I'm not winning any awards for resistance. I never did. I threw in the towel many moons ago. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
1382:Like attending the masquerade ball in Poe’s story about the Red Death. You know, ‘Come on, everybody! Kick out the jams, have another glass of champagne, and ignore all those people dropping like flies. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1383:Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
1384:Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.
The two are rarely compatible. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1385:That’s the result of hyperbolic discounting: We can ignore temptations when they’re not immediately available, but once they’re right in front of us we lose perspective and forget our distant goals. ~ Roy F Baumeister, #NFDB
1386:The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1387:The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of carnal sin because the wiser, the better men are without Christ, the more they are likely to ignore and oppose the Gospel. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1388:Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false ~ Connie Chung, #NFDB
1389:Where there is light, there will be dark. You can't change it any more than you can ignore it. All you can do is learn to protect yourself the best that you may. To ignore doing so is unconscionable. ~ Tricia O Malley, #NFDB
1390:Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1391:Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1392:I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something. ~ Kristin Bauer van Straten, #NFDB
1393:In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1394:Logic and reason simply exist, my dear. If you choose to ignore them or willfully pretend that 2 + 2 does not = 4 then you have chosen to be illogical. It is not a matter of opinion. It is epistemology. ~ David Simpson, #NFDB
1395:Mom knew damned well how disgusting the bastard was but she had that incredible ability found in so many minds like hers to simply ignore all the evidence in favor of her personal view of the world. And ~ Larry Correia, #NFDB
1396:Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1397:Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap. ~ Trevor Horn, #NFDB
1398:The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
1399:The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
1400:We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1401:And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
1402:A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself ~ Kelly Williams Brown, #NFDB
1403:If I can give you any advice about starting college, it’s that you need to do what’s right for you and ignore what anyone else thinks, because in the end you are the only one who has to live your life. ~ Alyssa Rose Ivy, #NFDB
1404:In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color. ~ Colin Cotterill, #NFDB
1405:It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
1406:Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1407:Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. ~ Ang Lee, #NFDB
1408:The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I'm on Twitter because I'm trying to answer their questions. ~ Billy Lawrence, #NFDB
1409:These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
1410:The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear. ~ Haile Gerima, #NFDB
1411:We become so caught up in our big problems that we ignore the little ones, failing to realize that some of our small problems will have long-term consequences—and are, therefore, big problems in the making. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1412:Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
1413:deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1414:I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated. ~ John Paul Stevens, #NFDB
1415:My mom had taught me from an early age to ignore people’s hatefulness. She always said mean people were just scared, pathetic human beings who needed to build themselves up by knocking other people down. ~ Jessica Prince, #NFDB
1416:Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
1417:The media do not just shape what the public is interested in, but also are shaped by it. Editors cannot ignore the public’s demands that certain topics and viewpoints receive extensive coverage. Unusual ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1418:We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste. ~ William R Brody, #NFDB
1419:...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them. ~ William James, #NFDB
1420:Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it. ~ Jack Abramoff, #NFDB
1421:Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil. ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
1422:Everything the body can do is potentially enjoyable. Yet many people ignore this capacity, and use their physical equipment as little as possible, leaving its ability to provide flow unexploited. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1423:I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
1424:Oh, and when you kiss me and pull away to tell me I’m pretty? Don’t like that one damn bit. Why can’t you just be like other guys who ignore their girlfriends? It’s so unfair that I have to deal with this. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1425:Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1426:For the moment, we could ignore revenge, anger, pain, desire, hunger, want, fright, fear and hope; all we could hear was the gentle heartbeat of the city, and when we walked, we walked in time to its rhythm. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1427:He did his best to ignore the soft curves under his hands as he slid them over the rough leather of her battlesuit, and located weapon after weapon. Damn, it was like disarming The League … Or him. Focus ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1428:Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hidding the truth. You have a God-given knack for commiting a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1429:It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1430:I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1431:I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to ignore. Friends to rip off. An apartment I hated on sight to pay for and move into. ~ Jerry Stahl, #NFDB
1432:...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety. ~ Joan Anderson, #NFDB
1433:She put a forkful of food in her mouth and tried to ignore the disappointment. The theory of food was far more exciting than the practice of eating it. In her mouth it turned into a source of fuel; energy. ~ Angela Marsons, #NFDB
1434:There's a difference between bad and evil. Bad is when you ignore the one you love. But evil is when you know exactly what that person wants, what means most to them, and you figure out how to take it away. ~ Josh Malerman, #NFDB
1435:The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of carnal sin because the wiser, the better men are without Christ, the more they are likely to ignore and oppose the Gospel. With ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1436:∼ Do not ignore the effect of each wise action saying, “This will come to nothing.” Just as by the gradual fall of raindrops the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with good. Dhammapada ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1437:Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1438:The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence and the link between intimate violence and international violence, including terrorism. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
1439:I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage. ~ Taryn Simon, #NFDB
1440:It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1441:Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
1442:My head cleared, and suddenly I had heart to fight again, to ignore pain and damage, to fight! I swear I saw myself, face purpled from strangling, the rich blood streaming and soaking and the smell so maddening. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1443:She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that I could never ignore. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
1444:What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1445:a hint was to Esk what a mosquito bite was to the average rhino because she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1446:I don’t know that it will matter even then,” Cardenia said. “I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1447:if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
1448:I tried to ignore the cramps in my stomach, but they were terrible after a full day of work without food. I wished I had time to eat supper before the party, but Bailey told us we needed a bath more than food. ~ S M McEachern, #NFDB
1449:It was the perfect distraction for Cooper to ignore the flood of...contentment... Hearing that their friendship had meant to Noah even a portion of what it had meant to Coop. Which, as a kid, had been everything. ~ Riley Hart, #NFDB
1450:Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1451:Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore. ~ Stephen Spender, #NFDB
1452:...you can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story to move forward. It's easy to ignore such inciting events...It's easy to flee your story. ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB
1453:Everything the body can do is potentially enjoyable. Yet many people ignore this capacity, and use their physical equipment as little as possible, leaving its ability to provide flow unexploited. When ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1454:Experience comes in two different flavors: your own and the experience of others. Most people can learn from their own experiences quite well, but many people simply ignore the experiences and lessons of others. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1455:Feelings are autonomous responses of the organism to how things are going from its perspective. We can choose to ignore feelings, project them onto others, anesthetize them, and so on, but we do not choose them. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1456:I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us. ~ John McLaughlin, #NFDB
1457:Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1458:So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
1459:To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB
1460:What any institution, or its agents, “intend” for you is secondary. Our world is physical. Learn to play defense—ignore the head and keep your eyes on the body. Very few Americans will directly proclaim that ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1461:When a man sees evil things being done to good people he has two choices. Intercede or ignore. Ignoring evil only makes evil stronger. I guess it just goes against my nature to see good people get walked over. ~ Wayne Stinnett, #NFDB
1462:But you have to ignore all of that and work endlessly to make your visions a reality. Stake a claim on your ambitions. If you wait around for other people to define you, you’ll be saddled with their expectations— ~ Elise Hooper, #NFDB
1463:if you’re not putting in the effort to become, as Steve Martin put it, “so good they can’t ignore you,” you’re not likely to end up loving your work—regardless of whether or not you believe it’s your true calling. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1464:I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
1465:It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1466:I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement. ~ Cary Fukunaga, #NFDB
1467:Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance. ~ Peter McWilliams, #NFDB
1468:My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like. ~ Bruce Nauman, #NFDB
1469:On one hand, it's nice on the other side. Secrets don't exist. There's nothing to ignore, and no destiny. On the other hand, the same thing is possible in life, if only we'd start paying attention to the right stuff. ~ A S King, #NFDB
1470:That's like telling an elementary schooler to ignore the bully giving him swirlies and pay attention to the teacher.' he said, stuffing graham crackers in his mouth. 'Hey Raven, do you want me to beat those geeks up? ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
1471:The goal of science is to amass such an enormous mountain of evidence that not even scientists can ignore it: and ... this is the distinguishing feature of a scientist; a non-scientist will ignore it anyway. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
1472:The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1473:They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1474:We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama. ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
1475:What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? Advice I’d give: Make sure you have something every day you’re looking forward to. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1476:Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens. ~ Scott Meyers, #NFDB
1477:For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1478:I’m not looking to fail you. I don’t teach with the hope everyone will play games on their phone during lectures and then skate by with Cs.” “If you did, you’d probably be much happier.” “I’m going to ignore that. ~ Dahlia Adler, #NFDB
1479:It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen. ~ Bob Buford, #NFDB
1480:what happens on the lower level is responsible for what happens on the higher level, it is nonetheless irrelevant to the higher level. The higher level can blithely ignore the processes on the lower level. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter, #NFDB
1481:You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1482:As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
1483:But I didn’t feel honored. I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the “friends” who’d sent me those pictures. (I’m very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.) ~ Gabourey Sidibe, #NFDB
1484:If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. ~ Carol Ann Duffy, #NFDB
1485:Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1486:Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place. ~ Frank Walter Steinmeier, #NFDB
1487:The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1488:To me, sentimentality is not genuine feeling. Sentimental people tend to ignore their own shadow, their own darkness. They cover up their real suffering with self-pity, for example, and stultify their own growth. ~ Marion Woodman, #NFDB
1489:Goddes love is unescapable as nature's environment, which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off he is the ill-natured fool that runneth on to death. ~ Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty (1929), Book IV, line 1419, #NFDB
1490:I’ve tried staying away from you. I’ve tried ignoring how I feel about you, which isn’t how I should feel . But it’s like fighting a losing battle. And I don’t want to fight it anymore. I don’t want to ignore this. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
1491:The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it. ~ J J Abrams, #NFDB
1492:To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them. ~ Ron Suskind, #NFDB
1493:What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1494:All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1495:And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business. ~ Gary Ackerman, #NFDB
1496:Do you always touch strangers?” I question, trying to ignore the warmth of his hand and the way I have to remember to breathe.
“You’ve been upgraded to acquaintance,” he winks. “This is completely appropriate. ~ Teresa Michaels,#NFDB
1497:I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection. ~ Roger Angell, #NFDB
1498:Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
1499:In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1500:Somewhere along the path...a special sort of the love had taken root. An now it was deep enough that they could no longer ignore it, no longer spend an afternoon together without somehow acknowledging the feeling. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
79 Integral Yoga
32 Christianity
29 Philosophy
18 Occultism
15 Yoga
14 Fiction
12 Poetry
11 Psychology
9 Integral Theory
6 Science
3 Education
3 Cybernetics
3 Baha i Faith
1 Thelema
1 Mysticism
1 Hinduism
1 Alchemy
92 Sri Aurobindo
26 The Mother
21 Nolini Kanta Gupta
15 Plotinus
14 H P Lovecraft
13 Satprem
13 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
11 Swami Krishnananda
11 Aleister Crowley
9 Aldous Huxley
7 Carl Jung
5 Robert Browning
5 Jordan Peterson
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
4 Sri Ramakrishna
3 Walt Whitman
3 Saint Augustine of Hippo
3 Plato
3 Norbert Wiener
3 Nirodbaran
3 Ken Wilber
3 Baha u llah
3 A B Purani
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Paul Richard
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Franz Bardon
18 The Synthesis Of Yoga
14 Lovecraft - Poems
12 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
11 The Study and Practice of Yoga
11 The Life Divine
9 The Perennial Philosophy
7 The Phenomenon of Man
7 Magick Without Tears
7 Letters On Yoga II
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
6 The Future of Man
6 Talks
6 Letters On Yoga IV
6 Essays On The Gita
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
5 Browning - Poems
4 The Human Cycle
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
4 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
3 Whitman - Poems
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
3 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
3 Some Answers From The Mother
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Record of Yoga
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
3 Liber ABA
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Cybernetics
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
3 City of God
3 Agenda Vol 03
3 Agenda Vol 02
2 The Secret Of The Veda
2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Savitri
2 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
2 On Education
2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Essays Divine And Human
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
This was a very rich and significant experience for Narendra. It taught him that Sakti, the Divine Power, cannot be ignored in the world and that in the relative plane the need of worshipping a Personal God is imperative. Sri Ramakrishna was overjoyed with the conversion. The next day, sitting almost on Narendra's lap, he said to a devotee, pointing first to himself, then to Narendra: "I see I am this, and again that. Really I feel no difference. A stick floating in the Ganges seems to divide the water; But in reality the water is one. Do you see my point? Well, whatever is, is the Mother — isn't that so?" In later years Narendra would say: "Sri Ramakrishna was the only person who, from the time he met me, believed in me uniformly throughout. Even my mother and brothers did not. It was his unwavering trust and love for me that bound me to him for ever. He alone knew how to love. Worldly people, only make a show of love for selfish ends.
--- TARAK
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
We ignore what created us; we adore what we create.
Let us create nothing but GOD!
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
there, but I could easily have ignored it. Why did I show
this weakness? O Sweet Mother, how should one act in
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If, then, this inferior equilibrium is the basis and first means of the higher movements which the universal Power contemplates and if it constitutes the vehicle in which the Divine here seeks to reveal Itself, if the Indian saying is true that the body is the instrument provided for the fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no integral Yoga which ignores the body or makes its annulment or its rejection indispensable to a perfect spirituality. Rather, the perfecting of the body also should be the last triumph of the Spirit and to make the bodily life also divine must be God's final seal upon His work in the universe. The obstacle which the physical presents to the spiritual is no argument for the rejection of the physical; for in the unseen providence of things our greatest difficulties are our best opportunities. A supreme difficulty is Nature's indication to us of a supreme conquest to be won and an ultimate problem to be solved; it is not a warning of an inextricable snare to be shunned or of an enemy too strong for us from whom we must flee.
Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. "As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-Energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the LifeEnergy is all this that is established in the triple heaven."2 It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source
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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
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know that you are too sensible and sensitive to ignore this
truth.
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Remembered beauty death-claimed lids ignore
And wondered at this world of fragile forms
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."
The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely follow his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit. But that does not necessarily mean that collectivism has no truth in it; collectivism also, as much as individualism, has a lesson for us and we should see whether we can harmonise the two. Collectivism signifies that the individual should not look to himself alone, should not be shut up in his freedom but expand himself and envelop others in a wider freedom, see other creatures in himself and himself in other creatures, as the Gita says. Collectivism demands that the individual need not and should not exhaust himself entirely in securing and enjoying his personal freedom, but that he can and should work for the salvation of others; the truth it upholds is this that the individual is from a certain point of view only a part of the group and by ignoring the latter it ignores itself in the end.
Now, a spiritual communism embraces individualism and collectivism, fuses them in a higher truth, establishes them in an intimate and absolute harmony. The individual is the centre, the group is the circumference and the two form one whore circle. The individual by fulfilling the truth of his real individuality fulfils also the truth of a commonality. There are no different laws for the two. The individuals do not stand apart from and against one another, the dharma of one does not clash with the dharma of the other. The ripples in the bosom of the sea, however distinct and discrete in appearance, form but a single mass, all follow the same law of hydrodynamics that the mother sea incarnates. Stars and planets and nebulae, each separate heavenly body has its characteristic form and nature and function and yet all fulfil the same law of gravitation and beat the measure of the silent symphony of spaces. Individualities are the freedoms of the collective being and collectivity the concentration of individual beings. The same soul looking inward appears as the individual being and looking outward appears as the collective being.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"Connaissez done, superbe, quel paradoxe vous tes vous-mme. Humiliezvous, raison impuissante: apprenez que l'homme passe infiniment l'homme, et entendez de votre matre votre condition vritable que vous ignorez. coutez Dieu.'.
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01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the meaning of the Reformist's pessimism. So long as we remain within the domain of the triple nexus, we must always take account of an original sin, an aboriginal irredeemability in human nature. And it, is this fact which a too hasty optimistic idealism is apt to ignore. The point, however, is that man need not be necessarily bound to this triple chord of life. He can go beyond, transcend himself and find a reality which is the basis of even this lower poise of the mental and vital and physical. Only in order to get into that higher poise we must really transcend the lower, that is to say, we must not be satisfied with experiencing or envisaging it through the mind and heart but must directly commune with it, be it. There is a higher law that rules there, a power that is the truth-substance of even the vital and hence can remould it with a sovereign inevitability, according to a pattern which may not and is not the pattern of mental and emotional idealism, but the pattern of a supreme spiritual realism.
What then is required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substancenot merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking the divine in the mental being, but left the vital becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint glow which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
murmur in the depths of our heart which is easy to ignore.
However, there are cases where one acts wrongly out of
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We are quite familiar with this cry so rampant in our democratic ageprinciples and no personalities! And although we admit the justice of it, yet we cannot ignore the trenchant one-sidedness which it involves. It is perhaps only a reaction, a swing to the opposite extreme of a mentality given too much to personalities, as the case generally has been in the past. It may be necessary, as a corrective, but it belongs only to a temporary stage. Since, however, we are after a universal ideal, we must also have an integral method. We shall have to curb many of our susceptibilities, diminish many of our apprehensions and soberly strike a balance between opposite extremes.
We do not speak like politicians or banias; but the very truth of the matter demands such a policy or line of action. It is very well to talk of principles and principles alone, but what are principles unless they take life and form in a particular individual? They are airy nothings, notions in the brain of logicians and metaphysicians, fit subjects for discussion in the academy, but they are devoid of that vital urge which makes them creative agencies. We have long lines of philosophers, especially European, who most scrupulously avoided all touch of personalities, whose utmost care was to keep principles pure and unsullied; and the upshot was that those principles remained principles only, barren and infructuous, some thing like, in the strong and puissant phrase of BaudelaireLa froide majest de la femme strile. And on the contrary, we have had other peoples, much addicted to personalitiesespecially in Asiawho did not care so much for abstract principles as for concrete embodiments; and what has been the result here? None can say that they did not produce anything or produced only still-born things. They produced living creaturesephemeral, some might say, but creatures that lived and moved and had their days.
0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another case where peoplewithout knowing it or because they WANT to ignore italways pursue their personal interests, their preferences, their attachments, their concepts; people who are not entirely consecrated to the Divine and make use of moral and yogic ideas to conceal their personal motives. These people doubly deceive themselves: not only do they deceive themselves through their outer activities, their relations with others, but they also deceive themselves about their personal motives; instead of serving the Divine they are serving their own egoism. And this happens constantly, constantly! One serves his own personality, his egoism, while pretending to serve the Divine. This is no longer even self-deception: its sheer hypocrisy.
This mental habit of always cloaking everything with a favorable appearance, of giving all movements a favorable explanation, is at times so flagrant that it can fool nobody but oneself (although it may occasionally be subtle enough to create an illusion). It is a sort of habitual self-exoneration, the habit of giving a favorable mental excuse, a favorable mental explanation for all one does, all one says, all one feels. For example, someone with no self-control who strikes another in great indignation and is ready to call it divine wrath! Righteous2 is perfect, because righteous immediately introduces this element of puritanical moralitywonderful!
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This man clearly led a rather loose life. Right after he left here he spent some time in the Himalayas and became a Sannyasi. Then he went to France and from France to England. In England he married againbigamy! I didnt care, of course (the less he showed up in my life, the better), but he was in a fix! One day I suddenly received some official letters from a lawyer telling me I had initiated divorce proceedings against Richard. it seems I had a lawyer over there! A lawyer I had never asked for, whose name I didnt know, a lawyer I didnt even know existedmy lawyer! The trial was taking place at Nice, and I was accusing Richard of abandoning me without any means of support! (That was nothing new I had paid all the expenses from the first day we met! But anyway.) Naturally, he couldnt plead that he was a bigamist; nor could he have me accuse him of being a bigamist, because it was true! So it seemed he hadnt been paying my expenses; but then I wasnt claiming anything from him in the case, no alimonya little incoherent, all that. After a few months I was finally informed that I was divorced, which was rather convenient for me as far as the bank was concerned. I had a marriage contract stipulating that our properties were separate; since I was the one with the money (he had nothing), I wanted to be free to do with it as I pleased. But the French were impossible in such matters: the woman was considered the minor party, so even if the money was the wifes and not the husbands, she couldnt withdraw it without his authorization. I dont know if its still like that, but in those days the husb and always had to countersignan annoying situation! I got around this in Japan (the banker there found the rule stupid and told me to ignore it), but the bank here can be a pain in the neck, so it was good to get this cleared up.
He remarried two or three more times. By now (I believe) he is the father of quite a large family, with grandchildren and perhaps great-grandchildren. He lives in America. Someone once told me he was dead, but I could sense that he wasnt. Then, out of the blue, E. arrived, full of admiration, telling me she had met Richard and how stunningly he could preach to people.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ignore the spelling mistakes!
Now, if theres something else you want to ask me, perhaps it will come.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I went one better; I didnt even know the rules so I didnt need to fight them! All I had to do was ignore them, so they didnt exist that was even better.
But now I have first to undo and then redoa sheer waste of time.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, the trouble is hes a man whose principles and education prevent him from believing in progress and transformation. He believes that if you fulfill the conditions you get the siddhi,3 and thats the end of it the goal is reached. He had already attained his goal before meeting us, and then he could have kept his distance, but he became intimately connected with something full of all kinds of difficulties (which we neither ignore nor call for), but its essentially a Power for progressan awesome force for progress. Well, when I saw that, I wondered, How can he possibly bear it? I thought he would keep his distance and not enter the atmosphere, but he did try to enterhe linked up with certain people, and particularly when he started meditating with me (he asked for it, not me), suddenly something responded. And that triggered the conflict in him. One part of his being has gone along with the Movement, while the other is left strandeddoesnt budge. That created a gap.
Of course, one has to be in a terribly superficial consciousness to react the way he did. He had a rather deep contact with you, and there were moments when he understood very well who you arehe knows, he told me so. Consequently, had he truly been in a yogic state, then even if you had done something tactless or wrong, he would have just smiled! He would have said, Oh, hes just impetuous, but I dont mind.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It can be, its possible. Its possible, I dont say it isnt; it is possible, it can happen, but more and more, the life allotted to this body is to do things without knowing it, to change the world without seeing it, and to to ignore all that, to be absolutely unconcerned with the results. And (to be perfectly explicit) I have a feeling that to have access to the highest and purest Power, the very notion of result must disappear completely the Supreme Power has no sense of result AT ALL. The sense of result is yet another rift between the essential, supreme Power, and the consciousness. In other words, its because the consciousness begins to separate slightly [from its identity with the Supreme Power], that the sense of result is created, but otherwise it doesnt exist.
Its as if everything had to be to be the Action, the eternal Action at each second of the Manifestation THE thing. At each pulsationwhich corresponds to time in the ManifestationTHAT alone is THE thing. And the idea of something having a result is already a distortion.
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, I think we should just ignore them.
Either I should give lessons, or else But I must say that nowadays I dont enjoy it. I find it so childish to say, Things happen in this way I know perfectly well they dont happen in this way! They happen in this way and they happen in another way, and everything is possible. You cant keep telling people, Everything is possible, you know. To keep repeating, Everything is possible, you know, is absurd.
0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The left side. And the American doctor isnt quite happy about the extent of the cure. Which means, as always, that however things seem to be in the world, when they are brought into contact with the Light, that is to say, a concentration of Truth, they appear in their stark reality: all the ballyhoo about that operation and all the illusion gathered around that miraculous power of surgical cure, it all vanished into thin air. The American doctor himself, according to Dr. S.s letter, was shaken and lost trust in the absoluteness of his system. But from the first minute, you know, I saw that there wasnt even sixty percent of truth in it. There is an entire obscure field, which they deliberately ignore and which showed itself in broad daylight in order to make itself known. And for Dr. S., its the same thing: A doctor COULD NOT be deluded, and he didnt want to admit it. When I told him that one operation might not be enough, he almost got angry: Why do you say such things! (Mother laughs) He knew it as well as I did, but he didnt want to admit it.
He will have gone through a terrible experience.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, the further one goes, the more one realizes that all human teachings are opportunistic: they are told with an aim in view; one thing is told, and the other (not that its not known) is deliberately ignored. It seems hard to me to find a different explanation, because as soon as you have passed beyond the Mind (and those people appear to have done so), all knowledge is (whats the word?) available, obtainable.
(silence)
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We could call it the sweetness of Love, but the word sweet is a little wishy-washy. Its much better than sweet. Its something without difficulties: no difficulties happen, it doesnt know difficulties, it ignores them entirely there are no difficulties, they dont exist. So, when it manifests, there are no difficulties. Then, naturally, it cant stay here because because there are still difficulties!
Anyway
0 1968-05-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the disorder is invisible, I am free not to say anything and people wont know, but here (laughing) it has taken such a visible form that I couldnt ignore it!
Last night, at the time of the deepest sleep, I found myself in an infernal world. At first I thought it was the S.S.: tall fellows dressed in black, and I was a prisoner there. It was a world of horrible men, like S.S., but dressed completely in blackmaybe they were priests and not S.S.? I felt like a prisoner there, as in a concentration camp.
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Consciousness is very interesting! Ill see how it behaves with our healer With the Persian, the Persian inventor who was here (hes leaving today), it behaved quite well. It wanted me to give him blessings, it was very active. With other people, nothingit ignores them. Its quite curious.
But to correctly perceive what That wants, one has to be very pure.
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Our acts emerge from a crypt our minds ignore.
45.11
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To abrogate the matter of fact, rational view of life in order to view it spiritually, to regard it wholly as an expression or embodiment or vibration of consciousness-delight was possible to the Vedic discipline which saw and adored the Immanent Godhead. It was not possible to Buddha and Buddhistic consciousness; for the Immanent Divine was ignored in the Buddhistic scheme. Philosophically, in regard to ultimate principles, Buddhism was another name for nihilism, creation being merely an assemblage of particles of consciousness that is desire; the particles scattered and dissolved, remains only the supreme incomparable Nirvana. But pragmatically Buddhism was supremely humanistic.
As it took man as a rational animal, at least as a starting-point, even so it gave a sober human value to things human. A rationalist's eye made him see and recognise the normal misery of mankind; and the great compassion goaded him to find the way out of the misery. It was not a dispassionate quest into the ultimate truth and reality nor an all-consuming zeal to meet the Divine that set Buddha on the Path; it was the everyday problem of the ordinary man which troubled his mind, and for which he sought a solution, a permanent radical solution. The Vedanist saw only delight and ecstasy and beatitude; forhim the dark shadow did not exist at all or did not matter; it was the product of illusion or wrong view of things; one was asked to ignore or turn away from this and look towards That. Such was not the Buddha's procedure.
These are the two primarytruthsrya saryawhichBuddha's illumination meant and for which he has become one of the great divine leaders of humanity. First, he has discovered man's rationality, and second, he has discovered man's humanity. Since his advent two thousand and five hundred years ago till the present day, in this what may pertinently be called the Buddhist age of humanity, the entire growth, development and preoccupation of mankind was centred upon the twofold truth. Science and religion today are the highest expressions of that achievement.
03.14 - Mater Dolorosa, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And yet the solution need not be a total rejection and transcendence of Nature. For what is ignored in this view is Nature's dual reality. In one form, the inferior (apar), Nature means the Law of Ignoranceof pain and misery and death; but in another form, the superior (par), Nature's is the Law of Knowledge, that is to say, of happiness, immunity and immortality, not elsewhere in another world and in a transcendent consciousness, but here below on the physical earth in a physical body.
The whole question then is thishow far has this Higher Nature been a reality with us, to what extent do we live and move and have our being in it. It is when the normal existence, our body, our life and our mentality have all adopted and absorbed the substance of the Higher Prakriti and become it, when all the modes of Inferior Prakriti have been discarded and annihilated, or rather, have been purified and made to grow into the modes of the Higher Prakriti, that our terrestrial life can become a thing of absolute beauty and perfect perfection.
04.01 - The Divine Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But there is a still closer mystery, the mystery of mysteries. There has not been merely a general descent, the descent of a world-force on a higher plane into another world-force on a lower plane; but that there is the descent of the individual, the personal Godhead into and as an earthly human being. The Divine born as a man and leading the life of a man among us and as one of us, the secret of Divine Incarnation is the supreme secret. That is the mechanism adopted by the Divine to cure and transmute human illshimself becoming a man, taking upon himself the burden of the evil that vitiates and withers life and working it out in and through himself. Something of this truth has been caught in the Christian view of Incarnation. God sent upon earth his only begotten son to take upon himself the sins of man, suffer vicariously for him, pay the ransom and thus liberate him, so that he may reach salvation, procure his seat by the side of the Father in Heaven. Man corrupted as he is by an original sin cannot hope by his own merit to achieve salvation. He can only admit his sin and repent and wait for the Grace to save him. The Indian view of Incarnation laid more stress upon the positive aspect of the matter, viz, the role of the Incarnation as the inaugurator and establisher of a new order in lifedharmasasthpanrthya. The Avatar brings down and embodies a higher principle of human organisation, a greater consciousness which he infuses into the existing pattern, individual or collective, which has -served its purpose, has become otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most preparatory to something else. The Avatar means a new revelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of being. The physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is exerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that he brings upon earth and in the human frame. The Indian tradition has focussed its attention upon the Goodreyasand did not consider it essential to dwell upon the Evil. For one who finds and sees the Good always and everywhere, the Evil does not exist. Sri Aurobindo lays equal emphasis on both the aspects. Naturally, however, he does not believe in an original evil, incurable upon earth and in earthly life. In conformity with the ancient Indian teaching he declares the original divinity of man: it is because man is potentially and essentially divine that he can become actually and wholly divine. The Bible speaks indeed of man becoming perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect: but that is due exclusively to the Grace showered upon man, not because of any inherent perfection in him. But in according full divinity to man, Sri Aurobindo does not minimise the part of the undivine in him. This does not mean any kind of Manicheism: for Evil, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not coeval or coterminous with the Divine, it is a later or derivative formation under given conditions, although within the range and sphere of the infinite Divine. Evil exists as a stern reality; even though it may be temporary and does not touch the essential reality, it is not an illusion nor can it be ignored, brushed aside or bypassed as something superficial or momentary and of no importance. It has its value, its function and implication. It is real, but it is not irremediable. It is contrary to the Divine but not contradictory. For even the Evil in its inmost substance carries or is the reality which it opposes or denies outwardly. Did not the very first of the apostles of Christ deny his master at the crucial moment? As we have said, evil is a formation necessitated by certain circumstances, the circumstances changed, the whole disposition as at present constituted changes automatically and fundamentally.
The Divine then descends into the earth-frame, not merely as an immanent and hidden essencesarvabhtntratm but as an individual person embodying that essencemnu tanumritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he maybe, is essentially the Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true and highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently exists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Eternal and the Momentary, and the Divine too can come into him and become, so to say, his lower self.
04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It can be mentioned here that there can be a knowledge of ends without a corresponding knowledge of means, even there can be a control over ends without a preliminary control over meansperhaps not to perfection, but to a sufficient degree of practical utility. Much of the knowledgeespecially secular and scientificin ancient times was of this order; what we mean to say is that the knowledge was more instinctive or intuitive than rational or intellectual. In that knowledge the result only, the end that it to say, was the chief aim and concern, the means for attaining the end was, one cannot perhaps say, ignored, but slurred or slipped over as it were: the process was thus involved or understood, not expressed or detailed out. Thus we know of some mathematical problems to which correct solutions were given of which the process is not extant or lost as some say. Our suggestion is that there was in fact very little of the process as we know it now the solution was reached per saltum, that is to say, somehow, in the same manner as we find it happening even today in child prodigies.
One can point out however that even before the modern scientific age, there was an epoch of pure intellectual activity, as represented, for example, by scholasticism. The formal intellectualism which was the gift of the Greek sophists or the Mimansakas and grammarians in ancient India has to be recognised as a pure mental movement, freed from all life value or biological bias. What then is the difference? What is the new characteristic element brought in by the modern scientific intellectualism?
04.03 - The Eternal East and West, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As I said, the East usually ignores this correspondence and posits an exclusive either-or relation between the two terms. The individual, according to it, can reach its true individuality by only dissolving itin the Infinite. Of course, I am referring to an extreme position which is general in the East and symptomatic of its fundamental character. The West does not concern itself with these higher lines of individual growth and fulfilment, it limits the individual within the social frame and his mundane or profane life; but what we learn from this outlook is the necessity of the collective growth through which only can the individual thrive and grow. It is however a growth in extension, rather than in intensity i.e. depth and height. This outlook errs in the limitation put upon individuality, precisely identifying it more or less with the "egoism" to which the spirituality of the East objects. This normal individual in its normal development cannot go very far, nor can he lead the others, the society or humanity, to a perfect and supreme fulfilment. The ego-bound normal individuality must transcend itselfexactly the thing that the East teaches; only this transcendence need not mean an abolition of all individuality, but a transformation, a higher integration in a spiritualised, a universalised and divinised individuality.
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.
04.03 - To the Heights III, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
My heart yearns to welcome Him whom the ages have ignored.
And melts into a fountain of tears!
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine incarnates, as an individual in the concrete material actuality, this double aspect of the utter truth and reality. There are, what may be called, intermediary incarnations, some representing powersaspects of the Divinein the higher mental or overmental levels of consciousness, others those of the inner heart, yet others again those of the dynamic vital consciousness. But the integral Divine, he who unites and reconciles in his body the highest height and the lowest depth, who has effectuated in him something like the "marriage of Heaven and Hell" is an event of the futureeven perhaps of the immediate future. The descent into hell is an image that has been made very familiar to man, but all its implications have not been sounded. For what we were made familiar with was more or less an image of hell, not hell itself, a region or experience in the vital (may be even in the mental): real hell is not the mass of desires or weaknesses of the flesh, not "living flesh", but dead Matter whose other name is Inconscience. In the older disciplines the central or key truth, the heart of reality where the higher and the lowerBrahman and Maya, the Absolute and the Contingency, the One and the Many, God and the Worldmet and united in harmony was bypassed: one shot from below right into the supreme Absolute; the matrix of truth-creation was ignored. Even so, at the other end, the reality of brute matter was not given sufficient weight, the spiritual light disdained to reach it (vijigupsate).
The integral Divine not merely suffers (as in the Christian tradition) a body material, He accepts it in his supernal delight, for it is his own being and substance: it is He in essence and it will become He in actuality. When he comes into the world, it is not as though it were a foreign country; he comes to his own,only he seeks to rebuild it on another scale, the scale of unity and infinity, instead of the present scale of separativism and finiteness. He comes among men not simply because he is' moved by human miseries; he is no extra-terrestrial person, a bigger human being, but is himself this earth, this world, all these miseries; he is woven into the fabric of the universe, he is the warp and woof that constitute creation. It is not a mere movement of sympathy or benevolence that actuates him, it is a total and absolute identification that is the ground and motive of his activity. When he assumes the frame of mortality, it is not that something outside and totally incongruous is entering into him, it is part and parcel of himself, it is himself in one of his functions and phases. Consequently, his work in and upon the material world and life may be viewed as that of self-purification and self-illumination, self-discipline and selfrealisation. Also, the horrors of material existence, being part of the cosmic play and portion of his infinity, naturally find shelter in the individual divine incarnation, are encompassed in his human embodiment. It is the energy of his own consciousness that brought out or developed even this erring earth from within it: that same energy is now available, stored up in the individual formation, for the recreation of that earth. The advent and acceptance of material existence meant, as a kind of necessity in a given scheme of divine manifestation, the appearance and play of Evil, the negation of the very divinity. Absolute Consciousness brought forth absolute unconsciousness the inconscientbecause of its own self-pressure, a play of an increasingly exclusive concentration and rigid objectivisation. That same consciousness repeats its story in the individual incarnation: it plunges into the material life and matter and identifies itself with Evil. But it is then like a pressed or tightened spring; it works at its highest potential. In other words, the Divine in the body now works to divinise the body itself, to make of the negation a concrete affirmation. The inconscient will be embodied consciousness.
05.02 - Physician, Heal Thyself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And yet he does not change. He has not the sincere will to change. At least he takes the wrong way about it. And the reason is that he does not whole-heartedly adopt the course which he knows to be the only right thing. He is divided in his being: one part knows indeed, but another, the larger, the dynamic part does not profit by that knowledge, ignores it and pursues a contrary path, the accustomed groove of ignorance and laissez-faire.
He consoles and comforts himself, lays the flattering unction to his soul by taking to a less exacting ideal, a substitute without tears, as it were. Therefore he looks outside, seeks to reform society, changing its laws and constitution, and wants to believe that in that way society can be remodelled and mankind transformed.
05.15 - Sartrian Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Practically this conception of freedom brings into high relief, makes almost all in all, only one aspect, one character or attri bute of freedom: the abolition of all ties and obligations and relations beyond oneself involving a hollow self-sufficiency. Naturally such an outlook requires against it a complementary one, even if it is not to correct and complete, at least to support and implement it. Sartre too cannot ignore the fact that the free being is not an isolated phenomenon in the world; it exists along with and in the company of others of the same nature and quality. Indeed human society is that in essence, an association of freedoms, although these movements of freedom are camouflaged in appearance and are not recognised by the free persons themselves. The interaction between the free persons, the reflection of oneself in others and the mutual dependence of egos is a constant theme in the novels and plays of Sartre.
'Freedom cannot be real freedom unless it is licence : yet society means a curtailment or inhibition or modification of this absolute liberty. This, conflict has never been resolved in Sartre and is fundamental to his ideology, 'the source of his tragic nihilism. That is because the consciousness here lives horizontally, level with the normal, what we described as psycho-vital consciousness. The way out lies in transcendence, in a vertical uplifting of the consciousness and the being.
05.34 - Light, more Light, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Let us explain. Man is not as ignorant and helpless as he seems to be, as he would himself consider to be. There is in him always a spark, under the ashes, as it were, a perfect freedom behind the faade of a network of bondages, not dead or dormant but biding the time, to come out and be active on the surface. The spark is the light that directs to the right and warns against the wrong; the freedom is the choice to do the right and avoid the wrong. It is just a point of perception, just a flash of awareness, but net and clear: it is there, you have only to notice it. It does not give the why or the whither of the rightness: it is a simple declaration presented to you, for you to do what you like with it: to ignore or to profit by. Usually we do not pay attention to it: our attention is diverted towards another direction and other things. Our environment, our education, our domestic and social influences, even a good part of our own nature demand of us other ways of living and inhibit the spontaneous inherent light of the consciousness. Even so, if we care to look at it, if we sincerely turn round and ask for it, we will find it still there the flame behind the smoke, the queen in the harem, the deity in the sanctum. What is required is just a straight look and not the crooked wink we are accustomed to. The first attempts will necessarily mean a little fumbling, but if you mean what you do, you will find your vision getting clearer. It is our own disinclination that weaves the cobweb of ignorance around the truth. Otherwise, an unsophisticated consciousness, a consciousness which is not vitiatedmore often by nurture than by naturecan always feel the presence of the truth and is directly aware of it.
A blinded misdirected mind, if it wakes up at any time and looks about for the truth sincerelywe insist upon the conditioncan recognise it, learn to trace it by certain indications it always leaves behind in the consciousness. A touch of the truth, a step towards it will be always accompanied by a sense of relief, of peace, of a serene happiness and unconditional freedom. These things are felt not as something gross and superficial affecting your outer life and situation, but pertaining to the depth of your being, concerning your inmost fibreit is nothing else but just the sense of light, as if you are at last out of the dark. A right movement brings you that feeling; and whenever you have that feeling you know that there has been the right movement. On the contrary, with a wrong movement you are ill at ease. You may say that a hardened criminal is never ill at ease; perhaps, but only after a great deal of hardening. The criminal was not always a criminal I am speaking of a human being, not a born hostilehe must have started some-where the downward incline. The distinction of the right and the wrong must have been presented to his consciousness and the choice was freely his. Afterwards one gets bound to one's Karma and its chain.
06.01 - The End of a Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For here is the sense of the crisis. The mantra given for the new age is that man shall be transcended and in the process, man, as he is, shall go. Man shall go, but something of the vehicle that the present cycle has prepared will remain. For, that precisely has been the function of the passing civilisation, especially in its later stages, viz, to build up a terrestrial temple for the Lord. The aberration and deformation, rampant today, mean only an excess of stress upon this aspect, upon the external presentation which was ignored or not sufficiently considered in the earlier and higher curves of the present civilisation. The spiritual values have gone down, because the material values came to be regarded as valueless and this upset the economy or balance in Nature. It is true that we have gone far, too far in our revanche. And the problem that faces us today is this: whether mankind will be able to change sufficiently and grow into the higher being that shall inhabit the earth as its crown in the coming cycle or, being unable, will go totally, disappear altogether or be relegated to the backwater of earthly life, somewhat like the aboriginal tribes of today.
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10.06 - Beyond the Dualities, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What the mind forgets or ignores is that the law of self-contradiction belongs exclusively to the finite. It does not hold good in infinity. The Infinite is infinite because it has transcended the laws and categories of the finite, even as Eternity has transcended the temporal. In the transcendental consciousness the reality is single and multiple at the same time, simultaneously (although the conception of time is not there at all); also God is both with form and without form at the same time. The mind may not be able to conceive it but the fact is that, for one can rise above the mind and see and experience the reality.
There are other dualities that are confusing to the mind. It is said two objects cannot occupy together the same spot or position. One object must drive out another to occupy its position. Obviously this is a truth belonging to the material world for it is said matter is impenetrable. But this law, however valid in the material plane, becomes less and less applicable in regions subtler and less and less material. Two movements or two vibrations of consciousness, may exist together without annihilating each other's identity, being a total identity.
And there is a law, a law of scientific rational inquiry which they have posited and called the law of Parsimony which means that a simpler solution to a problem is always to be preferred to a complex solution. But if it means that a simpler truth is more true than a complex one then we would be on a doubtful and even dangerous ground. To find a simple truth one may be tempted to slice off truth, that is to say, reject or ignore or shut one's eyes to some forms or aspects of the truth, even those that belong to its very essence. In fact the real world is not a very simple thing, it is complex to its core. Contraries and even contradictories co-exist in the universe and they have to be equally accepted in an inevitably complex solution. Modern science is in such a delicate situation. How can the same thing be a particle and a wave at the same time? How can a point be also a line at the same time? How to reconcile, assimilate, synthetise electric energy and gravitational force which seem to be two distinct and incommensurable entities governing, between them, the universe in its ultimate analysis? In other fields also, social and political, there are ideologies, forces that run contrary to each other but claim equal allegiance of mankind.
There are no unitary solutions to these problems; the unitary solutions are constructions of the mind that lead nowhere except in a merry-go-round. We have to rise out of the mind and go beyond and realise that unity in plurality or plurality in unity is a self-evident fact, somewhere else than in the mind.
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
sleep. I dreamt dreams vivid as reality. I could not escape from them or ignore them. They centered, in
general, around a single theme: that of nuclear war, and total devastation around the worst evils that I, or
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or blindly ignored, leads logically into the depths of religious phenomenology. The history of religion in
its widest sense (including therefore mythology, folklore, and primitive psychology) is a treasure-house
1.012 - Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
In our system, the culture of Bharatvarsha, four aims of existence are always emphasised dharma, artha, kama and moksha. None of them can be ignored. There are people who are fired up with an enthusiasm for moksha, and under this impulse of a love for moksha or salvation of the soul, an immature mind may apply the wrong technique of forcing the will to abandon the real values of life, namely dharma, artha and kama, under the impression that they are obstacles to the salvation of the soul or the liberation of the spirit. Most people commit this mistake, and so they achieve neither anything in this world nor anything in the other world they live a miserable life. They have not been properly instructed, and so have taken a wrong direction altogether.
The culture of yoga does not tell us to reject, abandon, or to cut off anything if it is real, because the whole question is an assessment of values, and reality is, of course, the background of every value. What is achieved in spiritual education is a rise of consciousness from a lower degree of reality to a higher degree of reality, and in no degree is there a rejection of reality. It is only a growth from a lower level to a higher one. So when we go to the higher degree of reality, we are not rejecting the lower degree of reality, but rather we have overcome it. We have transcended it, just as when a student goes to a higher class in an educational career, that higher class transcends the lower degrees of kindergarten, first standard, second standard and third standard, but it does not reject them. Rejection is not what is implied; rather it is an absorption of values into a higher inclusive condition of understanding, insight and education.
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If we have such desires which cannot be fulfilled in this life on account of prevailing conditions, we will take another birth. But we do not want another birth that is another point. Do we want to go on increasing the number of births because we have got intense desires? Here comes the need for a Guru. If we have such terrible desires that are, reasonably speaking, impossible to fulfil, and yet they cannot simply be ignored from the point of view of spiritual practice, a Guru's direct guidance is absolutely necessary. The point is that desires cannot be completely neglected. We cannot simply turn a deaf ear, or close our eyes to their cries. They have to be very rationally dealt with and sublimated.
There are three ways of dealing with a desire. Psychologically, the terms used in this connection are 'suppression', 'substitution' and 'sublimation'. We can suppress a desire. Suppose we have got a desire just now, and we cannot fulfil it because we are in an audience and cannot fulfil the desire right here; we will suppress it. We will push it inside because society does not permit it. We cannot simply start fulfilling any desire in an audience or in a parliament it has no meaning. So we suppress it and push it inside, but this is no solution. We have pushed it inside, so it is sitting within us like a coiled-up snake, and it will show its hood when the audience is over.
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
irrelevant and readily ignored in any general description
of its functioning. (It might be noted here that, according
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
rather prone to ignore it.
To begin with, Descartes considers the lower animals as
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
last analysis, since individuality is a fact not to be ignored, the relationship
must be dialectical.
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
It is, however, certain that many activities undertaken by some minds at the present time were not, in the remote past, undertaken by any minds at all. For this there are several obvious reasons. Certain thoughts are practically unthinkable except in terms of an appropriate language and within the framework of an appropriate system of classification. Where these necessary instruments do not exist, the thoughts in question are not expressed and not even conceived. Nor is this all: the incentive to develop the instruments of certain kinds of thinking is not always present. For long periods of history and prehistory it would seem that men and women, though perfectly capable of doing so, did not wish to pay attention to problems, which their descendants found absorbingly interesting. For example, there is no reason to suppose that, between the thirteenth century and the twentieth, the human mind underwent any kind of evolutionary change, comparable to the change, let us say, in the physical structure of the horses foot during an incomparably longer span of geological time. What happened was that men turned their attention from certain aspects of reality to certain other aspects. The result, among other things, was the development of the natural sciences. Our perceptions and our understanding are directed, in large measure, by our will. We are aware of, and we think about, the things which, for one reason or another, we want to see and understand. Where theres a will there is always an intellectual way. The capacities of the human mind are almost indefinitely great. Whatever we will to do, whether it be to come to the unitive knowledge of the Godhead, or to manufacture self-propelled flame-throwers that we are able to do, provided always that the willing be sufficiently intense and sustained. It is clear that many of the things to which modern men have chosen to pay attention were ignored by their predecessors. Consequently the very means for thinking clearly and fruitfully about those things remained uninvented, not merely during prehistoric times, but even to the opening of the modern era.
The lack of a suitable vocabulary and an adequate frame of reference, and the absence of any strong and sustained desire to invent these necessary instruments of though there are two sufficient reasons why so many of the almost endless potentialities of the human mind remained for so long unactualized. Another and, on its own level, equally cogent reason is this: much of the worlds most original and fruitful thinking is done by people of poor physique and of a thoroughly unpractical turn of mind. Because this is so, and because the value of pure thought, whether analytical or integral, has everywhere been more or less clearly recognized, provision was and still is made by every civilized society for giving thinkers a measure of protection from the ordinary strains and stresses of social life. The hermitage, the monastery, the college, the academy and the research laboratory; the begging bowl, the endowment, patronage and the grant of taxpayers moneysuch are the principal devices that have been used by actives to conserve that rare bird, the religious, philosophical, artistic or scientific contemplative. In many primitive societies conditions are hard and there is no surplus wealth. The born contemplative has to face the struggle for existence and social predominance without protection. The result, in most cases, is that he either dies young or is too desperately busy merely keeping alive to be able to devote his attention to anything else. When this happens the prevailing philosophy will be that of the hardy, extraverted man of action.
1.01 - The Ideal of the Karmayogin, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Parliament. Machinery is of great importance, but only as a working means for the spirit within, the force behind. The nineteenth century in India aspired to political emancipation, social renovation, religious vision and rebirth, but it failed because it adopted Western motives and methods, ignored the spirit, history and destiny of our race and thought that by taking over
The Ideal of the Karmayogin
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
But even if you don't perform acts of filial devotion like these, of a caliber that elicits heavenly intervention, I devoutly hope you do not commit acts of an unfilial nature that will bring punishment down upon you. A person who ignores or refuses to acknowledge what takes place right under his nose and insists on merely doing as he pleases must be either a stupid man or an evil one.
The people in the half-dozen stories I related, having turned away from reasonable courses of action, convinced themselves that their transgressions were minor and that any retri bution would be minor as well, and because of that they ended up receiving the severe judgment of heaven, dying very unfortunate deaths, leaving behind them names blackened forever as unfilial sons or daughters, and falling into the interminable suffering and torment of the Burning Hells. That this happened because they did not fear the wrath of the gods and were ignorant of heavenly retri bution is a matter each and every person should give the greatest care and consideration.
1.020 - The World and Our World, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
What is an individual, which we call the percipient? It is an abstracted group of characters, tentatively isolated from a larger set or group of characters to which these former really belong an act that has been perpetrated mysteriously for the purpose of playing a drama, we may say. We have falsely isolated ourselves. Even that isolation is not a real isolation, because a mere abstraction of a few characters from a group of larger characters cannot be regarded as real. It is only a closing of one's eyes to certain existent conditions. We can ignore the presence of things and conditions which are not conducive to our present purpose, but why this purpose itself has arisen is a very difficult thing to answer. This is maya, as they call it, a peculiar jugglery that has been projected by no one. Neither can we say that God created it, nor can we say that we created it. It is somewhere; and how it has come, neither can we say, nor can anyone else say. The inscrutability of the relationship between the individual and the cosmic, the difficulty in ascertaining the connection between appearance and reality this is called maya. To put it in more plain terms, the relationship between the subject and the object is itself difficult to understand.
We cannot understand what our connection is with anything at all, and so we are in a helpless condition. Therefore we cannot even control the mind, because controlling the mind is an adjustment of the modifications of the mind in respect of the object of its cognition, and the object of its cognition is not properly understood because of its unintelligible character. Everything then becomes difficult, and our efforts become a source of failure in the end. Success does not seem to be forthcoming, because it is not clear to us what is the right direction that we have to take.
1.02.3.2 - Knowledge and Ignorance, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
They ignore by choice of knowledge, as the others are ignorant
by compulsion of error. Knowing all to transcend all is the right
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is partly error and all the rest it ignores.
It can only accept and harmonise itself with a certain number
1.025 - Sadhana - Intensifying a Lighted Flame, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
I can give you examples of quantitative systems which we create in our practical daily life for the purpose of overcoming the urges of the ego and connecting it with wider or larger wholes. A physical individual, or a bodily person, is the lowest unit of reality as far as our experience goes. An utterly selfish individual is one who looks upon the body as the ultimate reality, and the only reality there is nothing else. Now, this is the grossest form of egoism, where the bodily individuality is regarded as the only reality and everything else is completely ignored. This is the animal's way of thinking, to some extent. The tiger has no concern for anything except its own personal existence, and it can pounce on anyone for the sake of its own security and existence.
The animalistic way of thinking persists in the human level also, and often many times, in fact the urge to assert one's bodily individuality vehemently gains the upper hand, though rationally it would not be possible for anyone to justify the exclusive reality of a bodily personality. Such was the primitive condition of people in prehistoric times, or Paleolithic times, as they say, when human beings were not yet evolved to the present condition of social understanding. In the biological history of mankind, right from creation as far as the mind can go, it is said that the evolution of the human individual, right from the lowest levels, included certain conditions of human existence which were inseparable from animal life. The caveman, the Neanderthal man and such other primitive types of existence point to an animal mind operating through a human body, where cannibalism was not unfamiliar. One could eat another, because the animal mind was not completely absent even in the human body, and there was insecurity on account of it being possible for one man to eat another man. As history tells us, it took ages for the primitive mind to realise the necessity for individuals to come into agreement among themselves for the purpose of security. If I start jumping upon you and you start jumping upon me, both of us will be unhappy and insecure, and you would not know whether you will be safe and I cannot know if I will be safe. This sort of thing would be most undesirable.
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But, this is not the type of reality which Patanjali had in mind, though this type of reality cannot be completely ignored. While it is true that a social system is a quantitatively higher reality than an individual body, because for obvious reasons life without it would be impracticable, it is not wholly true that an ordered society is qualitatively superior to the individual, which is the reason that insecurity within society still persists. Even with the best government there can be insecurity and unhappiness because, after all, individuals are behind this quantitative system called this ordered whole. A hundred million thinking people cannot always be qualitatively superior to one thinking man. After all, it is man who is thinking, and not God. We must know that. A hundred million people thinking, means only people are thinking only man is thinking. So qualitatively, it is only human thinking, though quantitatively it has a larger force on account of the inclusion of many individuals.
This is a very interesting subject in political science, where political thinkers differ in their opinions as to whether there is a total absence of improvement in quality when there is social order, and there is only a quantitative increase, or whether there is also an element of an increase of quality in thinking. This has led to divergent opinions among statesmen and political philosophers right from Plato and Aristotle onwards, through to Chanakya and other thinkers in India - where the opinion swung like a pendulum. One side held that there is absolutely no improvement in quality, though there is a large improvement in quantity, and the other side thought that there is an element of qualitative superiority. We are not going to discuss this subject at present, as it is outside the jurisdiction of our current topic.
1.02 - Karmayoga, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There have been others in the past which have powerfully influenced the national mind and there is no reason why there should not be a yet more perfect synthesis in the future. It is such a synthesis, embracing all life and action in its scope, that the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda have been preparing. What is dimly beginning now is a repetition on a wider stage of what happened once before in India, more rapidly but to smaller issues, when the Buddha lived and taught his philosophy and ethics to the Aryan nations. Then as now a mighty spirit, it matters not whether Avatar or Vibhuti, the full expression of God in man or a great outpouring of the divine energy, came down among men and brought into their daily life and practice the force and impulse of utter spirituality. And this time it is the full light and not a noble part, unlike Buddhism which, expressing Vedantic morality, yet ignored a fundamental reality of Vedanta and was therefore expelled from its prime seat and cradle. The material result was then what it will be now, a great political, moral and social revolution which made India
Karmayoga
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
stories, and massively dysregulate our emotions. By their nature, they are harder to ignore although that
does not stop us from trying to do so.
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The more ignored inconveniences in a given catastrophe, the more likely it will destroy.
Enough has been learned in the last half-century of inquiry into intellectual and emotional function to
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job, who can safely be ignored, and so on. You are always comparing this present (unsatisfactory)
condition to that of your ideal, which is you, increasingly respected, powerful, rich, and happy, free of
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condition under question and could therefore usefully be ignored. Similarly, if you starve human beings,
you can be reasonably sure that they will become concerned with food. However, even in this extreme case,
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of every other part. To ignore one good, therefore, is to risk all. To ignore the demands of one necessary
subsystem is merely to ensure that it will speak later with the voice of the unjustly oppressed; to ensure that
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judging from moment to moment what is to be deemed worthy of pursuit; determining what can be ignored,
at least temporarily, during that pursuit. We are capable of acting and of producing the results we desire
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impossible to ignore. The unknown, unexpected, or unpredictable is the source of all conditional
knowledge and the place that such knowledge returns to, so to speak, when it is no longer useful.
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do it automatically, without thinking, to categorize it at a glance (or less than a glance), or to ignore it
entirely. The nervous system is designed to eliminate predictability from consideration, and to focus
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conditional adaptation, action, and abstract thought, but impossible to ignore, from the standpoint of affect.
The personality of such beings constitutes the embodiment of incomprehensible, and often intolerable,
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grasp of conscious abstract apprehension, but not safe to ignore.
It is no simple manner for the limited subject to formulate an accurate representation of the unlimited
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consequence of a too-rigid too arrogant value hierarchy. (What or who can reasonably be ignored is
as much a part of such a hierarchy as who or what must be attended too.) When trouble arrives, the
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son a proper hero pays attention to what the sensible ignore, makes a voyage into the unknown, and
brings back what is needed. It is the journey of the hero that revitalizes the king. Osiris languishes in the
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
of saying something nasty to him, we just ignore him. We easily react in this
way. If somebody criticizes us or does something we dont like, we instantly
1.02 - SOCIAL HEREDITY AND PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
theorists of heredity seem to have ignored. No complete light has
yet been thrown on the secret processes taking place in the micro-
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
First, however, we have to eliminate a certain prejudice. This preconception is inevitably a stumbling block to anyone who approaches the Waldorf education movement without a basic study of anthroposophy. I dont mean for a moment that we simply ignore objections to this kind of education. On the contrary, those who have a spiritual foundation such as anthroposophy cannot be the least bit fanatical; they will always fully consider any objections to their viewpoints. Consequently, they fully understand the frequent objection to pedagogical ideas founded upon anthroposophy: you need to prove thats true.
Now, people have a lot to say about proofs with no clear idea of what that means. I cant present a detailed lecture on the methods of proof in the various spheres of life and knowledge; but Id like to clarify the matter by way of the following analogy.
1.02 - THE NATURE OF THE GROUND, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Finally we come to such occurrences as faith healing and levitationoccurrences supernormally strange, but nevertheless attested by masses of evidence which it is hard to discount completely. Precisely how faith cures diseases (whether at Lourdes or in the hypnotists consulting room), or how St. Joseph of Cupertino was able to ignore the laws of gravitation, we do not know. (But let us remember that we are no less ignorant of the way in which minds and bodies are related in the most ordinary of everyday activities.) In the same way we are unable to form any idea of the modus operandi of what Professor Rhine has called the PK effect. Nevertheless the fact that the fall of dice can be influenced by the mental states of certain individuals seems now to have been established beyond the possibility of doubt. And if the PK effect can be demonstrated in the laboratory and measured by statistical methods, then, obviously, the intrinsic credibility of the scattered anecdotal evidence for the direct influence of mind upon matter, not merely within the body, but outside in the external world, is thereby notably increased. The same is true of extra-sensory perception. Apparent examples of it are constantly turning up in ordinary life. But science is almost impotent to cope with the particular case, the isolated instance. Promoting their methodological ineptitude to the rank of a criterion of truth, dogmatic scientists have often branded everything beyond the pale of their limited competence as unreal and even impossible. But when tests for ESP can be repeated under standardized conditions, the subject comes under the jurisdiction of the law of probabilities and achieves (in the teeth of what passionate opposition!) a measure of scientific respectability.
Such, very baldly and briefly, are the most important things we know about mind in regard to its capacity to influence matter. From this modest knowledge about ourselves, what are we entitled to conclude in regard to the divine object of our nearly total ignorance?
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
thought. He must never cease repeating to himself that he may have made quite considerable progress after a certain interval of time, though it may not be apparent to him in the way he perhaps expected; otherwise he can easily lose heart and abandon all attempts after a short time. The powers and faculties to be developed are of a most subtle kind, and differ entirely in their nature from the conceptions previously formed by the student. He had been accustomed to occupy himself exclusively with the physical world; the world of spirit and soul had been concealed from his vision and concepts. It is therefore not surprising if he does not immediately notice the powers of soul and spirit now developing in him. In this respect there is a possibility of discouragement for those setting out on the path to higher knowledge, if they ignore the experience gathered by responsible investigators. The teacher is aware of the progress made by his pupil long before the latter is conscious of it He knows how the delicate spiritual eyes begin to form themselves long before the pupil is aware of this, and a great part of what he has to say is couched in such terms as to prevent the pupil from losing patience
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1.02 - THE WITHIN OF THINGS, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
coherent manner: science has provisionally decided to ignore
the question, and it would be very convenient for us to do the
10.37 - The Golden Bridge, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Still, however, it is not easy to completely ignore or efface the influence of a concrete truth, a fact which is at the basis of human birth the truth and fact of the body, of the external material objects. For example, how to express That which does not belong to this world, has not the measures of this body? The Upanishad has perforce to speak negatively of the Supreme positive Reality. It has to say, "It is not this, it is not this, it is quite other than all this, it has no parallel here below although it is the source and origin of all this." We have found some positive words indeedsat-cit-nanda; but the other key-word is a negative in structureamtam, not death. Immortality means not mortality, and ananta too is a negative expression. We remember the famous lines: Na tatra srya bhti etc.,1 it is a supreme revelation, it is supremely evocative but it is built up of negatives. The Vedic rishis followed a different line, as I said; they did not evade or reject the materials of a physical life, they boldly grasped them and used them as signs, symbols, embodiments of other truths and realities. They accepted the sun, the moon, the stars, man and woman, even the normal activities of life but they gave these quite a different connotation. They filled them with a new depth and density, a higher specific gravity.
The instruments being inadequate, it was necessary to bypass them and take to an indirect way for expressing realities that are beyond them. Neither the language nor the mental concepts were the vessels that could hold the divine drink. And sometimes the result was not very happy.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
elements exist. The ignored elements conspire, so to speak, as a consequence of their repression and
make their existence known, inevitably, in some undesirable manner.
1.03 - Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
conscious mind ignores it. Just as it can be assumed with the
greatest probability that every man possesses all the average
1.03 - Man - Slave or Free?, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is from these false and dangerous doctrines of materialism which tend to subvert mans future and hamper his evolution, that Yoga gives us a means of escape. It asserts on the contrary mans freedom from matter and gives him a means of asserting that freedom. The first great fundamental discovery of the Yogins was a means of analysing the experiences of the mind and the heart. By Yoga one can isolate mind, watch its workings as under a microscope, separate every minute function of the various parts of the antakaraa, the inner organ, every mental and moral faculty, test its isolated workings as well as its relations to other functions and faculties and trace backwards the operations of mind to subtler and ever subtler sources until just as material analysis arrives at a primal entity from which all proceeds, so Yoga analysis arrives at a primal spiritual entity from which all proceeds. It is also able to locate and distinguish the psychical centre to which all psychical phenomena gather and so to fix the roots of personality. In this analysis its first discovery is that mind can entirely isolate itself from external objects and work in itself and of itself. This does not, it is true, carry us very far because it may be that it is merely using the material already stored up by its past experiences. But the next discovery is that the farther it removes itself from objects, the more powerfully, surely, rapidly can the mind work with a swifter clarity, with a victorious and sovereign detachment. This is an experience which tends to contradict the scientific theory, that mind can withdraw the senses into itself and bring them to bear on a mass of phenomena of which it is quite unaware when it is occupied with external phenomena. Science will naturally challenge these as hallucinations. The answer is that these phenomena are related to each other by regular, simple and intelligible laws and form a world of their own independent of thought acting on the material world. Here too Science has this possible answer that this supposed world is merely an imaginative reflex in the brain of the material world and to any arguments drawn from the definiteness and unexpectedness of these subtle phenomena and their independence of our own will and imagination it can always oppose its theory of unconscious cerebration and, we suppose, unconscious imagination. The fourth discovery is that mind is not only independent of external matter, but its master; it can not only reject and control external stimuli, but can defy such apparently universal material laws as that of gravitation and ignore, put aside and make nought of what are called laws of nature and are really only the laws of material nature, inferior and subject to the psychical laws because matter is a product of mind and not mind a product of matter. This is the decisive discovery of Yoga, its final contradiction of materialism. It is followed by the crowning realisation that there is within us a source of immeasurable force, immeasurable intelligence, immeasurable joy far above the possibility of weakness, above the possibility of ignorance, above the possibility of grief which we can bring into touch with ourselves and, under arduous but not impossible conditions, habitually utilise or enjoy. This is what the Upanishads call the Brahman and the primal entity from which all things were born, in which they live and to which they return. This is God and communion with Him is the highest aim of Yogaa communion which works for knowledge, for work, for delight.
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1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The word personality is derived from the Latin, and its upper partials are in the highest degree respectable. For some odd philological reason, the Saxon equivalent of personality is hardly ever used. Which is a pity. For if it were usedused as currently as belch is used for eructationwould people make such a reverential fuss about the thing connoted as certain English-speaking philosophers, moralists and theologians have recently done? Personality, we are constantly being assured, is the highest form of reality, with which we are acquainted. But surely people would think twice about making or accepting this affirmation if, instead of personality, the word employed had been its Teutonic synonym, selfness. For selfness, though it means precisely the same, carries none of the high-class overtones that go with personality. On the contrary, its primary meaning comes to us embedded, as it were, in discords, like the note of a cracked bell. For, as all exponents of the Perennial Philosophy have constantly insisted, mans obsessive consciousness of, and insistence on being, a separate self is the final and most formidable obstacle to the unitive knowledge of God. To be a self is, for them, the original sin, and to the to self, in feeling, will and intellect, is the final and all-inclusive virtue. It is the memory of these utterances that calls up the unfavourable overtones with which the word selfness is associated. The all too favourable overtones of personality are evoked in part by its intrinsically solemn Latinity, but also by reminiscences of what has been said about the persons of the Trinity. But the persons of the Trinity have nothing in common with the flesh-and-blood persons of our everyday acquaintancenothing, that is to say, except that indwelling Spirit, with which we ought and are intended to identify ourselves, but which most of us prefer to ignore in favour of our separate selfness. That this God-eclipsing and anti-spiritual selfness, should have been given the same name as is applied to the God who is a Spirit, is, to say the least of it, unfortunate. Like all such mistakes it is probably, in some obscure and subconscious way, voluntary and purposeful. We love our selfness; we want to be justified in our love; therefore we christen it with the same name as is applied by theologians to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For per-adventure thou thinkest that if it were destroyed, all other hindrances were destroyed; and if thou thinkest thus, thou thinkest right truly. But to this I answer thee and I say, that without a full special grace full freely given by God, and also a full according ableness on thy part to receive this grace, this naked knowing and feeling of thy being may in nowise be destroyed. And this ableness is nought else but a strong and a deep ghostly sorrow. All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feeleth matter of sorrow that knoweth and feeleth that he is. All other sorrows in comparison to this be but as it were game to earnest. For he may make sorrow earnestly that knoweth and feeleth not only what he is, but that he is. And whoso felt never this sorrow, let him make sorrow; for he hath never yet felt perfect sorrow. This sorrow, when it is had, cleanseth the soul, not only of sin, but also of pain that it hath deserved for sin; and also it maketh a soul able to receive that joy, the which reaveth from a man all knowing and feeling of his being.
1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
the sun. To ignore that tenuous fdm would be to deprive the
infant earth of its most essential adornment. For, as we shall see,
1.03 - The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One who is no longer egoistic no longer has any personal place in this world. That is to say, in exact proportion to his impersonality, this personal world no longer has any personal relations with him. He is in relation with the world, with beings and things only as universal and non-individual forces are; like them, he acts in all, animates all, supports all, but in a general way he is completely ignored by all that he animates, supports and sets in motion.
It is not he who no longer wants the world, it is the world that no longer wants him or, rather, that no longer even notices that he exists.
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
what are we to do? Shall we try to ignore the problem and con-
tinue to live on impulse and haphazard, without deciding any-
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
In view of our Qabalistic doctrine, however, of the inadequacy of the intellectual faculties to solve these insuperable philosophical problems - a fact which a num- ber of loquacious Qabalists constantly ignore or forget - it would be as well, and much more sensible, to admit that logically we cannot account for the existence of the first
Sephirah from which everything else has been evolved.
1.03 - Time Series, Information, and Communication, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
these are ignored, non-observed coordinates and momenta that
the time series with which we actually work take on the sort of
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Then one day he suddenly grabbed the master and hurried him to a secluded spot at the rear of the temple. He seated the master on the ground, spread out his prostration cloth before him, and performed three bows. 'I appeal to your great mercy and compassion,' he said. 'Please teach me the principles of Zen. Guide me to sudden enlightenment.' The master ignored him, enraging the monk, who flew into a fit of passion, sprang to his feet and, eyes red with anger, broke off a large branch from a nearby tree. Brandishing it, he stood in front of the master glaring scornfully at him. 'Priest!' he cried. 'If you don't tell me what you know, I am going to club you to death, cast your body down the cliff, and leave this place for good.' 'If you want to beat me to death, go ahead,' replied the master. 'I'm not going to teach you any Zen.' What a pity. This monk was obviously gifted with special capacity and spiritual strength. He had what it takes to penetrate the truth and perish into the great death. But notice what great caution and infinite care these ancient teachers exercised when leading students to self-awakening.
"Zen Master Tao-wu responded to a monk with the words, 'I won't say living. I won't say dead.'
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
That Nirvana and Samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth by hearsay, and to act upon it in practice, is merely to court disaster. All the dismal story of antinomianism is there to warn us of what happens when men and women make practical applications of a merely intellectual and unrealized theory that all is God and God is all. And hardly less depressing than the spectacle of antinomianism is that of the earnestly respectable well-rounded life of good citizens who do their best to live sacramentally, but dont in fact have any direct acquaintance with that for which the sacramental activity really stands. Dr. Oman, in his The Natural and the Supernatural, writes at length on the theme that reconciliation to the evanescent is revelation of the eternal; and in a recent volume, Science, Religion and the Future, Canon Raven applauds Dr. Oman for having stated the principles of a theology, in which there could be no ultimate antithesis between nature and grace, science and religion, in which, indeed, the worlds of the scientist and the theologian are seen to be one and the same. All this is in full accord with Taoism and Zen Buddhism and with such Christian teachings as St. Augustines Ama et fac quod vis and Father Lallemants advice to theocentric contemplatives to go out and act in the world, since their actions are the only ones capable of doing any real good to the world. But what neither Dr. Oman nor Canon Raven makes sufficiently clear is that nature and grace, Samsara and Nirvana, perpetual perishing and eternity, are really and experientially one only to persons who have fulfilled certain conditions. Fac quod vis in the temporal world but only when you have learnt the infinitely difficult art of loving God with all your mind and heart and your neighbor as yourself. If you havent learnt this lesson, you will either be an antinomian eccentric or criminal or else a respectable well-rounded-lifer, who has left himself no time to understand either nature or grace. The Gospels are perfectly clear about the process by which, and by which alone, a man may gain the right to live in the world as though he were at home in it: he must make a total denial of selfhood, submit to a complete and absolute mortification. At one period of his career, Jesus himself seems to have undertaken austerities, not merely of the mind, but of the body. There is the record of his forty days fast and his statement, evidently drawn from personal experience, that some demons cannot be cast out except by those who have fasted much as well as prayed. (The Cur dArs, whose knowledge of miracles and corporal penance was based on personal experience, insists on the close correlation between severe bodily austerities and the power to get petitionary prayer answered in ways that are sometimes supernormal.) The Pharisees reproached Jesus because he came eating and drinking, and associated with publicans and sinners; they ignored, or were unaware of, the fact that this apparently worldly prophet had at one time rivalled the physical austerities of John the Baptist and was practising the spiritual mortifications which he consistently preached. The pattern of Jesus life is essentially similar to that of the ideal sage, whose career is traced in the Oxherding Pictures, so popular among Zen Buddhists. The wild ox, symbolizing the unregenerate self, is caught, made to change its direction, then tamed and gradually transformed from black to white. Regeneration goes so far that for a time the ox is completely lost, so that nothing remains to be pictured but the full-orbed moon, symbolizing Mind, Suchness, the Ground. But this is not the final stage. In the end, the herdsman comes back to the world of men, riding on the back of his ox. Because he now loves, loves to the extent of being identified with the divine object of his love, he can do what he likes; for what he likes is what the Nature of Things likes. He is found in company with wine-bibbers and butchers; he and they are all converted into Buddhas. For him, there is complete reconciliation to the evanescent and, through that reconciliation, revelation of the eternal. But for nice ordinary unregenerate people the only reconciliation to the evanescent is that of indulged passions, of distractions submitted to and enjoyed. To tell such persons that evanescence and eternity are the same, and not immediately to qualify the statement, is positively fatalfor, in practice, they are not the same except to the saint; and there is no record that anybody ever came to sanctity, who did not, at the outset of his or her career, behave as if evanescence and eternity, nature and grace, were profoundly different and in many respects incompatible. As always, the path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses. On one side is the danger of mere rejection and escape, on the other the danger of mere acceptance and the enjoyment of things which should only be used as instruments or symbols. The versified caption which accompanies the last of the Oxherding Pictures runs as follows.
Even beyond the ultimate limits there extends a passageway,
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Today we recognize and condemn the first kind of imperialism; but most of us ignore the existence and even the very possibility of the second. And yet the author of Erewhon was certainly not a fool, and now that we are paying the appalling price for our much touted conquest of Nature his book seems more than ever topical. And Butler was not the only nineteenth-century sceptic in regard to Inevitable Progress. A generation or more before him, Alfred de Vigny was writing about the new technological marvel of his days, the steam enginewriting in a tone very different from the enthusiastic roarings and trumpetings of his great contemporary, Victor Hugo.
Sur le taureau de fer, qui fume, souffle et beugle,
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
were the insignificant symptoms of an ailment, which the patient ignores; then these symptoms recur
more and more frequently, until they merge into one continuous duration of suffering. The suffering
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conceptual idioms, and ignored or denied the existence of poetic and imaginative thought. This attitude
continued into the twentieth century with I.A. Richardss Science and Poetry, with its suggestion that
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Let me illustrate. I shall restrict myself to the field of tennis. After Sri Aurobindo's passing I thought of giving up tennis for good. The Mother said, "Why? You will play with me." Every day I went to the tennis ground and she called me for a game. This led to the revival of my old passion which had been arrested due to Sri Aurobindo's illness. I was not satisfied with merely playing a few games with the Mother. Besides, as I had no regular duty to bind me, I began to indulge in it with abandon. Suddenly the Mother stopped playing with me and for many days at a stretch, I was mystified. Every day I waited, hoping to be called; she would call many others, but ignore me. The contrast was too flagrant. I felt rather humiliated. Curiously enough, whenever I had stopped playing at other times, she gave me a chance. The apparent connection between the two made me suspect that she wanted me to give up playing with others except with herself. As to how she knew which day I had played or abstained from playing, that was no riddle to anyone who knew her well. But I could not give up the game so easily. Also, I thought, "Why should I give it up? What's wrong with it? It is a good pleasant exercise!" Moreover, I wanted to be quite sure of my suspicion and continued playing till I found that there was a clear connection. She called me only when I had not played with others. This "cutting" became so painful to me and palpable to others that I thought of not going to the courts while she played, but some force dragged me there, not exactly in expectation of a game but so as not to give in to my sense of pride and prestige. I observed that she took note of my presence and I was one of the referees during her play. I also thought, "If she had some accident while playing (an accident did happen later) and I was not there? What account should I give to Sri Aurobindo in my inner communion with him? I must swallow my amour-propre."
During the sports season, she went to the sports ground after her tennis. Instead of following her, I stayed to enjoy a game. But when I had followed her, she took note of my presence by a fugitive glance for no apparent reason. This happened so often that even a dull person would not fail to perceive the meaning. Thus the battle raged on: sense of humiliation, struggle to keep the right attitude, doggedness to stick to my self-will and a host of other psychological complexes. At last the relentless silent pressure won and I gave up tennis. This is our human nature. When it is evident that the Divine wants to do something for my good, I refuse either out of attachment, self-justification or sheer disobedience. Change of nature is such an uphill job. It is not for nothing that the Guru said in 1936, that changing the nature of 150 inmates of the Ashram was a job! The interesting point was that the Mother never voiced her wish in words. Her way is usually subtle. She has said that unless she could control a movement by a silent gesture or look, she had not gained a complete mastery. Neither did I ask her what should have been my attitude towards the play. If I did, she would probably have answered. When she said, "You will play with me", I could not grasp the inner meaning that I should play with her alone. This is one of the methods she employs to open us to higher perceptions than those of reason.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The present essays are merely intended to raise the subject, not to exhaust it, to offer suggestions, not to establish them. The theory of Vedic religion which I shall suggest in these pages, can only be substantiated if it is supported by a clear, full, simple, natural and harmonious rendering of the Veda standing on a sound philological basis, perfectly consistent in itself and proved in hymn after hymn without any hiatus or fatal objection. Such a substantiation I shall one day place before the public. The problem of Vedic interpretation depends, in my view, on three different tests, philological, historic and psychological. If the results of these three coincide, then only can we be sure that we have understood the Veda. But to erect this Delphic tripod of interpretation is no facile undertaking. It is easy to misuse philology. I hold no philology to be sound & valid which has only discovered one or two byelaws of sound modification and for the rest depends upon imagination & licentious conjecture,identifies for instance ethos with swadha, derives uloka from urvaloka or prachetasa from prachi and on the other [hand] ignores the numerous but definitely ascertainable caprices of Pracritic detrition between the European & Sanscrit tongues or considers a number of word-identities sufficient to justify inclusion in a single group of languages. By a scientific philology I mean a science which can trace the origins, growth & structure of the Sanscrit language, discover its primary, secondary & tertiary forms & the laws by which they develop from each other, trace intelligently the descent of every meaning of a word in Sanscrit from its original root sense, account for all similarities & identities of sense, discover the reason of unexpected divergences, trace the deviations which separated Greek & Latin from the Indian dialect, discover & define the connection of all three with the Dravidian forms of speech. Such a system of comparative philology could alone deserve to stand as a science side by side with the physical sciences and claim to speak with authority on the significance of doubtful words in the Vedic vocabulary. The development of such a science must always be a work of time & gigantic labour.
But even such a science, when completed, could not, owing to the paucity of our records be, by itself, a perfect guide. It would be necessary to discover, fix & take always into account the actual ideas, experiences and thought-atmosphere of the Vedic Rishis; for it is these things that give colour to the words of men and determine their use. The European translations represent the Vedic Rishis as cheerful semi-savages full of material ideas & longings, ceremonialists, naturalistic Pagans, poets endowed with an often gorgeous but always incoherent imagination, a rambling style and an inability either to think in connected fashion or to link their verses by that natural logic which all except children and the most rudimentary intellects observe. In the light of this conception they interpret Vedic words & evolve a meaning out of the verses. Sayana and the Indian scholars perceive in the Vedic Rishis ceremonialists & Puranists like themselves with an occasional scholastic & Vedantic bent; they interpret Vedic words and Vedic mantras accordingly. Wherever they can get words to mean priest, prayer, sacrifice, speech, rice, butter, milk, etc, they do so redundantly and decisively. It would be at least interesting to test the results of another hypothesis,that the Vedic thinkers were clear-thinking men with at least as clear an expression as ordinary poets have and at least as high ideas and as connected and logical a way of expressing themselvesallowing for the succinctness of poetical formsas is found in other religious poetry, say the Psalms or the Book of Job or St Pauls Epistles. But there is a better psychological test than any mere hypothesis. If it be found, as I hold it will be found, that a scientific & rational philological dealing with the text reveals to us poems not of mere ritual or Nature worship, but hymns full of psychological & philosophical religion expressed in relation to fixed practices & symbolic ceremonies, if we find that the common & persistent words of Veda, words such as vaja, vani, tuvi, ritam, radhas, rati, raya, rayi, uti, vahni etc,an almost endless list,are used so persistently because they expressed shades of meaning & fine psychological distinctions of great practical importance to the Vedic religion, that the Vedic gods were intelligently worshipped & the hymns intelligently constructed to express not incoherent poetical ideas but well-connected spiritual experiences,then the interpreter of Veda may test his rendering by repeating the Vedic experiences through Yoga & by testing & confirming them as a scientist tests and confirms the results of his predecessors. He may discover whether there are the same shades & distinctions, the same connections in his own psychological & spiritual experiences. If there are, he will have the psychological confirmation of his philological results.
1.04 - The Sacrifice the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it may be offered to the cosmic All or it may be offered to the transcendent Supreme. The worship given may take any shape from the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water, a handful of rice, a loaf of bread, to consecration of all that we possess and the submission of all that we are. Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master. All our actions, all our efforts, even our sins and stumblings and sufferings and struggles are obscurely or consciously, known to us and seen or else unknown and in a disguise, governed in their last result by the One. All is turned towards him in his numberless forms and offered through them to the single Omnipresence. In whatever form and with whatever spirit we approach him, in that form and with that spirit he receives the sacrifice.
And the fruit also of the sacrifice of works varies according to the work, according to the intention in the work and according to the spirit that is behind the intention. But all other sacrifices are partial, egoistic, mixed, temporal, incomplete,even those offered to the highest Powers and Principles keep this character: the result too is partial, limited, temporal, mixed in its reactions, effective only for a minor or intermediate purpose. The one entirely acceptable sacrifice is a last and highest and uttermost self-giving,it is that surrender made face to face, with devotion and knowledge, freely and without any reserve to One who is at once our immanent Self, the environing constituent All, the Supreme Reality beyond this or any manifestation and, secretly, all these together, concealed everywhere, the immanent Transcendence. For to the soul that wholly gives itself to him, God also gives himself altogether. Only the one who offers his whole nature, finds the Self. Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere. Only a supreme self-abandonment attains to the Supreme. Only the sublimation by sacrifice of all that we are, can enable us to embody the Highest and live here in the immanent consciousness of the transcendent Spirit.
1.052 - Yoga Practice - A Series of Positive Steps, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The social self is easier to control than the personal self, known as the bodily self. We cannot easily control our body, because that has a greater intimacy with our pure state or consciousness than the intimacy that is exhibited by external relations like family members, etc. We may for a few days forget the existence of the members of the family, but we cannot forget for a few days that we have a body; that is a greater difficulty. So, the withdrawal of consciousness from attachment has to be done by degrees, as I mentioned, and the problems have to be gradually thinned out by the coming back of consciousness from its external relationships, stage by stage, taking every step with fixity so that it may not be retraced, and missing not a single link in this chain of steps taken. We should not take jumps in this practice of self-restraint, because every little item is an important item and one single link that we missed may create trouble one day. There may be small desires which do not look very big or troublesome, but they can become troublesome if they are completely ignored, because there is nothing in this world which can be regarded as wholly unimportant. Everything has some importance or the other; and if the time comes, it can help us, or it can trouble us.
Everything has to be taken into consideration so far as we are related to it, and a proper attitude of detachment has to be practised by various means, external as well as internal. This is the principle of austerity which, to re-emphasise, does not mean either too much indulgence or going to the other extreme of completely cutting off all indulgence. It is the allowing in of as much relationship with things, both in quantity and quality, as would be necessary under the conditions of ones own personality in that particular stage of evolution, with the purpose of helping oneself in the onward growth to a healthier condition of spiritual aspiration.
1.053 - A Very Important Sadhana, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
It is the pressure of the senses towards objects that prevents the mind from taking to exclusive spiritual meditations. The objects of sense are so real to the senses that they cannot easily be ignored or forgotten. Even the very thought of an object will draw the mind towards it, and every particularised thought in the direction of an object is a further affirmation of the falsity that Reality is only in some place, in some object, in some thing, in some person, etc., and it is not universal in its nature. The universality of Truth is denied by the senses, at every moment of time, in their activities towards sense gratification.
The very purpose of the senses is to bring about this refusal of the ultimate universality of Godhead, to affirm the diversity of objects and to push the mind forcefully towards these external things. If this undesirable activity on the part of the senses can be ended to the extent possible, this force with which the mind moves towards objects can be harnessed for a better purpose, for a more positive aim than the indulgence of the senses in objects. The very restraint of the senses from their movement towards objects is a meditation by itself, at least in some sense, because energy cannot be bottled up, unused; it always finds expression in some way or the other. If we do not utilise it in more beneficial ways for spiritual purposes, the only alternative would be for this mental energy to leak out through the senses towards objects of sense. If this leakage is blocked and prevented, the energy wells up within like the waters of a river that will rise up when a bund is constructed across it.
1.056 - Lack of Knowledge is the Cause of Suffering, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
So, this caution given to us here is that, in our practices, we should not ignore the presence of the cause and get engaged too much merely in the effect, since whatever be the intensity of the practice in respect of the control of the effect, it will not be finally successful because the major-general is alive, and he will not keep quiet like that. We are attacking the poor soldiers while the commander is still alive, and he has other resources to attack us even if a regiment is destroyed by the effort of our practice. The cause has to be tackled; unless that is overcome there is no use merely confronting the effects. This is the advice given here.
1.05 - Pratyahara and Dharana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
We hear "Be good," and "Be good," and "Be good," taught all over the world. There is hardly a child, born in any country in the world, who has not been told, "Do not steal," "Do not tell a lie," but nobody tells the child how he can help doing them. Talking will not help him. Why should he not become a thief? We do not teach him how not to steal; we simply tell him, "Do not steal." Only when we teach him to control his mind do we really help him. All actions, internal and external, occur when the mind joins itself to certain centres, called the organs. Willingly or unwillingly it is drawn to join itself to the centres, and that is why people do foolish deeds and feel miserable, which, if the mind were under control, they would not do. What would be the result of controlling the mind? It then would not join itself to the centres of perception, and, naturally, feeling and willing would be under control. It is clear so far. Is it possible? It is perfectly possible. You see it in modern times; the faith-healers teach people to deny misery and pain and evil. Their philosophy is rather roundabout, but it is a part of Yoga upon which they have somehow stumbled. Where they succeed in making a person throw off suffering by denying it, they really use a part of Pratyahara, as they make the mind of the person strong enough to ignore the senses. The hypnotists in a similar manner, by their suggestion, excite in the patient a sort of morbid Pratyahara for the time being. The so-called hypnotic suggestion can only act upon a weak mind. And until the operator, by means of fixed gaze or otherwise, has succeeded in putting the mind of the subject in a sort of passive, morbid condition, his suggestions never work.
Now the control of the centres which is established in a hypnotic patient or the patient of faith-healing, by the operator, for a time, is reprehensible, because it leads to ultimate ruin. It is not really controlling the brain centres by the power of one's own will, but is, as it were, stunning the patient's mind for a time by sudden blows which another's will delivers to it. It is not checking by means of reins and muscular strength the mad career of a fiery team, but rather by asking another to deliver heavy blows on the heads of the horses, to stun them for a time into gentleness. At each one of these processes the man operated upon loses a part of his mental energies, till at last, the mind, instead of gaining the power of perfect control, becomes a shapeless, powerless mass, and the only goal of the patient is the lunatic asylum.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
problems ignored do not go away, but get worse, as they follow their own peculiar developmental path).
The order the fascist imposes, therefore, bears within it the seeds of its own destruction.
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of the thing he ignored.
The habitual act of avoidance of rejection weakens the personality, in a direct causal manner. The
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ignored. They have been ignored because his students were outside the academic mainstream (and
perhaps because they were frequently women). They have been ignored because they present a serious
challenge an absolutely fatal challenge, in my estimation to Freudian psychoanalytic preconceptions.
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matters 594 (that makes a difference, that we care about, that cannot be ignored, that is informative) or
what is the matter? We derive information as a consequence of our exploratory behavior, undertaken
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henceforth be ignored. The process of exploration-predicated classification has eliminated the motivational
significance of the novel as is its function. From the mythic perspective, this is replacement of the Great
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innumerable alchemical manuscripts, ignored until 1940, have recently been meticulously analyzed by
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs in her book The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy (1975). Dobbs affirms that
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In its spectacular flight, modern science has ignored, or rejected, the heritage of Hermeticism. Or to
put it differently, the triumph of Newtonian mechanics has ended up by annihilating its own scientific
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in childish fantasy. He was applying what he knew to what was unfamiliar, but could not be ignored. Mans
first attempts to describe the unknown cannot be faulted because they lacked empirical validity. Man was
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Kierkegaard, or Nietzsche) impossible to ignore as a literary figure. [Frye, N. (1990). pp. 52-54].
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1.05 - THE NEW SPIRIT, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
and impossible to pursue a line of thought which ignores the
concept of a world in evolution.
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We need not suppose that all Germany thought in this strenuous fashion, as it was too long represented, or that the majority thought thus consciously; but it is sufficient that an energetic minority of thinkers and strong personalities should seize upon the national life and impress certain tendencies upon it for these to prevail practically or at the least to give a general trend subconsciously even where the thought itself is not actually proposed in the conscious mind. And the actual events of the present hour seem to show that it was this gospel that partly consciously, partly subconsciously or half articulately had taken possession of the collective German mind. It is easy to deride the rigidity of this terrible logic or riddle it with the ideas and truths it has ignored, and it is still easier to abhor, fear, hate and spew at it while practically following its principles in our own action with less openness, thoroughness and courage. But it is more profitable to begin by seeing that behind it there was and is a tremendous sincerity which is the secret of its force, and a sort of perverse honesty in its errors; the sincerity which tries to look straight at ones own conduct and the facts of life and the honesty to proclaim the real principles of that conduct and notexcept as an occasional diplomacyprofess others with the lips while disregarding them in the practice. And if this ideal is to be defeated not merely for a time in the battle-field and in the collective person of the nation or nations professing it, as happened abortively in the War, but in the mind of man and in the life of the human race, an equal sincerity and a less perverse honesty has to be practised by those who have arrived at a better law.
The German gospel has evidently two sides, the internal and the external, the cult of the State, nation or community and the cult of international egoism. In the first, Germany, even if for a time entirely crushed in the battle-field, seems to have already secured the victory in the moral sense of the human race. The unsparing compulsion as against the assistance of the individual by the State7for his and the common good, of course, but who professes to compel for harm?is almost everywhere either dominant or else growing into a strong and prevailing current of opinion; the champions of individual freedom are now a morally defeated and dwindling army who can only fight on in the hope of a future reaction or of saving something of their principle from the wreck. On the external side, the international, the battle of ideas still goes on, but there were from the beginning ominous signs;8 and now after the physical war with its first psychological results is well over, we are already able to see in which direction the tide is likely to flow. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. Germany, defeated in the war, has won in the after war; the German gospel rearisen in a sterner and fiercer avatar threatens to sweep over all Europe.
1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Today the achievement of India's freedom is attributed to various factors: the August movement, Non-cooperation, the Terrorist movement, the I. N. A. and others; the factor that played the decisive part is either not admitted or ignored altogether. From Sri Aurobindo's pronouncements we can assert that his Force was principally responsible for the success of the Allies and the defeat of the Japanese, thereby helping India to gain her freedom. In fact, India's freedom had been his constant dream from his very boyhood. Even during his intense sadhana in Pondicherry, it was always in his mind and he indefatigably worked for it in the yogic way till he became convinced that freedom was inevitable. As far back as 1935, when I asked him if he was working for India's freedom, he replied, "That is all settled, it is a question of working out only.... It is what she will do with her independence that is not arranged for and so it is that about which I have to bother."
The other causes then could be considered no more than contributory, even if indispensable factors. Out of all these, I may make some comment on the claims of the I. N. A. Whatever significance there may be in its claims, the role it played was fraught with most dangerous consequences. I wonder how our countrymen had no apprehension of them. It was a fatal game the I.N.A. played, thinking that the Japanese, after the conquest of India, would peacefully leave the country letting the I.N.A. enjoy the fruit of its victory, or that India would be able to fight and drive them out. Sri Aurobindo pointing out what would have been our condition, had Japan entered India, said, "Japan's imperialism being young and based on industrial and military power and moving westward, was a greater menace to India than the British imperialism which was old, which the country had learnt to deal with and which was on the way to elimination."
1.060 - Tracing the Ultimate Cause of Any Experience, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
As is the intention in the teaching of this sutra, the remote causes, though they cannot be easily discovered, will come to the purview of ones vision if the immediate causes are first discovered. There are immediate causes as well as remote causes. The remote causes can be ignored for the time being, and we can concern ourselves with the immediate cause. What is the immediate reason behind a particular event that has taken place, as far as it can be visible to the eyes or intelligible to the mind? Then, a proper step has to be taken to rectify the situation which has become the immediate cause of a particular experience. The experience that we are referring to here is nothing but the manifestation of a vritti in the mind in the direction of an object of sense, or any kind of individualistic satisfaction.
Generally, an impulse is not absent in any person. Every impulse is present in every person, just as every disease is in everybody, only it manifests itself in some and in others it does not manifest itself due to unfavourable circumstances. Likewise, everyone has every desire. No one is free from any desire; but in some, certain desires can manifest themselves, whereas in others they cannot, due to the circumstances in which they live. The physical, psychological and social conditions, etc. have something to say about the time and the manner in which a particular impulse can reveal itself outside. When a particular urge is felt inside, it means that favourable conditions for its manifestation are ready, on hand. Unless conditions are favourable, the urge will not manifest itself.
1.06 - Dhyana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
47:We may, however, provisionally accept the view that Dhyana is real; more real and thus of more importance to ourselves than all other experience. This state has been described not only by the Hindus and Buddhists, but by Mohammedans and Christians. In Christian writings, however, the deeply-seated dogmatic bias has rendered their documents worthless to the average man. They ignore the essential conditions of Dhyana, and insist on the inessential, to a much greater extent than the best Indian writers. But to any one with experience and some knowledge of comparative religion the identity is certain. We may now proceed to Samadhi.
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
How admirably acute and subtle this is! One of the most extraordinary, because most gratuitous, pieces of twentieth-century vanity is the assumption that nobody knew anything about psychology before the days of Freud. But the real truth is that most modern psychologists understand human beings less well than did the ablest of their predecessors. Fnelon and La Rochefoucauld knew all about the surface rationalization of deep, discreditable motives in the subconscious, and were fully aware that sexuality and the will to power were, all too often, the effective forces at work under the polite mask of the persona. Machiavelli had drawn Paretos distinction between residues and derivationsbetween the real, self-interested motives for political action and the fancy theories, principles and ideals in terms of which such action is explained and justified to the credulous public. Like Buddhas and St. Augustines, Pascals view of human virtue and rationality could not have been more realistically low. But all these men, even La Rochefoucauld, even Machiavelli, were aware of certain facts which twentieth-century psychologists have chosen to ignore the fact that human nature is tripartite, consisting of a spirit as well as of a mind and body; the fact that we live on the border-line between two worlds, the temporal and the eternal, the physical-vital-human and the divine; the fact that, though nothing in himself, man is a nothing surrounded by God, indigent of God, capable of God and filled with God, if he so desires.
The Christian simplicity, of which Grou and Fnelon write, is the same thing as the virtue so much admired by Lao Tzu and his successors. According to these Chinese sages, personal sins and social maladjustments are all due to the fact that men have separated themselves from their divine source and live according to their own will and notions, not according to Taowhich is the Great Way, the Logos, the Nature of Things, as it manifests itself on every plane from the physical, up through the animal and the mental, to the spiritual. Enlightenment comes when we give up self-will and make ourselves docile to the workings of Tao in the world around us and in our own bodies, minds and spirits. Sometimes the Taoist philosophers write as though they believed in Rousseaus Noble Savage, and (being Chinese and therefore much more concerned with the concrete and the practical than with the merely speculative) they are fond of prescribing methods by which rulers may reduce the complexity of civilization and so preserve their subjects from the corrupting influences of man-made and therefore Tao-eclipsing conventions of thought, feeling and action. But the rulers who are to perform this task for the masses must themselves be sages; and to become a sage, one must get rid of all the rigidities of unregenerate adulthood and become again as a little child. For only that which is soft and docile is truly alive; that which conquers and outlives everything is that which adapts itself to everything, that which always seeks the lowest placenot the hard rock, but the water that wears away the everlasting hills. The simplicity and spontaneity of the perfect sage are the fruits of mortificationmortification of the will and, by recollectedness and meditation, of the mind. Only the most highly disciplined artist can recapture, on a higher level, the spontaneity of the child with its first paint-box. Nothing is more difficult than to be simple.
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It is by long obedience and hard work that the artist comes to unforced spontaneity and consummate mastery. Knowing that he can never create anything on his own account, out of the top layers, so to speak, of his personal consciousness, he submits obediently to the workings of inspiration; and knowing that the medium in which he works has its own self-nature, which must not be ignored or violently overriden, he makes himself its patient servant and, in this way, achieves perfect freedom of expression. But life is also an art, and the man who would become a consummate artist in living must follow, on all the levels of his being, the same procedure as that by which the painter or the sculptor or any other craftsman comes to his own more limited perfection.
Prince Huis cook was cutting up a bullock. Every blow of his knife, every heave of his shoulders, every tread of his foot, every whshh of rent flesh, every chhk of the chopper, was in perfect harmonyrhythmical like the Dance of the Mulberry Grove, simultaneous like the chords of the Ching Shou.
1.06 - The Three Schools of Magick 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Religion, on the contrary, seeks to ignore the laws of Nature, or to escape them by appeal to a postulated power which is assumed to have laid them down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.)
The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that Magick has always been the mother of Science. It is, therefore, of extreme importance that some effort should be made to understand something of the subject; and there is, therefore, no apology necessary for essaying this brief outline of its historical aspects.
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
appeared before us, we would ignore them.
By making these requests, were taking the upside-down bowl of our
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However, learning to evaluate ourselves doesnt mean we just ignore others feedback. Our Dharma friends have a different perspective from ordinary
people and can point out things to us that others wouldnt. Paying heed to
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our side, we usually ignore the enlightened ones unless we have problems.
But here we say, Youre my best friend. Be close to me, Divine Mother,
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that people who didnt know him would ignore because he looked raggedy.
But he was an incredible practitioner. Even his attendant, Ven. Lobsang Donden, who for years carried food up to Geshe-las hut every week when he was
1.07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1:THE KNOWLEDGE on which the doer of works in Yoga has to found all his action and development has for the keystone of its structure a more and more concrete perception of unity, the living sense of an all-pervading oneness; he moves in the increasing consciousness of all existence as an indivisible whole: all work too is part of this divine indivisible whole. His personal action and its results can no longer be or seem a separate movement mainly or entirely determined by the egoistic "free" will of an individual, himself separate in the mass. Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they are put or, more accurately, put themselves into their place in the whole out of which they arise and their outcome is determined by forces that overpass us. That world action in its vast totality and in every petty detail is the indivisible movement of the One who manifests himself progressively in the cosmos. Man too becomes progressively conscious of the truth of himself and the truth of things in proportion as he awakens to this One within him and outside him and to the occult, miraculous and significant process of its forces in the motion of Nature. This action, this movement, is not confined even in ourselves and those around us to the little fragmentary portion of the cosmic activities of which we in our superficial consciousness are aware; it is supported by an immense underlying environing existence subliminal to our minds or subconscious, and it is attracted by an immense transcending existence which is superconscious to our nature. Our action arises, as we ourselves have emerged, out of a universality of which we are not aware; we give it a shape by our personal temperament, personal mind and will of thought or force of impulse or desire; but the true truth of things, the true law of action exceeds these personal and human formations. Every standpoint, every man-made rule of action which ignores the indivisible totality of the cosmic movement, whatever its utility in external practice, is to the eye of spiritual Truth an imperfect view and a law of the Ignorance.
2:Even when we have arrived at some glimpse of this idea or succeeded in fixing it in our consciousness as a knowledge of the mind and a consequent attitude of the soul, it is difficult for us in our outward parts and active nature to square accounts between this universal standpoint and the claims of our personal opinion, our personal will, our personal emotion and desire. We are forced still to go on dealing with this indivisible movement as if it were a mass of impersonal material out of which we, the ego, the person, have to carve something according to our own will and mental fantasy by a personal struggle and effort. This is man's normal attitude towards his environment, actually false because our ego and its will are creations and puppets of the cosmic forces and it is only when we withdraw from ego into the consciousness of the divine Knowledge-Will of the Eternal who acts in them that we can be by a sort of deputation from above their master. And yet is this personal position the right attitude for man so long as he cherishes his individuality and has not yet fully developed it; for without this view-point and motiveforce he cannot grow in his ego, cannot sufficiently develop and differentiate himself out of the subconscious or half-conscious universal mass-existence.
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20:No individual rises to these heights except in intense moments, no society yet created satisfies this ideal. And in the present state of morality and of human development none perhaps can or ought to satisfy it. Nature will not allow it, Nature knows that it should not be. The first reason is that our moral ideals are themselves for the most part ill-evolved, ignorant and arbitrary, mental constructions rather than transcriptions of the eternal truths of the spirit. Authoritative and dogmatic, they assert certain absolute standards in theory, but in practice every existing system of ethics proves either in application unworkable or is in fact a constant coming short of the absolute standard to which the ideal pretends. If our ethical system is a compromise or a makeshift, it gives at once a principle of justification to the further sterilising compromises which society and the individual hasten to make with it. And if it insists on absolute love, justice, right with an uncompromising insistence, it soars above the head of human possibility and is professed with lip homage but ignored in practice. Even it is found that it ignores other elements in humanity which equally insist on survival but refuse to come within the moral formula. For just as the individual law of desire contains within it invaluable elements of the infinite whole which have to be protected against the tyranny of the absorbing social idea, the innate impulses too both of individual and of collective man contain in them invaluable elements which escape the limits of any ethical formula yet discovered and are yet necessary to the fullness and harmony of an eventual divine perfection.
21:Moreover, absolute love, absolute justice, absolute right reason in their present application by a bewildered and imperfect humanity come easily to be conflicting principles. Justice often demands what love abhors. Right reason dispassionately considering the facts of nature and human relations in search of a satisfying norm or rule is unable to admit without modification either any reign of absolute justice or any reign of absolute love. And in fact man's absolute justice easily turns out to be in practice a sovereign injustice; for his mind, one-sided and rigid in its constructions, puts forward a one-sided partial and rigorous scheme or figure and claims for it totality and absoluteness and an application that ignores the subtler truth of things and the plasticity of life. All our standards turned into action either waver on a flux of compromises or err by this partiality and unelastic structure. Humanity sways from one orientation to another; the race moves upon a zigzag path led by conflicting claims and, on the whole, works out instinctively what Nature intends, but with much waste and suffering, rather than either what it desires or what it holds to be right or what the highest light from above demands from the embodied spirit.
22:The fact is that when we have reached the cult of absolute ethical qualities and erected the categorical imperative of an ideal law, we have not come to the end of our search or touched the truth that delivers. There is, no doubt, something here that helps us to rise beyond limitation by the physical and vital man in us, an insistence that overpasses the individual and collective needs and desires of a humanity still bound to the living mud of Matter in which it took its roots, an aspiration that helps to develop the mental and moral being in us: this new sublimating element has been therefore an acquisition of great importance; its workings have marked a considerable step forward in the difficult evolution of terrestrial Nature. And behind the inadequacy of these ethical conceptions something too is concealed that does attach to a supreme Truth; there is here the glimmer of a light and power that are part of a yet unreached divine Nature. But the mental idea of these things is not that light and the moral formulation of them is not that power. These are only representative constructions of the mind that cannot embody the divine spirit which they vainly endeavour to imprison in their categorical formulas. Beyond the mental and moral being in us is a greater divine being that is spiritual and supramental; for it is only through a large spiritual plane where the mind's formulas dissolve in a white flame of direct inner experience that we can reach beyond mind and pass from its constructions to the vastness and freedom of the supramental realities. There alone can we touch the harmony of the divine powers that are poorly mispresented to our mind or framed into a false figure by the conflicting or wavering elements of the moral law. There alone the unification of the transformed vital and physical and the illumined mental man becomes possible in that supramental Spirit which is at once the secret source and goal of our mind and life and body. There alone is there any possibility of an absolute justice, love and right - far other than that which we imagine - at one with each other in the light of a supreme divine knowledge. There alone can there be a reconciliation of the conflict between our members.
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26:The older religions erected their rule of the wise, their dicta of Manu or Confucius, a complex Shastra in which they attempted to combine the social rule and moral law with the declaration of certain eternal principles of our highest nature in some kind of uniting amalgam. All three were treated on the same ground as equally the expression of everlasting verities, sanatana dharma. But two of these elements are evolutionary and valid for a time, mental constructions, human readings of the will of the Eternal; the third, attached and subdued to certain social and moral formulas, had to share the fortunes of its forms. Either the Shastra grows obsolete and has to be progressively changed or finally cast away or else it stands as a rigid barrier to the self-development of the individual and the race. The Shastra erects a collective and external standard; it ignores the inner nature of the individual, the indeterminable elements of a secret spiritual force within him. But the nature of the individual will not be ignored; its demand is inexorable. The unrestrained indulgence of his outer impulses leads to anarchy and dissolution, but the suppression and coercion of his soul's freedom by a fixed and mechanical rule spells stagnation or an inner death. Not this coercion or determination from outside, but the free discovery of his highest spirit and the truth of an eternal movement is the supreme thing that he has to discover.
27:The higher ethical law is discovered by the individual in his mind and will and psychic sense and then extended to the race. The supreme law also must be discovered by the individual in his spirit. Then only, through a spiritual influence and not by the mental idea, can it be extended to others. A moral law can be imposed as a rule or an ideal on numbers of men who have not attained that level of consciousness or that fineness of mind and will and psychic sense in which it can become a reality to them and a living force. As an ideal it can be revered without any need of practice. As a rule it can be observed in its outsides even if the inner sense is missed altogether. The supramental and spiritual life cannot be mechanised in this way, it cannot be turned into a mental ideal or an external rule. It has its own great lines, but these must be made real, must be the workings of an active Power felt in the individual's consciousness and the transcriptions of an eternal Truth powerful to transform mind, life and body. And because it is thus real, effective, imperative, the generalisation of the supramental consciousness and the spiritual life is the sole force that can lead to individual and collective perfection in earth's highest creatures. Only by our coming into constant touch with the divine Consciousness and its absolute Truth can some form of the conscious Divine, the dynamic Absolute, take up our earth-existence and transform its strife, stumbling, sufferings and falsities into an image of the supreme Light, Power and Ananda.
1.07 - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
2:This is extremely important, I think, because the higher stages of development, the transrational and transpersonal and mystical stages, all involve a new going within, a new interiorness. And the charge has been circulating, for quite some time now, that endeavors such as meditation are somehow narcissistic and withdrawn. Environmentalists, in particular, often claim that meditation is somehow "escapist" or "egocentric," and that this "going within" simply ignores the "real" problems in the "real" world "out there."
3:Precisely the opposite. Far from being some sort of narcissistic withdrawal or inward isolation, meditation (or transpersonal development in general) is a simple and natural continuation of the evolutionary process, where every going within is also a going beyond to a wider embrace.
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In the academic world of the two cultures, many theorists in the under-funded humanities (and virtually everybody in the New Age movement) seized upon the notion of "paradigm" as a way to undercut the authority of normal science, bolster their own departments, reduce empirical facts to arbitrary social conventions-and then propose their own, new and improved "paradigm." In all of these, "paradigm" was mistaken as some sort of overall theory or concept or notion, the idea being that if you came up with a new and better theory, the factual evidence could be ignored because that was just "old paradigm."
Among other things, this meant that empirical science didn't really show any "progress," but was merely a shifting of opinions ("paradigms") that had no referent except in the arbitrary conventions of scientists (and these conventions were always charged with some sort of "ism" that the new paradigm would overcome).
All of this ignored Kuhn's repeated insistence that "later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the quite often different environments to which they are applied. This is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress."20
But by collapsing "paradigm" into a mere theory (itself unanchored), the scientific enterprise could be collapsed into various forms of literary chitchat (and the new masters of the universe were therefore . . . the literary critics).
1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
while other, rare souls seem replete with a consciousness as vast as the earth. Indeed, a man can be a luminous yogi or a saint living in his soul, yet still possess a crude mind, a repressed vital, a body he ignores or crassly mistreats, and a completely virgin superconscient.
"Salvation" may be achieved, but not the fullness of an integral life.
1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
A person who gives assent to untrue dogma, or who pays all his attention and allegiance to one true dogma in a comprehensive system, while neglecting the others (as many Christians concentrate exclusively on the humanity of the Second Person of the Trinity and ignore the Father and the Holy Ghost), runs the risk of limiting in advance his direct apprehension of Reality. In religion as in natural science, experience is determined only by experience. It is fatal to prejudge it, to compel it to fit the mould imposed by a theory which either does not correspond to the facts at all, or corresponds to only some of the facts. Do not strive to seek after the true, writes a Zen master, only cease to cherish opinions. There is only one way to cure the results of belief in a false or incomplete theology and it is the same as the only known way of passing from belief in even the truest theology to knowledge or primordial Factselflessness, docility, openness to the datum of Eternity. Opinions are things which we make and can therefore understand, formulate and argue about. But to rest in the consideration of objects perceptible to the sense or comprehended by the understanding is to be content, in the words of St. John of the Cross, with what is less than God. Unitive knowledge of God is possible only to those who have ceased to cherish opinionseven opinions that are as true as it is possible for verbalized abstractions to be.
Up then, noble soul! Put on thy jumping shoes which are intellect and love, and overleap the worship of thy mental powers, overleap thine understanding and spring into the heart of God, into his hiddenness where thou art hidden from all creatures.
1.083 - Choosing an Object for Concentration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Again we come to that original analysis of the nature of the mind why it is moving like that, from object to object. It has got many aims in intention, and these aims are nothing but the satisfaction of the different types of vrittis of which it is constituted. So it will not be amenable to any kind of pinpointing, because this pinpointing implies the satisfaction of a single vritti only, leaving the other vrittis unsatisfied. This is a difficulty which it feels, and a suspicion that it has got: You are trying to compel me to concentrate on one thing, so that I may get only that, but what about my other children who also ask for many things? If only one child is satisfied, the father is not happy. Other children are there, and they also have to be satisfied. So, what about the other children the other vrittis whom we have completely ignored, as it were, in our attempt at driving any one particular vritti only in the direction of the object that we have chosen now? The mind cannot appreciate that this object of concentration is not going to be the fulfilment only of a single vritti that it is going to be the fulfilment of every vritti. It is something which can satisfy all our children and is not merely the goal of only one child. This is what the mind has to understand. But it will not understand.
The objects in this world are, unfortunately, constituted in such a way that they can attract only a particular vritti at a particular time; they cannot attract all the vrittis. Hence, we are not accustomed to the conception of any object which can attract all the vrittis. Such a thing has not been seen in this world, and now we are saying that such a thing is possible. Is there anything which can draw the attention of the entire force of our mind at one stroke? We have not seen such a thing, and so we do not believe it when we are told that in yoga such a thing is possible. One thing that is important here is to make the mind awaken itself to this enlightenment that the object of meditation is not the satisfaction of one vritti merely, like the objects of the senses. It is the total aspiration of the whole structure of the mind getting fulfilled. The whole family will be happy, we must tell the mind, not merely one vritti.
1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
I ignore completely, at this stage of exegesis, the charms and amulets which comprise a greater part of such Qabal- istic works as Sepher Ratsiel haMaloch and The Greater Key of King Solomon. My references are in the main directed towards the spiritual thaumaturgy manifested in, for example, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage and such invocations as " The Bornless One ", " Liber Israfel " ; the latter being an adaptation from the Book of the Dead ; and the powerful fragments of lyrical ritual found in the Dee manuscripts. When a man endeavours to perfect his meditation, the rebellion of the human will and the Ruach is violent, and only by experience can one discover the almost diabolical ingenuity of the mind in attempting to escape from control. There are methods of training that will, by which it is more or less easy to check one's progress. Magical ritual is a mnemonic process devoted to this end. I say mnemonic advisedly, to answer objections to " apparatus " employed by the Practical Qabalist.
By each act, word, and thought, the one object of the ceremony - the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel- is being constantly indicated. Every fumigation, invocation, banishing and circumambulation is simply a reminder of the single purpose until - after symbol upon symbol, emotion after emotion having been added - the supreme moment arrives, and every nerve of the body, every force-channel of the Nephesch and Ruach is strained in one overwhelming orgasm, one ecstatic rush of the Will and Soul in the pre- determined direction.
1.08 - Information, Language, and Society, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
be loose enough for us to be able to ignore it altogether.Information, Language, and Society
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1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
First, "Be asleep to all things": that means ignore time, creatures, images [causal]. And then you could perceive what God works in you. That is why the soul says in the Song of Songs, "I sleep but my Heart watches."
Therefore, if all creatures are asleep in you, you can perceive what God works in you [as Godhead].
1.08 - The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Before starting to describe the four kinds of austerity required, it is necessary to clarify one question which is a source of much misunderstanding and confusion in the minds of most people. It is the question of ascetic practices, which they mistake for spiritual disciplines. These practices, which consist of ill-treating the body in order, so they say, to liberate the spirit from it, are in fact a sensuous distortion of spiritual discipline; it is a kind of perverse need for suffering which drives the ascetic to self-mortification. The sadhus recourse to the bed of nails or the Christian anchorites resort to the whip and the hair-shirt are the result of a more or less veiled sadistic tendency, unavowed and unavowable; it is an unhealthy seeking or a subconscious need for violent sensations. In reality, these things are very far removed from all spiritual life, for they are ugly and base, dark and diseased; whereas spiritual life, on the contrary, is a life of light and balance, beauty and joy. They are invented and extolled by a sort of mental and vital cruelty towards the body. But cruelty, even with regard to ones own body, is nonetheless cruelty, and all cruelty is a sign of great unconsciousness. Unconscious natures need very strong sensations, for without them they can feel nothing; and cruelty, which is one form of sadism, brings very strong sensations. The avowed purpose of such practices is to abolish all sensation so that the body may no longer stand in the way of ones flight towards the spirit; but the effectiveness of this method is open to doubt. It is a recognised fact that in order to progress rapidly, one must not be afraid of difficulties; on the contrary, by choosing to do the difficult thing at every opportunity, one increases the will-power and streng thens the nerves. Now, it is much more difficult to lead a life of moderation and balance, in equanimity and serenity, than to try to contend with over-indulgence in pleasure and the obscuration it entails, by over-indulgence in asceticism and the disintegration it causes. It is much more difficult to achieve the harmonious and progressive development of ones physical being in calm and simplicity than to ill-treat it to the point of annihilation. It is much more difficult to live soberly and with- out desire than to deprive the body of its indispensable nourishment and cleanliness and boast proudly of ones abstinence. It is much more difficult to avoid or to surmount and conquer illness by an inner and outer harmony, purity and balance, than to disregard and ignore it and leave it free to do its work of destruction. And the most difficult thing of all is to maintain the consciousness constantly at the height of its capacity, never allowing the body to act under the influence of a lower impulse.
This is why we shall have recourse to the four austerities which will result in four liberations within us. The practice of these austerities will constitute a fourfold discipline or tapasya which can be defined as follows:
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If indeed the philology of the Europeans were an exact science or its conclusions inevitable results from indisputable premises, there would be no room for any reopening of the subject. But the failure of comparative philology to develop a sound scientific basis & to create a true science of language has been one of the conspicuous intellectual disappointments of the nineteenth century. There can be no denial of that failure. This so-called science is scouted by scientific minds and even the possibility of an etymological science has been disputed. The extravagances of the philological sun myth weavers have been checked by a later method which prefers the evidence of facts to the evidence of nouns & adjectives. The later ethnological theories ignore the conclusions & arguments of the philologists. The old theory of Aryan, Semite, Dravidian & Turanian races has everywhere been challenged and is everywhere breached or rejected. The philologists have indeed established some useful identities and established a few rules of phonetical modification and detrition. But the rest is hypothesis and plausible conjecture. The capacity of brilliant conjecture, volatile inference and an ingenious imagination have been more useful to the modern Sanscrit scholar than rigorous research, scientific deduction or patient and careful generalisation. We are therefore at liberty even on the ground of European science & knowledge to hesitate before the conclusions of philological scholarship.
But for my own part I do not hold myself bound by European research&European theories.My scepticism of nineteenth century results goes farther than is possible to any European scepticism. The Science of comparative religion in Europe seems to me to be based on a blunder. The sun & star theory of comparative mythology with its extravagant scholastic fancies & lawless inferences carries no conviction to my reason. I find in the Aryan & Dravidian tongues, the Aryan and Dravidian races not separate & unconnected families but two branches of a single stock. The legend of the Aryan invasion & settlement in the Panjab in Vedic times is, to me, a philological myth. The naturalistic interpretation of theVedas I accept only as a transference or adhyaropa of European ideas into the Veda foreign to the mentality of the Vedic Rishis & Max Mullers discovery of Vedic henotheism as a brilliant & ingenious error. Whatever is sound & indisputable in European ideas & discoveries, I am bound to admit & shall use, but these large generalisations & assumptions ought, I think, no longer to pass current as unchallengeable truth or the final knowledge about the Vedas. My method is rather to make a tabula rasa of all previous theories European or Indian & come back to the actual text of the Veda for enlightenment, the fundamental structure & development of the old Sanscrit tongue for a standard of interpretation and the connection of thought in the hymns for a guide to their meaning. I have arrived as a result at a theory of the Vedic religion, of which this book is intended to give some initial indications.
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Sayanas interpretation there is a miracle of ritualism & impossibility which it is best to ignore. ach means in the Veda power, sumati, right thought or right feeling, as we have seen, vjadvan, strength-giving,strength in the sense of steadfast substance whether of moral state or quality or physical state or quality. Yuvku in such a connection & construction cannot mean mixed. The word is in formation the root yu and the adjectival ku connected by the euphonic v. It is akin therefore to yuv, youth, & yavas, energy, plenty or luxuriance; the common idea is energy & luxuriance. The adjective yuvku, if this connection be correct, would mean full of energy or particularly of the energy of youth. We get, therefore, a subjective sense for yuvku which suits well with ach, sumati & vjadvan and falls naturally into the structure & thought of Medhatithis rik. Bhyma may mean become in the state of being or like the Greek (bh) it may admit a transitive sense, to bring about in oneself or attain; yuvku achnm will mean the full energy of the powers & we get this sense forMedhatithis thought: Let us become or For we would effect in ourselves the full energy of the powers, the full energy of the right thoughts which give substance to our inner state or faculties.
We have reached a subjective sense for yuvku. But what of vriktabarhishah? Does not barhih always mean in the Veda the sacred grass strewn as a seat for the gods? In the Brahmanas is it not so understood and have [we] not continually the expression barhishi sdata? I have no objection; barhis is certainly the seat of the Gods in the sacrifice, stritam nushak, strewn without a break. But barhis cannot originally have meant Kusha grass; for in that case the singular could only be used to indicate a single grass and for the seat of the Gods the plural barhnshi would have to be used,barhihshu sdata and not barhishi sdata.We have the right to go behind the Brahmanas and enquire what was the original sense of barhis and how it came to mean kusha grass. The root barh is a modified formation from the root brih, to grow, increase or expand, which we have in brihat. From the sense of spreading we may get the original sense of seat, and because the material spread was usually the Kusha grass, the word by a secondary application came to bear also that significance. Is this the only possible sense of barhis? No, for we find it interpreted also as sacrifice, as fire, as light or splendour, as water, as ether. We find barhana & barhas in the sense of strength or power and barhah or barham used for a leaf or for a peacocks tail. The base meaning is evidently fullness, greatness, expansion, power, splendour or anything having these attri butes, an outspread seat, spreading foliage, the outspread or splendid peacocks tail, the shining flame, the wide expanse of ether, the wide flow of water. If there were no other current sense of barhis, we should be bound to the ritualistic explanation. Even as it is, in other passages the ritualistic explanation may be found to stand or be binding; but is it obligatory here? I do not think it is even admissible. For observe the awkwardness of the expression, sut vriktabarhishah, wine of which the grass is stripped of its roots. Anything, indeed, is possible in the more artificial styles of poetry, but the rest of this hymn, though subtle & deep in thought, is sufficiently lucid and straightforward in expression. In such a style this strained & awkward expression is an alien intruder. Moreover, since every other expression in these lines is subjective, only dire necessity can compel us to admit so material a rendering of this single epithet. There is no such necessity. Barhis means fundamentally fullness, splendour, expansion or strength & power, & this sense suits well with the meaning we have found for yuvkavah. The sense of vrikta is very doubtful. Purified (cleared, separated) is a very remote sense of vrij or vrich & improbable. They can both mean divided, distributed, strewn, outspread, but although it is possible that vriktabarhishah means their fullness outspread through the system or distributed in the outpouring, this sense too is not convincing. Again vrijana in the Veda means strong, or as a noun, strength, energy, even a battle or fight. Vrikta may therefore [mean] brought to its highest strength. We will accept this sense as a provisional conjecture, to be confirmed or corrected by farther enquiry, and render the line The Soma distillings are replete with energy and brought to their highest fullness.
1.08 - The Synthesis of Movement, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
Why must it be that this brief hour should be lost by so great a number and the inestimable privilege of being and of self-consciousness should for the most part be ignored? For so the being passes without seeing it the great half-opened gate and returns towards the night in which ignorant desires lose themselves.
Who can say when the propitious opportunity will return for those who have once neglected it?
1.094 - Understanding the Structure of Things, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
What the sutra intends to tell us is that it is stupid on the part of any person to imagine that he is this personality which is manifest now at the present moment. He or she, as appearing now at the present moment, is only one feature that is manifest by the potentialities that are inside. There are so many potentialities which are yet to be manifested in the future. We will become another person altogether after some time, and we will be thinking that we are another person this person has gone. We were another person in the past, we are one thing now in the present, and we will be some third thing in the future. So, to which form are we going to be attached? Or, to put it more concretely, do we know what we were in our previous birth? Man, woman, king or beggar, rich or poor, tall or short, from the West or the East what were we? Nobody can say anything. We were something quite different from what we are today. We have completely ignored that which we were in the past, and now we are clinging to that which we are at present. How is it that we have completely ignored what we were in the past? We were clinging to that, once upon a time, as our real personality. How is it that we have completely forgotten that and now we are fixing our attention on something which is present? And do we know what we will be in our future? Nobody knows. We will be something else, and afterwards we will cling to that, forgetting the present.
No one can be in a uniform condition always. There is no such thing as a fixed personality or eternal individuality. Such things do not exist. So it is really very surprising that the consciousness should be tied up, like a victim to a post, in the form of a given condition at a particular moment of time. The consciousness is aware only of the present; it is not aware of the past, and also it is not aware of the future. But that which modifies itself into these features in the past, in the present and in the future is uniformly present always. That is our basic nature. It is the nature of everything inanimate, animate, etc. In all the realms of existence there is only one basic dharmi, or substance, which has cast itself into the moulds of various dharmas of forms and shapes, etc., and it can manifest itself so forcefully in the time-form that it can create the impression of that particular time-form as the only reality for the time being, as if the other features are not existent at all.
1.098 - The Transformation from Human to Divine, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
gt (III.52). The sutra tells that we will be invited as a guest by the realms of being when we advance in the stages of yoga. There are various realms of existence which we have to pierce and pass through. And, every realm is inhabited by certain denizens. Just as when we go to a new country, the citizens there may welcome us as a friend Come, dear friend, be seated, and so on the citizens, or the inhabitants of the different realms, says the Yoga Shastra, will welcome us, and we are likely to mistake this for an achievement of yoga which it is not. We are likely to get caught up in the atmosphere of that particular realm, because that atmosphere is nothing but what the senses seek and what the ego would like. They become very intense in their presentations, according to the intensity of the practice. Therefore, the sutra tells us that we should not accept these invitations. Otherwise, we will be once again in the same trouble from which we wanted to escape through the practice of yoga. Whatever be the perceptions, whatever be the delights that may present themselves, they have to be ignored by the practicant.
Here, there is another interesting feature which one can notice. These experiences of encounter, or the presentations of delight or invitations, etc., which the sutra mentions, are not necessarily super-physical. They can also be physical. That is, even in this very physical world we may have such experiences, if our practice is intense enough. We will not be able to discover the secret behind the experiences in our life, and may like to pass them over as casual occurrences of the social life of a person. The experiences that we pass through in life even in this physical life, in this very life itself may be the reactions of our practice. The denizens which the sutra speaks of may press themselves forward through the physical counterparts of this very existence itself. They need not necessarily be ethereal beings as the Puranas speak of, such as Indra, etc.
1.09 - Fundamental Questions of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
little or no interest in social relationships; he prefers to ignore them,
feeling them to be onerous, even terrifying. To the one, the world of
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phenomena, which medical psychology should on no account ignore. If
these phenomena prove anything at all, it is the fact of a certain psychic
1.09 - Man - About the Body, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
A reasonable line of life maintains the harmony of the elements in the body As soon as a disharmony in the effect of elements becomes manifest, the elements being extant in a weakened or a prevailing way, special measures have to be taken as far as food is concerned to carry the elements back to their normal course or at least to influence them favorably in this respect. Therefore the most varying diets are prescribed for specific cases. In times long passed, numerous observation led men to this opinion, of which they ignored the exact reason.
If the disturbance of the elements is such as to render visible this disharmony, it is no longer solely a disharmony but we have to deal with an illness. This will mean that more drastic remedies will be necessary to reestablish the indispensable harmony, providing we desire to bring the body back to its normal function and complete recovery. All the curing methods known up to this day have been based on this fundament. I desist from particularizing such methods, as most of them are generally known. The natural therapy employs thermic effects such as bathing, poultices, herbs, massages, etc. The allopathist utilizes concentrated medicines, which are causing the effects corresponding to the elements and destined to repair health. The homoeopathist brings to life the contrasting element according to the device Similia similibus curantur to achieve the balance of all that is in danger in conformity with the polarity laws. The electro-homoeopathist by use of his remedies, influences the electrical and magnetical fluids directly to balance the disorderly elements, according to the kind of illness, by a suitable reinforcement of these fluids.
1.1.01 - Seeking the Divine, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."
The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and
1.1.01 - The Divine and Its Aspects, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential.
In X's case there exists a conflict between his ideas of the Truth and his heart. But in following the heart in its purer impulses one follows something that is at least as precious as the mind's loyalty to its own conceptions of what the Truth may be.
1.1.04 - Philosophy, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The logician thinks he has ensured himself against error when he has made a classification of particular fallacies; but he forgets the supreme and general fallacy, the fallacy of thinking that logic can, as a rule, prove anything but particular and partial propositions dealing with a fragmentary and one-sided truth. Logic? But Truth is not logical; it contains logic, but is not contained by it. A particular syllogism may be true, so far as it goes, covering a sharply limited set of facts, but even a set of syllogisms cannot exhaust truth on a general subject, for the simple reason that they necessarily ignore a number of equally valid premises, facts or possibilities which support a modified or contrary view. If one could arrive first at a conclusion, then at its exact opposite and, finally, harmonise the contradiction, one might arrive at some approach to the truth. But this is a process logic abhors. Its fundamental conception is that two contradictory statements cannot be true at the same time and place & in the same circumstances. Now, Fact and Nature and
God laugh aloud when they hear the logician state his fundamental conception. For the universe is based on the simultaneous existence of contradictions covering the same time, place and circumstances. The elementary conception that God is at once
1.107 - The Bestowal of a Divine Gift, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Thus, it would be appropriate on the part of everyone to move harmoniously with the requirements of the forces of nature, which is a great judicious act, no doubt, and it requires guidance from inside as well as outside inwardly from our own conscience, outwardly from the Guru. Otherwise, there will be tremendous opposition, and we may have to cut off all our practices. We may be bedridden by the psychological onslaughts of those little children whom we ignored earlier when we were very young, and they will come up when we are old.
The sadhanas which are prescribed in the different schools of yoga always give a warning that no stage or step in the progress should be ignored. We should not try to have a double promotion at any time. We must always see that we have passed through every stage. Otherwise, that particular step which we have not taken and jumped over will be a problem one day or the other. These are all cautions and private problems rather than social ones. Each problem is individualistic. This is a general statement of the difficulty that may arise in the case of students or seekers, but how they will come, in what manner, is peculiar to each individual and cannot be explained generally. My problem will be different from yours, and so on, according to the nature of the vrittis and the type of emotion which is prevalent or predominant in the mind of a person. That is the statement of warning in this sutra, tat cchidreu pratyayntari saskrebhya (IV.27). Hnam e kleavat uktam (IV.28): As we have dealt with the vrittis avidya, asmita, raga, dvesa, abhinivesa we deal with them. That is the way we have to face them and sublimate them.
When we succeed in this noble attempt, we will be led to the higher realm of yoga. The lives of saints, when they are read with a critical, observant eye, provide ample food for thought in respect of the various tense situations one has to pass through in the practices. There will be onward and backward movements, and we will not know where we are; and we have to meet these situations. But when they are known and overcome, the clouds disperse.
1.10 - Conscious Force, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
22:For the rest, it is impossible to ignore the drive of set purpose, the guidance of apparent blind tendency, the sure eventual or immediate coming to the target sought, which characterise the operations of World-Force in the animal, in the plant, in inanimate things. So long as Matter was Alpha and Omega to the scientific mind, the reluctance to admit intelligence as the mother of intelligence was an honest scruple. But now it is no more than an outworn paradox to affirm the emergence of human consciousness, intelligence and mastery out of an unintelligent, blindly driving unconsciousness in which no form or substance of them previously existed. Man's consciousness can be nothing else than a form of Nature's consciousness. It is there in other involved forms below Mind, it emerges in Mind, it shall ascend into yet superior forms beyond Mind. For the Force that builds the worlds is a conscious Force, the Existence which manifests itself in them is conscious Being and a perfect emergence of its potentialities in form is the sole object which we can rationally conceive for its manifestation of this world of forms.
1.10 - The Absolute of the Being, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
In each of its sufferings the being should recognise the error of its egoistic desire, but in each of its desires it should discover the will of an Absolute in itself which it ignores.
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1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If this traditionlet us call it mystic or esoteric for want of a less abused wordwas already formed at the time of the Brahmanas and Upanishads, when and how did it originally arise? Two possibilities present themselves. The tradition may have grown up gradually in the period between the Vedic hymns and the exegetical writings or else the esoteric sense may have already existed in the Veda itself and descended in a stream of tradition to the later mystics, developing, modifying itself, substituting new terms for oldas is the way of traditions. The former is, practically, the European theory.We are told that this spiritual revolution, this movement away from ritual Nature-worship to Brahmavada, begun in the seed in the later Vedic hymns, is found in a more developed state in the Upanishads & culminated in Buddha. In these writings and in the Brahmanas some record can be found of the speculations by which the development was managed. If it prove to be so, if these ancient writings are really the result of progressive intellectual speculation departing from crude & imperfect beginnings of philosophic thought, the European theory justifies itself to the reason and can no longer easily be disputed. But is this the true character of the Upanishads? It seems to me that in most of their dealings with our religions and our philosophical literature European scholars have erred by imposing their own familiar ideas and the limits of their own mentality on the history of an alien mentality and an alien development. Nowhere has this error been more evident than in the failure to realise the true nature of the Upanishads. In India we have never developed, but only affirmed thought by philosophical speculation, because we have never attached to the mere intellectual idea the amazingly exaggerated value which Europe has attached to it, but regarded it only as a test of the logical value to be attached to particular intellectual statements of truth. That is not truth to us which is merely well & justly thought out & can be justified by ratiocinative argument; only that is truth which has been lived & seen in the inner experience. We meditate not to get ideas, but in order to experience, to realise. When we speak of the Jnani, the knower, we do not mean a competent and logical thinker full of wise or of brilliant ideas, but a soul which has seen and lived & spoken in himself with the living truth. Ratiocination is freely used by the later philosophers, but only for the justification against opponents of the ideas already formed by their own meditation or the meditation of others, Rishis, gurus, ancient Vedantins; it is not itself a sufficient means towards the discovery of truth, but at best a help. The ideas of our great thinkers are not mere intellectual statements or even happy or great intuitions; they are based upon spiritual experiences formalised by the intellect into a philosophy. Shankaras passionate advocacy of the idea of Maya as an explanation of life was not merely the ardour of a great metaphysician enamoured of a beautiful idea or a perfect theory of life, but the passion of a man with a deep & vast spiritual experience which he believed to be the sole means of human salvation. Therefore philosophy in India, instead of tending as in Europe to ignore or combat religion, has always been itself deeply religious. In Europe Buddha and Shankara would have become the heads of metaphysical schools & ranked with Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche1 as strong intellectual influences; in India they became, inevitably, the founders of great religious sects, immense moral & spiritual forces;inevitably because Europe has made thought its highest & noblest aim, while India seeks not after thought but soul-vision and inner experience and even in the realm of ideas believes that they can & ought to be seen & lived inwardly rather than merely thought and allowed indirectly to influence outward action. This has been the mentality of our race for ages.Was the mentality of our Vedic forefa thers entirely different from our own? Was it, as Western scholars seem to insist, a European mentality, the mentality of incursive Western savages, (it is Sergis estimate of the Aryans), changed afterwards by the contact with the cultured & reflective Dravidians into something new and strange, rationality changing to mysticism, materialism to a metaphysical spirituality? If so, the change had already been effected when the Upanishads were written. We speak of the discussions in the Upanishads; but in all truth the twelve Upanishads contain not a single genuine discussion. Only once in that not inconsiderable mass of literature, is there something of the nature of logical argument brought to the support of a philosophical truth. The nature of debate or logical reasoning is absent from the mentality of the Upanishadic thinkers. The grand question they always asked each other was not What hast thou thought out in this matter? or What are thy reasonings & conclusions? but What dost thou know? What hast thou seen in thyself? The Vedantic like the Vedic Rishi is a drashta & srota, not a manota, a kavi, not a manishi. There is question, there is answer; but solely for the comparison of inner knowledge & experience; never for ratiocinative argument, for disputation, for the battles of the logician. Always, knowledge, spiritual vision, experience are what is demanded; and often a questioner is turned back because he is not yet prepared in soul to realise the knowledge of the master. For all knowledge is within us and needs only to be awakened by the fit touch which opens the eyes of the soul or by the powerful revealing word.We find throughout the Vedic era always the same method, always the same theory of knowledge; they persist indeed in India to the present day and later habits of metaphysical debate unknown to the Vedic Brahmavadins have never been able to dethrone them from their primaeval supremacy. Let a man present never so finely reasoned a system of metaphysical philosophy, few will turn to hear, none leave his labour to receive, but let a man say as in the old Vedantic times I have experienced, my soul has seen, & hundreds in India will yet leave all to share in this new light of the eternal Truth.
concrete visualisation & passion for his ideas & experiences which mark off the religious from the merely philosophical mind.
1.11 - The Reason as Governor of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The highest power of reason, because its pure and characteristic power, is the disinterested seeking after true knowledge. When knowledge is pursued for its own sake, then alone are we likely to arrive at true knowledge. Afterwards we may utilise that knowledge for various ends; but if from the beginning we have only particular ends in view, then we limit our intellectual gain, limit our view of things, distort the truth because we cast it into the mould of some particular idea or utility and ignore or deny all that conflicts with that utility or that set idea. By so doing we may indeed make the reason act with great immediate power within the limits of the idea or the utility we have in view, just as instinct in the animal acts with great power within certain limits, for a certain end, yet finds itself helpless outside those limits. It is so indeed that the ordinary man uses his reasonas the animal uses his hereditary, transmitted instinctwith an absorbed devotion of it to the securing of some particular utility or with a useful but hardly luminous application of a customary and transmitted reasoning to the necessary practical interests of his life. Even the thinking man ordinarily limits his reason to the working out of certain preferred ideas; he ignores or denies all that is not useful to these or does not assist or justify or actually contradicts or seriously modifies them,except in so far as life itself compels or cautions him to accept modifications for the time being or ignore their necessity at his peril. It is in such limits that mans reason normally acts. He follows most commonly some interest or set of interests; he tramples down or through or ignores or pushes aside all truth of life and existence, truth of ethics, truth of beauty, truth of reason, truth of spirit which conflicts with his chosen opinions and interests; if he recognises these foreign elements, it is nominally, not in practice, or else with a distortion, a glossing which nullifies their consequences, perverts their spirit or whittles down their significance. It is this subjection to the interests, needs, instincts, passions, prejudices, traditional ideas and opinions of the ordinary mind1 which constitutes the irrationality of human existence.
But even the man who is capable of governing his life by ideas, who recognises, that is to say, that it ought to express clearly conceived truths and principles of his being or of all being and tries to find out or to know from others what these are, is not often capable of the highest, the free and disinterested use of his rational mind. As others are subject to the tyranny of their interests, prejudices, instincts or passions, so he is subjected to the tyranny of ideas. Indeed, he turns these ideas into interests, obscures them with his prejudices and passions and is unable to think freely about them, unable to distinguish their limits or the relation to them of other, different and opposite ideas and the equal right of these also to existence. Thus, as we constantly see, individuals, masses of men, whole generations are carried away by certain ethical, religious, aesthetic, political ideas or a set of ideas, espouse them with passion, pursue them as interests, seek to make them a system and lasting rule of life and are swept away in the drive of their action and do not really use the free and disinterested reason for the right knowledge of existence and for its right and sane government. The ideas are to a certain extent fulfilled, they triumph for a time, but their very success brings disappointment and disillusionment. This happens, first, because they can only succeed by compromises and pacts with the inferior, irrational life of man which diminish their validity and tarnish their light and glory. Often indeed their triumph is convicted of unreality, and doubt and disillusionment fall on the faith and enthusiasm which brought victory to their side. But even were it not so, the ideas themselves are partial and insufficient; not only have they a very partial triumph, but if their success were complete, it would still disappoint, because they are not the whole truth of life and therefore cannot securely govern and perfect life. Life escapes from the formulas and systems which our reason labours to impose on it; it proclaims itself too complex, too full of infinite potentialities to be tyrannised over by the arbitrary intellect of man.
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
still ignores or refuses to acknowledge. The Upanishads declare
that the Mind in us is infinite; it knows not only what has been
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been ignored. The Upanishad alone of extant scriptures gives us
without veil or stinting, with plenitude and a noble catholicity
1.13 - Conclusion - He is here, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Let us see now what have been the effects, direct and indirect, of that withdrawal. First of all, by virtue of this tremendous sacrifice the Supramental Light which had been descending into the most outward physical since 1938 but could not be fixed there, was at last fixed in the earth-consciousness. This massive descent into his own body and extending through it into all Matter was a crowning achievement of his Yoga at the expense of his body's sacrifice and an act of unparalleled self-effacement for the sake of the earth-transformation. The next step that was to follow was the great Manifestation which took place in 1956. The Mother is reported to have said after it, "Now my work is done." This means that essentially what she and Sri Aurobindo had been wanting to do was achieved, but the details had to be consciously worked out and a concentrated yoga is required to hasten the evolution. There is no doubt that the Manifestation, so soon in the wake of his departure, was the direct result of Sri Aurobindo's sacrifice. One might argue that it should have been possible without his leaving the body. Quite true, but it was getting delayed, as Sri Aurobindo complained more than once in his letters. Various internal and external circumstances were always hindering it. We have noted in the chapter on Savitri Sri Aurobindo's complaint about his real work being hampered by these factors and yet he could not ignore them. They did not leave him sufficient time for concentration which, he said, was his real work. A drastic measure to deal with all obstruction at its very root seemed called for. This measure would also create the right conditions by which the subtle sheath, free from its physical counterparts, gets its full scope and can work more dynamically from above and behind. Sri Aurobindo could now make the path clear for the Manifestation in 1956. The Mother has said in the Bulletin of Physical Education that we have no idea of the tremendous work Sri Aurobindo has done in the occult worlds as a result of which all the crucial changes are taking place in her body. It will be, therefore, not an error of perception to call his passing away a strategic retreat, nor an emotional hyperbole to call it a sacrifice, a martyrdom. The phenomenon itself that we witnessed was something stupendous, beyond all canons of Science. Whoever has heard of a dead body changing its colour overnight, becoming charged with a gold-crimson radiance and remaining intact for five days?
The second effect whose purport will not be evident to those who are unfamiliar with Sri Aurobindo's Yoga was, to quote the Mother, "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised here. The Supermind had descended long ago very long ago in the mind and even in the vital: it was working in the physical also, but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light."[1] It is because the Mother as his supreme collaborator was there to receive the Light and continue his work that Sri Aurobindo could make that holocaust of himself. The holocaust has also had one effect which cannot but be regarded as being eminently in accord with Sri Aurobindo's own vision. It is clear that the Ashram "instead of dwindling after the Master's self-withdrawal has leaped gloriously forward under the Mother's leadership". Earlier Sri Aurobindo's towering personality, though in seclusion, dominated the scene. Now the picture, as I said, is entirely different. We can see that all the world is coming to the Mother and accepting her as the Divine Mother, the Shakti who rules, guides and saves. This is what Sri Aurobindo had wanted and laid down since the Mother took charge of the Ashram, as the prime desideratum of his Supramental Yoga. It has been rendered possible and quickly effective by his unprecedented sacrifice. It is also in keeping with his nature. He had admitted that temperamentally he was always prone to act from behind the veil, the way of the Supreme to move men and forces without their knowledge. His political life, except for a short period, and life in Pondicherry, bear testimony to its truth. So the final retirement was consistent with that disposition and is its highest culmination. This culmination has carried the Mother even more to the forefront. There she stands now and plays the role of Shakti and, as she has said, is doing Sri Aurobindo's work and giving his final dream, of which he has spoken in his Independence Day message, a concrete shape on this earth. Sri Aurobindo constantly helps her from behind. The Mother has said in the Bulletin, as I have stated before, what a vast amount of work Sri Aurobindo has done in the occult field in consequence of which the work of transformation of the physical has become easier. Similarly, can we have any idea of his world-action, particularly in the political field, for example his occult contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh? Let us remember Sri Aurobindo's prophetic voice, "Division must go." His Force has not ceased to act in that direction. On the contrary it is moving powerfully towards the realisation of this prophecy. These are his works on a cosmic scale that we are aware of. In our individual cases too his Presence and his dynamic action have been testified to by devotees and disciples all over India and in the West We hear his voice, get his touch, protection, active intervention. The Mother told me more than once that she always saw Sri Aurobindo working on me. I had a personal proof of his surprisingly direct intervention, saving me from a critical situation that could have otherwise put my sadhana in peril. I have mentioned another occult phenomenon in the preface of my Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Vol. I to illustrate his subtle help. A third small instance will suffice: when the Ashram was passing through a financial difficulty, the Mother reported the matter to Sri Aurobindo. He replied, "Ask Prodyot." And it is well known that Prodyot brings a lot of money for the Ashram.
1.13 - Dawn and the Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
"fronts and looks upon all the worlds, the eye of vision shines with an utter wideness; awakening all life for movement she discovers speech for all that thinks," visvasya vacam avidan manayoh. (I.92.9). We have here a Dawn that releases life and mind into their fullest wideness and we ignore the whole force of the words and phrases chosen by the Rishi if we limit the suggestion to a mere picture of the reawakening of earthly life in the physical dawning. And even if here the word used for the vision brought by the Dawn, caks.uh., is capable of indicating only physical sight, yet in other passages it is ketuh. which means perception, a perceptive vision in the mental consciousness, a faculty of knowledge. Usha is pracetah., she who has this perceptive knowledge. Mother of the radiances, she has created this perceptive vision of the mind; gavam janitr akr.ta pra ketum
(I.124.5). She is herself that vision, - "Now perceptive vision has broken out into its wide dawn where nought was before," vi nunam ucchad asati pra ketuh. (I.124.11). She is by her perceptive power possessed of the happy truths, cikitvit-sunr.tavar
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
of the spirit, could ignore this injunction with impunity, for to him these obsceni-
ties mean nothing. That was also why the two seductresses stood at the entrance
1.13 - Knowledge, Error, and Probably Opinion, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
The chief difficulty in regard to knowledge, however, does not arise over derivative knowledge, but over intuitive knowledge. So long as we are dealing with derivative knowledge, we have the test of intuitive knowledge to fall back upon. But in regard to intuitive beliefs, it is by no means easy to discover any criterion by which to distinguish some as true and others as erroneous. In this question it is scarcely possible to reach any very precise result: all our knowledge of truths is infected with some degree of doubt, and a theory which ignored this fact would be plainly wrong. Something may be done, however, to mitigate the difficulties of the question.
Our theory of truth, to begin with, supplies the possibility of distinguishing certain truths as _self-evident_ in a sense which ensures infallibility. When a belief is true, we said, there is a corresponding fact, in which the several objects of the belief form a single complex.
1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Law is using here the phraseology of Boehme and those other Spiritual Reformers, whom the orthodox Protestants, Lutheran, Calvinistic and Anglican, agreed (it was one of the very few points they were able to agree on) either to ignore or to persecute. But it is clear that what he and they call the new birth of God within the soul is essentially the same fact of experience as that which the Hindus, two thousand and more years before, described as the realization of the Self as within and yet transcendentally other than the individual ego.
Not by the slothful, nor the fool, the undiscerning, is that Nirvana to be reached, which is the untying of all knots.
1.13 - The Lord of the Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But the individual being begins with ignorance and persists long in ignorance. Acutely conscious of himself he sees the ego as the cause and whole meaning of life and not the Divine. He sees himself as the doer of works and does not see that all the workings of existence including his own internal and external activities are the workings of one universal Nature and nothing else. He sees himself as the enjoyer of works and imagines that for him all exists and him Nature ought to satisfy and obey his personal will; he does not see that she is not at all concerned with satisfying him or at all careful of his will, but obeys a higher universal will and seeks to satisfy a Godhead who transcends her and her works and creations; his finite being, his will and his satisfactions are hers and not his, and she offers them at every moment as a sacrifice to the Divine of whose purpose in her she makes all this the covert instrumentation. Because of this ignorance whose seal is egoism, the creature ignores the law of sacrifice and seeks to take all he can for himself and gives only what Nature by her internal and external compulsion forces him to give. He can really take nothing except what she allows him to receive as his portion, what the divine Powers within her yield
The Lord of the Sacrifice
1.14 - The Succesion to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
compatible with a system of kinship which ignores paternity than
with one which makes it all-important. If at the birth of the Latin
1.15 - LAST VISIT TO KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"If you are aware of the Male Principle, you cannot ignore the Female Principle: He who is aware of the father must also think of the mother. ( Keshab laughs ) He who knows darkness also knows light. He who knows night also knows day. He who knows happiness also knows misery. You understand this, don't you?"
KESHAB: "Yes, sir. I do."
1.15 - THE DIRECTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FUTURE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
genesis is in process may be ignored. Nor do I propose to dwell upon
the truly negligible possibility of some rash or criminal experiment
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willfully ignored. As I mentioned above after rising slowly until the
seventeenth century, when it reached about 400 millions, the
1.16 - Religion, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion. Fundamentally he may be faithful to his own religion. But he will not be satisfied with the official doctrines of his Church, and will try to penetrate deeper into gods workshop. And such is the purpose of our initiation. According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion. He will state that, apart from the deficiencies, each defender of religion will endeavour to represent his religion as the best of all. Each religious truth is relative and the comprehension of it depends on the maturity of the person concerned. Therefore the adept does not interfere with anybody in this respect, nor will he try to sidetrack anyone from his truth, criticize him, to say nothing of condemning him. At the bottom of his heart he may feel sorry for fanatics or atheists without showing it outwardly. Let everybody hold on to what he believes and makes him happy and content. Should everybody stick to this maxim, there would be neither hatred nor religious dissensions on this earth. There would be no reason for disputes and all turns of mind could exist happily side by side.
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.
1.17 - Religion as the Law of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We need not follow the rationalistic or atheistic mind through all its aggressive indictment of religion. We need not for instance lay a too excessive stress on the superstitions, aberrations, violences, crimes even, which Churches and cults and creeds have favoured, admitted, sanctioned, supported or exploited for their own benefit, the mere hostile enumeration of which might lead one to echo the cry of the atheistic Roman poet, To such a mass of ills could religion persuade mankind. As well might one cite the crimes and errors which have been committed in the name of liberty or of order as a sufficient condemnation of the ideal of liberty or the ideal of social order. But we have to note the fact that such a thing was possible and to find its explanation. We cannot ignore for instance the bloodstained and fiery track which formal external Christianity has left furrowed across the mediaeval history of Europe almost from the days of Constantine, its first hour of secular triumph, down to very recent times, or the sanguinary comment which such an institution as the Inquisition affords on the claim of religion to be the directing light and regulating power in ethics and society, or religious wars and wide-spread State persecutions on its claim to guide the political life of mankind. But we must observe the root of this evil, which is not in true religion itself, but in its infrarational parts, not in spiritual faith and aspiration, but in our ignorant human confusion of religion with a particular creed, sect, cult, religious society or Church. So strong is the human tendency to this error that even the old tolerant Paganism slew Socrates in the name of religion and morality, feebly persecuted non-national faiths like the cult of Isis or the cult of Mithra and more vigorously what it conceived to be the subversive and anti-social religion of the early Christians; and even in still more fundamentally tolerant Hinduism with all its spiritual broadness and enlightenment it led at one time to the milder mutual hatred and occasional though brief-lived persecution of Buddhist, Jain, Shaiva, Vaishnava.
The whole root of the historic insufficiency of religion as a guide and control of human society lies there. Churches and creeds have, for example, stood violently in the way of philosophy and science, burned a Giordano Bruno, imprisoned a Galileo, and so generally misconducted themselves in this matter that philosophy and science had in self-defence to turn upon Religion and rend her to pieces in order to get a free field for their legitimate development; and this because men in the passion and darkness of their vital nature had chosen to think that religion was bound up with certain fixed intellectual conceptions about God and the world which could not stand scrutiny, and therefore scrutiny had to be put down by fire and sword; scientific and philosophical truth had to be denied in order that religious error might survive. We see too that a narrow religious spirit often oppresses and impoverishes the joy and beauty of life, either from an intolerant asceticism or, as the Puritans attempted it, because they could not see that religious austerity is not the whole of religion, though it may be an important side of it, is not the sole ethico-religious approach to God, since love, charity, gentleness, tolerance, kindliness are also and even more divine, and they forgot or never knew that God is love and beauty as well as purity. In politics religion has often thrown itself on the side of power and resisted the coming of larger political ideals, because it was itself, in the form of a Church, supported by power and because it confused religion with the Church, or because it stood for a false theocracy, forgetting that true theocracy is the kingdom of God in man and not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. So too it has often supported a rigid and outworn social system, because it thought its own life bound up with social forms with which it happened to have been associated during a long portion of its own history and erroneously concluded that even a necessary change there would be a violation of religion and a danger to its existence. As if so mighty and inward a power as the religious spirit in man could be destroyed by anything so small as the change of a social form or so outward as a social readjustment! This error in its many shapes has been the great weakness of religion as practised in the past and the opportunity and justification for the revolt of the intelligence, the aesthetic sense, the social and political idealism, even the ethical spirit of the human being against what should have been its own highest tendency and law.
1.18 - Mind and Supermind, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12:Mind, being an action of the Infinite, depieces as well as aggregates ad infinitum. It cuts up being into wholes, into ever smaller wholes, into atoms and those atoms into primal atoms, until it would, if it could, dissolve the primal atom into nothingness. But it cannot, because behind this dividing action is the saving knowledge of the supramental which knows every whole, every atom to be only a concentration of all-force, of all-consciousness, of all-being into phenomenal forms of itself. The dissolution of the aggregate into an infinite nothingness at which Mind seems to arrive, is to the Supermind only the return of the self-concentrating conscious-being out of its phenomenon into its infinite existence. Whichever way its consciousness proceeds, by the way of infinite division or by the way of infinite enlargement, it arrives only at itself, at its own infinite unity and eternal being. And when the action of the mind is consciously subordinate to this knowledge of the supermind, the truth of the process is known to it also and not at all ignored; there is no real division but only an infinitely multiple concentration into forms of being and into arrangements of the relation of those forms of being to each other in which division is a subordinate appearance of the whole process necessary to their spatial and temporal play. For divide as you will, get down to the most infinitesimal atom or form the most monstrous possible aggregate of worlds and systems, you cannot get by either process to a thing-in-itself; all are forms of a Force which alone is real in itself while the rest are real only as self-imagings or manifesting self-forms of the eternal Force-consciousness.
13:Whence then does the limiting Avidya, the fall of mind from Supermind and the consequent idea of real division originally proceed? exactly from what perversion of the supramental functioning? It proceeds from the individualised soul viewing everything from its own standpoint and excluding all others; it proceeds, that is to say, by an exclusive concentration of consciousness, an exclusive self-identification of the soul with a particular temporal and spatial action which is only a part of its own play of being; it starts from the soul's ignoring the fact that all others are also itself, all other action its own action and all other states of being and consciousness equally its own as well as the action of the one particular moment in Time and one particular standing-point in Space and the one particular form it presently occupies. It concentrates on the moment, the field, the form, the movement so as to lose the rest; it has then to recover the rest by linking together the succession of moments, the succession of points of Space, the succession of forms in Time and Space, the succession of movements in Time and Space. It has thus lost the truth of the indivisibility of Time, the indivisibility of Force and Substance. It has lost sight even of the obvious fact that all minds are one Mind taking many standpoints, all lives one Life developing many currents of activity, all body and form one substance of Force and Consciousness concentrating into many apparent stabilities of force and consciousness; but in truth all these stabilities are really only a constant whorl of movement repeating a form while it modifies it; they are nothing more. For the Mind tries to clamp everything into rigidly fixed forms and apparently unchanging or unmoving external factors, because otherwise it cannot act; it then thinks it has got what it wants: in reality all is a flux of change and renewal and there is no fixed form-in-itself and no unchanging external factor. Only the eternal Real-Idea is firm and maintains a certain ordered constancy of figures and relations in the flux of things, a constancy which the Mind vainly attempts to imitate by attri buting fixity to that which is always inconstant. These truths Mind has to rediscover; it knows them all the time, but only in the hidden back of its consciousness, in the secret light of its selfbeing; and that light is to it a darkness because it has created the ignorance, because it has lapsed from the dividing into the divided mentality, because it has become involved in its own workings and in its own creations.
1.18 - The Divine Worker, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The outward distinctions by which men determine their psychological attitude towards the happenings of the world, have for him only a subordinate and instrumental meaning. He does not ignore them, but he is above them. Good happening and evil happening, so all-important to the human soul subject to desire, are to the desireless divine soul equally welcome since by their mingled strand are worked out the developing forms of the eternal good. He cannot be defeated, since all for him is moving towards the divine victory in the Kurukshetra of Nature, dharmaks.etre kuruks.etre, the field of doings which is the field
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1.18 - THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
"ultra-human," ecclesiastical authority ignores, disdains and even
condemns this new aspiration without seeking to understand it?
1.19 - The Victory of the Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Truth the Angirases broke open and hurled asunder the hill and came to union with the Cows; human souls, they took up their dwelling in the blissful Dawn, Swar became manifest when Agni was born. By Truth the divine immortal waters, unoppressed, with their honeyed floods, O Agni, like a horse breasting forward in its gallopings ran in an eternal flowing." These four verses in fact are meant to give the preliminary conditions for the great achievement of the Immortality. They are the symbols of the grand Mythus, the mythus of the Mystics in which they hid their supreme spiritual experience from the profane and, alas! effectively enough from their posterity. That they were secret symbols, images meant to reveal the truth which they protected but only to the initiated, to the knower, to the seer, Vamadeva himself tells us in the most plain and emphatic language in the last verse of this very hymn; "All these are secret words that I have uttered to thee who knowest, O Agni, O Disposer, words of leading, words of seer-knowledge that express their meaning to the seer, - I have spoken them illumined in my words and my thinkings"; eta visva vidus.e tubhyam vedho, nthani agne nin.ya vacamsi; nivacana kavaye kavyani, asamsis.am matibhir vipra ukthaih.. Secret words that have kept indeed their secret ignored by the priest, the ritualist, the grammarian, the pandit, the historian, the mythologist, to whom they have been words of darkness or seals of confusion and not what they were to the supreme ancient forefa thers and their illumined posterity, nin.ya vacamsi nthani nivacana kavyani.
1.20 - HOW MAY WE CONCEIVE AND HOPE THAT HUMAN UNANIMIZATION WILL BE REALIZED ON EARTH?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
tend to ignore them, although they envelop us so closely that no act
of ours can escape them.
1.20 - The End of the Curve of Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The pity of it is that this excellent theory, quite as much as the individualist theory that ran before it, is sure to stumble over a discrepancy between its set ideas and the actual facts of human nature; for it ignores the complexity of mans being and all that that complexity means. And especially it ignores the soul of man and its supreme need of freedom, of the control also of his lower members, no doubt,for that is part of the total freedom towards which he is struggling,but of a growing self-control, not a mechanical regulation by the mind and will of others. Obedience too is a part of its perfection,but a free and natural obedience to a true guiding power and not to a mechanised government and rule. The collective being is a fact; all mankind may be regarded as a collective being: but this being is a soul and life, not merely a mind or a body. Each society develops into a sort of sub-soul or group-soul of this humanity and develops also a general temperament, character, type of mind, evolves governing ideas and tendencies that shape its life and its institutions. But the society has no discoverable common reason and will belonging alike to all its members; for the group-soul rather works out its tendencies by a diversity of opinions, a diversity of wills, a diversity of life, and the vitality of the group-life depends largely upon the working of this diversity, its continuity, its richness. Since that is so, government by the organised State must mean always government by a number of individuals,whether that number be in theory the minority or the majority makes in the end little fundamental difference. For even when it is the majority that nominally governs, in fact it is always the reason and will of a comparatively few effective men and not really any common reason and will of all that rules and regulates things with the consent of the half-hypnotised mass.1 There is no reason to suppose that the immediate socialisation of the State would at all alter, the mass of men not being yet thoroughly rationalised and developed minds, this practical necessity of State government.
In the old infrarational societies, at least in their inception, what governed was not the State, but the group-soul itself evolving its life organised into customary institutions and self-regulations to which all had to conform; for the rulers were only its executors and instruments. This entailed indeed a great subjection of the individual to the society, but it was not felt, because the individualistic idea was yet unborn and such diversities as arose were naturally provided for in one way or another,in some cases by a remarkable latitude of social variation which government by the State tends more and more to suppress. As State government develops, we have a real suppression or oppression of the minority by the majority or the majority by the minority, of the individual by the collectivity, finally, of all by the relentless mechanism of the State. Democratic liberty tried to minimise this suppression; it left a free play for the individual and restricted as much as might be the role of the State. Collectivism goes exactly to the opposite extreme; it will leave no sufficient elbow-room to the individual free-will, and the more it rationalises the individual by universal education of a highly developed kind, the more this suppression will be felt,unless indeed all freedom of thought is negated and the minds of all are forced into a single standardised way of thinking.
1.21 - IDOLATRY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
How different is the case with the developed and more modern forms of idolatry! These have achieved not merely survival, but the highest degree of respectability. They are recommended by men of science as an up-to-date substitute for genuine religion and by many professional religious teachers are equated with the worship of God. All this may be deplorable; but it is not in the least surprising. Our education disparages the more primitive forms of idolatry; but at the same time it disparages, or at the best it ignores, the Perennial Philosophy and the practice of spirituality. In place of mumbo-jumbo at the bottom and of the immanent and transcendent Godhead at the top, it sets up, as objects of admiration, faith and worship, a pantheon of strictly human ideas and ideals. In academic circles and among those who have been subjected to higher education, there are few fetishists and few devout contemplatives; but the enthusiastic devotees of some form of political or social idolatry are as common as blackberries. Significantly enough, I have observed, when making use of university libraries, that books on spiritual religion were taken out much less frequently than was the case in public libraries, patronized in the main by men and women who had not enjoyed the advantages, or suffered under the handicaps, of prolonged academic instruction.
The many varieties of higher idolatry may be classed under three main heads: technological, political and moral. Technological idolatry is the most ingenuous and primitive of the three; for its devotees, like those of the lower idolatry, believe that their redemption and liberation depend upon material objectsin this case gadgets. Technological idolatry is the religion whose doctrines are promulgated, explicitly or by implication, in the advertisement pages of our newspapers and magazines the source, we may add parenthetically, from which millions of men, women and children in the capitalistic countries derive their working philosophy of life. In Soviet Russia too, technological idolatry was strenuously preached, becoming, during the years of that countrys industrialization, a kind of state religion. So whole-hearted is the modern faith in technological idols that (despite all the lessons of mechanized warfare) it is impossible to discover in the popular thinking of our time any trace of the ancient and profoundly realistic doctrine of hubris and inevitable nemesis. There is a very general belief that, where gadgets are concerned, we can get something for nothingcan enjoy all the advantages of an elaborate, top-heavy and constantly advancing technology without having to pay for them by any compensating disadvantages.
1.21 - My Theory of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Occasionally, when I began, I set up the "progressed figure" to see how the patient was doing this week, but it never seemed to help enough to compensate for the distraction caused by the complication. What I do observe to examine the situation of to-day is Transits. These I have found very reliable; but even with these I usually ignore aspects of minor importance. Truth to tell, conjunctions mean very much more than the rest put together.
Talking of aspects, I think it ridiculous to allow vast "orbs" like 15 for Luna, and 12 for Sol. Astrologers go to extreme lengths to calculate the "solar revolution" figure not to a degree, not to a minute, but to a second: and that when they don't know the exact time of birth within half an hour or more! Talk about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel! Then what does an hour or so matter anyhow, if you are going to allow an aspect, whether it is 2 or 10 off? This even with delicate aspects like the quintile or semi-sextile. What would you think of a doctor who had a special thermometer made to register -1/100 of a degree, and never took notice of the fact that the patient had just swallowed a cupful of scalding hot tea?
1.23 - On mad price, and, in the same Step, on unclean and blasphemous thoughts., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
52. One careful monk who was troubled by this demon wore out his flesh for twenty years by fasts and vigils. But as he felt no benefit, he wrote his temptation on a card and went to a certain holy man and gave him the card and bowed his face to the earth, not daring to look up. As soon as the elder had read it he smiled and, raising the brother, he said to him: Lay your hand on my neck, son. And when the brother had done that, the great man said: On my neck, brother, be this sin, for as many years as it may or may not be active in you; only after this, ignore it. And this monk assured me that even before he had left the elders cell, his infirmity had gone. The man who had been tempted in this way told me this himself, offering thanksgiving to God.
1 St. Matthew iv, 9.
1.23 - The Double Soul in Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
8:For, as we now know by psychological observation and experiment that the subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches of things which the surface mind ignores, so also we shall find that the subliminal soul responds to the rasa, or essence in experience, of these things which the surface desire-soul rejects by distaste and refusal or ignores by neutral unacceptance. Self-knowledge is impossible unless we go behind our surface existence, which is a mere result of selective outer experiences, an imperfect sounding-board or a hasty, incompetent and fragmentary translation of a little out of the much that we are, - unless we go behind this and send down our plummet into the subconscient and open ourself to the superconscient so as to know their relation to our surface being. For between these three things our existence moves and finds in them its totality. The superconscient in us is one with the self and soul of the world and is not governed by any phenomenal diversity; it possesses therefore the truth of things and the delight of things in their plenitude. The subconscient, so called,6 in that luminous head of itself which we call the subliminal, is, on the contrary, not a true possessor but an instrument of experience; it is not practically one with the soul and self of the world, but it is open to it through its world-experience. The subliminal soul is conscious inwardly of the rasa of things and has an equal delight in all contacts; it is conscious also of the values and standards of the surface desire-soul and receives on its own surface corresponding touches of pleasure, pain and indifference, but takes an equal delight in all. In other words, our real soul within takes joy of all its experiences, gathers from them strength, pleasure and knowledge, grows by them in its store and its plenty. It is this real soul in us which compels the shrinking desire-mind to bear and even to seek and find a pleasure in what is painful to it, to reject what is pleasant to it, to modify or even reverse its values, to equalise things in indifference or to equalise them in joy, the joy of the variety of existence. And this it does because it is impelled by the universal to develop itself by all kinds of experience so as to grow in Nature. Otherwise, if we lived only by the surface desire-soul, we could no more change or advance than the plant or stone in whose immobility or in whose routine of existence, because life is not superficially conscious, the secret soul of things has as yet no instrument by which it can rescue the life out of the fixed and narrow gamut into which it is born. The desire-soul left to itself would circle in the same grooves for ever.
9:In the view of old philosophies pleasure and pain are inseparable like intellectual truth and falsehood and power and incapacity and birth and death; therefore the only possible escape from them would be a total indifference, a blank response to the excitations of the world-self. But a subtler psychological knowledge shows us that this view which is based on the surface facts of existence only, does not really exhaust the possibilities of the problem. It is possible by bringing the real soul to the surface to replace the egoistic standards of pleasure and pain by an equal, an all-embracing personal-impersonal delight. The lover of Nature does this when he takes joy in all the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and disliking, perceiving beauty in that which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent. The artist and the poet do it when they seek the rasa of the universal from the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the inner sense and power alike of that from which the ordinary man turns away and of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasure. The seeker of knowledge, the God-lover who finds the object of his love everywhere, the spiritual man, the intellectual, the sensuous, the aesthetic all do this in their own fashion and must do it if they would find embracingly the Knowledge, the Beauty, the Joy or the Divinity which they seek. It is only in the parts where the little ego is usually too strong for us, it is only in our emotional or physical joy and suffering, our pleasure and pain of life, before which the desire-soul in us is utterly weak and cowardly, that the application of the divine principle becomes supremely difficult and seems to many impossible or even monstrous and repellent. Here the ignorance of the ego shrinks from the principle of impersonality which it yet applies without too much difficulty in Science, in Art and even in a certain kind of imperfect spiritual living because there the rule of impersonality does not attack those desires cherished by the surface soul and those values of desire fixed by the surface mind in which our outward life is most vitally interested. In the freer and higher movements there is demanded of us only a limited and specialised equality and impersonality proper to a particular field of consciousness and activity while the egoistic basis of our practical life remains to us; in the lower movements the whole foundation of our life has to be changed in order to make room for impersonality, and this the desire-soul finds impossible.
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Times. It related to recapitulation of past incarnations. In it Paul Brunton has mentioned the Buddhist methods of gaining that faculty. Sri Bhagavan said, "There is a class of people who want to know all about their future or their past. They ignore the present. The load from the past forms the present misery. The attempt to recall the past is mere waste of time."
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1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Times. It related to recapitulation of past incarnations. In it Paul Brunton has mentioned the Buddhist methods of gaining that faculty. Sri Bhagavan said, There is a class of people who want to know all about their future or their past. They ignore the present. The load from the past forms the present misery. The attempt to recall the past is mere waste of time.
Talk 261.
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Still another example: Scenes are projected on the screen in a cinema show. But the moving pictures do not affect or alter the screen. The seer pays attention to the pictures and ignores the screen. They cannot remain apart from the screen. Still its existence is ignored. So also the Self is the screen on which the pictures, namely activities, are going on. The man is aware of the latter, ignoring the former. All the same he is not apart from the Self.
Whether aware or unaware the actions will continue.
1.25 - SPIRITUAL EXERCISES, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Those who are practising stopping should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek to tranquillize and concentrate the mind. While one may at first think of ones breathing, it is not wise to continue this practice very long, nor to let the mind rest on any particular appearances, or sights, or conceptions, arising from the senses, such as the primal elements of earth, water, fire and ether (objects on which Hinayanists were wont to concentrate at one stage of their spiritual training), nor to let it rest on any of the minds perceptions, particularizations, discriminations, moods or emotions. All kinds of ideation are to be discarded as fast as they arise; even the notions of controlling and discarding are to be got rid of. Ones mind should become like a mirror, reflecting things, but not judging them or retaining them. Conceptions of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Conceptions arising from the senses and lower mind will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing. The same is true of conditions outside the mind; they should not be allowed to engross ones attention and so to hinder ones practice. The mind cannot be absolutely vacant, and as the thoughts arising from the senses and the lower mind are discarded and ignored, one must supply their place by right mentation. The question then arises: what is right mentation? The reply is: right mentation is the realization of mind itself, of its pure undifferentiated Essence. When the mind is fixed on its pure Essence, there should be no lingering notions of the self, even of the self in the act of realizing, nor of realization as a phenomenon.
The Way of Wisdom. The purpose of this discipline is to bring a man into the habit of applying the insight that has come to him as the result of the preceding disciplines. When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate ones mind on the act and the doing of it, not on ones relation to the act, or its character or value. One should think: there is walking, there is stopping, there is realizing; not, I am walking, I am doing this, it is a good thing, it is disagreeable, I am gaining merit, it is I who am realizing how wonderful it is. Thence come vagrant thoughts, feelings of elation or of failure and unhappiness. Instead of all this, one should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquillity of mind, realization, insight and Wisdom; and one should follow the practice in faith, willingness and gladness. After long practice the bondage of old habits becomes weakened and disappears, and in its place appear confidence, satisfaction, awareness and tranquillity.
1.26 - Mental Processes - Two Only are Possible, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
* [AC31] I mean criticisms such as "Definition is impossible;" "All arguments are circular;" "All propositions are tautological." These are true, but one is obliged to ignore them in all practical discussions.
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1.29 - What is Certainty?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
We may then with some confidence reaffirm that our certainties do assert our limitations; but this kind of limitation is not necessarily harmful, provided that we view the situation in its proper perspective, that we understand that membership of the of-all-Truth class does not (as one is apt to think at first sight) deepen the gulfs which separate mind from mind, but on the contrary put us in a position to ignore them. Our acts of "love under will," which express our devotion to Nuit, which multiply the fulfillments of our possibilities, become continually more efficacious, and more closely bound up with our Formula of Initiation; and we progressively become aware of deeper and vaster Images of the of-all-Truth class, which reconcile, by including within themselves, all apparent antinomies.
It is certain without error that I ought to go to bed.
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Still another example: Scenes are projected on the screen in a cinema show. But the moving pictures do not affect or alter the screen. The seer pays attention to the pictures and ignores the screen. They cannot remain apart from the screen. Still its existence is ignored. So also the Self is the screen on which the pictures, namely activities, are going on. The man is aware of the latter, ignoring the former. All the same he is not apart from the Self.
Whether aware or unaware the actions will continue.
1.3.02 - Equality The Chief Support, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
One in spite of all differences, degrees, disparities in the manifestation. The mental principle of equality tries to ignore or else to destroy the differences, degrees and disparities, to act as if all were equal there or to try and make all equal. It is like Hriday, the nephew of Ramakrishna, who when he got the touch from Ramakrishna began to shout, "Ramakrishna, you are the Brahman and I too am the Brahman; there is no difference between us", till Ramakrishna, as he refused to be quiet, had to withdraw the power. Or like the disciple who refused to listen to the Mahout and stood before the elephant, saying, "I am
Brahman", until the elephant took him up in his trunk and put him aside. When he complained to his Guru, the Guru said,
"Yes, but why didn't you listen to the Mahout Brahman? That was why the elephant Brahman had to lift you up and put you out of harm's way." In the manifestation there are two sides to the Truth and you cannot ignore either.
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1.38 - Woman - Her Magical Formula, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Nor would it be proper to ignore the Book of Lies (p. 12)[70]:
PEACHES
1.4.03 - The Guru, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is a deficiency of psychic perception and spiritual discrimination that makes people speak like that [in a depreciatory way] and ignore the importance of obedience. It is the mind wanting to follow its own way of thinking and the vital seeking freedom for its desires which argue in this manner. If you do not follow the rules laid down by the spiritual guide or obey one who is leading you to the Divine, then what or whom are you to follow? Only the ideas of the individual mind and the desires of the vital: but these things never lead to siddhi in Yoga. The rules are laid down in order to guard against certain influences and their dangers and to keep a right atmosphere in the Asram favourable to spiritual development; the obedience is necessary so as to get away from one's own mind and vital and learn to follow the Truth.
Yes, it [obedience] is difficult, but once achieved it is immensely fruitful.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Everyone sees the screen as well as the pictures but ignores
the screen and takes in the pictures alone. The Jnani however
15.01 - The Mother, Human and Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In our human frailty we regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We are apt to seize exclusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the other term which is equally important. We demand from her the same reactions of motherly love as we expect from a human mother. Our love for her is human, human in the ignorant wayfull of passion and craving, hunger for appropriation, considering her as nothing else than food for our egoistic desires.
She is the mother indeed, but the Divine Mother. She wishes us to come to her in the divine way and not in the human way. For it is in the divine way that we rise to our highest and deepest stature and receive her fully and integrally, enjoy the plenitude of the delight in her Grace. A human way ties us down to the littlenesses and smallnesses of the human feeling. The human approach is more often than not that of a spoilt child. If there is one drop of true love at the bottom of the heart, the amount of ignorance and turbidity in which that is sunk is colossal. The dirt smears us and is cast upon the object of our love too.
1.71 - Morality 2, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It is really difficult to answer your letters. You have got things so higgledy-piggledy. You write of the constitutions of two orders, the AA and the O.T.O.; yet you ignore the printed information about them which you are supposed to have read.
I have to answer each sentence of your letter separately, so incoherent have you become!
1.79 - Progress, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Then, of course, entertainment must be standardized. It costs money to produce; and who will produce anything which can only appeal to the very few to none at all, soon, if these swine have their way. So, if it is new, is original, is worth one's while, it must be ignored.
Besides, being new and incomprehensible to the great Us, it may be dangerous, and must be suppressed.
1955-12-07 - Emotional impulse of self-giving - A young dancer in France - The heart has wings, not the head - Only joy can conquer the Adversary, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why no! One must go beyond him and ignore him.
There is one thing you must begin by doing, it is true, that is to free yourself from his influence. But there is a difference between freeing oneself from the Adversarys influence and conquering the Adversary. To conquer the Adversary is not a small thing. One must have a greater power than his to vanquish him. But one can liberate oneself totally from his influence. And from the minute one is completely free from his influence, ones self-giving can be total. And with the self-giving comes joy, long before the Adversary is truly vanquished and disappears.
1956-05-16 - Needs of the body, not true in themselves - Spiritual and supramental law - Aestheticised Paganism - Morality, checks true spiritual effort - Effect of supramental descent - Half-lights and false lights, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo is speaking of the mental constructions, representations or conclusions of the intellect, of the suggestions and instigations of the Life-force, of the needs of the body. Now, all this, these half-lights or false lights can serve a little on the path, can help us a little, and only for a while. And all that is not this, all the rest, that is to say, all the countless thoughts and movements, sensations and feelings one has, well, all this is of no use at all. And worse than being quite useless, it detains us on the way, thats all. It confuses us. That is to say, it creates an inner confusion and must be altogether ignored.
All the countless things one thinks, experiences, feels, sees, does all that is of no use at all. Naturally, if one looks at it from the point of view of yoga.
1958-06-25 - Sadhana in the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the very nature of things all evolution must proceed at first by a slow unfolding; for each new principle that evolves its powers has to make its way out of an involution in Inconscience and Ignorance. It has a difficult task in pulling itself out of the involution, out of the hold of the obscurity of the original medium, against the pull and strains, the instinctive opposition and obstruction of the Inconscience and the hampering mixture and blind obstinate retardations of the Ignorance. Nature affirms at first a vague urge and tendency which is a sign of the push of the occult, subliminal, submerged reality towards the surface; there are then small half-suppressed hints of the thing that is to be, imperfect beginnings, crude elements, rudimentary appearances, small, insignificant, hardly recognisable quanta. Afterwards there are small or large formations; a more characteristic and recognisable quality begins to show itself, first partially, here and there or in a low intensity, then more vivid, more formative; finally, there is the decisive emergence, a reversal of the consciousness, the beginning of the possibility of its radical change: but still much has to be done in every direction, a long and difficult growth towards perfection lies before the evolutionary endeavour. The thing done has not only to be confirmed, secured against relapse and the downward gravitation, against failure and extinction, but opened out into all the fields of its possibilities, its totality of entire self-achievement, its utmost height, subtlety, riches, wideness; it has to become dominant, all-embracing, comprehensive. This is everywhere the process of Nature and to ignore it is to miss the intention in her works and get lost in the maze of her procedure.
The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 862-63
1958-09-10 - Magic, occultism, physical science, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In modern times, as physical Science enlarged its discoveries and released the secret material forces of Nature into an action governed by human knowledge for human use, occultism receded and was finally set aside on the ground that the physical alone is real and Mind and Life are only departmental activities of Matter. On this basis, believing material Energy to be the key of all things, Science has attempted to move towards a control of mind and life processes by a knowledge of the material instrumentation and process of our normal and abnormal mind and life functionings and activities; the spiritual is ignored as only one form of mentality. It may be observed in passing that if this endeavour succeeded, it might not be without danger for the existence of the human race, even as now are certain other scientific discoveries misused or clumsily used by a humanity mentally and morally unready for the handling of powers so great and perilous; for it would be an artificial control applied without any knowledge of the secret forces which underlie and sustain our existence. Occultism in the West could be thus easily pushed aside because it never reached its majority, never acquired ripeness and a philosophic or sound systematic foundation. It indulged too freely in the romance of the supernatural or made the mistake of concentrating its major effort on the discovery of formulas and effective modes for using supernormal powers. It deviated into magic white and black or into a romantic or thaumaturgic paraphernalia of occult mysticism and the exaggeration of what was after all a limited and scanty knowledge. These tendencies and this insecurity of mental foundation made it difficult to defend and easy to discredit, a target facile and vulnerable. In Egypt and the East this line of knowledge arrived at a greater and more comprehensive endeavour: this ampler maturity can be seen still intact in the remarkable system of the Tantras; it was not only a many-sided science of the supernormal but supplied the basis of all the occult elements of religion and even developed a great and powerful system of spiritual discipline and self-realisation. For the highest occultism is that which discovers the secret movements and dynamic supernormal possibilities of Mind and Life and Spirit and uses them in their native force or by an applied process for the greater effectivity of our mental, vital and spiritual being.
Occultism is associated in popular idea with magic and magical formulas and a supposed mechanism of the supernatural. But this is only one side, nor is it altogether a superstition as is vainly imagined by those who have not looked deeply or at all at this covert side of secret Nature-Force or experimented with its possibilities. Formulas and their application, a mechanisation of latent forces, can be astonishingly effective in the occult use of mind-power and life-power just as it is in physical Science, but this is only a subordinate method and a limited direction. For mind and life forces are plastic, subtle and variable in their action and have not the material rigidity; they need a subtle and plastic intuition in the knowledge of them, in the interpretation of their action and process and in their application,even in the interpretation and action of their established formulas. An overstress on mechanisation and rigid formulation is likely to result in sterilisation or a formalised limitation of knowledge and, on the pragmatic side, to much error, ignorant convention, misuse and failure. Now that we are outgrowing the superstition of the sole truth of Matter, a swing backward towards the old occultism and to new formulations, as well as to a scientific investigation of the still hidden secrets and powers of Mind and a close study of psychic and abnormal or supernormal psychological phenomena, is possible and, in parts, already visible. But if it is to fulfil itself, the true foundation, the true aim and direction, the necessary restrictions and precautions of this line of inquiry have to be rediscovered; its most important aim must be the discovery of the hidden truths and powers of the mind-force and the life-power and the greater forces of the concealed spirit. Occult science is, essentially, the science of the subliminal, the subliminal in ourselves and the subliminal in world-nature, and of all that is in connection with the subliminal, including the subconscient and the superconscient, and the use of it as part of self-knowledge and world-knowledge and for the right dynamisation of that knowledge.
1958 10 17, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One who would break the law must be above the law. One who would ignore conventions must be above conventions. One who would despise all rules must be above all rules. And the motive of this liberation should never be a personal, egoistic one: the desire to satisfy an ambition, aggrandise ones personality, through a feeling of superiority, out of contempt for others, to set oneself above the herd and regard it with condescension. Be on your guard when you feel yourself superior and look down on others ironically, as if to say, Im no longer made of such stuff. Thats when you go off the track and are in danger of falling into an abyss.
When one truly attains wisdom, the true wisdom, the wisdom Sri Aurobindo is speaking of here, there is no longer higher and lower; there is only a play of forces in which each thing has its place and its importance. And if there is a hierarchy it is a hierarchy of surrender to the Supreme. It is not a hierarchy of superiority with regard to what is below.
1960 11 14? - 51, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another one. There are people who without knowing itor because they want to ignore italways follow their personal interest, their preferences, their attachments, their conceptions; people who are not wholly consecrated to the Divine and who make use of moral and yogic ideas to conceal their personal impulses. But these people are deceiving themselves doubly; not only do they deceive themselves in their external activities, in their relation with others, but they also deceive themselves in their own personal movement; instead of serving the Divine, they serve their own egoism. And this happens constantly, constantly! They serve their own personality, their own egoism, while pretending to serve God. Then it is no longer even self-deception, it is hypocrisy.
This mental habit of always endowing everything with a very favourable appearance, of giving a favourable explanation to all movements sometimes it is rather subtle, but sometimes it is so crude that nobody is deceived except oneself. It is a habit of excusing oneself, the habit of giving a favourable mental excuse, a favourable mental explanation to everything one does, to everything one says, to everything one feels. For example, those who have no self-control and slap someones face in great indignation would call that an almost divine wrath!
1969 11 07, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the beginning, about six thousand years ago, this was absolutely true, and each individual was classed according to his nature. Afterwards it became a rigid and more and more arbitrary social convenience (according to birth), which completely ignored the true nature of the individual. It became a false conception and had to disappear.
But gradually, with human progress, human activities are being classified more and more in a similar, less rigid but much truer way (according to each ones nature and capacity).
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No Guns Life -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Drama Seinen -- No Guns Life No Guns Life -- The technology to create powerful cyborg soldiers has been released for public use by the Berühren Corporation. Those outfitted with robotic parts are known as the Extended. Juuzou Inui, one such Extended, was created as a soldier and has no memories of his former life. But now, after the war, he runs a business that takes care of Extended-related incidents around the city. -- -- Rumors of a renegade Extended that kidnapped a child reach his ears; lo and behold, as Juuzo returns to his office, a giant robotic man with a boy on his back crashes in, asking for help. While Juuzou could just turn the guy in and be done with it, something about this situation is too fishy to ignore. It seems that everyone wants hold of this kid and, whether he likes it or not, Juuzou must find out why this Extended is on the run, how it connects to the Berühren Corporation, and just how far the treachery runs in this city. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 150,851 6.88
RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida -- -- GEEK TOYS -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Drama -- RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida -- The year is 2050. A young engineer named Derrida Yvain became famous thanks to his contribution to the development of the "Autonomous Machine DZ" at Rebuild, the manufacturing company founded by his father. One day, Derrida and his colleague Nathan discover a flaw in the DZs and try to warn their boss, but are ignored. Although Derrida and Nathan are aware of the danger, they reluctantly decide to put off taking any measures, and instead go to Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party. The next day, after enjoying a peaceful day, Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. While Derrida is attacked by a group of out of control DZs, he almost gives up, but he recalls Nathan's last words. -- -- "Take care of Mage." -- -- Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 36,075 5.69
Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo Super Power -- Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear -- Due to her father's remarriage, robust 16-year-old Himeno Awayuki moves into a large mansion with a beautiful garden—the quintessential dream house for any girl her age. However, much to Himeno's disappointment, her new stepfamily doesn't really seem to like her, as her stepmother often occupies herself with her father, her younger stepsister Mawata ignores her, and her other stepsister—the equally aged Mayune—tries to prank her at every opportunity. -- -- But Himeno doesn't have time to dwell into thoughts of hopelessness—her new life has now become involved with a group of seven magical boys known as the Leafe Knights, after they ask her to become a magical princess who can borrow their powers! Although Himeno accepts their request and becomes the Prétear, she feels doubtful in her abilities to protect the world and its Leafe, the source of energy for all life. Will Himeno be able to find happiness among her new family and also save the Earth from the enemy, the Princess of Disaster? -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 54,536 7.19
Steins;Gate Movie: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu -- -- White Fox -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Sci-Fi Drama -- Steins;Gate Movie: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu Steins;Gate Movie: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu -- After a year in America, Kurisu Makise returns to Akihabara and reunites with Rintarou Okabe. However, their reunion is cut short when Okabe begins to experience recurring flashes of other timelines as the consequences of his time traveling start to manifest. These side effects eventually culminate in Okabe suddenly vanishing from the world, and only the startled Kurisu has any memory of his existence. -- -- In the midst of despair, Kurisu is faced with a truly arduous choice that will test both her duty as a scientist and her loyalty as a friend: follow Okabe's advice and stay away from traveling through time to avoid the potential consequences it may have on the world lines, or ignore it to rescue the person that she cherishes most. Regardless of her decision, the path she chooses is one that will affect the past, the present, and the future. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Apr 20, 2013 -- 463,060 8.49
Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock -- -- Toei Animation -- 42 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Seinen -- Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock -- It is 2977 AD and mankind has become stagnant. Robots do all the work, the masses are kept tranquil by subliminal messages, and government officials are lazy, caring only about recreational activities like golf and horse racing. Captain Herlock has defied this insipid mentality, leading a group of like-minded rebels to a more adventurous life aboard the spaceship Arcadia. -- -- A mysterious force known as the Mazone has invaded the Earth, taking the form of mysterious cloaked women that kill anyone who suspect their nefarious doings, such as Tadashi Daiba who is now on their hit-list. After his scientist father is ignored by the government and killed by the Mazone, he joins Captain Herlock and his ragtag group of pirates to assist them as they try to save humanity from the impending alien threat. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- TV - Mar 14, 1978 -- 29,306 7.70
Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock -- -- Toei Animation -- 42 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Seinen -- Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock Uchuu Kaizoku Captain Herlock -- It is 2977 AD and mankind has become stagnant. Robots do all the work, the masses are kept tranquil by subliminal messages, and government officials are lazy, caring only about recreational activities like golf and horse racing. Captain Herlock has defied this insipid mentality, leading a group of like-minded rebels to a more adventurous life aboard the spaceship Arcadia. -- -- A mysterious force known as the Mazone has invaded the Earth, taking the form of mysterious cloaked women that kill anyone who suspect their nefarious doings, such as Tadashi Daiba who is now on their hit-list. After his scientist father is ignored by the government and killed by the Mazone, he joins Captain Herlock and his ragtag group of pirates to assist them as they try to save humanity from the impending alien threat. -- -- TV - Mar 14, 1978 -- 29,306 7.70
Yami Shibai 7 -- -- DRAWIZ, ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 7 Yami Shibai 7 -- A rusted door opens to a decrepit apartment filled with darkness. Inside, the masked Storyteller waits to spin more twisted tales of horror, inviting all to listen. -- -- In one story, a woman is tormented by her past sins; in another, a man visits a chilling art exhibit, where things quickly go awry when he ignores the warnings regarding taking photographs. That is not all, though—an unsuspecting woman hears strange noises from her veranda, but when her boyfriend investigates, he receives the shock of his life; a lady receives a frantic call from her sister, who begs her to come to a phone booth, but when she arrives, she realizes that things are not as they appear; and a man looks for one of his belongings in his little sister's room, only to soon discover that a malevolent presence lives there. The Storyteller is all too eager to share these tales, which will no doubt shock and terrify his audience. -- -- 12,990 5.93
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