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let-alone ::: a. --> Letting alone.
letch ::: v. & n. --> See Leach. ::: n. --> Strong desire; passion. (Archaic).
letchy ::: a. --> See Leachy.
leten ::: --> p. p. of Lete.
lete ::: v. t. --> To let; to leave.
let floating ::: (programming) A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing. (1997-07-09)
let floating "programming" A {program transformation} used in {functional programming} to implement {full laziness}. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing. (1997-07-09)
lethality ::: n. --> The quality of being lethal; mortality.
lethal ::: n. --> One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid. ::: a. --> Deadly; mortal; fatal.
lethal
lethargic ::: a. --> Alt. of Lethargical
lethargical ::: a. --> Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.
lethargized ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lethargize
lethargize ::: v. t. --> To make lethargic.
lethargizing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Lethargize
lethargy ::: n. --> Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
A state of inaction or indifference. ::: v. t. --> To lethargize.
lethean ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
letheed ::: a. --> Caused by Lethe.
lethe ::: n. --> Death.
A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
letheonize ::: v. t. --> To subject to the influence of letheon.
letheon ::: n. --> Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent.
lethiferous ::: a. --> Deadly; bringing death or destruction.
lethy ::: a. --> Lethean.
let loose, set free; liberated, emancipated, gone, vanished.
let-off ::: n. --> A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.
letted ::: --> of Let ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lette
letterbomb "messaging" 1. An {e-mail} message containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must turn the terminal off to unwedge it. Under {Unix}, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also {Trojan horse}; compare {nastygram}, {talk bomb}. 2. Loosely, a {mailbomb}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-01-16)
letterbomb ::: (messaging) 1. An e-mail message containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic.See also Trojan horse; compare nastygram, talk bomb.2. Loosely, a mailbomb.[Jargon File] (1998-01-16)
lettered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Letter ::: a. --> Literate; educated; versed in literature.
Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned.
Inscribed or stamped with letters.
letterer ::: n. --> One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
lettering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Letter ::: n. --> The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.
The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
letterless ::: a. --> Not having a letter.
Illiterate.
lettern ::: n. --> See Lecturn.
letter ::: n. --> One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
One who retards or hinders.
A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
letterpress ::: n. --> Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
letters rather than 12.)
letterure ::: n. --> Letters; literature.
letterwood ::: n. --> The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
lette ::: v. t. --> To let; to hinder. See Let, to hinder.
let there be, let it be, be! The phrase kun bi ismi Allah
let there be, let it be, be! The phrase kun fa yakūn
lettic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.
Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. ::: n. --> The language of the Letts; Lettish.
The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,
letting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Let
lettish ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Letts. ::: n. --> The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.
lettrure ::: n. --> See Letterure.
letts ::: n. pl. --> An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.
lettuce ::: n. --> A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis.
letuary ::: n. --> Electuary.
let-up ::: n. --> Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
let ::: v. t. --> To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
To consider; to think; to esteem.
To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
Let a virgin girl weave a carpet of white and
Let f be a monadic function for which the range of the independent variable and the range of the dependent variable both consist of real numbers; let b and c be real numbers; and let g be the monadic function so determined that g(c)=b, and g(x)=f(x) if x is different from c. (The range of the independent variable for g is thus the same as that for f, with the addition of the real number c if not already included.) The limit of f(x) as x approaches c is said to be b if g is continuous at c. -- More briefly but less accurately, the limit of f(x) as x approaches c is the value which rrust be assigned to f for the argument c in order to make it continuous at c.
Lethal dose ::: (Lethal dose 50/30) The dose of radiation expected to cause death to an exposed population within 30 days to 50 percent (LD 50/30) of those exposed. Typically, the LD 50/30 is in the range from 400 to 450 rem (4 to 5 sieverts) received over a very short period of time.
Lethe (Greek) Forgetfulness; a river of the Underworld which confers upon souls destined to live again on earth the boon of oblivion of their former experiences. It refers to the postmortem destiny of the human soul as it sinks into its pre-devachanic unconsciousness and final carefree devachanic bliss, thus gaining oblivion of inferior human concerns and utter peace before the time comes for the resumption of new bodies on earth. Also it refers to the loss of memory of the postmortem experiences and prebirth panoramic vision before birth.
Leto. See LATONA
Letter of credit (LOC) - A legal letter or document that is issued by the buyer’s bank which upon the presentation of any specific required documents the payment should be forth coming. It is the Usual practice for the seller's bank to confirmby the seller's the protection to be given to a seller that the agreed payment will be made on time if the items specified in the agreement are shipped as agreed, and also protection is given to a buyer that the specified items will be supplied or shipped prior to the payment being made.
LETTERS. ::: Vide Interchange.
Letter to the Trallians. Buffalo: Christian Literature
Let us use R for the relation not greater than among real numbers. A neighborhood of a real number c is determined by two real numbers m and n -- both different from c and such that mRc and cRn -- and is the class of real numbers x, other than m and n, such that mRx and xRn. The function f is said to be continuous at the real number c if the three following conditions are satisfied: c belongs to the range of the independent variable; in every neighborhood of c there are numbers other than c belonging to the range of the independent variable; corresponding to every neighborhood b of f(c) there is a neighborhood a of c such that, for every real number x belonging to the range of the independent variable, x∈a implies f(x) ∈ b. A function may be called continuous if it is continuous at every real number, or at every real number in a certain set determined by the context. -- A.C.
Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obs- cured flame that cannot bum upwards to heaven.
Let your sincerity and surrender be genuine and entire. Wltcn you give jourself, give completely; without demand, without
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1. Pressed, massed together, or compressed. 2. Completely filled; full.
1. ‘The beginning and the end," originally of the divine Being. 2. The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
abandoned ::: 1. Given up, deserted, forsaken, cast off. 2. Left completely and finally, without help or support. 3. adj. Deserted.
abortive ::: terminated before completion.
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
absolute reality ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I would myself say that bliss and oneness are the essential condition of the absolute reality, and love as the most characteristic dynamic power of bliss and oneness must support fundamentally and colour their activities; . . . .” Letters on Yoga
absolve ::: 1. To free from guilt, blame or their consequences; discharge (from obligations, liabilities, etc.). 2. To set free, release. 3. To clear off, discharge, acquit oneself of (a task, etc.); to perform completely, accomplish, finish. absolves, absolved.
accomplished ::: fulfilled, completed, finished, perfected. accomplishing.
achieved ::: completed, accomplished; attained, won.
::: "A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul"s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law — or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"A cosmos or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But as there are musical harmonies which are built out of discords partly or even predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements — the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent; it is only owing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution in progress — that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When it is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies substituted for the present harmony built up on discords. This is the explanation of the present appearance of things.” Letters on Yoga
adept ::: one who is completely versed (in something); thoroughly proficient; well-skilled; expert. adepts.
admit ::: 1. To allow to enter, let in, receive (a person or thing). 2. Fig. To allow a matter to enter into any relation to action or thought. 3. To accept as true, or as a fact, to acknowledge, concede. 4. To allow, permit, grant. admits, admitted, admitting.
adoration ::: 1. The act of paying honour, as to a divine being; worship. 2. Reverent homage. 3. Fervent and devoted love. **adoration"s.*Sri Aurobindo: "Especially in love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Loved, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.” Letters on Yoga*
::: **". . . a dynamic entire belief and acceptance.” Letters on Yoga
"Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri
algebra ::: the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations. 2. Any special system of notation adapted to the study of a special system of relationship.
"All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas. All that however is to mentalise too much and mentalising always takes most of the life out of spiritual things. That is why I say it can be seen but nothing said about it.” ::: "The question was: ‘In the mystical region, is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with ‘gold-white wings" or your Hippogriff with ‘face lustred, pale-blue-lined"? And why do you write: ‘What to say about him? One can only see"?” Letters on Savitri
"All change must come from within with the felt or the secret support of the Divine Power; it is only by one"s own inner opening to that that one can receive help, not by mental, vital or physical contact with others.” Letters on Yoga
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
::: "All energies put into activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga*
::: ". . . all life is a growth of the soul out of the darkness towards the Light.” *Letters on Yoga
"All prayer rightly offered brings us closer to the Divine and establishes a right relation with Him.” *Letters on Yoga
All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, suksma deha , though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake.” Letters on Yoga
"Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga
amethyst ::: a purple or violet quartz; having the clear colour as of the precious stone. Sri Aurobindo uses the word as an adj."for Amethyst (the Mother)she has revealed that it has a power of protection” Huta
". . . an Avatar is not at all bound to be a spiritual prophet — he is never in fact merely a prophet, he is a realiser, an establisher — not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the outward also, but, as I have said, of something essential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolution which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"An Avatar, roughly speaking, is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence.” Letters on Yoga
"And griefless countries under purple suns.” *Letters on Savitri
**Angel of the Way *Sri Aurobindo: "Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti" says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me." Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one"s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover"s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
::: "An incarnation is something more, something special and individual to the individual being. It is the substitution of the Person of a divine being for the human person and an infiltration of it into all the movements so that there is a dynamic personal change in all of them and in the whole nature; not merely a change of the character of the consciousness or general surrender into its hands, but a subtle intimate personal change. Even when there is an incarnation from the birth, the human elements have to be taken up, but when there is a descent, there is a total conscious substitution.” Letters on Yoga
anklet ::: an ornamental circlet worn around the ankle; an ankle-ring. anklet-bells.
"A passive Force has no meaning — Force is always dynamic. Only a Force can act on a basis of calm passivity just as in the material world the Force acts on the basis of inertia.” Letters on Yoga
"A peacock is the symbol of spiritual victory.” Letters on Yoga*
a piece of plate armour partially or completely covering the front of the torso.
ascent ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ascent or the upward movement takes place when there is a sufficient aspiration from the being, i.e., from the various mental, vital and physical planes.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "As for immortality, it cannot come if there is attachment to the body, — for it is only by living in the immortal part of oneself which is unidentified with the body and bringing down its consciousness and force into the cells that it can come. I speak of course of yogic means. The scientists now hold that it is (theoretically at least) possible to discover physical means by which death can be overcome, but that would mean only a prolongation of the present consciousness in the present body. Unless there is a change of consciousness and change of functionings it would be a very small gain.” Letters on Yoga
"As for prayer, no hard and fast rule can be laid down. Some prayers are answered, all are not. You may ask, why should not then all prayers be answered? But why should they be? It is not a machinery: put a prayer in the slot and get your asking. Besides, considering all the contradictory things mankind is praying for at the same moment, God would be in a rather awkward hole if he had to grant all of them; it wouldn"t do.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not, — they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not — or if the lines of power change, one"s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces, — spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces — and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
"Aspiration, call, prayer are forms of one and the same thing and are all effective; you can take the form that comes to you or is easiest to you.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Aspiration is to call the forces. When the forces have answered, there is a natural state of quiet receptivity concentrated but spontaneous.” Letters on Yoga
"Aspiration should be not a form of desire, but the feeling of an inner soul"s need, and a quiet settled will to turn towards the Divine and seek the Divine. It is certainly not easy to get rid of this mixture of desire entirely — not easy for anyone; but when one has the will to do it, this also can be effected by the help of the sustaining Force.” Letters on Yoga
"As soon as we become aware of the Self, we are conscious of it as eternal, unborn, unembodied, uninvolved in its workings: it can be felt within the form of being, but also as enveloping it, as above it, surveying its embodiment from above, adhyaksa; it is omnipresent, the same in everything, infinite and pure and intangible for ever. This Self can be experienced as the Self of the individual, the Self of the thinker, doer, enjoyer, but even so it always has this greater character; its individuality is at the same time a vast universality or very readily passes into that, and the next step to that is a sheer transcendence or a complete and ineffable passing into the Absolute. The Self is that aspect of the Brahman in which it is intimately felt as at once individual, cosmic, transcendent of the universe. The realisation of the Self is the straight and swift way towards individual liberation, a static universality, a Nature-transcendence. At the same time there is a realisation of Self in which it is felt not only sustaining and pervading and enveloping all things, but constituting everything and identified in a free identity with all its becomings in Nature. Even so, freedom and impersonality are always the character of the Self. There is no appearance of subjection to the workings of its own Power in the universe, such as the apparent subjection of the Purusha to Prakriti. To realise the Self is to realise the eternal freedom of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
"As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.” Letters on Yoga
a structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed. Also fig.
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
"At every turn it is the divine Reality which we can discover behind that which we are yet compelled by the nature of the superficial consciousness in which we dwell to call undivine and in a sense are right in using that apellation; for these appearances are a veil over the Divine Perfection, a veil necessary for the present, but not at all the true and complete figure.” The Life Divine
athlete ::: Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj. in the sense of athletic: Of the nature of, or befitting, one who is physically active, powerful, muscular, robust, agile.
::: ". . . a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies, — all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, — for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
bankruptcy ::: 1. A state of complete lack of some abstract property; "spiritual bankruptcy”; "moral bankruptcy”; "intellectual bankruptcy”. 2. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics.
began and carried through to completion; done.
::: ". . . behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unknown to the outward minds of men, and by yoga, (by going inward and establishing a conscious connection with the Cosmic Self and Force and forces,) one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, and to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play.” Letters on Yoga
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
being, Master of ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Vamadeva goes on to say, "Let us give expression to this secret name of the clarity, — that is to say, let us bring out this Soma wine, this hidden delight of existence; let us hold it in this world-sacrifice by our surrenderings or submissions to Agni, the divine Will or Conscious-Power which is the Master of being.” The Secret of the Veda
bewilder ::: to confuse utterly; puzzle completely. bewildered.
beyond ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The language of the Upanishad makes it strikingly clear that it is no metaphysical abstraction, no void Silence, no indeterminate Absolute which is offered to the soul that aspires, but rather the absolute of all that is possessed by it here in the relative world of its sojourning. All here in the mental is a growing light, consciousness and life; all there in the supramental is an infinite life, light and consciousness. That which is here shadowed, is there found; the incomplete here is there the fulfilled. The Beyond is not an annullation, but a transfiguration of all that we are here in our world of forms; it is sovran Mind of this mind, secret Life of this life, the absolute Sense which supports and justifies our limited senses.” The Upanishads *
blank ::: n. 1. Fig. Any void space. blanks. adj. 2. Empty, without contents, void, bare. 3. Devoid of activity, interest, or distinctive character; empty. 4. Mere, bare, simple. 5. Lacking expression; expressionless, showing no interest or emotion, vacant. 6. Absolute; complete. blankness.
lethal
"Both [purple and crimson] are vital lights, but when seen above they represent the original forces of which the vital are the derivations.” Letters on Yoga
broken ::: 1. Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured. 2. Crushed in spirit or temper; discouraged; overcome. 3. Incomplete. 4. Interrupted disturbed; disconnected. 5. Torn; ruptured. (Also pp. of break.)
"By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above — as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements — it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter — if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
". . . by knowledge we mean in yoga not thought or ideas about spiritual things but psychic understanding from within and spiritual illumination from above.” Letters on Yoga
cabbala ::: 1 A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings in the Hebrew Scriptures. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity. 2. Any secret or occult doctrine or science. 3. "Esoteric system of interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures based on the assumption that every word, letter, number, and accent in them has an occult meaning. The system, oral at first, claimed great antiquity, but was really the product of the Middle Ages, arising in the 7th century and lasting into the 18th. It was popular chiefly among Jews, but spread to Christians as well. (Col. Enc.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
calm ::: n. 1. Serenity; tranquillity; peace. 2. Nearly or completely motionless as a condition of no wind. Calm, Calm"s, calms, calmness. adj. 3. Not excited or agitated; composed; tranquil; 4. Without rough motion; still or nearly still. calmer, calm-lipped, stone-calm. *adv. calmly.
Sri Aurobindo: "Calm is a still unmoved condition which no disturbance can affect — it is a less negative condition than quiet.” Letters on Yoga*
"Calm is a positive tranquillity which can exist in spite of superficial disturbances.” *Letters on Yoga
"Calm is a strong and positive quietude, firm and solid — ordinary quietude is mere negation, simply the absence of disturbance.” *Letters on Yoga
"But more powerful still is the giving up of the fruit of one"s works, because that immediately destroys all causes of disturbance and brings and preserves automatically an inner calm and peace, and calm and peace are the foundation on which all else becomes perfect and secure in possession by the tranquil spirit.” Essays on the Gita
The Mother: "Calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reflexes.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 14*.
canalise ::: to divert into certain channels; give a certain direction to or provide a certain outlet for, in order to control or regulate. canalises, canalised.
cast off ::: discard; thrown away; let go.
"Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection. Reflections themselves of the Real, they again are reflected in the more concrete workings of our existence. The Supramental Manifestation
chalice ::: a cup or goblet often of gold or silver used esp. in religious services.
characters ::: 1. The combination of qualities, features and traits that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. 2. The marks or symbols used in writing systems such as the letters of the alphabet.
charmed ::: 1. Delighted or fascinated. 2. Marked by good fortune or privilege. 3. Protected from evil and harm as by a magical power vested in an amulet, etc. 4. Filled with wonder and delight.
cipher ::: n. 1. Something having no influence or value; a zero; a nonentity. 2. A secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. unintelligible to all but those possessing the key; a cryptograph. ciphers. *v. 3. To put in secret writing; encode. *ciphers. Note: Sri Aurobindo also spelled the word as Cypher, the old English spelling.
circuit ::: 1. The act of following a curved or circular route or one that lies around an object. 2. A complete route or course, esp. one that is curved or circular and begins and ends at the point of departure. 3. The boundary line encompassing an area or object. 4. A regular or accustomed course from place to place. circuits.
code ::: 1. A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity. 2. A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct. codes.
complete ::: adj. 1. Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire. 2. Thorough; consummate; fully realised. n. completeness. *v. *3. To bring to a finish or an end.
compendium ::: 1. A brief treatment or account of a subject, esp. an extensive subject; concise treatise. 2. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
complements ::: 1. Things that complete, make up a whole, or bring to perfection. 2. Things that complete each other when combined and complete the whole.
"Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.” Letters on Yoga
conjecture ::: the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; guess. conjecture"s, world-conjecture"s.
::: "Consciousness is not only power of awareness of self and things, it is or has also a dynamic and creative energy. It can determine its own reactions or abstain from reactions; it can not only answer to forces, but create or put out from itself forces. Consciousness is Chit but also Chit Shakti.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound — for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious, — supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
"Consecration is a process by which one trains the consciousness to give itself to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
consonant ::: a speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs, such as (p), (f), (r), (w), and (h).
constant ::: 1. Unchanging in nature, value, or extent; invariable. 2. Continuing without pause or letup; unceasing. 3. Steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute.
cornices ::: prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting features surmounting a wall or other construction, or dividing it horizontally for compositional purposes; i.e. to crown or complete a building.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
cosmic Self ::: Sri Aurobindo: "When one has the cosmic consciousness, one can feel the cosmic Self as one"s own self, one can feel one with other beings in the cosmos, one can feel all the forces of Nature as moving in oneself, all selves as one"s own self. There is no why except that it is so, since all is the One.” Letters on Yoga (See also Cosmic Spirit)
"Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; . . . .” *The Life Divine
"An eternal infinite self-existence is the supreme reality, but the supreme transcendent eternal Being, Self and Spirit, — an infinite Person, we may say, because his being is the essence and source of all personality, — is the reality and meaning of self-existence: so too the cosmic Self, Spirit, Being, Person is the reality and meaning of cosmic existence; the same Self, Spirit, Being or Person manifesting its multiplicity is the reality and meaning of individual existence.” The Life Divine
"But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience; it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the life and body of a human society or even of all mankind.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe — although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga*
cosmic Spirit ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos — it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"[The Divine in one of its three aspects] . . . is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe - although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
". . . the cosmic spirit, the one self inhabiting the universe, . . . .” *The Life Divine
"For the cosmic Spirit inhabits each and all, but is more than all; . . . .”The Life Divine
cosmic Truth ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Cosmic Truth is the view on things of a cosmic consciousness in which things are seen in their true essence and their true relation to the Divine and to each other.” *Letters on Yoga
cosmic vision ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Cosmic vision is the seeing of the universal movements — it has nothing to do with the psychic necessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere.” Letters on Yoga*
counterpart ::: one of two parts that fit and complete each another. counterparts.
court ::: 1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard. 2. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace. courts, courtyard, courtyard"s.
crack ::: 1. To break without complete separation of parts; fissure. 2. To break with a sharp snapping sound. doom-crack.
crowned ::: 1. Invested with regal power; enthroned. 2. Ultimate; perfect; sovereign. 3. Having the finishing touch added to; completed worthily; brought to a successful consummation.
crude ::: 1. In a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural; unfinished, coarse. 2. Lacking in intellectual subtlety, perceptivity, etc.; rudimentary; undeveloped. 3. Rough or primitive. 4. Lacking culture, refinement, tact. crudely.
crush ::: 1. Fig. To conquer by force. 2. To put down; subdue completely 3. To hug, especially with great force. crushed.
culture ("s) ::: the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
deadly ::: causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal.
"Death is there because the being in the body is not yet developed enough to go on growing in the same body without the need of change and the body itself is not sufficiently conscious. If the mind and vital and the body itself were more conscious and plastic, death would not be necessary.” Letters on Yoga
death ::: Sri Aurobindo: "For the spiritual seeker death is only a passage from one form of life to another, and none is dead but only departed.” *Letters on Yoga
delivery ::: the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc. to a designated recipient.
destroy ::: 1. To reduce anything to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injuring beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate. 2. To subdue or defeat completely; crush. 3. To slay, to kill. destroys, destroyed, destroying, world-destroying.
detached ::: 1. Impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased. 2. Not involved or concerned; aloof. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Detachment means that one stands back from [imperfections and weakness of the nature, etc.] , does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather looks on them as something foreign to one"s true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the Mother"s Force into these movements to eliminate them and bring the true consciousness and its movements there.” Letters on Yoga
devoid ::: completely lacking; destitute or empty.
dews ::: 1. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces. 2. Something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality. dewy, Dew-time.
divine Force ::: Sri Aurobindo: "That there is a divine force asleep or veiled by Inconscience in Matter and that the Higher Force has to descend and awaken it with the Light and Truth is a thing that is well known; it is at the very base of this yoga.” *Letters on Yoga.
"Divine Love is of two kinds — the divine Love for the creation and the souls that are part of itself, and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and physical instincts.” Letters on Yoga
divine love ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.” *Letters on Yoga
divine ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Divine is the Supreme Truth because it is the Supreme Being from whom all have come and in whom all are.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda and that means the raising of the whole of earthly life to its full power and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
divorced ::: 1. Separated; cut off; as a complete or radical severance of closely connected things. 2. Dissolved the marriage bond between.
drain ::: v. 1. To deplete (a person or a thing) gradually, especially to the point of complete exhaustion. n. 2. A gradual depletion of energy or resources. 3. Something (a ditch, trench, waterpipe etc.) designed to carry away water. drained.
drenched ::: 1. Wet thoroughly; soaked. 2. Covered or filled completely; bathed.
drooping ::: weak from exhaustion; depleted of strength or energy.
drop ::: n. 1. A small quantity of liquid that forms or falls in a spherical or pear-shaped mass; globule. Also fig. of things immaterial. 2. The action or an act of dropping; fall, descent. drops. v. 3. To let or cause to fall (like a drop or drops). Also fig. **drops, dropped, dropping.**
drowse ::: a sleepy condition; the state of being half asleep; sluggishness, lethargy, torpor. drowsy, half-drowse, world-drowse.
"Each inner experience is perfectly real in its own way, although the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real with the reality of the inner self and the inner planes. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results we prepare have an incalculable importance and effect, unknown to us, upon our outer life.” Letters on Yoga
"Each person follows in the world his own line of destiny which is determined by his own nature and actions — the meaning and necessity of what happens in a particular life cannot be understood except in the light of the whole course of many lives. But this can be seen by those who can get beyond the ordinary mind and feelings and see things as a whole, that even errors, misfortunes, calamities are steps in the journey, — the soul gathering experience as it passes through and beyond them until it is ripe for the transition which will carry it beyond these things to a higher consciousness and higher life.” Letters on Yoga*
"Ego is a very curious thing and in nothing more than in its way of hiding itself and pretending it is not the ego.” Letters on Yoga*
ellipse ::: a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it.
elusive ::: 1. Eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define. 2. Cleverly or skilfully evasive.
"Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.” Letters on Yoga*
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
::: "Energy is the working drive of the Force, its active dynamism; . . . .” *Letters on Yoga
"Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness and it is this from which a sadhak deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance, — though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even illimitably, a man"s power of endurance and forbearance. Letters on Yoga
::: Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, — anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, — not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit.” *Letters on Yoga
erase ::: 1. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. 2. To eliminate completely; to efface, expunge, obliterate. 3. Fig. To remove from memory or existence. erased, erasing.
estuaries ::: arms or inlets of the sea at the lower end of a river.
::: "Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
"Everybody now knows that Science is not a statement of the truth of things, but only a language expressing a certain experience of objects, their structure, their mathematics, a coordinated and utilisable impression of their processes — it is nothing more.” Letters on Yoga
"Everything here is not perfect but all works out the cosmic Will in the course of the ages.” Letters on Yoga*
"Evolution takes place on the earth and therefore the earth is the proper field for progression. The beings of the other worlds do not progress from one world to another. They remain fixed to their own type.” Letters on Yoga
exhaust ::: to use up completely; drain the resources or properties of; deplete. exhausted, exhaustless.
::: "Experiences are of all kinds and take all forms in the consciousness. When the consciousness undergoes, sees or feels anything spiritual or psychic or even occult, that is an experience — in the technical yogic sense, for there are of course all sorts of experiences that are not of that character.” Letters on Yoga
expunge ::: 1. To eliminate completely; annihilate. 2. To erase or strike out. expunged.
::: **"Faith is a certitude in the soul which does not depend on reasoning, on this or that mental idea, on circumstances, on this or that passing condition of the mind or the vital or the body. It may be hidden, eclipsed, may even seem to be quenched, but it reappears again after the storm or the eclipse; it is seen burning still in the soul when one has thought that it was extinguished for ever. The mind may be a shifting sea of doubts and yet that faith may be there within and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on in spite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul"s ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Faith is the soul"s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.” *Letters on Yoga
::: **"Fear is always a feeling to be rejected, because what you fear is just the thing that is likely to come to you: fear attracts the object of fear.” Letters on Yoga*
figure ::: n. 1. The form or shape of anything; appearance, aspect. 2. The human form, esp. as regards size or shape. 3. A representation or likeness of the human form.4. An emblem, type, symbol. 5. An amount or value expressed in numbers. 6. A written symbol other than a letter. v. 7. To compute or calculate. 8. To represent by a pictorial or sculptured figure, a diagram, or the like; picture or depict. 9. To shape to; symbolize; represent. figures, figured, figuring, figure-selves.**
finished ::: 1. Ended or brought to an end. 2. Completed. 3. (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state. half-finished.
finish ::: to bring to an end; terminate; complete. finished.
flasque ::: Sri Aurobindo: "‘Flasque" is a French word meaning ‘slack", ‘loose", ‘flaccid" etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, ‘A harlot empress in a bouge" – somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound.” Letters on Savitri.
::: Footnote: "E.g. the Russellian fear of emptiness which is the form the active mind gives to Silence. Yet it was on what you call emptiness, on the Silence, that my whole yoga was founded and it was through it that there came afterwards all the inexhaustible riches of a greater Knowledge, Will and Joy — all the experiences of greater mental, psychic and vital realms, all the ranges up to overmind and beyond. The cup has often to be emptied before it can be new-filled; the yogin, the sadhak ought not to be afraid of emptiness or silence.” Letters on Yoga
force, divine ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Divine Force can act on any plane — it is not limited to the supramental Force. The supramental is only one aspect of the power of the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"Force is the essential Shakti; Energy is the working drive of the Force, its active dynamism; Power is the capacity born of the Force; . . . .” Letters on Yoga
". . . for doubt is the mind"s persistent assailant.” Letters on Yoga ::: "The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too is a utility and necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited knowledge and unable to escape from his errors.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
forego ::: to abstain from, go without, deny to oneself; to let go or pass, omit to take or use; to give up, part with, relinquish, renounce, resign. foregone.
::: **"For me faith is not intellectual belief but a function of the soul; . . . .” Letters on Yoga
"Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
forsaken ::: completely deserted or helpless; abandoned.
"For the complete individual is the cosmic individual, since only when we have taken the universe into ourselves, — and transcended it, — can our individuality be complete.” The Life Divine*
::: "For the inner knowledge comes from within and above (whether from the Divine in the heart or from the Self above) and for it to come, the pride of the mind and vital in the surface mental ideas and their insistence on them must go. One must know that one is ignorant before one can begin to know.” Letters on Yoga
"For the main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, and this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings. The heart"s faith and will in good are founded on a perception of the one Divine immanent in all things and leading the world.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
" . . . for there is only one thing essential, needful, indispensable, to grow conscious of the Divine Reality and live in it and live it always.” Letters on Yoga
fulfil ::: 1. To fill or meet a want or need. 2. To develop the full potential of. 3. To bring about the completion or achievement of (a desire, prophecy, promise, etc.). 4. To carry out or execute (a request, etc.). fulfils, fulfilled, fulfilling, all-fulfilling, self-fulfilling.
fullness ::: completeness or entirety.
gandharva ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Gandharvas are of the vital plane but they are vital Gods, not Asuras.” *Letters on Yoga
glimpse ::: n. 1. A very brief, passing look, sight, or view. 2. A momentary shining, a flash. lit. and fig. glimpses. v. 3. To catch sight of briefly or momentarily. 4. To obtain a brief, incomplete view of. Now only poet. glimpses, glimpsed, glimpsing.
goblet ::: a drinking vessel, such as a glass, that has a stem and base.
golden Child ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
gong ::: a large bronze disk of Asian origin, having an upturned rim that produces a vibrant, hollow tone when struck, usually with a soft mallet.
grace ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flow of its being. ::: It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law — for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate — only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. A state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes, then the Grace itself acts. ” *Letters on Yoga
grain ::: fig. Quality, nature, temper; inclination, tendency. 2. The smallest possible amount or size of anything. 3. Small hard seeds, esp. the seeds of food plants such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet; the plants themselves whether reaped or standing. grains.
guaranteed ::: assured the execution, completion or existence of.
guest ::: Sri Aurobindo: " When the Rishis speak of Indra or Agni or Soma in men, they are speaking of the god in his cosmic presence, power or function. This is evident from the very language when they speak of Agni as the immortal in mortals, the immortal Light in men, the inner Warrior, the Guest in human beings.” *Letters on Yoga
half-cuts ::: partial or incomplete acts to shorten, lessen, curtail, or reduce by, or as by cutting.
hamlet ::: a small village.
"Hostile Forces. The purpose they serve in the world is to give a full chance to the possibilities of the Inconscience and Ignorance — for this world was meant to be a working out of these possibilities with the supramental harmonisation as its eventual outcome.” *Letters on Yoga
"How can a spirit entity be enclosed in a material gland? So far as I know the self or spirit is not enclosed in the body, rather the body is in the self. When we have the full experience of the self, we feel it as a wide consciousness in which the body is a very small thing, an adjunct or a thing contained, not a container.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "Humility before the Divine is also a sine qua non of the spiritual life, and spiritual pride, arrogance, or vanity and self-assurance press always downward. But confidence in the Divine and a faith in one"s spiritual destiny (i.e. since my heart and soul seek for the Divine, I cannot fail one day to reach Him) are much needed in view of the difficulties of the Path.” Letters on Yoga
"Humility before the Divine is also a sine qua non of the spiritual life, and spiritual pride, arrogance, or vanity and self-assurance press always downward.” *Letters on Yoga
" . . . humility is the first necessity, for one who has ego and pride cannot realise the Highest.” *Letters on Yoga
**"I certainly won"t have ‘attracted" [in place of ‘allured"] — there is an enormous difference between the force of the two words and merely ‘attracted by the Ecstasy" would take away all my ecstasy in the line — nothing so tepid can be admitted. Neither do I want ‘thrill" [in place of ‘joy"] which gives a false colour — precisely it would mean that the ecstasy was already touching him with its intensity which is far from my intention.Your statement that ‘joy" is just another word for ‘ecstasy" is surprising. ‘Comfort", ‘pleasure", ‘joy", ‘bliss", ‘rapture", ‘ecstasy" would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight" is just another word for ‘lightning" — or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri*
"I don"t know [‘what plane is spoken of by Virgil"], but purple is a light of the Vital. It may have been one of the vital heavens he was thinking of. The ancients saw the vital heavens as the highest and most of the religions also have done the same. I have used the suggestion of Virgil to insert a needed line.” *Letters on Savitri
"I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights, — yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
::: "If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself, — or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also, — not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
"If you go deep enough, into a sufficiently complete silence from all outer things, you will find within you that flame about which I often speak, and in this flame you will see your destiny.} You will see the aspiration of centuries which has been concentrated gradually, to lead you through countless births to the great day of realisation — that preparation which has been made through thousands of years, and is reaching its culmination.” Questions and Answers MCW Vol. 6*.
ignorance ::: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information. Ignorance, ignorance"s, Ignorance"s, ignorance", world-ignorance, World-Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"Ignorance is the consciousness of being in the successions of Time, divided in its knowledge by dwelling in the moment, divided in its conception of self-being by dwelling in the divisions of Space and the relations of circumstance, self-prisoned in the multiple working of the unity. It is called the Ignorance because it has put behind it the knowledge of unity and by that very fact is unable to know truly or completely either itself or the world, either the transcendent or the universal reality.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, — truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
". . . all ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge . . . .”The Life Divine
"This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Knowledge is no doubt the knowledge of the One, the realisation of the Being; Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being, the experience of separateness in the multiplicity and a dwelling or circling in the ill-understood maze of becomings: . . . .” The Life Divine*
"I have said that the Avatar is one who comes to open the Way for humanity to a higher consciousness —. . . .” Letters on Yoga
"I have started writing about doubt, but even in doing so I am afflicted by the ‘doubt" whether any amount of writing or of anything else can ever persuade the eternal doubt in man which is the penalty of his native ignorance. In the first place, to write adequately would mean anything from 60 to 600 pages, but not even 6000 convincing pages would convince doubt. For doubt exists for its own sake; its very function is to doubt always and, even when convinced, to go on doubting still; it is only to persuade its entertainer to give it board and lodging that it pretends to be an honest truth-seeker. This is a lesson I have learnt from the experience both of my own mind and of the minds of others; the only way to get rid of doubt is to take discrimination as one"s detector of truth and falsehood and under its guard to open the door freely and courageously to experience.” Letters on Yoga
"I may say that the opening upwards, the ascent into the Light and the subsequent descent into the ordinary consciousness and normal human life is very common as the first decisive experience in the practice of yoga and may very well happen even without the practice of yoga in those who are destined for the spiritual change, especially if there is a dissatisfaction somewhere with the ordinary life and a seeking for something more, greater or better.” Letters on Yoga*
"Immortality is one of the possible results of supramentalisation, but it is not an obligatory result and it does not mean that there will be an eternal or indefinite prolongation of life as it is. That is what many think it will be, that they will remain what they are with all their human desires and the only difference will be that they will satisfy them endlessly; but such an immortality would not be worth having and it would not be long before people are tired of it. To live in the Divine and have the divine Consciousness is itself immortality and to be able to divinise the body also and make it a fit instrument for divine works and divine life would be its material expression only.” *Letters on Yoga
imperfect ::: 1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses; faulty. 2. Not perfect; lacking completeness; deficient.
imperfection ::: 1. The quality or condition of being imperfect; incomplete; defective. 2. Something imperfect; a defect or flaw. imperfection"s, imperfections.
impersonal ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Impersonal is not He, it is It. . . . The Impersonal Brahman is inactive, aloof, indifferent, not concerned with what happens in the universe.” *Letters on Yoga
inlets ::: indentations of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bays or arms.
incarnation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "An incarnation is the Divine Consciousness and Being manifesting through the body.” *Letters on Yoga
incertitude ::: absence of confidence; doubt; uncertainty. incertitudes. ::: Sri Aurobindo: [referring to the line] "The incertitude of man"s proud confident thought.” ::: "‘Uncertainty" would mean that the thought was confident but uncertain of itself, which would be a contradiction. ‘Incertitude" means that its truth is uncertain in spite of its proud confidence in itself.” Letters on Savitri — 1936
inconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.” *The Life Divine
"All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we look closely at it, the Infinite"s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit"s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves, — but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” *The Life Divine
"Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience.” Letters on Yoga
*inconscience.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
inexhaustible ::: not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted.
*". . . infinity is everywhere, once one breaks the individual limits.” Letters on Yoga **Infinity, Infinity"s, infinities.**
initials ::: marks or signs with an initial letter or letters of a person"s name and surname esp. as a token of preliminary or informal approval.
::: "Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.” *Letters on Yoga
"Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.” Letters on Yoga
"Inner vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise and contains a truth in it.” Letters on Yoga
"Inner vision means the vision with the inner seeing as opposed to outer vision, the external sight with the surface mind in the surface eyes.” Letters on Yoga
::: "In our yoga the Nirvana is the beginning of the higher Truth, as it is the passage from the Ignorance to the higher Truth. The Ignorance has to be extinguished in order that the Truth may manifest.” Letters on Yoga*
"In peace there is besides the sense of stillness a harmony that gives a feeling of liberation and full satisfaction.” Letters on Yoga ::: *peaceful.
"Inspiration comes from above in answer to a state of concentration which is itself a call to it.” Letters on Yoga*
"In spiritual experience it [nirvana]is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcendence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. . . Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising and living in our true eternal being, living divinely in the Divine. But this we can do in the world and in life.” Letters on Yoga
integral ::: entire; complete; whole.
::: "Intellect is part of Mind and an instrument of half-truth like the rest of the Mind.” Letters on Yoga
"Intellectual activities are not part of the inner being — the intellect is the outer mind.” Letters on Yoga
". . . intellectual expression of the Truth . . . a means of expressing this greater discovery and as much of its contents as can at all be expressed in mental terms to those who still live in the mental intelligence.” Letters on Yoga
"In the spiritual sense, however, sacrifice has a different meaning — it does not so much indicate giving up what is held dear as an offering of oneself, one"s being, one"s mind, heart, will, body, life, actions to the Divine. It has the original sense of ‘making sacred" and is used as an equivalent of the word yajna. When the Gita speaks of the ‘sacrifice of knowledge", it does not mean a giving up of anything, but a turning of the mind towards the Divine in the search for knowledge and an offering of oneself through it. It is in this sense, too, that one speaks of the offering or sacrifice of works. The Mother has written somewhere that the spiritual sacrifice is joyful and not painful in its nature. On the spiritual path, very commonly, if a seeker still feels the old ties and responsibilities strongly he is not asked to sever or leave them, but to let the call in him grow till all within is ready. Many, indeed, come away earlier because they feel that to cut loose is their only chance, and these have to go sometimes through a struggle. But the pain, the struggle, is not the essential character of this spiritual self-offering.” Letters on Yoga
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
::: "I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a book that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
"It [death] has no separate existence by itself, it is only a result of the principle of decay in the body and that principle is there already — it is part of the physical nature. At the same time it is not inevitable; if one could have the necessary consciousness and force, decay and death is not inevitable. But to bring that consciousness and force into the whole of the material nature is the most difficult thing of all — at any rate, in such a way as to annul the decay principle.” Letters on Yoga
"It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others, ``Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you — if secretly, he will yet show himself in good time, — do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey."" Letters on Yoga
"It is not possible for the individual mind, so long as it remains shut up in its personality, to understand the workings of the Cosmic Will, for the standards made by the personal consciousness are not applicable to them. A cell in the body, if conscious, might also think that the human being and its actions are only the resultant of the relations and workings of a number of cells like itself and not the action of a unified self. It is only if one enters into the Cosmic Consciousness that one begins to see the forces at work and the lines on which they work and get a glimpse of the Cosmic Self and the Cosmic Mind and Will.” Letters on Yoga
". . . it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is the soul, the inner being that is the true self in everyone.” Letters on Yoga
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, — and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, — is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is when the true soul (psyche) comes forward and begins first to influence and then govern the actions of the instrumental nature that man begins to overcome vital desire and grow towards a divine nature.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "It needs a quiet mind to know the Divine Will. In the quiet mind turned towards the Divine the intuition (higher mind) comes of the Divine"s Will and the right way to do it.” *Letters on Yoga
"It [the Cosmic Spirit] uses Truth and Falsehood, Knowledge and Ignorance and all the other dualities as elements in the manifestation and works out what has to be worked out till all is ready for a higher working.” Letters on Yoga*
"It [the psychic] is constantly in contact with the immanent Divine — the Divine secret in the individual.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Karma is only a machinery, it is not the fundamental cause of terrestrial existence — it cannot be, for when the soul first entered this existence, it had no Karma.” *Letters on Yoga
"Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.” Letters on Yoga
"Krishna is the Anandamaya; he supports the evolution through the overmind leading it towards the Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Krishna with Radha is the symbol of the Divine Love.” Letters on Yoga
leave ::: 1. To go away from, depart from permanently, quit (a place, person, or thing). 2. To let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc. 3. To go without taking. 4. To permit, allow. 5. To let (someone) remain in a position to do something without interference. 6. To give in charge; entrust. 7. Have as a result or residue. leaves. (All other references to leaves are as pl. of leaf.)
lend ::: 1. To give, grant or add (a quality) to. 2. To contribute or impart. 3. To give temporarily; let have for a limited time. lends, lent, lending.
"Liberation is the first necessity, to live in the peace, silence, purity, freedom of the self.” Letters on Yoga
"Life [is] not only a play of forces or a mental experience, but a field for the evolution of the concealed spirit.” Letters on Yoga
"Life is the dynamic expression of Consciousness-Force when thrown outward to realise itself in concrete harmonies of formation.” Letters on Yoga
light, divine ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . there is a Divine Light that leans over the world and is not only a far-off incommunicable Lustre.” *Letters on Yoga
"The opening of the consciousness to the Divine Light and Truth and Presence is always the one important thing in the yoga.” *Letters on Yoga
"In the Veda the Cow is the Divine Light — . . . .” Letters on Yoga*
listless ::: lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic.
lotus (as chakra) ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life, — though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
::: "Love at its origin is a self-existent force, an absolute, a transcendent . . . which does not depend upon the objects — it depends only on itself or only on the Divine; for it is a self-existent power of the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"Love in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in oneself with the Divine Possibility or Reality in the loved.” Letters on Yoga
love ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Love is an intense self-expression of the soul of Ananda.” *Letters on Yoga
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
master ::: n. 1. One who has the power, knowledge and ability to control, manage, direct; as a teacher, guru, etc. with the authority and qualifications to teach apprentices. 2. A person eminently skilled in something, as an occupation, art, or science. 3. A person who has general authority over others. master"s, masters. *v. 4. To be or become completely proficient or skilled in; become an adept in. masters, mastered. adj. 5. Being master; exercising mastery; dominant. 6. Dominating or predominant. 7. Chief or principle. *master-clue, master-point.
master of Existence ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
maturity ::: the state of being complete in natural growth or development; perfect or ready.
mechanism ::: an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine or likened to one; linkage.
::: "Meditation, by the way, is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the head and not of the heart, so if you want dhyana , you can"t have an aversion to knowledge. Concentration in the heart is not meditation, it is a call on the Divine, on the Beloved.” Letters on Yoga
meditation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There are two words used in English to express the Indian idea of dhyana , ‘meditation" and ‘contemplation". Meditation means properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of ideas which work out a single subject. Contemplation means regarding mentally a single object, image, idea so that the knowledge about the object, image or idea may arise naturally in the mind by force of the concentration. Both these things are forms of dhyana , for the principle of dhyana is mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge. *Letters on Yoga
metamorphosis ::: 1. Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. 2. A change or succession of changes in form during the life cycle of an animal, allowing it to adapt to different environmental conditions, as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
mind, physical ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only — it depends on the sense-mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth until it is enlightened from above.” *Letters on Yoga
mind, silent ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind. Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent. It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built. ::: A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within separate from them, observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience.” *Letters on Yoga
mind, spiritual ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
morse ::: morse code. Either of two systems of clicks and pauses, short and long sounds, or flashes of light, used to represent the letter of the alphabet, numerals, etc.
mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” The Mother ::: "The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine.
"That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her [the Mother"s] most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life.” *The Mother
: "The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible.” *Letters on the Mother
"When one does sadhana, the inner consciousness begins to open and one is able to go inside and have all kinds of experiences there. As the sadhana progresses, one begins to live more and more in this inner being and the outer becomes more and more superficial. At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external. The inner consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother.” Letters on Yoga ::: **mighty Mother, World-Mother, World-Mother"s.**
mysteries ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is ‘Mysteries" with capital M and means ‘mystic symbolic rites" as in the Orphic and Eleusinian ‘Mysteries". When written with capital M it does not mean secret mysterious things, but has this sense, e.g. a ‘Mystery play".” Letters on Savitri **Mystery, Mystery"s.**
n. 1. A small part broken off or detached from any larger whole. 2. An incomplete and unfinished piece; portion. 3. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit. fragments, fragment-being, fragment-mirrorings. *v. 4. To break or separate (something) into fragments. *fragmented.
nescient. ::: *Sri Aurobindo: "Nescience in Nature is the complete self-ignorance; . . . .” The Life Divine*
night ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Night is the symbol of the Ignorance or Avidya in which men live just as Light is the symbol of Truth and Knowledge.” *Letters on Yoga
"In the way that one treads with the greater Light above, even every difficulty gives its help and has its value and Night itself carries in it the burden of the Light that has to be.” Letters on Yoga **Night, Night"s.
::: "Nirvana or Moksha is a liberated condition of the being, not a world — it is a withdrawal from the worlds and the manifestation.” *Letters on Yoga
No-man"s-land. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "As to the two lines with ‘no man"s land" there can be no capital in the first line because there it is a description while the capital is needed in the other line, because the phrase has acquired there the force of a name or appellation. I am not sure about the hyphen; it could be put but the no hyphen might be better as it suggests that no one in particular has as yet got possession.” Letters on Savitri.
*"No, that [‘pours” instead of "poured") would take away all meaning from ‘new fair world" — it is the attempted conquest of earth by life when earth had been created — a past event though still continuing in its sequel and result.” Letters on Savitri*
"Nothing can happen without the presence and support of the Divine, for Nature or Prakriti is the Divine Force and it is this that works out things, but it works them out according to the nature and through or with the will of each man which is full of ignorance — that goes on until men turn to the Divine and become conscious of Him and united with Him. Then only can it be said that all begins to be done in him by the direct Will of the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Not to be disturbed by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in yoga a state of samata , equality to all things.” Letters on Yoga
numbers ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Fifty, hundred, a thousand are numbers symbolic of completeness.” The Secret of the Veda
obsolete ::: no longer in use.
"Of course, that is the real fact — death is only a shedding of the body, not a cessation of the personal existence. A man is not dead because he goes into another country and changes his clothes to suit that climate.” Letters on Yoga
"Of course, the gods exist — that is to say, there are Powers that stand above the world and transmit the divine workings. It is the physical mind which believes only what is physical that denies them. There are also beings of other worlds — gods and Asuras, etc.” Letters on Yoga
omega ::: the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet ; the last of any series; the end. ::: Alpha and the Omega.
::: "OM is the mantra, the expressive sound-symbol of the Brahman Consciousness in its four domains from the Turiya to the external or material plane. The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself. The mantra OM should therefore lead towards the opening of the consciousness to the sight and feeling of the One Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "OM is this syllable. This syllable is the Brahman, this syllable is the Supreme. He who knoweth the imperishable OM, whatso he willeth, it is his. This support is the best, this support is the highest; and when a man knoweth it, he is greatened in the world of Brahman.” The Upanishads
"One can speak of the chakras only in reference to yoga. In ordinary people the chakras are not open, it is only when they do sadhana that the chakras open. For the chakras are the centres of the inner consciousness and belong originally to the subtle body. So much as is active in ordinary people is very little — for in them it is the outer consciousness that is active.” Letters on Yoga
"One must go deep and find the soul, the self, the Divine Reality within us and only then can life become a true expression of what we can be instead of a blind and always repeated confused blur of the inadequate and imperfect thing we were. The choice is between remaining in the old jumble and groping about in the hope of stumbling on some discovery or standing back and seeking the Light within till we discover and can build the Godhead within and without us. "Letters on Yoga
On the other hand the passage through the higher zones — higher Mind, illumined Mind, Intuition, overmind is obligatory — they are the true Intermediaries between the present consciousness and the supermind.” Letters on Yoga
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Ordinarily when one sleeps a complex phenomenon happens. The waking consciousness is no longer there, for all has been withdrawn within into the inner realms of which we are not aware when we are awake, though they exist; . . . .” *Letters on Yoga
ornaments, such as bracelets, necklaces, or rings, made of precious metals set with gems or imitation gems. Also fig.
::: "Our incapacity does not matter — there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable — but the Divine Force also is there. If one puts one"s trust in that, incapacity will be changed into capacity. Difficulty and struggle themselves then become a means towards the achievement.” Letters on Yoga
"Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect walking.” The Synthesis of Yoga
outlets ::: means of expression or satisfaction.
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
"Pain is caused because the physical consciousness in the Ignorance is too limited to bear the touches that come upon it. Otherwise, to cosmic consciousness in its state of complete knowledge and complete experience all touches come as Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
palimpsest ::: a manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.
panergy ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Panergy" suggested is a self-existent total power which may carry the cosmic energies in it and is their cause but is not constituted by them.” Letters on Savitri.
partial ::: 1. Of, relating to, being, or affecting only a part; not total; incomplete. 2. Favouring one person or side over another or others; biased or prejudiced.
pass ::: v. 1. To move on or ahead; proceed. 2. To move by. 3. To go or get through (something), lit. and fig. **4. To go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross. 5. To cross, traverse, in reference to times, stages, states, conditions, processes, actions, experiences, etc. 6. To be transferred from one to another; circulate. 7. To come to or toward, then go beyond. 8. To come to an end. 9. To cease to exist. 10. To convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on). 11. To be accepted as or believed to be. 12. To sanction or approve. passes, passed, passing. n. 13. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. passes. ::: pass by. To let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overlook.
::: "Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
"Peace is a deep quietude where no disturbance can come — a quietude with a sense of established security and release.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Peace is a still more positive condition; it carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance.” *Letters on Yoga
peace ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Peace is the very basis of all the siddhi in the yoga . . . .” *Letters on Yoga
penumbra ::: a partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of complete shadow and complete illumination.
::: "Perhaps one could say that it [spiritual humility] is to be aware of the relativity of what has been done compared with what is still to be done — and also to be conscious of one"s being nothing without the Divine Grace.” *Letters on Yoga
phrase ::: 1. A characteristic way or mode of expression. 2. An expression of two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence. phrases.
plenitude ::: the condition of being full, ample, or complete.
power ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Power means strength and force, Shakti, which enables one to face all that can happen and to stand and overcome, also to carry out what the Divine Will proposes. It can include many things, power over men, events, circumstances, means etc. But all this not of the mental or vital kind, but by an action through unity of consciousness with the Divine and with all things and beings. It is not an individual strength depending on certain personal capacities, but the Divine Power using the individual as an instrument.” *Letters on Yoga
powers ::: Sri Aurobindo: "These are the forces and beings that are interested in maintaining the falsehoods they have created in the world of the Ignorance and in putting them forward as the Truth which men must follow. In India they are termed Asuras, Rakshasas, Pishachas (beings respectively of the mentalised vital, middle vital and lower vital planes) who are in opposition to the Gods, the Powers of Light. These too are Powers, for they too have their cosmic field in which they exercise their function and authority and some of them were once divine Powers (the former gods, purve devah , as they are called somewhere in the Mahabharata) who have fallen towards the darkness by revolt against the divine Will behind the cosmos.” Letters on Yoga
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
::: "Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force. The places indicate the field of action — the top of the head is the summit of the thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind-centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature.” Letters on Yoga
printing-house ::: a place where printing of books, pamphlets, etc. is done.
"Pulling comes usually from a desire to get things for oneself — in aspiration there is a self-giving for the higher consciousness to descend and take possession — the more intense the call the greater the self-giving.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse.” *Letters on Yoga
purity ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It [purity] is more a condition than a substance. Peace helps to purity — since in peace disturbing influences cease and the essence of purity is to respond only to the Divine Influence and not to have an affinity with other movements.” *Letters on Yoga
purple ::: 1. Any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red. 2. Imperial, regal or princely.
"Purple is the colour of vital power.” *Letters on Yoga
rased ::: deleted, erased.
". . . real faith is something spiritual, a knowledge of the soul.” Letters on Yoga*
relinquishing ::: giving up, abandoning, releasing, letting go.
"Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
resiled ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is a perfectly good English word, meaning originally to leap back, rebound (like an elastic) — so to draw back from, recoil, retreat (in military language it means to fall back from a position gained or to one"s original position): but it is specially used for withdrawing from a contract, agreement, previous statement.” Letters on Savitri.
reverse ::: n. **1. The side of a coin or medal that does not carry the principal design. v. 2. To revoke or set aside (a judgment, decree, etc.); annul. 3. To change into something different or contrary; alter completely. 4. To turn and proceed in the opposite direction. reversed, reversing.**
rivulet ("s) ::: a small stream; streamlet; brook. rivulets.
round ::: adj. 1. Full, complete, entire. rounded. 2. Whole or complete; full. 3. Expressed to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand; rounded by approximation. adv. 4. Involving or using circular motion. 5. On all sides; all about; surrounding; enveloping. 6. In all directions from a centre or point of reference. 7. In a circular or rounded course. prep. 8. Around.
round ::: n. 1. A completed course of time, series of events or operations, etc., ending at a point corresponding to that at the beginning. 2. A going around from place to place as in a habitual or definite circuit. 3. A recurring period of time, succession of events, duties, etc. 4. Moving in or forming a circle. round"s, rounds. wonder-rounds. 5. A composition for two or more voices in which each voice enters at a different time with the same melody. rounds. v. 6. Brings to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.
savitri ::: "In the Mahabharata, the heroine of the tale of Satyavan and Savitri; . . . . She was the daughter of King Ashwapati, and lover of Satyavan, whom she married although she was warned by Narada that he had only one year to live. On the fatal day, when Yama carried off Satyavan"s spirit, she followed him with unswerving devotion. Ultimately Yama was constrained to restore her husband to life.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Sri Aurobindo: "Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; . . . .” (Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.)
"Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother . . . .” Letters on Savitri
The Mother: "Savitri [the poem] is a mantra for the transformation of the world.” Spoken to Udar
scarlet ::: a strong to vivid red or reddish orange.
scrip ::: a small bag, wallet, or satchel, esp. one carried by a pilgrim, a shepherd, or a beggar.
seize ::: 1. To grasp with the mind; apprehend; understand clearly and completely. 2. To take hold of quickly; grab with the hands. 3. Of a fear, a belief, etc.: To take sudden possession of (a person, his mind). 4. To take possession of control of as if by suddenly laying hold. 5. To take possession of by force or at will. seizes, seized, seizing.
"Self-giving in fact means a change from ego-centricity to God-centricity; . . .” Letters on Yoga
sentence ::: n. 1. A sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and a predicate containing a finite verb. 2. An authoritative decision; a judicial judgement or decree, esp. a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty. Hence, the punishment to which a criminal is sentenced. sentences. 3. A number of words forming a complete statement. sentenced.
". . . serpents indicate always energies of Nature and very often bad energies of the vital plane; but they can also indicate luminous or divine energies like the snake of Vishnu.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Aspiration is a call to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga*
Sri Aurobindo: "A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one"s own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "As there is an inner sight other than the physical, so there is an inner hearing other than that of the external ear, and it can listen to voices and sounds and words of other worlds, other times and places, or those which come from supraphysical beings.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development — Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Brahma is the Power of the Divine that stands behind formation and the creation.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "But what do we mean by the individual? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of Nature which holds together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible; but the individual self or soul is not this ego. The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal portion of the Divine, but can also be described as the Divine himself supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "But when I speak of the Divine Will, I mean something different, — something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently towards the best possible in the conditions of a world of Ignorance and leading it eventually towards a descent of a greater power of the Divine, which will be not an omnipotence held back and conditioned by the law of the world as it is, but in full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, passing through the mind or sense or both, awakes a vital enjoyment of the taste, Bhoga, and this can again awaken us, awaken even the soul in us to something yet deeper and more fundamental than mere pleasure and enjoyment, to some form of the spirit"s delight of existence, Ananda.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Concentration is a gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g., the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point. In meditation it is not indispensable to gather like this, one can simply remain with a quiet mind thinking of one subject or observing what comes in the consciousness and dealing with it.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Confidence — the sense of security that goes with trust.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Conviction — intellectual belief held on what seems to be good reasons.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Dawn always means an opening of some kind — the coming of something that is not yet fully there.” Letters on Yoga ::: "As the Sun is image and godhead of the golden Light of the divine Truth, so Dawn is image and godhead of the opening out of the supreme illumination on the night of our human ignorance. Dawn daughter of Heaven and Night her sister are obverse and reverse sides of the same eternal Infinite.” The Secret of the Veda
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Destiny in the rigid sense applies only to the outer being so long as it lives in the Ignorance. What we call destiny is only in fact the result of the present condition of the being and the nature and energies it has accumulated in the past acting on each other and determining the present attempts and their future results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma, which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One"s spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Doubt cannot be convinced, because by its very nature it does not want to be convinced; . . . .” *Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . Durga, the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Emotion itself is not a bad thing; it is a necessary part of the nature, and psychic emotion is one of the most powerful helps to the sadhana. Psychic emotion, bringing tears of love for the Divine or tears of Ananda, ought not to be suppressed: . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Equality is to remain unmoved within in all conditions.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Essence can never be defined — it simply is.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Even if there is much darkness — and this world is full of it and the physical nature of man also — yet a ray of the true Light can prevail eventually against a tenfold darkness. Believe that and cleave to it always.” Letters on Yoga*
*Sri Aurobindo: "Experience is a word that covers almost all the happenings in yoga; only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi; e.g. peace when it comes and goes is an experience — when it is settled and goes no more it is a siddhi.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Faith is a necessary means for arriving at realisation, because we are ignorant and do not yet know that which we are seeking to realise; faith is indeed knowledge giving the ignorance an intimation of itself previous to its own manifestation, it is the gleam sent before by the yet unrisen Sun. When the Sun shall rise, there will be no longer any need of the gleam.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things. It might almost be considered as an invention of the hostile forces.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Fifty, hundred, a thousand are numbers symbolic of completeness.” The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: "Form is the basic means of manifestation and without it it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested?” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Further, vision is of value because it is often a first key to inner planes of one"s own being and one"s own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Yoga-experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Hell and heaven are often imaginary states of the soul or rather of the vital which it constructs about it after its passing. What is meant by hell is a painful passage through the vital or lingering there, as for instance, in many cases of suicide where one remains surrounded by the forces of suffering and turmoil created by this unnatural and violent exit. There are, of course, also worlds of mind and vital worlds which are penetrated with joyful or dark experiences. One may pass through these as the result of things formed in the nature which create the necessary affinities, but the idea of reward or retribution is a crude and vulgar conception which is a mere popular error.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "History teaches us nothing; it is a confused torrent of events and personalities or a kaleidoscope of changing institutions. We do not seize the real sense of all this change and this continual streaming forward of human life in the channels of Time. What we do seize are current or recurrent phenomena, facile generalisations, partial ideas. We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism, the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; we espouse causes and ardent enthusiasms whose triumph turns to an early disillusionment and then forsake them for others, perhaps for those that we have taken so much trouble to destroy. For a whole century mankind thirsts and battles after liberty and earns it with a bitter expense of toil, tears and blood; the century that enjoys without having fought for it turns away as from a puerile illusion and is ready to renounce the depreciated gain as the price of some new good. And all this happens because our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. The moral is not the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim.” *The Human Cycle etc.
Sri Aurobindo: "In fact it [the world] is not an illusion in the sense of an imposition of something baseless and unreal on the consciousness, but a misinterpretation by the conscious mind and sense and a falsifying misuse of manifested existence.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Intellectual activities are not part of the inner being – the intellect is the outer mind.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But book-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance — ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poor thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "It [falsehood] is created by an Asuric (hostile) power which intervenes in this creation and is not only separated from the Truth and therefore limited in knowledge and open to error, but in revolt against the Truth or in the habit of seizing the Truth only to pervert it. This Power, the dark Asuric Shakti or Rakshasic Maya, puts forward its own perverted consciousness as true knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things. It is the powers and personalities of this perverted and perverting consciousness that we call hostile beings, hostile forces. Whenever these perversions created by them out of the stuff of the Ignorance are put forward as the Truth of things, that is the Falsehood, in the yogic sense, . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "It is an achievement to have got rid so rapidly and decisively of the shimmering mists and fogs which modern intellectualism takes for Light of Truth. The modern mind has so long and persistently wandered – and we with it – in the Valley of the False Glimmer that it is not easy for anyone to disperse its mists with the sunlight of clear vision.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . it is this emptiness inward and outward that often in yoga becomes the first step towards a new consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "[‘Its passive flower of love and doom it gave."] Good Heavens! how did Gandhi come in there? Passion-flower, sir — passion, not passive.” Letters on Savitri [in reference to a typographical error]
Sri Aurobindo: "Krishna with Radha is the symbol of the Divine Love.” Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: " Love? It is not Love who meets the burdened great and governs the fate of men! Nor is it Pain. Time also does not do these things — it only provides the field and movement of events. If I had wanted to give a name, I would have done it, but it has purposely to be left nameless because it is indefinable. He may use Love or Pain or Time or any of these powers but is not any of them. You can call him the Master of the Evolution, if you like. Letters of Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Lust is the perversion or degradation which prevents love from establishing its reign: . . . .” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Mind has its own realms and life has its own realms just as matter has. In the mental realms life and substance are entirely subordinated to Mind and obey its dictates. Here on earth there is the evolution with matter as the starting-point, life as the medium, mind emerging from it. There are many grades, realms, combinations in the cosmos — there are even many universes. Ours is only one of many.” Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Narada stands for the expression of the Divine Love and Knowledge.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . obedience is necessary so as to get away from one"s own mind and vital and learn to follow the Truth. . . . Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Of course you can [do yoga without being great]. There is no need of being great. On the contrary humility is the first necessity, for one who has ego and pride cannot realise the Highest.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . one can be free only by living in the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . our imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; . . . .” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Pride is only one form of ego — there are ten thousand others. Every action of man is full of ego — the good ones as well as the bad, his humility as much as his pride, his virtues as much as his vices.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Quiet is a condition in which there is no restlessness or disturbance.” ::: "Quiet is rather negative — it is the absence of disturbance.” Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body and the most material nature the supreme Ananda.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Revelation is a part of the intuitive consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Sacrifice means an inner offering to the Divine and the real spiritual sacrifice is a very joyful thing.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . sheaths is simply a term for bodies, because each is superimposed on the other and acts as a covering and can be cast off. Thus the physical body itself is called the food sheath and its throwing off is what is called death.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . some things are suppressed in the ordinary life and remain lying in the nature, suppressed but not eliminated; they may rise up any day or they may express themselves in various nervous forms or other disorders of the mind or vital or body without it being evident what is their real cause. This has been recently discovered by European psychologists and much emphasised, even exaggerated in a new science called psycho-analysis.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "So the possibility of the sunlit path is not a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first books on yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke of the dark and sunlit way and emphasised the superiority of the latter over the former.” *Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Spiritual force has its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream, for instance) of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever object one chooses. This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or vital — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind-waves, thought-currents, waves of emotion, — for example, anger, sorrow, etc., — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies"] might be all right for mental poetry — it won"t do for what I am trying to create — in that, one word won"t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam" and ‘glow" are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri *
Sri Aurobindo: "The cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature with all the beings and forces within it. All that is as much conscious as a whole as the individual separately is, though in a different way. The consciousness of the individual is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. Yet all the time most of what he is comes into him from the cosmic consciousness. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The earth is a material field of evolution. Mind and life, supermind, Sachchidananda are in principle involved there in the earth-consciousness; but only Matter is at first organized; then life descends from the life plane and gives shape and organization and activity to the life principle in Matter, creates the plant and animal; then mind descends from the mind plane, creating man. Now supermind is to descend so as to create a supramental race.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The faith in the divine Shakti must be always at the back of our strength and when she becomes manifest, it must be or grow implicit and complete. There is nothing that is impossible to her who is the conscious Power and universal Goddess all-creative from eternity and armed with the Spirit"s omnipotence.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The first is the discovery of the soul, not the outer soul of thought and emotion and desire, but the secret psychic entity, the divine element within us. When that becomes dominant over the nature, when we are consciously the soul and when mind, life and body take their true place as its instruments, we are aware of a guide within that knows the truth, the good, the true delight and beauty of existence, controls heart and intellect by its luminous law and leads our life and being towards spiritual completeness.” *The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "The flute is the call of the Divine Love;” Letters on Yoga ::: "The flute is the symbol of a call — usually the spiritual call.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The hostile forces are those whose very raison d"être is revolt against the Divine, against the Light and Truth and enmity to the Divine Work.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Indian explanation of fate is Karma. We ourselves are our own fate through our actions, but the fate created by us binds us; for what we have sown, we must reap in this life or another. Still we are creating our fate for the future even while undergoing old fate from the past in the present. That gives a meaning to our will and action and does not, as European critics wrongly believe, constitute a rigid and sterilising fatalism. But again, our will and action can often annul or modify even the past Karma, it is only certain strong effects, called utkata karma, that are non-modifiable. Here too the achievement of the spiritual consciousness and life is supposed to annul or give the power to annul Karma. For we enter into union with the Will Divine, cosmic or transcendent, which can annul what it had sanctioned for certain conditions, new-create what it had created, the narrow fixed lines disappear, there is a more plastic freedom and wideness. Neither Karma nor Astrology therefore points to a rigid and for ever immutable fate.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Mask is mentioned not twice but four times in this opening passage and it is purposely done to keep up the central connection of the idea running through the whole. The ambassadors wear this grey Mask, so your criticism cannot stand since there is no separate mask coming as part of a new idea but a very pointed return to the principal note indicating the identity of the influence throughout. It is not a random recurrence but a purposeful touch carrying a psychological meaning.” — 1948 Letters on Savitri*
Sri Aurobindo: ". The mystic Muse is more of an inspired Bacchante of the Dionysian wine than an orderly housewife.” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "The nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship, self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union. Self-giving is the character of both; both are necessary in the yoga and each gets its full force when supported by the other.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The peacock is the bird of Victory.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The physical nerves are part of the material body but they are extended into the subtle body and there is a connection between the two.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The quest of man for God, which becomes in the end the most ardent and enthralling of all his quests, begins with his first vague questionings of Nature and a sense of something unseen both in himself and her. Even if, as modern Science insists, religion started from animism, spirit-worship, demon-worship, and the deification of natural forces, these first forms only embody in primitive figures a veiled intuition in the subconscient, an obscure and ignorant feeling of hidden influences and incalculable forces, or a vague sense of being, will, intelligence in what seems to us inconscient, of the invisible behind the visible, of the secretly conscious spirit in things distributing itself in every working of energy. The obscurity and primitive inadequacy of the first perceptions do not detract from the value or the truth of this great quest of the human heart and mind, since all our seekings, — including Science itself, — must start from an obscure and ignorant perception of hidden realities and proceed to the more and more luminous vision of the Truth which at first comes to us masked, draped, veiled by the mists of the Ignorance. Anthropomorphism is an imaged recognition of the truth that man is what he is because God is what He is and that there is one soul and body of things, humanity even in its incompleteness the most complete manifestation yet achieved here and divinity the perfection of what in man is imperfect.” The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly — that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world — but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone — . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is no difference between the terms ‘universal" and ‘cosmic" except that ‘universal" can be used in a freer way than ‘cosmic". Universal may mean ‘of the universe", cosmic in that general sense. But it may also mean ‘common to all", e.g., ‘This is a universal weakness" — but you cannot say ‘This is a cosmic weakness".” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is no ignorance that is not part of the Cosmic Ignorance, only in the individual it becomes a limited formation and movement, while the Cosmic Ignorance is the whole movement of world consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The robbers are as in the Veda vital beings who come to steal away the good condition or else to steal the gains of the sadhana.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The sense of release as if from jail always accompanies the emergence of the psychic being or the realisation of the self above. It is therefore spoken of as a liberation, mukti. It is a release into peace, happiness, the soul"s freedom not tied down by the thousand ties and cares of the outward ignorant existence.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga*
Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘descend" has various meanings according to the context — I used it here in the sense of the psychic being coming down into the human consciousness and body ready for it.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of wideness and freedom and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence — sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one"s own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Universal love is the spiritual founded on the sense of the One and the Divine everywhere and the change of the personal into a wide universal consciousness, free from attachment and ignorance.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "What is meant by hell is a painful passage through the vital or lingering there, as for instance, in many cases of suicide where one remains surrounded by the forces of suffering and turmoil created by this unnatural and violent exit.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "What the "void" feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if" that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if"s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows. . . .” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "When all is in agreement with the one Truth or an expression of it that is harmony.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "When there is some lowering or diminution of the consciousness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adversary — or the Censor — who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view, and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force. Become conscious and cast out the possibility of its renewal, that is all that is to be done.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Yes: the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Your ‘barely enough", instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly", falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly" is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely" would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough food left for two or three meals", where ‘hardly" would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
::: "Sri Krishna . . . Lord of the divine love and Ananda — and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that love and Ananda.” *Letters on Yoga
::: *"Stevenson has a striking passage in "Kidnapped” where the hero notes that his fear is felt primarily not in the heart but the stomach.” Letters on Yoga
Strength is all right for the strong — but aspiration and the Grace answering to it are not altogether myths; they are great realities of the spiritual life.” Letters on Yoga*
"That there is a divine force asleep or veiled by Inconscience in Matter and that the Higher Force has to descend and awaken it with the Light and Truth is a thing that is well known; it is at the very base of this yoga.” Letters on Yoga
"The centre of vision is between the eyebrows in the centre of the forehead. When it opens one gets the inner vision, sees the inner forms and images of things and people and begins to understand things and people from within and not only from outside, develops a power of will which also acts in the inner (yogic) way on things and people etc. Its opening is often the beginning of the yogic as opposed to the ordinary mental consciousness.” Letters on Yoga
"The child usually signifies the psychic being — new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.” Letters on Yoga
"The child (when it does not mean the psychic being) is usually the symbol of something new-born in some part of the consciousness.” Letters on Yoga
"The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top: — (1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga, — (1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error — the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga*
"The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one"s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one"s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one"s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces — for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness — and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in ::: —the nature.” Letters on Yoga*
"The cosmic Truth is the truth of things as they are at present expressed in the universe. The Divine Truth is independent of the universe, above it and originates it.” Letters on Yoga
"The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results — it is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces." Letters on Yoga
"The Divine Force can act on any plane — it is not limited to the supramental Force. The supramental is only one aspect of the power of the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"The Divine Grace is something not calculable, not bound by anything the intellect can fix as a condition, — though ordinarily some call, aspiration, intensity of the psychic being can awaken it, yet it acts sometimes without any apparent cause even of that kind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The Divine Grace is there ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of Ignorance into the Law of Light, and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its intervention, but as a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually delivers.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The Divine is always in the inner heart and does not leave it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Divine is that from which all comes, in which all lives, and to return to the truth of the Divine now clouded over by Ignorance is the soul"s aim in life. In its supreme Truth, the Divine is absolute and infinite peace, consciousness, existence, power and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
"The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.” Letters on Yoga ::: *Divine"s.
::: "The ear is the passage of communion between the inner mind centre and the thought-forces or thought-waves of the universal Nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
"The evil forces are perversions of the Truth by the Ignorance — in any complete transformation they must disappear and the Truth behind them be delivered.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
"The flute is the call of the Divine.” Letters on Yoga*
"The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself.” Letters on Yoga*
::: "The Gods are Personalities and Powers of the dynamic Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "The Gods, as has already been said, are in origin and essence permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adya Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The Guru is the Guide in the yoga. When the Divine is accepted as the Guide, He is accepted as the Guru.” *Letters on Yoga
"The heart is the centre of the being and commands the rest, as the psychic being or caitya purusa is there. It is only in that sense that all flows from it, for it is the psychic being who each time creates a new mind, vital and body for himself.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "The heart is the centre of the emotional being and the emotions are vital movements. When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The heart spoken of by the Upanishads corresponds with the physical cardiac centre; it is the hrdpadma of the Tantriks. As a subtle centre, cakra , it is supposed to have its apex on the spine and to broaden out in front. Exactly where in this area one or another feels it does not matter much; to feel it there and be guided by it is the main thing.” *Letters on Yoga
"The hostile forces are those which try to pervert everything and are in revolt against the Divine and opposed to the yoga.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, sooner or later.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The inner vision can see objects, but it can see instead the vibration of the forces which act through the object.” Letters on Yoga
"The inner vision is an open door on higher planes of consciousness beyond the physical mind which gives room for a wider truth and experience to enter and act upon the mind. It is not the only or the most important door, but it is one which comes readiest to very many if not most and can be a very powerful help.” Letters on Yoga
"The ‘I" or the little ego is constituted by Nature and is at once a mental, vital and physical formation meant to aid in centralising and individualising the outer consciousness and action. When the true being is discovered, the utility of the ego is over and this formation has to disappear — the true being is felt in its place.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” *Letters on Yoga
::: ". . . the modern man, even the modern cultured man, is or tends to be to a degree quite unprecedented politikon zôon, a political, economic and social being valuing above all things the efficiency of the outward existence and the things of the mind and spirit mainly, when not exclusively, for their aid to humanity"s vital and mechanical progress: he has not that regard of the ancients which looked up towards the highest heights and regarded an achievement in the things of the mind and the spirit with an unquestioning admiration or a deep veneration for its own sake as the greatest possible contribution to human culture and progress. And although this modern tendency is exaggerated and ugly and degrading in its exaggeration, inimical to humanity"s spiritual evolution, it has this much of truth behind it that while the first value of a culture is its power to raise and enlarge the internal man, the mind, the soul, the spirit, its soundness is not complete unless it has shaped also his external existence and made of it a rhythm of advance towards high and great ideals. This is the true sense of progress and there must be as part of it a sound political, economic and social life, a power and efficiency enabling a people to survive, to grow and to move securely towards a collective perfection, and a vital elasticity and responsiveness that will give room for a constant advance in the outward expression of the mind and the spirit.” The Renaissance in India
*The Mother: "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, one"s self-giving can be total. And with the self-giving comes joy, long before the Adversary is truly vanquished and disappears.”
"The mystic feels real and present, even ever present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations.” Letters on Savitri
" The natural attitude of the psychic being is to feel itself as the Child, the Son of God, the Bhakta; it is a portion of the Divine, one in essence, but in the dynamics of the manifestation there is always even in identity a difference.” Letters on Yoga
". . . the nervous envelope, the aura.” Letters on Yoga*
::: "Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"The other parts of our natural composition are not only mutable but perishable; but the psychic entity in us persists and is fundamentally the same always: it contains all essential possibilities of our manifestation but is not constituted by them; it is not limited by what it manifests, not contained by the incomplete forms of the manifestation, not tarnished by the imperfections and impurities, the defects and depravations of the surface being. It is an ever-pure flame of the divinity in things and nothing that comes to it, nothing that enters into our experience can pollute its purity or extinguish the flame.” *The Life Divine
"The personal and the impersonal are themselves posited and experienced by mind as separate realities and one or other is declared and seen as supreme, so that the personal can have laya in the Impersonal or, on the contrary, the impersonal disappears into the absolute reality of the supreme and divine Person — the impersonal in that view is only an attribute or power of the personal Divine. But at the summit of spiritual experience passing beyond mind one begins to feel the fusion of all these things into one. Consciousness, Existence, Ananda return to their indivisible unity, Sachchidananda. The personal and the impersonal become irrevocably one, so that to posit one as against the other appears as an act of ignorance.” *Letters on Yoga
"The physical heart is in the left side, but the heart centre of yoga is in the middle of the chest — the cardiac centre.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "The physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only, and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces.” *Letters on Yoga
"The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life"s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” *The Human Cycle, etc.
"The reality of the Hostiles and the nature of their role and trend of their endeavour cannot be doubted by any one who has had his inner vision unsealed and made their unpleasant acquaintance.” Letters on Savitri
"There are different kinds of knowledge. One is inspiration, i.e. something that comes out of the knowledge planes like a flash and opens up the mind to the Truth in a moment. That is inspiration. It easily takes the form of words as when a poet writes or a speaker speaks, as people say, from inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real eternal self. It opens inwardly to the soul, called in the language of this yoga the psychic being which supports our successive births and at each birth assumes a new mind, life and body. It opens above to the Self or Spirit which is unborn and by conscious recovery of it we transcend the changing personality and achieve freedom and full mastery over our nature.” Letters on Yoga
"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 a rhythm in everything unheard by the physical ear and by that rhythm things exist.” Letters on Yoga*
"There is a sunlit path as well as a gloomy one and it is the better of the two — a path in which one goes forward in absolute reliance on the Mother, fearing nothing, sorrowing over nothing. Aspiration is needed but there can be a sunlit aspiration full of light and faith and confidence and joy. If difficulty comes, even that can be faced with a smile.” Letters on Yoga
::: **"There is no fear in the higher Nature. Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things.” Letters on Yoga
"There is no need of words in aspiration. It can be expressed or unexpressed in words.” Letters on Yoga
"The Self is being, not a being. By Self is meant the conscious essential existence, one in all.” Letters on Yoga
"These lights and visions are not hallucinations. They indicate an opening of the inner vision whose centre is in the forehead between the eyebrows.” Letters on Yoga
"The serpent is a symbol of force, very often a hostile or evil force of the vital plane.” Letters on Yoga
"The serpent is the symbol of energy — especially of the Kundalini Shakti which is the divine Force coiled up in the lowest (physical) centre, Muladhara, and when it rises it goes up through the spine and joins the higher consciousness above.” Letters on Yoga
"The serpent with the six hoods is the Kundalini Shakti, the divine power asleep in the lowest physical centre which, awakened in the yoga, ascends in light through the opening centres to meet the Divine in the highest centre and so connect the manifest and the unmanifested, joining spirit and Matter.” Letters on Yoga*
::: "The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The soul or psyche is immutable only in the sense that it contains all the possibilities of the Divine within it, but it has to evolve them and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge.” *Letters on Yoga
"The spiritual change is the established descent of the peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the Self and the Divine and of a higher cosmic consciousness and the change of the whole consciousness to that.” Letters on Yoga
"The spiritual destiny always stands — it may be delayed or seem to be lost for a time, but it is never abolished.” Letters on Yoga
The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge and the higher surpassing knowledge. Therefore he can guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it.” The Human Cycle*
"The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more complete self-giving in all the parts of the being. If they can achieve and preserve the attitude of the central surrender, if they can rely wholly on the Divine and accept cheerfully whatever comes to them from the Divine, then their path becomes sunlit and may even be straightforward and easy.” Letters on Yoga*
"The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one"s spiritual destiny) or, if one has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he regards them cheerfully as all in the day's work''. If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying,Well, that was a queer go but the Divine is evidently in a queer mood and if that is his way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means of putting me right."" Letters on Yoga
::: "The true emptiness is the beginning of what I call in the Arya ‘sama ‘ — the rest, calm, peace of the eternal Self — which has finally to replace tamas, the physical inertia. Tamas is the degradation of sama , as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "The true physical mind is the receiving and externalising intelligence which has two functions — first, to work upon external things and give them a mental order with a way of practically dealing with them and, secondly, to be the channel of materialising and putting into effect whatever the thinking and dynamic mind sends down to it for the purpose.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The use of the word Power has already been explained — it can be applied to whatever or whoever exercises a conscious power in the cosmic field and has authority over the world-movement or some movement in it.” Letters on Yoga
"The vital is the. . . being behind the Force of Life; in its outer form in the Ignorance it generates the desire-soul which governs most men and which they mistake often for the real soul. ::: The vital as the desire-soul and desire-nature controls the consciousness to a large extent in most men, because men are governed by desire.” Letters on Yoga
"The word ‘physical mind" is rather ambiguous, because it can mean this externalising Mind and the mental in the physical taken together.” Letters on Yoga*
"They [peace and patience] go together. By having patience under all kinds of pressure you lay the foundations of peace.” Letters on Yoga*
"This body of ours is a symbol of our real being. . . .” Letters on Yoga ::: ". . . the body itself is only a constant act of consciousness of the spirit.” Essays on the Gita
"This Divine may lead us often through darkness, because the darkness is there in us and around us, but it is to the Light he is leading and not to anything else.” Letters on Yoga*
::: "This is the omniscient who knows the law of our being and is sufficient to his works; let us build the song of his truth by our thought and make it as if a chariot on which he shall mount. When he dwells with us, then a happy wisdom becomes ours. With him for friend we cannot come to harm.” The Secret of the Veda
"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*
::: "To be free from all preference and receive joyfully whatever comes from the Divine Will is not possible at first for any human being. What one should have at first is the constant idea that what the Divine wills is always for the best even when the mind does not see how it is so, . . . .” Letters on Yoga*
"To live and act under control or according to a standard of what is right — not to allow the vital or the physical to do whatever they like and not to let the mind run about according to its fancy without truth or order. Also to obey those who ought to be obeyed.” Letters on Yoga
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
"To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event.” Letters on Savitri*
::: "Universal forces means all forces good or bad, favourable or hostile, of light and darkness that move in the cosmos.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . universal love is not personal — it has to be held within as a condition of the consciousness which will have its effects according to the Divine Will or be used by that Will if necessary; . . . .” Letters on Yoga ::: *love"s, loves, loved, loving, love-chained, love-maddened, love-music, love-note, all-love, All-love, All-Love.
"Vitality means life-force — wherever there is life, in plant or animal or man, there is life-force — without the vital there can be no life in matter and no living action. The vital is a necessary force and nothing can be done or created in the bodily existence, if the vital is not there as an instrument.” Letters on Yoga*
"We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. With realisation the erroneous identification ceases — in certain experiences the existence of the body is not felt at all. In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it, it is an instrumental formation in our wider being, — our consciousness exceeds but also pervades it, — it can be dissolved without our ceasing to be the self.” Letters on Yoga
::: "What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana.” *Letters on Yoga
"When the inner vision opens, there can come before it all that ever was or is now in the world, even it can open to things that will be hereafter — so there is nothing impossible in seeing thus the figures and the things of the past.” Letters on Yoga*
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga
" Yes. A third eye does open there [in the centre of the forehead] — it represents the occult vision and the occult power which goes with that vision — it is connected with the ajnacakra.” Letters on Yoga
"Yet there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations.” The Life Divine*
"You can only distinguish the different sheaths either by intuition or by experience and then you have established direct knowledge of the different sheaths.” Letters on Yoga*
You will see that in only one of these cases, the first, can a soul be posited and there no difficulty arises.” Letters on Yoga
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1:Let deeds match words.
~ Plautus,#KEYS
2:Let go, or be dragged. ~ Zen proverb, #KEYS
3:Let go, or be dragged." ~ Zen proverb, #KEYS
4:If the wind blows, let it blow. ~ Ikkyu, #KEYS
5:Let all things take their course. ~ Chuang-tzu, #KEYS
6:In your heart, let there be truth. ~ Guru Nanak, #KEYS
7:The body and the mind. ~ Let yourself dissolve., #KEYS
8:Sleep is the period without the mind. ~ Let it all go, #KEYS
9:by those who let it go. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
10:Try to let Realization of itself arise. ~ Jetsun Milarepa, #KEYS
11:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #KEYS
12:If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ Immanuel Kant, #KEYS
13:When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu #KEYS
14:Let him that would move the world first move himself.
~ Socrates,#KEYS
15:let your words teach and your actions speak. ~ Saint Anthony of Padua, #KEYS
16:Let a man conquer anger by love, let him subdue evil by good. ~ Buddha, #KEYS
17:Let us be silent, -- so we may hear the whisper of the gods. ~ Emerson, #KEYS
18:If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.22, #KEYS
19:Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." ~ Dalai Lama, #KEYS
20:The world is won by those who let it go. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
21:Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way. ~ William Gibson, #KEYS
22:Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
~ Virgil,#KEYS
23:Tomorrow will be better if you let your heart rule today." ~ Leo Christopher, #KEYS
24:Let it be that our happiness depends only on ourselves. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #KEYS
25:We just let it happen… and that's the beauty of this technique." ~ Bob Ross, #KEYS
26:Do not let your precious movements come to naught. ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
27:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.16, #KEYS
28:I am different. Let this not upset you.
~ Paracelsus,#KEYS
29:If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
~ Tao Te Ching, ch.22,#KEYS
30:Whatever arises, simply do not cling to it, but immediately let it go. ~ Niguma, #KEYS
31:Buddhism may be summed up in two phrases: 'Let go!' and 'Walk on!' " ~ Alan Watts, #KEYS
32:The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand, #KEYS
33:Let yourself become living poetry.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#KEYS
34:I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. ~ Sheng-yen, #KEYS
35:I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go." ~ Sheng-yen, #KEYS
36:Do not become caught in the teaching. You must be able to let it go." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
37:Let them sleep. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
38:Truth comes back when you let it go, seems complicated but it's really so simple. ~ K-OS, #KEYS
39:Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. ~ Mao Zedong, [T5], #KEYS
40:Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair." ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton, #KEYS
41:Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
~ Thomas Carlyle,#KEYS
42:Let the past be past.
Concentrate only on the Eternal.
Blessings ~ The Mother,#KEYS
43:Just let things be in their own way, and there will be neither coming nor going." ~ Sengcan, #KEYS
44:Let nothing hinder thee from praying always ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 18:22, #KEYS
45:Let the Divine fill your thoughts with His Presence.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
46:Morning glories - in the evening, they let us admire their buds. ~ Tagami Kikusha, 1753-1826, #KEYS
47:We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~ Edwin Markham,#KEYS
48:Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none. ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
49:Let reality be reality. ~ LaoTzu, @BashoSociety #KEYS
50:The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying. ~ Alfred North Whitehead #KEYS
51:If you do not let go of what binds you to samsara, you will never be free. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
52:Let this consciousness be in you which was in Christ Jesus that we all may be one. ~ Saint Paul, #KEYS
53:Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.19, #KEYS
54:Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor be dragged along by the body." ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #KEYS
55:Sometimes there is nothing you can do but let it rain, and wait for the sunshine." ~ Ayush Jaiswal, #KEYS
56:Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ~ Voltaire, #KEYS
57:The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. ~ Gary Gygax, #KEYS
58:Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
59:Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
~ Voltaire,#KEYS
60:With God ruling in us, let us be immersed in the blessings of regeneration and resurrection. ~ Origen, #KEYS
61:Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori #KEYS
62:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
63:Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." ~ Saint Jerome, #KEYS
64:If you want people to believe in God, let people see what God can make you like.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,#KEYS
65:Let us net give ourselves up to excesses. ~ Chi-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
66:Let your yea be yea and your nay, nay. ~ James V. 12, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:Whoever wants to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. ~ Mark 8, 34, #KEYS
68:And Elohim said, 'Let there be Light.' and there was Light." (Kether) ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 1:3, #KEYS
69:Let charity be without dissimulation. ~ Romans. XII. 9, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
70:The moment I decided to let them have their way, the irritation disappeared.
~ Osho, The Book of Secrets,#KEYS
71:The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
72:I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#KEYS
73:Let us watch over our thoughts. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
74:Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home—at ease." ~ Lama Surya Das, #KEYS
75:Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the saints we must live like them." ~ Saint Théodore Guérin, #KEYS
76:Do not let attachment develop for the body. Rather, protect the body for God realization. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
77:Let's go out to see the snow view where we slip and fall. ~ Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, #KEYS
78:I'm a wanderer
so, let that be my name -
the first winter rain. ~ Matsuo Basho,#KEYS
79:Let us think that we are born for the common good. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
80:Let whatever strange things happen, happen; let us see. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
81:To let the mind become vast and open like the sky, is the key instruction for enhancing practice. ~ Shri Singha, #KEYS
82:Blessed be the key that turned in my heart and let loose my soul and freed it from so heavy a chain." ~ Petrarch, #KEYS
83:Let us be kind to one another after the pattern of the tender mercy and goodness of our Creator. ~ Saint Clement, #KEYS
84:You must not let it collect dust
~ Shen-hsiu, @BashoSociety#KEYS
85:Let us keep watch over our thoughts. ~ Fo-shu- hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:Keep it simple, and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
87:Let Mother's will be done. Never mind sunshine or rain, we must not forget Mother at any time. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
88:And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
~ Nelson Mandela,#KEYS
89:I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself. ~ C S Lewis, #KEYS
90:One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
91:I'm a wanderer so, let that be my name - the first winter rain. ~ Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, #KEYS
92:Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
93:Let any amount of burden be laid on Him, He will bear it all. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
94:Let us cherish that Self, which is the Reality, in the Heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
95:Let brotherly love continue. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Hebrews, XIII, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
96:Let us lend ear to the sages who point out to us the way. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
97:The thoughts change but not you. Let go the passing thoughts and hold on to the unchanging Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
98:Let all your things be done with charity. ~ I. Corinthians. XVI. 14, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
99:Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again: for forgiveness has risen from the grave!" ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
100:Let not the talk of the vulgar make any impression on you. ~ Cicero, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
101:Let the man in whom there is intelligence... know himself. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
102:Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
103:Let's hold hands and get drunk near the sun and sing sweet songs to God. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
104:Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
105:Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 5:13, #KEYS
106:Let the wise man fight Mara with the sword of wisdom. He should now protect what he has won, without attachment. ~ Buddha, #KEYS
107:Like a drifting cloud Bound by nothing; I just let go Giving myself up To the whim of the wind. ~ Taigu Ryokan, 1758-1831, #KEYS
108:Beloved, let us love one another. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 John, IV.7, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
109:Let not worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb the mind. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
110:Let us be prepared for death but work for life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, The Crisis, #KEYS
111:Let us return to our hero Moses, and to loftier deeds, to show they were both superior as well as earlier. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
112:Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it ~ you got to let it grow. ~ John Lennon, #KEYS
113:Let any amount of burden be laid on Him [Her], He will bear it all. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
114:Let us not pose as doers but resign ourselves to the guiding power. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
115:Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #KEYS
116:Let not worldly thoughts and anxieties trouble your minds. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
117:Grace is needed most. Let us take the plunge, within, and "Be Still". ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
118:Let him in whom there is understanding know that he is immortal. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
119:Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. ~ Corinthians I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
120:Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ~ John. XIV. 27, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
121:Let us walk, as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness. ~ Romans XIII, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
122:The body will eventually drop anyway one day. Let all experiences teach you that you are not the body. ~ Roger Phillip Kaplan, #KEYS
123:Let us be one even with those who do not wish to be one with us. ~ Bossuet, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
124:Let us sing a new song not with our lips but with our lives. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
125:Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
126:Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
127:Let this light from within and without illuminate our inner vision and guide us through darkness in time of chaos. ~ Inca Texts, #KEYS
128:Let us always be terrified of mortal sin and never stop walking on the road of holy eternity." ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
129:Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy." ~ Saint Teresa of Calcutta, #KEYS
130:Let all involuntary suffering teach you to remember God, and you will not lack occasion for repentance. ~ Saint Mark the Ascetic, #KEYS
131:Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
132:Let all have intense love of the Lord. This intense love is the one thing needful. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
133:Let your tongue never cease to be moist with the remembrance of God. ~ Hadith, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
134:The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes." ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #KEYS
135:Let each suffering pave the wave to transformation. With my Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother,#KEYS
136:Let us respect men, and not only men of worth, but the public in general ~ Cicero, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
137:What we would not like being done to us, let us not do it to others. ~ Chang Yung, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
138:By endeavor, diligence, discipline, and self-mastery, let the wise man make of himself an island that no flood can overwhelm. ~ Buddha, #KEYS
139:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
140:My son, give me thy heart and let thine eyes observe my ways. ~ Proverbs XXIII. 26, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
141:Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 55:22,#KEYS
142:I am the wheat of God. Let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ. ~ Saint Ignatius, #KEYS
143:Let us, who are of the day, be sober. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Thessalonians, V. 8, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
144:Let the man [woman] find out his undying Self and die and be immortal and happy. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
145:You must remember that you are His children. But do not let this make you proud. Pride must be given up once for all. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
146:Let Him choose for thee a king's palace or the bowl of the beggar.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
147:Let the Divine Presence be always with you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [T1],#KEYS
148:Let your standpoint become that of wisdom then the world will be found to be God. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
149:Let the man find out his undying Self and die and be immortal and happy. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 64, #KEYS
150:For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
~ Anonymous, The Bible?,#KEYS
151:Let a man make haste towards good, let him turn away his thought from evil. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
152:Let him repulse lust and coveting, the disciple who would lead a holy life. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
153:Thoughts change but not you. Let go of the passing thoughts and hold on to the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
154:Let not thy heart give way to discouragement. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, VII 8, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
155:The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes." ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #KEYS
156:You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise." ~ Michael Ende, #KEYS
157:Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." ~ Zhuangzi, #KEYS
158:I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
~ Dante Alighieri,#KEYS
159:Let your words corres-pond with your actions and your actions with your words. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
160:Let us make our minds pure, the rest will be easy; and we shall attain spiritual bliss comparable to nothing else in life. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
161:If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
162:Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#KEYS
163:Let the superior man regard all men who dwell within the four seas as his brothers. ~ Lun Yu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
164:Let thy mind be pure like gold, firm like a rock, transparent as crystal. ~ Angelus Silesius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
165:To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment." ~ Dōgen Zenji, #KEYS
166:United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
~ Patrick Henry,#KEYS
167:Watch diligently over yourselves, let not negligence be born in you. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
168:We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us." ~ Joko Beck, #KEYS
169:In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking. Let us leave to God the decisions as to what shall be said. ~ Saint Francis de Sales #KEYS
170:O saki, let the coming of this holy day be auspicious to you And the pledges you made not slip away from your memory. ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
171:Where you're standing, dig, dig out: Down below's the Well: Let them that walk in darkness shout Down below there's Hell!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#KEYS
172:Let us help each other as friends that we may put a term to suffering. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
173:Let us seek the treasure within our hearts, and when we have found it let us hold fast to it with all our might. ~ Philokalia, Nikiphoros the Monk, #KEYS
174:Mental boldness: let your mind be capable of foreseeing the perfections of tomorrow.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
175:Do not take life's experiences too seriously. Above all, do not let them hurt you, for in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. ~ Yogananda, #KEYS
176:If you must be crazy, let it not be with the things of the world; be crazy with the love of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
177:Let things happen as they happen - they will sort themselves out nicely in the end. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
178:Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. ~ Bodhidharma, #KEYS
179:When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you." ~ Dr. Seuss, #KEYS
180:Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything." ~ Bodhidharma, #KEYS
181:All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. ~ Saint Teresa of Calcutta, #KEYS
182:Let no one communicate who is not of the disciples. Let no Judas receive, lest he suffer the fate of Judas. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, Homily 82 on Matthew, #KEYS
183:The fatigue comes from the resistance and the worry, do not worry, let yourself go, and the fatigue will go also.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
184:Let all bitterness and wrath and anger be put away from you. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, IV. 31, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
185:Let this be our one need in life, to realise the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life [3],#KEYS
186:Renounce everything and say: "Come, my mind and let us watch together the divinity installed in my heart!" ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
187:I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test. ~ Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering, #KEYS
188:Let not one even whom the whole world curses, nourish against it any feeling of liatred. ~ Sutta Nipata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
189:Since love completes all, makes all hard things soft, and the difficult easy, let us strive to make all our acts proceed from love." ~ Saint Arnold Janssen, #KEYS
190:And let this be our thought, "Our bodies are different, but we have one and the same heart." ~ Mahavagga, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
191:I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down." ~ Mia Hamm, #KEYS
192:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. … " ~ Thomas Merton, #KEYS
193:If anyone does not salute such representations as standing for the Lord and his saints, let him be anathema. ~ Seventh Ecumenical Council, Second Nicaea, 787, #KEYS
194:If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave. ~ Howard Gardner, #KEYS
195:Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
196:The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 13:12, #KEYS
197:But let perseverance have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. ~ James I. 4, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
198:Let every page of this Book be filled with song-for it is a Book of incantation!
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick,#KEYS
199:Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
200:Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, IV. 26, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
201:Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress, / And you shall sleep restful nights ~ Saint Ephrem the Syrian, #KEYS
202:Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
203:Now let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds, lost in the eloquence of silence". ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
204:Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, [T5], #KEYS
205:The purpose of one's birth will be fulfilled whether you will it or not. Let the purpose fulfill itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
206:Improve others not by reasoning but by example. Let your existence, not your words be your preaching. ~ Amiel, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
207:Let him destroy by deep meditation the qualities that are opposed to the divine nature. ~ Laws of Manu VI. 72, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
208:Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts there of. ~ Romans VI. 12, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
209:Let the Divine Consciousness be the leading power in your life.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, 10, [T5],#KEYS
210:Let your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Thessalonians, V. 23, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
211:The true path is shadowy and still, far away and hard to find; embracing none but empty thoughts, let me walk through past and present ~ Natsume Soseki, 1867-1916, #KEYS
212:The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be. ~ Adyashanti, #KEYS
213:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall, and the Self watches their return. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
214:Leave alone your desires and fears. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
215:Let us love the cross very much, for it is there that we discover our life, our true love, and our strength in our greatest difficulties." ~ Saint Maria de Mattias, #KEYS
216:As for ourselves, let each one of us dig down after the root of evil which is within one and let one pluck it out of one's heart from the root.
~ Gospel of Thomas,#KEYS
217:Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life ~ Toshitsugu Takamatsu, #KEYS
218:Let the sage unifying all his attentive regard see in the divine Spirit all things visible and invisible. ~ Manu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
219:When a thought rises in us, let us see whether it has not its roots in the inferior worlds. ~ Antoine the Healer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
220:And Elohim said, 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the Waters, and let it divide the Waters from the Waters. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 1:6, (Chockmah), #KEYS
221:Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
222:If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." ~ Anatole France, (1844 - 1924) French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers, Wikipedia., #KEYS
223:open the door
let the moonlight
enter your temple
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety#KEYS
224:The renunciation of karma comes of itself when the love of God swells up. Let them work who are made to do so by God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
225:Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning ~ Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer, #KEYS
226:Let us act towards others as we would that they should act towards us: let us not cause any suffering. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
227:Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. With my Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 27 August,#KEYS
228:Surrender everything at His feet and give Him the general power of attorney. Let Him do what He considers best for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
229:To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize: "I'm here". 'Here' is where thoughts aren't believed. ~ Adyashanti, #KEYS
230:Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, [T5],#KEYS
231:When waking up every morning, let us pray for a day of complete consecration. With my blessings
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 19 June,#KEYS
232:Christ tells us: The field is the world. Let us work in it and dig up wisdom, its hidden treasure, a treasure we all look for and want to obtain. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
233:et us obey them, but when the case is otherwise, let us uphold the rights of God and of the Church, for those are superior to all earthly authority." ~ Saint John Bosco, #KEYS
234:Let us strive to destroy in ourselves all that is of the animal, that the humanity in us may be manifest. ~ Bahaullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
235:The jnani knows all is of the Self. If there be pain let it be. It is also part of the Self. The Self is perfect. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
236:Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
237:I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way you either let it slide or you cook with it." ~ Diane Lane, (b.1965), an American actress, #KEYS
238:Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
239:Let us go to sleep with a prayer and wake with an aspiration for the New and Perfect Creation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Aspiration,#KEYS
240:The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
241:If we see someone puffed up and aglow bc of temporal prosperity, let us say the same thing to him, to warn him that all this remains in this world. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
242:Let the world bother about its reality or falsehood. Find out about your own reality. Then all things become clear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
243:There often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single. ~ Vincent van Gogh, #KEYS
244:The thoughts change but not you.
Let go the passing throughts and hold on to the unchanging Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 524,#KEYS
245:As a lover performing duties while thinking of their beloved, perform your worldly duties but let your heart be fixed on God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
246:Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe." ~ Hafiz, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
247:Let Him do what He thinks best. True resignation comes only after hard struggle. Only when the wings tired, does a bird sit on the mast of a ship to rest. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
248:You cannot reach all people with your wealth, so let your smiling face and good character reach them. ~ Hakim] ~ Hadith, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
249:Has thy need for taking food passed away? Let not the thought of thy Benefactor pass away too. As thou art putting on thy tunic, thank the Giver of it. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
250:Let us lay aside every weight and run with patience the race that is set before us. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Hebrews, XII. I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
251:It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
252:Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
253:O, Mary, my Mother, be my refuge and my shelter. Give me peace in the storm. I am tired on the journey. Let me rest in you. Shelter and protect me. ~ Saint Bernadette Soubirous, #KEYS
254:Your name, O Mary, is a precious ointment, which breathes forth the odor of divine grace. Let this ointment of salvation enter the inmost recesses of our souls. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
255:It is immaterial whether one believes or not that Radha and Krishna were incarnations of God. But let all have a yearning for God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
256:Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and the things wherewith one may edify another. ~ Romans XIV. 19, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
257:O garden! O garden! Let me use your roses for my rosary and I will let your flowers bloom in every heart. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
258:When a thought rises in us, let us see whether it is not in touch with the inferior worlds. ~ Antoine the Healer : Revelations, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
259:In samadhi, usually a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
260:Let not night herself be all, as it were, the special and peculiar property of sleep. Let not half thy life be useless through the senselessness of slumber. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
261:Let us never lose sight of this, my brothers, that when we depart from sincerity, we depart from the Truth. ~ Antoine the Healer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
262:Time is always moving on; nothing can stop it. We can't change the past, but we can learn from it to shape the future. Let's work together to create a happier future." ~ Dalai Lama, #KEYS
263:Ah, let us live happy without hating those who hate us. In the midst of men who hate us, let us live without hatred. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
264:Either let us fear the wrath which is to come or else let us love the grace we have—one or the other, so long as we are found in Jesus Christ unto true life. ~ Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
265:In samadhi, usually, a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
266:Can an actor on stage throw off his mask? Let worldly people play out their part, in time they will throw off their false appearances. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
267:Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing-pain … let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
268:Let the world bother about its reality or falsehood. Find out first about your own reality. Then all things will become clear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
269:Let your behaviour be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Hebrews,. XIII. 5, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
270:The Guru shows the disciple the path to life eternal, and protects him from all troubles. Putting great faith in the words of the Guru let the disciple live them. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
271:Christ our pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast ... with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor. 5:7-8)., #KEYS
272:Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.
For not for ourselves alone our spirits came ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
273:Live in the world, but be not worldly. As the saying goes, make the frog dance before the snake, but let not the snake swallow the frog. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
274:Be fearless! Courage! Courage! Do not allow even the thought of defeat to enter your mind. Realization of the Goal, or let the body fall ! - let this be your Mantra. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
275:Let a Bhakti pray to God and it will be given to him to realize the impersonal God in samadhi and thus reach the goal of Jnana Yoga also. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
276:Let thy tongue be the instrument of truth. Be ever true in all that thou shall speak and permit not to thy tongue a lie. ~ Phocylides, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
277:Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 14:27, #KEYS
278:The Divine holds our hand through all and if he seems to let us fall, it is only to raise us higher. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
279:Youth, beauty, life, riches, health, friends are things that pass; let not the wise man attach himself at all to these. ~ Mahabharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
280:And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
~ Anonymous, The Bible?, [T5],#KEYS
281:Turn not thy head from this path till thou art led to its end; keep ever near to this door till it is opened. Let not thy eyes be shut; seek well and thou shalt find. ~ Attar of Nishapur, #KEYS
282:If you cannot destroy the self, then let it be the servant. The self that knows itself as the servant/lover of God will do little mischief. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
283:What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
~ Voltaire,#KEYS
284:Be not taken in the snares of the Prince of death, let him not cast thee to the ground because thou hast been heedless. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
285:Let our whole body in Christ Jesus be saved. Let each individual be subject to his neighbour, according to the position he is placed in by the gift he has from God. ~ Saint Clement of Rome, #KEYS
286:Let there be harmony between thoughts and words. Don't pray to God as your all-in-all ... while your mind has made the world its all-in-all. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
287:Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
288:Without stick or sword, filled with sympathy and benevolence, let the disciple show to all beings love and compassion. ~ Magghima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
289:Suffering is resistance to a presentation of the Truth. Happiness is deliverance from suffering, First accept Now let go." ~ Phoenix Desmond, author of "Make Love to the Universe,", (2011)., #KEYS
290:The true Agni always burns in deep peace; it is the fire of an all-conquering will. Let it grow in you in perfect equanimity.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
291:I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
292:No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. ~ Mother Mirra, #KEYS
293:Accept the world as God's theater; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
294:Have compassion, have pity for all beings that live. Let thy heart be benevolent and sympathetic towards all that lives. ~ Fo'shu-tsrn-king-, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
295:Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollutionof the flesh and spirit. ~ II Corinthians VII. I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
296:Do not let your mind go back on a work that is finished. It belongs to the past and all re-handling of it is a waste of power.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
297:Intense aspiration is always good, but let there also be calm and peace and joy in the mind and heart, and a confidence that all will be done in its due time. ~ SriAurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, #KEYS
298:Let me be rapt in love. Let me rise above self in great fervor and wonder. Let me sing the hymn of love, and let me follow You, my Love, to the heights. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
299:Let no man deceive himself; if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him a fool that he may be wise. ~ I. Corinthians III. 18, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
300:Make no parade of your wisdom; it is a vanity which costs dear to many. Let wisdom correct your vices, but not attack those of others. ~ Scneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
301:Mystic daughter of Delight,
Life, thou ecstasy,
Let the radius of thy flight
Be eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Life,#KEYS
302:There are numerous Masters. But the common Master is the Universal Soul: live in it and let its rays live in you. ~ Book of the Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
303:All debts must be paid. All that one has inflicted one has to suffer, before one can become free. So those who wish for freedom can only say: Let what comes come; I will accept it. ~ Rodney Collin, #KEYS
304:Be quiet always, calm, peaceful, and let the Force work in your consciousness through the transparency of a perfect sincerity.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T5],#KEYS
305:Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Gratitude and Faithfulness, [T5],#KEYS
306:If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
~ Henry David Thoreau,#KEYS
307:Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." ~ Ray Bradbury, #KEYS
308:Let me be fodder for wild beasts — that is how I can attain to God. I am God's wheat and I am being ground by the teeth of wild beasts to make a pure loaf for Christ. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
309:My child, do not give way to evil desire, for it leads to fornication. And do not use obscene language, or let your eye wander, for from all these come adulteries. ~ Didache of the Twelve Apostles, #KEYS
310:Let us do our best in all circumstances, leaving the result to the Divine's decision. 20 May 1954
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Surrender to the Divine Will [109],#KEYS
311:Whatever you're no longer holding on to, no longer holds on to you. And as you let go of your opinions toward person, place and things, you find that you're growing, you're evolving. ~ Robert Adams, #KEYS
312:Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings. ~ ken-wilber, #KEYS
313:Let us attach ourselves to a solid good, to a good that shines within and not externally. Let us devote all our efforts to its discovery. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
314:Not mere theory; actualize it - there has been enough talk and writing. Put the books aside and let your actions speak. This is what the lives of the Master and Swamiji stand for. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
315:Pray: 'O Lord, give unto me this yearning, make me mad for You.' Let people say, so-and-so has become mad for God. People may become mad for so many things. Why not you for God? ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
316:he night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light. ~ Romans XIII. 12, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
317:Let all of us, my brethren, be enlightened and made radiant by this light. Let all of us share in its splendor, and be so filled with it that no one remains in the darkness. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
318:Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave." ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
319:Whoever, therefore, wants to be free, let him neither wish for anything, nor avoid anything, that is under the control of others, or else he is necessarily a slave. ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
320:Do not let your mind labour in anticipation on a work that has to be done. The Power that acts in you will see to it at its own time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
321:Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #KEYS
322:let it be molten by divine fire; let the gold and silver vessels be made better, in order that understanding and speech, refined by the heat of suffering, may begin to be more precious." ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
323:Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
~ Buddha,#KEYS
324:Before the baptism, let him who baptizeth and him who is baptized fast previously, and any others who may be able. And thou shalt command him who is baptized to fast one or two days before. ~ The Didache, #KEYS
325:That he may vanquish hate, let the disciple live with a soul delivered from all hate and show towards all beings love and compassion. ~ Magghima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
326:Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, let it go.
Go to the places that scare you. ~ Padampa Sangye,#KEYS
327:Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
328:My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth. ~ John III. 18, 19, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
329:Let us unite our will in a great aspiration; let us pray for an intervention of the Grace. A miracle can always happen. Faith has a sovereign power. ~ The Mother, On Education, [T5], #KEYS
330:Lord, I beg you in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son and my God, give me a love that cannot stumble so that my lamp can be lit but can never go out: let it burn in me and give light to others. ~ Columbanus, #KEYS
331:Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
332:Rejoicing with Simeon, let us sing a hymn of thanksgiving to God, the Father of the light, who sent the true light to dispel the darkness and to give us all a share in his splendor. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
333:Let the disciple consecrate himself to love, not in order to seek for his own happiness, but let him take pleasure in love for the love of love. ~ Jatakamala, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
334:Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let the false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. ~ Clare of Assisi, #KEYS
335:We ought to be in a constant state of aspiration, but when we cannot aspire let us pray with the simplcity of a child. With my blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 25 July,#KEYS
336:Don't let anything from outside approach and disturb you. What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
337:Let not therefore the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches. ~ Jeremiah IX. 23, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
338:Let us work for the food which does not perish - our salvation. Let us work in the vineyard of the Lord to earn our daily wage in the wisdom which says: Those who work in me will not sin. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
339:He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely." ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #KEYS
340:Not Stopping To Mark The Trail :::
Not stopping to mark the trail,
let me push even deeper
into the mountain!
Perhaps there's a place
where bad news can never reach me! ~ Saigyo,#KEYS
341:Let not him then who cannot enter into the chamber of hidden treasure complain that he is poor and has no part in these riches. ~ J. Tauler, "Institutions." 27, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
342:Now that you have learned to know the truth, let your hearts henceforth enlightened take pleasure in a conduct in conformity with it. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tai ti-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
343:Let us fasten our eyes on the blood of Christ and let us realize how precious it is to his Father because it was shed for our salvation and it brought the grace of repentance to the whole world. ~ Clement of Rome, #KEYS
344:You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems." ~ Saint Pope John Paul II, #KEYS
345:Ah! let us live happy without desires among those who are given up to covetousness. In the midst of men full of desires, let us dwell empty of them. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
346:Let us die and enter into the darkness, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass over with the crucified Christ from this world to the Father. ~ Saint Bonaventure, #KEYS
347:The secret of happiness is this : let your interest be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. ~ Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
348:Let no evil communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, IV. 29, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
349:No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
350:Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time." ~ Frederick Lenz, #KEYS
351:Let us read it thus: even if you do turn your face away from us, Lord, its light is still imprinted upon us. We hold it in our hearts and our innermost feelings are transformed by its light. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #KEYS
352:Action like inaction can find a place in thee; if thy body agitates itself, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
353:One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happen happen, let us see!' Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
354:Do not let your mind go back on a work that is finished. It belongs to the past and all rehandling of it is a waste of power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Practical Concerns in Work, #KEYS
355:Let the superior man bear himself in the commerce of men with an always dignified deference, regarding all men that dwell in the world as his own brothers. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
356:Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
357:At times because of one man's evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #KEYS
358:Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." ~ Khalil Gibran, #KEYS
359:The saint does good and makes not much of it. He accomplishes great things and is not attached to them. He does not wish to let his wisdom appear. ~ Lao-Tse: Tao-te-King, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
360:Action like inaction may find its place in thee; if thy body is in movement, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be as limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
361: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
362:Have I done something for society? Then I have worked for myself, to my own advantage. Let this truth be present to thy mind and labour without ceasing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
363:Wherefore let us consider how it behoveth us to be in the sight of God and the angels, and so let us take our part in the psalmody that mind and voice accord together. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict, #KEYS
364:Listen to the voice of duty, of honor, of nature and of your endangered country. Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ~ Tecumseh, #KEYS
365:The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers. ~ Saint Maximilian Kolbe, #KEYS
366:The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers." ~ Saint Maximilian Kolbe, #KEYS
367:Let us be on our guard in case, if we relax on the grounds that we have been called, we may go to sleep over our sins and the evil ruler take power over us and drive us out from the king dom ofthe Lord. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
368:Let us without feet, make the holy circuit round the door of the King, For he has come intoxicated with 'Am I not I?' and broken our door." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, "Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi," Wikipedia., #KEYS
369:Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee. Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee. Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
370:Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy with the promise of eternal happiness. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
371:Do not let your mind labour in anticipation on a work that has to be done. The Power that acts in you will see to it at its own time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Practical Concerns in Work, #KEYS
372:Watch with care over your heart and give not way to heedlessness; practise conscientiously every virtue and let not there be born in you any evil inclination. ~ Buddhist Maxims, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
373:If one cannot believe in God it does not matter. I suppose he believes in himself, in his own existence. Let him find out the source from which he came. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, 22-3-46, #KEYS
374:When Christ came, he banished the devil from our hearts, in order to build in them a temple for himself. Let us therefore do what we can with his help, so that our evil deeds will not deface that temple. ~ Saint Caesarius of Arles, #KEYS
375:To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It and made a centre for Its play.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Surrender to the Divine Will, Surrender,#KEYS
376:Do not speak of Jesus Christ, and yet set your desires on the world. Let not envy find a dwelling-place among you; nor even should I, when present with you, exhort you to it, be persuaded to listen to me. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
377:Let us impose upon our desires the yoke of submission to reason, let them be ever calm and never bring trouble into our souls; thence result wisdom, constancy, moderation. ~ Cicero, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
378:Oh! let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let calm serenity dwell in every heart and powerful certitude strengthen every mind.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
379:To those who accuse us of a doctrine of three gods, let it be stated that we confess one God, not in number but in nature. For what is said to be one numerically is not one absolutely, nor is it simple in nature. ~ Evagrius of Pontus, #KEYS
380:Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
381:Judas who was counted in the number of the apostles lost all his labour in one single night and descended from heaven to hell. Therefore, let no-one boast of his good works, for all those who trust in themselves fall. ~ Saint Xanthias, #KEYS
382:No matter how sophisticated or powerful our thinking machines become, there still will be two kinds of people : those who let the machines do their thinking, for them, and those who tell the machines what to think about.
~ C J Lewis,#KEYS
383:Let not the favourable moment pass thee by, for those who have suffered it to escape them, shall lament when they find themselves on the path which leads to the abyss. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
384:Let us become fire, let us travel through fire. We have a free way to the ascent. The Father will guide us, unfolding the ways of fire; let us not flow with the lowly stream from forgetfulness. ~ Proclus, De Philosophia Chaldaica, fr. 2, #KEYS
385:Let us give up all this foolish talk of doing good to the world. It is not waiting for your or my help; yet we must work and constantly do good, because it is a blessings to ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
386:Nothing brings you nearer to God then the sweet bond of love. Let whoever has found this way seek no other." ~ Meister Eckhart, (c. 1260 - c. 1328), German theologian, philosopher and mystic, Wikipedia., #KEYS
387:Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
388:Let everyone hold what opinion he will until that Light shall come which makes of the light of the false philosophers a darkness and converts the darkness of those who truly know into light. ~ John Scottus Eriugena, Periphyseon 5 (1022c), #KEYS
389:Not to tame the senses is to take the road of misery, to conquer them is to enter into the path of well-being. Let each choose of these two roads the one that pleases him. ~ Hitopadesha, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
390:Turn not thy head from this path till thou art led to its end; keep ever near to this door till it is opened. Let not thy eyes be shut; seek well and thou shalt find. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
391:Now it is high time to awake out of sleep.. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. ~ Romans VII 11. 12, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
392:Buddha's discourse 'Turning the Wheel of Dhamma' can be boiled down to: Embrace, Let Go, Stop, Act! This template can be applied to every situation in life." ~ Stephen Batchelor, (b. 1953) "Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist,", (2010), p. 6., #KEYS
393:Let men blame him or praise, let fortune enter his house or go forth from it, let death come to him today or late, the man of firm mind never deviates from the straight path. ~ Bhartrihari, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
394:Lose yourself in nothing to become everything; Relax into an infinite deep sea of coherent energy; Keep unfolding deeper and deeper into oneness; Continuously let go of control; Feel greater and greater degrees of wholeness." ~ Joe Dispenza, #KEYS
395:If there is any perjured person or a thief among you, let him cease to be so; if any adulterer, let him repent; then he has kept the sweet and true sabbaths of God. If any one has impure hands, let him wash and be pure. ~ Saint Justin Martyr, #KEYS
396:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ Thomas merton. "No man is an island", #KEYS
397:In this last day of the year, let us take the resolution that all our weaknesses and obstinate obscurities will drop from us along with the finishing year.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Difficulties, Mistakes,#KEYS
398:Let all thoughts, all feelings, all actions, all hopes be turned towards the Divine and concentrated on Him. He is our only help and our only safety.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [T1],#KEYS
399:Divide the time of night between sleep and prayer. Nay, let thy slumbers be themselves experiences in piety; for it is only natural that our sleeping dreams should be for the most part echoes of the anxieties of the day. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
400:Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
401:Open your lips, says Scripture, and let God's word be heard. It is for you to open, it is for him to be heard. So David said: I shall hear what the Lord says in me. The very Son of God says: Open your lips, and I will fill them. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
402:There is nothing here that is stable, let this truth be ever present to you and you will not let yourselves be transported by joy in prosperity nor cast down by sorrow in disgrace. ~ Isocrates, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
403:Do not cling to conventional thoughts, religion, concepts and so on. Let go! Drop all artificial conceptions of Life, for it is only then that it can be taken into you, or you into it, in consciousness Self-awareness." ~ Sunyata, Danish mystic. , #KEYS
404:God's word is uttered by those who repeat Christ's teaching and meditate on his sayings. Let us always speak this word. When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking of Christ. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
405:Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. ~ Plato, #KEYS
406:Let us not allow our souls to relax, so that they would be free to consort with wicked people and sinners, in case we become like them. The final stumbling block has drawn near, about which scripture speaks, as Enoch says. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
407:I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #KEYS
408:Keep yourself open to the Mother and in perfect union with her. Make yourself entirely plastic to her touch and let her mould you swiftly towards perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [T2], #KEYS
409:Let that be considered a valid Eucharist, which is under the bishop or one whom he has delegated. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be, just as wherever Christ Jesus may be, there is the Catholic Church. ~ Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
410:Is the day done? Give thanks to Him Who has given us the sun for our daily work, and has provided for us a fire to light up the night, and to serve the rest of the needs of life. Let night give the other occasion of prayer. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
411:Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink, instead of eating and drinking in order to live. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #KEYS
412:My brothers, each of us ought surely to rejoice on this holy day. Let no one, conscious of his sinfulness, withdraw from our common celebration, nor let anyone be kept away from our public prayer by the burden of his guilt. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
413:We shall pray without ceasing to the Creator of all things, and beg him to preserve the number of his elect throughout the whole world, through his beloved son Jesus Christ, and not let a single one of them fall away. ~ Clement I to the Corinthians, #KEYS
414:o let us accomplish what we know to be upright, let us keep watch over our thoughts so as not to suffer ourselves to be invaded by any pollution. As we sow, so we shall reap. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
415:One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
416:Christ is risen! He has burst open the gates of hell and let the dead go free; he has renewed the earth through the members of his Church now born again in baptism, and has made it blossom afresh with men brought back to life. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
417:For whatever good work we may do, let us not claim any praise or benefit. It belongs to God. Give up the fruits to God. Let us stand aside and think that we are only servants obeying God, our Master. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
418:Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ~ Donald Knuth, #KEYS
419:Let us take care above all not to walk like a flock of sheep each in the other's traces; let us inform ourselves rather of the place where we ought to go than of that where others are going. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
420:Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness." ~ Lama Surya Das, #KEYS
421:Let that be considered a valid Eucharist, which is under the bishop or one whom he has delegated. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be, just as wherever Christ Jesus may be, there is the Catholic Church. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
422:Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, let us die for the holy laws of our fathers, so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them. ~ Saint Boniface, #KEYS
423:Learn to grow love for God. Take delight in thinking of Him. Then dispassion, discrimination—all the virtues—will come to you naturally. Let the current of your thought go to Him always. Feel that you have no other refuge but God. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
424:There is, brethren, one God, the knowledge of whom we gain from the Holy Scriptures and from no other source. Whatever things the Holy Scriptures declare, at these let us look; and whatever they teach, let us learn it ~ Hippolytus of Rome, Against Noetus, #KEYS
425:You must work constantly, day and night devote your whole energy, and let the results remain in the hands of the Lord. Let every action of your daily life be a free offering to the world. Let us all work for others and die for others, ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
426:If faith and incredulity offered themselves together to him, he would receive them with an equal willingness, let them but open to him the door through which he must pass to his goal. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
427:I have two ways of loving You:
A selfish one
And another way that is worthy of You.
In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone.
In that other love, You lift the veil
And let me feast my eyes on Your living face. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,#KEYS
428:Let your heart burn away with yearning for God! Feel that life is not worth living without Him! Then He will reveal Himself! As the poor man longs for wealth, as the lustful man longs for a woman, so must the devotee long for the Lord. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
429:Serve your parents. Never let them suffer the pangs of starvation or the lack of clothing. God becomes angry with the person who fails to provide one's parents with food and clothing or causes them anguish by speaking harshly to them. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
430:You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run." ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
431:Be unshakeable in the accomplishment of your duties great and small; lead a life proof against censure in accordance with the precepts and let our words likewise be above reproach. ~ Mahapariuibbaua Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
432:Christ is born, glorify Him. Christ from heaven, go out to meet Him. Christ on earth; be exalted. Sing unto the Lord all the whole earth; and that I may join both in one word, Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. ~ Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
433:Dewdrop, let me cleanse In your brief Sweet water These dark hands of life." ~ Matsuo Basho, (1644-1694), during his lifetime, today, and after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku, Wikipedia., #KEYS
434:Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
435:Confident of His grace, expect His will;
Let Him lead; though hidden be the bourne,
See Him in all that happens; that fulfil
For which thou wert born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, To R.,#KEYS
436:Worldly joys lose their flavour when one gets a taste of Bliss Divine. All objects of enjoyment appear to be not only insignificant but positively bitter. Offer yourself, heart and soul, to the Lord and let Him do with you as He pleases. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
437:Let us always remember the world is only the projection of the mind and the mind is in the Self. Wherever the body may move the mind must be kept under control. The body moves, but not the Self. The world is within the Self, that is all. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
438:The man who is sincere and careful to do nothing to others that he would not have done to him, is not far from the Law. What he does not desire to be done to him, let him not himself do to others. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
439:Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
440:Let us watch at the gates of our senses. Let us be moderate in all that regards our nourishment; let us vow ourselves to vigilance and be armed with an intelligence that no fume s have veiled. ~ Majjhima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
441:Put your thoughts to sleep let them not cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Drown them in the sea of love." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, (1207 - 1273), 13th-century Persian poet; Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, Wikipedia., #KEYS
442:When a thought of anger or cruelty or a bad and unwholesome inclination awakes in a man, let him immediately throw it from him. let him dispel it, destroy it, prevent it from staying with him. ~ Buddhist Maxims, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
443:There is not much virtue in going down the slope; all can do that for the natural gravitation of the consciousness is downward. He is the hero who resists the temptation to let himself slip, even for a moment, even to the extent of a hairs breadth.
~ M P Pandit,#KEYS
444:Beloved, let us give thanks to God the Father, through his Son, in the Holy Spirit, because in his great love for us he took pity on us, and when we were dead in our sins he brought us to life with Christ, so that in him we might be a new creation. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
445:Go on with your meditations. Keep turning your attention within. One day the wheel of thought will slow down and an intuition will mysteriously arise. Follow that intuition, let your thinking stop, and it will eventually lead you to the goal. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
446:Let us cast aside the opulence of this world; let us have recourse to only that portion of it that serves a good end; let us gain our lives by acts of charity; let us share what we have with the poor that we may be rich in the bounty of heaven. ~ Gregory Nazianzen, #KEYS
447:Let us have always in our hearts this thought: I am a man and nothing that interests humanity is foreign to me. We have a common birth; our society resembles the stones of a road that sustain each other. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
448:Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi,#KEYS
449:Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. Let no one try to separate them; they cannot be separated. If you have only one of them or not all together, you have nothing. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy. ~ Saint Peter Chrysologus, #KEYS
450:Feed the hungry, ransom captives, give strength to the weak and courage to the faint-hearted. Let all peoples come to know that you alone are God, that Jesus Christ is your son, and that we are your people and the sheep of your flock. ~ Clement I to the Corinthians, #KEYS
451:If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have laboured long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
452:Let us follow in his paths by the guidance of the Gospel; then we shall deserve to see him who has called us into his kingdom. If we wish to attain a dwelling-place in his kingdom we shall not reach it unless we hasten there by our good deeds. ~ Rule of St. Benedict, #KEYS
453:One road conducts to the goods of this world, honour and riches, but the other to victory over the world. Seek not the goods of the world, riches and honour. Let your aim be to transcend the world. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
454:Have no private selfish end, but have sincere love for truth and piety, and Mother shall speak from within you. Never let go your ideal, but hold on to it with a firm grip, and you will be led rightly to the goal, which is the one and same for all. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
455:Let me assure you that a man can realize his Inner Self through sincere prayer. But to the extent that he has the desire to 'enjoy worldly objects,his vision of the Self becomes obstructed. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
456:Awaken the psychic in you, let the inner being come out and replace the ego, then the latent power also will become effective. You can then do the work and the service to which you aspire.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram,#KEYS
457:Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
458:If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go." ~ Brian Weiss, (b. 1944) American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression, Wikipedia., #KEYS
459:Let the Sadhana be regular, continuous, unbroken, and earnest. Not only regularity, but also continuity in Sadhana and meditation is necessary if you want to attain Self-realization quickly. A spiritual stream once set going does not dry up. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
460:May our blessed Lord Jesus Christ reign! Gaudeamus omnes; let us all rejoice who are in the service of the Most High, because the great visitation and reformation of the world is approaching when there shall be only one fold and one Shepherd." ~ Saint Francis di Paola., #KEYS
461:Let the little troubled life-god within
Cast his veils from the still soul,
His tiger-stripes of virtue and sin,
His clamour and glamour and thole and dole ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Musa Spiritus,#KEYS
462:Let us add that nature is given its full significance only if it is looked at as offering us a means of rising up to the knowledge of divine truths, which is precisely the essential function which we have recognized in symbolism. ~ Rene Guenon, Symbols of Sacred Science #KEYS
463:Since this fountain, this source of life, this table surrounds us with untold blessings and fills us with the gifts of the Spirit, let us approach it with sincerity of heart and purity of conscience to receive grace and mercy in our time of need. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
464:If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson, paraphrase of Jefferson's statement in Notes on the State of Virginia, #KEYS
465:Let empiricism once become associated with religion, as hitherto, through some strange misunderstanding, it has been associated with irreligion, and I believe that a new era of religion as well as philosophy will be ready to begin. ~ William James, A Pluralistic Universe, #KEYS
466:In the first year, mistress of treasure and filled with blessings, — let the Cherubim give thanks with us, they who bear — the Son in glory Who gave up His glorious state — and toiled and found the sheep that was lost — to Him be thanksgiving! ~ Ephraim the Syrian, #KEYS
467:On the Lord's Day . . . gather together, break bread and offer the Eucharist, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure. Let no one who has a quarrel with his neighbor join you until he is reconciled, lest our sacrifice be defiled ~ Didache)., #KEYS
468:Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maharaj, #KEYS
469:I don't let go of concepts—I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me." ~ Byron Katie, (b. 1942) an American speaker and author, teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie". She is the founder of "Byron Katie International," Wikipedia., #KEYS
470:We do not know where death awaits us; so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." ~ Michel de Montaigne, (1533 - 1592) French philosopher of the French Renaissance, Wikipedia, #KEYS
471:Have faith that we have to regain our lost Self and 'Stop not till the goal is reached.' Remember these words of Swamiji, 'Do not forget the ideal - do not cut it down.' Let this body perish, still do not lower the ideal. Pray for strength. Pray always. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
472:Scripture tells you: You shall speak of these commandments when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down, and when you get up. Let us then speak of the Lord Jesus, for he is wisdom, he is the word, the Word indeed of God. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
473:Before you decide to have an argument, think about what you really want to accomplish. Do you just want to let your feelings out, or is there a point you are trying to make? What is it? " ~ David Viscott, (1938 - 1996) American psychiatrist, author and businessman, Wikipedia, #KEYS
474:I have given my mind to be dug Thy channel mind,
I have offered up my will to be Thy will:
Let nothing of myself be left behind
In our union mystic and unutterable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Surrender,#KEYS
475:Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor this will produce an unemployment situation in comparison with which the depression of the thirties will seem a pleasant joke.
~ Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954,#KEYS
476:No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, 10:13, #KEYS
477:Anyone who says, 'If God is omnipotent, let him make what has happened not to have happened,' does not realize that he is saying, 'If God is omnipotent, let him make true things false insofar as they are true.' ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
478:Freedom is freedom from worry. Having realised that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
479:'In order for an individual to consciously let go of a thing, he must have something that he feels is stronger to which he can anchor. As students become conscious of this, the confidence and strength will come to them to take the step.'
~ Saint Germain, The I am discourses,#KEYS
480:Let everyone say 'Lord, I came from you most high, I come to you most high, and through you most high.' This is...the whole of our metaphysics: emanation, exemplarity, and consummation, i.e., to be illumined by spiritual rays and to be led back to the most high. ~ Bonaventure, #KEYS
481:Let the strong wind of dispassion rise in your minds, that the trees of desire be uprooted. Then, even as birds fly from the shelter of trees before a strong wind, will the ignorance of selfishness, jealousy, hatred, and egoism take flight from your hearts. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
482:Our Savior was born today: let us be glad. For there is no proper place for sadness, when we keep the birthday of the Life, which destroys the fear of mortality and brings to us the joy of promised eternity. No one is kept from sharing in this happiness. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
483:Forget the judges and governors. Let them puff themselves up with the symbols of their dignity, which lasts for only a year. The heavenly dignity in you is already sealed by the brightness of a year's honor, and its victorious glory continues into another year. ~ Saint Cyprian, #KEYS
484:He hath not lived here, who hath sober lived. And he that dieth not drunk hath missed the mark. With tears then let him mourn himself, whose life Hath passed, and he no share of it hath had." ~ Ibn al-Farid, (1181 - 1234) Esteemed as the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs, Wik., #KEYS
485:With earnestness, love and goodwill carry out life's everyday duties and try to elevate yourself step by step. In all human activities let there be a live contact with the Divine and you will not have to leave off anything. Your work will then be done well. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma, #KEYS
486:The very word paradox is paradoxical. Let the paradox be... Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme Paradox." ~ Henri De Lubac, Par. of Faith, #KEYS
487:Great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower and lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. The only way to be saved from these dangers is to offer yourself solely to God. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
488:The Tibetans use an image I have found helpful… Make the mind like a big clear sky & let everything arise & vanish on its own. Then the mind stays balanced, relaxed, observing the flow." ~ J. Goldstein "The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation", #KEYS
489:Do not fear the truth, hard as it may appear, grievously as it may hurt, it is still right, and you were born for it. If you go out to meet and love it, let it exercise your mind, It is your best friend And closest sister." ~ Dom Helder Camara, (1909- 1999), Archbishop, Wikipedia, #KEYS
490:Do not look at the things of the world. If you do so, you will get lost in them. So great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower & lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
491:Let us enter into the dark, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass over w/ the crucified Christ from this world to the Father so that, when the Father has shown himself to us, we can say with Philip: 'It is enough' ~ Bonaventure, #KEYS
492:O divine Master, let Thy light fall into this chaos and bring forth from it a new world. Accomplish what is now in preparation and create a new humanity which may be the perfect expression of Thy new and sublime Law.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
493:The saying "Know thyself" means that we should recognize & acknowledge in ourselves the God who made us in his own image, for if we do this, we will be recognized by our Maker. So let us not be at enmity with ourselves but change our way of life without delay. ~ Hippolytus of Rome, #KEYS
494:God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
~ Epictetus,#KEYS
495:Let us not fear to reject from our religion all that is useless, material, tangible as well as all that is vague and in definite; the more we purify its spiritual kernel, the more we shall understand the true law of life ~ Tolstoi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
496:Take me from non-being to being, take me from death to immortality. The non-being, it is death; but the being is the immortal. From death take me to that which dies not, let me be that which is immortal. ~ Bribadaranyaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
497:You must feel that the person who blames you is yourself & the person who praises you is also yourself. You won't lose your good qualities just because somebody speaks ill of you. So let them criticize. I shall remain undisturbed by the praise or blame of others ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
498:If someone wants to study the law and find out what gives it its force (it is the bond of love, for whoever loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law) let him read in the psalms how love led one man to undergo great dangers to wipe out the shame of his entire people. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
499:Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings, breakings, and dislocations of bones; let cutting off of members; let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the dreadful torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ. ~ Saint Ignatius, #KEYS
500:We must seek out with much research the things that can save us. Let us flee perfectly from all the works of lawlessness, in case the works of lawlessness overtake us, and let us hate the deception of this present time, so that in the future we may be loved. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
501:How many commandments must I write—how many laws must I engrave— when, if you desire your freedom, you could learn them all from yourself? . . . Let nature be your book, and creation your tablets; learn the laws from them, and meditate on things unwritten. ~ Saint Ephrem of Syria, #KEYS
502:Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out." ~ Taigu Ryokan, #KEYS
503:Our soul has a door, but we have gates too, as the psalm says: 'Gates, raise your heads. Stand up, eternal doors, and let the king of glory enter.' If you choose to raise your gates, the King of glory will come to you, celebrating the triumph of his own Passion. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #KEYS
504:Tat savitur varam rupam jyotih parasya dhimahi
yannah satyena dipayet.1
1. Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitri, on the light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo's translation, Sri Aurobindo Centenary Library, vol. 26, p. 513,#KEYS
505:When My servants ask you [O Prophet] about Me: I am truly near. I respond to one's prayer when they call upon Me. So let them respond with obedience to Me and believe in Me, perhaps they will be guided to the Right Way. ~ Quran 2:186, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
506:Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Philippians, 4:6-7, #KEYS
507:Give your attention to your regular daily practice of sadhana . If circumstances will not permit any other exercise, let it be only the remembrance of Him — the purpose of it all being the realization of the One Who is manifested in all forms and in all modes of being ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
508:Our cravings alone keep us separated from God. Root out all desires and call on Him! If He wills that the body should die, let it die while chanting His name! By worldly standards a man may be great. But he too in some life or other will have to renounce everything for God.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
509:Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton in Areopagitica, #KEYS
510:Oh my heart, don't become discouraged so easily. Have faith. In the hidden world, there are many mysteries, many wonders. Even if the whole planet threatens your life, don't let go of the Beloved's robe for even a breath. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
511:The Passion of Christ discloses the miseries of this life; the Resurrection of Christ points to the happiness of the life to come. At present, let us labor; let us hope for the future. Now is the time for work; then, for reward. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
512:Come now, noble souls, and take a look at the splendor you are carrying within yourselves! But if you do not let go of yourself completely, if you do not drown yourself in this bottomless sea of the Godhead, you cannot get to know this divine light. ~ Meister Eckhart, #KEYS
513:He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’ ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Revelation, 2:17, #KEYS
514:Let us then joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation and redemption. Let us celebrate the festive day on which he who is the great and eternal day came from the great and endless day of eternity into our own short day of time. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
515:When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed (close to them), I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on me. Let them also, with a will, listen to My call, and believe in Me. That they may walk in the right way. ~ 2: 186), @Sufi_Path #KEYS
516:40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher. ~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
517:If then we wish to give ourselves to the study of philosophy, let us apply ourselves to self-knowledge and we shall arrive at a right philosophy by elevating ourselves from the conception of ourselves to the contemplation of the universe. ~ Porphyry, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
518:Freedom means letting go. People just don't care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
519:It is the one Savior of his body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who prays for us and in us and is himself the object of our prayers.... Let us then recognize both our voice in his, and his voice in ours. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Expositions of the Psalms 85:1, #KEYS
520:You will not let yourself be found by the proud... Many true statements do they [the philosophers] make about creation, but they do not find the Truth who is artificer of creation because they do not seek him with reverence. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. 5.3,5, #KEYS
521:It is effort and work that lead to effortlessness and freedom of the spirit when the mind has become purified enough to let Grace take over. We are never out of its operation, but earnest effort is necessary to know its existence. Such effort never fails. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
522:Repeating The Name Of Ranjha
Repeating the name of Ranjha
I have become Ranjha myself.
O call me ye all 'Dhido-Ranjha,'
let no one call me Heer.
Ranjha is in me, I am in Ranjha,
no other thought exists in my mind.
I am not, He alone is.
He alone is amusing himself.
~ Bulleh Shah,#KEYS
523:Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation.
And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science,#KEYS
524:The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth. ~ H P Blavatsky, #KEYS
525:I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #KEYS
526:Drunk and notorious all year round may the lover be; in a frenzy, spellbound, crazy, let him be, constantly. When sober we are suffering, because of everything… but when we are intoxicated … everything we set free." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, (1207 - 1273), Persian poet, Sufi mystic, Wikipedia., #KEYS
527:You have either to train the memory by practising to remember - or if you cannot do that, try only to understand, read much and let the memory remember what it can. There are people who have a bad memory but they succeed in their studies in spite of it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
528:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)., #KEYS
529:Let him who finds fault with my discourse, see whether he can understand other men who have handled similar subjects and questions, when he does not understand me: and if he can, let him put down my book, or even, if he pleases, throw it away. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Trinitate, #KEYS
530:We cannot prevent birds from flying over our heads but we can prevent them from making their nests there. So we cannot prevent evil thoughts from traversing the mind, but we have the power not to let them make their nest in it so as to hatch and engender evil actions. ~ Luther, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
531:If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings, #KEYS
532:There is one height of truth and there are those who approach from all sides, as many sides as there are radii in a circle, that is to say, by routes of an infinite variety. Let us work, then, with all our strength to arrive at this light of Truth which unites us all. ~ Tolstoi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
533:Let us sing alleluia here on earth, while we still live in anxiety, so that we may sing it one day in heaven in full security...Sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten our labors. Sing as wayfarers do ~ sing, but continue your journey. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
534:Thus said Ramakrishna and thus said Vivekananda. Yes, but let me know also the truths which the Avatar cast not forth into speech and the prophet has omitted from his teachings. There will always be more in God than the thought of man has ever conceived or the tongue of man has ever uttered.
~ Sri Aurobindo,#KEYS
535:Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~ Steve Jobs, #KEYS
536:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)(In Jn 6 lect 1)., #KEYS
537:328. There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine. He bestows as much labour of divine energy on the formation of a shell as on the building of an empire. For thyself it is greater to be a good shoemaker than a luxurious and incompetent king. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, #KEYS
538:These thoughts were formed not in her listening brain,
Her vacant heart was like a stringless harp;
Impassive the body claimed not its own voice,
But let the luminous greatness through it pass. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
539:Let your body be pure, pure your words, pure your thoughts. Free yourselves from the preoccupations of daily life; let not fields, houses, cattle, wealth and worldly goods be your encumbrances. Avoid the anxieties which attend on all things, as one shuns a flaming gulf. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
540:hen a man is delivered from all the dispositions of his heart which turn towards evil and not towards good and which can be extinguished, let him uproot them like the stock of a palm-tree, so that they shall be destroyed and have no power to sprout again. That I call a true repentance. ~ Mahavagga, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
541:I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!" ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
542:To do yoga, one of the most important things to achieve is to get rid of all attachment to the past. Let the past be past and concentrate only on the progress you want to make and the surrender to the Divine you have to achieve. My blessings and help are always with you. With love. 10 January 1967 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, #KEYS
543:362. Limit not sacrifice to the giving up of earthly goods or the denial of some desires and yearnings, but let every thought and every work and every enjoyment be an offering to God within thee. Let thy steps walk in thy Lord, let thy sleep and waking be a sacrifice to Krishna.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
544:Let us say this clearly, my brothers, that we cannot reach unto God but by the intermediary of one who is like unto ourselves, by striving to love: God is not there where we think him to be, he is in ourselves. He dispenses love to us, he is love itself. Let us love then by him our neighbour. ~ Antoine the Healer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
545:It is only by aspiration and prayer that ego can be overcome; a constant and sincere aspiration is always answered by the Divine. Feb 3rd
Ignorance is a human general illness and nobody can escape it until one is united with the Divine. Feb 9th
Let the aspiration and love for the Divine conquer in you all desires and difficulties. Feb 14
~ The Mother#KEYS
546:A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
547:Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ~ Daniel Goleman, #KEYS
548:Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
549:Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
550:It is nothing, O my brothers, the loss of relatives, riches or honours; but the loss of understanding is a heavy loss. It is nothing, O my brothers, the gain of relatives, riches or honours; but the gain of understanding is the supreme gain. Therefore we wish to gain in understanding; let that be our aspiration. ~ Angattara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
551:What you love not in your superiors, do not to your inferiors; what you reprove in your inferiors, do not to your superiors; what you hate in those who precede you, do not to those who follow you...What you would not receive from those on your right, cast not upon those on your left...Let this be the rule of your conduct. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
552:Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humor: 'The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.'
~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
553:We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out,-and having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. ~ Timothy VI.7, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
554:Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without wonder, to observe without joy, to act without godly zeal, to know without love, to understand without humility, to strive without divine grace, or to reflect as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom. ~ Saint Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind into God / Feast Day July 15th, #KEYS
555:The crisis we are experiencing is unique in history. It is a world which must burst out of a crucible in which so many different energies are working. Let us thank God that He makes us live among the present problems... it is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre. All men have the imperative duty to remember that they have a mission to fulfill, that of doing the impossible. ~ Pope Pius XII, #KEYS
556:Many say with an appearance of humility, "I am even as an earthworm crawling in the dust..."; so always believing themselves to be earthworms, they become in time feeble as the worm. Let not discouragement enter into thy heart; despair is for all the great enemy of our progress. What a man thinks himself to be, that he in fact becomes. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
557:If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 1:5-8, #KEYS
558:The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out."And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one. ~ Brenda Ueland, #KEYS
559:Never allow this idea I am not able, I am not doing enough to come and vex you; it is a tamasic suggestion and brings depression and depression opens the way to the attacks of the wrong forces. Your position should be, Let me do what I can; the Mothers force is there, the Divine is there to see that in due time all will be done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
560:410 - Devotion is not utterly fulfilled till it becomes action and knowledge. If thou pursuest after God and canst overtake Him, let Him not go till thou hast His reality.
If thou hast hold of His reality, insist on having also His totality. The first will give thee divine knowledge, the second will give thee divine works and a free and perfect joy in the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
561:All human beings are full of ego. If you want to change, you must be very quiet and always aspire for a higher consciousness to come down into you in which there is not the ego. When it comes down, the real change will come. But you must be quiet within, not worried and restless - you must open confidently to the Mother's Force and let it work in you.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Ego and Its forms,#KEYS
562:Let each contemplate himself, not shut up in narrow walls, not cabined in a corner of the earth, but a citizen of the whole world. From the height of the sublime meditations which the spectacle of Nature and the knowledge of it will procure for him, how well will he know himself how he will disdain, how base he will find all the futilities to which the vulgar attach so high a price. ~ Cicero, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
563:I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, #KEYS
564:As thou thyself art a complement of the organism of the city, let thy action likewise he a complement of the life of the city. If each of thy actions has not a relation direct or remote to the common end, it breaks the social life, it no longer allows it to be one, it is factious like the citizen who amid the people separates himself as much as it is in him from the common accord. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
565:If thou shalt perfectly observe these rules, all the following Symbols and an infinitude of others will be granted unto thee by thy Holy Guardian Angel; thou thus living for the Honour and Glory of the True and only God, for thine own good, and that of thy neighbour. Let the Fear of God be ever before the eyes and the heart of him who shall possess this Divine Wisdom and Sacred Magic. ~ MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, #KEYS
566:The danger of ceremonial magick-the subtlest and deepest danger-is this: that the Magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his own being, and arrange his invocations in such a way as to redress the balance.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
567:My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:1-35, #KEYS
568:Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
569:Let him close the ears with his thumbs .... This is my most beloved Yoga. From practicing this gradually, the Yogi begins to hear mystic sounds (nadas). The first sound is like the hum of the honey-intoxicated bee (matta-bhrnga), next that of a flute (venu), then of a harp (vina); after this, by the gradual practice of Yoga, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, he hears the sounds of ringing bells (ghanta) then sounds like roar of thunder (megha).
~ Shiva-Samhita,#KEYS
570:If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding. ~ Howard Gardner, #KEYS
571:If you think for yourself or feel for yourself or act for yourself, you become a misappropriator, a dishonest trustee-a thief of force.
Let the Divine think through you, feel through you and act through you. Then only right and perfect use will be made of the instruments that compose your being.
Let the Divine's Thoughts shine in your mind, let the Divine's Love swell in your heart, let the Divine's Energy impel your limbs. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, Towards The Light,#KEYS
572:If iron is once changed to gold by the touch of the philosopher's stone, it may be kept in the earth or thrown into a mass of ordure, but always it will be gold and can never go back to its first condition. So is it with him whose heart has touched, were it but a single time, the feet of the Almighty; let him dwell amidst the tumult of the world or in the solitude of the forest, by nothing can he again be polluted. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
573:I pray to the unknown gods that some man-even a single man, tens of centuries ago-has perused and read that book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, #KEYS
574:The Last Invocation
At the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks-from the keep of the well-closed doors,
Let me be wafted.
Let me glide noiselessly forth;
With the key of softness unlock the locks-with a whisper,
Set ope the doors, O Soul!
Tenderly! be not impatient!
(Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh!
Strong is your hold, O love.) ~ Walt Whitman,#KEYS
575:You Will Find Me
The Mother: Take the trouble to find me. Follow the path that I have traced before you. Nothing is as important as this work. Nothing can be compared to this. Only the Divine. To find the Divine. This is life, this the aim, this the joy! To love the Divine so that He is always with you. Let it be Him who does all. He works with you. He strives with you. He guides you at every instant.
Au revoir, my child. ~ The Mother, The Supreme, Mona Sarkar,#KEYS
576:What you say is quite true. A simple, straight and sincere call and aspiration from the heart is the one important thing and more essential and effective than capacities. Also to get the consciousness to turn inwards, not remain outward-going is of great importance - to arrive at the inner call, the inner experience, the inner Presence. The help you ask will be with you. Let the aspiration grow and open the inner consciousness altogether.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I,#KEYS
577:The Dzogchen of the basis is to determine the nature of the mind.
The Dzogchen of the path is to strike the target of freedom from the extremes.
The Dzogchen of the result is to send hopes and doubts into extinction.
The Dzogchen of the object is to let appearances go free by not grasping at them.
The Dzogchen of the mind is to let thoughts arise as friends.
The Dzogchen of the meaning is to let flickering thoughts dissolve naturally.
Whoever realizes these points is a great king of yogis. ~ Longchenpa,#KEYS
578:O Thou who art the sole reality of our being, O sublime Master of love, Redeemer of life, let me have no longer any other consciousness than of Thee at every instant and in each being. When I do not live solely with Thy life, I agonise, I sink slowly towards extinction; for Thou art my only reason for existence, my one goal, my single support. I am like a timid bird not yet sure of its wings and hesitating to take its flight; let me soar to reach definitive identity with Thee.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
579:Whoever has seen the universe, whoever has beheld the fiery designs of the universe, cannot think in terms of one man, of that man's trivial fortunes or misfortunes, though he be that very man. That man has been he and now matters no more to him. What is the life of that other to him, the nation of that other to him, if he, now, is no one? This is why I do not pronounce the formula, why, lying here in the darkness, I let the days obliterate me.~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings, #KEYS
580:Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. ~ Louise Erdrich, #KEYS
581:If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps. ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, [T6], #KEYS
582:No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
583:It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head. ~ Henry Rollins, #KEYS
584:Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all - look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love. ~ Zooey Deschanel, #KEYS
585:Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking-machines. If we really want to be blessed and make others blessed, we must go deeper.
~ Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga, Pratyahara and Dharana, 73, [T4],#KEYS
586:The Mantra in other words is a direct and most heightened, an intensest and most divinely burdened rhythmic word which embodies an intuitive and revelatory inspiration and ensouls the mind with the sight and the presence of the very self, the inmost reality of things and with its truth and with the divine soul-forms of it, the Godheads which are born from the living Truth. Or, let us say, it is a supreme rhythmic language which seizes hold upon all that is finite and brings into each the light and voice of its own infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, #KEYS
587:Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda,#KEYS
588:Let the Magician therefore adventure himself upon the Astral Plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate Beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. All explanations other than these are of value only as extending and equilibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may have found their way to the Sources of Strength. In all cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the One Great Work" ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, App 3, #KEYS
589:[...] Thus the sedentary peoples create the plastic arts (architecture, sculpture, painting), the arts consisting of forms developed in space; the nomads create the phonetic arts (music, poetry), the arts consisting of forms unfolded in time; for, let us say it again, all art is in its origin essentially symbolical and ritual, and only through a late degeneration, indeed a very recent degeneration, has it lost its sacred character so as to become at last the purely profane 'recreation' to which it has been reduced among our contemporaries. ~ Rene Guenon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times #KEYS
590:Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
591:In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
592:Let us therefore learn while there is yet time, let us learn to do good. Let us raise our eyes to Heaven for the sake of our honor, for the very love of virtue, or, to speak wisely, for the love and praise of God Almighty, who is the infallible witness of our deeds and the just judge of our faults. As for me, I truly believe I am right, since there is nothing so contrary to a generous and loving God as tyranny---I believe He has reserved, in a separate spot in Hell, some very special punishment for tyrants and their accomplices" ~ Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude #KEYS
593:Now let us return to our beautiful and charming castle and discover how to enter it. This appears incongruous: if this castle is the soul, clearly no one can have to enter it, for it is the person himself: one might as well tell some one to go into a room he is already in! There are, however, very different ways of being in this castle; many souls live in the courtyard of the building where the sentinels stand, neither caring to enter farther, nor to know who dwells in that most delightful place, what is in it and what rooms it contains. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
594:Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 130
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595:We ought not to have or let ourselves be satisfied with any thought of God. When the thought goes, our God goes with it. No, what we want is a real (subsistent) God who far transcends the thoughts of men and creatures. This God does not disappear unless we turn our back on him of our own accord. He who has God thus, in reality, has gotten God divinely; to him God is apparent in all things. Everything smacks to him of God; everywhere God's image stares him in the face. God is gleaming in him all the time. In him there is riddance and return; the vision of his God is ever present to his mind. ~ Meister Eckhart, #KEYS
596:The word is a sound expressive of the idea. In the supra-physical plane when an idea has to be realised, one can by repeating the word-expression of it, produce vibrations which prepare the mind for the realisation of the idea. That is the principle of the Mantra and of japa. One repeats the name of the Divine and the vibrations created in the consciousness prepare the realisation of the Divine. It is the same idea that is expressed in The Bible, God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light. It is creation by the Word. 6 May 1933 ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Poetry And Art, 1.1.1.02 - Creation by the Word / 2.3.02 - Mantra and Japa, #KEYS
597:8. Now let us turn at last to our castle with its many mansions. You must not think of a suite of rooms placed in succession, but fix your eyes on the keep, the court inhabited by the King.23' Like the kernel of the palmito,24' from which several rinds must be removed before coming to the eatable part, this principal chamber is surrounded by many others. However large, magnificent, and spacious you imagine this castle to be, you cannot exaggerate it; the capacity of the soul is beyond all our understanding, and the Sun within this palace enlightens every part of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
598:The universities better becareful, cause they are dumping their content online as fast as they can. They are going to make themselves completely superfluous. And some smart person, Ive been thinking about this for 20 years, is going to take over accreditation end. Cause you know, all you would have to do, is set up a series of well designed examinations online. And only let a minority of people pass, you have instant accreditation credibility. Heres an entire 3 years of Psychology courses, heres the exams, you take them, only 15% of the people pass. ... It makes the accreditation valuable. ~ Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan Experience 877 - Jordan Peterson, 1:40:00, #KEYS
599:Mother, Why didn't You return the letter to me (the one You wrote to me) after I sent it to You this morning with my letter? I want to lie on Your lap, Mother.
Poor little one, I very gladly take you on my lap and cradle you to my heart to soothe this heavy sorrow which has no cause and to quell this great revolt which has no reason. Let me take you in my arms, bathe you in my love and wipe away even the memory of this unfortunate incident. I kept the letter to show it to Sri Aurobindo along with your letter of this morning. I am returning it to you in this notebook. - February 27th, 1934
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
600:Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves for the new manifestation.
This gives life its real sense and will help us to overcome all obstacles.
Let us live for the new creation and we shall grow stronger and stronger by remaining young and progressive. 30 January 1972
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~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
601:ASTROLOGER. Greet reverentially this star-blest hour!
Let magic loose the tyranny of Reason
And Fantasy, fetched from afar, display her power, 6620 For it belongs to her, this great occasion.
What all here boldly asked to see, now see it!
A thing impossible-therefore believe it.
[Faust mounts the proscenium from the other side.]
In priestly robes, head wreathed, the wonder-working man
Now confidently consummates what he began.
A tripod from the depths accompanied his ascent,
Incense is burning in the bowl, I smell the scent,
Next comes the invocation, all's prepared; ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust,#KEYS
602:Now as always-humility and terror. Fear that the working of my pen cannot capture the grinding of my brain. It is so easy to understand why the ancients prayed for the help of a Muse. And the Muse came and stood beside them, and we, heaven help us, do not believe in Muses. We have nothing to fall back on but our craftsmanship and it, as modern literature attests, is inadequate. May I be honest; may I be decent; may I be unaffected by the technique of hucksters. If invocation is required, let this be my invocation-may I be strong and yet gentle, tender and yet wise, wise and yet tolerant. May I for a little while, only for a little while, see with the inflamed eyes of a God. ~ John Steinbeck, #KEYS
603:And so, please practice! Please let that be your guide. And I believe that you will find, if your practice matures, that Spirit will reach down and bless your every word and deed, and you will be taken quite beyond yourself, and the Divine will blaze with the light of a thousand suns, and glories upon glories will be given unto you, and you will in every way be home. And then, despite all your excuses and all your objections, you will find the obligation to communicate your vision. And precisely because of that, you and I will find each other. And that will be the real return of Spirit to itself. ~ Ken Wilber, Interview, Bodhisattvas will have to turn to politics, Interview with Frank Visser, 1995, #KEYS
604:Don't confuse having no violence in your heart with having no violence in the real world, if required. Your duty may or may not include violence, but let us not forget that there are indeed occasions where violence ends violence or, I should say, reflecting the messiness and microscopically incremental nature of Eros: there are occasions where violence replaces a grosser violence with a subtler violence, a lesser devil on the way to a vaguely greater good. The Zen-inspired code of the Samurai warrior is still as good a guide as any: the best fight is not to fight; the real sword is no sword-but if you think that means a Samurai warrior never used his sword, you are tad naive, I fear. ~ Ken Wilber?, #KEYS
605:Mother, if there is a part in one's nature that does not open, what is the method of aspiring so that this part may open?
You may aspire that this part may open - let the part that is open aspire for the other to open. It will open after a certain time; one must continue, persist. That is the only thing to do. There is something that does not want it, an acute resistance there, which does not want it. It is like a stubborn child: "I don't want it, I shall remain what I am, I won't move."... It does not say, "I am pleased with myself", because it does not dare. But the truth is it is quite self-satisfied, it does not budge. ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-6, page no.116),#KEYS
606:Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own kind? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy health shall spring forth speedily. ~ Isaiah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
607:There are who do not study or who, though they study, make no progress; let them not be discouraged. There are who put no questions or, when they do, cannot seize well the sense of the reply; let them not be discouraged. There are who can distinguish nothing or only confusedly; let them not be discouraged. There are who do not practice or have no solidity in their practice; let them not be discouraged. What another would do in one step, they will do in a hundred; what another would do in ten, they will do in a thousand. Assuredly, any man who follows this rule, however poorly enlightened he may be, will acquire intelligence and, however weak he may be, will acquire strength. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
608:The other day I told you the meaning of bhakti. It is to adore God with body, mind, and words. 'With body' means to serve and worship God with one's hands, go to holy places with one's feet, hear the chanting of the name and glories of God with one's ears, and behold the divine image with one's eyes. 'With mind' means to contemplate and meditate on God constantly and to remember and think of His lila. 'With words' means to sing hymns to Him and chant His name and glories.
Devotion as described by Narada is suited to the Kaliyuga. It means to chant constantly the name and glories of God. Let those who have no leisure worship God at least morning and evening by whole-heartedly chanting His name and clapping their hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
609:It's like chopping down a huge tree of immense girth. You won't accomplish it with one swing of your axe. If you keep chopping away at it, though, and do not let up, eventually, whether it wants to or not, it will suddenly topple down. When that time comes, you could round up everyone you could find and pay them to hold the tree up, but they wouldn't be able to do it. It would still come crashing to the ground. . . . But if the woodcutter stopped after one or two strokes of his axe to ask the third son of Mr. Chang, Why doesn't this tree fall? And after three or four more strokes stopped again to ask the fourth son of Mr. Li, Why doesn't this tree fall? he would never succeed in felling the tree. It is no different for someone who is practicing the Way.
~ Hakuin Ekaku,#KEYS
610:Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of the person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realize he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me. ~ Carl Rogers, #KEYS
611:When we are concentrated in mental movements or intellectual pursuits, why do we sometimes forget or lose touch with the Divine?
You lose it because your consciousness is still divided. The Divine has not settled in your mind; you are not wholly consecrated to the Divine Life. Otherwise you could concentrate to any extent upon such things and still you would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, Remember and Offer. Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, [T0],#KEYS
612:189 - Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
190 - Fling not thy alms abroad everywhere in an ostentation of charity; understand and love where thou helpest. Let thy soul grow within thee.
191 - Help the poor while the poor are with thee; but study also and strive that there may be no poor for thy assistance.
To live within in a constant aspiration for the Divine enables us to look at life with a smile and to remain peaceful whatever the outer circumstances may be.
As for the poor, Sri Aurobindo says that to come to their help is good, provided that it is not a vain ostentation of charity, but that it is far nobler to seek a remedy for poverty so that there may be no poor left on earth.
31 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
613:
Mother, I would like to know from you if it is good for me to devote more time to meditation than I am doing at present. I spend about two hours, morning and evening together. I am as yet not quite successful in meditation. My physical mind disturbs me a lot. I pray to you that it may become quiet and my psychic being may come out. It is so painful to find the mind working like a mad machine and the heart sleeping like a stone. Mother, let me feel your presence within my heart always.
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The increase of time given to meditation is not very useful unless the urge for meditation comes spontaneously from inside and not from any arbitrary decision of the mind.
My help, love and blessings are always with you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
614:But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle of the night, since I did not know where I was, I did not even understand in the first moment who I was; all I had, in its original simplicity, was the sense of existence as it may quiver in the depths of an animal; I was more bereft than a caveman; but then the memory - not yet of the place where I was, but of several of those where I had lived and where I might have been - would come to me like help from on high to pull me out of the void from which I could not have got out on my own; I passed over centuries of civilization in one second, and the image confusedly glimpsed of oil lamps, then of wing-collar shirts, gradually recomposed my self's original features. ~ Marcel Proust, #KEYS
615:God doesn't easily appear in the heart of a man who feels himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment His grace descends. He is the Sun of Knowledge. One single ray of His has illumined the world with the light of knowledge. That is how we are able to see one another and acquire varied knowledge. One can see God only if He turns His light toward His own face.
The police sergeant goes his rounds in the dark of night with a lantern in his hand. No one sees his face; but with the help of that light the sergeant sees everybody's face, and others, too, can see one another. If you want to see the sergeant, however, you must pray to him: 'Sir, please turn the light on your own face. Let me see you.' In the same way one must pray to God: 'O Lord, be gracious and turn the light of knowledge on Thyself, that I may see Thy face.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
616:The student is told to set apart moments in his daily life in which to withdraw into himself, quietly and alone. He is not to occupy himself at such moments with the affairs of his own ego. This would result in the contrary of what is intended. He should rather let his experiences and the messages from the outer world re-echo within his own completely silent self. At such silent moments every flower, every animal, every action will unveil to him secrets undreamt of. And thus he will prepare himself to receive quite new impressions of the outer world through quite different eyes. The desire to enjoy impression after impression merely blunts the faculty of cognition; the latter, however, is nurtured and cultivated if the enjoyment once experienced is allowed to reveal its message. Thus the student must accustom himself not merely to let the enjoyment. ~ Rudolf Steiner, #KEYS
617:January 7, 1914
GIVE them all, O Lord, Thy peace and light, open their blinded eyes and their darkened understanding; calm their futile worries and their vain anxieties. Turn their gaze away from themselves and give them the joy of being consecrated to Thy work without calculation or mental reservation. Let Thy beauty flower in all things, awaken Thy love in all hearts, so that Thy eternally progressive order may be realised upon earth and Thy harmony be spread until the day all becomes Thyself in perfect purity and peace.
Oh! let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let calm serenity dwell in every heart and powerful certitude strengthen every mind. Let Thy life flow through all like a regenerating stream that all may turn to Thee and draw from that contemplation the energy for all victories. ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
618:Thou must teach us the path to be followed and Thou must give us the power to follow it to the very end. . . .
O Thou source of all love and all light, Thou whom we cannot know in Thyself but can manifest ever more completely and perfectly, Thou whom we cannot conceive but can approach in profound silence, to complete Thy incommensurable boons Thou must come to our help until we have gained Thy victory. . . .
Let that true love be born which soothes all suffering; establish that immutable peace wherein resides true power; give us the sovereign knowledge which dispels all darkness. . . .
From the infinite depths to this most external body, in its smallest elements, Thou dost move and live and vibrate and set all in motion, and the whole being is now only a single block, infinitely multiple yet absolutely coherent, animated by one tremendous vibration: Thou.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
619:On the exoteric side if necessary the mind should be trained by the study of any well-developed science, such as chemistry, or mathematics. The idea of organization is the first step, that of interpretation the second. The Master of the Temple, whose grade corresponds to Binah, is sworn to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul. {85} But even the beginner may attempt this practice with advantage. Either a fact fits in or it does not; if it does not, harmony is broken; and as the Universal harmony cannot be broken, the discord must be in the mind of the student, thus showing that he is not in tune with that Universal choir. Let him then puzzle out first the great facts, then the little; until one summer, when he is bald and lethargic after lunch, he understands and appreciates the existence of flies!
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Part II, The Cup,#KEYS
620:A disciple asked his teacher, 'Sir, please tell me how I can see God.' Come with me,' said the guru, 'and I shall show you.' He took the disciple to a lake, and both of them got into the water. Suddenly the teacher pressed the disciple's head under the water. After a few moments he released him and the disciple raised his head and stood up. The guru asked him, 'How did you feel?' The disciple said, 'Oh! I thought I should die; I was panting for breath.' The teacher said, 'When you feel like that for God, then you will know you haven't long to wait for His vision.'
Let me tell you something. What will you gain by floating on the surface? Dive a little under the water. The gems lie deep under the water; so what is the good of throwing your arms and legs about on the surface? A real gem is heavy. It doesn't float; it sinks to the bottom. To get the real gem you must dive deep. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
621:Prudence and Balance
Vigilance: indispensable for all true progress.
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In each human being there is a beast crouching ready to manifest at the slightest unwatchfulness. The only remedy is a constant vigilance. 18 August 1954
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Prudence: very useful for weakness because weakness needs prudence; strength does not need it.
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Common sense: it is very practical and avoids any mistakes, but it lacks light.
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Sobriety has never done harm to anyone.
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Equanimity: immutable peace and calm.
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In the deep peace of equanimity the love will grow to its full
blossoming in a sense of pure and constant unity. 5 October 1934
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All mischief comes from a lack of balance.
So, let us keep our balance carefully, always, in all circumstances. 10 August 1954
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Perfect balance: one of the most important conditions of a growing peace. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
622:... if we conceive of a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are as essentially finite as our own, would be able to do what is impossible to us. For we have seen that molecules in a vessel full of air at uniform temperature are moving with velocities by no means uniform, though the mean velocity of any great number of them, arbitrarily selected, is almost exactly uniform. Now let us suppose that such a vessel is divided into two portions, A and B, by a division in which there is a small hole, and that a being, who can see the individual molecules, opens and closes this hole, so as to allow only the swifter molecules to pass from A to B, and only the slower molecules to pass from B to A. He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the temperature of B and lower that of A, in contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. ~ James Clerk Maxwell, #KEYS
623:10.: I do not know whether I have put this clearly; self-knowledge is of such consequence that I would not have you careless of it, though you may be lifted to heaven in prayer, because while on earth nothing is more needful than humility. Therefore, I repeat, not only a good way, but the best of all ways, is to endeavour to enter first by the room where humility is practised, which is far better than at once rushing on to the others. This is the right road;-if we know how easy and safe it is to walk by it, why ask for wings with which to fly? Let us rather try to learn how to advance quickly. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, 1.02, #KEYS
624:Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability- and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually-let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don't try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,#KEYS
625:To be able to receive the Divine Power and let act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions:
(i) Quietude, equality - not to be disturbed by anything that happens, to keep the mind still and firm, seeing the play of forces, but itself tranquil.
(ii) Absolute faith - faith that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be done - kartavyam karma.
(iii) Receptivity - the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one's sight and will and action. If this power and presence can be felt and this plasticity made the habit of the consciousness in action, - but plasticity to the Divine force alone without bringing in any foreign element, - the eventual result is sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
626:Now, on the other hand, there is an entirely different type of angel; and here we must be especially careful to remember that we include gods and devils, for there are such beings who are not by any means dependent on one particular element for their existence. They are microcosms in exactly the same sense as men and women are. They are individuals who have picked up the elements of their composition as possibility and convenience dictates, exactly as we do ourselves... I believe that the Holy Guardian Angel is a Being of this order. He is something more than a man, possibly a being who has already passed through the stage of humanity, and his peculiarly intimate relationship with his client is that of friendship, of community, of brotherhood, or Fatherhood. He is not, let me say with emphasis, a mere abstraction from yourself; and that is why I have insisted rather heavily that the term 'Higher Self' implies a damnable heresy and a dangerous delusion. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, #KEYS
627:Ah, yeah. We're gonna go to Mars. And then of course we're gonna colonize deep space. With our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit, fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss, lemon-scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels. And all these other impressive things we've done down here. But let me ask you this: what are we gonna tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws their newborn baby into a dumpster? How are we gonna explain that to the space people? How are we gonna let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out, its just a local custom, that over 80 million women in the Third world have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up? ~ George Carlin, #KEYS
628: So then, let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have.
And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say "Well that was pretty great. But now let's have a surprise, let's have a dream which isn't under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's gonna be."
And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say "Wow that was a close shave, wasn't it?". Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. ~ Alan Watts, The Dream of Life,#KEYS
629:This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #KEYS
630:[invocation] Let us describe the magical method of identification. The symbolic form of the god is first studied with as much care as an artist would bestow upon his model, so that a perfectly clear and unshakeable mental picture of the god is presented to the mind. Similarly, the attributes of the god are enshrined in speech, and such speeches are committed perfectly to memory. The invocation will then begin with a prayer to the god, commemorating his physical attributes, always with profound understanding of their real meaning. In the second part of the invocation, the voice of the god is heard, and His characteristic utterance is recited. In the third portion of the invocation the Magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. In the fourth portion the god is again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that He should manifest in the Magician. At the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stated.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 3, The Formuale of the Elemental Weapons [149] [T4],#KEYS
631:On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was an illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded. The Aleph's diameter was probably little more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished. Each thing (a mirror's face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe. I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the center of a black pyramid; I saw a splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler Street the same tiles that thirty years before I'd seen in the entrance of a house in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes, snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand... ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph, #KEYS
632:The matter of definition, I have said, is very important. I am not now speaking of nominal definitions, which for convenience merely give names to known objects. I am speaking of such definitions of phenomena as result from correct analysis of the phenomena. Nominal definitions are mere conveniences and are neither true nor false; but analytic definitions are definitive propositions and are true or else false. Let us dwell upon the matter a little more.
In the illustration of the definitions of lightning, there were three; the first was the most mistaken and its application brought the most harm; the second was less incorrect and the practical results less bad; the third under the present conditions of our knowledge, was the "true one" and it brought the maximum benefit. This lightning illustration suggests the important idea of relative truth and relative falsehood-the idea, that is, of degrees of truth and degrees of falsehood. A definition may be neither absolutely true nor absolutely false; but of two definitions of the same thing' one of them may be truer or falser than the other. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, 49,#KEYS
633:Find That Something :::
We can, simply by a sincere aspiration, open a sealed door in us and find... that Something which will change the whole significance of life, reply to all our questions, solve all our problems and lead us to the perfection we aspire for without knowing it, to that Reality which alone can satisfy us and give us lasting joy, equilibrium, strength, life.
All have heard it - Oh! there are even some here who are so used to it that for them it seems to be the same thing as drinking a glass of water or opening a window to let in the sunlight....
We have tried a little, but now we are going to try seriously!
The starting-point: to want it, truly want it, to need it. The next step: to think, above all, of that. A day comes, very quickly, when one is unable to think of anything else.
That is the one thing which counts. And then... One formulates one's aspiration, lets the true prayer spring up from one's heart, the prayer which expresses the sincerity of the need. And then... well, one will see what happens.
Something will happen. Surely something will happen. For each one it will take a different form.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
634:I've never been lonely. I've been in a room ~ I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful ~ awful beyond all ~ but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, The strongest men are the most alone. I've never thought, Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good. No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine! ~ Charles Bukowski, #KEYS
635:Two Paths Of Yoga :::
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender. is a safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it to nor has nothing do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
636:My sweet mother, The more I look into myself, the more discouraged I am, and I don't know whether there is any chance of my making any progress. It seems that all the obscurities and falsehoods are rising up on every side, inside and outside, and want to swallow me up. There are times when I cannot distinguish truth from falsehood and I am then on the verge of losing my mind.
Still, there is something in me which says very weakly that all will be well; but this voice is so feeble that I cannot rely on it.1
My faults are so numerous and so great that I think I shall fail. On the other hand, I have neither the inclination nor the capacity for the ordinary life. And I know that I shall never be able to leave this life. This is my situation right now. The struggle is getting more and more acute, and worst of all I cannot lie to you. What should I do?
Do not torment yourself, my child, and remain as quiet as you can; do not yield to the temptation to give up the struggle and let yourself fall into darkness. Persist, and one day you will realise that I am close to you to console you and help you, and then the hardest part will be over. With all my love and blessings. 25 September 1947
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
637:I accept, will not give up, and will practice each of the Three Jewels,
And will not let go of my guru or my yidam deity.
As the samaya of the Buddha, first among the Three Jewels,
I will apply myself to the true, essential reality.
As the samaya of sacred Dharma, second among the Three Jewels,
I will distill the very essence of all the vehicles' teachings.
As the samaya of the Sangha, the third and final Jewel,
I will look upon reality; I will behold pure awareness.
And as the samaya of the guru and the yidam deity,
I will take my very own mind, my pure mind, as a witness.
Generally speaking, the Three Jewels should be regarded as the ultimate place to take refuge. As was taught in the section on taking refuge, your mind should be focused one-pointedly, with all your hopes and trust placed in their care. The gurus are a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.
As the guides who lead you along the path to liberation, they are your sole source of refuge and protection, from now until you attain enlightenment.
For these reasons, you should act with unwavering faith, pure view and devotion, and engage in the approach and accomplishment of the divine yidam deity. ~ Dzogchen Rinpoche III, Great Perfection Outer and Inner Preliminaries,#KEYS
638:The pure existent is then a fact and no mere concept; it is the fundamental reality. But, let us hasten to add, the movement, the energy, the becoming are also a fact, also a reality. The supreme intuition and its corresponding experience may correct the other, may go beyond, may suspend, but do not abolish it. We have therefore two fundamental facts of pure existence and of worldexistence, a fact of Being, a fact of Becoming. To deny one or the other is easy; to recognise the facts of consciousness and find out their relation is the true and fruitful wisdom.
Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous. World-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva which multiplies the body of the God numberlessly to the view: it leaves that white existence precisely where and what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole absolute object is the joy of the dancing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, 85,#KEYS
639:
Sweet Mother, is the physical mind the same as the mechanical mind?
Almost. You see, there is just a little difference, but not much. The mechanical mind is still more stupid than the physical mind. The physical mind is what we spoke about one day, that which is never sure of anything.
I told you the story of the closed door, you remember. Well, that is the nature of the physical mind. The mechanical mind is at a lower level still, because it doesn't even listen to the possibility of a convincing reason, and this happens to everyone.
Usually we don't let it function, but it comes along repeating the same things, absolutely mechanically, without rhyme or reason, just like that. When some craze or other takes hold of it, it goes... For example, you see, if it fancies counting: "One, two, three, four", then it will go on: "One, two, three, four; one, two, three, four." And you may think of all kinds of things, but it goes on: "One, two, three, four", like that... (Mother laughs.) Or it catches hold of three words, four words and repeats them and goes on repeating them; and unless one turns away with a certain violence and punches it soundly, telling it, "Keep quiet!", it continues in this way, indefinitely. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
640:A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -- physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on -- remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all! ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
641:A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the nature of the human physical consciousness. When one goes down into the physical for its change (that has been the general condition here for a long time), this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much inside, this temporarily increases - the body either needing more rest or turning the inward movement into a tendency to sleep or be at rest. You need not, however, be anxious about that. After a time this rights itself; the physical consciousness gets the true peace and calm in the cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the most concentrated condition and this tendency of inertia goes out of the nature. Even for those who have never been in trance, it is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of that kind, but a vibration. And its effect on the body is extraordinary: it begins to vibrate, vibrate, vibrate... and quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go to sleep. The body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and away you go. That is the cure for tamas.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
642:keep faith :::
We must have faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are ignorant and also blind, because we do not see the consequences of things and what will happen later. But we must keep the faith that if it is like that, if we rely on the Divine, if we give Him the full charge of ourselves, if we let Him decide everything for us, well, we must know that it is always what is best for us that happens. This is an absolute fact. To the extent to which you surrender, the best happens to you. This may not be in conformity with what you would like, your preferences or desire, because these things are blind: it is the best from thespiritual point of view, the best for your progress, your development, your spiritual growth, your true life. It is always that. And you must keep this faith, because faith is the expression of a trust in the Divine and the full self-giving you make to the Divine. And when you make it, it is something absolutely marvellous. That's a fact, these are not just words, you understand, it is a fact. When you look back, all kinds of things which you did not understand when they happened to you, you realise as just the thing which was necessary in order to compel you to make the needed progress. Always, without exception. It is our blindness which prevents us from seeing it. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
643:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.>p>Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,#KEYS
644:To see life steadily and see it whole is only permitted to a Perfect and Infinite Consciousness standing outside Time, Space and Conditions. To such a divine Vision the working out of preordainment may present itself as a perfect, immediate and unhindered consummation. God said, 'Let there be Light' and, straightway,there was Light; and when the Light came into being, God saw that it was good. But to the imperfect finite consciousness, Light seems in its inception to have come into being by a slow material evolution completed by a fortuitous shock of forces; in its operation to be lavished with a prodigal wastefulness since only a small part is used for the purposes of life; in its presentation to be conveyed to a blinking and limited vision, hampered by obstacles and chequered with darkness. Limitation, imperfection, progression and retrogression are inseparable from phenomenal work, phenomenal intelligence, phenomenal pleasure and satisfaction. To Brahman the Will who measures all Time in a moment, covers all Space with one stride, embraces the whole chain of causation in one glance, there is no limitation, imperfection, progression or retrogression. He looks upon his work as a whole and sees that it is good. But the Gods cannot reach to His completeness, even though they toil after it; for ever He outruns their pursuit, moving far in front. Brahman, standing still, overtakes and passes the others as they run.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
645:AHA!"
There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eight.
First, let the body of thee be still,
Bound by the cerements of will,
Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort
The fidget-babes that tense the thought.
Next, let the breath-rhythm be low,
Easy, regular, and slow;
So that thy being be in tune
With the great sea's Pacific swoon.
Third, let thy life be pure and calm
Swayed softly as a windless palm.
Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound
To the one love of the Profound.
Fifth, let the thought, divinely free
From sense, observe its entity.
Watch every thought that springs; enhance
Hour after hour thy vigilance!
Intense and keen, turned inward, miss
No atom of analysis!
Sixth, on one thought securely pinned
Still every whisper of the wind!
So like a flame straight and unstirred
Burn up thy being in one word!
Next, still that ecstasy, prolong
Thy meditation steep and strong,
Slaying even God, should He distract
Thy attention from the chosen act!
Last, all these things in one o'erpowered,
Time that the midnight blossom flowered!
The oneness is. Yet even in this,
My son, thou shalt not do amiss
If thou restrain the expression, shoot
Thy glance to rapture's darkling root,
Discarding name, form, sight, and stress
Even of this high consciousness;
Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here:
Thou art the Master. I revere
Thy radiance that rolls afar,
O Brother of the Silver Star! ~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
646:On a thousand bridges and paths they shall throng to the future, and ever more war and inequality shall divide them: thus does my great love make me speak.
In their hostilities they shall become inventors of images and ghosts, and with their images and ghosts they shall yet fight the highest fight against one another. Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all the names of values-arms shall they be and clattering signs that life must overcome itself again and again.
Life wants to build itself up into the heights with pillars and steps; it wants to look into vast distances and out toward stirring beauties: therefore it requires height. And because it requires height, it requires steps and contradiction among the steps and the climbers.
Life wants to climb and to overcome itself climbing.
And behold, my friends: here where the tarantula has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold it with enlightened eyes Verily, the man who once piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. How divinely vault and arches break through each other in a wrestling match; how they strive against each other with light and shade, the godlike strivers-with such assurance and beauty let us be enemies too, my friends Let us strive against one another like gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
647:The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we ... kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok ... But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
648:You say that you feel you have returned to your old life and that you have fallen from that state of spiritual consciousness in which you remained for some time. And you ask whether it comes from the fact that Sri Aurobindo and myself have withdrawn our protection and our help because you had been unable to fulfil your promise.
It is a mistake to think that anything at all has been withdrawn by us. Our help and our protection are with you as always, but it would be more correct to say that both your inability to feel our help and your inability to keep your promise are the simultaneous effects of the same cause.
Remember what I wrote to you when you went to Calcutta to fetch your family: do not let any influence come in between you and the Divine. You did not pay sufficient attention to this warning: you have allowed an influence to interfere strongly between you and your spiritual life; your devotion and your faith have been seriously shaken by this. As a consequence, you became afraid and you did not find the same joy in your offering to the Divine Cause; and also, quite naturally, you fell back into your ordinary consciousness and your old life.
You are quite right, nevertheless, not to let yourself be discouraged. Whatever the fall, it is always possible not only to get up again but also to rise higher and to reach the goal. Only a strong aspiration and a constant will are needed.
You have to take a firm resolution to let nothing interfere with your ascent towards the Divine Realisation. And then the success is certain.
Be assured of our unfailing help and protection. 3 February 1931 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - I,#KEYS
649:Thoughts are forms and have an individual life, independent of their author: sent out from him into the world, they move in it towards the realisation of their own purpose of existence. When you think of anyone, your thought takes a form and goes out to find him; and, if your thinking is associated with some will that is behind it, the thought-form that has gone out from you makes an attempt to realise itself. Let us say, for instance, that you have a keen desire for a certain person to come and that, along with this vital impulse of desire, a strong imagination accompanies the mental form you have made; you imagine, "If he came, it would be like this or it would be like that." After a time you drop the idea altogether, and you do not know that even after you have forgotten it, your thought continues to exist. For it does still exist and is in action, independent of you, and it would need a great power to bring it back from its work. It is working in the atmosphere of the person touched by it and creates in him the desire to come. And if there is a sufficient power of will in your thought-form, if it is a well-built formation, it will arrive at its own realisation. But between the formation and the realisation there is a certain lapse of time, and if in this interval your mind has been occupied with quite other things, then when there happens this fulfilment of your forgotten thought, you may not even remember that you once harboured it; you do not know that you were the instigator of its action and the cause of what has come about. And it happens very often too that when the result does come, you have ceased to desire or care for it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
650:Musa Spiritus :::
O Word concealed in the upper fire,
Thou who hast lingered through centuries,
Descend from thy rapt white desire,
Plunging through gold eternities.
Into the gulfs of our nature leap,
Voice of the spaces, call of the Light!
Break the seals of Matter's sleep,
Break the trance of the unseen height.
In the uncertain glow of human mind,
Its waste of unharmonied thronging thoughts,
Carve thy epic mountain-lined
Crowded with deep prophetic grots.
Let thy hue-winged lyrics hover like birds
Over the swirl of the heart's sea.
Touch into sight with thy fire-words
The blind indwelling deity.
O Muse of the Silence, the wideness make
In the unplumbed stillness that hears thy voice,
In the vast mute heavens of the spirit awake
Where thy eagles of Power flame and rejoice.
Out, out with the mind and its candles flares,
Light, light the suns that never die.
For my ear the cry of the seraph stars
And the forms of the Gods for my naked eye!
Let the little troubled life-god within
Cast his veils from the still soul,
His tiger-stripes of virtue and sin,
His clamour and glamour and thole and dole;
All make tranquil, all make free.
Let my heart-beats measure the footsteps of God
As He comes from His timeless infinity
To build in their rapture His burning abode.
Weave from my life His poem of days,
His calm pure dawns and His noons of force.
My acts for the grooves of His chariot-race,
My thoughts for the tramp of His great steeds' course! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
651:We have all a ruling defect, which is for our soul as the umbilical cord of its birth in sin, and it is by this that the enemy can always lay hold upon us: for some it is vanity, for others idleness, for the majority egotism. Let a wicked and crafty mind avail itself of this means and we are lost; we may not go mad or turn idiots, but we become positively alienated, in all the force of the expression - that is, we are subjected to a foreign suggestion. In such a state one dreads instinctively everything that might bring us back to reason, and will not even listen to representations that are opposed to our obsession. Here is one of the most dangerous disorders which can affect the moral nature. The sole remedy for such a bewitchment is to make use of folly itself in order to cure folly, to provide the sufferer with imaginary satisfactions in the opposite order to that wherein he is now lost. Endeavour, for example, to cure an ambitious person by making him desire the glories of heaven - mystic remedy; cure one who is dissolute by true love - natural remedy; obtain honourable successes for a vain person; exhibit unselfishness to the avaricious and procure for them legitimate profit by honourable participation in generous enterprises, etc. Acting in this way upon the moral nature, we may succeed in curing a number of physical maladies, for the moral affects the physical in virtue of the magical axiom: "That which is above is like unto that which is below." This is why the Master said, when speaking of the paralyzed woman: "Satan has bound her." A disease invariably originates in a deficiency or an excess, and ever at the root of a physical evil we shall find a moral disorder. This is an unchanging law of Nature. ~ Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, #KEYS
652:THE FOUR FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICES
Changing the Karmic Traces
Throughout the day, continuously remain in the awareness that all experience is a dream. Encounter all things as objects in a dream, all events as events in a dream, all people as people in a dream.
Envision your own body as a transparent illusory body. Imagine you are in a lucid dream during the entire day. Do not allow these reminders to be merely empty repetition. Each time you tell yourself, "This is a dream," actually become more lucid. Involve your body and your senses in becoming more present.
Removing Grasping and Aversion
Encounter all things that create desire and attachment as the illusory empty, luminous phenomena of a dream. Recognize your reactions to phenomena as a dream; all emotions, judgments, and preferences are being dreamt up. You can be certain that you are doing this correctly if immediately upon remembering that your reaction is a dream, desire and attachment lessen.
Strengthening Intention
Before going to sleep, review the day and reflect on how the practice has been. Let memories of the day arise and recognize them as memories of dream. Develop a strong intention to be aware in the coming night's dreams. Put your whole heart into this intention and pray strongly for success.
Cultivating Memory and joyful Effort
Begin the day with the strong intention to maintain the practice. Review the night, developing happiness if you remembered or were lucid in your dreams. Recommit yourself to the practice, with the intention to become lucid if you were not, and to further develop lucidity if you were. At any time during the day or evening it is good to pray for success in practice. Generate as strong an intention as possible. This is the key to the practice, ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep,#KEYS
653:
Should not one be born with a great aspiration?
No, aspiration is a thing to be developed, educated, like all activities of the being. One may be born with a very slight aspiration and develop it so much that it becomes very great. One may be born with a very small will and develop it and make it strong. It is a ridiculous idea to believe that things come to you like that, through a sort of grace, that if you are not given aspiration, you don't have it - this is not true. It is precisely upon this that Sri Aurobindo has insisted in his letter and in the passage I am going to read to you in a minute. He says you must choose, and the choice is constantly put before you and constantly you must choose, and if you do not choose, well, you will not be able to advance. You must choose; there is no "force like that" which chooses for you, or chance or luck or fate - this is not true. Your will is free, it is deliberately left free and you have to choose. It is you who decide whether to seek the Light or not, whether to be the servitor of the Truth or not - it is you. Or whether to have an aspiration or not, it is you who choose. And even when you are told, "Make your surrender total and the work will be done for you", it is quite all right, but to make your surrender total, every day and at every moment you must choose to make your surrender total, otherwise you will not do it, it will not get done by itself. It is you who must want to do it. When it is done, all goes well, when you have the Knowledge also, all goes well, and when you are identified with the Divine, all goes even better, but till then you must will, choose and decide. Don't go to sleep lazily, saying, "Oh! The work will be done for me, I have nothing to do but let myself glide along with the stream." Besides, it is not true, the work is not done by itself, because if the least little thing thwarts your little will, it says, "No, not that!..." Then?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
654:It doesnt interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing. It doesnt interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by lifes betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesnt interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when its not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, Yes! It doesnt interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesnt interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer,#KEYS
655:For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here..... to prepare the way for the new creation.
The body has some difficulty, so I can't be active, alas. It is not because I am old, I am not old, I am younger than most of you. If I am here inactive, it is because the body has given itself definitely to prepare the transformation. But the consciousness is clear and we are here to work - rest and enjoyment will come afterwards. Let us do our work here.
So I have called you to tell you that. Take what you can, do what you can, my help will be with you. All sincere effort will be helped to the maximum.
It is the hour to be the heroic. Heroism is not what it is said to be; it is to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
There!
You are here at this moment that is to say upon earth, because you chose it at one time - you do not remember it any more, but I know it - that is why you are here. Well, you must rise to the height of the task. You must strive, you must conquer all weakness and limitations; above all you must tell your ego: "Your hour is gone." We want a race that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the Supramental being to take birth.
If you believe that I am here because I am bound - it is not true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation. Sri Aurobindo told me so. Well, I am doing it. I do not wish anyone to do it for me because.... Because it is not very pleasant, but I do it willingly because of the result; everybody will be able to benefit from it. I ask only one thing: do not listen to the ego.
If there is in your hearts a sincere Yes, you will satisfy me completely. I do not need words, I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts. That's all. ~ The Mother, (This talk was given by the Mother on April 2,1972,#KEYS
656:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart-perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example-but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must.
And this is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because in any case there is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn't matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery-either way-and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. You must shout, in whatever way you can. ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste,#KEYS
657:As Korzybski and the general semanticists have pointed out, our words, symbols, signs, thoughts and ideas are merely maps of reality, not reality itself, because "the map is not the territory." The word "water" won't satisfy your thirst.
But we live in the world of maps and words as if it were the real world. Following in the footsteps of Adam, we have become totally lost in a world of purely fantasy maps and boundaries. And these illusory boundaries, with the opposites they create, have become our impassioned battles.
Most of our "problems of living," then, are based on the illusion that the opposites can and should be separated and isolated from one another. But since all opposites are actually aspects of one underlying reality, this is like trying to totally separate the two ends of a single rubber band. All you can do is pull harder and harder-until something violently snaps. Thus we might be able to understand that, in all the mystical traditions the world over, one who sees through the illusion of the opposites is called "liberated." Because he is "freed from the pairs" of opposites, he is freed in this life from the fundamentally nonsensical problems and conflicts involved in the war of opposites. He no longer manipulates the opposites one against the other in his search for peace, but instead transcends them both. Not good vs. evil but beyond good and evil. Not life against death but a center of awareness that transcends both. The point is not to separate the opposites and make "positive progress," but rather to unify and harmonize the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses them both. And that ground, as we will soon see, is unity consciousness itself. In the meantime, let us note, as does the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, that liberation is not freedom from the negative, but freedom from the pairs altogether:
Content with getting what arrives of itself
Passed beyond the pairs, free from envy,
Not attached to success nor failure,
Even acting, he is not bound.
He is to be recognized as eternally free
Who neither loathes nor craves;
For he that is freed from the pairs,
Is easily freed from conflict.
~ Ken Wilber, No Boundary,#KEYS
658:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.
This is what one usually thinks about.
So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.
This is the first movement.
Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.
For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,#KEYS
659:What is the ape to a human? A laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. And that is precisely what the human shall be to the overman: a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment.
You have made your way from worm to human, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now a human is still more ape than any ape.
But whoever is wisest among you is also just a conflict and a cross between plant and ghost. But do I implore you to become ghosts or plants?
Behold, I teach you the overman!
The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth!
I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of extraterrestrial hopes! They are mixers of poisons whether they know it or not.
They are despisers of life, dying off and self-poisoned, of whom the earth is weary: so let them fade away!
Once the sacrilege against God was the greatest sacrilege, but God died, and then all these desecrators died. Now to desecrate the earth is the most terrible thing, and to esteem the bowels of the unfathomable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Once the soul gazed contemptuously at the body, and then such contempt was the highest thing: it wanted the body gaunt, ghastly, starved.
Thus it intended to escape the body and the earth.
Oh this soul was gaunt, ghastly and starved, and cruelty was the lust of this soul!
But you, too, my brothers, tell me: what does your body proclaim about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and filth and a pitiful contentment?
Truly, mankind is a polluted stream. One has to be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming unclean.
Behold, I teach you the overman: he is this sea, in him your great contempt can go under.
What is the greatest thing that you can experience? It is the hour of your great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness turns to nausea and likewise your reason and your virtue.
The hour in which you say: 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth, and a pitiful contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself!' ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
660:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS
661:But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For peradventure 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 reave th from a man all knowing and feeling of his being. This sorrow, if it be truly conceived, is full of holy desire; and else a man might never in this life abide it or bear it. For were it not that a soul were somewhat fed with a manner of comfort by his right working, he should not be able to bear that pain that he hath by the knowing and feeling of his being. For as oft as he would have a true knowing and a feeling of his God in purity of spirit (as it may be here), and then feeleth that he may not for he findeth evermore his knowing and his feeling as it were occupied and filled with a foul stinking lump of himself, the which must always be hated and despised and forsaken, if he shall be God's perfect disciple, taught by Himself in the mount of perfection so oft he goeth nigh mad for sorrow. . . . This sorrow and this desire must every soul have and feel in itself (either in this manner or in another), as God vouchsafed! to teach his ghostly disciples according to his good will and their according ableness in body and in soul, in degree and disposition, ere the time be that they may perfectly be oned unto God in perfect charity such as may be had here, if God vouchsafed!.
~ Anonymous, The Cloud Of Unknowing,#KEYS
662:Now I have taught you about Immortal Man and have loosed the bonds of the robbers from him. I have broken the gates of the pitiless ones in their presence. I have humiliated their malicious intent, and they all have been shamed and have risen from their ignorance. Because of this, then, I came here, that they might be joined with that Spirit and Breath, [III continues:] and might from two become one, just as from the first, that you might yield much fruit and go up to Him Who Is from the Beginning, in ineffable joy and glory and honor and grace of the Father of the Universe.
"Whoever, then, knows the Father in pure knowledge will depart to the Father and repose in Unbegotten Father. But whoever knows him defectively will depart to the defect and the rest of the Eighth. Now whoever knows Immortal Spirit of Light in silence, through reflecting and consent in the truth, let him bring me signs of the Invisible One, and he will become a light in the Spirit of Silence. Whoever knows Son of Man in knowledge and love, let him bring me a sign of Son of Man, that he might depart to the dwelling-places with those in the Eighth.
"Behold, I have revealed to you the name of the Perfect One, the whole will of the Mother of the Holy Angels, that the masculine multitude may be completed here, that there might appear in the aeons, the infinities and those that came to be in the untraceable wealth of the Great Invisible Spirit, that they all might take from his goodness, even the wealth of their rest that has no kingdom over it. I came from First Who Was Sent, that I might reveal to you Him Who Is from the Beginning, because of the arrogance of Arch-Begetter and his angels, since they say about themselves that they are gods. And I came to remove them from their blindness, that I might tell everyone about the God who is above the universe. Therefore, tread upon their graves, humiliate their malicious intent, and break their yoke and arouse my own. I have given you authority over all things as Sons of Light, that you might tread upon their power with your feet."
These are the things the blessed Savior said, and he disappeared from them. Then all the disciples were in great, ineffable joy in the spirit from that day on. And his disciples began to preach the Gospel of God, the eternal, imperishable spirit. Amen.
~ The Sophia of Jesus, (excerpt), The Nag Hamadi Library,#KEYS
663:Fundamentally, whatever be the path one follows - whe- ther the path of surrender, consecration, knowledge-if one wants it to be perfect, it is always equally difficult, and there is but one way, one only, I know of only one: that is perfect sincerity, but perfect sincerity!
Do you know what perfect sincerity is?...
Never to try to deceive oneself, never let any part of the being try to find out a way of convincing the others, never to explain favourably what one does in order to have an excuse for what one wants to do, never to close one's eyes when something is unpleasant, never to let anything pass, telling oneself, "That is not important, next time it will be better."
Oh! It is very difficult. Just try for one hour and you will see how very difficult it is. Only one hour, to be totally, absolutely sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is exclusively the Divine.
"I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine."
Try - try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! And during that time take great care that there isn't a part of the vital or a part of the mind or a part of the physical being nicely hidden there, at the back, so that you don't see it (Mother hides her hands behind her back) and don't notice that it is not collaborating - sitting quietly there so that you don't unearth it... it says nothing, but it does not change, it hides itself. How many such parts! How many parts hide themselves! You put them in your pocket because you don't want to see them or else they get behind your back and sit there well-hidden, right in the middle of your back, so as not to be seen. When you go there with your torch - your torch of sincerity - you ferret out all the corners, everywhere, all the small corners which do not consent, the things which say "No" or those which do not move: "I am not going to budge. I am glued to this place of mine and nothing will make me move."... You have a torch there with you, and you flash it upon the thing, upon everything. You will see there are many of them there, behind your back, well stuck.
Try, just for an hour, try!
No more questions?
Nobody has anything to say? Then, au revoir, my children! ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-6, page no.132-133),#KEYS
664:Countless books on divination, astrology, medicine and other subjects
Describe ways to read signs. They do add to your learning,
But they generate new thoughts and your stable attention breaks up.
Cut down on this kind of knowledge - that's my sincere advice.
You stop arranging your usual living space,
But make everything just right for your retreat.
This makes little sense and just wastes time.
Forget all this - that's my sincere advice.
You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be - that's my sincere advice.
You may think awakened activity means to subdue skeptics
By using sorcery, directing or warding off hail or lightning, for example.
But to burn the minds of others will lead you to lower states.
Keep a low profile - that's my sincere advice.
Maybe you collect a lot of important writings,
Major texts, personal instructions, private notes, whatever.
If you haven't practiced, books won't help you when you die.
Look at the mind - that's my sincere advice.
When you focus on practice, to compare understandings and experience,
Write books or poetry, to compose songs about your experience
Are all expressions of your creativity. But they just give rise to thinking.
Keep yourself free from intellectualization - that's my sincere advice.
In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly - that's my sincere advice.
Intending to be helpful and without personal investment,
You tell your friends what is really wrong with them.
You may have been honest but your words gnaw at their heart.
Speak pleasantly - that's my sincere advice.
You engage in discussions, defending your views and refuting others'
Thinking that you are clarifying the teachings.
But this just gives rise to emotional posturing.
Keep quiet - that's my sincere advice.
You feel that you are being loyal
By being partial to your teacher, lineage or philosophical tradition.
Boosting yourself and putting down others just causes hard feelings.
Have nothing to do with all this - that's my sincere advice.
~ Longchenpa, excerpts from 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
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665:
Are not offering and surrender to the Divine the same thing?
They are two aspects of the same thing, but not altogether the same. One is more active than the other. They do not belong to quite the same plane of existence.
For example, you have decided to offer your life to the Divine, you take that decision. But all of a sudden, something altogether unpleasant, unexpected happens to you and your first movement is to react and protest. Yet you have made the offering, you have said once for all: "My life belongs to the Divine", and then suddenly an extremely unpleasant incident happens (that can happen) and there is something in you that reacts, that does not want it. But here, if you want to be truly logical with your offering, you must bring forward this unpleasant incident, make an offering of it to the Divine, telling him very sincerely: "Let Your will be done; if You have decided it that way, it will be that way." And this must be a willing and spontaneous adhesion. So it is very difficult.
Even for the smallest thing, something that is not in keeping with what you expected, what you have worked for, instead of an opposite reaction coming in - spontaneously, irresistibly, you draw back: "No, not that" - if you have made a complete surrender, a total surrender, well, it does not happen like that: you are as quiet, as peaceful, as calm in one case as in the other. And perhaps you had the notion that it would be better if it happened in a certain way, but if it happens differently, you find that this also is all right. You might have, for example, worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, much of your will, and all that not for your own sake, but, say, for the divine work (that is the offering); now suppose that after having taken all this trouble, done all this work, made all these efforts, it all goes just the other way round, it does not succeed. If you are truly surrendered, you say: "It is good, it is all good, it is all right; I did what I could, as well as I could, now it is not my decision, it is the decision of the Divine, I accept entirely what He decides." On the other hand, if you do not have this deep and spontaneous surrender, you tell yourself: "How is it? I took so much trouble to do a thing which is not for a selfish purpose, which is for the Divine Work, and this is the result, it is not successful!" Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is like that.
True surrender is a very difficult thing.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 52,#KEYS
666:This is true in a general way; when those born scattered over the world at great distances from one another are driven by circumstances or by an impulsion to come and gather here, it is almost always because they have met in one life or another (not all in the same life) and because their psychic being has felt that they belonged to the same family; so they have taken an inner vow to continue to act together and collaborate. That is why even though they are born far from one another, there is something which compels them to come together; it is the psychic being, the psychic consciousness that is behind. And only to the extent the psychic consciousness is strong enough to order and organise the circumstances or the life, that is, strong enough not to allow itself to be opposed by outside forces, outside life movements, can people meet.
It is profoundly true in reality; there are large "families of beings" who work for the same cause, who have gathered in more or less large numbers and who come in groups as it were. It is as though at certain times there were awakenings in the psychic world, as though lots of little sleeping children were being called to wake up: "It is time, quick, quick, go down!" And they hurry down. And sometimes they do not drop at the same place, they are dispersed, yet there is something within which troubles them, pushes them; for one reason or another they are drawn close and that brings them together. But it is something deep in the being, something that is not at all on the surface; otherwise, even if people met they would not perhaps become aware of the bond. People meet and recognise each other only to the extent they become conscious of their psychic being, obey their psychic being, are guided by it; otherwise there is all that comes in to oppose it, all that veils, all that stupefies, all those obstacles to prevent you from finding yourself in your depths and being able to collaborate truly in the work. You are tossed about by the forces of Nature.
There is only one solution, to find your psychic being and once it is found to cling to it desperately, to let it guide you step by step whatever be the obstacle. That is the only solution. All this I did not write but I explained it to that lady. She had put to me the question: "How did I happen to come here?" I told her that it was certainly not for reasons of the external consciousness, it was something in her inner being that had pushed her. Only the awakening was not strong enough to overcome all the rest and she returned to the ordinary life for very ordinary reasons of living. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
667:30. Take the same position as heretofore and visualize a Battleship; see the grim monster floating on the surface of the water; there appears to be no life anywhere about; all is silence; you know that by far the largest part of the vessel is under water; out of sight; you know that the ship is as large and as heavy as a twenty-story skyscraper; you know that there are hundreds of men ready to spring to their appointed task instantly; you know that every department is in charge of able, trained, skilled officials who have proven themselves competent to take charge of this marvelous piece of mechanism; you know that although it lies apparently oblivious to everything else, it has eyes which see everything for miles around, and nothing is permitted to escape its watchful vision; you know that while it appears quiet, submissive and innocent, it is prepared to hurl a steel projectile weighing thousands of pounds at an enemy many miles away; this and much more you can bring to mind with comparatively no effort whateveR But how did the battleship come to be where it is; how did it come into existence in the first place? All of this you want to know if you are a careful observer.
31. Follow the great steel plates through the foundries, see the thousands of men employed in their production; go still further back, and see the ore as it comes from the mine, see it loaded on barges or cars, see it melted and properly treated; go back still further and see the architect and engineers who planned the vessel; let the thought carry you back still further in order to determine why they planned the vessel; you will see that you are now so far back that the vessel is something intangible, it no longer exists, it is now only a thought existing in the brain of the architect; but from where did the order come to plan the vessel? Probably from the Secretary of Defense; but probably this vessel was planned long before the war was thought of, and that Congress had to pass a bill appropriating the money; possibly there was opposition, and speeches for or against the bill. Whom do these Congressmen represent? They represent you and me, so that our line of thought begins with the Battleship and ends with ourselves, and we find in the last analysis that our own thought is responsible for this and many other things, of which we seldom think, and a little further reflection will develop the most important fact of all and that is, if someone had not discovered the law by which this tremendous mass of steel and iron could be made to float upon the water, instead of immediately going to the bottom, the battleship could not have come into existence at all. ~ Charles F Haanel, The Master Key System,#KEYS
668:Worthy The Name Of Sir Knight
Sir Knight of the world's oldest order,
Sir Knight of the Army of God,
You have crossed the strange mystical border,
The ground floor of truth you have trod;
You have entered the sanctum sanctorum,
Which leads to the temple above,
Where you come as a stone, and a Christ-chosen one,
In the kingdom of Friendship and Love.
II
As you stand in this new realm of beauty,
Where each man you meet is your friend,
Think not that your promise of duty
In hall, or asylum, shall end;
Outside, in the great world of pleasure,
Beyond, in the clamor of trade,
In the battle of life and its coarse daily strife
Remember the vows you have made.
III
Your service, majestic and solemn,
Your symbols, suggestive and sweet,
Your uniformed phalanx in column
On gala days marching the street;
Your sword and your plume and your helmet,
Your 'secrets' hid from the world's sight;
These things are the small, lesser parts of the all
Which are needed to form the true Knight.
IV
The martyrs who perished rejoicing
In Templary's glorious laws,
Who died 'midst the fagots while voicing
The glory and worth of their cause-
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They honored the title of 'Templar'
No more than the Knight of to-day
Who mars not the name with one blemish of shame,
But carries it clean through life's fray.
To live for a cause, to endeavor
To make your deeds grace it, to try
And uphold its precepts forever,
Is harder by far than to die.
For the battle of life is unending,
The enemy, Self, never tires,
And the true Knight must slay that sly foe every day
Ere he reaches the heights he desires.
VI
Sir Knight, have you pondered the meaning
Of all you have heard and been told?
Have you strengthened your heart for its weaning
From vices and faults loved of old?
Will you honor, in hours of temptation,
Your promises noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do battle with wrong,
'And having done all, to stand?'
VII
Will you ever be true to a brother
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as no other
Could stand in the hour of his need?
Will you boldly defend him from peril,
And lift him from poverty's curseWill the promise of aid which you willingly made,
Reach down from your lips to your purse?
VIII
The world's battle field is before you!
Let Wisdom walk close by your side,
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Let Faith spread her snowy wings o'er you,
Let Truth be your comrade and guide;
Let Fortitude, Justice and Mercy
Direct all your conduct aright,
And let each word and act tell to men the proud fact,
You are worthy the name of 'Sir Knight'.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,#KEYS
669:3. Conditions internal and external that are most essential for meditation. There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seculsion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginning. But one should not be bound by external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be made possible to do it in all circumstances, lying, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise etc.
The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.e. wandering of the mind, forgetfulness, sleep, physical and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of the human mind. All sadhaks have this difficulty and with many it lasts for a very long time. There are several was of getting rid of it. One of them is to look at the thoughts and observe what is the nature of the human mind as they show it but not to give any sanction and to let them run down till they come to a standstill - this is a way recommended by Vivekananda in his Rajayoga. Another is to look at the thoughts as not one's own, to stand back as the witness Purusha and refuse the sanction - the thoughts are regarded as things coming from outside, from Prakriti, and they must be felt as if they were passers-by crossing the mind-space with whom one has no connection and in whom one takes no interest. In this way it usually happens that after the time the mind divides into two, a part which is the mental witness watching and perfectly undisturbed and quiet and a part in which the thoughts cross or wander. Afterwards one can proceed to silence or quiet the Prakriti part also. There is a third, an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before enter, they have to be thrown away altogether. This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence. It is not easy to get into the Silence. That is only possible by throwing out all mental-vital activities. It is easier to let the Silence descend into you, i.e., to open yourself and let it descend. The way to do this and the way to call down the higher powers is the same. It is to remain quiet at the time of efforts to pull down the Power or the Silence but keeping only a silent will and aspiration for them. If the mind is active one has to learn to look at it, drawn back and not giving sanction from within, until its habitual or mechanical activities begin to fall quiet for want of support from within. if it is too persistent, a steady rejection without strain or struggle is the one thing to be done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes,#KEYS
670:What do you mean by these words: 'When you are in difficulty, widen yourself'?
I am speaking, of course, of difficulties on the path of yoga, incomprehension, limitations, things like obstacles, which prevent you from advancing. And when I say "widen yourself", I mean widen your consciousness.
Difficulties always arise from the ego, that is, from your more or less egoistic personal reaction to circumstances, events and people around you, to the conditions of your life. They also come from that feeling of being closed up in a sort of shell, which prevents your consciousness from uniting with higher and vaster realities.
One may very well think that one wants to be vast, wants to be universal, that all is the expression of the Divine, that one must have no egoism - one may think all sorts of things - but that is not necessarily a cure, for very often one knows what one ought to do, and yet one doesn't do it, for one reason or another.
But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness - whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties-if physically, that is to say, in your body- consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself - you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded and folded again - so if you have this feeling that what is holding and strangling you and making you suffer or paralysing your movement, is like a too closely, too tightly folded piece of cloth or like a parcel that is too well-tied, too well-packed, and that slowly, gradually, you undo all the folds and stretch yourself out exactly as one unfolds a piece of cloth or a sheet of paper and spreads it out flat, and you lie flat and make yourself very wide, as wide as possible, spreading yourself out as far as you can, opening yourself and stretching out in an attitude of complete passivity with what I could call "the face to the light": not curling back upon your difficulty, doubling up on it, shutting it in, so to say, into yourself, but, on the contrary, unfurling yourself as much as you can, as perfectly as you can, putting the difficulty before the Light - the Light which comes from above - if you do that in all the domains, and even if mentally you don't succeed in doing it - for it is sometimes difficult - if you can imagine yourself doing this physically, almost materially, well, when you have finished unfolding yourself and stretching yourself out, you will find that more than three-quarters of the difficulty is gone. And then just a little work of receptivity to the Light and the last quarter will disappear.
This is much easier than struggling against a difficulty with one's thought, for if you begin to discuss with yourself, you will find that there are arguments for and against which are so convincing that it is quite impossible to get out of it without a higher light. Here, you do not struggle against the difficulty, you do not try to convince yourself; ah! you simply stretch out in the Light as though you lay stretched on the sands in the sun. And you let the Light do its work. That's all. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers, Volume-8, page no.286-288),#KEYS
671:HOW CAN I READ SAVITRI?
An open reply by Dr Alok Pandey to a fellow devotee
A GIFT OF LOVE TO THE WORLD
Most of all enjoy Savitri. It is Sri Aurobindo's gift of Love to the world. Read it from the heart with love and gratitude as companions and drown in its fiery bliss. That is the true understanding rather than one that comes by a constant churning of words in the head.
WHEN
Best would be to fix a time that works for you. One can always take out some time for the reading, even if it be late at night when one is done with all the daily works. Of course, a certain receptivity is needed. If one is too tired or the reading becomes too mechanical as a ritual routine to be somehow finished it tends to be less effective, as with anything else. Hence the advice is to read in a quiet receptive state.
THE PACE
As to the pace of reading it is best to slowly build up and keep it steady. To read a page or a passage daily is better than reading many pages one day and then few lines or none for days. This brings a certain discipline in the consciousness which makes one receptive. What it means is that one should fix up that one would read a few passages or a page or two daily, and then if an odd day one is enjoying and spontaneously wants to read more then one can go by the flow.
COMPLETE OR SELECTIONS?
It is best to read at least once from cover to cover. But if one is not feeling inclined for that do read some of the beautiful cantos and passages whose reference one can find in various places. This helps us familiarise with the epic and the style of poetry. Later one can go for the cover to cover reading.
READING ALOUD, SILENTLY, OR WRITING DOWN?
One can read it silently. Loud reading is needed only if one is unable to focus with silent reading. A mantra is more potent when read subtly. I am aware that some people recommend reading it aloud which is fine if that helps one better. A certain flexibility in these things is always good and rigid rules either ways are not helpful.
One can also write some of the beautiful passages with which one feels suddenly connected. It is a help in the yoga since such a writing involves the pouring in of the consciousness of Savitri through the brain and nerves and the hand.
Reflecting upon some of these magnificent lines and passages while one is engaged in one\s daily activities helps to create a background state for our inner being to get absorbed in Savitri more and more.
HOW DO I UNDERSTAND THE MEANING? DO I NEED A DICTIONARY?
It is helpful if a brief background about the Canto is known. This helps the mind top focus and also to keep in sync with the overall scene and sense of what is being read.
But it is best not to keep referring to the dictionary while reading. Let the overall sense emerge. Specifics can be done during a detailed reading later and it may not be necessary at all. Besides the sense that Sri Aurobindo has given to many words may not be accurately conveyed by the standard dictionaries. A flexibility is required to understand the subtle suggestions hinted at by the Master-poet.
In this sense Savitri is in the line of Vedic poetry using images that are at once profound as well as commonplace. That is the beauty of mystic poetry. These are things actually experienced and seen by Sri Aurobindo, and ultimately it is Their Grace that alone can reveal the intrinsic sense of this supreme revelation of the Supreme. ~ Dr Alok Pandey,#KEYS
672:THE WAND
THE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing.
Hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further from it - any will but that to give up the self to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less than the All-Self; one must not come before the altar of the Most High with an impure or an imperfect offering. As it is written in Liber LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning."
This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might seem unconnected with the goal. Thus it is not "a priori" obvious why a billiard player should need a file.
Since, then, we may want "anything," let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time.
It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its highest point, even though the last task but one is the total surrender of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick.
The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not dependent upon this principal will are so many leakages; they are like fat to the athlete.
The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they cannot coordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of which contradict others. The victim wobbles from one to the other (and it is no less wobbling because the movements may occasionally be very violent) and at the end of life the movements cancel each other out. Nothing has been achieved; except the one thing of which the victim is not conscious: the destruction of his own character, the confirming of indecision. Such an one is torn limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then is the will to be trained? All these wishes, whims, caprices, inclinations, tendencies, appetites, must be detected, examined, judged by the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly.
Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-denial, in deference to conventional speech; but how could I call that self-denial which is merely denial of those things which hamper the self? It is not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in one's blood.
Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers of the A.'.A.'. is useful and necessary.
Above all the practices of Liber III must be done again and again, for these practices develop not only vigilance but those inhibiting centres in the brain which are, according to some psychologists, the mainspring of the mechanism by which civilized man has raised himself above the savage.
So far it has been spoken, as it were, in the negative. Aaron's rod has become a serpent, and swallowed the serpents of the other Magicians; it is now necessary to turn it once more into a rod.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, The Wand,#KEYS
673:(Nirodbaran:) "It was the first week of January 1930.
At about 3 p.m., I reached Dilip Kumar Roy's place. "Oh, you have come! Let us go," he said, and cutting a rose from his terrace-garden he added, "Offer this to the Mother." When we arrived at the Ashram he left me at the present Reading Room saying, "Wait here." My heart was beating nervously as if I were going to face an examination. A stately chair in the middle of the room attracted momentarily my attention. In a short while the Mother came accompanied by Nolini, Amrita and Dilip. She took her seat in the chair, the others stood by her side. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a ‘visionary gleam’ or a reality? Nothing like it had I seen before. Her fair complexion, set off by a finely coloured sari and a headband, gave me the impression of a goddess such as we see in pictures or in the idols during the Durga Puja festival. She was all smiles and redolent with grace. I suppose this was the Mahalakshmi smile Sri Aurobindo had spoken of in his book The Mother. She bathed me in the cascade of her smile and heart-melting look. I stood before her, shy and speechless, made more so by the presence of the others who were enjoying the silent sweet spectacle. Minutes passed. Then I offered to her hand my rose and did my pranam at her feet which had gold anklets on them. She stooped and blessed me. On standing up, I got again the same enchanting smile like moonbeams from a magic sky. After a time she said to the others, "He is very shy." "[1]
(Amal Kiran:) "Now to come back to all the people, all – the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face. (laughter) I think he had come straight from England or via some place in Bengal, but he carried something of the air of England. (laughter) He had passed out as a doctor at Edinburgh. I saw him, we became friends and we have remained friends ever since. But when he came as a doctor he was not given doctoring work here. As far as I remember he was made the head of a timber godown! (laughter) All sorts of strange jobs were being given to people. Look at the first job I got. The Mother once told me, "I would like you to do some work." I said, "All right, I am prepared to do some work." Then she said,"Will you take charge of our stock of furniture?" (laughter)"[2]
(Amal Kiran:) "To return to my friend Nirod – it was after some time that he got the Dispensary. I don't know whether he wanted it, or liked it or not, but he established his reputation as the frowning physician. (laughter) People used to come to him with a cold and he would stand and glare at them, and say, "What? You have a cold!" Poor people, they would simply shiver (laughter) and this had a very salutary effect because they thought that it was better not to fall ill than face the doctor's drastic disapproval of any kind of illness which would give him any botheration. (laughter) But he did his job all right, and every time he frightened off a patient he went to his room and started trying to write poetry (laughter) – because that, he thought, was his most important job. And, whether he succeeded as a doctor or not, as a poet he has eminently succeeded. Sri Aurobindo has really made him a poet.
The doctoring as well as the poetry was a bond between us, because my father had been a doctor and medicine ran in my blood. We used to discuss medical matters sometimes, but more often the problems and pains of poetry."[3] ~ https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran#KEYS
674:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#KEYS
675:A God's Labour
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge
Marrying the soil to the sky
And sow in this dancing planet midge
The moods of infinity.
But too bright were our heavens, too far away,
Too frail their ethereal stuff;
Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay;
The roots were not deep enough.
He who would bring the heavens here
Must descend himself into clay
And the burden of earthly nature bear
And tread the dolorous way.
Coercing my godhead I have come down
Here on the sordid earth,
Ignorant, labouring, human grown
Twixt the gates of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long
Mid a horror of filth and mire
A bed for the golden river's song,
A home for the deathless fire.
I have laboured and suffered in Matter's night
To bring the fire to man;
But the hate of hell and human spite
Are my meed since the world began.
For man's mind is the dupe of his animal self;
Hoping its lusts to win,
He harbours within him a grisly Elf
Enamoured of sorrow and sin.
The grey Elf shudders from heaven's flame
And from all things glad and pure;
Only by pleasure and passion and pain
His drama can endure.
All around is darkness and strife;
For the lamps that men call suns
Are but halfway gleams on this stumbling life
Cast by the Undying Ones.
Man lights his little torches of hope
That lead to a failing edge;
A fragment of Truth is his widest scope,
An inn his pilgrimage.
The Truth of truths men fear and deny,
The Light of lights they refuse;
To ignorant gods they lift their cry
Or a demon altar choose.
All that was found must again be sought,
Each enemy slain revives,
Each battle for ever is fought and refought
Through vistas of fruitless lives.
My gaping wounds are a thousand and one
And the Titan kings assail,
But I dare not rest till my task is done
And wrought the eternal will.
How they mock and sneer, both devils and men!
"Thy hope is Chimera's head
Painting the sky with its fiery stain;
Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead.
"Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease
And joy and golden room
To us who are waifs on inconscient seas
And bound to life's iron doom?
"This earth is ours, a field of Night
For our petty flickering fires.
How shall it brook the sacred Light
Or suffer a god's desires?
"Come, let us slay him and end his course!
Then shall our hearts have release
From the burden and call of his glory and force
And the curb of his wide white peace."
But the god is there in my mortal breast
Who wrestles with error and fate
And tramples a road through mire and waste
For the nameless Immaculate.
A voice cried, "Go where none have gone!
Dig deeper, deeper yet
Till thou reach the grim foundation stone
And knock at the keyless gate."
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep
On the Dragon's outspread wings.
I left the surface gauds of mind
And life's unsatisfied seas
And plunged through the body's alleys blind
To the nether mysteries.
I have delved through the dumb Earth's dreadful heart
And heard her black mass' bell.
I have seen the source whence her agonies part
And the inner reason of hell.
Above me the dragon murmurs moan
And the goblin voices flit;
I have pierced the Void where Thought was born,
I have walked in the bottomless pit.
On a desperate stair my feet have trod
Armoured with boundless peace,
Bringing the fires of the splendour of God
Into the human abyss.
He who I am was with me still;
All veils are breaking now.
I have heard His voice and borne His will
On my vast untroubled brow.
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged
And the golden waters pour
Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged
And glimmer from shore to shore.
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth
And the undying suns here burn;
Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth
The incarnate spirits yearn
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss:
Down a gold-red stairway wend
The radiant children of Paradise
Clarioning darkness' end.
A little more and the new life's doors
Shall be carved in silver light
With its aureate roof and mosaic floors
In a great world bare and bright.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, A God's Labour, 534,#KEYS
676:GURU YOGA
Guru yoga is an essential practice in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. This is true in sutra, tantra, and Dzogchen. It develops the heart connection with the masteR By continually strengthening our devotion, we come to the place of pure devotion in ourselves, which is the unshakeable, powerful base of the practice. The essence of guru yoga is to merge the practitioner's mind with the mind of the master.
What is the true master? It is the formless, fundamental nature of mind, the primordial awareness of the base of everything, but because we exist in dualism, it is helpful for us to visualize this in a form. Doing so makes skillful use of the dualisms of the conceptual mind, to further strengthen devotion and help us stay directed toward practice and the generation of positive qualities.
In the Bon tradition, we often visualize either Tapihritsa* as the master, or the Buddha ShenlaOdker*, who represents the union of all the masters. If you are already a practitioner, you may have another deity to visualize, like Guru Rinpoche or a yidam or dakini. While it is important to work with a lineage with which you have a connection, you should understand that the master you visualize is the embodiment of all the masters with whom you are connected, all the teachers with whom you have studied, all the deities to whom you have commitments. The master in guru yoga is not just one individual, but the essence of enlightenment, the primordial awareness that is your true nature.
The master is also the teacher from whom you receive the teachings. In the Tibetan tradition, we say the master is more important than the Buddha. Why? Because the master is the immediate messenger of the teachings, the one who brings the Buddha's wisdom to the student. Without the master we could not find our way to the Buddha. So we should feel as much devotion to the master as we would to the Buddha if the Buddha suddenly appeared in front of us.
Guru yoga is not just about generating some feeling toward a visualized image. It is done to find the fundamental mind in yourself that is the same as the fundamental mind of all your teachers, and of all the Buddhas and realized beings that have ever lived. When you merge with the guru, you merge with your pristine true nature, which is the real guide and masteR But this should not be an abstract practice. When you do guru yoga, try to feel such intense devotion that the hair stands upon your neck, tears start down your face, and your heart opens and fills with great love. Let yourself merge in union with the guru's mind, which is your enlightened Buddha-nature. This is the way to practice guru yoga.
The Practice
After the nine breaths, still seated in meditation posture, visualize the master above and in front of you. This should not be a flat, two dimensional picture-let a real being exist there, in three dimensions, made of light, pure, and with a strong presence that affects the feeling in your body,your energy, and your mind. Generate strong devotion and reflect on the great gift of the teachings and the tremendous good fortune you enjoy in having made a connection to them. Offer a sincere prayer, asking that your negativities and obscurations be removed, that your positive qualities develop, and that you accomplish dream yoga.
Then imagine receiving blessings from the master in the form of three colored lights that stream from his or her three wisdom doors- of body, speech, and mind-into yours. The lights should be transmitted in the following sequence: White light streams from the master's brow chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your entire body and physical dimension. Then red light streams from the master's throat chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your energetic dimension. Finally, blue light streams from the master's heart chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your mind.
When the lights enter your body, feel them. Let your body, energy, and mind relax, suffused inwisdom light. Use your imagination to make the blessing real in your full experience, in your body and energy as well as in the images in your mind.
After receiving the blessing, imagine the master dissolving into light that enters your heart and resides there as your innermost essence. Imagine that you dissolve into that light, and remain inpure awareness, rigpa.
There are more elaborate instructions for guru yoga that can involve prostrations, offerings, gestures, mantras, and more complicated visualizations, but the essence of the practice is mingling your mind with the mind of the master, which is pure, non-dual awareness. Guru yoga can be done any time during the day; the more often the better. Many masters say that of all the practices it is guru yoga that is the most important. It confers the blessings of the lineage and can open and soften the heart and quiet the unruly mind. To completely accomplish guru yoga is to accomplish the path.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep, [T3],#KEYS
677:Chapter LXXXII: Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting!
You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so much of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga.
That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter.
In your main question the operative word is "valuable. Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree.
First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design intelligent design. There is no question of any moral significance-"one man's meat is another man's poison" and so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to anything of which we know as human.
How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence?
It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view.
Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature, your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you. It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick.
We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware.
To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being.
That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick.
It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you became capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat.
There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state.
It is at least theoretically possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for him. You should note, by the way, that in this case the postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate.
Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish.
I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis.
I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga.
It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health will stand the climate and also, I must say, unless you have a really sound teacher on whom you can safely rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel?
In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel.
In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives. I do not know of any third one which can be of any use whatever. Logically, since you have asked me to be logical, there is certainly no third way; there is the external way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
666 ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,#KEYS
678:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
679:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
680:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
681:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS
682:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
683:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
684:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
685:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
686:Dissolving You are pure. Nothing touches you. What is there to renounce? Let it all go, The body and the mind. Let yourself dissolve. Like bubbles in the sea, All the worlds arise in you. Know you are the Self. Know you are one. Let yourself dissolve. You see the world. But like the snake in the rope, It is not really there. You are pure. Let yourself dissolve. You are one and the same In joy and sorrow, Hope and despair, Life and death. You are already fulfilled. Let yourself dissolve. 6 Knowledge I am boundless space. The world is a clay pot. This is the truth. There is nothing to accept, Nothing to reject, Nothing to dissolve. I am the ocean. All the worlds are like waves. This is the truth. Nothing to hold on to, Nothing to let go of, Nothing to dissolve. I am the mother-of-pearl. The world is a vein of silver, An illusion! This is the truth. Nothing to grasp, Nothing to spurn, Nothing to dissolve. ~ Astavakra Gita, #KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Let joy be unconfined. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 2:But let the good prevail. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 3:Let reason alone decide. ~ parmenides, @wisdomtrove 4:Let the poor man mind his tongue ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 5:Let us cultivate our garden. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 6:Let's go invent tomorrow! ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 7:Let your joy be unconfined! ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 8:Pray, and let God worry. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 9:Let yourself become living poetry. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 10:Let mortal man keep to his own ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 11:While we live, let us live. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 12:Breathe. Let all of that fade. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 13:Lord, let me live until I die. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 14:Joking apart, now let us be serious. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 15:Let a man nobly live or nobly die. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 16:Let' em learn or let' em die ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 17:Let's make a dent in the universe. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 18:Let the other person save face. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 19:Muddy water, let stand becomes clear. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 20:To hold, you must first open. Let go. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 21:Let us have the luxury of silence. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 22:We have only today. Let us begin ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 23:Let love steal in disguised as friendship. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 24:Let my enemies devour each other. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 25:Let us fight to free the world! ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 26:You can't just let nature run wild. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 27:Don't let your mind see through your eyes. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 28:Let passion drive your profession. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 29:Whose the cap fit, let them where it. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 30:Do anything, but let it produce joy. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 31:How well we have learned to let go ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 32:Let each of us examine his thoughts ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 33:Let others lead small lives, but not you ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 34:Let your life be your argument. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 35:Life's as kind as you let it be. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 36:This is the age of oddities let loose. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 37:Let me be the one To do what is done. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 38:let me forget about today until tomorrow ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 39:Let's build bridges, not walls. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 40:Let the path be open to talent. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 41:Always let your reach exceed your grasp. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 42:If they love another, let them love! ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 43:If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 44:Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 45:Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 46:Let me listen to me and not to them. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 47:Let no act be done without purpose. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 48:Let's do something beautiful for God. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 49:Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 50:Don't let fear govern your decision. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 51:Don't let your feelings be a God to you. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 52:For hostile word let hostile word be paid. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 53:He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 54:If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 55:If you let them kill you, they will ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 56:Let the worst come to the worst. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 57:Let your conscience be your guide. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 58:Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 59:Don't let your past determine your destiny. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 60:Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 61:Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 62:Let us not seek the Republican answer. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 63:Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 64:What you can't be with, won't let you be. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 65:It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 66:Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 67:Let thy light shine, then, in dark places. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 68:Don't let anybody take your manhood. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 69:Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 70:Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 71:Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 72:Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 73:Let every man look before he leaps. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 74:Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 75:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 76:Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 77:Never let your emotions overrule your head. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 78:don't let it be an excuse to stay that way." ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 79:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 80:For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 81:If you let pride stop you, you will hate life ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 82:Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 83:Let every man be master of his time. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 84:Let every man mind his own business. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 85:Let us not unlearn what we have already learned ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 86:Let us then, be up and doing. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 87:Let your failures refine you, not define you. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 88:My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 89:Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you... ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 90:Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 91:Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 92:Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 93:Do your best. And then let life do the rest. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 94:How is this to be accomplished? Let all else go! ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 95:It’s so easy to be easy‚Äîif you let it. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 96:Let me never become a slave to crowds. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 97:Let us make hay while the sun shines. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 98:Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 99:No matter what has happened, let today be new. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 100:Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard, ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 101:Do not let your heart be troubled, trust God. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove 102:Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 103:Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 104:Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 105:Let your confidence reflect your contentedness. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 106:When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 107:be it peace or happiness let it enfold you ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 108:Don't let weeds grow around your dreams. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 109:If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 110:Let the dead Past bury its dead! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 111:Losers let it happen; winners make it happen! ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 112:Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 113:Refuse to let an old person move into your body. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 114:When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 115:Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 116:I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 117:Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 118:Let every man come to God in his own way. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 119:Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 120:Let us be servants in order to be leaders. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 121:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 122:Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 123:Don't let schooling interfere with your education. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 124:Don't let where you are be an excuse not to grow. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 125:Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 126:Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 127:Let each new year find you a better person. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 128:Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 129:Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 130:Let your home be your mast and not your anchor. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 131:We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 132:Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 133:Give Him your mess and let it become your message. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 134:Let come what comes and go what goes. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 135:Let us be merciful as well as just. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 136:Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 137:Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 138:They won't let me ... I can't be ... good! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 139:Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 140:If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 141:Let him that would move the world, first move himself. ~ socrates, @wisdomtrove 142:Let the end and the means be joined into one. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 143:Let thy words be few when in the midst of many. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 144:Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 145:The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 146:The tide of my love has risen so high, let me flood over. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 147:Confidence brings joy when we let God be God. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 148:If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove 149:Lead with action and let the feelings follow. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 150:Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 151:Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 152:Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 153:Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 154:Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 155:Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 156:You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 157:Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 158:Carve every word before you let it fall. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 159:Don't let your history interfere with yourdestiny. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 160:Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 161:If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 162:Let us live in the harness, striving mightily. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 163:Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 164:Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 165:Don't let negative people determine your self-worth. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 166:If we let go of things, our life is going to change. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 167:Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 168:Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 169:Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 170:The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 171:With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 172:A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 173:From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 174:Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 175:If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 176:In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 177:Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 178:The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 179:We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 180:Don't let people talk you into what they think is you. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 181:Don't let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 182:Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 183:Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 184:Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 185:I let go of all negativity that rests in my body and mind ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 186:Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 187:Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 188:Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 189:Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 190:Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 191:When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 192:And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 193:A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 194:Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 195:Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 196:Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 197:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 198:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 199:Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 200:Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 201:Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 202:Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 203:Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 204:People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 205:Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 206:Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 207:Spring is nature's way of saying, & 208:The art of government is not to let me grow stale. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 209:To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 210:You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 211:Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 212:Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 213:I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 214:Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 215:Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 216:Let us swim together in the ocean of our being. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 217:Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 218:Let your heart guide you... it whispers so listen closely. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 219:To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 220:When you hug someone, never be the first to let go. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 221:He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 222:It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 223:Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 224:Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 225:Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 226:There was not much I could do but let go of my reaction. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 227:The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 228:We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 229:When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 230:Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 231:Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 232:Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 233:Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 234:Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 235:Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 236:Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 237:The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 238:The root of all of our problems is our inability to let go.' ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 239:You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 240:Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 241:Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 242:Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 243:Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 244:I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 245:If we let go of things, our life is going to change. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 246:I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 247:Let His Name be ever with you; imperceptibly , relentlessly ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 248:Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 249:You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 250:Anything I cannot transform into something marvellous, I let go. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 251:Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy! ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 252:Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone! ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 253:Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 254:If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 255:Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 256:Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 257:Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea! ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 258:Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 259:Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 260:NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 261:Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 262:Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 263:One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 264:Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO! ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 265:Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 266:Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 267:Don't sweat the petty things and don't let the sweaty things. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 268:Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 269:Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 270:Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 271:Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 272:Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 273:Oh, do not ask, & 274:So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 275:The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 276:When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 277:Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 278:Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 279:Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 280:Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 281:Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 282:If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 283:I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 284:Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 285:Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 286:Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 287:Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 288:Let us learn to live simply, so that others may simply live. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 289:Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 290:Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 291:Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 292:Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 293:I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 294:I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 295:It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 296:I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 297:Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 298:Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 299:Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 300:Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 301:Let those who want, come to the well of your being, to your silence. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 302:Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?" ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 303:Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 304:Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 305:The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go! ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 306:Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 307:Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 308:In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 309:Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 310:Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 311:Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 312:Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 313:Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 314:Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 315:Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 316:Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 317:Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 318:Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 319:Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 320:We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 321:Control the coinage and the courts‚ let the rabble have the rest. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 322:Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 323:Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 324:Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 325:Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 326:Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 327:Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality! ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 328:God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 329:Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 330:Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 331:Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 332:Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 333:Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 334:Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 335:Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 336:Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 337:Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 338:We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 339:If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 340:It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 341:I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 342:Learn to do your own thinking - don't let other people do it for you! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 343:Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 344:Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 345:Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 346:Let your life be a positive message and an example for others ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 347:Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 348:Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 349:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 350:The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 351:they should let some people into the library by prescription only ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 352:You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 353:Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 354:I let go of all fear and doubt, and life becomes simple and easy for me ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 355:I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 356:Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 357:Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 358:Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 359:Let us work without theorizing, 'tis the only way to make life endurable. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 360:Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 361:Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 362:So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 363:Don't let the things you can't do get in the way of the things you can. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 364:Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 365:Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 366:Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 367:Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 368:Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 369:The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 370:The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 371:Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 372:Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 373:Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 374:Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 375:Let’s ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 376:Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 377:Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 378:Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 379:Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 380:The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 381:Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 382:Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 383:Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 384:Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 385:How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy? ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 386:I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 387:If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 388:Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 389:Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 390:Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 391:Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 392:Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 393:Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 394:Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 395:So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 396:The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 397:When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 398:Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 399:If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 400:Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 401:Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 402:Let's get back to loving our bodies and accepting them totally as they are. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 403:Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 404:Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 405:You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 406:I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 407:If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay? ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 408:I have found it very important... to let go of my wishes and start hoping. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 409:I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 410:Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 411:Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 412:There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 413:Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 414:And you dropt, lost, When something broke& 415:Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 416:Decide to get over it. You know, just let it go. It can be that simple. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 417:Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 418:Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 419:Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies? ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 420:Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 421:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 422:The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 423:We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 424:Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 425:Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 426:Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 427:If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 428:If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 429:I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 430:I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 431:Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove 432:Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 433:Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 434:Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 435:... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 436:The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 437:The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 438:Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 439:Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 440:Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 441:Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 442:Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 443:Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 444:Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 445:Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 446:Sometimes you have to let go of what you have now in order to move forward. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 447:We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 448:At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 449:Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 450:Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 451:If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 452:If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 453:Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 454:Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 455:Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 456:Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 457:Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 458:Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 459:Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 460:One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 461:Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 462:Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 463:All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 464:Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 465:For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 466:It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 467:I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 468:Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 469:We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 470:We get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. — Good Will Hunting ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 471:What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 472:What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 473:Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 474:Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 475:Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 476:Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 477:I didn't even dare walk past Your house-And now I am not even worthy to be let in ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove 478:It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 479:Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 480:Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 481:Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 482:Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 483:Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 484:Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 485:Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 486:You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove 487:Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 488:Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 489:If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 490:If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 491:If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 492:Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 493:Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 494:Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 495:Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 496:Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 497:Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 498:Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: & 499:Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 500:The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Don't let loneliness ~ Megan Fox, #NFDB
2:Hobey-Ho, let's go. ~ D J MacHale, #NFDB
3:Let brother help brother. ~ Plato, #NFDB
4:Let go, and let God. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
5:Let me begin again. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
6:Let me walk in beauty. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
7:Let No One Fall Idle ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
8:Let’s elope.” Zane ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
9:Let us die trying. ~ Velma Wallis, #NFDB
10:Live and let live, ~ Brenda Novak, #NFDB
11:Okay, let’s try ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
12:Let bygones be bygones ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
13:"Let go. Let be." ~ Lama Surya Das, #NFDB
14:Let me rage before I die. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
15:Let peace and beauty reign. ~ Moby, #NFDB
16:Let's learn to live! ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB
17:Let's test the waters... ~ Pusha T, #NFDB
18:Mother won’t let me. ~ Anita Valle, #NFDB
19:Think and let think. ~ John Wesley, #NFDB
20:God said, “Let the land ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
21:I let my mind wander. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
22:Let deeds match words.
~ Plautus,#NFDB
23:"Let go of what may come." ~ Tilopa, #NFDB
24:Let joy be unconfined. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
25:Let’s Be Pirates! ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
26:let's do it for Johnny ~ S E Hinton, #NFDB
27:let’s go downstairs. ~ Lisa Jackson, #NFDB
28:Let them make their war. ~ Taliesin, #NFDB
29:Okay, let’s have it. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
30:Breathe and let be. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
31:Don't let me lose him. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
32:Don't let me think. ~ Wilkie Collins, #NFDB
33:Let it be autumn. Let ~ Joanna Walsh, #NFDB
34:Let me go, let me go. ~ Clara Barton, #NFDB
35:Let me pray for you. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
36:Let me through!” she ~ Debra Holland, #NFDB
37:Let reason alone decide ~ Parmenides, #NFDB
38:Let's cool it, brothers. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
39:Let the revolution begin. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
40:Let your soul be your pilot. ~ Sting, #NFDB
41:To let sorrow go his own way ~ Mario, #NFDB
42:We let the weirdness in. ~ Kate Bush, #NFDB
43:You let me unfold you. ~ Robinne Lee, #NFDB
44:But let the good prevail. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
45:Come let me love you. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
46:He let in the light. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
47:I let out a long sigh. In ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
48:just let Mitch be Mitch ~ Vince Flynn, #NFDB
49:Just let the good happen. ~ K Webster, #NFDB
50:Let go, or be dragged. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
51:Let it hurt then let it go. ~ M Never, #NFDB
52:Let Love step down, ~ Hilda Doolittle, #NFDB
53:Let reason alone decide. ~ Parmenides, #NFDB
54:Let the madness begin. ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
55:Let them eat cake. ~ Marie Antoinette, #NFDB
56:Let there be chaos. 2 ~ Lani Lenore, #NFDB
57:Let us search the old highways. ~ H D, #NFDB
58:Let Detroit go bankrupt. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
59:Let go into the mystery ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
60:Let go of the thoughts, ~ Robert Adams, #NFDB
61:"Let go, or be dragged." ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
62:Let's enchant some shit! ~ Aleron Kong, #NFDB
63:Let’s fly,” he said. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
64:Prayer after Communion Let ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
65:Then let us go and be terrible. ~ Brom, #NFDB
66:Do not let your fire go out. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
67:I need you to let me go. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
68:Let Apella the Jew believe it. ~ Horace, #NFDB
69:Let me be your villain ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
70:Let me love you tonight. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
71:Let sleeping dogs lie. ~ Robert Walpole, #NFDB
72:Let the experience begin! ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
73:Let the losers worry about losin. ~ T I, #NFDB
74:Let them run while they can. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
75:Let the poor man mind his tongue ~ Ovid, #NFDB
76:Let tomorrow come tomorrow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
77:Let us cultivate our garden. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
78:Let your monkey do it. ~ Ina May Gaskin, #NFDB
79:Let your Teacher be Love itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
80:Miss me, but let me go. ~ Edgar A Guest, #NFDB
81:O let not Time deceive you, ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
82:Right … let’s kill him. ~ Taran Matharu, #NFDB
83:Shiny, let's be bad guys! ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
84:the mafia—then he let on. ~ Lee Strauss, #NFDB
85:Don't let me lose myself. ~ Jack Croxall, #NFDB
86:empty cup and let Him pour. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
87:I wont let him have you. ~ Sophie Jordan, #NFDB
88:Let complication thrive. ~ Kingsley Amis, #NFDB
89:Let every lion do his duty. ~ J P Morgan, #NFDB
90:Let God have His own cat. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
91:Let God have his own cat! ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
92:Let me help you be brave. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
93:Let my country die for me. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
94:Let's be about it, people. ~ David Weber, #NFDB
95:Let's go home together. ~ Makoto Shinkai, #NFDB
96:Let's go invent tomorrow... ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
97:Let's rock this shit. ~ Emily M Danforth, #NFDB
98:Let the dead bury the dead. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
99:Let the dry eyes perceive ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
100:Let the numbers speak. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
101:Let the rain kiss you. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
102:Let the story tell itself. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
103:Let us do better. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
104:Let valour end my life! ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
105:Let your heart be the victor, ~ Nely Cab, #NFDB
106:Let your joy be unconfined! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
107:Please don't let me fall. ~ Mary Surratt, #NFDB
108:Pray, and let God worry. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
109:Screw it. Let's do it. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
110:5 Let the wise hear and e ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
111:Ah, love, let us be true ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
112:I'm gonna let him hit one. ~ Denny McLain, #NFDB
113:Let a hundred flowers bloom. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
114:Let Freedom Ring. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
115:Let her see me clearly. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
116:Let the dead bury the dead. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
117:Let the green girl go! ~ Stephen Schwartz, #NFDB
118:Let the past be the past. ~ Lynette Eason, #NFDB
119:Let the sun stop burning, ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
120:Let us all be from somewhere. ~ Bob Hicok, #NFDB
121:Let yourself become living poetry. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
122:Never let the children cry, ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
123:Set we forward; let ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
124:Burn it all down. Let it go. ~ Anissa Gray, #NFDB
125:Don’t let them see you weak. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
126:How wild it was, to let it be. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
127:I’ll be yours. Let me be, ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
128:Just let me live my life. ~ Sergei Polunin, #NFDB
129:Let all your thinks be thanks. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
130:Let deeds correspond with words. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
131:Let go or be dragged. ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
132:Let me find myself in you. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
133:Let mortal man keep to his own ~ Euripides, #NFDB
134:Let no one call you tame. ~ Nadine Brandes, #NFDB
135:Let's drop the philosophy! ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
136:Let’s forget about time ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
137:Let the dead bury the dead... ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
138:Let your greatness bloom. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
139:Let your heart be at peace. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
140:Let your poem be kept nine years. ~ Horace, #NFDB
141:Let yourself becoming living poetry ~ Rumi, #NFDB
142:Life is long if you let it be. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
143:We have to let God be in control ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
144:While we live, let us live. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
145:Who do you let in? ~ Sabrina Ward Harrison, #NFDB
146:1. Let brotherly love continue. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
147:Don't let complexity stop you. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
148:Don't let the brownies bite. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
149:Early birds. Let ’em eat worms. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
150:Hold my hand. Don't let go. ~ Jenny Downham, #NFDB
151:I'll never let you fall, baby. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
152:I only hold on so I can let go. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
153:Just let me be nice to you. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
154:Let brotherly love continue. ~ Hebrews XIII, #NFDB
155:Let food be thy your medicine ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
156:"Let go of what is happening now." ~ Tilopa, #NFDB
157:Let light hearts remake us. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
158:Let my temptation be a book. ~ Eugene Field, #NFDB
159:Let optimists rule the world. ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
160:Let quietness instruct you. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
161:Let's chew on the chewables! ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
162:Let’s get down to business. ~ Brenda Pandos, #NFDB
163:Let there be light." This ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
164:Let the wild rumpus start! ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
165:Let us see what love can do. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
166:Little red bird, let me go. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
167:Love her enough to let her live. ~ Nely Cab, #NFDB
168:Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, ~ John Ford, #NFDB
169:Now let me burn out for God. ~ Henry Martyn, #NFDB
170:Okay, so let's run faster. ~ Ridley Pearson, #NFDB
171:Shall I let in the stranger, ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
172:You shouldn't let poets lie to you. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
173:You shouldn't let poets lie to you. ~ Bj rk, #NFDB
174:Damn it. I had to let her stay. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
175:Don't let reality ruin your day! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
176:Don't let the government win. ~ Howard Stern, #NFDB
177:Don't let the sun go down on me ~ Elton John, #NFDB
178:Don’t stop pushing. Don’t let go. ~ Jo Raven, #NFDB
179:Gentlemen, let's go row! ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
180:Hush, self, let me think. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
181:I'd always let him catch me. ~ Becca Ritchie, #NFDB
182:I'll let you go. If you stay. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
183:I´ll let you go. If you stay. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
184:I’ll let you go. If you stay. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
185:I want to be there for you. Let me. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
186:Kiss me hard, then let me go, ~ Leylah Attar, #NFDB
187:Leave life alone. Let it be. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
188:Let bygones be bygones. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
189:Let me introduce you to Jesus. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
190:Let muggles manage without us! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
191:Let one thousand flowers bloom. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
192:Let our scars fall in love. ~ Galway Kinnell, #NFDB
193:let ourselves be seen and known ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
194:Let's be brave girls, shall we? ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
195:let’s go find Miss Harker. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
196:Let someone else get killed! ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
197:Let’s try Your Excellency.” Layla ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
198:Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
199:Let the beauty we love do what we do. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
200:Let the flesh instruct the mind. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
201:Let the gods speak softly of us ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
202:Let the music diffuse all the tension. ~ Nas, #NFDB
203:Let there be another leaf. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
204:Let there be more darkness ~ Robyn Hitchcock, #NFDB
205:Let us be elegant or die ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
206:Let us find the dam snackbar. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
207:Let us live so we can love. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
208:Let us try what love will do. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
209:Let your first IT be to stop. ~ Jones Loflin, #NFDB
210:Let your soul and spirit fly. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
211:Lord, let me live until I die. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
212:Morrow . . . let me love you. ~ Laura Frantz, #NFDB
213:So let the storm rage. Let the storm rage. ~, #NFDB
214:Tomorrow let us do or die! ~ Thomas Campbell, #NFDB
215:Ty it well, and let it goe. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
216:Whatever I am, let it be enough ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
217:Don't let the hand you hold ~ Julia de Burgos, #NFDB
218:Don't let them tell us stories ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
219:Don't let the sun go down on me. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
220:Everything works if you let it ~ Rick Nielsen, #NFDB
221:How wild it was to let it be ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
222:If you like my poems let them ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
223:If you love something, let it go. ~ B J Novak, #NFDB
224:I won’t let my fears rule my life ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
225:Joking apart, now let us be serious. ~ Horace, #NFDB
226:kind of connection, let alone a ~ Mari Hannah, #NFDB
227:Let all God’s angels worship him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
228:Let go of which cannot be held. ~ Kate Scelsa, #NFDB
229:Let her in or let her go. Neither ~ J Daniels, #NFDB
230:Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. ~ Plato, #NFDB
231:Let’s build a town where ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
232:Let's have some new cliches. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
233:Let's not go into the past. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
234:Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
235:Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
236:Let the disappointments pass ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
237:Let the Hunger Games Begin! ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
238:Let the work speak for itself. ~ Anthony Caro, #NFDB
239:Let us be elegant or die! ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
240:Let us find the Dam snack bar. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
241:Let us find the dam snack bar, ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
242:Let us kill all lawyers ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
243:Let yourself be loved. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
244:Never let a crisis go to waste ~ Saul Alinsky, #NFDB
245:Whatever I am, let it be enough. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
246:Who let the dogs out? Who, who. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
247:Why won’t you let me love you? ~ Abby Jimenez, #NFDB
248:Don’t let anyone steal your milk. ~ Ryan Blair, #NFDB
249:Don't let emotions paralyze you. ~ DiAnn Mills, #NFDB
250:Don't let them tell us stories. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
251:Don't let TV be a babysitter!!!! ~ Nick Morgan, #NFDB
252:fear only lives where you let it. ~ Liz Fenton, #NFDB
253:Fuck Art, let's Dance! ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, #NFDB
254:How wild it is, to let it be. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
255:I let it. I let my heart break. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
256:I like to let things breathe. ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
257:I'm not going to let our fans down. ~ Rex Ryan, #NFDB
258:I never let myself get desperate. ~ Kim Alexis, #NFDB
259:Let a man nobly live or nobly die. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
260:Let exercise alternate with rest. ~ Pythagoras, #NFDB
261:Let peace be. Let life be. ~ Chinelo Okparanta, #NFDB
262:Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love. ~ Cole Porter, #NFDB
263:Let's get my incantation right: ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
264:Let's make a dent in the universe ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
265:Let's make America great again. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
266:Let's put a smile on that face! ~ Heath Ledger, #NFDB
267:Let's see you find the world now. ~ Vasko Popa, #NFDB
268:Let the breath lead the way. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
269:Let the end try the man. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
270:Let the galled jade wince’— ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
271:Let the RINOs start a third party ~ Mark Levin, #NFDB
272:Let Us Do Evil That Good May Come! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
273:Let us seek truth everywhere; ~ Romain Rolland, #NFDB
274:Life’s a song, Anne. Let’s play. ~ Kylie Scott, #NFDB
275:Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
276:Never let an old flame bum you twice ~ Unknown, #NFDB
277:Never let any obstacle stop you. ~ Ruth Gruber, #NFDB
278:Nobody can just let a person be. ~ Silas House, #NFDB
279:Stand up, Chuck, let them see you. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
280:You don't have to move on to let go. ~ Kaskade, #NFDB
281:Beloved, let us love one another. ~ I John IV.7, #NFDB
282:Do as the song says and let it go. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
283:Don’t let the Muggles get you down! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
284:How wild it was, to let it be. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
285:If ka will say so, let it be so. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
286:In all things let reason be your guide. ~ Solon, #NFDB
287:I wish he had let you all die ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
288:I won't let anyone tell me what to think. ~ Avi, #NFDB
289:Just get up there and let it rip! ~ Anita O Day, #NFDB
290:Let each man do his best. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
291:Let' em learn or let' em die ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
292:Let love, not fear, be your guide. ~ C L Wilson, #NFDB
293:Let me into the darkness again. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
294:Let me make myself useful. ~ Matthew B Crawford, #NFDB
295:Let my enemies devour each other ~ Salvador Dal, #NFDB
296:Let Nature be your teacher ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
297:Let no man thirst for good beer. ~ Samuel Adams, #NFDB
298:Let no one steal your peace. ~ Bikram Choudhury, #NFDB
299:Let's build Paradise again. ~ Sebastiao Salgado, #NFDB
300:Let's drop rocks on them! ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
301:Let's go and do jihad ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf, #NFDB
302:Let’s have ourselves a revolution. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
303:Let's hope the first comes first. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
304:Let's make hay while it lasts. ~ James Lovelock, #NFDB
305:Let's not forget, I got divorced. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
306:Let some people get rich first. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
307:Let's see some carnage! ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
308:Let’s unleash Death upon this day. ~ K F Breene, #NFDB
309:Let the experiment be made. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
310:Let the other person save face. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
311:Let the punishment fit the crime. ~ W S Gilbert, #NFDB
312:Let the questions be the curriculum. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
313:Let there be another lettuce! ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
314:Let this hell be our heaven. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
315:Let your body take care of you. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
316:Let your life be your message. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
317:Like I'd let you captain me. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
318:Like people and let them know it. ~ Robert Capa, #NFDB
319:Never let a friend rule you. ~ David Staniforth, #NFDB
320:no wonder i let queers suck my cock ~ Dan Fante, #NFDB
321:Plans let past drives the future. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
322:Plant your love and let it grow. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
323:Please let me go, I won't tell... ~ April Henry, #NFDB
324:Please let me suck your cock. ~ Rachel Robinson, #NFDB
325:Then let me be happy no more. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
326:wisely reconsidered and let the hand ~ Ron Rash, #NFDB
327:You have the power to let power go ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
328:All we ask is to be let alone. ~ Jefferson Davis, #NFDB
329:Come, let us be bored together ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
330:Don't ever let the Man get you. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
331:Don't let anyone rob you of hope. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
332:DON’T LET APPEARANCES FOOL YOU ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
333:Don’t let life harden your heart. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
334:Don't let the man bring you down. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
335:Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful ~ Eminem, #NFDB
336:Go off, I discard you. Let ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
337:Hold on tightly - let go lightly ~ Belle de Jour, #NFDB
338:Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
339:I didn't know how to let you go. ~ Katie Cotugno, #NFDB
340:If God is anonymous, let it be. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
341:If I cannot fly, let me sing. ~ Stephen Sondheim, #NFDB
342:I just reared back and let them go. ~ Bob Feller, #NFDB
343:I won't let the sun go down on me. ~ Nik Kershaw, #NFDB
344:Lessons echo until you let go. ~ Jennifer Sodini, #NFDB
345:Let all live as they would die. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
346:Let girls be girls and not brides ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
347:"Let go and just do your own work." ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
348:Let love be your perfect weapon. ~ Andy Biersack, #NFDB
349:Let me hear your body talk. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
350:Let me learn now where Beauty is; ~ Anne Spencer, #NFDB
351:Let me tell you, first, of a city. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
352:Let nothing novel be introduced! ~ Pope Pius XII, #NFDB
353:Let's choose all over nothing ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
354:Let's face it, writing is hell. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
355:Let's hope you feel better now. ~ Jack Kevorkian, #NFDB
356:Let silence take you to the core of life. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
357:[Let's] put feet to our prayers. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
358:Let's start a new tomorrow, today. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
359:Let the enemies of life step down. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
360:Let the heart breaking commence. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
361:Let the Lord judge the criminals. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
362:Let them impeach and be damned. ~ Andrew Johnson, #NFDB
363:Let the motherfucking games begin. ~ Gail McHugh, #NFDB
364:Let the scriptures refresh you. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
365:Let the wild ruckus commence. ~ Karen Joy Fowler, #NFDB
366:Let us be kinder to one another. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
367:Let us have the luxury of silence. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
368:Let us save the tomorrows for work. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
369:Let work itself be the ambition. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
370:Love mans knowing when to let go. ~ Tony Parsons, #NFDB
371:Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
372:Never let anyone steal your joy. ~ Mike Richards, #NFDB
373:On this path let the heart be your guide. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
374:Then let's print up some flyers! ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
375:The Soul is a house...Let it burn! ~ Tim Seibles, #NFDB
376:The world belongs to those who let go. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
377:The world is won by those who let it go. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
378:We have only today. Let us begin ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
379:You can't let haters stop you. ~ Quinton Jackson, #NFDB
380:You mustn't hurt him. Let him go ~ Johanna Spyri, #NFDB
381:Can't keep it in, Gotta let it out. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
382:C'mon, let's get real, real gone. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
383:Death comes once, let it be easy. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
384:Don't let him take you from me. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
385:Don't let hope make you stupid. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
386:Don’t let hope make you stupid. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
387:Don't let ignorance win. Let love. ~ Nancy Garden, #NFDB
388:Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. ~ Cynthia Bond, #NFDB
389:Don’t let the Muggles get you down! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
390:Don't let the muggles get you down. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
391:Do the day and let the day do you. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
392:I didn't dare let my mind wander off. ~ Kate Bush, #NFDB
393:I just plug in and let go. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
394:I let the American people down. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
395:I love you. Let's get this over with. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
396:I love you Stefan, never let that go. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
397:In God's name let us go on bravely. ~ Joan of Arc, #NFDB
398:I will never let Israel down. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
399:Labels only stick if I let them. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
400:Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos. ~ Andy Grove, #NFDB
401:Let goodness go with the doing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
402:Let love steal in disguised as friendship. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
403:Let me break it down for you again, ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
404:Let me pay the price for you instead. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
405:Let me tell you about my family. ~ Louie Anderson, #NFDB
406:Let me try to be enough for you. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
407:Let my enemies devour each other. ~ Salvador Dali, #NFDB
408:let nature reign, let freedom sing. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
409:Let no such man be trusted. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
410:let not God speak to us, lest we die. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
411:Let not your heart be troubled, ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
412:Let reason govern desire. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
413:Let's all be different same as me. ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
414:Let's be best friends till the end ~ Kim Tae yeon, #NFDB
415:Let's face it: Bush is just dim. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
416:Let's face it. I'm an open book. ~ Natasha Lyonne, #NFDB
417:Let’s go join the Black Swan! ~ Shannon Messenger, #NFDB
418:Let's make noise for the good guys. ~ Roma Downey, #NFDB
419:Let's put the fun back in funeral! ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
420:Let them hate, as long as they fear. ~ James Romm, #NFDB
421:Let things taste of what they are. ~ Alice Waters, #NFDB
422:Let us be guardians, not gardeners ~ Adolph Murie, #NFDB
423:Let us fight to free the world! ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
424:Let your best be for your friend. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
425:Limp dick motherfucker! Let me go! ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
426:Little pig, little pig, let me in. ~ Lili St Crow, #NFDB
427:Love means knowing when to let go. ~ Tony Parsons, #NFDB
428:Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
429:Me: Let’s play sick day together. ~ Morgan Parker, #NFDB
430:Never let shyness conquer your mind. ~ Arfa Karim, #NFDB
431:Nothing hurts if you don't let it. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
432:O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
433:Scout, let’s get us a baby.” “Where? ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
434:So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. ~ John Green, #NFDB
435:The more I let go of the life I’d ~ Kathleen Long, #NFDB
436:Tonight let's slay some dragons. ~ James L Rubart, #NFDB
437:Traveller, let your step be light, ~ Paul Scarron, #NFDB
438:Yeah, let's keep the peace going. ~ Avril Lavigne, #NFDB
439:You can't just let nature run wild. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
440:You can't let love make you afraid. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
441:You have to let life come and go. ~ Ramin Bahrani, #NFDB
442:A beam in darkness: let it grow. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
443:Be the ocean let the river come to you. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
444:Don’t let the bad elves get you. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
445:Don't let the meanies get you down. ~ Heather Wolf, #NFDB
446:Don't let your failures define you. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
447:Don't let your mind see through your eyes. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
448:Do your best and let God do the rest. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
449:Go forth and let the magic happen. ~ Robert Winter, #NFDB
450:Hey, let me guess. You’re from . ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
451:If we must die, O let us nobly die. ~ Claude McKay, #NFDB
452:I let you sleep in my bed!” he said. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
453:I'll let the racket do the talking. ~ John McEnroe, #NFDB
454:I refused to let go of what I had. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
455:I wish I had let myself be happier, ~ Heather Hill, #NFDB
456:I won’t let him kill himself for me. ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
457:Just something else to let go of. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
458:Let a man overcome anger by love. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
459:Let anger's fire be slow to burn. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
460:Let argument bear no unmusical sound. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
461:Let me not die unremembered ~ Aaron Dembski Bowden, #NFDB
462:Let no man's deathbed be a futon. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
463:Let passion drive your profession. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
464:Let's cause some senators distress. ~ Peggy Noonan, #NFDB
465:Let's do it right. This is for the ages. ~ I M Pei, #NFDB
466:Let's fly away and live forever ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
467:Let's hang ourselves immediately! ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
468:Let's keep making inexpensive movies. ~ Jason Blum, #NFDB
469:Let’s let people think we’re a couple. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
470:Let the boy win his spurs. ~ Edward III of England, #NFDB
471:Let the dataset change your mindset ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
472:Let the music defuse all the tension. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
473:Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
474:Let thy vices die before thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
475:Let today be the start of something new. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
476:Let us always pray for one another. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
477:Let us drink to pointless heroism. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
478:Let us our lives, our souls, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
479:Let your peace be a victory! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
480:Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task I ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
481:Life and light will not let me be. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
482:Min Tanke Som En Svale Let
~ Christian Winther,#NFDB
483:Never let a bully see you scared. ~ Susan Crandall, #NFDB
484:Now, gentlemen, let us create hell. ~ Kohta Hirano, #NFDB
485:One must be able to let things happen. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
486:Remember to let her into your heart. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
487:Screw it. Let the fates decide ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
488:Some people never need to let up at all. ~ Ted Leo, #NFDB
489:Some things are hard to let go of. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
490:The life, which others pay, let us bestow, ~ Homer, #NFDB
491:These precious things, let them bleed. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
492:They did not see a secret door. “Let’s ~ L R W Lee, #NFDB
493:to let us know what we’re thinking. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
494:To this urn let those repair ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
495:When in doubt, let your hate lead you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
496:When speechless, let body do the talk. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
497:Whose the cap fit, let them where it. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
498:Always let losers have their words. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
499:At some point, we all have to let go. ~ Amanda Crew, #NFDB
500:Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
501:Be with me. Let’s fall together. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
502:Be yourself, let you come through. ~ Jonathan Davis, #NFDB
503:Brand new Beretta, can't wait to let it go. ~ Drake, #NFDB
504:Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, ~ John Galsworthy, #NFDB
505:Come let us mock at the good ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
506:Come on, bebe. Let’s play gator. ~ S E Jakes, #NFDB
507:Do anything, but let it produce joy. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
508:Do not let the hero in your soul perish. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
509:happiness comes again if you let it. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
510:How do we let people pay for music? ~ Amanda Palmer, #NFDB
511:How well we have learned to let go ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
512:I am different. Let this not upset you ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
513:I can't let you go because you're mine ~ Elle Casey, #NFDB
514:I cry to let everything out ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
515:If life is a joke, let us play it. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
516:I hate that I'm so easy to let go. ~ Dawn Kurtagich, #NFDB
517:I let my drinking do the talking. ~ Humphrey Bogart, #NFDB
518:I like to let my racket do the talking. ~ Rod Laver, #NFDB
519:I’ll never let you fall again. ~ Amber Lynn Natusch, #NFDB
520:I must bear it, if you let it in. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
521:I refuse to let the past find me here. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
522:let all who take refuge in you be glad; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
523:Let each of us examine his thoughts ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
524:Let him love none and be by none beloved! ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
525:Let me burn out for God. After all, ~ Henry Martyn, #NFDB
526:Let me not die unremembered. ~ Aaron Dembski Bowden, #NFDB
527:Let me show you how it's done... Loser! ~ Babe Ruth, #NFDB
528:Let others lead small lives, but not you ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
529:Let’s begin with Level Flight. . . . ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
530:Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: ~ Pusha T, #NFDB
531:Let's go back, back to the Beginning. ~ Hilary Duff, #NFDB
532:Let's not hate the existence of hatred. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
533:Let's take our clothes off and party ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
534:Let the dead bury the dead, this time. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
535:Let there be songs to fill the air. ~ Robert Hunter, #NFDB
536:Let tomorrow cross its own rivers. ~ William Morris, #NFDB
537:Let us be elegant or die! --Amy ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
538:Let us leave hurry to slaves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
539:Let us make man [8] in our image, after ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
540:Let us try for once not to be right ~ Tristan Tzara, #NFDB
541:Let your life be your argument. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
542:"Let yourselfbecomelivingpoetry." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
543:Let your yes be yes and your no be no. ~ Reza Aslan, #NFDB
544:Life's as kind as you let it be. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
545:LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
546:Live, let live, and help live ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
547:Love her fully, or let her go. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
548:Memories can ruin you if you let them. ~ Anna Carey, #NFDB
549:Never let anyone dull your sparkle ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
550:Never let fear decide your destiny. ~ Lucinda Riley, #NFDB
551:Never let your fear decide your fate. ~ Aaron Bruno, #NFDB
552:Now, let’s get naked,” I said. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
553:Pause. Breathe. Let all of that fade. ~ Leo Babauta, #NFDB
554:Quick!” cried the Scarecrow, “let us ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
555:Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: ~ Q Tip, #NFDB
556:Shut up and let me see your jazz hands ~ Gerard Way, #NFDB
557:Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
558:The world is won by those who let it go. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
559:This is the age of oddities let loose. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
560:Try to let what is unfair teach you. ~ David Foster, #NFDB
561:Would a human egg let itself be seen? ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
562:You can't let nobody run your train. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
563:You don't let a historic site rot. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB
564:15He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
565:A very little little let us do ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
566:But let me remember what I choose. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
567:Come now. let us reason together. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
568:Don't let doing enough be good enough. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
569:"Don't let your mind see through your eyes." ~ Mooji, #NFDB
570:Fight for him and don’t ever let him go. ~ L D Davis, #NFDB
571:How deeply did you learn to let go? ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
572:I am punished. Only let me hope. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
573:Let go, allow, and it will be yours. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
574:Let me be the one To do what is done. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
575:let me forget about today until tomorrow ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
576:Let me lick you how much I’m sorry. ~ Heidi Cullinan, #NFDB
577:Let’s all throw unhappiness overboard. ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
578:Let's die of it before we're too old. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
579:Let’s go home,’ Homer said, ‘to Hell. ~ John Marsden, #NFDB
580:Let's hyperventilate like it's 1999. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
581:Let's meet as little as we can ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
582:Let's put Christ back into Christmas. ~ Kirk Cameron, #NFDB
583:Let’s quit our jobs and fuck all day. ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
584:Let's take everything just as it is. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
585:Let them laugh at their passions. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky, #NFDB
586:Let the path be open to talent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
587:Let the perfectionist play postal. ~ Yasser Seirawan, #NFDB
588:Let us assume you've made your point. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
589:Let us net give ourselves up to excesses. ~ Chi-king, #NFDB
590:Let us try for once not to be right. ~ Tristan Tzara, #NFDB
591:Let your life be guided by greatness ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
592:Let yourself become living poetry. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
593:Let your yea be yea and your nay, nay. ~ James V. 12, #NFDB
594:Life is a movie, let love play its role. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
595:Never say let me be honest with you! ~ Stu Schreiber, #NFDB
596:No, it’s okay,” I said. “Let’s just go ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
597:No matter what, you must let your inner ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
598:Now let's go kick some supernatural ass. ~ J L Bryan, #NFDB
599:OK, let's get this mother out of here. ~ Gene Cernan, #NFDB
600:Our country is big, let us be big. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
601:Pain will leave you, when you let go ~ Jeremy Aldana, #NFDB
602:Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
603:Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
604:There will be an answer. Let it be. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
605:Tonight, Let's just carve pumpkins. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
606:We buy balloons, we let them go. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
607:Alright Shamblers Let’s Get Shamblin’. ~ Matt Wallace, #NFDB
608:Always let your reach exceed your grasp. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
609:And she let me put ketchup on it, too, ~ Janis Thomas, #NFDB
610:Are you ever going to let me forgive you? ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
611:Come, let us weave a plan! ~ Elizabeth Wayland Barber, #NFDB
612:Come. Now. Let me feel what I did to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
613:Come on, Mowgli. Let's go kill Bambi. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
614:Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream ~ Erykah Badu, #NFDB
615:Don't let go of academia. CLAIM IT. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
616:...don't let the pride take over reason ~ Jan Guillou, #NFDB
617:don’t let your tongue cut your throat. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
618:Don't let your tools become your process. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
619:Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
620:God, let me remember all good losers. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
621:Go home. Let me do my community service. ~ Boy George, #NFDB
622:He's got to let go of you sometime. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
623:I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke, ~ Rakim, #NFDB
624:If they love another, let them love! ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
625:If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
626:I had to let my ego go a long time ago. ~ Sally Field, #NFDB
627:I'm no longer willing to let myself down. ~ Sarah Jio, #NFDB
628:Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters. ~ Horace, #NFDB
629:Just don't let go or you may drown. ~ Jonathan Larson, #NFDB
630:Just let the wardrobe do the acting. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
631:Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
632:Let fools the studious despise, ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
633:Let go of your ego’s need to be right. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
634:Let him smell his way to Dover! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
635:Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. ~ Horace, #NFDB
636:Let me listen to me and not to them. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
637:Let me live my life the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
638:Let me love you. Don’t make me wait. ~ Nicola Rendell, #NFDB
639:Let no act be done without purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
640:Let nothing human be foreign to me ~ Kate Christensen, #NFDB
641:Let not young souls be smothered out ~ Vachel Lindsay, #NFDB
642:Let our hearts touch far horizons. ~ Gordon Lightfoot, #NFDB
643:Let’s be assholes and enjoy the life. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
644:Let's die of it before we're too old. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
645:Let's do something beautiful for God. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
646:Let’s hope we both make it out alive, ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
647:Let's, just be alive together, okay? ~ Lauren Gibaldi, #NFDB
648:Let's just start and see what happens. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
649:Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
650:Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. ~ Caligula, #NFDB
651:Let there be light,” and there was light. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
652:Let us begin to understand the argument. ~ Allen Tate, #NFDB
653:Let us change the tense for convenience. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
654:Let us confess it: evil strides the world. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
655:Let us render the tyrant no aid. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
656:Let wealth come in by comely thrift, ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
657:Let your players know that you love them. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
658:Life is to live it, not to let it live you. ~ Pitbull, #NFDB
659:Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
660:Now, Master Fowl, let’s talk, shall we? ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
661:Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless. ~ John Wesley, #NFDB
662:On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
663:Thus let me hold thee to my heart, ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
664:What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
665:Where our work is, there let our joy be. ~ Tertullian, #NFDB
666:You can’t justify it, so let it alone. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
667:You must let God’s love heal you. ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
668:AMEN, let Him take it all! He’s worthy! ~ Paul Washer, #NFDB
669:Christine. Don’t let me go. Please. ~ Jennifer Van Wyk, #NFDB
670:dear me, let us be elegant or die. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
671:Do not serve time, let time serve you. ~ Willie Sutton, #NFDB
672:Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, ~ Heavy D, #NFDB
673:Don't let fear govern your decision. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
674:Don't let the wicked city get you down. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
675:Don't let your feelings be a God to you. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
676:Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be. ~ Mike Ditka, #NFDB
677:For hostile word let hostile word be paid. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
678:For once let’s just . . . do it for us. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
679:Grief is love not wanting to let go. ~ Earl A Grollman, #NFDB
680:Hastings won’t you let stray too far. ~ Laura Andersen, #NFDB
681:He knockin' on the door, let the devil in. ~ Rick Ross, #NFDB
682:He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
683:If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
684:If you let them kill you, they will ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
685:I’ll let you know when we’re done. ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
686:I'm too angry at you to let you die. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
687:in a quick breath and let it out to clear ~ Cari Quinn, #NFDB
688:It is time to let the nightmares go. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
689:I try to be bad, but nobody will let me. ~ Nick Carter, #NFDB
690:I've never let a rhinestone go unturned ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
691:Let all children come unto me. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
692:Let all the dreamers wake the nation. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
693:Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. ~ Menander, #NFDB
694:Let charity be without dissimulation. ~ Romans. XII. 9, #NFDB
695:Let each man exercise the art he knows. ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB
696:Let me see how easily you are broken ~ Zoraida C rdova, #NFDB
697:Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. ~ Plato, #NFDB
698:Let nothing disturb thee, ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
699:Let not your expenditure exceed your income. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
700:Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman. ~ Bethenny Frankel, #NFDB
701:Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip. ~ Gary Allan, #NFDB
702:Let's just say I'm use to getting my way. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
703:Let's play act a murder, Wadsworth. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
704:Let’s Play Frisbee with Bladed Weapons! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
705:Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
706:Let the night come. We are not afraid. ~ Poppy Z Brite, #NFDB
707:Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
708:Let the voice of the people be heard! ~ Albert Parsons, #NFDB
709:Let the world slide, let the world go; ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
710:Let the worst come to the worst. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
711:Let thy discontents be thy secrets ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
712:Let Time and Chance combine, combine! ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
713:Let your conscience be your guide. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
714:Let your dreams be your North Star. ~ MaryAnn Koopmann, #NFDB
715:Life and love go on, let the music play. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
716:Love is a flower you got to let it grow. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
717:Never let anyone silence your voice. ~ Jurnee Smollett, #NFDB
718:She will not die today. I won't let her. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
719:Shh. Don’t talk. Just let me smell you. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
720:So let it be written, so let it be done. ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
721:So let’s all get a little uncomfortable. ~ Ijeoma Oluo, #NFDB
722:The key to change is to let go of fear. ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
723:The shower trick. Let's hear it, Kendall ~ Julie James, #NFDB
724:The world is won by those who let it go. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
725:Those who don't want to change, let them sleep. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
726:Watches may disagree, but let us not. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
727:Where there is hatred, let me sow love. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
728:You can't let a man like this beat you. ~ Ricky Hatton, #NFDB
729:You can't let your past write the future ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB
730:You mustn't let bullies get you down. ~ David Walliams, #NFDB
731:You're exactly as big as I let you be. ~ Albert Finney, #NFDB
732:A beam in darkness: let it grow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
733:Anything you are attached to, let it go. ~ Pema Chödrön, #NFDB
734:Be like a tree and
let the dead leaves drop. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
735:Be like a tree,
Let the dead leaves
Drop. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
736:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
737:better is a sure enemy to well.” “Let ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
738:By Thy power, let there be peace, O God! ~ Henry Dunant, #NFDB
739:Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
740:Do not let fancy outrun your means. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
741:Don’t let fear block God’s destiny for you. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
742:Don't let the assholes grind you down. ~ Stephen Coonts, #NFDB
743:Don't let them tell you it can't be done. ~ Jack Layton, #NFDB
744:Don't let your habits become handcuffs ~ Elizabeth Berg, #NFDB
745:Don't let your past determine your destiny. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
746:Don’t let your past determine your present. ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
747:Do your best and let God do the rest. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
748:do your time, don’t let the time do you. ~ Piper Kerman, #NFDB
749:Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
750:His saying was: live and let live. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
751:History can only hurt us if we let it. ~ Louise Douglas, #NFDB
752:I am different. Let this not upset you.
~ Paracelsus,#NFDB
753:I can let the team do the talking for me. ~ Bob Paisley, #NFDB
754:I hate this plan,” I said. “Let’s do it. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
755:I let the scripts basically be my Bible. ~ David Nutter, #NFDB
756:I wish you’d let me rescue you again. ~ Angela Morrison, #NFDB
757:Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, ~ Etheridge Knight, #NFDB
758:Let every foot have its own shoe. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
759:Let frugality and industry be our virtues. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
760:Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. ~ Osho, #NFDB
761:Let me die. Let me follow the others, ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
762:Let muddy water stand and it will become clear. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
763:Let none say, I will not drinke water. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
764:Let observation with observant view, ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
765:Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
766:Let's build bridges, not walls. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
767:Let's do what we love and do a lot of it. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
768:Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
769:Let’s not capsize,” Vincent recommended. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
770:Let someone else have a lucky day, Anna. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
771:Let some things remain mysterious. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
772:Let’s sleep a little longer if we can. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
773:Let's welcome the children into the world. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
774:Let us all be the leaders we wish we had. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
775:Let us grow together, enjoy together. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
776:Let us help one another to bear our burdens. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
777:let us not waste love, it is rare enough ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
778:Let us watch over our thoughts. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king, #NFDB
779:Let whoever can win glory before death. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
780:Let your faith be bigger than your fear. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
781:Let yourself become living poetry.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#NFDB
782:Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
783:Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
784:Never let a good crisis go to waste ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
785:No one loves us here, let’s go to Mars. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
786:Nor in the critic let the man be lost. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
787:O let us still the secret joy partake, ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
788:So let the world go, but hold fast to joy. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
789:Teenagers want to read - if we let them. ~ Penny Kittle, #NFDB
790:We hurt each other too well to let it drop ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
791:What you can't be with, won't let you be. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
792:You cannot choose love, let love choose you ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
793:You have to let go before you can reach. ~ Kate Messner, #NFDB
794:Your brain is open. Never let it be closed. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
795:your only barriers are what you let it be ~ Gino Norris, #NFDB
796:But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy. ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
797:But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
798:But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
799:Don't be scared. Don't let them see. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
800:don't be scared, don't let them see. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
801:Don't ever let anybody know you're injured. ~ Dana White, #NFDB
802:Don’t let me go Jace. I’m lost without you. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
803:Don't let politeness interfere with truth ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB
804:Don't let the bastards grind you down. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
805:Don't let them know they're getting to you. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
806:Don’t let the nay-sayers get you down, ~ Christina Bauer, #NFDB
807:Don't let those people steal your day ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
808:Don’t let you pride get the better of you, ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
809:Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
810:Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
811:fear only lives where you let it. That they ~ Liz Fenton, #NFDB
812:Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin. ~ George Crabbe, #NFDB
813:Find what you like and let it kill you. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
814:Find what you like, and let it kill you ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
815:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
816:Hold your dreams, don't ever let it go ~ Naturi Naughton, #NFDB
817:If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
818:If you find a good thing, don’t let it go. ~ Layla Hagen, #NFDB
819:I miss you. I don't want to let you go ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
820:It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ~ Horace, #NFDB
821:It is what it is because you let it be so. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
822:It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB
823:I've never let the criticism deter me. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
824:learning to live is learning to let go ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, #NFDB
825:Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
826:Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
827:Let love write on you for awhile. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
828:Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... ~ Scott Joplin, #NFDB
829:Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet. ~ Nydia Velazquez, #NFDB
830:Let my affection for my boys carry me on. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
831:Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors. ~ Plato, #NFDB
832:Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors. ~ Plato, #NFDB
833:Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
834:Let's begin creating miracles now. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
835:Let's draw straws to see who gets eaten. ~ Julia Elliott, #NFDB
836:Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
837:Let's talk about something exciting. Me. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
838:Let's teach our children to be thinkers. ~ Jacque Fresco, #NFDB
839:Let the pain remind you that hearts can heal. ~ Paramore, #NFDB
840:Let there be spaces in your togetherness ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
841:Let those who want to be happy ... be firm ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
842:Let thy light shine, then, in dark places. ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB
843:Let us be patient with one another, ~ Emily Greene Balch, #NFDB
844:Let us go home and cultivate our virtues. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
845:Let Us Remove the
Trees from Our Path ~ Esther Hicks,#NFDB
846:Let your inner dork shine through ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
847:Let your performance do the thinking. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
848:Life - life - let there be life! ~ William Ernest Henley, #NFDB
849:Love is the flower you've got to let grow. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
850:Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. ~ K naan, #NFDB
851:Never let money get in the way of an idea ~ Damien Hirst, #NFDB
852:Never let reality get in the way of truth ~ Pat Pattison, #NFDB
853:Never let the other fellow set the agenda. ~ James Baker, #NFDB
854:Own the sadness, don’t let it own you. ~ Kwame Alexander, #NFDB
855:Patriots don't let their nation default. ~ Gary Ackerman, #NFDB
856:Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
857:The hardest thing of love is to let go. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
858:Time will fold over the past if you let it. ~ Jenna Blum, #NFDB
859:Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
860:To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
861:When people let youd own, God will pick you up. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
862:When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone. ~ John Owen, #NFDB
863:you can’t just let people down, dammit. ~ Hanif Kureishi, #NFDB
864:You can’t let the past drive your future. ~ Nancy Naigle, #NFDB
865:"You have got to let go and let it happen." ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
866:You're cold, Angel. Let me warm you. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
867:All he could do was let this dream come true. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
868:At least let us have healthy books. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
869:Death hath so many doors to let out life. ~ John Fletcher, #NFDB
870:Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn. ~ J Cole, #NFDB
871:Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
872:Don't let people with no life ruin yours. ~ Colin Cowherd, #NFDB
873:Don't let the past steal your present. ~ Cherr e L Moraga, #NFDB
874:Don't let your heart get broken by this world. ~ Dan Bern, #NFDB
875:Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
876:Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
877:Fear can change you if you let it. ~ Jennifer Blackstream, #NFDB
878:Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
879:Find what you love and let it kill you ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
880:Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
881:I'd rather let the music speak for itself. ~ Serj Tankian, #NFDB
882:If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
883:If you were mine, I would never let you go. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
884:I let go of religion, and people become serene. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
885:I let him use me to get rid of his pain. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
886:I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it. ~ Jason Bateman, #NFDB
887:... I'm no longer willing to let myself down. ~ Sarah Jio, #NFDB
888:I'm Vince McMahon, dammit, let's hear it! ~ Vince McMahon, #NFDB
889:I nudged Dad towards the door. “Let’s go. ~ Melanie Marks, #NFDB
890:I stood. “Let’s get this over with. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
891:It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
892:I want you to let things be imperfect. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
893:I won't let your ignorance silence my pain ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
894:Learning to live is learning to let go. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, #NFDB
895:Let all find COMPASSION in YOU. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
896:Let all of life be an unfettered howl. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
897:Let each man have the wit to go his own way. ~ Propertius, #NFDB
898:Let every man look before he leaps. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
899:Let him lust for you until he has blue balls ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
900:lET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
901:Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
902:Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, ~ John Donne, #NFDB
903:Let me complain-it's good for television. ~ Phil Hellmuth, #NFDB
904:Let me go to the house of the Father. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
905:Let me know myself; let others guess at me. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
906:Let me take five of my Fists into the Armpit. ~ Fonda Lee, #NFDB
907:Let’s burn this motherfucker down.” And ~ Natasha Madison, #NFDB
908:let's carpe the hell out of this diem ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
909:Let's face it: I am not a professional runner. ~ Jo Brand, #NFDB
910:Let’s go eat some pie and solve a mystery. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
911:Let’s go get ice cream!” cried Janie. ~ Caroline B Cooney, #NFDB
912:Let's hook up and just bring fiery death. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
913:Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces. ~ Blackbeard, #NFDB
914:Let’s laugh and love until the world ends. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
915:Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
916:Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
917:Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
918:Let's see if I get myself with this one. ~ Jon Erik Hexum, #NFDB
919:Let's show America our best and nothing less! ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
920:Let the beauty we love be what we do. —RUMI ~ Scott Jurek, #NFDB
921:Let them fall, Mowgli. They are only tears. ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
922:Let the music play on would be my legacy. ~ Lionel Richie, #NFDB
923:Let truth, beauty and love be your guide. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
924:Let us absurdify life from east to west ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
925:Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
926:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
927:Let us not become the evil that we deplore. ~ Barbara Lee, #NFDB
928:Let us work together for unity and love. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
929:Let weakness learn meekness. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
930:Let your face speak what's in your heart. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
931:Let your inner DORK shine through. ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
932:Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
933:Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
934:Make the money, don't let the money make you ~ Macklemore, #NFDB
935:Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~ Fred Savage, #NFDB
936:Never let anyone know what you are thinking. ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
937:Never let anyone take away your dream. ~ Victoria Justice, #NFDB
938:Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
939:Stan, don't let them tell you what to do! ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
940:Take what you can use and let the rest go by. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
941:that he should actually let her ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
942:That's more like it. Let's turn this tide! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
943:The key to change... is to let go of fear, ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
944:The past can’t touch you unless you let it. ~ Edie Claire, #NFDB
945:They can't hurt you unless you let them. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
946:Tyson let loose a huge belch. "Better now. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
947:Use memories. Don't let memories use you. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
948:), well then, let us write (sin φ) ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss, #NFDB
949:We should let women make their own decisions. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
950:Work will drive you crazy if you let it. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
951:You can't let the past ruin your future. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
952:You have to decide to let yourself be happy. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
953:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
954:America is all about live and let live. ~ Laura Fitzgerald, #NFDB
955:Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair! ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
956:Cinderella!” Dov cried. “Let down your hair! ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
957:Creation moves and astonishes if you let it. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
958:Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you... ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
959:Depend on yourself; you won't be let down. ~ Madhuri Dixit, #NFDB
960:Do not let anyone else run your business ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
961:Do not let fear overcome your efforts. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
962:Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” I ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
963:Don't let politeness interelfere with truth ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB
964:Don't let the tattoo fool you. I'm no angel. ~ Cat Johnson, #NFDB
965:Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence. ~ T I, #NFDB
966:Don't let your heart depend on things ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
967:Do well and right and let the world sink. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
968:Find what you love and let it kill you! ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
969:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
970:For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
971:Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
972:I can't let you go again. I won't let you go. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
973:if any one will not work, neither let him eat. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
974:If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
975:I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey. ~ Nina Arianda, #NFDB
976:I'm asking you to love me and let me... die. ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB
977:I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
978:I say, let's learn more and then speculate. ~ Vernor Vinge, #NFDB
979:I thought you didn't want to let me go. ~ Lucy Christopher, #NFDB
980:I won't let your ignorance silence my pain. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
981:Just smile for me and let the day begin. ~ Jeffrey Osborne, #NFDB
982:Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye. ~ Mark Deklin, #NFDB
983:Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed. ~ Benjamin Banneker, #NFDB
984:Let each moment be full of positive vibrations. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
985:Let every man be master of his time. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
986:Let every man mind his own business. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
987:Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously. ~ Horace, #NFDB
988:Let justice be done tho the heavens fall. ~ Michael Davitt, #NFDB
989:Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
990:Let me hold you a little while longer. ~ Jessica Brockmole, #NFDB
991:Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
992:Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: ~ Slick Rick, #NFDB
993:Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible! ~ Che Guevara, #NFDB
994:Let's carpe the hell out of this diem. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
995:Let's continue this awkward silence in person ~ John Green, #NFDB
996:Let's create a legal system that can work. ~ Sam Brownback, #NFDB
997:Let's go kick some ass.
Civilly. ~ Becca Ritchie,#NFDB
998:Let's make something happen to this world. ~ Marina Keegan, #NFDB
999:Let's move forward and fix America's problems. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
1000:Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children. ~ Bono, #NFDB
1001:Let's not bring flame where light is enough. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1002:Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1003:Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1004:Let the power of intention lead the way. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1005:Let those possess the land, and only those, ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
1006:Let us absurdify life from east to west. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1007:Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1008:Let us not unlearn what we have already learned ~ Diogenes, #NFDB
1009:Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1010:Let us then, be up and doing. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1011:Let your existence be enough for a moment. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1012:Let your failures refine you, not define you. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1013:Live and let live, believe and let believe. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
1014:My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
1015:need to let go of the need to be in control. ~ Charlene Li, #NFDB
1016:Never let someone in skinny jeans see you cry! ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
1017:Never let the sun go down upon your anger. ~ Roger N Walsh, #NFDB
1018:O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1019:On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1020:People hurts you if you let them." -Cheyenne. ~ Nyrae Dawn, #NFDB
1021:Play the game, never let the game play you. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1022:Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1023:Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1024:...So let us welcome peaceful evening in. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1025:So, you're single. I'm single. Let's mingle ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
1026:Suffering? I love suffering! Let’s do this. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1027:the deaf man interrupted. “Let the boys ~ Franklin W Dixon, #NFDB
1028:Though you may be frightened, let go. ~ Kristen Ciccarelli, #NFDB
1029:Thou shalt not let the world make you hard ~ Ivan E Coyote, #NFDB
1030:To try to let go was to hold more tightly. ~ Laura Kinsale, #NFDB
1031:Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it. ~ Tony Wheeler, #NFDB
1032:Use memories. Do not let memories use you. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1033:We are all one, so let's help each other out. ~ Reggie Lee, #NFDB
1034:Whatever life takes away from you, let it go ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1035:When it's your business, I'll let you know. ~ Trish Doller, #NFDB
1036:A husband would not let you have your plans. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1037:Be silent before God and let Him bless you. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
1038:Bitch wants to play games, let’s play games. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1039:but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1040:Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it. ~ Edward Tenner, #NFDB
1041:Come on. We’re not going to let her bother ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1042:Did I still remember how to let my mind play? ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
1043:Do not let anyone stop you from succeding ~ Sharon M Draper, #NFDB
1044:Do not let them humble you, he said softly. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1045:Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1046:Do not let your opponent see your spirit ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
1047:Don't let a single game break your heart. ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
1048:Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1049:Don't let that thing define you" -Will Traynor ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1050:Don't let yesterday take up too much of today ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
1051:Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
1052:Don't let your heart be colonized by fear. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1053:Don't let your opinion sway your judgment. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
1054:Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
1055:Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
1056:Do your best. And then let life do the rest. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
1057:Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out. ~ Robyn, #NFDB
1058:exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1059:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1060:Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1061:Find what you love, and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1062:Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1063:He didn’t want to let her go. At all. Ever. ~ Erin Nicholas, #NFDB
1064:How do you know when it's time to let go? ~ Jonathan Larson, #NFDB
1065:I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream. ~ Carl Brashear, #NFDB
1066:I don't want to die. Please don't let me die. ~ Hugo Chavez, #NFDB
1067:If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter. ~ Gail Simone, #NFDB
1068:If the careers want me, let them find me. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1069:If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1070:If you let pride stop you, you will hate life ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
1071:If you want to become full,Let yourself be empty. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1072:I let people down easy with inspiration. ~ David Hasselhoff, #NFDB
1073:I'll let life take me where it will. ~ Matthias Schoenaerts, #NFDB
1074:I love my songs, let's not get crazy here. ~ Ronnie Spector, #NFDB
1075:I never let any of my sons beat me at video games. ~ Coolio, #NFDB
1076:I will not be afraid to let my talent shine. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
1077:I will not let you go into the unknown alone. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1078:Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1079:Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
1080:Let go the thought that cannot make you strong ~ Jason Mraz, #NFDB
1081:Let him become a fool, that he may become wise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1082:Let me be part of your beautiful chaos. ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
1083:Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself. ~ Jason Arnopp, #NFDB
1084:Let no man imagine that he has no influence. ~ Henry George, #NFDB
1085:Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1086:Let's bat that nun out of the dog park! ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1087:Let's be friends based on mutual hate. ~ Bryan Lee O Malley, #NFDB
1088:Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring. ~ Kate Mara, #NFDB
1089:Let’s do this! Rock out with your cocks out! ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1090:Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
1091:Let's go commit senseless acts of science. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1092:Let’s go inside,” she said. Lumikki nodded. ~ Salla Simukka, #NFDB
1093:Let's just chant and be good people, alright? ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB
1094:Let's learn to live, for we must die alone. ~ George Crabbe, #NFDB
1095:Let's leave his rank, then,—take the man himself: ~ Moli re, #NFDB
1096:let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
1097:Let students use technologies in the classroom. ~ Weili Dai, #NFDB
1098:Let such teach others who themselves excel ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1099:Let there be truth between us. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1100:Let those desert places in our hearts bloom. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1101:Let us make hay while the sun shines. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1102:Let us think that we are born for the common good. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1103:Let your joy scream across the pain. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, #NFDB
1104:Let your mind alone, and see what happens. ~ Virgil Thomson, #NFDB
1105:Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1106:Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it. ~ Chip Ingram, #NFDB
1107:maybe let me drive you crazy for once. ~ Marquita Valentine, #NFDB
1108:My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. ~ Wes Craven, #NFDB
1109:Never let an old person live in your body. ~ Michael Savage, #NFDB
1110:Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'. ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
1111:Never let the enemy pick the battle site. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
1112:Nothing hurts you unless you let it. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
1113:Now we're talking. Let's go be superheroes! ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1114:Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up! ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1115:Okay, tough guy. Let’s see what you’ve got. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1116:O, let my books be then the eloquence ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1117:Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie. ~ Christian Slater, #NFDB
1118:People will use you as long as you let them. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
1119:Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive? ~ Ice Cube, #NFDB
1120:Someday you should let me give you a baby... ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1121:The best actors do not let the wheels show. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
1122:their heart grew cold
they let their wings down ~ Sappho,#NFDB
1123:we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry. ~ Cherrie Moraga, #NFDB
1124:We'll let time knit these gentle ties between us. ~ Moli re, #NFDB
1125:We should not let negative influences get to us. ~ St Lucia, #NFDB
1126:Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1127:When the sun shines, you let it shine on you ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1128:You can't let facts get in the way of the truth. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1129:You can’t let facts get in the way of the truth. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1130:You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life. ~ Michelle Tea, #NFDB
1131:You can't stop change. Don't let it stop you. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
1132:Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang ~ ASAP Rocky, #NFDB
1133:You only know you love her when you let her go. ~ Passenger, #NFDB
1134:Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1135:A man needs to know when to let things lie.” I ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1136:And let them pass, as they will too soon, ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
1137:Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
1138:beneath hers. Then he let go. Not happily, ~ Sharon Hamilton, #NFDB
1139:Declare independence, don't let them do that to you! ~ Bjork, #NFDB
1140:Dejate querer. Let yourself be loved. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
1141:Dobby cannot let Harry Potter lose his Wheezy! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1142:Do not let yesterday use up too much of today ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
1143:Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
1144:Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful ~ Eminem, #NFDB
1145:Don't let anybody take your manhood. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1146:Don't let school interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1147:Don't let the facts interfere with the truth. ~ Farley Mowat, #NFDB
1148:Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
1149:Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
1150:ESTRAGON: Let’s hang ourselves immediately! ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
1151:Everything he let go of had claw marks on it. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1152:Follow your path, and let the people talk. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
1153:God gave us our spouses; let us rejoice in them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1154:him some baby aspirin and let him color while ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1155:Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book! ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1156:I'd let my golden chances pass me by. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II, #NFDB
1157:I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
1158:If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1159:If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
1160:If you have a dream, don't let anyone take it away. ~ Selena, #NFDB
1161:If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1162:I have never let gender get in my way. ~ Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, #NFDB
1163:I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1164:I never let my politics supersede my manners. ~ Darren Criss, #NFDB
1165:I paid my bill. Let me speak to your supervisor! ~ Jon Jones, #NFDB
1166:I want to hold you, Nikki. Will you let me? ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
1167:I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
1168:Kiss me or let me go. I don’t care anymore. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
1169:Last night I let the party get the best of me. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
1170:Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
1171:Let first the onion flourish there, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1172:let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1173:Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1174:Let me hate you as passionately as I loved you. ~ Kavita Kan, #NFDB
1175:Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun. ~ Charisma Carpenter, #NFDB
1176:Let me tell you that I love the United States. ~ Vicente Fox, #NFDB
1177:Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
1178:Let not your heart be troubled. Have faith ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
1179:Let people take death seriously, and not travel far. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1180:Let's go in and dance the night away." Cliff ~ Stacy Claflin, #NFDB
1181:Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1182:Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1183:Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
1184:Let the boundlessness be your boundary! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1185:Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1186:Let the earth and the sea each have its own. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1187:Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1188:Let them fall Mowgli, they are only tears. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1189:Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1190:Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
1191:Let us be brave in the face of adversity. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
1192:Let us be protectors of all of Gods Creatures ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1193:Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
1194:Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1195:Let us lie down once more by the breathing side ~ Allen Tate, #NFDB
1196:Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1197:Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1198:Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. ~ Muriel Rukeyser, #NFDB
1199:Let us not overlook so great a gain. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #NFDB
1200:Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
1201:Let us, who are of the day, be sober. ~ I Thessalonians V. 8, #NFDB
1202:Let what comes come, let what goes go. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1203:Let your confidence reflect your contentedness. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1204:Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1205:Let your desires be ruled by reason. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1206:Let your memory be your travel bag. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
1207:My attitude is always let it keep rolling. ~ Terrence Malick, #NFDB
1208:My own rule is to let everything alone. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1209:Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. ~ Mardy Grothe, #NFDB
1210:Never let something so unworthy define you. ~ Katherine Reay, #NFDB
1211:Never let your correspondence fall behind. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1212:Never let your uniqueness be compromised ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
1213:Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
1214:O let them be left, wildness and wet ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
1215:People let you down. That includes family. ~ Charlotte Raine, #NFDB
1216:Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that. ~ Janet Varney, #NFDB
1217:Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
1218:She's fragile because you let her be fragile. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
1219:To love is to be selfless. Let me be selfless. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
1220:We must not let daylight in upon the magic. ~ Walter Bagehot, #NFDB
1221:We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real. ~ Aya Cash, #NFDB
1222:When I let go what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1223:When in trouble, just let go. Go back to idle. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
1224:When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1225:A leader must not let critics set the agenda. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
1226:A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you ~ Jeff McBride, #NFDB
1227:Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy! ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
1228:A villain let your creativity out of its cage. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1229:because life is not stable except by faith. Let ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1230:be it peace or happiness let it enfold you ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1231:Can you just relax and let things happen? ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1232:C’mon, let’s go join those tedious people. ~ Armistead Maupin, #NFDB
1233:Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1234:different. Warmer.’ He paused to let that soak ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
1235:Don’t ever let pride give you a ride ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1236:Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. ~ Joe Maddon, #NFDB
1237:Don't let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ~ Mardy Grothe, #NFDB
1238:Don't let others define you. Define yourself. ~ Ginni Rometty, #NFDB
1239:Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ~ Babe Ruth, #NFDB
1240:Don't let what your parents do disappoint you. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
1241:Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. ~ Julie Hockley, #NFDB
1242:Don't let yesterday use up too much of today ~ Tracie Puckett, #NFDB
1243:"Don't let your heart be colonized by fear." ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1244:Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1245:Everyone will hurt you if you let them in. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1246:Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. ~ Peter Sellers, #NFDB
1247:For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1248:Fuck it. Let's blow some shit up." - Shaun Mason ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1249:God, don’t let me be an old fool, I prayed. ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
1250:How did I love her?
Let me count the ways. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1251:If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1252:If you want to be come full, let yourself be empty. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1253:I grew up loyal, so don’t let me die a traitor. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
1254:I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1255:i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1256:i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
1257:I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1258:I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1259:I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. ~ Ethel Barrymore, #NFDB
1260:I want to be your Eurydice, if you'll let me. ~ J A Redmerski, #NFDB
1261:Jump and let's build our wings on the way down ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1262:Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
1263:Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
1264:Let humanity be the other name for religion. ~ Taslima Nasrin, #NFDB
1265:Let me just tell you this: I love polyester. ~ Jay R Ferguson, #NFDB
1266:Let no one who can be his own belong to another. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
1267:Let nothing be changed and all be different. ~ Robert Bresson, #NFDB
1268:Let people hate you so long as they fear you. ~ Lucius Accius, #NFDB
1269:Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. ~ George Chapman, #NFDB
1270:Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1271:let’s get away from him, go somewhere else.’ I ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1272:let's get, emotional girls to all wear mood rings ~ Relient K, #NFDB
1273:LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1274:Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1275:Let's start off with my father being a mailman. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
1276:Let’s talk about why I’m naked and you’re not. ~ Kenya Wright, #NFDB
1277:Let the black flower blossom as it may! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1278:Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
1279:Let the dead Past bury its dead! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1280:Let the punishment match the offense. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1281:Let the violin become a fiddle, boy. ~ Gina Marinello Sweeney, #NFDB
1282:Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman, #NFDB
1283:Let this book take you to the stars and beyond. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1284:Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1285:Let us keep watch over our thoughts. ~ Fo-shu- hing-tsan-king, #NFDB
1286:Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
1287:Let us live, while we are alive! ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1288:Let us remove God from the equation, shall we? ~ Mitch Cullin, #NFDB
1289:Let us see God before man every day. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
1290:Let your heart speak to others hearts. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
1291:Let your love flow out on all living things. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
1292:Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night... ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1293:Life is too short to let a man call the shots. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
1294:Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1295:Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
1296:Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1297:No one can dull your light unless you let them. ~ Sam Mariano, #NFDB
1298:No sirens. Let Parker drive,” Frazer ordered. ~ Toni Anderson, #NFDB
1299:Oh sweet heaven, who let that bastard in? ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
1300:On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
1301:Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1302:Open your mind and let the pictures out ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
1303:Point me at a problem, and let me shoot it. ~ Chris Philbrook, #NFDB
1304:Refuse to let an old person move into your body. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1305:Then with the losers let it sympathize, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1306:Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1307:To be who you are, let go of what you were. ~ Jennifer Sodini, #NFDB
1308:We don't let animals suffer, so why humans? ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
1309:We stand in shit but let us not drown in it. ~ Heather Morris, #NFDB
1310:When a guy is into you, he let’s you know it. ~ Greg Behrendt, #NFDB
1311:When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1312:When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1313:When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1314:You can't let your past hold your future hostage. ~ LL Cool J, #NFDB
1315:you let the grief in, it might consume you. ~ Christina Henry, #NFDB
1316:You're the one who held me up Never let me fall ~ Celine Dion, #NFDB
1317:Your mind will create a way if you let it. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1318:3260Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1319:Always let your employees come to work with a smile. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
1320:Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide. ~ Smokey Robinson, #NFDB
1321:Be fearless enough to let love transform you. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1322:...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1323:…but let us judge not that we be not judged. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1324:Come on,"he meowed to Greystripe."Let's go home. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1325:Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Yasser Arafat, #NFDB
1326:Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”? ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1327:Don't let someone spend money who never earned it. ~ Nick Cole, #NFDB
1328:Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
1329:Don't let your loyalty become your slavery. ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
1330:Fall for them, but don't let them ruin you. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1331:For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1332:Friends don't let friends commit social suicide. ~ Sonya Sones, #NFDB
1333:Greeks!” Percy yelled. “Let’s, um, fight stuff! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1334:He let out a breath I didn't see he was holding.. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1335:Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
1336:He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
1337:I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1338:I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1339:I can't let the mistakes I've made bury me. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1340:I closed my eyes and let my enemy win. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
1341:If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ~ Robert Burton, #NFDB
1342:If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams. ~ Steve Winwood, #NFDB
1343:I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass ~ MC Paul Barman, #NFDB
1344:I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1345:It's easy to love someone you haven't let down. ~ Elliott Holt, #NFDB
1346:Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it. ~ Karen Lord, #NFDB
1347:Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1348:Let a bitch enjoy her mental breakdown in peace. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
1349:Let every man come to God in his own way. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1350:Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1351:Let Go.
Let Me Have It.
Let Me Have You. ~ Adriane Leigh,#NFDB
1352:Let go of the thoughts that don't make you strong. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1353:Let go your hate, and let your love heal you. ~ Ann Somerville, #NFDB
1354:Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
1355:Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he? ~ Nathanael West, #NFDB
1356:let himself into the office. He stood in the ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
1357:Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1358:Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
1359:Let love simply bloom... and it is unstoppable. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1360:Let me down right now, you impotent angst puppy. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
1361:Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay. ~ Fiona Apple, #NFDB
1362:Let me not to the marriage of true minds ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1363:Let me say the good are often punished unfairly. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
1364:Let me through, my Land, for I belong to you ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1365:Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
1366:Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. ~ Propertius, #NFDB
1367:Let not my winged days, be spent in vain’. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
1368:Let not the fear of thorns keep you from the rose. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1369:Let our lives be open books for all to study. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1370:Let our scars fall into love with each other... ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
1371:Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is. ~ Michael Kors, #NFDB
1372:Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1373:Let’s face it, no one likes a fecal tornado. ~ Chris Philbrook, #NFDB
1374:Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1375:Let's protect our social security and Medicare. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1376:"Let stillness direct your words and actions." ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1377:Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1378:Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1379:Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1380:Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct. ~ Tiberius, #NFDB
1381:Let them taste the terror they make us swallow. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
1382:Let the soldier yield to the civilian. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1383:Let those who like society better have it. ~ John Nelson Darby, #NFDB
1384:Let us be servants in order to be leaders. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1385:Let us come together before we're annihilated. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
1386:Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1387:Let us fashion together a new world order. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
1388:Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities— ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1389:Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1390:Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1391:Let your name be worth more than your bank account ~ Ray Lewis, #NFDB
1392:Let your opponent show you how to defeat him ~ Wong Shun Leung, #NFDB
1393:Let yourself be open and life will be easier. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1394:Let your speech be true and sweet. ~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, #NFDB
1395:Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, #NFDB
1396:Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1397:Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
1398:Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1399:My liver is bad, well — let it get worse! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1400:My mother would only let us go to the musicals. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
1401:Never let another man put fear in your heart. ~ Anthony Pettis, #NFDB
1402:Never let anyone make you feel ordinary. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, #NFDB
1403:Never let anyone tell you how to live your life. ~ Mark Hoppus, #NFDB
1404:Now, undress for me and let me see what’s mine. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1405:.O let them be left, wildness and wet. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
1406:People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it. ~ Gordie Howe, #NFDB
1407:she began as always. “To let Mr. Michelson ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
1408:She gave all she could so we could let it go. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1409:She loved him too. That's why she let him go. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
1410:Stall! Delay! Obfuscate! “Let’s,” said Flora. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1411:Suffering is against the Way. Let us end you. ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
1412:Tell me. Let me know how to make you shatter. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1413:That’s right, Harry . . . just let go now. . . . ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1414:Then just get out the way and let God do His thing! ~ Ron Hall, #NFDB
1415:The reason men rule is because women let them. ~ Jessica Zafra, #NFDB
1416:They won't let me ... I can't be ... good! ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1417:Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
1418:We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1419:We help others only as much as they let us. ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
1420:When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire. ~ Suetonius, #NFDB
1421:When people can walk away from you: Let them walk. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
1422:Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
1423:Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. ~ Frank Ocean, #NFDB
1424:You can't move on until you let go of the past. ~ Marilyn Grey, #NFDB
1425:You will evolve past ceratin people,let yourself. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
1426:As I let go of the past, the past let go of me. ~ Keith Donohue, #NFDB
1427:Auden poem, “Let your last thinks all be thanks, ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1428:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1429:Be who you are and let everyone love that person. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
1430:Can you let me go to hell the way I want to? ~ Wild Bill Hickok, #NFDB
1431:Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall ~ Kyuzo Mifune, #NFDB
1432:Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1433:C’mon and let your Uncle Kirby shoot you. ~ William W Johnstone, #NFDB
1434:Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1435:Come on, let’s go. Crazy people do crazy things. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1436:Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. ~ Philip Massinger, #NFDB
1437:Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
1438:Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
1439:Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1440:Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1441:Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1442:Don't let school get in the way of your education. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1443:Don't let schooling interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1444:Don’t let the cynic in you drown out the dreamer. ~ J A DeRouen, #NFDB
1445:Don't let the hand you hold
hold you down. ~ Julia de Burgos,#NFDB
1446:Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out. ~ Harvey Mackay, #NFDB
1447:Don't let your imagination take you by surprise. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
1448:Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. ~ Tom Paxton, #NFDB
1449:Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
1450:Enter others' minds and let them enter yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1451:...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it. ~ Pearl Cleage, #NFDB
1452:God bless America. Let's try to save some of it. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1453:Good friends, good meat. Good God, let’s eat! ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
1454:Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1455:Harry, you can’t help him now. It’s over. Let go. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1456:He said, first let's just unzip your religion down. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
1457:He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
1458:I can do it this time. Please, let me succeed. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1459:I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1460:Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1461:I’d sleep on the floor beside you if you’d let me. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1462:If I have to die, let me die fighting. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1463:If you let pride stop you, you will hate life ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1464:If you want to grow, you must learn to let go. ~ Darren Johnson, #NFDB
1465:I loved you before, Ava. Let me love you still. ~ Leslye Walton, #NFDB
1466:I'm surprised you agreed to let me pour the wine. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
1467:I never let school get in the way of my education! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1468:In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1469:In film, you have to let go sometimes. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman, #NFDB
1470:It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two! ~ Ernie Banks, #NFDB
1471:I've learned to let things roll off my back. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
1472:I won't be like them. I won't let you let me be. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
1473:Jeg Reiste Mig Saa Let Fra Smertebaaren
~ Christian Winther,#NFDB
1474:Just let me be me, That's the only way I know. ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
1475:Later...later you can kiss me and not let go. ~ Jennifer Murgia, #NFDB
1476:Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1477:Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. ~ Tiberius, #NFDB
1478:Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
1479:Let each new year find you a better person. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1480:Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
1481:Let every reader do as his conscience bids him. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1482:Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1483:Let fear defeat you not.
—Origami Yoda ~ Tom Angleberger,#NFDB
1484:Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1485:Let go of the past and go for the future. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1486:Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1487:Let him who would move the world first move himself. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1488:Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
1489:Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service. ~ Howard Carter, #NFDB
1490:Let me not to the marriage of true minds ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1491:Let not your rage or malice destroy a life. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1492:Let our children be taught love love love. ~ Daniel Harvey Hill, #NFDB
1493:Let people judge you. It never changes the truth. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
1494:Let's give the historians something to write about ~ Propertius, #NFDB
1495:Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1496:Let's have a good clean three-legged death race. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1497:Let’s just hope history forgets the snafus. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
1498:Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
1499:Let's leave the specifics up to the situation. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1500:Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
1478 Integral Yoga
807 Poetry
210 Occultism
193 Philosophy
150 Christianity
120 Fiction
87 Yoga
84 Mysticism
54 Psychology
27 Science
17 Mythology
16 Hinduism
14 Sufism
14 Philsophy
14 Integral Theory
12 Theosophy
9 Education
7 Cybernetics
6 Baha i Faith
5 Zen
5 Buddhism
4 Kabbalah
2 Taoism
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
1000 The Mother
729 Satprem
425 Sri Aurobindo
193 Nolini Kanta Gupta
124 Aleister Crowley
104 John Keats
86 William Wordsworth
84 H P Lovecraft
54 Robert Browning
54 Carl Jung
52 Friedrich Nietzsche
51 Sri Ramakrishna
47 Percy Bysshe Shelley
46 Plotinus
45 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
44 Rabindranath Tagore
41 William Butler Yeats
41 Walt Whitman
37 James George Frazer
34 Friedrich Schiller
33 Saint Augustine of Hippo
29 Saint Teresa of Avila
29 Anonymous
25 Saint John of Climacus
24 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Aldous Huxley
23 Swami Vivekananda
21 Jorge Luis Borges
21 A B Purani
20 Jalaluddin Rumi
18 Edgar Allan Poe
16 Rainer Maria Rilke
16 Li Bai
14 Rudolf Steiner
14 Ralph Waldo Emerson
14 Nirodbaran
13 Swami Krishnananda
13 Ovid
11 Plato
11 Hafiz
11 George Van Vrekhem
10 Vyasa
10 Sri Ramana Maharshi
10 Lucretius
9 Kabir
8 Franz Bardon
8 Aristotle
7 Norbert Wiener
7 Henry David Thoreau
7 Baha u llah
6 Thubten Chodron
5 Saint Hildegard von Bingen
5 Kobayashi Issa
5 Jordan Peterson
5 Ibn Arabi
5 Hakim Sanai
5 Al-Ghazali
4 Taigu Ryokan
4 Saint Francis of Assisi
4 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
4 Peter J Carroll
4 Omar Khayyam
4 Lewis Carroll
4 Joseph Campbell
4 Alice Bailey
3 Yosa Buson
3 Patanjali
3 Mirabai
3 Ken Wilber
3 Hakuin
3 Bokar Rinpoche
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Saint Therese of Lisieux
2 Saadi
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Ramprasad
2 Rabbi Abraham Abulafia
2 Paul Richard
2 Masahide
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jacopone da Todi
2 Ikkyu
2 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
2 H. P. Lovecraft
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Dadu Dayal
2 Chuang Tzu
2 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
106 Record of Yoga
104 Keats - Poems
86 Wordsworth - Poems
84 Lovecraft - Poems
76 Magick Without Tears
68 Prayers And Meditations
66 Agenda Vol 10
65 Agenda Vol 01
57 Agenda Vol 12
57 Agenda Vol 08
56 Agenda Vol 04
56 Agenda Vol 02
55 Agenda Vol 06
54 Browning - Poems
53 Agenda Vol 03
50 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
49 Agenda Vol 13
48 Agenda Vol 05
47 Shelley - Poems
47 Agenda Vol 09
46 Agenda Vol 11
42 Liber ABA
42 Agenda Vol 07
41 Yeats - Poems
41 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
41 Letters On Yoga IV
39 Whitman - Poems
38 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
37 The Golden Bough
37 Tagore - Poems
35 Letters On Yoga II
34 Schiller - Poems
33 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
32 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
31 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
30 Questions And Answers 1956
27 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
26 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
26 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
25 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
25 The Bible
25 Questions And Answers 1954
24 The Perennial Philosophy
23 Questions And Answers 1955
22 The Synthesis Of Yoga
22 Questions And Answers 1953
22 Mysterium Coniunctionis
22 Letters On Yoga III
22 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
22 City of God
21 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
21 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
20 Words Of Long Ago
20 Savitri
20 Collected Poems
19 The Life Divine
19 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
18 The Future of Man
18 The Divine Comedy
18 Labyrinths
17 The Way of Perfection
17 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
17 Poe - Poems
17 Essays Divine And Human
16 Rilke - Poems
16 Li Bai - Poems
16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
15 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
15 On the Way to Supermanhood
15 Faust
14 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
14 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
14 Some Answers From The Mother
14 Emerson - Poems
13 The Study and Practice of Yoga
13 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
13 Metamorphoses
13 Bhakti-Yoga
12 The Phenomenon of Man
12 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
12 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
12 Talks
12 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
12 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
12 Letters On Yoga I
12 Anonymous - Poems
11 Twilight of the Idols
11 The Practice of Psycho therapy
11 Preparing for the Miraculous
10 Vishnu Purana
10 On Education
10 Of The Nature Of Things
10 Essays On The Gita
10 Crowley - Poems
10 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
9 Words Of The Mother II
9 Vedic and Philological Studies
9 The Secret Of The Veda
9 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
9 The Human Cycle
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
9 Letters On Poetry And Art
9 Let Me Explain
9 Hafiz - Poems
9 Goethe - Poems
9 Aion
9 5.1.01 - Ilion
8 Theosophy
8 Poetics
7 Walden
7 The Blue Cliff Records
7 Kena and Other Upanishads
7 Cybernetics
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Red Book Liber Novus
6 Songs of Kabir
6 Rumi - Poems
6 Raja-Yoga
6 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
6 Hymn of the Universe
6 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
5 The Problems of Philosophy
5 The Alchemy of Happiness
5 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
5 Initiation Into Hermetics
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Words Of The Mother III
4 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Ryokan - Poems
4 Liber Null
4 General Principles of Kabbalah
4 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
4 Alice in Wonderland
3 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
3 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
3 The Practice of Magical Evocation
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 Arabi - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Song of Myself
2 Selected Fictions
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Chuang Tzu - Poems
2 Borges - Poems
2 Amrita Gita
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
'spiritual life': it was all so comfortable, for we had a supreme 'symbol' of it right there. She let us do as we pleased, She even opened up all kinds of little heavens in us, along with a few hells, since they go together. She even opened the door in us to a certain 'liberation,' which in the end was as soporific as eternity - but there was nowhere to get out: it WAS eternity. We were trapped on all sides. There was nothing left but these 4m2 of skin, the last refuge, that which we wanted to flee by way of above or below, by way of Guiana or the Himalayas. She was waiting for us just there, at the end of our spiritual or not so spiritual pirouettes. Matter was her concern. It took us seven years to understand that She was beginning there, 'where the other yogas leave off,' as Sri Aurobindo had already said twenty-five years earlier. It was necessary to have covered all the paths of the Spirit and all those of Matter, or in any case a large number geographically, before discovering, or even simply understanding, that 'something else' was really Something Else. It was not an improved
Spirit nor even an improved Matter, but ... it could be called 'nothing,' so contrary was it to all we know. For the caterpillar, a butterfly is nothing, it is not even visible and has nothing in common with caterpillar heavens nor even caterpillar matter. So there we were, trapped in an impossible adventure. One does not return from there: one must cross the bridge to the other side. Then one day in that seventh year, while we still believed in liberations and the collected Upanishads, highlighted with a few glorious visions to relieve the commonplace (which remained appallingly commonplace), while we were still considering 'the Mother of the Ashram' rather like some spiritual super-director (endowed, albeit, with a disarming yet ever so provocative smile, as though
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Day after day, for seventeen years, She sat with us to tell us of her impossible odyssey. Ah, how well we now understand why She needed such an 'outlaw' and an incorrigible heretic like us to comprehend a little bit of her impossible odyssey into 'nothing.' And how well we now understand her infinite patience with us, despite all our revolts, which ultimately were only the revolts of the old species against itself. The final revolt. 'It is not a revolt against the British government which any one can easily do. It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature!' Sri Aurobindo had proclaimed fifty years earlier. She listened to our grievances, we went away and we returned. We wanted no more of it and we wanted still more. It was infernal and sublime, impossible and the sole possibility in this old, asphyxiating world. It was the only place one could go to in this barbedwired, mechanized world, where Cincinnati is just as crowded and polluted as Hong Kong. The new species is the last free place in the general Prison. It is the last hope for the earth. How we listened to her little faltering voice that seemed to return from afar, afar, after having crossed spaces and seas of the mind to let its little drops of pure, crystalline words fall upon us, words that make you see. We listened to the future, we touched the other thing. It was incomprehensible and yet filled with another comprehension. It eluded us on all sides, and yet it was dazzlingly obvious. The 'other species' was really radically other, and yet it was vibrating within, absolutely recognizable, as if it were THAT we had been seeking from age to age, THAT we had been invoking through all our illuminations, one after another, in Thebes as in Eleusis as everywhere we have toiled and grieved in the skin of a man. It was for THAT we were here, for that supreme Possible in the skin of a man at last. And then her voice grew more and more frail, her breath began gasping as though She had to traverse greater and greater distances to meet us. She was so alone to beat against the walls of the old prison. Many claws were out all around. Oh, we would so quickly have cut ourself free from all this fiasco to fly away with Her into the world's future. She was so tiny, stooped over, as if crushed beneath the 'spiritual' burden that all the old surrounding species kept heaping upon her. They didn't believe, no. For them, She was ninety-five years old + so many days. Can someone become a new species all alone? They even grumbled at Her: they had had enough of this unbearable Ray that was bringing their sordid affairs into the daylight. The Ashram was slowly closing over Her. The old world wanted to make a new, golden little Church, nice and quiet. No, no one wanted TO
BECOME. To worship was so much easier. And then they bury you, solemnly, and the matter is settled - the case is closed: now, no one need bother any more except to print some photographic haloes for the pilgrims to this brisk little business. But they are mistaken. The real business will take place without them, the new species will fly up in their faces - it is already flying in the face of the earth, despite all its isms in black and white; it is exploding through all the pores of this battered old earth, which has had enough of shams - whether illusory little heavens or barbarous little machines.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Mystics all over the world and in all ages have clothed their sayings in proverbs and parables, in figures and symbols. To speak in symbols seems to be in their very nature; it is their characteristic manner, their inevitable style. let us see what is the reason behind it. But first who are the Mystics? They are those who are in touch with supra-sensual things, whose experiences are of a world different from the common physical world, the world of the mind and the senses.
These other worlds are constituted in other ways than ours. Their contents are different and the laws that obtain there are also different. It would be a gross blunder to attempt a chart of any of these other systems, to use an Einsteinian term, with the measures and conventions of the system to which our external waking consciousness belongs. For, there "the sun shines not, nor the moon, nor the stars, neither these lightnings nor this fire." The difficulty is further enhanced by the fact that there are very many unseen worlds and they all differ from the seen and from one another in manner and degree. Thus, for example, the Upanishads speak of the swapna, the suupta, and the turya, domains beyond the jgrat which is that where the rational being with its mind and senses lives and moves. And there are other systems and other ways in which systems exist, and they are practically innumerable.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Each letter of the Qabalistic alphabet has a number, color, many symbols and a Tarot card attributed to it. The Qabalah not only aids in an understanding of the Tarot, but teaches the student how to classify and organize all such ideas, numbers and symbols. Just as a knowledge of Latin will give insight into the meaning of an unfamiliar English word with a Latin root, so the knowledge of the Qabalah with the various attri butions to each character in its alphabet will enable the student to understand and correlate ideas and concepts which otherwise would have no apparent relation.
A simple example is the concept of the Trinity in the Christian religion. The student is frequently amazed to learn through a study of the Qabalah that Egyptian mythology followed a similar concept with its trinity of gods, Osiris the father, Isis the virgin-mother, and Horus the son. The Qabalah indicates similar correspondences in the pantheon of Roman and Greek deities, proving the father-mother (Holy Spirit) - son principles of deity are primordial archetypes of man's psyche, rather than being, as is frequently and erroneously supposed a development peculiar to the Christian era.
At this juncture let me call attention to one set of attri butions by Rittangelius usually found as an appendix attached to the Sepher Yetzirah. It lists a series of "Intelligences" for each one of the ten Sephiros and the twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life. It seems to me, after prolonged meditation, that the common attri butions of these Intelligences is altogether arbitrary and lacking in serious meaning.
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
One day the priest of the Radhakanta temple accidentally dropped the image of Krishna on the floor, breaking one of its legs. The pundits advised the Rani to install a new image, since the worship of an image with a broken limb was against the scriptural injunctions. But the Rani was fond of the image, and she asked Sri Ramakrishna's opinion. In an abstracted mood, he said: "This solution is ridiculous. If a son-in-law of the Rani broke his leg, would she discard him and put another in his place? Wouldn't she rather arrange for his treatment? Why should she not do the same thing in this case too? let the image be repaired and worshipped as before." It was a simple, straightforward solution and was accepted by the Rani. Sri Ramakrishna himself mended the break. The priest was dismissed for his carelessness, and at Mathur Babu's earnest request Sri Ramakrishna accepted the office of priest in the Radhakanta temple.
^No definite information is available as to the origin of this name. Most probably it was given by Mathur Babu, as Ramlal, Sri Ramakrishna's nephew, has said, quoting the authority of his uncle himself.
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Hindu priests are thoroughly acquainted with the rites of worship, but few of them are aware of their underlying significance. They move their hands and limbs mechanically, in obedience to the letter of the scriptures, and repeat the holy mantras like parrots. But from the very beginning the inner meaning of these rites was revealed to Sri Ramakrishna. As he sat facing the image, a strange transformation came over his mind. While going through the prescribed ceremonies, he would actually find himself encircled by a wall of fire protecting him and the place of worship from unspiritual vibrations, or he would feel the rising of the mystic Kundalini through the different centres of the body. The glow on his face, his deep absorption, and the intense atmosphere of the temple impressed everyone who saw him worship the Deity.
Ramkumar wanted Sri Ramakrishna to learn the intricate rituals of the worship of Kali. To become a priest of Kali one must undergo a special form of initiation from a qualified guru, and for Sri Ramakrishna a suitable brahmin was found. But no sooner did the brahmin speak the holy word in his ear than Sri Ramakrishna, overwhelmed with emotion, uttered a loud cry and plunged into deep concentration.
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As his spiritual mood deepened he more and more felt himself to be a child of the Divine Mother. He learnt to surrender himself comp letely to Her will and let Her direct him.
"O Mother," he would constantly pray, "I have taken refuge in Thee. Teach me what to do and what to say. Thy will is paramount everywhere and is for the good of Thy children. Merge my will in Thy will and make me Thy instrument."
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In 1858 there came to Dakshineswar a cousin of Sri Ramakrishna, Haladhari by name, who was to remain there about eight years. On account of Sri Ramakrishna's indifferent health, Mathur appointed this man to the office of priest in the Kali temple. He was a complex character, versed in the letter of the scriptures, but hardly aware of their spirit. He loved to participate in hair-splitting theological discussions and, by the measure of his own erudition, he proceeded to gauge Sri Ramakrishna. An orthodox brahmin, he thoroughly disapproved of his cousin's unorthodox actions, but he was not unimpressed by Sri Ramakrishna's purity of life, ecstatic love of God, and yearning for realization.
One day Haladhari upset Sri Ramakrishna with the statement that God is incomprehensible to the human mind. Sri Ramakrishna has described the great moment of doubt when he wondered whether his visions had really misled him: "With sobs I prayed to the Mother, 'Canst Thou have the heart to deceive me like this because I am a fool?' A stream of tears flowed from my eyes. Shortly afterwards I saw a volume of mist rising from the floor and filling the space before me. In the midst of it there appeared a face with flowing beard, calm, highly expressive, and fair. Fixing its gaze steadily upon me, it said solemnly, 'Remain in bhavamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness.' This it repeated three times and then it gently disappeared in the mist, which itself dissolved. This vision reassured me."
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Without being formally initiated into their doctrines, Sri Ramakrishna thus realized the ideals of religions other than Hinduism. He did not need to follow any doctrine. All barriers were removed by his overwhelming love of God. So he became a Master who could speak with authority regarding the ideas and ideals of the various religions of the world. "I have practised", said he, "all religions — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity — and I have also followed the paths of the different Hindu sects. I have found that it is the same God toward whom all are directing their steps, though along different paths. You must try all beliefs and traverse all the different ways once. Wherever I look, I see men quarrelling in the name of religion — Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaishnavas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well — the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it 'jal'; at another the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it pani'. At a third the Christians call it 'water'. Can we imagine that it is not 'jal', but only 'pani' or 'water'? How ridiculous! The substance is One under different names, and everyone is seeking the same substance; only climate, temperament, and name create differences. let each man follow his own path. If he sincerely and ardently wishes to know God, peace be unto him! He will surely realize Him."
In 1867 Sri Ramakrishna returned to Kamarpukur to recuperate from the effect of his austerities. The peaceful countryside, the simple and artless companions of his boyhood, and the pure air did him much good. The villagers were happy to get back their playful, frank, witty, kind-hearted, and truthful Gadadhar, though they did not fail to notice the great change that had come over him during his years in Calcutta. His wife, Sarada Devi, now fourteen years old, soon arrived at Kamarpukur. Her spiritual development was much beyond her age and she was able to understand immediately her husband's state of mind. She became eager to learn from him about God and to live with him as his attendant. The Master accepted her cheerfully both as his disciple and as his spiritual companion. Referring to the experiences of these few days, she once said: "I used to feel always as if a pitcher full of bliss were placed in my heart. The joy was indescribable."
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Shivanath vehemently criticized the Master for his other-worldly attitude toward his wife. He writes: "Ramakrishna was practically separated from his wife, who lived in her village home. One day when I was complaining to some friends about the virtual widowhood of his wife, he drew me to one side and whispered in my ear: 'Why do you complain? It is no longer possible; it is all dead and gone.' Another day as I was inveighing against this part of his teaching, and also declaring that our program of work in the Brahmo Samaj includes women, that ours is a social and domestic religion, and that we want to give education and social liberty to women, the saint became very much excited, as was his way when anything against his settled conviction was asserted — a trait we so much liked in him — and exclaimed, 'Go, thou fool, go and perish in the pit that your women will dig for you.' Then he glared at me and said: 'What does a gardener do with a young plant? Does he not surround it with a fence, to protect it from goats and cattle? And when the young plant has grown up into a tree and it can no longer be injured by cattle, does he not remove the fence and let the tree grow freely?' I replied, 'Yes, that is the custom with gardeners.' Then he remarked, 'Do the same in your spiritual life; become strong, be full-grown; then you may seek them.' To which I replied, 'I don't agree with you in thinking that women's work is like that of cattle, destructive; they are our associates and helpers in our spiritual struggles and social progress' — a view with which he could not agree, and he marked his dissent by shaking his head. Then referring to the lateness of the hour he jocularly remarked, 'It is time for you to depart; take care, do not be late; otherwise your woman will not admit you into her room.' This evoked hearty laughter."
Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
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The Europeanized Kristodas Pal did not approve of the Master's emphasis on renunciation and said; "Sir, this cant of renunciation has almost ruined the country. It is for this reason that the Indians are a subject nation today. Doing good to others, bringing education to the door of the ignorant, and above all, improving the material conditions of the country — these should be our duty now. The cry of religion and renunciation would, on the contrary, only weaken us. You should advise the young men of Bengal to resort only to such acts as will uplift the country." Sri Ramakrishna gave him a searching look and found no divine light within, "You man of poor understanding!" Sri Ramakrishna said sharply. "You dare to slight in these terms renunciation and piety, which our scriptures describe as the greatest of all virtues! After reading two pages of English you think you have come to know the world! You appear to think you are omniscient. Well, have you seen those tiny crabs that are born in the Ganges just when the rains set in? In this big universe you are even less significant than one of those small creatures. How dare you talk of helping the world? The Lord will look to that. You haven't the power in you to do it." After a pause the Master continued: "Can you explain to me how you can work for others? I know what you mean by helping them. To feed a number of persons, to treat them when they are sick, to construct a road or dig a well — isn't that all? These, are good deeds, no doubt, but how trifling in comparison with the vastness of the universe! How far can a man advance in this line? How many people can you save from famine? Malaria has ruined a whole province; what could you do to stop its onslaught? God alone looks after the world. let a man first realize Him. let a man get the authority from God and be endowed with His power; then, and then alone, may he think of doing good to others. A man should first be purged of all egotism. Then alone will the Blissful Mother ask him to work for the world." Sri Ramakrishna mistrusted philanthropy that presumed to pose as charity. He warned people against it. He saw in most acts of philanthropy nothing but egotism, vanity, a desire for glory, a barren excitement to kill the boredom of life, or an attempt to soothe a guilty conscience. True charity, he taught, is the result of love of God — service to man in a spirit of worship.
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One day, in January 1884, the Master was going toward the pine-grove when he went into a trance. He was alone. There was no one to support him or guide his footsteps. He fell to the ground and dislocated a bone in his left arm. This accident had a significant influence on his mind, the natural inclination of which was to soar above the consciousness of the body. The acute pain in the arm forced his mind to dwell on the body and on the world outside. But he saw even in this a divine purpose; for, with his mind compelled to dwell on the physical plane, he realized more than ever that he was an instrument in the hand of the Divine Mother, who had a mission to fulfil through his human body and mind. He also distinctly found that in the phenomenal world God manifests Himself, in an inscrutable way, through diverse human beings, both good and evil. Thus he would speak of God in the guise of the wicked, God in the guise of the pious. God in the guise of the hypocrite, God in the guise of the lewd. He began to take a special delight in watching the divine play in the relative world. Sometimes the sweet human relationship with God would appear to him more appealing than the all-effacing Knowledge of Brahman. Many a time he would pray: "Mother, don't make me unconscious through the Knowledge of Brahman. Don't give me Brahmajnana, Mother. Am I not Your child, and naturally timid? I must have my Mother. A million salutations to the Knowledge of Brahman! Give it to those who want it." Again he prayed: "O Mother let me remain in contact with men! Don't make me a dried-up ascetic. I want to enjoy Your sport in the world." He was able to taste this very rich divine experience and enjoy the love of God and the company of His devotees because his mind, on account of the injury to his arm, was forced to come down to the consciousness of the body. Again, he would make fun of people who proclaimed him as a Divine Incarnation, by pointing to his broken arm. He would say, "Have you ever heard of God breaking His arm?" It took the arm about five months to heal.
--- BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS
--
Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
The Holy Mother secretly went to a Siva temple across the Ganges to intercede with the Deity for the Master's recovery. In a revelation she was told to prepare herself for the inevitable end.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
~Shemhamphorash', the Divine name of 72 letters;
77 Laylah, whose name adds to that number; and
80, the number of the letter Pe, referred to Mars, a
panegyric upon War. Sometimes the text is serious
--
This chapter begins by the letter O, followed by a mark of
exclamation; its reference to the theogony of "Liber Legis" is
--
The word Pan is then explained, {Pi}, the letter of
Mars, is a hieroglyph of two pillars, and therefore
--
It is then asserted that the ultimate letter A has two
names, or phases, Life and Death.
--
number of the chapter, B, which is Beth the letter of
Mercury, the Magus of the Tarot, who has four
--
(3) Fourteen letters. Quid Voles Illud Fac. Q.V.I.F.
196=14^2.
--
To all impressions thus. let them not overcome thee;
yet let them breed within thee. The least of the
impressions, come to its perfection, is Pan.
--
Da leth is the Empress of the Tarot, the letter of
Venus, and the title, Peaches, again refers to the Yoni.
--
He is the letter of Aries, a Martial sign; while the
title suggests war. The ants are chosen as small busy
--
Yet He, being a holy letter, raises the beginning of the
chapter to a contemplation of the Pentagram, con-
--
(8) O, the last letter of Perdurabo, is Naught.
[25]
--
illusions; let me play the man, and thrust it from
me! Amen.
--
In figures they are 1001;(9) in letters they are Joy.(10)
For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from
--
even. (See Poe's tale of "The Purloined letter".)
But this is a more serious piece of psychology. In one's
--
ceiving that I was but a Pure Fool, they let me
pass.
--
let this go free, even as It will; thou art not its
master, but the vehicle of It.
--
charged to let it have its own way. It has a will of its
own, which is more in accordance with the Cosmic Will,
--
let us create nothing but GOD!
That which causes us to create is our true father and
--
let us create therefore without fear; for we can
create nothing that is not GOD.
--
and refers to the letter Tau, the Phallus in manifesta-
tion; hence the title, "The Blind Webster".
--
let me be no more! let me be Thine; let me be
Thou; let me be neither Thou nor I; let there be
love in night and night in love.
--
let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and
provided with his Mystic Rose].
In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if
he know them, if he will and dare do them, and
--
Then let him advance to the East, and make the
Holy Hexagram, saying: PATER ET MATER
--
let him go round to the South, make the Holy
Hexagram, and say: MATER ET FILIUS UNUS
--
let him go round to the West, make the Holy
Hexagram, and say: FILIUS ET FILIA UNUS
--
let him go round to the North, make the Holy
Hexagram, and then say: FILIA ET PATER
--
let him then return to the Centre, and so to The
Centre of All [making the ROSY CROSS as he
--
Circle. let him drink of the Sacrament and let him
communicate the same.]
Then let him say: OMNIA IN DUOS: DUO IN
UNUM: UNUS IN NIHIL: HAE NEC
--
let him then repeat the signs of L.V.X. but not the
signs of N.O.X.; for it is not he that shall arise in
--
let the corpse of mind lie unburied on the edge of
the Great Sea!
--
as the Chela may possess; let him occupy himself,
rather, with the task of getting rid of his personality;
--
Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord, let men
seek by experiment, and not by Questionings.
--
"It must have a `supernatural' cause." / let
these two asses be set to grind corn.
--
able, almost certainly-poor hacks! let them be
turned out to grass!
--
Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is
A B
--
Here is Wisdom. let Him that hath Understanding
count the Number of Our Lady; for it is the
--
For forgery let him suffer Penal Servitude for Seven
Years; or at least let him do Pranayama all the
way home-home? nay! but to the house of the
--
The number of the chapter may refer to the letter
Samech ({Samech}), Temperence, in the Tarot.
--
sound of the word "pay" suggest the Hebrew letter Pe (see Liber XVI), which
represents the final dissolution in Shivadarshana.
I Hebrew, the letter which follows O is P; i therefore follows Ayin, the Devi
of the Tarot.
AYIN is spelt O I N, thus replacing the A in A I N by an O, the letter of the
Devil, or Pan, the phallic God.
--
symbolised in the letter P.
These letters, O P, are then seen to be the root of opus, the Latin word for
"work",
--
Karma, for the letter N, the fish, the vesica, the womb, breeds, whereas the Ey
e of
--
(32) Death = Nun, the letter before O, means a fish, a symbol of Christ, and
also by its shape the Female principle
--
Ay! let us offer the Obscene Kiss!
let us seek the Mystery of the Gnarled Oak, and of
the Glacier Torrent!
To Him let us offer our babes! Around Him let
us dance in the mad moonlight!
--
70 is the number of the letter Ain, the Devil in the
Tarot.
--
each containing 72 letters. If these be written beneath
each other, the middle verse bring reversed, i.e. as in
--
The Hebrew letter Gimel adds up to 73; it means a camel.
The title of the chapter is borrowed from the well-known lines of Rudyard
--
and the moon, are all correspondences of Gimel, the letter of the Aspiration,
since gimel is the Path that leads from the Microcosm in tiphareth to the
--
And now he has let his girl go to America, to have
"success" in "life": blank loss.
--
= P, the letter of Mars.
(40) P also means "a mouth".
--
fancy a Policeman let loose on Society!
While there exists the burgess, the hunting man, or
--
let all thy stryges and thy ghouls attend!
He that endureth even to the end
--
H, the letter of of breath, is suitable for Spirit; Abrahadabra is
called the name of Spirit, because it is cheth: L is Earth, green
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna was a teacher for both the Orders of mankind, Sannysins and householders. His own life offered an ideal example for both, and he left behind disciples who followed the highest traditions he had set in respect of both these ways of life. M., along with Nag Mahashay, exemplified how a householder can rise to the highest level of sagehood. M. was married to Nikunja Devi, a distant relative of Keshab Chander Sen, even when he was reading at College, and he had four children, two sons and two daughters. The responsibility of the family, no doubt, made him dependent on his professional income, but the great devotee that he was, he never compromised with ideals and principles for this reason. Once when he was working as the headmaster in a school managed by the great Vidysgar, the results of the school at the public examination happened to be rather poor, and Vidysgar attri buted it to M's preoccupation with the Master and his consequent failure to attend adequately to the school work. M. at once resigned his post without any thought of the morrow. Within a fortnight the family was in poverty, and M. was one day pacing up and down the verandah of his house, musing how he would feed his children the next day. Just then a man came with a letter addressed to 'Mahendra Babu', and on opening it, M. found that it was a letter from his friend Sri Surendra Nath Banerjee, asking whether he would like to take up a professorship in the Ripon College. In this way three or four times he gave up the job that gave him the wherewithal to support the family, either for upholding principles or for practising spiritual Sadhanas in holy places, without any consideration of the possible dire worldly consequences; but he was always able to get over these difficulties somehow, and the interests of his family never suffered. In spite of his disregard for worldly goods, he was, towards the latter part of his life, in a fairly flourishing condition as the proprietor of the Morton School which he developed into a noted educational institution in the city. The Lord has said in the Bhagavad Git that in the case of those who think of nothing except Him, He Himself would take up all their material and spiritual responsibilities. M. was an example of the truth of the Lord's promise.
Though his children received proper attention from him, his real family, both during the Master's lifetime and after, consisted of saints, devotees, Sannysins and spiritual aspirants. His life exemplifies the Master's teaching that an ideal householder must be like a good maidservant of a family, loving and caring properly for the children of the house, but knowing always that her real home and children are elsewhere. During the Master's lifetime he spent all his Sundays and other holidays with him and his devotees, and besides listening to the holy talks and devotional music, practised meditation both on the Personal and the Impersonal aspects of God under the direct guidance of the Master. In the pages of the Gospel the reader gets a picture of M.'s spiritual relationship with the Master how from a hazy belief in the Impersonal God of the Brahmos, he was step by step brought to accept both Personality and Impersonality as the two aspects of the same Non-dual Being, how he was convinced of the manifestation of that Being as Gods, Goddesses and as Incarnations, and how he was established in a life that was both of a Jnni and of a Bhakta. This Jnni-Bhakta outlook and way of living became so dominant a feature of his life that Swami Raghavananda, who was very closely associated with him during his last six years, remarks: "Among those who lived with M. in latter days, some felt that he always lived in this constant and conscious union with God even with open eyes (i.e., even in waking consciousness)." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXXVII. P. 442.)
--
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
M. spent his weekends and holidays with the monastic brethren who, after the Master's demise, had formed themselves into an Order with a Math at Baranagore, and participated in the intense life of devotion and meditation that they followed. At other times he would retire to Dakshineswar or some garden in the city and spend several days in spiritual practice taking simple self-cooked food. In order to feel that he was one with all mankind he often used to go out of his home at dead of night, and like a wandering Sannysin, sleep with the waifs on some open verandah or footpath on the road.
--
And Swamiji added a post script to the letter: "Socratic dialogues are Plato all over you are entirely hidden. Moreover, the dramatic part is infinitely beautiful. Everybody likes it here or in the West." Indeed, in order to be unknown, Mahendranath had used the pen-name M., under which the book has been appearing till now. But so great a book cannot remain obscure for long, nor can its author remain unrecognised by the large public in these modern times. M. and his book came to be widely known very soon and to meet the growing demand, a full-sized book, Vol. I of the Gospel, translated by the author himself, was published in 1907 by the Brahmavadin Office, Madras. A second edition of it, revised by the author, was brought out by the Ramakrishna Math, Madras in December 1911, and subsequently a second part, containing new chapters from the original Bengali, was published by the same Math in 1922. The full English translation of the Gospel by Swami Nikhilananda appeared first in 1942.
In Bengali the book is published in five volumes, the first part having appeared in 1902
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
We are not seeking a license to ramble wordily. We are intent only upon being adequately concise. General systems science discloses the existence of minimum sets of variable factors that uniquely govern each and every system. Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions. let us not make the error of inadequacy in examining our most comprehensive inventory of experience and thoughts regarding the evoluting affairs of all humanity.
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. With this objective, we set out on our review of the spectrum of significant experiences and seek therein for the greatest meanings as well as for the family of generalized principles governing the realization of their optimum significance to humanity aboard our Sun circling planet Earth.
--
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.
The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. It makes no difference of what material either the fulcrum or the lever consists-wood, steel, or reinforced concrete. Nor do the special-case sizes of the lever and fulcrum, or of the load pried at one end, or the work applied at the lever's other end in any way alter either the principle or the mathematical regularity of the ratios of physical work advantage that are provided at progressive fulcrum-to-load increments of distance outward from the fulcrum in the opposite direction along the lever's arm at which theoperating effort is applied.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
such is the kernel and conclusion of this book. But let us empha-
sise the point : union increases only through an increase in con-
--
But if it is true that it is so vital and so blessed to know, let us
ask again why we are turning our attention particularly to man.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.01 - letters from the Mother to Her Son
author class:The Mother
--
In this letter I am sending you a few photographs of the Ashram
which will no doubt interest you since they will give you an idea,
--
state of affairs you mention in your letter of October 9th; and
it is certainly not confined to the small states of central Europe.
--
After a very long time I was happy to receive your letter of
January 5th, especially since you think of Pondicherry as an
--
have the time or the possibility to come here? Once you did let
me hope for a visit.
--
Your last letter refers to current events and betrays some anxiety
which is certainly not unfounded. In their ignorant unconsciousness men set moving forces they are not even aware of and soon
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.02 - letters to a Sadhak
author class:The Mother
--
Oh! let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let a calm serenity dwell
in every heart.
--
words to the letter. I started following Her advice. I
didn't ask for anything, even on April 1st,10 and that is
--
have found work should let us know."
Before displaying the notice you will speak to the workers
--
very good. If he doesn't, I shall keep silent, without arguing, and let him do as he likes. Is this attitude correct?
No, it is not correct - and I see that you have not understood the
--
I am not at all displeased. But what a strange idea to let yourself
be upset by such little things! What about the Yoga?
--
A year of silence and expectation... let us find, O Lord, our entire
support in Thy Grace alone.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
He came dressed as usual in dhoti, part of which was used by him to cover the upper part of his body. Very rarely he came out with chaddar or shawl and then it was "in deference to the climate" as he sometimes put it. At times for minutes he would be gazing at the sky from a small opening at the top of the grass-curtains that covered the verandah upstairs in No. 9, Rue de la Marine. How much were these sittings dependent on him may be gathered from the fact that there were days when more than three-fourths of the time passed in comp lete silence without any outer suggestion from him, or there was only an abrupt "Yes" or "No" to all attempts at drawing him out in conversation. And even when he participated in the talk one always felt that his voice was that of one who does not let his whole being flow into his words; there was a reserve and what was left unsaid was perhaps more than what was spoken. What was spoken was what he felt necessary to speak.
Very often some news-item in the daily newspaper, town-gossip, or some interesting letter received either by him or by a disciple, or a question from one of the gathering, occasionally some remark or query from himself would set the ball rolling for the talk. The whole thing was so informal that one could never predict the turn the conversation would take. The whole house therefore was in a mood to enjoy the freshness and the delight of meeting the unexpected. There were peals of laughter and light talk, jokes and criticism which might be called personal, there was seriousness and earnestness in abundance.
These sittings, in fact, furnished Sri Aurobindo with an occasion to admit and feel the outer atmosphere and that of the group living with him. It brought to him the much-needed direct contact of the mental and vital make-up of the disciples, enabling him to act on the atmosphere in general and on the individual in particular. He could thus help to remould their mental make-up by removing the limitations of their minds and opinions, and correct temperamental tendencies and formations. Thus, these sittings contributed at least partly to the creation of an atmosphere amenable to the working of the Higher Consciousness. Far more important than the actual talk and its content was the personal contact, the influence of the Master, and the divine atmosphere he emanated; for through his outer personality it was the Divine Consciousness that he allowed to act. All along behind the outer manifestation that appeared human, there was the influence and presence of the Divine.
--
But there were occasions when he did give his independent, personal views on some problems, on events or other subjects. Even then it was never an authoritarian pronouncement. Most often it appeared to be a logically worked out and almost inevitable conclusion expressed quite impersonally though with firm and sincere conviction. This impersonality was such a prominent trait of his personality! Even in such matters as dispatching a letter or a telegram it would not be a command from him to a disciple to carry out the task. Most often during his usual passage to the dining room he would stop on the way, drop in on the company of four or five disciples and, holding out the letter or the telegram, would say in the most amiable and yet the most impersonal way: "I suppose this has to be sent." And it would be for someone in the group instantly to volunteer and take it. The expression he very often used was "It was done" or "It happened", not "I did."
From 1918 to 1922, we gathered at No. 41, Rue Franois Martin, called the Guest House, upstairs, on a broad verandah into which four rooms opened and whose main piece of furniture was a small table 3' x 1' covered with a blue cotton cloth. That is where Sri Aurobindo used to sit in a hard wooden chair behind the table with a few chairs in front for the visitors or for the disciples.
--
The long period of the Second World War with all its vicissitudes passed through these years. It was a priceless experience to see how he devoted his energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how He comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time in his own words "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bul letins! It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world.
There were no formal evening sittings during these years, but what appeared to me important in our informal talks was recorded and has been incorporated in this book.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.03 - letters to My little smile
author class:The Mother
--
detach one's consciousness from it and let it run by itself without
running with it. Then it finds this less enjoyable and after some
--
rebellious, depressed, and now you have let your smile slip away,
and with it your faith and confidence in me; in this condition, if
--
If You want these imaginations to remain in me, let
them remain, but if You don't want that, root them out.
--
about my condition in order to let You know about it.)
There are thieves in the subtle world just as in the outer world.
--
my meal. Then I return home and write my letter to You,
and then sometimes I wash our clothes (X's and mine;
--
turn your faculty of feeling inward instead of letting it project
outward, and you will feel my presence as concretely (even more
--
"Turn your faculty of feeling inward instead of letting it
project outward." Mother, when I feel something I feel
--
Why didn't You return the letter to me (the one You
wrote to me) after I sent it to You this morning with my
--
and to quell this great revolt which has no reason. let me take
you in my arms, bathe you in my love and wipe away even the
--
memory of this unfortunate incident. I kept the letter to show it
to Sri Aurobindo along with your letter of this morning. I am
returning it to you in this notebook.
--
the consciousness. You must not let this upset you too much,
but simply aspire with calm and perseverance for the light to
--
something else? If You know, You will let me know. I
must know what it is in order to get rid of it.
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yet he admits so much of spirituality as has been enforced on his customary ideas by the great religious outbursts of the past and he makes in his scheme of society a place, venerable though not often effective, for the priest or the learned theologian who can be trusted to provide him with a safe and ordinary spiritual pabulum. But to the man who would assert for himself the liberty of spiritual experience and the spiritual life, he assigns, if he admits him at all, not the vestment of the priest but the robe of the Sannyasin. Outside society let him exercise his dangerous freedom. So he may even serve as a human lightning-rod receiving the electricity of the Spirit and turning it away from the social edifice.
Nevertheless it is possible to make the material man and his life moderately progressive by imprinting on the material mind the custom of progress, the habit of conscious change, the fixed idea of progression as a law of life. The creation by this means of progressive societies in Europe is one of the greatest triumphs of Mind over Matter. But the physical nature has its revenge; for the progress made tends to be of the grosser and more outward kind and its attempts at a higher or a more rapid movement bring about great wearinesses, swift exhaustions, startling recoils.
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.04 - letters to a Sadhak
author class:The Mother
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not be good for Tej to let him move freely in a pasture for some
time, so that he may have air, sun and movement without doing
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.05 - letters to a Child
author class:The Mother
--
I was so pleased to receive your nice letter. You must learn
that it is your good and your good alone that I want. I want
--
Mother, let me open to you and to no one else,
always, always. Give me patience.
--
into your heart. let me live in you.
My dear child,
--
I hope you do not show my letters to anyone. It is better to
keep them to yourself; otherwise, if you show them, all the force
--
I have just received your letter of the 25th and I am glad to
know you have recovered at last.
You tell me in your letter: "Mother, I do not want the world,
not because I am afraid of my duty but because I want you." I
--
Read my letter very carefully, think it over well to be sure
that you have understood it comp letely, and when you have seen
--
I received your letter and I have no objection to your going
to study music for three years at Lucknow, since that is what
--
where he has remained ever since. The following letters
were written after his return.)
--
can; do not yield to the temptation to give up the struggle and let
yourself fall into darkness. Persist, and one day you will realise
--
I pray, please do not be vexed by my letter. I on my
part can bear anything except your displeasure. I feel
--
for what I have done and let me know what mistakes I
have committed.
--
(The following letters are undated. Most were written
between 1932 and 1938 during the sadhak's first stay in
--
You did not reply to my last letter. Do you mean
that it isn't necessary to make the vital peaceful?
--
order to let them do in the vital their work of organisation and
classification, of light and peace.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.06 - letters to a Young Sadhak
author class:The Mother
--
The conflict is between that which aspires towards consciousness, the "sattwic" part of the being, and that which lets itself
be invaded and governed by the inconscience, the "tamasic"
--
I don't think it would be bad to let You know about a
thought, an idea which goes on in me, even if this idea,
--
On the contrary, it is good to let me know immediately.
Nothing is better than a confession for opening the closed doors.
--
Beloved Mother, how to master this lethargy that overcomes me? I do not live, Mother, I just exist in some way.
Mother, I must find something which can divert me.
--
True humility lies in not judging oneself and in letting the Divine
determine our real worth.
--
peace and let it enter into the cells of the body; then the suggestion of awkwardness can no longer have any effect.
Mother, X has broken a porcelain bowl.
--
My adored Mother, Sri Aurobindo's last letter made me
think much. The most obvious sign of the action of an
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.07 - letters to a Sadhak
author class:The Mother
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What a letter you have written to Y, Mother! You will
turn my head some day, if it is not turned already! But,
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Your good and kind letter has made me happy.
Last night, in silence, I told you, "To arrive at that to which
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the best answer to your letter?...
With my love and blessings.
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My child's heart is filled with love and light from the Divine; let
them shine throughout your whole being and the clouds, if any,
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Your heart is quite a sweet place because of your love - let
me remain always there so that I may fill your whole being with
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My dear, dear child, let the Light of a conscious certitude and the
joy of an everlasting Presence be always with you - concretely
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come out of it - but let this love and this truth be your shield
and protect you against the intrusion of any force of falsehood.
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"Rise into the higher Consciousness, let its light control
and transform the nature." Some time back you wrote to
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said, " let divine love be your goal. let pure love be your
way. Be always true to your love and all difficulties will
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Your answer to my letter of July 22, which you kindly
meant to reassure me, did not reassure me.2 Why is that
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whole being around your highest consciousness and do not let
your mind work at random. Doubt is not a sport to indulge in
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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nature of that activity is. In his letters, Sri Aurobindo has given
Series Eight - To a Young Captain
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the activities of sleep. Reading these letters is a good introduction
to the study of this subject and to its practical application .
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the mind as quiet as one can, without making an effort to understand, but keeping the head as silent as possible and letting
the force contained in what one reads enter deep inside. This
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some of his letters, in The Synthesis of Yoga and in Essays on
the Gita.
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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My dear child, I have just read your good letter. Fear nothing:
those who are sincere in their aspiration will remain here and
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality, precisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine himself in his supreme potency and wisdom and love. The descent of the Divine into the ordinary human nature in order to purify and transform it and be lodged there is the whole secret of the sadhana in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. The sadhaka has only to be quiet and silent, calmly aspiring, open and acquiescent and receptive to the one Force; he need not and should not try to do things by his independent personal effort, but get them done or let them be done for him in the dedicated consciousness by the Divine Master and Guide. All other Yogas or spiritual disciplines in the past envisaged an ascent of the consciousness, its sublimation into the consciousness of the Spirit and its fusion and dissolution there in the end. The descent of the Divine Consciousness to prepare its definitive home in the dynamic and pragmatic human nature, if considered at all, was not the main theme of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness for there are many varieties of divine consciousness but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age.
It is not my purpose here to enter into details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what are its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work therealthough it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect play and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely considered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has acquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This then is the supreme secret, not the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary human nature : first of all, its psychicisation, that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and identification with the light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve.
The soul or the true being in man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purposesuch is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her evolutionary lan. It is to this labour that man has been called so that in and through him the destined transcendence and transformation can take place.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have been speaking of philosophy and the philosophic manner. But what are the exact implications of the words, let us ask again. They mean nothing more and nothing lessthan the force of thought and the mass of thought content. After all, that seems to be almost the whole difference between the past and the present human consciousness in so far at least as it has found expression in poetry. That element, we wish to point out, is precisely what the old-world poets lacked or did not care to possess or express or stress. A poet meant above all, if not all in all, emotion, passion, sensuousness, sensibility, nervous enthusiasm and imagination and fancy: remember the classic definition given by Shakespeare of the poet
Of imagination all compact.. . .
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Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Parac lete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
Indeed it would be wrong to associate any cold ascetic nudity to the spiritual body of Sri Aurobindo. His poetry is philosophic, abstract, no doubt, but every philosophy has its practice, every abstract thing its concrete application,even as the soul has its body; and the fusion, not mere union, of the two is very characteristic in him. The deepest and unseizable flights of thought he knows how to clo the with a Kalidasian richness of imagery, or a Keatsean gusto of sensuousness:
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And here, let me point out, the capital difference between the European or rather the Hellenic spirit and the Indian spirit. It is the Indian spirit to take stand upon divinity and thence to embrace and mould what is earthly and human. The Greek spirit took its stand pre-eminently on earth and what belongs to earth. In Europe Dante's was a soul spiritualised more than perhaps any other and yet his is not a Hindu soul. The utmost that he could say after all the experience of the tragedy of mortality was:
Io no piangeva, sidentro impietrai13
01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the centre of this energy, the matrix of creativity is the soul itself, one's own soul. If you want to createlive, grow and be real-find yourself, be yourself. The simple old wisdom still remains the eternal wisdom. It is because we fall off from our soul that we wander into side-paths, paths that do not belong to our real nature and hence that lead to imitation and repetition, decay and death. This is what happens to what we call common souls. The force of circumstances, the pressure of environment or simply the momentum of custom or habit compel them to choose the easiest and the readiest way that may lie before them. They do not consult the demand of the inner being but the requirement of the moment. Our bodily needs, our vital hungers and our mental prejudices obsess and obscure the impulsions that thrill the hidden spirit. We hasten to gratify the immediate and forget the eternal, we clutch at the shadow and let go the substance. We are carried away in the flux and tumult of life. It is a mixed and collective whirla Weltgeist that moves and governs us. We are helpless straws drifting in the current. But manhood demands that we stop and pause, pull ourselves out of the Maelstrom and be what we are. We must shape things as we want and not allow things to shape us as they want.
let each take cognisance of the godhead that is within him for self is Godand in the strength of the soul-divinity create his universe. It does not matter what sort of universe he- creates, so long as he creates it. The world created by a Buddha is not the same as that created by a Napoleon, nor should they be the same. It does not prove anything that I cannot become a Kalidasa; for that matter Kalidasa cannot become what I am. If you have not the genius of a Shankara it does not mean that you have no genius at all. Be and become yourselfma gridhah kasyachit dhanam, says the Upanishad. The fountain-head of creative genius lies there, in the free choice and the particular delight the self-determination of the spirit within you and not in the desire for your neighbours riches. The world has become dull and uniform and mechanical, since everybody endeavours to become not himself, but always somebody else. Imitation is servitude and servitude brings in grief.
In one's own soul lies the very height and profundity of a god-head. Each soul by bringing out the note that is his, makes for the most wondrous symphony. Once a man knows what he is and holds fast to it, refusing to be drawn away by any necessity or temptation, he begins to uncover himself, to do what his inmost nature demands and takes joy in, that is to say, begins to create. Indeed there may be much difference in the forms that different souls take. But because each is itself, therefore each is grounded upon the fundamental equality of things. All our valuations are in reference to some standard or other set up with a particular end in view, but that is a question of the practical world which in no way takes away from the intrinsic value of the greatness of the soul. So long as the thing is there, the how of it does not matter. Infinite are the ways of manifestation and all of them the very highest and the most sublime, provided they are a manifestation of the soul itself, provided they rise and flow from the same level. Whether it is Agni or Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the same supreme and divine inflatus.
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Come, let us run
And give the world a girdle with the sun!10
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But first let us go to the fans et origo, be acquainted with the very genuine article in its purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. I do not know of any other ideal exemplar than the Upanishad. Thus,
There the sun shines not and the moon has no
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This, I say, is something different from the religious and even from the mystic. It is away from the merely religious, because it is naked of the vesture of humanity (in spite of a human face that masks it at times) ; it is something more than the merely mystic, for it does not stop being a signpost or an indication to the Beyond, but is itself the presence and embodiment of the Beyond. The mystic gives us, we can say, the magic of the Infinite; what I term the spiritual, the spiritual proper, gives in addition the logic of the Infinite. At least this is what distinguishes modern spiritual consciousness from the ancient, that is, Upanishadic spiritual consciousness. The Upanishad gives expression to the spiritual consciousness in its original and pristine purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. It did not buttress itself with any logic. It is the record of fundamental experiences and there was no question of any logical exposition. But, as I have said, the modern mind requires and demands a logical element in its perceptions and presentations. Also it must needs be a different kind of logic that can satisfy and satisfy wholly the deeper and subtler movements of a modern consciousness. For the philosophical poet of an earlier age, when he had recourse to logic, it was the logic of the finite that always gave him the frame, unless he threw the whole thing overboard and leaped straight into the occult, the illogical and the a logical, like Blake, for instance. let me illustrate and compare a little. When the older poet explains indriyani hayan ahuh, it is an allegory he resorts to, it is the logic of the finite he marshals to point to the infinite and the beyond. The stress of reason is apparent and effective too, but the pattern is what we are normally familiar with the movement, we can say, is almost Aristotelian in its rigour. Now let us turn to the following:
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This much as regards what Sri Aurobindo is not doing; let us now turn and try to understand what he is doing. The distinguished man of action speaks of conquering Nature and fighting her. Adopting this war-like imagery, we can affirm that Sri Aurobindo's work is just such a battle and conquest. But the question is, what is nature and what is the kind of conquest that is sought, how are we to fight and what are the required arms and implements? A good general should foresee all this, frame his plan of campaign accordingly and then only take the field. The above-mentioned leader proposes ceaseless and unselfish action as the way to fight and conquer Nature. He who speaks thus does not know and cannot mean what he says.
European science is conquering Nature in a way. It has attained to a certain kind and measure, in some fields a great measure, of control and conquest; but however great or striking it may be in its own province, it does not touch man in his more intimate reality and does not bring about any true change in his destiny or his being. For the most vital part of nature is the region of the life-forces, the powers of disease and age and death, of strife and greed and lustall the instincts of the brute in man, all the dark aboriginal forces, the forces of ignorance that form the very groundwork of man's nature and his society. And then, as we rise next to the world of the mind, we find a twilight region where falsehood masquerades as truth, where prejudices move as realities, where notions rule as ideals.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The letters stood out of the unmoving Word:
In the immutable nameless Origin
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We take a third view of the matter and say that genius is neither unconscious or conscious but superconscious. And when one is superconscious, one can be in appearance either conscious or unconscious. let us at the outset try to explain a little this psychological riddle.
When we say one is conscious, we usually mean that one is conscious with the mental consciousness, with the rational intelligence, with the light of the brain. But this need not be always so. For one can be conscious with other forms of consciousness or in other planes of consciousness. In the average or normal man the consciousness is linked to or identified with the brain function, the rational intelligence and so we conclude that without this wakeful brain activity there can be no consciousness. But the fact is otherwise. The experiences of the mystic prove the point. The mystic is conscious on a level which we describe as higher than the mind and reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.)And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi that can be sushupti or turiyaorpartially consciousin swapna, for example, the external behaviour may be like that of a child or a lunatic or even a goblin. One can also remain normally conscious and still be in the superconscience. Not only so, the mystic the Yogican be conscious on infraconscious levels also; that is to say, he can enter into and identify with the consciousness involved in life and even in Matter; he can feel and realise his oneness with the animal world, the plant world and finally the world of dead earth, of "stocks and stones" too. For all these strands of existence have each its own type of consciousness and all different from the mode of mind which is normally known as consciousness. When St. Francis addresses himself to the brother Sun or the sister Moon, or when the Upanishad speaks of the tree silhouetted against the sky, as if stilled in trance, we feel there is something of this fusion and identification of consciousness with an infra-conscient existence.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It leaves two giant letters void of sense
While without sanction turns the middle sign
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,
Resolve its oracle and its paradox,
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Wrote clear the letters of its glowing code:
A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The answer is as old as that of Nachiketas: "These horses and these songs and dances of yours, let them remain yours, man is not appeased with riches"; or that of Maitreyi, "What am I to do with that which will not bring me immortality?" This is then man's mission upon earth:
"Man is higher than all animals, than all angels: none is greater than man. Even the Devas will have to come down again and attain to salvation though a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas." Indeed, men are gods upon earth, come down here below to perfect themselves and perfect the worldonly, they have to be conscious of themselves. They do not know what they are, they have to be actually and sovereignly what they are really and potentially. This then is the life-work of everyone:
"First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods.
'Be and make', let this be our motto."
That is indeed the only way of securing a harmonious and
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
And the reason is his metaphysics. It is the Jansenist conception of God and human nature that inspired and coloured all his experience and consciousness. According to it, as according to the Calvinist conception, man is a corrupt being, corroded to the core, original sin has branded his very soul. Only Grace saves him and releases him. The order of sin and the order of Grace are distinct and disparate worlds and yet they complement each other and need each other. Greatness and misery are intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight. Eternal hell is a possible prospect that faces the Jansenist. That was why a Night always over-shadowed the Day in Pascal's soul.
Man then, according to Pascal, is by nature a sinful thing. He can lay no claim to noble virtue as his own: all in him is vile, he is a lump of dirt and filth. Even the greatest has his full share of this taint. The greatest, the saintliest, and the meanest, the most sinful, all meet, all are equal on this common platform; all have the same feet of clay. Man is as miserable a creature as a beast, as much a part and product of Nature as a plant. Only there is this difference that an animal or a tree is unconscious, while man knows that he is miserable. This knowledge or perception makes him more miserable, but that is his real and only greatness there is no other. His thought, his self-consciousness, and his sorrow and repentance and contrition for what he is that is the only good partMary's part that has been given to him. Here are Pascal's own words on the subject:
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"Ils ne peuvent plus nous dire qu'il n'y a que de petits esprits qui aient de la pit: car on leur en fait voir de la mieux pouss dans run des plus grands go-mtres, l'un des plus subtils mtaphysiciens, et des plus pntrants esprits que aient jamais t au monde. La pit d'un tel philosophe devrait faire dire aux indvots et awe libertins ce que dit un jour un certain Diocls, en voyant Epicure dans un temple: 'Quelle fte,' s'criait-il, 'quelle spectacle pour moi, de voir Epicure dans un temple! Tous mes soupons s'vanouissent: la pit reprend sa place; et je ne vis jamais mieux la grandeur de Jupiter que depuis que je vois Epicure genoux!' " aBayle: Nouvelle de la Rpublique des lettres.
"La dernire dmarche de la raison, c'est de connatre qu'il y a une infinit de chases qui la surpassent. Elle est bien faible si elle ne va jusque-l
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a comp lete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme intensity and sweetness and exquisiteness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
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The ultimate truth is that God is the sole doer and the best we can do is to let him do freely without let or hindrance. "He that through Grace may see Jhesu, how that He doth all and himself doth right nought but suffereth Jhesu work in him what him liketh, he is meek." And yet one does not arrive at that condition from the beginning or all at once. "The work is not of the hour nor of a day, but of many days and years." And for a long time one has to take up one's burden and work, co-operate with the Divine working. In the process there is this double movement necessary for the full achievement. "Neither Grace only without full working of a soul that in it is nor working done without grace bringeth a soul to reforming but that one joined to that other." Mysticism is not all eccentricity and irrationality: on the contrary, sanity seems to be the very character of the higher mysticism. And it is this sanity, and even a happy sense of humour accompanying it, that makes the genuine mystic teacher say: "It is no mastery to me for to say it, but for to do it there is mastery." Amen.
Ascendimus ascensiones in corde et cantamus canticum graduum." Confessions of St. Augustine XIII. 9.
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nature has marched from the unconscious to the sub-conscious, from the sub-conscious to the conscious and from the conscious to the self-conscious; she has to rise yet again from the self-conscious to the super-conscious. The mineral gave place to the plant, the plant gave place to the animal and the animal gave place to man; let man give place to and bring out the divine.
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01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Touching the very core of the malady of our age he says that our modern enlightenment seeks to cancel altogether the higher values and install instead the lower alone as true. Thus, for example, Marx and Freud, its twin arch priests, are brothers. Both declare that it is the lower, the under layer alone that matters: to one "the masses", to the other "the instincts". Their wild imperative roars: "Sweep away this pseudo-higher; let the instincts rule, let the pro- letariat dictate!" But more characteristic, Monsieur Thibon has made another discovery which gives the whole value and speciality to his outlook. He says the moderns stress the lower, no doubt; but the old world stressed only the higher and neglected the lower. Therefore the revolt and wrath of the lower, the rage of Revanche in the heart of the dispossessed in the modern world. Enlightenment meant till now the cultivation and embellishment of the Mind, the conscious Mind, the rational and nobler faculties, the height and the depth: and mankind meant the princes and the great ones. In the individual, in the scheme of his culture and education, the senses were neglected, left to go their own way as they pleased; and in the collective field, the toiling masses in the same way lived and moved as best as they could under the economics of laissez-faire. So Monsieur Thibon concludes: "Salvation has never come from below. To look for it from above only is equally vain. No doubt salvation must come from the higher, but on condition that the higher comp letely adopts and protects the lower." Here is a vision luminous and revealing, full of great import, if we follow the right track, prophetic of man's true destiny. It is through this infiltration of the higher into the lower and the integration of the lower into the higher that mankind will reach the goal of its evolution, both individually and collectively.
But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must begin with the individual and within the individual. Man must "turn within, feel alive within himself", re-establish his living contact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself off. Man must learn to subordinate having to being. Each individual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon such individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller collectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses can a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur Thibon insistsand very rightlyupon the variety and diversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and not a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the reviewer of the London Times succinctly puts it: " let us abolish our insensate worship of number. let us repeal the law of majorities. let us work for the unity that draws together instead of idolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. let us understand that it is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each should be in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an organic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he alone is qualified and able to do."
So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the Lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.10 - letters to a Young Captain
author class:The Mother
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bring myself to do it. What shall I do? Confess or let
past things be effaced by forgetting the past?
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Sri Aurobindo has written a lot on this subject (in his letters)
and I too have explained everything in the book Education. One
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I had written a letter to the Mother asking why She
had not given Her darshan to Z. But now I am afraid
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a letter. Because it is none of my business!
I read your letter and I was not at all angry. But Z was not at all
ready for a darshan.
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perfect sincerity to let each bring to the other, as far as possible,
what the other needs to attain that goal.
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To obtain mental silence, one must learn to relax, to let
oneself float on the waves of the universal force as a plank floats
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From your letter I can see that you really have a great desire to
accept the invitation... I do not want, then, to deprive you of
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more irresistibly than the others." - letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 609.
Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Love and admiration for a mahapurusha is not enough, even faith in his gospel is of little avail, nor can actual participation, consecrated work and labour in his cause save the situation; it is only when the principles, the bare realities for which the mahapurusha stands are in the open forum and men have the full and free opportunity of testing and assimilating them, it is only when individuals thus become living embodiments of those principles and realities that we do create a thing universal and permanent, as universal and permanent as earthly things may be. Principles only can embrace and unify the whole of humanity; a particular personality shall always create division and limitation. By placing the man in front, we erect a wall between the Principle and men at large. It is the principles, on the contrary, that should be given the place of honour: our attempt should be to keep back personalities and make as little use of them as possible. let the principles work and create in their freedom and power, untrammelled by the limitations of any mere human vessel.
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.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A sage can smile and smile delightfully! The parable illustrates the well-known Biblical phrase, 'the letter kil leth, but the spirit giveth life'. The monkey is symbolical of the ignorant, arrogant, fussy human mind. There is another Buddhistic story about the monkey quoted in the book and it is as delightful; but being somewhat long, we cannot reproduce it here. It tells how the mind-monkey is terribly agile, quick, clever, competent, moving lightning-fast, imagining that it can easily go to the end of the world, to Paradise itself, to Brahmic status. But alas! when he thought he was speeding straight like a rocket or an arrow and arrive right at the target, he found that he was spinning like a top at the same spot, and what he very likely took to be the very fragrance of the topmost supreme heaven was nothing but the aroma of his own urine.
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01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing the one thing needfulTamevaikam jnatha; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations. let us have by all means the religious spirit, the fundamental experience that is the inmost truth of all religions, that is the matter of our soul; but in our mind and life and body let there be a luminous catholicity, let these organs and instruments be trained to see and compare and appreciate the variety, the numberless facets which the one Spirit naturally presents to the human consciousness. Ekam sat viprh bahudh vadanti. It is an ancient truth that man discovered even in his earliest seekings; but it still awaits an adequate expression and application in life.
II
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If it is said that this is an ideal for the few only, not for the mass, our answer to that is the answer of the GitaYad yad acharati sreshthah. let the few then practise and achieve the ideal: the mass will have to follow as far as it is possible and necessary. It is the very character of the evolutionary system of Nature, as expressed in the principle of symbiosis, that any considerable change in one place (in one species) is accompanied by a corresponding change in the same direction in other contiguous places (in other associated species) in order that the poise and balance of the system may be maintained.
It is precisely strong nuclei that are needed (even, perhaps, one strong nucleus is sufficient) where the single and integrated spiritual consciousness is an accomplished and established fact: that acts inevitably as a solvent drawing in and assimilating or transforming and re-creating as much, of the surroundings as its own degree and nature of achievement inevitably demand.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The angels weave the symphony that is creation. They represent the various notes and rhythmsin their higher and purer degrees that make up the grand harmony of the spheres. It is magnificent, this music that moves the cosmos, and wonderful the glory of God manifest therein. But is it absolutely perfect? Is there nowhere any flaw in it? There is a doubting voice that enters a dissenting note. That is Satan, the Antagonist, the Evil One. Man is the weakest link in the chain of the apparently all-perfect harmony. And Satan boldly proposes to snap it if God only let him do so. He can prove to God that the true nature of his creation is not cosmos but chaos not a harmony in peace and light, but a confusion, a Walpurgis Night. God acquiesces in the play of this apparent breach and proves in the end that it is part of a wider scheme, a vaster harmony. Evil is rounded off by Grace.
The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not-evil and evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One might claim also on behalf of the doctrine of Right that the right kind of Right brings no harm, it is as already stated another name for liberty, for the privilege of living and it includes the obligation to let live. One can do what one likes provided one does not infringe on an equal right of others to do the same. The measure of one's liberty is equal to the measure of others' liberty.
Here is the crux of the question. The dictum of utilitarian philosophers is a golden rule which is easy to formulate but not so to execute. For the line of demarcation between one's own rights and the equal rights of others is so undefinable and variable that a title suit is inevitable in each case. In asserting and establishing and even maintaining one's rights there is always the possibilityalmost the certaintyof encroaching upon others' rights.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you
Which shall be the darkness of God.1
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Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not the perfect voice. A Homer, even a Milton possesses a unity of tone and a wholeness of perception which are denied to the modern. To the modern, however, the old masters are not subtle enough, broad enough, psychological enough, let us say the word, spiritual enough. And yet the poetic inspiration, more than the religious urge, needs the injunction not to be busy with too many things, but to be centred upon the one thing needful, viz., to create poetically and not to discourse philosophically or preach prophetically. Not that it is impossible for the poet to swallow the philosopher and the prophet, metabolising them into the substance of his bone and marrow, of "the trilling wire in his blood", as Eliot graphically expresses. That perhaps is the consummation towards which poetry is tending. But at present, in Eliot, at least, the strands remain distinct, each with its own temper and rhythm, not fused and moulded into a single streamlined form of beauty. Our poet flies high, very high indeed at times, often or often he flies low, not disdaining the perilous limit of bathos. Perhaps it is all wilful, it is a mannerism which he cherishes. The mannerism may explain his psychology and enshrine his philosophy. But the poet, the magician is to be looked for elsewhere. In the present collection of poems it is the philosophical, exegetical, discursive Eliot who dominates: although the high lights of the subject-matter may be its justification. Still even if we have here doldrums like
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.11 - letters to a Sadhak
author class:The Mother
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that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic
announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967."1
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one or the other is comp letely transparent, it lets light through
without distorting it.
Similarly, a sincere consciousness lets divine vibrations
through without distorting them.
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.12 - letters to a Student
author class:The Mother
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.13 - letters to a Student
author class:The Mother
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own egoism"1 and in one of your letters, you have said
that one must not rely on one's ego but on the psychic.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:0.14 - letters to a Sadhak
author class:The Mother
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I knew you would ask me this question because it is indeed the most interesting thing in the whole passageso my answer is ready, along with my answer to another question. But first let me read you this one.
You asked, What is this Personality and when will She come? Here is my answer (Mother reads):
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But actually, to tell you the truth, I think your lives are so easy that you dont exert yourselves very much! How many among you have truly an INTENSE need to find their psychic beings? To find out truly who they are? To find out what their roles are, why they are here? You just let yourselves drift. You even complain when things arent easy enough! You just take things as they come. And sometimes, should an aspiration arise in you and you encounter some difficulty in yourself, you say, Oh, Mother is there! Shell take care of it for me! And you think about something else.
Mother, previously things were very strict in the Ashram, but not now. Why?
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I feel that I am turning in circles and taking one step backward for each one forward. Furthermore, instead of helping me draw nearer to the divine consciousness, my work in the Ashram (the very fact of working for to change work, even if I felt like it, would not change the overall situation), diverts me from this divine consciousness, or at least keeps me in a superficial consciousness from which I am unable to unglue myself as long as I am busy writing letters, doing translations, corrections or classes.1 I know its my own fault, that I should know how to be detached from my work and do it by relying upon a deeper consciousness, but what can be done? Unless I receive the grace, I cannot remember the essential thing as long as the outer part of my being is active.
When I am not immediately engrossed in work, I have to confront a thousand little temptations and daily difficulties that come from my contact with other beings and a life that does indeed remain in life. Here, even more, there is the feeling of an impossible struggle, and all these little difficulties seem to gnaw away at me; scarcely has one hole been filled when another opens up, or the same one reappears, and there is never any real victoryone has constantly to begin everything again. Finally, it seems to me that I really live only one hour a day, during the evening distribution at the playground.2 It is scarcely a life and scarcely a sadhana!
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I am not now going to renounce Sri Aurobindos Yoga, Mother, for my whole life is based upon it, but I believe I should employ other meanswhich is why I am writing you this letter.
By continuing this daily little ant-like struggle and by having to confront the same desires, the same distractions every day, it seems to me I am wasting my energy in vain. Sri Aurobindos Yoga, which is meant to include life, is so difficult that one should come to it only after having already established the solid base of a concrete divine realization. That is why I want to ask you if I should not withdraw for a certain time, to Almora,3 for example, to Brewsters place,4 to live in solitude, silence, meditation, far away from people, work and temptations, until a beginning of Light and Realization is concretized in me. Once this solid base is acquired, it would be easier for me to resume my work and the struggle here for the true transformation of the outer being. But to want to transform this outer being without having fully illumined the inner being seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse, or at least condemning myself to a pitiless and endless battle in which the best of my forces are fruitlessly consumed.
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, this letter is a prayer.
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0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, I am sufficiently awakened not to rebel against your Light and to understand that the vital is but one part of my being, but I have come to the conclusion that the only way of convincing this vital is not to force or stifle it, but to let it go through its own experience so it may understand by itself that it cannot be satisfied in this way. I feel the need to leave the Ashram for a while to see how I can get along away from here and to realize, no doubt, that one can really brea the only here.
I have friends in Bangalore whom I would like to join for two or three weeks, perhaps more, perhaps less, however long it may take to confront this vital with its own freedom. I need a vital activity, to move, to sail, for example, to have friends etc. The need I am feeling is exactly that which I sought to satisfy in the past through my long boat journeys along the coast of Brittany. It is a kind of thirst for space and movement.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I am not speaking of people from outside who have never thought about it, who have never felt concerned and who do not even know that there may be something like the Supermind to receive, in fact. I am speaking of people who have built their lives upon this aspiration (and I dont doubt their sincerity for a minute), who have workedsome of them for thirty years, some for thirty-five, others somewhat lessall the while saying, When the supermind comes When the supermind comes That was their refrain: When the supermind comes Consequently, they were really in the best possible frame of mind, one could not have dreamt of a better predisposition. How is it, then, that their inner preparation was so lets just say incomp lete, that they did not feel the Vibration immediately, as soon as it came, through a shock of identity?
Individually, each ones goal was to make himself ready, to enter into a more or less intimate individual relationship with this Force, so as to help the process; or else, if he could not help, at least be ready to recognize and be open to the Force when it would manifest. Then instead of being an alien element in a world in which your OWN inner capacity remains unmanifest, you suddenly become THAT, you enter directly, fully, into the very atmosphere: the Force is there, all around you, permeating you.
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But really, this attitude this rather overly commercial attitude, is usually not very profitable. If you have difficulties and you sincerely aspire, it is likely that the difficulties will diminish. let us hope so.
(Turning to the disciple) So you may tell them this: be sincere and you will be helped.
0 1956-12-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, a letter from W. He is leaving Brazil and retiring from business for good.
Mother, what can I do with my life? I feel absolutely alone, in a void. What hope remains since I have not been able to integrate into the Ashram? I am goalless. I am from nowhere. I am good for nothing.
0 1956-12-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, this is the problem around which I have desperately been turning in circles. What is the truth of my destiny? Is it that which is urging me so strongly to leave, or that which is struggling against my freedom? For ultimately, sincerely, what I want is to fulfill my lifes truth. If I have ever had a will, then it is: let BE WHAT MUST BE. Mother, how can one truly know? Is this drive, this very old and very CLEAR urge in me, false??
Your child,
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I read your letter yesterday, and here is the answer that immediately came to me. I add to it the assurance that nothing has changed, nor can change, in my relationship with you, and that you are and always will be my child for that is the truth of your being.
Here is what I wrote:
0 1957-07-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So to help you understand this enigma, let me tell you that the mother is physical Nature as she is, and the daughter is the new creation. The manageress is the worlds organizing mental consciousness as Nature has developed it thus far, that is, the most advanced organizing sense to have manifested in the present state of material Nature. This is the key to the vision.
Naturally, when I awoke, I immediately knew what could resolve this problem which appeared so absolutely insoluble. The vanishing of the manageress and her key was an obvious sign that she was altogether incapable of leading what could be called the creative consciousness of the new world to its true place.
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This means that before hoping to realize such a gnostic collectivity, each one must first of all become (or at least start to become) a gnostic being. It is obvious that the individual work must take the lead and the collective work follow; but the fact remains that spontaneously, without any arbitrary intervention of will the individual progress IS restrained or CHECKED, as It were, by the collective state. Between the collectivity and the individual, there exists an interdependence from which one cannot be totally free, even if one tries. And even he who might try, in his yoga, to free himself totally from the human and terrestrial state of consciousness, would be at least subconsciously bound by the state of the whole, which impedes and PULLS BACKWARDS. One can attempt to go much faster, one can attempt to let all the weight of attachments and responsibilities fall off, but in spite of everything, the realization of even the most advanced or the leader in the march of evolution is dependent upon the realization of the whole, dependent upon the state in which the terrestrial collectivity happens to be. And this PULLS backwards to such an extent that sometimes one has to wait centuries for the earth to be ready before being able to realize what is to be realized.
This is why Sri Aurobindo has also written somewhere else that a double movement is necessary: the effort for individual progress and realization must be combined with the effort of trying to uplift the whole so as to enable it to make a progress indispensable for the greater progress of the individual: a mass progress, if you will, that allows the individual to take a further step forward.
0 1957-07-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have just received a letter from my friends in charge of the French Archaeological Expedition to Afghanistan. They need someone to assist them on their next field excavations (August 15 December 15) and have offered to take me if I wish to join them.
If I must have some new experience outside, this one has the advantage of being short-termed and not far away from India, and it is also in an interesting milieu. The only disadvantage is that I would have to pay for the trip as far as Kabul. But I dont want to do anything that displeases you or of which you do not really approve. In the event you might feel this to be a worthwhile experience, I would have to leave by the beginning of August.
0 1958-02-03a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have received a long letter from Swami,1 who in essence says that I should be able to realize what I have to realize right here with you, but he does not refuse to take me with him should I persist in my intention.
Mother, I am placing all this in your hands, sincerely.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As soon as the problem children on the surface will also have learned their lesson, you have only to let me know of the date of your return and you will be welcome.
With you always and everywhere.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This morning, I suddenly looked at my body (usually, I dont look at it I am inside it, working), I looked at my body and said to myself, lets see, what would a witness say about this body?the witness Sri Aurobindo speaks of in The Synthesis of Yoga. Nothing very remarkable. So I formulated it like this (Mother reads a written note):
This body has neither the uncontested authority of a god nor the imperturbable calm of the sage.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I recall that once I tried to speak of this, but no one followed me, no one understood, so I did not insist. I left it open and never pursued it further, for they could not decipher anything or find any meaning in what I was saying. But now I could give a very simple answer: let the Supreme do the work. It is He who has to progress, not you!
Ramdas does not at all consider that the world as it is, is good.
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Each element, let us say each individual element (even though it is not exactly like that), is in its place according to whether the Grace acts on the individual or on the collectivity.
When the Grace acts on the collectivity, each thing, each element, each principle, is put in its place as the result of a karmic logic in the universal movement. This is what gives us the impression of disorder and confusion as we see it.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For the last, for money, he told me, I still dont know exactly what it depends on. Then one day I entered into trance with this idea in mind, and after a certain journey I came to a place like a subterranean grotto (which means that it is in the subconscient, or perhaps even in the inconscient) which was the source, the place and the power over money. I was about to enter into this grotto (a kind of inner cave) when I saw, coiled and upright, an immense serpent, like an all black python, formidable, as big as a seven-story house, who said, You cannot pass!Why not? let me pass!Myself, I would let you pass, but if I did, they would immediately destroy me.Who, then, is this they?They are the asuric4 powers who rule over money. They have put me here to guard the entrance, precisely so that you may not enter.And what is it that would give one the power to enter? Then he told me something like this: I heard (that is, he himself had no special knowledge, but it was something he had heard from his masters, those who ruled over him), I heard that he who will have a total power over the human sexual impulses (not merely in himself, but a universal power that is, a power enabling him to control this everywhere, among all men) will have the right to enter. In other words, these forces would not be able to prevent him from entering.
A personal realization is very easy, it is nothing at all; a personal realization is one thing, but the power to control it among all men that is, to control or master such movements at will, everywhereis quite another. I dont believe that this condition has been fulfilled. If what the serpent said is true and if this is really what will vanquish these hostile forces that rule over money, well then, it has not been fulfilled.
0 1958-07-25b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What you want of me, let me be.
What you want me to do, let me do.1
Original English.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The other day (I was in my bathroom upstairs), it came; it took hold of the entire body. It rose up in the same way, and all the cells were trembling. And with such a power! So I stopped everything, all movement, and I let the thing grow. The vibration went on expanding, ever widening, as the sound itself was expanding, expanding, and all the cells of the body were seized with an intensity of aspiration as if the entire body were swellingit became overwhelming. I felt that it would all burst.
I understood those who withdraw from everything to live that totally.
0 1958-10-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Later, Mother added: 'Because I do not say everything; when I am in that state, there is a lethargy of expression!
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0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For people here in the Ashram, my work is not the same. It is more like a kind of atmosphere that extends everywherea very conscious atmospherewhich I let work for each one according to his need. I dont have a special action for each person, unless something requires my special attention. When I would tune into you while you were travelling, I clearly saw your image appear before me, as though you were looking at me, but now that you have returned here, I no longer see it. Rather, I receive a sensation or an impression; and as these sensations and impressions are innumerable, its rather like one element among many. It no longer imposes itself in such an entirely distinct way nor does it appear before me in the same manner, as a clear image of yourself, as though you wanted to know something.
As soon as I am alone, I enter into a very deep concentration,a state of consciousness, a kind of universal activity. Is it deep? What is it? It is far beyond all the mental regions, far, far beyond, and it is constant. As soon as I am alone or resting somewhere, thats how it is.
0 1958-10-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Rather, simply say, We do not know how to do things as they should be done, well then, let them be done for us and come what may! If we could only see how everything that looks like a difficulty, an error, a failure or an obstacle is simply there to help us make the realization more perfect.
Once we know this, everything becomes easy.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For example, this question of PowerTHE Powerover Matter. Those who perceive me as the eternal, universal Mother and Sri Aurobindo as the Avatar are surprised that our power is not absolute. They are surprised that we have not merely to say, let it be thus for it to be thus. This is because, in the integral realization, the union of the two is essential: a union of the power that proceeds from the eternal position and the power that proceeds from the sadhana through evolutionary growth. Similarly, how is it that those who have reached even the summits of yogic knowledge (I was thinking of Swami) need to resort to beings like gods or demigods to be able to realize things?Because they have indeed united with certain higher forces and entities, but it was not decreed since the beginning of time that they were this particular being. They were not born as this or that, but through evolution they united with a latent possibility in themselves. Each one carries the Eternal within himself, but one can join Him only when one has realized the comp lete union of the latent Eternal with the eternal Eternal.
And this explains everything, absolutely everything: how it works, how it functions in the world.3 I was saying to myself, But I have no powers, I have no powers! Several days ago, I said, But after all, I KNOW WHO is there, I know, yet how is it that ? There, up to there (the level of the head), it is all-powerful, nothing can resist but here it is ineffective. So those who have faith, even an ignorant but real faith (it can be ignorant but nevertheless it is real), say, What! How can you have no powers? Because the sadhana is not yet over.
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I found my message for the 1st of January It was quite unforeseen. Yesterday morning, I thought, All the same, I have to find my message, but what? I was absolutely like that, neutral, nothing. Then yesterday evening at the class (of Friday, November 7) I noticed that these children who had had a whole week to prepare their questions on the text had not found a single one! A terrible lethargy! A total lack of interest. And when I had finished speaking, I thought to myself, But what IS there in these people who are interested in nothing but their personal little affairs? So I began descending into their mental atmosphere, in search of the little light, of that which responds And it literally pulled me downwards as into a hole, but in such a material way; my hand, which was on the arm of the chair, began slipping down, my other hand went like this (to the ground), my head, too! I thought it was going to touch my knees!
And I had the impression It was not an impression I saw it. I was descending into a crevasse between two steep rocks, rocks that appeared to be made of something harder than basalt, BLACK, but metallic at the same time, with such sharp edgesit seemed that a mere touch would lacerate you. It appeared endless and bottomless, and it kept getting narrower, narrower and narrower, narrower and narrower, like a funnel, so narrow that there was almost no more roomnot even for the consciousness to pass through. And the bottom was invisible, a black hole. And it went down, down, down, like that, without air, without light, except for a sort of glimmer that enabled me to make out the rock edges. They seemed to be cut so steeply, so sharply Finally, when my head began touching my knees, I asked myself, But what is there at the bottom of this this hole?
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I dont have all the information, otherwise certainly Two things made me see I saw them the other day. First of all, when you didnt understand my letter, for I wrote it to a part of you that without any doubt should have understood; I was referring to something other than what is seen and known by this part of you which is this center, this knot of revolt that seems to resist everything, that really remains knotted, in spite of your experiences and the strides you have made, as well as your openings. And what made me see is especially the fact that it resists experiences, it is not touched by experiences; this was the point that did not understand what I wrote. Because the part of you that had the experience must necessarily understand what I wrote, without the shadow of a doubt.
Time is needed
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There is such an abyss between what one truly is and what we are that at times it is dizzying. But one must not let oneself become dizzy. One must not yield. One must remain like a rock until it passes.
Karma: positive (or negative) consequences of actions performed in past lives (every action is endowed with a self-perpetuating dynamism).
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Oh, the most terrible of all is when one does not have the strength, the courage, something indomitable! How many times do they come to tell me, I want to die, I want to flee, I want to die.I say, But die, then, die to yourself! No one is asking you to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that courage, the true courage, to die to your egoism.
But because it is karma, one must, one must DO something oneself. Karma is the construction of the ego; the ego MUST DO something, everything cannot be done for it. This is it, THIS is the thing: karma is the result of the egos actions, and only when the ego abdicates is the karma dissolved. One can help it along, one can assist it, give it strength, bestow courage upon it, but the ego must then make use of it.
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As soon as you had left, and since I was following you, I saw that nothing of the kind was going to happen, but rather something very superficial which would not be of much use. And when I received your letters and saw that you were in difficulty, I did something. There are places that are favorable for occult experiences. Benares is one of these places, the atmosphere there is filled with vibrations of occult forces, and if one has the slightest capacity, it spontaneously develops there, in the same way that a spiritual aspiration develops very strongly and spontaneously as soon as one lands in India. These are Graces. Graces, because it is the destiny of the country, it has been so throughout its history, and because India has always been turned much more towards the heights and the inner depths than towards the outer world. Now, it is in the process of losing all that and wallowing in the mud, but thats another story it was like that and it is still like that. And in fact, when you returned from Rameswaram with your robes, I saw with much satisfaction that there was still a GREAT dignity and a GREAT sincerity in this endeavor of the Sannyasis towards the higher life and in the self-giving of a certain number of people to realize this higher life. When you returned, it had become a very concrete and a very real thing that immediately commanded respect. Before, I had seen only a copy, an imitation, an hypocrisy, a pretentionnothing that was really lived. But then, I saw that it was true, that it was lived, that it was real and that it was still Indias great heritage. I dont believe it is very prevalent now, but in any case, it is still there, and as I told you, it commands respect. And then, as I felt you in difficulty and as the outer conditions were not only veiling but spoiling the inner, well, on that day I wrote you a short note I no longer recall when it was exactly, but I wrote you just a word or two, which I put in an envelope and sent you I concentrated very strongly upon those few words and sent you something. I didnt note the date, I dont remember when it was, but its likely that it happened as I wished when you were in Benares; and then you had this experience.
But when you returned the second time, from the Himalayas, you didnt have the same flame as when you returned the first time. And I understood that this kind of difficult karma still clung to you, that it had not been dissolved. I had hoped that your contact with the mountains but in a true solitude (I dont mean that your body had to be all alone, but there should not have been all kinds of outer, superficial things) Anyway, it didnt happen. So it means that the time had not come.
0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have just received your letter which I read with all my love, the love that understands and effaces. When you return here, you will always be very welcome, and we shall certainly take up our work together again. I shall be happy, and it is very much needed. But first of all, it will be good for you to go to Rameswaram. I know that you will be welcome there. Stay there as long as necessary to find and consolidate your experience. Afterwards, come back here, stronger and better armed, to face a new period of outer and inner work. At the end of the labor is the Victory.
With all my confident love.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have only now received your first letter which you had sent to Hyderabad. It arrived in time to do me some good, for I am living through critical moments.
Swami received me warmly and is doing all he can with all his heart. I am following his instructions to the letter for I believe that your grace is acting through him. Furthermore, he is totally devoted to you and spoke of you as no one ever hashe understands many things. I was unfair in my reactions towards him.
At the new moon, when I felt very down, he gave me the first tantric mantraa mantra to Durga. For a period of 41 days, I must repeat it 125,000 times and go every morning to the Temple, stand before Parvati and recite this mantra within me for at least one hour. Then I must go to the sanctuary of Shiva and recite another mantra for half an hour. Practically speaking, I have to repeat constantly within me the mantra to Durga in a silent concentration, whatever I may be doing on the outside. In these conditions, it is difficult to think of you and this has created a slight conflict in me, but I believe that your Grace is acting through Swami and through Durga, whom I am invoking all the time I remember what you told me about the necessity for intermediaries and I am obeying Swami unreservedly.
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I have just received your letter of the 15th. Yes, I know that the hour is critical. It has been grave here as well. I had to stop everything, for the attack upon my body was too violent. Now it is better but I have not yet resumed any of my outer activities, and I remain in my room upstairs. The battle continues in the invisible and I consider it decisive. You are a very intimate part of this battle. This is to tell you that I am with you in the most integral sense of these words. I know what you are suffering, I feel it but you must hold on. The Grace is there, all-powerful. As soon as it is possible and without going through one minute more than needed to transform that which has to be transformed, the trial will reach its end and we shall emerge into the light and joy. So never forget that I am with youin youand that WE SHALL TRIUMPH:
With all that love can bring of solace and endurance,
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your last letter was a great comfort to me. If you were not there, with me, everything would be so absurd and impossible. I am again disturbing you because Swami tells me that you are worried and that I should write to you. Not much has changed, except that I am holding on and am confident. Yesterday, I again suffered an agonizing wave, in the temple, and I found just enough strength to repeat your name with each beat of my heart, like someone drowning. I remained as motionless as a pillar of stone before the sanctuary, with only your name (my mantra would not come out), then it cleared. It was brutal. I am confident that with each wave I am gaining in strength, and I know you are there. But I am aware that if the enemy is so violent it is because something in me responds, or has responded, something that has not made its surrender that is the critical point. Mother, may your grace help me to place everything in your hands, everything, without any shadow. I want so much to emerge into the Light, to be rid of all this once and for all.
I am following Swamis instructions to the letter. Sometimes it all seems to lack warmth and spontaneity, but I am holding on. I might add that we are living right next to the bazaar, amidst a great racket 20 hours a day, which does not make things easier. So I repeat my mantra as one pounds his fists against the walls of a prison. Sometimes it opens a little, you send me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again.
Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the High Priest of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a very powerful mantra over me daily, for a period of eight days, to extirpate the dark forces from my subconscious. The operation already began four days ago. While reciting his mantra, he holds a glass of water in his hand, then he makes me drink it. It seems that on the eighth day, if the enemy has been trapped, this water turns yellow then the operation is over and the poisoned water is thrown out. (I tell you all this because I prefer that you know.) In any event, I like X very much, he is a very luminous, very good man. If I am not delivered after all this!
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I have received your letter of the 24th. You did well to write, not because I was worried, but I like to receive news for it fixes my work by giving me useful material details. I am glad that X is doing something for you. I like this man and I was counting upon him. I hope he will succeed. Perhaps his work will be useful here, too for I have serious reasons to believe that this time occult and even definite magic practices aimed directly against my body have been mixed in with the attacks. This has complicated things somewhat, so as yet I have not resumed any of my usual activities I am still upstairs resting, but in reality fighting. Yesterday, the Christmas distribution took place without me, and it is likely that it will be the same for January 1st. The work, too, has been comp letely interrupted. And I do not yet know how long this will last.
Keep me posted on the result of Xs action; it interests me very much
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
One sentence in your letter prompted much reflection; you write that Xs action might be useful here, too. After hesitating, I told Swami of the magic attack aimed directly against you.
If you wish, two things can be done to help your action: either X can undertake certain mantric operations upon you here in Rameswaram, or better still, he can immediately come to Pondicherry with Swami and do what is needed in front of you.
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I have just now received your letter of the 28th. On that day I definitely felt that there was a decisive change in the situation and I understood right away that you had spoken to Swami and also that what I had written to you gave you the opportunity to take a great step. I am very happy and can say with certitude that the worst is over. However, from several points of view, I infinitely appreciate Xs offer. And although I do not think it necessary, or even desirable, that they both come here (it would create a veritable revolution and perhaps even a panic among the ashramites), I am sure that their intervention in Rameswaram itself would not only be useful but most effective
Yes, everything has changed since you now understand that your battle is not only a personal battle and that by winning it, it is a real service you are rendering to the Divine Work.
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I was awaiting your letter impatiently and am very happy about what you write!
I have followed the vicissitudes of your struggle step by step and I know that it has been terrible, but my confidence in the outcome has not wavered for I know you are in good hands. I am so happy that X is taking good care of you, teaching you Sanskrit, speaking to you of the Tantra. It is just what I wanted.
His action here has been very effective and really very interesting. I still do not know whether someone has really done black magic, and the villain has yet to appear before me. But already several days ago the malefic influence comp letely disappeared without leaving any trace in the atmosphere. Also their mantric intervention did not stop at that, for it has had another most interesting result. I am preparing a long letter for Swami to explain all this to him
The pain on the left side has not entirely gone and there have been some complications which have delayed things. But I feel much better. In fact, I am rebuilding my health, and I am in no hurry to resume the exhausting days as before. It is quiet upstairs for working, and I am going to take advantage of this to prepare the Bul letin1 at leisure. As I had not read over the pages on the message that we had prepared for the 31st, I have revised and transformed them into an article. It will be the first one in the February issue. I am now going to choose the others. I will tell you which ones I have chosen and in what order I will put them.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your last letter gave us great pleasure, knowing that you have finally recovered physically. But we deeply hope that you will not again take up the countless activities that formerly consumed all your timeso many people come to you egoistically, for prestige, to be able to say that they are on familiar terms with you. You know this, of course
As for myself, a step has definitely been taken, and I am no longer swept away by this painful torrent. Depressions and attacks still come, but no longer with the same violence as before. X told me that 2/3 of the work has been done and that everything would be purged in twelve days or so, then the thing will be enclosed in a jar and buried somewhere or thrown into the sea, and he will explain it all to me. I will write and tell you about it.
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This morning, I received your letter I am very happy about all that X is telling you and that he has found you fit to receive the tantric initiation. It was my feeling, I could say my conviction, to which he gives an enlightened confirmation. So all is well.
As for my health and the Ashram, I infinitely appreciate what he has done and what he would like to continue to do. His visit will make me very happy, and if he comes in about one month, a few days before the darshan, there will be no need to find any excuse for his visit, for it will appear quite natural.
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You will find in this letter a little money. I thought you might need it for your stamps, etc.
I never leave you, and my love too is always with you.
0 1959-01-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I was waiting to answer your letter of the 21st until the Friday and Saturday you mentioned had gone by. And then I felt that you were returning the Aphorisms, so I waited a bit more. I have just received them along with your letter of the 23rd, but I have not yet looked at them. Besides, if you intend returning for the February darshan, I think it would be preferable for us to revise the whole book together. There will not be very much work on my side since the Wednesday and Friday classes were discontinued in the beginning of December, and I still do not know when they will resume.3 Right now, I am translating the Aphorisms all alone and it seems to go quickly and well. This could also be revised and the book on the Dhammapada prepared for publication.
For the time being, I am going downstairs only in the mornings at 6 for the balcony darshan and I immediately come back up without seeing anyone then in the afternoons, I go down once more at about 3 to take my bath and at 4:30 I come back up again. I do not yet know what will happen next month. I shall have to find some way to meet you so that we can work together I am going to think it over.
0 1959-01-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your very interesting letter of the 27th has just arrived.
All is well I am enthusiastic and you can count on my conscious help to overcome all the obstacles and all the bad will that may try to stop or delay your progress. It is a matter of being more obstinate, much more obstinate than the enemy, and whatever the cost, to reach the goal in time.
Since my last letter, I have thought about it and I see that I will be able to go down in the morning three times a week for one hour, from 10 to 11, to work with you, but you will have to do only the strict minimum in order to have as much free time as you need for the other things.1
As I told you, I have resumed neither classes nor translations, and I still do not know when I will do so. So there is only the old work to finish up, but it will not take very long.
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have reflected for a long time on that passage in your letter where you say that your body needs a mantra to hasten its transformation. Certainly X can do something in this realm, but I have not yet spoken to him (and I shall not speak of this to Swami).
X knows very little about your true work and what Swami has been able to explain to him is rather inadequate, for I do not believe that he himself understands it very well. So I shall have to try to make myself understood quite clearly to X and tell him exactly and simply what it is you need. The word transformation is too abstract. Each mantra has a very specific actionat least I believe soand I must be able to tell X in a concrete way the exact powers or capacities you are now seeking, and the general goal or the particular results required. Then he will find the mantra or mantras that apply.
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Your letter, Sweet Mother, has filled me with strength and resolution. I want to be victorious and I want to serve you. I see very well that gradually I can be taught many useful things by X. The essential thing is first of all to lose this ego which falsifies everything. Finally, through your grace, I believe that I have passed a decisive turning point and that there is a beginning of real consecration and I feel your Love, your Presence. Things are opening a little.
Sweet Mother, I love you and I want to serve you truly.
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I have received your letter of the 31st. In a number of ways it confirms my experience of these past days. We shall speak of all this when you return.
I have reflected a great deal on a possible mantra, and I have also seen the difficulty of receiving something that does not have a narrowing effect One must at least have an idea of the possibility (at least) of the supermind to understand what I need
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Simply send me word to let me know if this is all right. Tell me also if you need money for your return, and how much, in time for me to send it.
As for the rest, we shall speak of it here.
0 1959-03-10 - vital dagger, vital mass, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo calls this realm the intermediate zone, a zone in which, he says, you can have all the experiences you wish if you enter into it. But it isnt (laughing) very advisable!and I understand why! I had that experience because I had just read what Sri Aurobindo says on this subject in a letter in this latest book, On Yoga; I wanted to see for myself what it was. Ah, I understood!
And I express this in my own way when I say1 that thoughts come and go, flow in and out. But thoughts concerning material things are formations originating in that world, they are kinds of wills coming from the vital plane which try to express themselves, and most often they are truly deadly. If you are annoyed, for example, if someone says something unpleasant to you and you react It always happens in the same way; these little entities are there waiting, and when they feel its the right moment, they introduce their influence and their suggestions. This is what is vitally symbolized by the being with his dagger rushing forward to stab youand in the back, at that! Not even face to face! This then expresses itself in the human consciousness by a movement of anger or rage or indignation: How intolerable! How ! And the other fellow says, Yes! We shall put an end to it!
0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Just now, I received your letter confirming my experience. It is good.
I read your P.S. and I understand. This too confirms my feeling. I am not happy that you are plagued with work, and especially urgent work that has to be done quicklyit is contrary to the inner calm and concentration so indispensable for getting rid of ones difficulties. I am going to do what is necessary to change this situation. Besides, this is why I have been telling you recently that my work is not urgent. But this work for the Bul letin should stop for the moment.
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The thing can still be brought down as far as the mental and vital planes (although Sri Aurobindo said that thousands of lifetimes would be needed merely to bring it down to the mental plane, unless one practiced a perfect surrender1). With Sri Aurobindo, we went down below Matter, right into the Subconscient and even into the Inconscient. But after the descent comes the transformation, and when you come down to the body, when you attempt to make it take one step forwardoh, not even a real step, just a little step!everything starts grating; its like stepping on an anthill And yet the presence, the help of the supreme Mother, is there constantly; thus you realize that for ordinary men such a task is impossible, or else millions of lives would be needed but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana of the body done for the entire earth consciousness, they will never achieve the physical transformation, or else it will be so remote that it is better not even to speak of it. But if they open themselves, if they give themselves over in an integral surrender, the work can be done for themthey have only to let it be done.
The path is difficult. And yet this body is full of good will; it is filled with the psychic in every one of its cells. Its like a child. The other day, it cried out quite spontaneously, O my Sweet Lord, give me the time to realize You! It did not ask to hasten the process, it did not ask to lighten its work; it only asked for enough TIME to do the work. Give me the time!
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have read your letter in its entirety and I remain convinced that one day all the parts of your being, without excluding any, will be fully satisfied. But we shall see about that later.
For the moment, I only want to tell you, from the bottom of my heartwhich is so deeply touchedthank you.
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I did not utter the words that you heard I wanted to speak to you of my experience during the night, but I was paralyzed because I clearly felt that you no longer understood me. As soon as I received your letter, I concentrated on you in an effort to help you, and when night fell, just at the hour I enter into contact with X, I called for his helpwhereupon he sent me this little Kali whom he had already sent once before. So I went to your house, I took you in my arms and pressed you tightly to my heart to keep you as sheltered as possible from blows, and I let Kali do her warrior dance against this titan who is always trying to possess you, creating this rebelliousness in you. She must have at least partially succeeded in her work, because very early in the morning the titan went away somewhat discomfited, but while leaving, he flung this at me as he went by: You will regret it, for you would have had less trouble if he had left. I flung his suggestion back in his face with a laugh and told him, Take that, along with all the rest of your ugly person! I have no need of it! And the atmosphere cleared up.
I wanted to tell you all this, but I couldnt because you were still far away from me and it would have seemed like boasting. Also the misunderstanding created by the distance made you hear other words than those I uttered.
0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I received and read your very interesting letter.
As for the Sanskrit text and the mantra, I await your next letter.
For you, I fully approve of what he told you. Fervently, and with all my love, I pray that he will succeed in what he wants to do during these 45 days of meditation. This is really what I was counting on.
0 1959-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Regarding Xs predictions which I mentioned in yesterdays letter, X said something untranslatable which meant, let us see Mothers reactions for I told him that I had written it all to you. Then he said, There are several other secret matters which I shall tell you. And he added, by way of example, I shall tell WHERE the atomic bombs will be cropped. So if these things interest you, or if you see or feel anything, perhaps it would be good to express your interest in a letter to me which I would translate for X. Spontaneously, I emphasized to X that it would undoubtedly facilitate your work to have details. But it is better that these things come from you, should you see any use in it.
As for me, X said, Something will happen.
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Satprem, my very dear child, yesterday evening I received your second letter dated the 4th.
Regarding my mantra, I began repeating it yesterday before receiving your letter, and I felt that it was all right. So if X makes no alterations, it is not necessary to send it back to me. I receive the force X gives me without paper.
I do not know if it is an illusion, but on several occasions I felt that if X says this mantra, it will cure his fever.
0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
2) X gave me certain details about his powers of prediction, but perhaps it would be better not to speak of this in a letter. On that occasion, he told me that he did not want to keep any secrets from me: I want you to know everything. I want you to be chief disciple in my tradition. When the time comes, you will understand what I mean. With you I have full connection, not only connection in my mind, but in my blood and body.
On another occasion, he said to me, I am ALWAYS taking care of you. And when I asked him why he was taking such trouble for me, he replied, Because I have orders. This attention that comes to me from you and him surprises me, for I do not feel that I am good, and upon the least occasion I know that I am seriously prepared to quit everything because something in me is profoundly revolted by this excess of suffering, by a lack of love and flowering, by an excess of solitude. Yesterday evening, it was still fully there, with all my approval, and at such a time no one in the world can hold me back. It is this POINT OF SUFFERING that makes me want to turn my back on everything. Not to commit suicide: to turn my back.
X told me the story of my last three existences (rather grim), but I will write you about that in another letter.
3) X has not yet begun his work with me nor for you, as he has been unwell until today. One evening, he made a very beautiful reflection concerning you and your mantra, but it is inexpressible in words, it was above all the tone in which he said, Who, who, is there a single person in the world who can repeat like that TRIOMPHE TOI MAHIMA MAHIMA? etc. And three or four times he repeated your mantra with such an expression
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Even before receiving your second letter in which you say that the mantra is all right, X told me this morning that he had repeated your mantra during his puja and that it was very good, that there is nothing to be changed: The vibration is good.
Here are a few additional indications regarding the forthcoming events.
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After I translated your letter to him, X told me that he would give me more details in two or three days.
I should write you what X has revealed about my last three lives, but I have neither the courage nor the desire to again speak of myself.
0 1959-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Forgive me for these last letters. I was suffering.
It seems to me that for months I have been far away from you. I no longer see you in my dreams, I no longer feel you. What, then is this path I am following?
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I have received your good letter of the 9th, It warms my heart.
All these things that you needtruth, light, love, my presence in youyou have had them and you still have them, they have not withdrawn from you, but something came to veil them from your perception, and this is why you became unhappy. They are waiting just there, near you, in you, anxious for the shadow to vanish and for you to realize that they have not left you.
0 1959-06-13a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have received your last two letters of the 10th and 11th. I told X what you wrote about this trip to France and that your finances are in an almost desperate state. He replied with perfect assurance, Soon it will increase, very soon it will change. I am obviously hesitant to accept your generous offer and I do not know what I should do. I had never thought of returning to France, except in a distant future. I dont know why X told me that I should return there, except perhaps because he felt who my mother is. I know that she is sad, that she believes me lost to her and thinks she will die without seeing me again. It would surely be a great joy to her. But other than that, I have no desire to go there, for each time I go to France, I feel like I am entering a prison. Naturally I would be happy for my mothers joy; she is a great soul, but is this reason enough?
Sunday, 14th
0 1960-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Here is the letter from the publisher. All comes from you, all is yours.
May I always serve you.
0 1960-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your good letter of the 7th has arrived.
This inner fusion you speak of as a truth to be realized is already accomplished, absolutely perceptible to me. For long I have felt you as an integral part of my being; it seems to me that only some surface eddies prevent you also from feeling and living it.
0 1960-04-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I received your letter of April 13 only yesterday. letters from Hyderabad are taking long to come.
You spoke of the book on Sri Aurobindo; I too am happy that we shall do this work together.
0 1960-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To compensate for that, however, I had the joy of finding your two letters. Yes, for some time I have been feeling your physical Presence more clearly. But then, why am I so blocked, where is the flaw? It constantly feels as though I am living at the outskirts of myself, or more precisely in a miniscule region of myself, and Im unable to be conscious of the resta perpetual amnesic. It is unpleasant and quite stupid. What is it that will explode this shell?
I am anxious to return to you.
0 1960-04-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There are days when everything is so simple, when I see and feel that all one needs is to let oneself be carried and everything is light. I have really to be done with this me.
It will be a joy to be with you again and resume the work. Here, I am sparing as many hours as I can to correcting The Human Cycle I follow X perfectly in his inner life, unreservedly, but I have to force myself to follow him in his outer life.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I also use my mantra to go into trance. After relaxing on the bed and making as total a self-offering as possible of everything, from top to bottom, and after removing as fully as possible all resistance of the ego, I start repeating the mantra.1 After repeating it two or three times, I am in trance (at the beginning it took longer). And from this trance I pass into sleep; the trance lasts as long as necessary and, quite naturally, spontaneously, I pass into sleep. And when I come back, I remember everything. The sleep was like a continuation of the trance. And essentially, the only reason for sleep is to allow the body to assimilate the results of the trance, then to allow these results to be accepted throughout and to let the body do its natural nights work of eliminating toxins. My periods of sleep practically dont exist sometimes they are as short as half an hour or 15 minutes. But in the beginning, I had long periods of sleep, one or even two hours in succession. And when I woke up, I did not feel this residue of heaviness which comes from sleep the effects of the trance continued.
It is even good for people whove never been in trance to repeat a mantra (or a word, a prayer) before going to sleep. But the words must have a life of their ownby this I dont mean an intellectual meaning, nothing of the kind, but rather a vibration. And this has an extraordinary effect on the body, it starts vibrating, vibrating, vibrating and so calm, you let yourself go, like falling off to sleep. And the body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and you drift off.
Such is the cure for tamas.
0 1960-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So I said, All right, let him come.
There. Now, what do you have to say?
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I turned around and saw all this water rushing down, and I thought, Now lets see if we can do something here. There was someone behind who interested me, someone or somethingit was still something; it was very likable and had something of the blue color that was here on the other side. Not really individuals, but more like beings representative of something that was following me quite closely. When I was there, it also was there, but it could not keep up, it kept losing groundas my speed increased, its decreased. It could not keep up. But it interested me in a special way. Oh, hes so close (he or it); he might just make it, I thought. And at that moment, I saw that all this destructive will with its instrument of water, symbolically water, had rushed past and was spreading out everywhere. But there was still a chance of saving all those who were along this path. And thats immediately what I thought of, it was my first wish: lets see if they can still get across, if I can manage to get them across. I remembered some especially dangerous spots (while speeding past, I had remarked, Oh, here we might still be able to do this, there that could still be donemy consciousness moved at the same speed, and I noted everything along the way), and once I was firmly there on the other side, I started sending back messages.
Down below, the water was having a grand time; it was it was hopeless. But here, along this path, there was still a hope, even even after the water had passed; I probably had a certain power at my disposal to help others cross these fissured places. But because I woke up, I didnt see what it was. So that stopped everything. Probably because I woke up rather abruptly, I could not see what it meant.
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Mother means that the Ashramites themselves create the armor. See also X's reflections in an undated letter of May 1959.
One lakh = 100,000.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The other day I wrote somethingit was a letter I gave Pavitra to read. I think theres a spelling mistake, he said. Its quite possible, I answered, I make plenty of them. He looked it up in a splendid dictionary and, as a matter of fact, it was a mistake. I meant to ask him for a dictionary this morning.
Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring the light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you forget everything.
0 1960-08-10 - questions from center of Education - reading Sri Aurobindo, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
An eight page letternothing but passion.
(Pavitra:) Yes, Mother.
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And then they stuff into it what they consider intellectual reasonings, but their intellectuality is not so terribly luminousanyway (Mother shows the letter) Here, Ill read this to you for your edification (!).
And finally, Sweet Mother, what I would really like to know is the purpose of our Center of Education. Is it to teach the works of Sri Aurobindo? And only these? All the works or some only? Or is it to prepare the students to read the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? Is it to prepare them for the Ashram life or for outside occupations as well? So many opinions are floating in the air, and even the old disciples from whom we expect some knowledge make so many contradictory statements
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I answered. The letters must have left. I wrote (in English) that its not so much a question of organization as of attitudeto begin with. Then I said, It seems to me that unless the teachers themselves get out of this ordinary intellectuality (!), they will never be able to fulfill their duty.
And this is what I wrote to Z (Mother reads):
0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You alone have convinced me that the history of the way might be of some interest, so Im letting you do it Ive taken a very, very handsome file upstairs with all your notes in it.8 Its filling up; its going to be formidable! (Mother laughs) a frightful documentation.
Not at all!
--
Oh, I must write a few letters here and there, to France (to announce the publication of the book). I already wrote to A, but I must write him again. Though I suppose he knows that it has come ou the should know. I told him to follow it with
I dont know if the book has come out yet. I believe its to appear in early September.
0 1960-08-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its the same with the letters.
They assassinate me with their letters.
The little basket I put them in can no longer close! I take 45 minutes every morning upstairs to write letters. And I receive six, seven, eight, ten letters a day, so how can I manage? In the end, Sri Aurobindo spent the whole night writing letterstill he went blind.
Myself, I cant afford to do that, I have other things to do. And Im not keen on going blind either. I need my eyes, they are my work instruments.
--
We should not allow all this to upset us. There is but one thing to doremain in a state of constant peace, constant equanimity, for things are not they are not very pleasant. Oh, if you only knew all the letters they write me if you knew, first of all, the tremendous pile of stupidities that need never be written at all; then, added to that, such a display of ignorance, egoism, bad will, total incomprehension and unequalled ingratitude, and all this so candid, my child! They heap all this on me daily, you know, and it comes from the most unexpected quarters.
If this were to affect me (Mother laughs), I would long ago have been who knows where. I dont care at all, not at all, really not at allit doesnt bother me, it makes me smile.
--
So dont let yourself be upset I often think of you, for I know how very sensitive you are to all this. It is it is really ugly. A whole realm of human intelligence (its too great a compliment to call that intelligence), of the human mind, that is very, very repugnant. We must come out of that. It doesnt touch us. WE are elsewhereelsewhere. We are NOT in that rut! We are elsewhere, automatically.
Our head is above.
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In these Questions and Answers, for example, you had wanted to edit out the words Sweet Mother since people from the West might not understand. But then, we have just now received a letter from someone who suddenly had a very beautiful experience when he came across those words, Sweet Mother. He saw, he suddenly felt this maternal presence of love and compassion watching over the world. The moment had come and, precisely, it did its work. Its very interesting.
Mentally we say, Oh, that cant go. And even I am often inclined to say, Dont publish this, dont speak of something or other. Then I realize how silly it is! There is something that uses everything. Even what may seem useless to usor perhaps worse than useless, harmfulmight be just the thing to give someone the right shock.
0 1960-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Of course, I dont say, All right, now lets meditate! So on his birthday Ill have to sit down and tell him, Now we are going to meditate that way hell feel sure. What childishness!
Its so funny the thing in itself doesnt exist for people. Whats important to them is their attitude towards the thing, what they think of it. How odd!
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But how many letters I receive from people telling me, I feel listless, all I want to do is sleep, to rest, not do anything. They go on complaining.
The experience I havewhat I mean by I is this aggregate here (Mother indicates her body), this particular individualityis that the more quiet and calm it is, the more work it can do and the faster the work can be done. What is most disturbing and time consuming are all these agitated vibrations that fall on me (truly speaking, each person who comes throws them on me). And this is what makes the work difficultit stirs up a whirlwind. And you cant do anything in this whirlwind, its impossible. If you try to do something material, your fingers stumble; if you try to do something intellectual, your thoughts get all entangled and you no longer see clearly. Ive had the experience, for example, of wanting to look up a word in the dictionary while this agitation was in the atmosphere, and everything jumps up and down (yet the lighting is the same and Im using the same magnifying glass), I no longer see a thing, its all jumping! I go page by page, but the word simply doesnt exist in the dictionary! Then I remain quiet, I do this (Mother makes a gesture of bringing down the Peace) and after half a minute I open the dictionary: the very spot, and the word leaps out at me! And I see clearly and distinctly. Consequently I have now the indisputable proof that if you want to do anything properly, you must FIRST be calm but not only be calm yourself; you must either isolate yourself or be capable of imposing a calm on this whirlwind of forces that comes upon you all the time from all around.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All this happened just on the day X1 was leaving. So I told S to take the photograph and letter to X and tell him the story. X consulted some book, did a very short japa for a few seconds and said, Oh, hell come back before September 26, BUT inform Mother so that She may see to ft. therefore, I concentrated a little.
About two weeks later (in other words, ten days or so before September 26), some more news the boys older brother, who lives in Ahmedabad (not Bombay), came to visit his mother, father and grandmo ther (theres also a grandmo ther), and he asked about his brother. He had come with a friend. Your brother has disappeared, they explained, we dont know what has happened to him. So the two of them decided to search for him: Well find him .
--
Sometime later (he doesnt know how long, for until he returned he had no sense of time), he woke up in a rather dark, low-roofed house way out in the country; there were five persons now, not four. They were busy eating, so he was careful not to budge. Mainly they were drinking (they have prohibition there). Four of them were already dead drunk. So he got up to have a look. The fifth one, whom he hadnt seen before (he must have been the chief), was not yet totally drunk; when he saw the boy stirring, he let out a fearful growlso the poor boy threw himself flat in the corner and lay stillhe waited. After awhile, the fifth one (after downing another bottle) was also dead drunk. So now that he saw them all fast asleep, he got up very cautiously and he said he ran for an hour and a half! A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadnt eaten for four days! I think thats a miracle.
After running for an hour and a half, he found himself back at the Poona station, he doesnt know how. He caught a train back to Bombay, scarcely knowing how he managed it.
--
In any case, for myself, in my yoga, only after I KNEW that I AM the Master of everything (provided I know how to BE this Master and let myself be this Masterprovided, that is, that the outer stupidity accepts to stay in its place), did I know that one could be the Master of Nature.
Theres also this old idea rooted in religions of Chaldean or Christian origin of a God with whom you can have no true contactan abyss between the two. That is terrible.
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
let me see the wal let (Mother looks at it) Ah, so that has nothing to do with it!
As soon as the meditation began, I started seeing quite familiar scenes from ancient Egypt. And you, you looked a little different, but quite similar all the same The first thing I saw was their god with a head like this (gesture of a muzzle), with a sun above his head. A dark animal head with I know it VERY WELL, but I dont remember exactly which animal it is. One is a hawk,1 but the other has a head like (Mother makes the same gesture)
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Certainly, we CAN be heard. So far I never said anything. It even surprised me, for I had never paid it any attention, I was quite away from all that: its raining?so what, its raining, it happens. Its not raining?so what, its not raining, its the same thing. And then gradually people started mentioning that should it continue, they wouldnt be able to do their exercises, and they wouldnt be ready for December 2.1 Then I started receiving desperate lettersone person even told me he was doing his puja underwater! So I answered by saying, Take it as the Lords blessing but Im not sure he appreciated it! And then I learned that 200 houses [in the Ashram]200!are leaking. Naturally, each one is in a great hurryits terribly urgent! So perhaps I shall file a complaint and ask them what they mean by this!
Actually, if communications are interrupted, it can be troublesome let us see.
(After a moment of silence) We dont have time now to work, its too late. And anyway, we cant see properly. Did you bring anything?
--
He wrote this in a letter, I believe, and he spoke of this system of compensation for example, those who take an illness on themselves in order to have the power to cure; and then theres the symbolic story of Christ dying on the cross to set men free. And Sri Aurobindo said, Thats fine for a certain age, but we must now go beyond that. As he told me (its even one of the first things he told me), We are no longer at the time of Christ when, to be victorious, it was necessary to die.
I have always remembered this.
--
But three times now, Ive really felt that I was on the verge of falling apart. The first time it brought a fever, a fever so I dont know, as if I had at least 115!I was roasting from head to toe; everything became red hot, and then it was over. That was the day when suddenlysuddenly I was You see, I had said to myself, All right, you must be peaceful, lets see what happens, so then I brought down the Peace, and immediately I was able to pass into a second of unconsciousness and I woke up in the subtle physical, in Sri Aurobindos abode.4 There he was. And then I spent some time with him, explaining the problem.
But that was really an experience, a decisive experience (it was many months ago, perhaps more than a year ago).
--
In other words, a more and more comp lete, a more and more integral assent, more and more like this (gesture of letting herself be carried). Thats when you have the feeling that you must be ABSOLUTELY like a child.
If you start thinking, Oh, I want to be like this! Oh, I ought to be like that! you waste your time.
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
While it was all coming up, I thought, How is this possible? For during those years of my life (Im now outside things; I do them but Im entirely outside, so they dont involve mewhether its like this or like that makes no difference to me; Im only doing my work, thats all), I was already conscious, but nevertheless I was IN what I was doing to a certain extent; I was this web of social life (but thank God it wasnt here in India, for had it been here I could not have withstood it! I think that even as a child I would have smashed everything, because here its even worse than over there). You see, there its its a bit less constricting, a bit looser, you can slip through the mesh from time to time to brea the some air. But here, according to what Ive learned from people and what Sri Aurobindo told me, its absolutely unbearable (its the same in Japan, absolutely unbearable). In other words, you cant help but smash everything. Over there, you sometimes get a breath of air, but still its quite relative. And this morning I wondered (you see, for years I lived in that way for years and years) just as I was wondering, How was I ABLE to live that and not kick out in every direction?, just as I was looking at it, I saw up above, above this (it is worse than horrible, it is a kind of Oh, not despair, for there isnt even any sense of feeling there is NOTHING! It is dull, dull, dull gray, gray, gray, clenched tight, a closed web that lets through neither air nor life nor lightthere is nothing) and just then I saw a splendor of such sweet light above itso sweet, so full of true love, true compassion something so warm, so warm the relief, the solace of an eternity of sweetness, light, beauty, in an eternity of patience which feels neither the past nor the inanity and imbecility of thingsit was so wonderful! That was entirely the feeling it gave, and I said to myself, THAT is what made you live, without THAT it would not have been possible. Oh, it would not have been possible I would not have lived even three days! THAT is there, ALWAYS there, awaiting its hour, if we would only let it in.
(silence)
--
I had seen this earlier from another angle. In the beginning, when I started having the consciousness of immortality and when I brought together this true consciousness of immortality and the human conception of it (which is entirely different), I saw so clearly that when a human (even quite an ordinary human, one who is not a collectivity in himselfas is a writer, for example, or a philosopher or statesman) projects himself through his imagination into what he calls immortality (meaning an indefinite duration of time) he doesnt project himself alone but rather, inevitably and always, what is projected along with himself is a whole agglomeration, a collectivity or totality of things which represent the life and the consciousness of his present existence. And then I made the following experiment on a number of people; I said to them, Excuse me, but lets say that through a special discipline or a special grace your life were to continue indefinitely. What you would most likely extend into this indefinite future are the circumstances of your life, this formation you have built around yourself that is made up of people, relationships, activities, a whole collection of more or less living or inert things.
But that CANNOT be extended as it is, for everything is constantly changing! And to be immortal, you have to follow this perpetual change; otherwise, what will naturally happen is what now happensone day you will die because you can no longer follow the change. But if you can follow it, then all this will fall from you! Understand that what will survive in you is something you dont know very well, but its the only thing that can survive and all the rest will keep falling off all the time Do you still want to be immortal?Not one in ten said yes! Once you are able to make them feel the thing concretely, they tell you, Oh no! Oh no! Since everything else is changing, the body might as well change too! What difference would it make! But what remains is THAT; THAT is what you must truly hold on to but then you must BE THAT, not this whole agglomeration. What you now call you is not THAT, its a whole collection of things..
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I often find leaving the balcony difficult. And its only this same gentleman (you know, the censor) who starts telling me, Youre keeping them there in the rain just because youre in ecstasy; youre just letting them stand there drenched and getting a crick in the neck looking up in the air. Arent you going to let them go?When he insists too much, I go back inside.
Maybe thats why hes still there. Otherwise, if I forgot (Mother laughs)
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
After that (this took place early in 1950), he gradually You see, he let himself fall ill. For he knew quite well that should he say I must go,5 I would not have obeyed him, and I would have gone. For according to the way I felt, he was much more indispensable than I. But he saw the matter from the other side. And he knew that I had the power to leave my body at will. So he didnt say a thing, he didnt say a thing right to the very last minute
(silence)
--
And then, at the same time, some rather interesting things are happening. Imagine, X is starting to understand certain things that is, in his own way he is discovering the progress I am making; hes discovering it as a received teaching (through subtle channels). He wrote a letter to Amrita two or three days ago in which he translates in his own language, with his own words and his own way of speaking, exactly my most recent experiencesthings that I have conquered in a general way.
This interests me, for these things do not at all enter through the mind (he doesnt receive a thing there, hes closed there). So in his letter he says that this thing or that is necessary (he describes it in his own words), and he adds, This is why we must be so grateful to have among us the the great Mother7 (as he puts it), the great Mother who knows these things.Good! I said to myself. (It had to do with something specific concerning the capacity for discrimination in the outside world, the different qualities and different functions of different beings, all of which depends on ones inner construction, as it were.) So I see that even this, even these physical experiences, is received (and yet I hadnt tried, I had never tried to make him receive it); it merely works like this, you see (gesture of a widespread diffusion), and the experience is veryhow should I say?drastic, with a kind of (power of radiation). Imperative.
Original English.
0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But you cannot get out as long as it all seems quite natural to you. Whats most unfortunate is when you resign yourself to it. You realize this when you go back to earlier states of consciousness; you see that it all seemed, if not quite natural, at least almost inevitable thats how things are, you must take them as they are. And you dont even think about it; you take things as they are, you EXPECT them to be what they are; its the stuff of our daily lives, and it keeps repeating itself endlessly. And the only thing you learn is to hold on, hold on, not let yourself be shaken, to go right through it alland it feels endless, interminable, almost eternal. (However, once you understand what eternal is, you see that this CANNOT be eternal, for otherwise )
But this particular state of endurancethis endurance that nothing can upsetis very dangerous. And yet its indispensable; for you must first accept everything before having the power to transform anything.
Its what Sri Aurobindo always said: FIRST you must accept EVERYTHINGaccept it as coming from the Divine, as the Divine Will; accept without disgust, without regret, without getting upset or impatient. Accept with a perfect equanimity; and only AFTER that can you say, Now lets get to work to change it.
But to work to change it before having attained a perfect equanimity is impossible. Thats what I have learned during these last years.
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
lets see How many months has it been? I havent touched this instrument for at least eight months! And now tomorrow I have to playdont feel like it. Anyway, since I must, I must! Well meditate on it (the New Years Message1)you know what it is, for we worked on it together and then Ill see if something comes.
(silence)
0 1961-01-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I am how to put it? Nothing we say is ever absolutely true, but, to stretch it a bit, while I am not worried, not perturbed, not discouraged, I feel I cant get anything done; I spend all my time, all my time, seeing people, receiving and answering lettersdoing nothing. I havent touched my translation1 for over a week. T. sent me her notebook with questions and I had it for two weeks before I found time to answer.2 Nothing is ready for the Bul letin except what you have done.
Its a pity you have no time to do your work.
Even the translation. You know, when I am tired and work on the translation I feel rested. But, oh, all these letters! Even the best of them are stupid. Anyway. When I came here just now there was someone waiting to see me I told him to come at 11: 00, and by then there will be 700 people waiting for me to come out. They are already gathered around the Samadhi.3
Well, enough grumbling. lets get to work.
***
0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have a stack of unread letters this high and an even bigger stack Ive read but havent answered. How can I work on the Aphorisms when I am constantly hounded by people pulling on me simply because they have written! If I dont answer immediately, they say (not in words, but ): So youre not answering my letter!
These are not very favorable conditions!
--
But as its all-powerful, a certain receptivity must be prepared on earth so its effects are not devastating. Sri Aurobindo has explained it in one of his letters. Someone asked him, Why doesnt this Love come now?, and he replied something like this: If divine Love in its essence were to manifest on earth, it would be like an explosion; for the earth is not supple enough or receptive enough to widen to the measure of this Love. The earth must not only open itself but become wide and supple. Matternot just physical Matter, but the substance of the physical consciousness as wellis still much too rigid.
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0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.
It is probableeven certain that until one is comp letely transformed these movements of disgust and revolt are necessary to make one do WITHIN ONESELF what is needed to slam the door on them. For after all, the point is to not let them manifest.
In another aphorism, Sri Aurobindo says (I no longer recall his exact words) that sin is simply something no longer in its place. In this perpetual Becoming nothing is ever reproduced and some things disappear, so to speak, into the past; and when its time for them to disappear, they seemto our very limited consciousness evil and repulsive: we revolt against them because their time is past.
0 1961-01-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am going to let you work. No work for me! Im a little. I havent eaten for two days, so not very bright.
It wont tire you if I read these texts?
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I simply consented to stay there. You will have all you need, stay here quietly. And what beautiful things she had, lovely things! They were unused and dusty. (It was surely the symbol of ancient realizationsrealizations of the ancient Rishis, things like that. Who knows?) They were first class, but comp letely neglected and thick with dust, like material objects left unusedwhich no one knew HOW to use. She put them at my disposal: Look, look, let me show you! There was a tremendous accumulation of things, piled in such great confusion that one couldnt see. Yet the marvel of it was that when she led me to a corner to show me something, everything immediately moved aside and order was restored, so that the object she wanted to show me stood out all by itself. And oh, a thing of beauty! Made of pink marble! A pink marble bathtub of a shape I didnt recognizenot Roman, not antique (not modern, far from it!)how beautiful it was! And whenever she wanted to show me something in this untidy and cluttered room full of objects piled one on top of another, they would organize themselves, take their proper place, and all became neat. You will just have to dust them off a bit, she said. (Mother laughs)
But Im not surprised it came down on you.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The remainder of the evening passed as usual. I went to bed, and at exactly a quarter to twelve I got up with the feeling that this presence in me had increased even further and really become rather formidable. I had to instill a great deal of peace and confidence into my body, which felt as though it wasnt so easy to bear. So I concentrated, I told my body to be calm and to let itself go comp letely.
At midnight I was lying in bed. (And I remained there from midnight until I oclock fully awake. I dont know if my eyes were open or closed, but I was wide awake, NOT IN TRANCEI could hear all the noises, the clocks, and so forth.) Then, lying flat, my entire body (but a slightly enlarged body, exceeding the purely physical form) became ONE vibration, extremely rapid and intense but immobile. I dont know how to explain this, because it did not move in space but was a vibration (that is, it wasnt motionless); yet it was motionless in space. And the exact form of my body was absolutely the most brilliant white Light of the supreme Consciousness, the consciousness OF the Supreme. It was IN the body and it was as though in EACH cell there was a vibration, and it was all part of a single BLOCK of vibration. It extended this much beyond the body (gesture indicating about six centimeters). I was absolutely immobile in my bed. Then, WITHOUT MOVING, without shifting, it began consciously to rise upwithout moving, you understand: I remained like this (Mother holds her two joined and motionless hands at the level of her forehead, as if her entire body were mounting in prayer)consciously like an ascension of this consciousness6 towards the supreme Consciousness.
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And it went on like that. After this, Slowly, Still WITHOUT MOVING, everything went back into each of the different centers of the being. (Ah, let me say parenthetically that it wasnt AT ALL the ascent of a force like the ascent of the Kundalini! It had absolutely nothing to do with the Kundalini movement and the centers, it wasnt that at all.) But while re-descending, it was as though WITHOUT LEAVING THIS STATE, without leaving this state which remained conscious ALL the time, this supreme Consciousness began to reactivate the different centers: first here (Mother points to the center above the head and then touches the crown of the head, the forehead, throat, chest, etc.) then there, there, there. At each there was a pause while this new realization organized everything. It organized and made the necessary decisions, sometimes down to the most minute details: what had to be done in this case or said in that case; and all of that TOGETHER, at once, not one by one but seen entirely as a whole. It kept on descending I noted many things, it was extremely interestingdown and down, farther and farther, right to the depths. Everything went on at the same time,7 simultaneously, and at the same time this supreme Consciousness was organizing everything separately.8
This descending reorganization ended exactly when the clock struck one. At that moment I knew that I had to go into trance for the work to be perfected, but until then I was wide awake.
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To illustrate this, an interesting thing came upyesterday, I think. (All these experiences come to show me the difference, as if to give proof of the change.) Someone had had a dream about me whispered to him by the adverse forces for specific reasons (I wont go into the details). He was much affected by it, so he wrote down the dream and gave it to me. I was carrying his letter along with all the others, as I usually do, but suddenly I knew I had to read it right away: I read it. Then I saw the whole thing with such clarity, precision, accuracy: how it had come about, how the dream had been produced, its effect the whole functioning of all the forces. As I read along and it went on unfolding, I did what was necessary for him (he was present at the time) in order to undo what the adverse forces had done. Then at the end, when I had finished, said everything, explained what it was all about and what had to be done, something SO CATEGORICAL came into me (I cannot verbalize this kind of experience, it is what I call the difference in power: something categorical). I took the letter, uttered a few words (which I wont repeat) and said, You see, its like this: so much for that, and I ripped the letter a first time. Then, thats for that, I tore it a second time and so on. I ripped it up five times and the fifth time I saw that their power was destroyed.
I have done these things beforeits a knowledge I already hadand it always had its effect when I did them; its not that I am passing from powerlessness to power, not at all. But its this kind of yes, something definite, absolutea kind of absolute in vision, in knowledge, in action and ABOVE ALL in powera kind of absolute that doesnt need to conquer obstacles and resistances, but ANNULS the resistance automatically. Then I saw that something had truly changed.
0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
53The quarrels of religious sects are like the disputing of pots, which shall be alone allowed to hold the immortalizing nectar. let them dispute, but the thing for us is to get at the nectar in whatever pot and attain immortality.
What is this nectar of immortality?
0 1961-01-Undated, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if its worth keeping this. Or rather lets keep it for later. Its a little too much. We have to go by stages.
Its not correct to say that you know you have no more ego. The only correct thing would be to affirm that you are ON THE WAY to having no more ego.1
0 1961-02-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
let it be.
But if it is only an effect of my stupidity,
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother reads the following letter aloud in English, before sending it to a disciple.)
You ask me what you must do. It would be better to ask what you must be, because the circumstances and activities in life have not much importance. What is important is our way of reacting towards them.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
55Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night, be solemn and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali.1
He invokes all these Vedic gods and tells each one to take possession of him; and THEN he tells Kali to free him from their influence! It is very amusing!
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The body doesnt ask (its so docile), it doesnt even ask for its sufferings to stopit adapts to them. Its mainly my contact with people that makes the thing difficult: when I am all alone upstairs, everything goes well, quite well. But when I spend one or one and a half hours in the afternoon seeing people, afterwards I feel exhausted. That, obviously, is whats making the thing difficult. But the body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain, its ready. The other day when it went back upstairs, it felt a bitwell, at the end of its resources, as though it had pushed itself to the limit. It said to the Lord (and it said this so clearly, as though the consciousness of the cells were speaking; I noted it down): If this (I cant call it an illness there is no illness! Its a condition of general disequilibrium), if this condition is necessary for Your Work, then so be it, let it go on. But if its an effect of my stupidity (you see, its the BODY saying, If its because I dont understand or I am not adapting or not doing what I should or not taking the proper attitude), if it is an effect of my stupidity, then truly I pray that. It asks only to changeto know and to change!
It is attached to nothing: none of its habits, none of its ways of being-nothing. It says in all sincerity, I ask only for the Light, only to change. That is its state. it has never, never said, Oh, Im tired, Ive had enough! Bah! Its not like that. It is attached to nothing for a long, long time it has ceased to have desiresit is attached to nothing at all, to nothing. There isnt a single thing for which it says, Oh, I cant do without that! Not one. It doesnt care-if something comes, it takes it; if it doesnt come, the body doesnt think about it. In other words, its truly good-natured. But if this isnt sufficient, then it doesnt know and it says, If there is something I cant do or I dont know or I am not doing It asks for nothing more than to make the necessary effort!
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And part of The Secret of the Veda, as well as two other things because they contain many of Sri Aurobindos letters: I re-read Zs book on Sri Aurobindo, since there are many letters in it, and.
Yes, only unfortunately he has tampered with it.
With the letters?!
Sri Aurobindo had made certain statements about me in those letters, and Z de leted them. (Anyway, it makes no difference for your book, because Im not at all keen on having any statements about me published.)
But Z is not honest. He hasnt been honest at all. We were forced to intervene once or twice because his de letions distorted the meaning. We finally told him (for the book published here), We wont publish it unless you restore these things.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All this [the world, the Ashram] is held in my consciousness with a kind of essential compassion applying equally to all things, all difficulties, all obstacles. I receive letters by the dozens, as you know, and each person comes to me with his own little misery or problem, inner or outer (a tiny pimple becomes a mountain). When people come to me, my inner consciousness always responds in the same way, with a kind of equality and compassion for all. But when people are talking to me or I am reading a letter and my body grows conscious of what it calls the to-do they make over their miseries, it has a kind of feeling (I mean there is a feeling in the cells): Why do they take things like that! They are making things much more difficult. The body understands. It understands that their way of taking the least little difficulty in such a blind, egotistical and self-centered manner, increases its difficulties furiously!
Its a rather amusing sensation, a combination of sensation and feeling, that the ordinary human attitude towards things multiplies and magnifies the difficulties to FANTASTIC proportions; while if they simply had the true attitudea NORMAL attitude, quite simple, uncomplicatedahh, all life would be much easier. For the body feels the vibrations (those very vibrations which concentrate to form a body), it feels their nature and sees that its normal reaction, a peaceful and confident reaction, makes things so much easier! But as soon as this agitation of anxiety, fear, discontent comes in, the reaction of a will that doesnt want any of it oh, right away it becomes like water boiling: pff! pff! pff! like a machine. While if the difficulty is accepted with confidence and simplicity, its reduced to its minimum, and I mean purely materially, in the material vibration itself.
0 1961-02-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have brought you the exact text of that sentence on Sri Aurobindo I told you about the other day.1 It was in reply to a letter.
You know this mental habit (which people take for mental superiority!) of lumping everything together on the same level: all the teachings, all the prophets, all the sects, all the religions. You know the habit: We are not prejudiced, we have no preferencesits all the SAME THING. A dreadful muddle!
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has been like that since the beginning (gesture expressing agitation), and he had a go at a considerable number of things but none ever succeeded! He has no method, no sense of order and he doesnt know how to organize work. So World Union is simply to let him have his way, like letting a horse gallop.
I used to send him around to the various centers (because he had to do something!), and he would visit, speak to people I dont know about what. And during one of his trips to Delhi he happened to meet Z, who had been sent by the government of India to the Soviet Union, where it seems he delivered an extraordinary speech (it must have been extraordinary, because I have been receiving letters from everywhere, including America, asking for the text of this sensational speech in which he apparently spoke of human unity). So Z returned with the idea of forming a World Union, and J. and Z met. Furthermore, they were encouraged by S.M.7 and even by the Prime Minister,8 who probably had a special liking for Z and had given him a lot of encouragement. Thats how things began.
I treated it as something altogether secondary and unimportantwhen people need to gallop, I let them gallop (but I hadnt met Z). Then J. and Z left together on a speaking-tour of Africa and there things began to go sour, because Z was working in one way and J. in another. Finally, they were at odds and came back here to tell me, World Union is off to a good startwith a quarrel! (Mother laughs) Z was saying, Nothing can be done unless we base ourselves EXCLUSIVELY on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and they are behind us giving support. And J. said, No, no! We are not sectarian! We accept all ideas, all theories, etc. I replied, and as it happens, I said that Z was right, though with one corrective: he had been saying that people had to recognize us as their guru. No, I said, its absolutely uselessnot only useless, I refuse. I dont want to be anybodys guru. People should simply be told that things are to be done on the basis of Sri Aurobindos thought.9
So they kept pulling in opposing directions. Eventually they tried to set something up (which still didnt hold together), and finally they wrote me a little more clearly. (There is one very nice man involved, Y. He isnt particularly intellectual but has a lot of common sense and a very faithful hearta very good man.) Y asked me some direct questions, without beating around the bush, and I replied directly: World Union is an entirely superficial thing, without any depth, based on the fact that Sri Aurobindo said the masses must be helped to follow the progress of the elitewell, let them go ahead! If they enjoy it, let them go right ahead! I didnt say it exactly like that (I was a bit more polite!), but that was the gist of it.
Now it has all fallen flat. They are carrying on with their little activities, but its absolutely unimportant. They publish a small journal, and V, who writes for them, is far from stupid. She is rather intelligent and I have some control over her, so I will try to stop her from writing nonsense.
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But your name is there as President of the Sri Aurobindo Society, they said. My name is there to give an entirely material guarantee that the money donated will really and truly be used for the Work to be done and for nothing else; its only a moral and purely practical guarantee. These people arent even asked to understand what Sri Aurobindo has said but simply to participate. Its a different matter for those in World Union, who are working for an ideal: they want to prepare the world to receive (laughing) the Supermind! let them prepare it! It doesnt matter, they will achieve nothing at all, or very little. Its unimportant. Thats my point of view and I have told them so.
In addition, I told them it was preferable not to hold any functions herethey can be held at Tapogiri in the Himalayas, or elsewhere and this is understood. They did hold a seminar here (a perfect fiasco, besides), but it had been arranged a long time ago. They invited people who promised to come (I think very few showed up in the end), and it was of very secondary importance. Nevertheless, I told them, This is the last time; dont do it here any more. At Tapogiri, as often as you like: its a beautiful spot in the mountains, a health resort, people go there in the summer for the fresh air and to sit around and chat!
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I wrote them a letter where I stuck this nonsense of theirs right under their noses.
Listen to this appeal: If the opportunity offered by this movement appeals to you, if you have the feeling that you are one of those who have been prepared to collaborate in the spiritual adventure, we invite you to write to us, enrolling yourself as a member of World Union.
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Dont let it trouble you, you must always smile. Smile, be absolutely above it allabsolutely.
(silence)
I told them. Because at World Union they asked me what their mistake had been (they didnt state it so candidly, but in a roundabout way), and I replied (not so candidly, eithernot exactly in a roundabout way, but in general terms). I told them their mistake was being unfaithful and I explained that to be unfaithful means to put everything on the same level (thats when I sent them those lines12). I told them, Your error was in saying: One teaching among many teachingsso let us be broad-minded and accept all teachings. So along with all the teachings, you accept every stupidity possible.
But if someone is taken in, it proves hes at an elementary stage and unready.
Oh, Ive had all sorts of examples! All these errors serve as tests. Take the case of P.: for a long time, whenever someone arrived from the outside world and asked to be instructed, he was sent to P.s room. (I didnt send them, but they would be told, Go speak to P.!) And P. is the sectarian par excellence! He would tell people, Unless you acknowledge Sri Aurobindo as the ONLY one who knows the truth, you are good for nothing! Naturally (laughing), many rebelled! (You see, out of lazinessso as not to be bothered with seeing people or answering their questionsone says, Go find so-and-so, go ask so-and-so, and passes off the work to another.) Well, it was finally understood that this wasnt very tactful, and perhaps it would be better not to send visitors to P., since so many had been put off. But actually. I was told about it afterwards and I replied, let people read and see for THEMSELVES whether or not it suits them! What difference does it make if theyre put off! If they are, it means they NEED to be put off! Well see later. Some of them have come full circle and returned. Others never came backbecause they werent meant to. Thats how it goes. Basically, all this has NO importance. Or we could put it in another way: everything is perfectly all right.
(silence)
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This is the text of Mother's reply to J.: 'I have read Z's account and your own letter on this subject. in the faith of his devotion, he must have been quite offended. The truth in what he says is that any idea, WHATEVER its degree of truth, is ineffective if it does not also carry the power acquired through realization, by a real change of consciousness. And if the proponent of this idea does not himself have the realization, he must seek the backing of those who have the power. On the other hand, what you say is true: an idea ought to be accepted on the basis of its inherent truth and not because of the personality expounding it, however great this personality may be. These two truths or aspects of the question are equally true but also equally incomp lete: they are not the whole truth. Both of them must be accepted and combined with many other aspects of the question if you want to even begin to approach the dynamic power of the realization. Don't you see how ridiculous this situation is? Three people of goodwill meet in the hope of teaching men the necessity for a "World Union" and they are not even able to keep a tolerant or tolerable union among themselves, because each sees a different angle of the procedure to be followed for implementing their plan.'
Although it began as a fund-raising organization for the needs of the Ashram and Auroville, this 'strictly external thing,' which had 'nothing to do with working for an ideal,' would, after Mother's departure, coolly declare itself the 'owner' and guide of Auroville.
0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive been feeling lazy! I have received an abominable avalanche of letters, three-quarters of which are useless but I have to look at them to know whether theyre useless or not, so it takes up my morning before coming downstairs. I usually translated The Synthesis of Yoga in the afternoons, or answered questions, but nowadays I go into concentration at that time: I dont do anything. I want to cure my legs.
I am determined to cure myself they told me it was incurable. The doctors poison you to cure you (as they poisoned our poor S.), and thats no cure! When they dont feel the need to show off in front of the patient, they openly acknowledge that it isnt at all sure that their medicines cure: they merely make you inoffensive to others! But I dont believe in it I dont believe in doctors, I dont believe in their remedies and I dont believe in their science (they are very useful, they have a great social utility, but for myself, I dont believe in it).
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I had to return here that is, to my home in India, to Sri Aurobindos home: I had to return to Sri Aurobindos home. Pavitra was also working there and he didnt want to let me leave; when he saw me going he came and tried to stop me. You, on the contrary, were helping. Shall I take anything with me or not? I asked myself Oh, I dont need anything, Ill go all alone. That worried you a little because of the journey ahead, and you said, There will be many complications. It doesnt matter! I replied (laughing). But if you only knew how living and concrete it was! The impressions were so there was the feeling of making a long voyageit was a LONG voyage, as if I were crossing the sea (but not physically), a long voyage. I remember setting off (I was with you, you were there) and telling myself, At last hes here! At last I have found a reasonable being who doesnt try to stop me from doing what I must do! I had (laughing mischievously) a very high opinion of you, thats why I am telling you this!
I was abruptly awakened by the clock striking (I didnt count), and my immediate feeling was, Well, he is really very nice! Now theres a good companion!
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It was certainly with the progress of evolution, the march of evolution, when the mind began to develop for and in itself, that ALL the complications, all the deformations began. Indeed, this story of Genesis that seems so childish does contain a truth. The old traditions like Genesis resembled the Vedas in that each letter6 was the symbol of a knowledge; it was the pictorial rsum of a traditional knowledge, just as the Veda contains a pictoral rsum of the knowledge of its time. But whats more, even the symbol had a reality in the sense that there was truly a period when life upon earth (the first manifestation of mentalized Matter in human forms) was still in comp lete harmony with all that preceded it. It was only later that.
The tree of knowledge symbolizes this kind of knowledge a material knowledge, no longer divine because its origin was the sense of division and this is what began to spoil everything. How long did this period last? I am unable to say. (Because my recollection is of an almost immortal life; it seems that it was through some sort of evolutionary accident that the destruction of forms became necessary for progress.) And where did it take place? From certain impressions (but these are only impressions), it would seem that it was in the vicinity of either this side of Ceylon and India or the other, I dont know exactly (Mother indicates the Indian Ocean either west of Ceylon and India or to the east between Ceylon and Java), although certainly the place no longer exists; it must have been swallowed up by the sea. I have a very clear vision of the place and a consciousness of that life and its forms, but I cant give precise material details. Did it last for centuries, was it ? I dont know. To tell the truth, when I was reliving those moments I wasnt curious about such details (for one is in another mental state where there is no curiosity about material details: all things turn into psychological facts). It was something so simple, luminous, harmonious, far removed from all our usual preoccupationsthose very preoccupations with time and space. It was a spontaneous life, extremely beautiful, and so close to Naturea natural flowering of animal life. There were no oppositions or contradictions, nothing of the kindeverything happened in the best way possible.
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In Genesis, Hebraic letters.
This is the origin of such legends as Shangri-la. But 'psychics' most often confuse two planes of reality, attri buting to their SUBTLE vision a physical reality which it does not have or no longer has: they have merely entered into contact with the memory of a place for places, like beings, have a memory.
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was so sad to see how good-for-nothing we were that it woke me up, or rather I heard the clock strike (like the other day, I didnt count and leapt out of bed; but I quickly noticed that it was only 3 oclock and lay back down). Then I began looking and told myself, If we really have to emerge from all this infirmity before anything can truly be well done, then we have quite a long road to travel! It was pitiful, pitiful (first on the mental, then on the material plane), absolutely pitiful. And I was depending on these people! (Sri Aurobindo was depending on me and therefore on them.) Good god, I said, if I only knew where things were kept! If they had just let me handle things, it could have been done quickly. But no! All those people had to be involved Oust as we always depend on intermediaries in real life).
It made me wonder.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(On the previous day, Satprem had written a letter to Mother complaining of never having any concrete experiences. After a meditation together, this is what Mother replied.)
[This letter has disappeared.]
Its not that you dont have experiences! You even have access to regions where people very rarely go; you are capable of receiving light, intuitions, revelations but this is probably so normal for you that you dont notice it! I came to meditate with you especially to see what was preventing you from being conscious. And on your right side, I saw a sort of crystallization somewhat as though you were inside a statue.
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And I found it interesting that when I received your letter yesterday evening I concentrated for a moment, almost out of curiosity: Why doesnt he ever feel he has an experience? Why doesnt he feel anything? I wanted to know precisely what type of experience would give you the feeling of having an experience!
If I could receive the Light: if I could SEE this Light; if I could see the vastness opening before my eyes.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On other occasions (as I have told you) I had difficulties with X on the mental plane; now all that has cleared up, cleared up very well. But this present situation is on another plane, so lets wait. Perhaps probably it will clear up.
(silence)
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No, no: do not brood about it. let it be, it will work out. It will work out the way it has to work out.
X is sensitive mentally, but to what degree? And to what degree do things crystallize differently for him because of all his ideas?
0 1961-04-08, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first thing he did was to go see the Doctor and ask him to heal his ear, heal his stomach, heal. So the Doctor told him, But why do you eat just anything at any time of day? Naturally youre sick. And then he was constantly running up against our ways of organizing material things herepeople like him dont organize, they dont care, they just let things drift. Regarding his son, for instance, the Doctor told him, Its because you dont look after him. If you did, this wouldnt happen. And X very bluntly replied, But why!?
Theres a gap.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And she used to count her little ones. She knew perfectly well how many she had. I just had to tell her, Keep only two or threealthough the first time there were only three, which was still too many, yet it was absolutely impossible not to let her keep them all. But later on I had to chide her. I didnt take them from her, but I would speak to her, convince her: Its too much, youll be ill. Just keep these. See how nice these two are. Take care of them.
Oh, what lovely cat stories! That was a whole period for many, many years. Many years.
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would rather say nothing. lets work.
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But dont let that discourage you.
Oh, you know, nothing is very encouraging, either!
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If I could remain quiet like this for hours on end, without letters, without oh, without seeing people! Would it perhaps go more quickly? I dont know.
Why dont you take a break for a while?
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Its impossible. I cant. Even two years ago, when I was really sick and took to my room for the first time, I couldnt let the work go. I cant do it. Its not possible.
But surely there are things you could cut down?
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
let me tell you about a recent occurrence. E. had sent a telegram saying that she had a perforated intestine (but it must have been something else because they operated on her only after several days, and when you are not operated on immediately in such cases, you die). Anyway, it was very serious and she was on the threshold of death that much is certain. She wrote me a letter the day before the operation (what is interesting is that now she doesnt even remember what she wrote). It was a magnificent letter saying that she was conscious of the Divine Presence and of the Divine Plan. Tomorrow they will operate on me, she said. And I am entirely aware that this operation has ALREADY been done, that it is a fact accomplished by the Divine Will; otherwise it could be a fatal ordeal. And she said she was conscious of the supreme Wills action, in a perfect peace. It was a magnificent letter. And the whole thing went off almost miraculously; she recovered in such a miraculous way that the surgeon himself said, I must congratulate you, to which she replied, How surprising! You did the operation! Yes, he said, we did the operation, but it is your body that willed to be healed, and I congratulate you for your bodys willpower. Of course she wrote to me that she knew who had been there to see that all went well. And this feeling of the thing being already accomplished is a beginning of the consciousness Sri Aurobindo speaks of in the Yoga of Self-Perfection, where one is simultaneously both here and there. Because, as Sri Aurobindo says, some people have managed to be entirely there, but what he has called the realization is to be both there and here simultaneously.
Of course, one might wonder what the meaning of everything here is, if it has all been already accomplished above, on an occult plane, and we are merely re-enacting it.
--
An illustration of this is the well-known story about the man who refused to move out of the path of an elephant on the pretext that he was Brahman and that Brahman had told him to stay put. And the mahout replied, 'But Brahman has told me that you should get out of the way and let the elephant Brahman pass.' Although childishly simplified, it's the same thing. It's because we look 'in this way' yet not , in that way' at the same time, and above all, because we don't look at EVERYTHING at the same time. From the minute we could be integral in our perception, all relationships would remain the same, but instead of being in a state of ignorance, we would experience them in a state of knowledge.
Would remain the same? You mean they would physically be the same as they are now, but would be seen in a different way?
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And thats not all. This J.M., who thinks herself highly intelligent, has written a letter saying, It is exactly the same teachingexactly. Its always exactly the same teaching! They are abysmally ignorant.
(Satprem:) They jumble everything up.
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Already, with all the people here. (But I never told them they were my disciples, I told them they were my children and with children, to begin with, theres no need to do everything they want!) I already waste all my time answering their letters, which are worse than stupid. What questions they askquestions already answered at least fifty timessimply for the pleasure of writing! So now Ive stopped answering. I write one or two words, and thats it.
No, its disgusting!
--
The following is the exact text referred to, an extract from one of Sri Aurobindo's letters: 'I don't believe in advertisement except for books etc., and in propaganda except for politics and patent medicines. But for serious work it is a poison. It means either a stunt or a boom and stunts and booms exhaust the thing they carry on their crest and leave it lifeless and broken high and dry on the shores of nowhereor it means a movement. A movement in the case of a work like mine means the founding of a school or a sect or some other damned nonsense. It means that hundreds or thousands of useless people join in and corrupt the work or reduce it to a pompous farce from which the Truth that was coming down recedes into secrecy and silence. It is what has happened to the "religions" and is the reason of their failure....'
2.10.1934
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
let me repeat that when we speak of Sri Aurobindo, it is not a question of teaching nor even of revelation, but of an Action from the Supreme; upon this, no religion whatsoever can be founded.
This is the first blast.
--
One of my most terrible experiences took place in Venice (the cathedrals there are so beautifulmagnificent!). I remember I was painting they had let me settle down in a corner to paintand nearby there was a (what do they call it?) a confessional. And a poor woman was kneeling there in distresswith such a dreadful sense of sin! So piteous! She wept and wept. Then I saw the priest coming, oh, like a monster, a hard-hearted monster! He went inside; he was like an iron bar. And there was this poor woman sobbing, sobbing; and the voice of the other one, hard, curt. I could barely contain myself.
I dont know why, but I have had this kind of experience so very often: either a hostile force lurking behind and swallowing up everything, or else manruthless man abusing the Power.
--
I wanted to carry on with my mornings program, but I couldnt. Theres a mound of letters, all in a muddle! Oh, these people here letter upon letter, letter upon letter, urgent needs to see me.
I thought we would prepare a reply to T., but then I chatted away.
0 1961-05-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had continued to work in the same way. But now its as if everything has been engulfed. And the number of ugly things, petty movements, nasty reactionseverywhere, everywhere, in everyone, oh! I am swamped with letters, and such letters! Such letters!
And I dont see, I really do not see why all that needs to manifest in order to disappear. Because before, when it didnt manifest, it faded away by itself; but now it creates problems and problems and problems. (For me they are not problems but stupidities; they are problems and complications for others.) And its so useless! So much time is lost, so much time coping with stupid reactions. I dont know why.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I do sense that all, all in me is reaching for ONE thing: You, You alone, let there be only You One cannot say I(there is always a misunderstanding with that idiotic I), but it isnt You, it isnt I it is one single thing. let THAT be, and nothing else.
As long as its not THAT, ah! Yes, we are paving the road.
--
But all the rest of the time. From morning to evening, letters to read, things to organize, people to see. And at night, every time I come out of my trance there is a swarm of things here (gesture around the head) waiting to be heard, demanding attention.
Sometimes there are amusing thingsif I were to note down all I see! There are things things which dont appear as they are in ordinary life, but as they ARE when seen with a slightly more clairvoyant eyeits rather amusing. But it amounts to nothing-a sort of distraction.
--
Not to mention the letters people write.
They say I have become deaf. I believe its the Lords grace, because when I make an effort to hear what is being said to me, nine times out of ten its comp letely useless and its absolutely stupid. Its better not to hear!
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and let them flow reverently in offering.
And how sweet and how comforting
--
let me stammer out my offering3:
I have cried too with the joy of a child,
--
Here is something interesting. I am translating the Yoga of Self-Perfection. My first look at it stiffened menow its a delight! And I have done nothing in between but simply let it work within; its so easy!
My translation is poorly written, hardly French at all, but to me it is limpid.
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, its a grab-bag of odds and endsvery important letters are mixed in with all sorts of pointlessness. Take the ICS. examination, for instance they seem to be pleading Sri Aurobindos case! Its ridiculous.2
Yes, I wasnt looking after anything when that was published [in 1953]. It has given me something like a malaise.
--
Sri Aurobindo's letters on his life, his experience and his yoga.
Sri Aurobindo was not admitted to the Indian Civil Service because he refused to appear at the riding test which terminated the examination.
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I do now when X comes is take it all (gesture from below to above) and do like this (gesture of offering up), in an aspiration and then I let it go. Then all the Immobility, the Silence, the Light, the Peace comes down from above into everything and doesnt move. But that in itself is very difficult for the body to have, very difficult: something is always vibrating and moving.
Its as if it put everything back in order, but nothing is moved.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
According to my mothers letter, he says he no longer particularly cares to live, that his days are so miserable.
But he still doesnt want to pass away? Is he suffering a great deal?
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There was an experience like that quite recently. A.s mother was illold and seriously ill. Seeing her declining, A. wrote to me: If the time has come, make it happen quicklydont let her suffer. Then I saw very clearly that there was still something in her which didnt want to go; and when I applied the Force for the best to happen she suddenly began to recover! It must have coincided with a kind of inner aspiration in herno more fever, she was feeling well. And A. began preparing to come back here. If shes recovering, he said, theres no longer any point in my staying! The same evening she had a relapse and he sent me a telegram. Meanwhile (it was evening) I had gone upstairs to walk; suddenly The Will came (which is a very, very rare thing), The Will: Enough, now it must finishits enough as it is. Within half an hour she was dead.
These things are very interesting. They must form part of the work I have come on earth to do. Because even before encountering Theon, before knowing anything, I had experiences at night, certain types of activities looking after people who were leaving their bodiesand with a knowledge of the process; I didnt know what I was doing nor did I seek to know, yet I knew exactly what had to be done and I did it. I was around twenty.
--
I was keeping I.B. near me because I already had the idea of putting him immediately back into another bodyhis soul was not satisfied, it had not finished its experience (there was a whole combination of circumstances) and it wanted to continue to live on earth. Then, that night, his inner being went to find V., lamenting, saying he was dead and hadnt wanted to die, that he had lost his body and wanted to continue to live. V. was very perplexed. He let me know about it in the morning: Heres what has happened. I sent word to him of what I was doing, that I was keeping I.B. in my atmosphere and that he should stay very calm and not get excited, for I was going to put him back into a body as soon as possible I already had something in view. The same evening I.B. again went to find V., with the same complaint. V. told him very clearly, Here is what Mother says, here is what she is going to do; come now, be calm and dont torment yourself. And he saw in I.B.s face that he had understood (the inner being was taking on I.B.s physical appearance, naturally); his face relaxed, he became content.
He went away and he never came back. That is, he stayed tranquilly with me, until I was able to put him into C.s child.
--
Do you know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastiche had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apartboth serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, I congratulate you. Practically the same phrase in both cases. And they both protested: Why are you congratulating me? (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwards.) Why? You did the operationyou should be congratulated for my quick recovery. And in both cases the doctor replied, No, no; we only operate, the body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify as miraculous, and I genuinely congratulate you. And then the two of them had the same reaction they wrote to me saying, We know where the miracle comes from. And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me a remarkable letter a few days before her operation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, I know that the operation is ALREADY done, that the Lord has already done it, and so I am calm.
Things like that, everywhere and PRECISE! Something quite precise. Of course, to say that I work consciously is almost silly, its commonplace. But in many cases one may work consciously for long years without getting that precision in the result the action enters a hazy atmosphere and makes a kind of stir, and out of it comes the best that can, but no more than that. But now its exact, preciseits becoming interesting.
--
Satprem no longer has the text of this letter.
He was run over by a truck.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That way one can last. Very well. lets work.
(Mother takes up Thoughts and Aphorisms.)
--
The experience I described the day I said I have something to tell you [January 24, 1961] was truly very pleasant and I did try to relive it but I never could. Whenever I try, whenever something in me insists on recapturing the experience, I always see a Smile and something tells me, No, no! let go! Youll see, youll see. So I let go.
All right, thats enough-enough for you!
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has become acute since.1 No, I dont read these days, because Ive had a hemorrhage in this eye. There have been too many letters, and its difficult for me to decipher handwriting the result is this hemorrhage. So I have gone on strike. All right, I said, I wont read any letters for a week. People can write as much as they please, its all the same to me Im not reading any more. But just before stopping (I stopped reading for only three days), I read a passage where Sri Aurobindo speaks of his own experience and his own work and explains in full what he means by the supramental transformation. This passage confirmed and made me understand many experiences I had after that experience of the bodys ascent [January 24, 1961] (the ascent of the body-consciousness, followed by the descent of the supramental force into the body); immediately afterwards, everything (how to put it?) outwardly, according to ordinary consciousness, I fell ill; but its stupid to speak this way I did not fall ill! All possible difficulties in the bodys subconscient rose up en masseit had to happen, and it surely happened to Sri Aurobindo, too. How well I understood! How well, indeed. And its no joke, you know! I had wondered why these difficulties had hounded him so ferociouslynow I understand, because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion.
Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, material substance as it has been organized by the mind the initial mentalization of matter, the first stirrings of mind in life making the passage from animal to human. (The same complications would probably exist in animals, but as there is no question of trying to supramentalize animals, all goes well for them.) Well, something in there protests, and naturally this protest creates disorder. These past few days I have been seeing. No one has ever followed this path! Sri Aurobindo was the first, and he left without telling us what he was doing. I am literally hewing a path through a virgin forestits worse than a virgin forest.
--
From experience, I know perfectly well that when one is satisfied with being a saint or a sage and constantly maintains the right attitude, all goes well the body doesnt get sick, and even if there are attacks it recovers very easily; all goes very well AS LONG AS THERE IS NOT THIS WILL TO TRANSFORM. All the difficulties arise in protest against the will to transform; while if one says, Very well, its all right, let things be as they are, I dont care, I am perfectly happy, in a blissful state, then the body begins to feel content!
Thats the problem: something totally new is being introduced into Matter, and the body is protesting.
--
Since Mother began reading Sri Aurobindo's letters in On Himself, which seemed to put her into contact with all the difficulties of the Work.
Experience of November 8, 1957. Mother has commented on this experience in 'Questions and Answers' of January 1, 1958. See Agenda I, p. 131.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was an instance of this the other day: someone in a comp letely detestable mood wrote me a letter; it was impossible, I couldnt reply I didnt know what to say. I simply applied the Force and remained like this (gesture of an offering to the Light). I said, We shall see. Several hours later (I knew I was going to see this person) I didnt even know if I was going to say I had read the letteror rather if what I was going to say would result from having read it. I had come to that pointnothing. But that very morning a little circumstance occurred that changed everything! And when I met the person I knew immediately what had to be said, what had to be done, and everything worked out.
That is ONE example. I mention it because it happened the day before yesterday, but this goes on all the time.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
lets take Savitri, which is very explicit on this: the universal Mother is universally present and at work in the universe, but the earth is where concrete form is given to all the work to be done to bring evolution to its perfection, its goal. Well, at first theres a sort of emanation representative of the universal Mother, which is always on earth to help it prepare itself; then, when the preparation is comp lete, the universal Mother herself will descend upon earth to finish her work. And this She does with SatyavanSatyavan is the soul of the earth. She lives in close union with the soul of the earth and together they do the work; She has chosen the soul of the earth for her work, saying, HERE is where I will do my work. Elsewhere (Mother indicates regions of higher Consciousness), its enough just to BE and things Simply ARE. Here on earth you have to work.
There are clearly universal repercussions and effects, of course, but the thing is WORKED OUT here, the place of work is HERE. So instead of living beatifically in Her universal state and beyond, in the extra-universal eternity outside of time, She says, No, I am going to do my work HERE, I choose to work HERE. The Supreme then tells her, What you have expressed is My Will.. I want to work HERE, and when all is ready, when the earth is ready, when humanity is ready (even if no one is aware of it), when the Great Moment comes, well I will descend to finish my work.
--
As for hoping to make people understand! The only thing that really matters is that they read your book with interest. let them read it with interest; each one will imagine he has understood (and of course he will have understood!), and through (I was going to say under) their interest, well, something will be awakened in their consciousness, a kind of first aspiration towards the need to realize thats all. If you do that, good Lord, you have done a great thing!
Make them understand! How to understand? As long as one is there [at the mind level], one does not understand. One can imagine all sorts of things, explain all sorts of things, but with a pinch of common sense, you see very well that you dont explain a thing.
--
Standing there between two iridescent pillars is a very tall figure; his face, framed in short blond curls, is that of a very young man; his eyes are sea-green; he is clad in a pale blue tunic, and like wings upon his shoulders are great, snow-white fins. Beholding me, he steps aside against a pillar to let me pass. Scarcely have I crossed the threshold when an exquisite melody strikes my ears. The waters are all iridescent here, the ground aglow with glossy pearls; the portico and the vault, hung gracefully with stalactites, are opaline; delectable perfumes hover everywhere; galleries, niches and alcoves open out on all sides; but directly ahead of me I perceive a great light and towards it I turn my steps. There are great rays of gold, silver, sapphire, emerald and ruby, radiating outward in all directions, born from a center too distant for me to discern; to this center I feel drawn by a powerful attraction.
Now I see that these rays emanate from a recumbent oval of white light encircled by a superb rainbow, and I sense that the one whom the light hides from my view is plunged into a profound repose. For long I remain at the outer edge of the rainbow, trying to pierce through the light and see the one who is sleeping encircled by such splendor. Unable to discern anything, I enter the rainbow, and thence into the white and shining oval. Here I see a marvelous being: stretched on what seems to be a mass of white eiderdown, his supple body, of incomparable beauty, is garbed in a long, white robe. His head rests on his folded arm, but of that I can see only his long hair, the hue of ripened wheat, flowing over his shoulders. A great and gentle emotion sweeps through me at this magnificent spectacle, and a deep reverence as well.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But Theon had no idea of the path of bhakti,5 none whatsoever. The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet he did have the idea of the Divine Presence here (Mother indicates the heart center), of the immanent Divine and of union with That. And he said that by uniting with That and letting That transform the being one could arrive at the divine creation and the transformation of the earth.
Theon was the first one to give me the idea that the earth is symbolic, representativesymbolic of concentrated universal action allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely. I learned all this from him.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But whats interesting, for instance, is that when her father died she knew it; she saw him. She thought it was a dreama stupid dream. But he came to let her know he was dead and she saw him. Its nothing, she said, a dream! (Mother laughs)
When my grandmo ther died. My grandmo ther had the occult sense. She had made her own fortune (a sizeable fortune) and had had five children, each one more extravagant than the other. She considered me the only sensible person in the family and she shared her secrets with me. You see, she told me, these people are going to squander all my money! She had a sixty year old son (she had married in Egypt at the age of fifteen, and had had this son when she was quite young). You see this boy, he goes out and visits impossible people! And then he starts playing cards and loses all my money! I saw this boy, I was there in the house when he came to her and said very politely, Good-bye, mother, Im going out to so-and-sos house. Ah, please dont waste all my money, and take an overcoatits getting chilly at night. Sixty years old! It was comical. But to return to my story, after my grandmo ther died (I took a lot of care over her), she came to my mother (my mother was with her when she died; they embalmed hershe had gotten it into her head that she wanted to be burned, and since she died at Nice they had to embalm her so she could be burned in Paris). I was in Paris. My mother arrived with the body and told me, Just imagine, Im constantly seeing her! And whats more, she gives me advice! Dont waste your money! she tells me. Well, shes right, one must be careful, I replied. But look here, shes dead! Dead! How can she talk to me! Shes dead, I tell you, and quite dead at that! I said to her, What does it mean, to die?
--
There was another reason. My father was wonderfully healthy and strongwell-balanced. He wasnt very tall, but stocky. He did all his studies in Austria (at that time French was widely spoken in Austria, but he knew German, he knew English, Italian, Turkish), and there he had learned to ride horses in an extraordinary manner: he was so strong that he could bring a horse to the ground simply by pressing his knees. He could break anything at all with a blow of his fist, even one of those big silver five-franc pieces they had in those daysone blow and it was broken in two. Curiously enough, he looked Russian. I dont know why. They used to call him Barine. What an equilibriuman extraordinary physical poise! And not only did this man know all those languages, but I never saw such a brain for arithmetic. Never. He made a game of calculationsnot the slightest effortcalculations with hundreds of digits! And on top of it, he loved birds. He had a room to himself in our apartment (because my mother could never much tolerate him), he had his separate room, and in it he kept a big cage full of canaries! During the day he would close the windows and let all the canaries loose.
And could he tell stories! I think he read every novel available, all the stories he could findextraordinary adventure stories, for he loved adventures. When we were kids he used to let us come into his room very early in the morning and, while still sitting in bed, tell us stories from the books he had read but he told them as if they were his own, as if hed had extraordinary adventures with outlaws, with wild animals. Every story he picked up he told as his own. We enjoyed it tremendously!
But one day when my brother had disobeyed him (Matteo must have been ten or eleven, and I perhaps nine or ten), I came into the dining room and saw my father sitting on a sofa with my brother across his knees; he had pulled down his trousers and was spanking him, I dont know what for. It wasnt a very serious spanking, but still. I came in, drew myself up to my full height and said, Papa, if you ever do that again, I am leaving this house! And with such authority, mon petit! He stopped and never did it again.
--
Satprem remembers that a few years earlier Mother had told him about the circumstances of this incident: during her work in trance, Mother discovered the location of the 'mantra of life'the mantra that has the power to create life (and to withdraw it, as well). Theon, an incarnation of the Asura of Death, was of course quite interested and told Mother to repeat this mantra to him. Mother refused. Theon became violently angry and the link was cut (the link that connected Mother to her body). When he realized the catastrophe his anger had caused, Theon grew afraid (for he knew who Mother was) and he then, as Mother recounts, made use of all his power to help her re-enter her body. Later, Mother gave this mantra to Sri Aurobindo... who let it quietly sink into oblivion. For it is not through a mantra that the secret of life (or death) is to be mastered, but through knowledge of the true Powerin other words, ultimately, knowledge of the reality of Matter and the mechanism of death: it is the whole cellular yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother.
Tamas: inertia, obscurity.
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
let it come from here (pointing to the heart).
I am fully confident.
--- Overview of noun let
The noun let has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous ::: (a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India; "Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus")
2. let, net ball ::: (a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again)
--- Overview of verb let
The verb let has 6 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (219) let, allow, permit ::: (make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off")
2. (15) let ::: (actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested")
3. (2) permit, allow, let, countenance ::: (consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam")
4. (2) get, let, have ::: (cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble")
5. (1) let ::: (leave unchanged; "let it be")
6. lease, let, rent ::: (grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun let
2 senses of let
Sense 1
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous
INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
=> political movement
=> movement, social movement, front
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
let, net ball
=> serve, service
=> tennis stroke, tennis shot
=> stroke, shot
=> maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun let
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun let
2 senses of let
Sense 1
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous
INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
Sense 2
let, net ball
=> serve, service
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun let
2 senses of let
Sense 1
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous
-> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
HAS INSTANCE=> Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades
HAS INSTANCE=> Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword
HAS INSTANCE=> Aksa Martyrs Brigades, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Martyrs of al-Aqsa
HAS INSTANCE=> Alex Boncayao Brigade, ABB, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group
HAS INSTANCE=> al Itihaad al Islamiya, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, Islamic Unity, AIAI
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Ma'unah
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Muhajiroun
HAS INSTANCE=> Al Nathir
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Rashid Trust
HAS INSTANCE=> al Sunna Wal Jamma, Followers of the Phrophet
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Tawhid, Al Tawhid, Divine Unity
HAS INSTANCE=> al-Ummah
HAS INSTANCE=> Ansar al Islam, Ansar al-Islam, Supporters of Islam
HAS INSTANCE=> Armata Corsa, Corsican Army
HAS INSTANCE=> Armed Islamic Group, GIA
HAS INSTANCE=> Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Orly Group, 3rd October Organization
HAS INSTANCE=> Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe
HAS INSTANCE=> Asbat al-Ansar, Band of Partisans
HAS INSTANCE=> Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth
HAS INSTANCE=> Baader Meinhof Gang, Baader-Meinhof Gang
HAS INSTANCE=> Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA
HAS INSTANCE=> Black September Movement
HAS INSTANCE=> Chukaku-Ha
HAS INSTANCE=> Continuity Irish Republican Army, CIRA, Continuity Army Council
HAS INSTANCE=> Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PDFLP
HAS INSTANCE=> East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement
HAS INSTANCE=> Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Abu Nidal Organization, ANO, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims
HAS INSTANCE=> Fatah Tanzim, Tanzim
HAS INSTANCE=> First of October Antifascist Resistance Group, GRAPO
HAS INSTANCE=> Force 17
HAS INSTANCE=> Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar, Umar al-Mukhtar Forces
HAS INSTANCE=> Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement
HAS INSTANCE=> Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami, HUJI
HAS INSTANCE=> Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors
HAS INSTANCE=> Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth
HAS INSTANCE=> Hizb ut-Tahrir, Freedom Party
HAS INSTANCE=> International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
HAS INSTANCE=> Irish National Liberation Army, INLA, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army, Catholic Reaction Force
HAS INSTANCE=> Irish Republican Army, IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provos
HAS INSTANCE=> Islamic Army of Aden, IAA, Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
HAS INSTANCE=> Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front, IBDA-C
HAS INSTANCE=> Islamic Group of Uzbekistan, IMU, Islamic Party of Turkestan
HAS INSTANCE=> Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad
HAS INSTANCE=> Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Fuqra, Tanzimul Fuqra
HAS INSTANCE=> Japanese Red Army, JRA, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade
HAS INSTANCE=> Jayshullah
HAS INSTANCE=> Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group
HAS INSTANCE=> Jerusalem Warriors
HAS INSTANCE=> Jund-ul-Islam, Soldiers of God
HAS INSTANCE=> Kahane Chai, Kach
HAS INSTANCE=> Kaplan Group, Association of Islamic Groups and Communities, Caliphate State
HAS INSTANCE=> Khmer Rouge, KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea
HAS INSTANCE=> Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKK
HAS INSTANCE=> Kurdistan Workers Party, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK
HAS INSTANCE=> Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
HAS INSTANCE=> Lashkar-e-Omar, Al Qanoon
HAS INSTANCE=> Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous
HAS INSTANCE=> Laskar Jihad, Holy War Warriors
HAS INSTANCE=> Lautaro Youth Movement, Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement, Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces
HAS INSTANCE=> Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement
HAS INSTANCE=> Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, FIG, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group
HAS INSTANCE=> Lord's Resistance Army
HAS INSTANCE=> Loyalist Volunteer Force
HAS INSTANCE=> Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK
HAS INSTANCE=> Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front
HAS INSTANCE=> Moranzanist Patriotic Front
HAS INSTANCE=> Moro Islamic Liberation Front
HAS INSTANCE=> Mujahedeen Kompak
HAS INSTANCE=> Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization, MKO, MEK, People's Mujahidin of Iran
HAS INSTANCE=> National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ
HAS INSTANCE=> National Liberation Army, ELN
HAS INSTANCE=> National Liberation Front of Corsica, FLNC
HAS INSTANCE=> New People's Army, NPA
HAS INSTANCE=> Orange Group, OV
HAS INSTANCE=> Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini
HAS INSTANCE=> Palestine Liberation Front, PLF, Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah
HAS INSTANCE=> Palestinian Hizballah
HAS INSTANCE=> Pentagon Gang
HAS INSTANCE=> Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP
HAS INSTANCE=> Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, PFLP-GC
HAS INSTANCE=> Popular Struggle Front, PSF
HAS INSTANCE=> 15 May Organization
HAS INSTANCE=> People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD
HAS INSTANCE=> Puka Inti, Sol Rojo, Red Sun
HAS INSTANCE=> Qassam Brigades, Salah al-Din Battalions, Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions
HAS INSTANCE=> Qibla
HAS INSTANCE=> Real IRA, Real Irish Republican Army, RIRA, Dissident Irish Republican Army
HAS INSTANCE=> Red Army Faction, RAF
HAS INSTANCE=> Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR
HAS INSTANCE=> Red Hand Defenders, RHD
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia, FARC
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, Revolutionary People's Liberation Front
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus, Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei, NIPR
HAS INSTANCE=> Revolutionary United Front, RUF
HAS INSTANCE=> Salafist Group, Salafast Group for Call and Combat, GSPC
HAS INSTANCE=> Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL
HAS INSTANCE=> Sipah-e-Sahaba
HAS INSTANCE=> Tareekh e Kasas, Movement for Revenge
HAS INSTANCE=> Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA
HAS INSTANCE=> Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army, EGTK
HAS INSTANCE=> Turkish Hizballah
HAS INSTANCE=> Ulster Defence Association, UDA
HAS INSTANCE=> United Self-Defense Force of Colombia, United Self-Defense Group of Colombia, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC
Sense 2
let, net ball
-> serve, service
=> ace
=> fault
=> let, net ball
--- Grep of noun let
african millet
african violet
aglet
aiglet
american dog violet
amulet
ankle bracelet
anklet
annulet
applet
armlet
auklet
ballet
bandelet
bandlet
barn millet
billet
bird's-foot violet
blood platelet
bomblet
bonelet
booklet
bracelet
bractlet
branchlet
brooklet
broomcorn millet
bulblet
bullet
bulrush millet
bush violet
cabriolet
calathian violet
camlet
canada violet
carpenter's mallet
cattail millet
chalet
chaplet
circlet
classical ballet
closed couplet
cluster bomblet
collet
comedy ballet
corps de ballet
corselet
corslet
couplet
coverlet
cream violet
croquet mallet
crystal violet
cutlet
damask violet
dame's violet
dog's-tooth violet
dog violet
dogtooth violet
doublet
downy yellow violet
driblet
droplet
drupelet
dumdum bullet
eaglet
electric doublet
electric outlet
electrical outlet
english violet
epaulet
evergreen millet
eyelet
feabane mullet
filet
fillet
finger millet
firm omelet
fish filet
fish fillet
flageolet
flatlet
fluffy omelet
flush toilet
flushless toilet
foxtail millet
french omelet
frontlet
fruitlet
gantlet
garden violet
gauntlet
gentian violet
german millet
giblet
gimlet
goblet
gold-crowned kinglet
golden-crested kinglet
golden wonder millet
gray mullet
great millet
grey mullet
gullet
hamlet
haslet
heath violet
hedge violet
heroic couplet
hog millet
horned violet
indian millet
inlet
islet
italian millet
japanese barnyard millet
japanese millet
jean francois millet
kinglet
lancelet
leaflet
let
letch
letdown
lethal agent
lethal dose
lethal gene
lethality
lethargic encephalitis
lethargy
lethe
leto
letter
letter bomb
letter bond
letter box
letter carrier
letter case
letter of credit
letter of intent
letter of jeremiah
letter of mark and reprisal
letter of marque
letter of the alphabet
letter opener
letter paper
letter security
letter stock
letter telegram
letter writer
lettercard
letterer
letterhead
lettering
letterman
letterpress
letters
letters of administration
letters of marque
letters patent
letters testamentary
letterset printing
letting
letting down
lettish
lettre de cachet
lettuce
letup
long-spurred violet
magic bullet
mallet
mantelet
mantlet
memorial tablet
millet
modern ballet
mullet
necklet
nutlet
omelet
outlet
owlet
pale violet
pallet
pamphlet
pansy violet
pearl millet
pellet
persian violet
piculet
piglet
piolet
plantlet
platelet
playlet
polo mallet
poulet
public toilet
pullet
quadruplet
quintuplet
rambouillet
red mullet
ringlet
rivulet
rondelet
rootlet
rubber bullet
ruby-crowned kinglet
sales outlet
sallet
sanwa millet
scarlet
sextuplet
shrinking violet
shrublet
siberian millet
silver bullet
singlet
skillet
sleeping tablet
spikelet
starlet
streamlet
striped mullet
striped violet
stylet
sublet
surmullet
sweet violet
sweet white violet
swiftlet
tablet
tall white violet
tartlet
templet
tercelet
texas millet
toilet
tracer bullet
treelet
triplet
two-eyed violet
ultraviolet
valet
valvelet
varlet
violet
wallet
watch bracelet
water violet
wavelet
western omelet
white dog's-tooth violet
white dogtooth violet
white mullet
white violet
willet
wood violet
woodland white violet
woodlet
wristlet
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