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BOOKS
Full_Circle
General_Principles_of_Kabbalah
Heart_of_Matter
How_to_Free_Your_Mind_-_Tara_the_Liberator
Know_Yourself
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
Process_and_Reality
The_Categories
The_Divine_Companion
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Essential_Songs_of_Milarepa
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Life_Divine
The_Republic
The_Seals_of_Wisdom
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
The_Yoga_Sutras
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra
Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.fs_-_Longing
1.jwvg_-_Longing
1.mb_-_I_am_pale_with_longing_for_my_beloved
1.raa_-_And_the_letter_is_longing
1.whitman_-_Longings_For_Home
3.14_-_ON_THE_GREAT_LONGING

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
00.01_-_The_Approach_to_Mysticism
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
0.07_-_DARK_NIGHT_OF_THE_SOUL
0.09_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Teacher
01.01_-_The_Symbol_Dawn
01.03_-_Mystic_Poetry
01.04_-_Motives_for_Seeking_the_Divine
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
01.12_-_Three_Degrees_of_Social_Organisation
0_1958-05-10
0_1960-10-22
0_1960-12-31
0_1961-03-07
0_1961-08-02
0_1961-09-16
0_1962-05-29
0_1962-07-21
0_1962-10-30
0_1963-03-06
0_1963-03-13
0_1964-10-07
0_1965-05-19
0_1965-09-25
0_1965-12-31
0_1966-10-12
0_1967-11-22
0_1968-06-15
0_1968-11-23
0_1969-04-23
0_1969-07-23
0_1970-04-22
0_1970-05-27
0_1972-12-06
02.01_-_Our_Ideal
02.03_-_The_Glory_and_the_Fall_of_Life
02.04_-_The_Kingdoms_of_the_Little_Life
02.06_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Life
02.07_-_The_Descent_into_Night
02.11_-_Hymn_to_Darkness
02.11_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Mind
02.14_-_The_World-Soul
03.02_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Divine_Mother
03.03_-_The_House_of_the_Spirit_and_the_New_Creation
03.04_-_The_Vision_and_the_Boon
03.12_-_TagorePoet_and_Seer
04.02_-_The_Growth_of_the_Flame
04.03_-_The_Call_to_the_Quest
04.05_-_The_Freedom_and_the_Force_of_the_Spirit
05.02_-_Physician,_Heal_Thyself
05.03_-_Bypaths_of_Souls_Journey
05.03_-_Satyavan_and_Savitri
05.05_-_In_Quest_of_Reality
05.05_-_Man_the_Prototype
05.06_-_Physics_or_philosophy
06.01_-_The_Word_of_Fate
06.02_-_The_Way_of_Fate_and_the_Problem_of_Pain
07.01_-_The_Joy_of_Union;_the_Ordeal_of_the_Foreknowledge
07.02_-_The_Parable_of_the_Search_for_the_Soul
07.03_-_The_Entry_into_the_Inner_Countries
07.06_-_Nirvana_and_the_Discovery_of_the_All-Negating_Absolute
07.36_-_The_Body_and_the_Psychic
07.41_-_The_Divine_Family
07.45_-_Specialisation
08.08_-_The_Mind_s_Bazaar
08.09_-_Spirits_in_Trees
08.14_-_Poetry_and_Poetic_Inspiration
08.27_-_Value_of_Religious_Exercises
09.02_-_Meditation
09.02_-_The_Journey_in_Eternal_Night_and_the_Voice_of_the_Darkness
09.03_-_The_Psychic_Being
10.01_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Ideal
10.02_-_The_Gospel_of_Death_and_Vanity_of_the_Ideal
10.04_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Earthly_Real
10.06_-_Beyond_the_Dualities
1.00_-_Main
1.00_-_The_way_of_what_is_to_come
10.13_-_Go_Through
1.01_-_Archetypes_of_the_Collective_Unconscious
1.01_-_MASTER_AND_DISCIPLE
1.01_-_On_knowledge_of_the_soul,_and_how_knowledge_of_the_soul_is_the_key_to_the_knowledge_of_God.
1.01_-_On_renunciation_of_the_world
1.01_-_Our_Demand_and_Need_from_the_Gita
1.01_-_Tara_the_Divine
1.01_-_The_Cycle_of_Society
1.01_-_The_First_Steps
1.01_-_The_Human_Aspiration
1.01_-_THE_STUFF_OF_THE_UNIVERSE
1.01_-_To_Watanabe_Sukefusa
1.02.4.1_-_The_Worlds_-_Surya
1.025_-_Sadhana_-_Intensifying_a_Lighted_Flame
1.02_-_Groups_and_Statistical_Mechanics
1.02_-_In_the_Beginning
1.02_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_On_the_Knowledge_of_God.
1.02_-_Outline_of_Practice
1.02_-_The_Human_Soul
1.02_-_The_Soul_Being_of_Man
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.02_-_The_Three_European_Worlds
1.02_-_Where_I_Lived,_and_What_I_Lived_For
1.031_-_Intense_Aspiration
1.037_-_Preventing_the_Fall_in_Yoga
1.03_-_Concerning_the_Archetypes,_with_Special_Reference_to_the_Anima_Concept
1.03_-_Invocation_of_Tara
1.03_-_On_Children
1.03_-_On_exile_or_pilgrimage
1.03_-_Questions_and_Answers
1.03_-_Some_Aspects_of_Modern_Psycho_therapy
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_THE_STUDY_(The_Exorcism)
1.03_-_The_Syzygy_-_Anima_and_Animus
1.03_-_The_Two_Negations_2_-_The_Refusal_of_the_Ascetic
1.03_-_Time_Series,_Information,_and_Communication
1.03_-_YIBHOOTI_PADA
1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS
1.04_-_Communion
1.04_-_GOD_IN_THE_WORLD
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_Future_World.
1.04_-_SOME_REFLECTIONS_ON_PROGRESS
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda
1.04_-_The_Praise
1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice
1.04_-_The_Self
1.04_-_What_Arjuna_Saw_-_the_Dark_Side_of_the_Force
1.053_-_A_Very_Important_Sadhana
1.05_-_Problems_of_Modern_Psycho_therapy
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_-_The_Psychic_Being
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.06_-_Agni_and_the_Truth
1.06_-_Gestalt_and_Universals
1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life
1.06_-_The_Four_Powers_of_the_Mother
1.06_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES
1.06_-_WITCHES_KITCHEN
1.075_-_Self-Control,_Study_and_Devotion_to_God
1.078_-_Kumbhaka_and_Concentration_of_Mind
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_BOOK_THE_SEVENTH
1.07_-_Cybernetics_and_Psychopathology
1.07_-_Hymn_of_Paruchchhepa
1.07_-_Incarnate_Human_Gods
1.07_-_The_Ego_and_the_Dualities
1.07_-_THE_GREAT_EVENT_FORESHADOWED_-_THE_PLANETIZATION_OF_MANKIND
1.07_-_The_Ideal_Law_of_Social_Development
1.07_-_THE_MASTER_AND_VIJAY_GOSWAMI
1.07_-_The_Primary_Data_of_Being
1.083_-_Choosing_an_Object_for_Concentration
1.08_-_BOOK_THE_EIGHTH
1.08_-_ON_THE_TREE_ON_THE_MOUNTAINSIDE
1.08_-_Psycho_therapy_Today
1.08_-_RELIGION_AND_TEMPERAMENT
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.08_-_The_Magic_Sword,_Dagger_and_Trident
1.08_-_Worship_of_Substitutes_and_Images
1.098_-_The_Transformation_from_Human_to_Divine
1.09_-_ADVICE_TO_THE_BRAHMOS
1.09_-_Man_-_About_the_Body
1.09_-_Talks
1.09_-_The_Guardian_of_the_Threshold
1.1.01_-_Seeking_the_Divine
11.01_-_The_Eternal_Day__The_Souls_Choice_and_the_Supreme_Consummation
1.10_-_BOOK_THE_TENTH
1.10_-_Farinata_and_Cavalcante_de'_Cavalcanti._Discourse_on_the_Knowledge_of_the_Damned.
1.10_-_Life_and_Death._The_Greater_Guardian_of_the_Threshold
1.10_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES_(II)
1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.10_-_The_Yoga_of_the_Intelligent_Will
1.11_-_BOOK_THE_ELEVENTH
1.11_-_Powers
1.11_-_Works_and_Sacrifice
1.1.2_-_Commentary
1.12_-_Dhruva_commences_a_course_of_religious_austerities
1.12_-_The_Divine_Work
1.12_-_THE_FESTIVAL_AT_PNIHTI
1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.
1.13_-_The_Supermind_and_the_Yoga_of_Works
1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS
1.14_-_ON_THE_FRIEND
1.14_-_The_Principle_of_Divine_Works
1.15_-_In_the_Domain_of_the_Spirit_Beings
1.15_-_LAST_VISIT_TO_KESHAB
1.15_-_The_Supreme_Truth-Consciousness
1.16_-_Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Evocational_Magic
1.16_-_PRAYER
1.16_-_Religion
1.16_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_M._AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_HIS_INJURED_ARM
1.19_-_The_Practice_of_Magical_Evocation
1.19_-_The_Victory_of_the_Fathers
1.2.02_-_Qualities_Needed_for_Sadhana
1.20_-_Equality_and_Knowledge
1.20_-_ON_CHILD_AND_MARRIAGE
1.20_-_On_Time
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.20_-_The_End_of_the_Curve_of_Reason
1.2.1.06_-_Symbolism_and_Allegory
1.2.11_-_Patience_and_Perseverance
1.21_-_A_DAY_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.21_-_ON_FREE_DEATH
1.21_-_Tabooed_Things
1.22_-_ADVICE_TO_AN_ACTOR
1.22_-_EMOTIONALISM
1.22_-_THE_END_OF_THE_SPECIES
1.23_-_FESTIVAL_AT_SURENDRAS_HOUSE
1.23_-_THE_MIRACULOUS
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King
1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.25_-_SPIRITUAL_EXERCISES
1.26_-_FESTIVAL_AT_ADHARS_HOUSE
1.26_-_On_discernment_of_thoughts,_passions_and_virtues
1.26_-_Sacrifice_of_the_Kings_Son
1.26_-_The_Ascending_Series_of_Substance
1.27_-_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.27_-_On_holy_solitude_of_body_and_soul.
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
13.03_-_A_Programme_for_the_Second_Century_of_the_Divine_Manifestation
1.3.04_-_Peace
1.31_-_Adonis_in_Cyprus
1.34_-_Continues_the_same_subject._This_is_very_suitable_for_reading_after_the_reception_of_the_Most_Holy_Sacrament.
1.3_-_Mundaka_Upanishads
1.400_-_1.450_Talks
1.4.01_-_The_Divine_Grace_and_Guidance
14.01_-_To_Read_Sri_Aurobindo
1.40_-_Describes_how,_by_striving_always_to_walk_in_the_love_and_fear_of_God,_we_shall_travel_safely_amid_all_these_temptations.
1.439
1.450_-_1.500_Talks
1.45_-_The_Corn-Mother_and_the_Corn-Maiden_in_Northern_Europe
1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals
15.06_-_Words,_Words,_Words...
15.08_-_Ashram_-_Inner_and_Outer
1.54_-_Types_of_Animal_Sacrament
1.56_-_The_Public_Expulsion_of_Evils
1.76_-_The_Gods_-_How_and_Why_they_Overlap
19.06_-_The_Wise
19.07_-_The_Adept
1914_11_10p
1916_12_07p
19.26_-_The_Brahmin
1929-04-14_-_Dangers_of_Yoga_-_Two_paths,_tapasya_and_surrender_-_Impulses,_desires_and_Yoga_-_Difficulties_-_Unification_around_the_psychic_being_-_Ambition,_undoing_of_many_Yogis_-_Powers,_misuse_and_right_use_of_-_How_to_recognise_the_Divine_Will_-_Accept_things_that_come_from_Divine_-_Vital_devotion_-_Need_of_strong_body_and_nerves_-_Inner_being,_invariable
1929-04-21_-_Visions,_seeing_and_interpretation_-_Dreams_and_dreaml_and_-_Dreamless_sleep_-_Visions_and_formulation_-_Surrender,_passive_and_of_the_will_-_Meditation_and_progress_-_Entering_the_spiritual_life,_a_plunge_into_the_Divine
1929-06-02_-__Divine_love_and_its_manifestation_-_Part_of_the_vital_being_in_Divine_love
1929-07-28_-_Art_and_Yoga_-_Art_and_life_-_Music,_dance_-_World_of_Harmony
1951-04-19_-_Demands_and_needs_-_human_nature_-_Abolishing_the_ego_-_Food-_tamas,_consecration_-_Changing_the_nature-_the_vital_and_the_mind_-_The_yoga_of_the_body__-_cellular_consciousness
1953-04-29
1953-06-17
1953-08-19
1953-09-02
1953-09-16
1953-09-30
1953-10-14
1954-06-16_-_Influences,_Divine_and_other_-_Adverse_forces_-_The_four_great_Asuras_-_Aspiration_arranges_circumstances_-_Wanting_only_the_Divine
1954-06-30_-_Occultism_-_Religion_and_vital_beings_-_Mothers_knowledge_of_what_happens_in_the_Ashram_-_Asking_questions_to_Mother_-_Drawing_on_Mother
1955-03-02_-_Right_spirit,_aspiration_and_desire_-_Sleep_and_yogic_repose,_how_to_sleep_-_Remembering_dreams_-_Concentration_and_outer_activity_-_Mother_opens_the_door_inside_everyone_-_Sleep,_a_school_for_inner_knowledge_-_Source_of_energy
1955-11-09_-_Personal_effort,_egoistic_mind_-_Man_is_like_a_public_square_-_Natures_work_-_Ego_needed_for_formation_of_individual_-_Adverse_forces_needed_to_make_man_sincere_-_Determinisms_of_different_planes,_miracles
1956-02-15_-_Nature_and_the_Master_of_Nature_-_Conscious_intelligence_-_Theory_of_the_Gita,_not_the_whole_truth_-_Surrender_to_the_Lord_-_Change_of_nature
1956-02-29_-_Sacrifice,_self-giving_-_Divine_Presence_in_the_heart_of_Matter_-_Divine_Oneness_-_Divine_Consciousness_-_All_is_One_-_Divine_in_the_inconscient_aspires_for_the_Divine
1956-07-25_-_A_complete_act_of_divine_love_-_How_to_listen_-_Sports_programme_same_for_boys_and_girls_-_How_to_profit_by_stay_at_Ashram_-_To_Women_about_Their_Body
1956-11-28_-_Desire,_ego,_animal_nature_-_Consciousness,_a_progressive_state_-_Ananda,_desireless_state_beyond_enjoyings_-_Personal_effort_that_is_mental_-_Reason,_when_to_disregard_it_-_Reason_and_reasons
1957-05-29_-_Progressive_transformation
1957-07-24_-_The_involved_supermind_-_The_new_world_and_the_old_-_Will_for_progress_indispensable
1957-09-25_-_Preparation_of_the_intermediate_being
1957-12-11_-_Appearance_of_the_first_men
1958-02-05_-_The_great_voyage_of_the_Supreme_-_Freedom_and_determinism
1958-07-09_-_Faith_and_personal_effort
1958-09-03_-_How_to_discipline_the_imagination_-_Mental_formations
1963_03_06
1.A_-_ANTHROPOLOGY,_THE_SOUL
1.ac_-_A_Birthday
1.asak_-_A_pious_one_with_a_hundred_beads_on_your_rosary
1.asak_-_Love_came_and_emptied_me_of_self
1.at_-_The_Higher_Pantheism
1.bs_-_Chanting,_chanting_the_Beloveds_name
1.bs_-_One_Thread_Only
1.bs_-_What_a_carefree_game_He_plays!
1.bv_-_When_I_see_the_lark_beating
1f.lovecraft_-_Ashes
1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Call_of_Cthulhu
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Diary_of_Alonzo_Typer
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Disinterment
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Haunter_of_the_Dark
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Loved_Dead
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Moon-Bog
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mysterious_Ship
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Night_Ocean
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Quest_of_Iranon
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Strange_High_House_in_the_Mist
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Trap
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tree_on_the_Hill
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1f.lovecraft_-_Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_Winged_Death
1.fs_-_Longing
1.fs_-_The_Artists
1.fs_-_The_Assignation
1.fs_-_The_Driver
1.fs_-_The_Ideals
1.fs_-_The_Lay_Of_The_Bell
1.fs_-_The_Sexes
1.fua_-_The_Nightingale
1.fua_-_The_Simurgh
1.hs_-_Cypress_And_Tulip
1.hs_-_There_is_no_place_for_place!
1.ia_-_Reality
1.jda_-_Raga_Gujri
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_III
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_IV
1.jk_-_Isabella;_Or,_The_Pot_Of_Basil_-_A_Story_From_Boccaccio
1.jk_-_Ode_On_A_Grecian_Urn
1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_I
1.jk_-_Sharing_Eves_Apple
1.jk_-_Sonnet_XI._On_First_Looking_Into_Chapmans_Homer
1.jk_-_Translated_From_A_Sonnet_Of_Ronsard
1.jlb_-_Adam_Cast_Forth
1.jr_-_Birdsong
1.jr_-_Book_1_-_Prologue
1.jr_-_If_continually_you_keep_your_hope
1.jr_-_I_lost_my_world,_my_fame,_my_mind
1.jr_-_The_Absolute_works_with_nothing
1.jr_-_The_Thirsty
1.jwvg_-_Departure
1.jwvg_-_Longing
1.jwvg_-_The_Bliss_Of_Absence
1.jwvg_-_The_Buyers
1.jwvg_-_True_Enjoyment
1.kbr_-_Hang_Up_The_Swing_Of_Love_Today!
1.kbr_-_Hang_up_the_swing_of_love_today!
1.kbr_-_My_body_is_flooded
1.kbr_-_Poem_5
1.kbr_-_The_Bride-Soul
1.kbr_-_The_Time_Before_Death
1.kbr_-_Within_this_earthen_vessel
1.ki_-_Buddhas_body
1.ki_-_even_poorly_planted
1.lb_-_Ch'ing_P'ing_Tiao
1.lb_-_Endless_Yearning_by_Li_Po
1.lb_-_His_Dream_Of_Skyland
1.lb_-_Seeing_Off_Meng_Haoran_For_Guangling_At_Yellow_Crane_Tower
1.lb_-_Thoughts_On_a_Quiet_Night_by_Li_Po
1.lla_-_Learning_the_scriptures_is_easy
1.lla_-_One_shrine_to_the_next,_the_hermit_cant_stop_for_breath
1.lovecraft_-_Nathicana
1.lovecraft_-_Revelation
1.lovecraft_-_Tosh_Bosh
1.lovecraft_-_Where_Once_Poe_Walked
1.mah_-_Stillness
1.mah_-_You_Went_Away_but_Remained_in_Me
1.mb_-_All_I_Was_Doing_Was_Breathing
1.mb_-_I_am_pale_with_longing_for_my_beloved
1.mb_-_The_Five-Coloured_Garment
1.mm_-_The_devil_also_offers_his_spirit
1.mm_-_Three_Golden_Apples_from_the_Hesperian_grove_(from_Atalanta_Fugiens)
1.nkt_-_Autumn_Wind
1.pbs_-_Letter_To_Maria_Gisborne
1.pbs_-_Pater_Omnipotens
1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_IV.
1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_IX.
1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_V.
1.pbs_-_Rosalind_and_Helen_-_a_Modern_Eclogue
1.pbs_-_Scenes_From_The_Faust_Of_Goethe
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
1.raa_-_And_the_letter_is_longing
1.rajh_-_Intimate_Hymn
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_III_-_Paracelsus
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_I_-_Paracelsus_Aspires
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_V_-_Paracelsus_Attains
1.rb_-_Pauline,_A_Fragment_of_a_Question
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Second
1.rmpsd_-_I_drink_no_ordinary_wine
1.rmr_-_Abishag
1.rmr_-_Elegy_I
1.rmr_-_God_Speaks_To_Each_Of_Us
1.rmr_-_Interior_Portrait
1.rmr_-_Song
1.rmr_-_Sunset
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_I
1.rmr_-_To_Lou_Andreas-Salome
1.rmr_-_You_Who_Never_Arrived
1.rt_-_Dream_Girl
1.rt_-_Fireflies
1.rt_-_Gitanjali
1.rt_-_I_Am_Restless
1.rt_-_Lotus
1.rt_-_Lovers_Gifts_XXXIX_-_There_Is_A_Looker-On
1.rt_-_On_many_an_idle_day_have_I_grieved_over_lost_time_(from_Gitanjali)
1.rt_-_Stray_Birds_81_-_90
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_LXIX_-_I_Hunt_For_The_Golden_Stag
1.rt_-_The_Homecoming
1.rt_-_The_Tame_Bird_Was_In_A_Cage
1.rt_-_This_Dog
1.rwe_-_Quatrains
1.sfa_-_The_Canticle_of_Brother_Sun
1.sjc_-_Loves_Living_Flame
1.snk_-_Nirvana_Shatakam
1.snt_-_How_is_it_I_can_love_You
1.snt_-_The_Light_of_Your_Way
1.srmd_-_Every_man_who_knows_his_secret
1.stav_-_On_Those_Words_I_am_for_My_Beloved
1.stav_-_You_are_Christs_Hands
1.wb_-_Awake!_awake_O_sleeper_of_the_land_of_shadows
1.wby_-_A_Dramatic_Poem
1.wby_-_A_Man_Young_And_Old_-_Complete
1.wby_-_A_Man_Young_And_Old_-_XI._From_Oedipus_At_Colonus
1.wby_-_Loves_Loneliness
1.wby_-_Meditations_In_Time_Of_Civil_War
1.wby_-_Owen_Aherne_And_His_Dancers
1.wby_-_The_Fairy_Pendant
1.wby_-_The_Lover_Asks_Forgiveness_Because_Of_His_Many_Moods
1.wby_-_The_People
1.wby_-_The_Shadowy_Waters_-_The_Shadowy_Waters
1.wby_-_The_Wanderings_Of_Oisin_-_Book_III
1.wby_-_The_Wheel
1.whitman_-_Apostroph
1.whitman_-_Come_Up_From_The_Fields,_Father
1.whitman_-_I_Sing_The_Body_Electric
1.whitman_-_Longings_For_Home
1.whitman_-_Passage_To_India
1.whitman_-_Song_of_Myself
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XLIII
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Exposition
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Open_Road
1.whitman_-_Sparkles_From_The_Wheel
1.whitman_-_Spontaneous_Me
1.whitman_-_The_Indications
1.whitman_-_Think_Of_The_Soul
1.whitman_-_To_A_Stranger
1.ww_-_1_-_I_celebrate_myself,_and_sing_myself
1.ww_-_6_-_A_child_said_What_is_the_grass?_fetching_it_to_me_with_full_hands
1.ww_-_A_Morning_Exercise
1.ww_-_Artegal_And_Elidure
1.ww_-_Book_Eleventh-_France_[concluded]
1.ww_-_Book_First_[Introduction-Childhood_and_School_Time]
1.ww_-_Book_Tenth_{Residence_in_France_continued]
1.ww_-_Book_Third_[Residence_at_Cambridge]
1.ww_-_Extract_From_The_Conclusion_Of_A_Poem_Composed_In_Anticipation_Of_Leaving_School
1.ww_-_From_The_Cuckoo_And_The_Nightingale
1.ww_-_Resolution_And_Independence
1.ww_-_Song_at_the_Feast_of_Brougham_Castle
1.ww_-_The_Affliction_Of_Margaret
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IV-_Book_Third-_Despondency
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_V-_Book_Fouth-_Despondency_Corrected
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_VII-_Book_Sixth-_The_Churchyard_Among_the_Mountains
1.ww_-_The_Recluse_-_Book_First
1.ww_-_The_Wishing_Gate_Destroyed
1.ww_-_Troilus_And_Cresida
1.yb_-_The_late_evening_crow
1.ymi_-_Swallowing
2.01_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE
2.01_-_Mandala_One
2.01_-_The_Yoga_and_Its_Objects
2.02_-_Brahman,_Purusha,_Ishwara_-_Maya,_Prakriti,_Shakti
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.02_-_The_Bhakta.s_Renunciation_results_from_Love
2.02_-_THE_DURGA_PUJA_FESTIVAL
2.02_-_THE_EXPANSION_OF_LIFE
2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English
2.02_-_The_Mother_Archetype
2.02_-_The_Status_of_Knowledge
2.02_-_The_Synthesis_of_Devotion_and_Knowledge
2.03_-_DEMETER
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.03_-_THE_MASTER_IN_VARIOUS_MOODS
2.03_-_The_Purified_Understanding
2.03_-_The_Pyx
2.04_-_ADVICE_TO_ISHAN
2.04_-_The_Forms_of_Love-Manifestation
2.05_-_VISIT_TO_THE_SINTHI_BRAMO_SAMAJ
2.06_-_Reality_and_the_Cosmic_Illusion
2.06_-_The_Synthesis_of_the_Disciplines_of_Knowledge
2.06_-_WITH_VARIOUS_DEVOTEES
2.06_-_Works_Devotion_and_Knowledge
2.07_-_BANKIM_CHANDRA
2.08_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE_(II)
2.09_-_Memory,_Ego_and_Self-Experience
2.09_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY
2.09_-_THE_NIGHT_SONG
2.0_-_Reincarnation_and_Karma
2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST
2.1.02_-_Love_and_Death
2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman
2.10_-_Knowledge_by_Identity_and_Separative_Knowledge
2.10_-_On_Vedic_Interpretation
2.10_-_THE_MASTER_AND_NARENDRA
2.12_-_THE_MASTERS_REMINISCENCES
2.13_-_On_Psychology
2.14_-_AT_RAMS_HOUSE
2.14_-_On_Movements
2.14_-_ON_THE_LAND_OF_EDUCATION
2.15_-_CAR_FESTIVAL_AT_BALARMS_HOUSE
2.15_-_ON_IMMACULATE_PERCEPTION
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence
2.16_-_VISIT_TO_NANDA_BOSES_HOUSE
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.17_-_The_Progress_to_Knowledge_-_God,_Man_and_Nature
2.18_-_ON_GREAT_EVENTS
2.18_-_SRI_RAMAKRISHNA_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_DR._SARKAR
2.19_-_The_Planes_of_Our_Existence
2.2.02_-_The_True_Being_and_the_True_Consciousness
2.2.03_-_The_Psychic_Being
2.20_-_Chance
2.20_-_THE_MASTERS_TRAINING_OF_HIS_DISCIPLES
2.20_-_The_Philosophy_of_Rebirth
2.21_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.21_-_The_Order_of_the_Worlds
2.21_-_Towards_the_Supreme_Secret
2.22_-_Rebirth_and_Other_Worlds;_Karma,_the_Soul_and_Immortality
2.22_-_THE_STILLEST_HOUR
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.23_-_Man_and_the_Evolution
2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man
2.25_-_AFTER_THE_PASSING_AWAY
2.25_-_The_Triple_Transformation
2.26_-_The_Ascent_towards_Supermind
2.27_-_The_Gnostic_Being
2.28_-_Rajayoga
2.28_-_The_Divine_Life
2.3.07_-_The_Vital_Being_and_Vital_Consciousness
2.3.08_-_The_Mother's_Help_in_Difficulties
2.3.2_-_Desire
2.4.02_-_Bhakti,_Devotion,_Worship
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
30.06_-_The_Poet_and_The_Seer
30.09_-_Lines_of_Tantra_(Charyapada)
30.17_-_Rabindranath,_Traveller_of_the_Infinite
3.01_-_Fear_of_God
3.01_-_The_Soul_World
3.01_-_THE_WANDERER
3.02_-_Aridity_in_Prayer
3.02_-_King_and_Queen
3.02_-_ON_THE_VISION_AND_THE_RIDDLE
3.02_-_The_Great_Secret
3.02_-_The_Soul_in_the_Soul_World_after_Death
3.03_-_The_Consummation_of_Mysticism
3.03_-_The_Godward_Emotions
3.03_-_The_Spirit_Land
3.04_-_Immersion_in_the_Bath
3.04_-_LUNA
3.04_-_The_Spirit_in_Spirit-Land_after_Death
3.04_-_The_Way_of_Devotion
3.05_-_Cerberus_And_Furies,_And_That_Lack_Of_Light
3.05_-_SAL
3.05_-_The_Fool
3.06_-_Death
3.06_-_UPON_THE_MOUNT_OF_OLIVES
3.07_-_The_Ananda_Brahman
3.08_-_ON_APOSTATES
3.0_-_THE_ETERNAL_RECURRENCE
3.1.01_-_Distinctive_Features_of_the_Integral_Yoga
31.03_-_The_Trinity_of_Bengal
3.1.04_-_Transformation_in_the_Integral_Yoga
3.10_-_ON_THE_THREE_EVILS
3.10_-_The_New_Birth
3.1.23_-_The_Rishi
3.1.24_-_In_the_Moonlight
3.1.2_-_Levels_of_the_Physical_Being
3.12_-_ON_OLD_AND_NEW_TABLETS
3.13_-_THE_CONVALESCENT
3.14_-_Of_the_Consecrations
3.14_-_ON_THE_GREAT_LONGING
3.16_-_THE_SEVEN_SEALS_OR_THE_YES_AND_AMEN_SONG
31_Hymns_to_the_Star_Goddess
3.2.02_-_The_Veda_and_the_Upanishads
3.2.05_-_The_Yoga_of_the_Bhagavad_Gita
32.06_-_The_Novel_Alchemy
3.2.08_-_Bhakti_Yoga_and_Vaishnavism
3.2.3_-_Dreams
3.2.4_-_Sex
33.03_-_Muraripukur_-_I
33.04_-_Deoghar
33.05_-_Muraripukur_-_II
33.11_-_Pondicherry_II
33.18_-_I_Bow_to_the_Mother
3-5_Full_Circle
37.07_-_Ushasti_Chakrayana_(Chhandogya_Upanishad)
3.7.2.05_-_Appendix_I_-_The_Tangle_of_Karma
3.8.1.04_-_Different_Methods_of_Writing
3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations
4.01_-_The_Presence_of_God_in_the_World
4.02_-_Divine_Consolations.
4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress
4.02_-_The_Psychology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.03_-_The_Special_Phenomenology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.04_-_Conclusion
4.04_-_In_the_Total_Christ
4.04_-_Some_Vital_Functions
4.04_-_THE_REGENERATION_OF_THE_KING
4.05_-_The_Instruments_of_the_Spirit
4.0_-_NOTES_TO_ZARATHUSTRA
4.1.1_-_The_Difficulties_of_Yoga
4.11_-_THE_WELCOME
4.13_-_ON_THE_HIGHER_MAN
4.14_-_THE_SONG_OF_MELANCHOLY
4.19_-_THE_DRUNKEN_SONG
4.2.1.04_-_The_Psychic_and_the_Mental,_Vital_and_Physical_Nature
4.2.1_-_The_Right_Attitude_towards_Difficulties
4.2.4.09_-_Psychic_Tears_or_Weeping
4.2.4.10_-_Psychic_Yearning
4.42_-_Chapter_Two
5.01_-_EPILOGUE
5.03_-_ADAM_AS_THE_FIRST_ADEPT
5.03_-_The_Divine_Body
5.07_-_ROTUNDUM,_HEAD,_AND_BRAIN
5.1.01.1_-_The_Book_of_the_Herald
5.1.01.2_-_The_Book_of_the_Statesman
5.1.01.3_-_The_Book_of_the_Assembly
5.1.01.4_-_The_Book_of_Partings
5.1.01.6_-_The_Book_of_the_Chieftains
5.1.01.8_-_The_Book_of_the_Gods
5.1.02_-_Ahana
5.2.01_-_The_Descent_of_Ahana
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5.4.02_-_Occult_Powers_or_Siddhis
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.08_-_THE_CONTENT_AND_MEANING_OF_THE_FIRST_TWO_STAGES
6.09_-_Imaginary_Visions
6.09_-_THE_THIRD_STAGE_-_THE_UNUS_MUNDUS
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
7.09_-_Right_Judgement
7.16_-_Sympathy
7.6.01_-_Symbol_Moon
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
9.99_-_Glossary
Aeneid
Apology
Appendix_4_-_Priest_Spells
Big_Mind_(ten_perfections)
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER
BOOK_IV._-_That_empire_was_given_to_Rome_not_by_the_gods,_but_by_the_One_True_God
BOOK_IX._-_Of_those_who_allege_a_distinction_among_demons,_some_being_good_and_others_evil
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
Book_of_Psalms
BOOK_VIII._-_Some_account_of_the_Socratic_and_Platonic_philosophy,_and_a_refutation_of_the_doctrine_of_Apuleius_that_the_demons_should_be_worshipped_as_mediators_between_gods_and_men
BOOK_VII._-_Of_the_select_gods_of_the_civil_theology,_and_that_eternal_life_is_not_obtained_by_worshipping_them
BOOK_VI._-_Of_Varros_threefold_division_of_theology,_and_of_the_inability_of_the_gods_to_contri_bute_anything_to_the_happiness_of_the_future_life
BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin
BOOK_XIV._-_Of_the_punishment_and_results_of_mans_first_sin,_and_of_the_propagation_of_man_without_lust
BOOK_XIX._-_A_review_of_the_philosophical_opinions_regarding_the_Supreme_Good,_and_a_comparison_of_these_opinions_with_the_Christian_belief_regarding_happiness
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
BOOK_XVII._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_the_times_of_the_prophets_to_Christ
BOOK_XVI._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_Noah_to_the_time_of_the_kings_of_Israel
BOOK_XXII._-_Of_the_eternal_happiness_of_the_saints,_the_resurrection_of_the_body,_and_the_miracles_of_the_early_Church
BOOK_XXI._-_Of_the_eternal_punishment_of_the_wicked_in_hell,_and_of_the_various_objections_urged_against_it
Chapter_II_-_WHICH_TREATS_OF_THE_FIRST_SALLY_THE_INGENIOUS_DON_QUIXOTE_MADE_FROM_HOME
Chapter_I_-_WHICH_TREATS_OF_THE_CHARACTER_AND_PURSUITS_OF_THE_FAMOUS_GENTLEMAN_DON_QUIXOTE_OF_LA_MANCHA
COSA_-_BOOK_I
COSA_-_BOOK_III
COSA_-_BOOK_IV
COSA_-_BOOK_VI
COSA_-_BOOK_VII
COSA_-_BOOK_X
COSA_-_BOOK_XII
COSA_-_BOOK_XIII
Cratylus
DS3
ENNEAD_01.02_-_Concerning_Virtue.
ENNEAD_01.06_-_Of_Beauty.
ENNEAD_03.05_-_Of_Love,_or_Eros.
ENNEAD_04.02_-_How_the_Soul_Mediates_Between_Indivisible_and_Divisible_Essence.
ENNEAD_04.03_-_Psychological_Questions.
ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.
ENNEAD_04.08_-_Of_the_Descent_of_the_Soul_Into_the_Body.
ENNEAD_05.06_-_The_Superessential_Principle_Does_Not_Think_-_Which_is_the_First_Thinking_Principle,_and_Which_is_the_Second?
ENNEAD_06.01_-_Of_the_Ten_Aristotelian_and_Four_Stoic_Categories.
ENNEAD_06.02_-_The_Categories_of_Plotinos.
ENNEAD_06.03_-_Plotinos_Own_Sense-Categories.
ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_and_Identical_Being_is_Everywhere_Present_In_Its_Entirety.345
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Gorgias
Guru_Granth_Sahib_first_part
Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals
LUX.04_-_LIBERATION
Meno
Phaedo
Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text
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r1912_12_06
r1912_12_10
r1913_01_14
r1914_03_14
r1914_03_26
r1914_04_05
r1914_12_09
r1917_08_24
r1917_08_28
r1918_05_10
r1919_07_17
r1920_10_18
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Sophist
Symposium_translated_by_B_Jowett
Tablets_of_Baha_u_llah_text
Talks_001-025
Talks_076-099
Talks_500-550
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Aleph
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P1
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P2
The_Coming_Race_Contents
The_Divine_Names_Text_(Dionysis)
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_Gospel_According_to_Luke
The_Hidden_Words_text
The_Logomachy_of_Zos
The_Monadology
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text
Verses_of_Vemana

PRIMARY CLASS

SIMILAR TITLES
longing

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

longingly ::: adv. --> With longing.

longing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Long ::: n. --> An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

longing ::: strong, persistent desire or craving, esp. for something unattainable or distant. longing"s, longings, longings".


TERMS ANYWHERE

1. Of or pertaining to the universe in general or all things in it; existing or occurring everywhere or in all things; occasionally of or belonging to all nature. Chiefly poet. **2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of all or the whole. 3. Applicable everywhere or in all cases; general. Universal.

1. Rising above what is characteristic of earth; exalted, sublime; celestial. 2. Seeming not to belong to this earth or world. 3. Not belonging to this earth; supernatural, mysterious, ghostly.

(1) the region from the throat lo the heart, {2} the heart (it is a double centre, belonging in front to the emotiona! and sital and behind to the psychic), (3) from the heart to the navel,

abbatial ::: a. --> Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

abdominal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.
Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. ::: n. --> A fish of the group Abdominales.


abyssal ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

academical ::: a. --> Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.


acalephoid ::: a. --> Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.

acanthopterygian ::: a. --> Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. ::: n. --> A spiny-finned fish.

accidental ::: a. --> Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. ::: n.


accipitrine ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

accredit ::: v. t. --> To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.


acephalan ::: n. --> Same as Acephal. ::: a. --> Belonging to the Acephala.

acnode ::: n. --> An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

aestival ::: a. --> Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.

african ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Africa. ::: n. --> A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

aged ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Age ::: a. --> Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
Belonging to old age.


airy ::: a. --> Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight.
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy


alaternus ::: n. --> An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

alder ::: n. --> A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. ::: a. --> Alt. of Aller

alemannic ::: a. --> Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes. ::: n. --> The language of the Alemanni.

alexandrine ::: a. --> Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. ::: n. --> A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

alien ::: 1. Unlike one"s own; strange; not belonging to one; belonging to another person, place, or family. 2. Adverse; hostile. aliens.

alien ::: a. --> Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. ::: n.


allegorical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.

anacardiaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

analogic ::: a. --> Of or belonging to analogy.

anasarcous ::: a. --> Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

anchorage ::: n. --> The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Something on which one may depend for security; ground


ancient ::: a. --> Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.


angelical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine.

anhungered ::: a. --> Ahungered; longing.

aniline ::: n. --> An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. ::: a.

antennal ::: a. --> Belonging to the antennae.

anthropological ::: a. --> Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.

antimony ::: n. --> An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

antipathic ::: a. --> Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

antique ::: 1. Of or belonging to the past. 2. Dating from a period long ago; ancient.

aphis ::: n. --> A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

apian ::: a. --> Belonging to bees.

apical ::: a. --> At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

apician ::: a. --> Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.

aplacental ::: a. --> Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

apocyneous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

appendant ::: v. t. --> Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.


appertinent ::: a. --> Belonging; appertaining. ::: n. --> That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.

appetence ::: n. --> A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

appetite ::: n. --> The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
Tendency; appetency.
The thing desired.


appetition ::: n. --> Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something.

appropriate ::: a. --> Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. ::: v. t. --> To take to one&

appurtenance ::: n. --> That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.

aprosos ::: a. & adv. --> Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.
By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.


aquiline ::: a. --> Belonging to or like an eagle.
Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose


archaeozoic ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

arkite ::: a. --> Belonging to the ark.

ark shell ::: --> A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

armament ::: n. --> A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
Any equipment for resistance.


armorial ::: a. --> Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.

arnotto ::: n. --> A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.
Same as Annotto.


aroideous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants.

asinine ::: a. --> Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.

asparagus ::: n. --> A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.
The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.


aspiration ::: 1. A strong desire for high achievement. 2. A steadfast longing for something above oneself. **aspiration"s.

aspire ::: to have a fixed desire, longing, or ambition for something at present above one; to seek to attain, yearn. aspires, aspired, aspiring.

assets ::: n. pl. --> Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.
Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.
The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a


athirst ::: a. --> Wanting drink; thirsty.
Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.


attribute ::: v. t. --> To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). ::: n. --> That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or

auroral ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.

autoptical ::: a. --> Seen with one&

autumnal ::: a. --> Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.
Past the middle of life; in the third stage.


autumnal ::: of, belonging to or suggestive of, autumn.

avenaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

avid ::: a. --> Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

axial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.


bachelorism ::: n. --> Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.

bacterium ::: n. --> A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

balneatory ::: a. --> Belonging to a bath.

barium ::: n. --> One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.

barnyard ::: n. --> A yard belonging to a barn.

bashi-bazouk ::: n. --> A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

basilisk ::: n. --> A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.


batty ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

belonging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Belong ::: n. --> That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.
That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.


belongings ::: possessions; things owned, either tangible or intangible.

bedlam ::: n. --> A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
Any place where uproar and confusion prevail. ::: a. --> Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.


beechen ::: a. --> Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

beguine ::: n. --> A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

belemnite ::: n. --> A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.

belgravian ::: a. --> Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

beroe ::: n. --> A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

bestial ::: a. --> Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. ::: n. --> A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.


between ::: prep. --> In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.


be ::: v. i. --> To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a


bibliothecal ::: a. --> Belonging to a library.

biliary ::: a. --> Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

bishoplike ::: a. --> Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

ble and even manifest themselves without being sought for. They can be acquired and fixed by processes which the science gives, and their use then becomes subject to the will ; or they can be allowed to develop of themselves and used only when they come, or when the Divine within moves us to use them ; or else,. even though thus naturally developing and acting, they may be rejected in a siogle-minded devotion to the one supreme goal of the Yoga. Secondly, there are fuller, • greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the

longingly ::: adv. --> With longing.

longing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Long ::: n. --> An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

longing ::: strong, persistent desire or craving, esp. for something unattainable or distant. longing"s, longings, longings".

boast ::: v. i. --> To vaunt one&

bodily ::: 1. Physical as opposed to mental or spiritual. 2. Of, relating to, or belonging to the body or the physical nature of man.

boltonite ::: n. --> A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

borrel ::: n. --> Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.
A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.
Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.


boyish ::: a. --> Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

brachial ::: a. --> Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.


bristletail ::: n. --> An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

bronchial ::: a. --> Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.

bubble shell ::: --> A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

bufonite ::: n. --> An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

bug ::: n. --> A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug;


burghal ::: a. --> Belonging to a burgh.

buxeous ::: a. --> Belonging to the box tree.

buzzard ::: n. --> A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
A blockhead; a dunce. ::: a. --> Senseless; stupid.


cactaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.

caducean ::: a. --> Of or belonging to Mercury&

caecilian ::: n. --> A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.

calamary ::: n. --> A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

calculatory ::: a. --> Belonging to calculation.

cambial ::: a. --> Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.

cannabis ::: n. --> A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.

cantoral ::: a. --> Of or belonging to a cantor.

carangoid ::: a. --> Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

carbuncular ::: a. --> Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

carceral ::: a. --> Belonging to a prison.

carpellary ::: a. --> Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

caryophyllaceous ::: a. --> Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.


castrensial ::: a. --> Belonging to a camp.

catachrestical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.

caucus ::: n. --> A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. ::: v. i. --> To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

celestial ::: a. --> Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. ::: n. --> An inhabitant of heaven.
A native of China.


cellepore ::: n. --> A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

cenozoic ::: a. --> Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

censorial ::: a. --> Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Full of censure; censorious.


cephalopodous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

cerite ::: n. --> A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.
A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.


cheiropterous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

childly ::: a. --> Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child. ::: adv. --> Like a child.

chimaera ::: n. --> A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

chronogrammatical ::: a. --> Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

cichoraceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

cinchonic ::: a. --> Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.

citied ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
Containing, or covered with, cities.


civic ::: of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.

clansman ::: n. --> One belonging to the same clan with another.

cloisterer ::: n. --> One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

coelenterate ::: a. --> Belonging to the Coelentera. ::: n. --> One of the Coelentera.

coevals ::: persons belonging to the same age or generation; contemporaries.

coïl ::: a large bird belonging to the cuckoo family, native to India, with a characteristic call reminiscent of the sound of its name. coïl"s

coleopterous ::: a. --> Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

collidine ::: n. --> One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

colliery ::: n. --> The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
The coal trade.


collophore ::: n. --> A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.


common ::: 1. Belonging equally to or shared alike by two or more. 2. Of or relating to the community or humanity as a whole. 3. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint. 4. Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average; ordinary. 5. Occurring frequently or habitually; usual. commonest.

common ::: v. --> Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary;


communality ::: a feeling or spirit of cooperation and belonging arising from common interests and goals.

competent ::: a. --> Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.


composite ::: v. t. --> Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and


compositous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Compositae; composite.

comprint ::: v. t. & i. --> To print together.
To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. ::: n. --> The surreptitious printing of another&


comprovincial ::: a. --> Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. ::: n. --> One who belongs to the same province.

conclusive ::: a. --> Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

confervaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to the confervae.

congenerical ::: a. --> Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action.

congregational ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.


conirostral ::: a. --> Belonging to the Conirostres.

conjugal ::: a. --> Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

conscription ::: n. --> An enrolling or registering.
A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft. ::: a. --> Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.


constitutional ::: a. --> Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.
In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.
Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
Relating to a constitution, or establishment form


contemporary ::: a. --> Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Of the same age; coeval. ::: n. --> One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.


conterraneous ::: a. --> Of or belonging to the same country.

conventicling ::: a. --> Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.

corporal ::: n. --> A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. ::: a. --> Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In


corporate ::: a. --> Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
United; general; collectively one. ::: v. t.


cortical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

coryphaenoid ::: a. --> Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin.

cosening ::: n. --> Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.

cosmogonical ::: a. --> Belonging to cosmogony.

cottoid ::: a. --> Like a fish of the genus Cottus. ::: n. --> A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

countermark ::: n. --> A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths&

count ::: v. t. --> To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number


courtly ::: a. --> Relating or belonging to a court.
Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. ::: adv. --> In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully;


court-martial ::: n. --> A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. ::: v. t. --> To subject to trial by a court-martial.

covenanting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Covenant ::: a. --> Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.

coward ::: a. --> Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. ::: n.


crave ::: v. t. --> To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. ::: v. i. --> To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a


craving ::: p pr. & vb. n. --> of Crave ::: n. --> Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

creatural ::: a. --> Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.

crew ::: n. --> The Manx shearwater.
A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter&


croton ::: n. --> A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

crustacean ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. ::: n. --> An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.

crustaceous ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.


cryptogam ::: n. --> A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

cubicular ::: a. --> Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.

cuckoo ::: n. --> A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

cuculoid ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).

curialistic ::: a. --> Pertaining to a court.
Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.


daily ::: a. --> Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. ::: n. --> A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.

daisy ::: n. --> A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.


danish ::: a. --> Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country. ::: n. --> The language of the Danes.

dasyure ::: n. --> A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

decandrous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

deccagynous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

deccapodous ::: a. --> Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

declensional ::: a. --> Belonging to declension.

demesne ::: n. --> A lord&

dentalium ::: n. --> A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

desirable ::: v. t. --> Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

desire ::: n. **1. A longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. 2.** Sexual appetite or a sexual urge.

Desire-rejection ::: the rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign clement not belonging to the true self and the inner nature. But refusal to indulge the sugges- tions of desire is also a part of the rejection ; to abstain from the action suggested, if it is not the right action, must be included in the yogic discipline. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness *, for then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy ; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine.

desire ::: v. t. --> To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
To require; to demand; to claim.
To miss; to regret.
The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
An expressed wish; a request; petition.


diallyl ::: n. --> A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

dictionary ::: n. --> A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.


dictyogen ::: n. --> A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.

dicyemid ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the Dicyemata. ::: n. --> One of the Dicyemata.

Dionysion ::: Madhav: “Dionysian, belonging to the god of wine, the wine that is intoxicating joy; as if one had drunk from the cup of the god of wine.” The Book of the Divine Mother

diphthongal ::: a. --> Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

dipteral ::: a. --> Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.


dipterous ::: a. --> Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Having two wings; two-winged.


disciplinary ::: a. --> Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

disown ::: v. t. --> To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one&

dispositive ::: a. --> Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.
Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency.


distillatory ::: a. --> Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. ::: n. --> A distillatory apparatus; a still.

diurnal ::: a. --> Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of


divine ::: a. --> Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;


doggerman ::: n. --> A sailor belonging to a dogger.

doric ::: a. --> Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.


dorsibranchiate ::: a. --> Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. ::: n. --> One of the Dorsibranchiata.

dracontic ::: a. --> Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon&

dracontine ::: a. --> Belonging to a dragon.

dual ::: a. --> Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

duumviral ::: a. --> Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.

dynamical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.
Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.


eager ::: a. --> Sharp; sour; acid.
Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. ::: n.


eagle ::: Any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family. The strength, keen vision, graceful and powerful flight of the eagle are proverbial, and have given to him the title of the king of birds. eagle’s, eagles, eagle-peaks, eagle-poised, eagle-winged, she-eagle. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)

eagle ::: any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family. The strength, keen vision, graceful and powerful flight of the eagle are proverbial, and have given to him the title of the king of birds. eagle"s, eagles, eagle-peaks, eagle-poised, eagle-winged, she-eagle. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)

earthly ::: a. --> Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man&

earwig ::: n. --> Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.
In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.
A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor. ::: v. t.


east indian ::: --> Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. ::: n. --> A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.

ecclesiological ::: a. --> Belonging to ecclesiology.

echinodermal ::: a. --> Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

edentate ::: a. --> Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
Belonging to the Edentata. ::: n. --> One of the Edentata.


effluvial ::: a. --> Belonging to effluvia.

egophonic ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

eigne ::: a. --> Eldest; firstborn.
Entailed; belonging to the eldest son.


electrine ::: a. --> Belonging to, or made of, amber.
Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.


electro-chronographic ::: a. --> Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.

elegiac ::: a. --> Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. ::: n. --> Elegiac verse.


elmen ::: a. --> Belonging to elms. html{color:

embiotocoid ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidae. ::: n. --> One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.

enchoric ::: a. --> Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

encrinite ::: n. --> A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

enneagonal ::: a. --> Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

entomostracous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Entomostracans.

envy ::: a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another"s advantages, success, possessions, etc.; longing to possess something awarded to or achieved by another.

epigrammatical ::: --> Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.


episcopal ::: a. --> Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.
Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.


epispermic ::: a. --> Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.

epithalamic ::: a. --> Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.

epochal ::: a. --> Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.

equestrian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.
Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue.
Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. ::: n.


equisetaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family.

ericaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

essential ::: a. --> Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Hence, really existing; existent.
Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.


estuary ::: n. --> A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. ::: a. --> Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.


ethical ::: a. --> Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.

ethnical ::: a. --> Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.


ethnologically ::: adv. --> In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.

euphuistic ::: a. --> Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.

eurhipidurous ::: a. --> Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

evangelic ::: a. --> Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.

evangelical ::: a. --> Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant


except ::: v. t. --> To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
To object to; to protest against. ::: v. i. --> To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.


exogen ::: n. --> A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.

exterraneous ::: a. --> Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.

extrageneous ::: a. --> Belonging to another race or kind.

extraneous ::: a. --> Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

extrinsic ::: a. --> Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.
Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.


factionary ::: a. --> Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.

falconine ::: a. --> Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae

feather ::: n. --> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. html{color:


ferial ::: n. --> Same as Feria. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to holidays.
Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.


fibrine ::: a. --> Belonging to the fibers of plants.

filical ::: a. --> Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.

finch ::: n. --> A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

flatworm ::: n. --> Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

flea ::: v. t. --> To flay. ::: n. --> An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where

floral ::: a. --> Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.


florentine ::: a. --> Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.
A kind of silk.
A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.


fluvial ::: a. --> Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

fluviatic ::: a. --> Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.

fluviatile ::: a. --> Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.

focal ::: a. --> Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

foliaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.


foot guards ::: pl. --> Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.

FOREHEAD CENTRE. ::: In the forehead between the eyes but a little above is the afha cakra, the centre of the inner will, also of the inner vision, the dynamic mind etc. (This is not the ordinary outer mental will and sight, but something more power- ful, belonging to the inner being). When this centre opens and the Force there is active, then there is the opening of a greater will, power of decision, formation, effectiveness, beyond what the ordinary mind can achieve.

foreign ::: a. --> Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the


foreigner ::: n. --> A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.

forensic ::: a. --> Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes. ::: n. --> An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

forester ::: n. --> One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
An inhabitant of a forest.
A forest tree.
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.


forest ::: n. --> An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.


forktail ::: n. --> One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
A salmon in its fourth year&


formal ::: n. --> See Methylal. ::: a. --> Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what


franciscan ::: a. --> Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. ::: n. --> A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars,

fritillary ::: n. --> A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.


frogshell ::: n. --> One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.

frontal ::: a. --> Belonging to the front part; being in front
Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones. ::: n. --> Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet
An ornamental band for the hair.


fucoid ::: a. --> Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds. ::: n.


gallinule ::: n. --> One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

garnishee ::: n. --> One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. ::: v. t. --> To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.

generous ::: a. --> Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.


genial ::: a. --> Same as Genian.
Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition.
Belonging to one&


genteel ::: a. --> Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.


gentile ::: a. --> One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.
Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.


genuine ::: a. --> Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

geomantical ::: a. --> Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

geometrid ::: a. --> Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae. ::: n. --> One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as

geoselenic ::: a. --> Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.

geotic ::: a. --> Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

gephyrean ::: a. --> Belonging to the Gephyrea. -- n. One of the Gerphyrea.

germinal ::: a. --> Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. ::: n. --> The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire.

gesticulatory ::: a. --> Representing by, or belonging to, gestures.

ginkgo ::: n. --> A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

glebe ::: n. --> A lump; a clod.
Turf; soil; ground; sod.
The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.


glyoxime ::: n. --> A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

goatsucker ::: n. --> One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.

goose ::: n. --> Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
A tailor&


greed ::: n. --> An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

gregarian ::: a. --> Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common.

guan ::: n. --> Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

guild ::: v. t. --> An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers&

gummatous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.

gymnospermous ::: n. --> Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.
Belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms.


gynandrous ::: a. --> Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

harem ::: n. --> The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.


hawaiian ::: a. --> Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii. ::: n. --> A native of Hawaii.

hermes ::: n. --> See Mercury.
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue,


hesperornis ::: n. --> A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

hexactinellid ::: a. --> Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae.

hexactinelline ::: a. --> Belonging to the Hexactinellinae, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

hexapodous ::: a. --> Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.

hibernal ::: a. --> Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.

hieromnemon ::: n. --> The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.


hilar ::: a. --> Belonging to the hilum.

hinder ::: a. --> Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.


his ::: pron. --> Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
The possessive of he; as, the book is his.


hodiernal ::: a. --> Of this day; belonging to the present day.

holothurian ::: a. --> Belonging to the Holothurioidea. ::: n. --> One of the Holothurioidea.

homeling ::: n. --> A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling.

homely ::: n. --> Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.
Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.
Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. ::: adv.


homocategoric ::: a. --> Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

homologous ::: a. --> Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
Corresponding in relative position and proportion.
Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.
Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.


homology ::: n. --> The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.
Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure.
The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging


hornbill ::: n. --> Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

horometrical ::: a. --> Belonging to horometry.

hortulan ::: a. --> Belonging to a garden.

hostile ::: a. --> Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change. ::: n.

household ::: n. --> Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
A line of ancestory; a race or house. ::: a. --> Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.


housework ::: n. --> The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

human ::: a. --> Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. ::: n. --> A human being.

humanize ::: v. t. --> To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
To give a human character or expression to.
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. ::: v. i.


huron-iroquous ::: n. --> A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.

hyacinthine ::: a. --> Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

hyemal ::: a. --> Belonging to winter; done in winter.

hyperbolical ::: a. --> Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression.


hyperborean ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. ::: n.


idiosyncrasy ::: n. --> A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.

idiosyncratical ::: a. --> Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one&

idyllic ::: a. --> Of or belonging to idyls.

imperative ::: n. 1. An action, etc. involving or expressing a command; a command. 2. Something that demands attention or action; an unavoidable obligation or requirement; necessity. 3. The verbal mood (or any form belonging to it) which expresses a command, request, or exhortation. adj. **4. Absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable. 5. Of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding. imperatives.**

imperial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.
Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc. ::: n.


indigo ::: n. --> A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.


inferobranchiate ::: a. --> Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

infusorial ::: a. --> Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth.

INNER SIGHT. ::: When one tries to meditate, the first obstacle in the beginning is sleep. When you get over this obstacle, there comes a condition in which, with the eyes closed, you begin to see things, people, scenes of all kinds. It is a good sign and means that you are making progress in yoga. There is, besides the outer physical sight which sees external objects, an inner .sight in us which can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to other worlds.

Inner vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise and contains a truth in it. In mental vision the images are invented by the mind and are partly true, partly a play of possibilities. Or a mental vision like the vital may be only a suggestion,- that is a formation of some possibility on the mental or vital plane which presents itself to the sādhaka in the hope of being accepted and helped to realise itself.


insessorial ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.
Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.


instilllatory ::: a. --> Belonging to instillation.

integumentary ::: n. --> Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.

intellectual ::: a. --> Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as,


intercurrent ::: a. --> Running between or among; intervening.
Not belonging to any particular season.
Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. ::: n. --> Something intervening.


interdictory ::: a. --> Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

interim ::: belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary.

interlunary ::: a. --> Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible.

In this joga the consciousness (after the lower field has been prepared by a certain amount of psycho-spiritual-occult experi- ence) is drawn upwards above the Brahmarandhra to ranges above belonging to the spiritual consciousness proper and instead of merely receiving from there has to live there and from there change the lower consciousness altogether. For there is a dyna- mism proper to the spiritual consciousness whose nature is Light,

isopod ::: a. --> Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda. ::: n. --> One of the Isopoda.

jacana ::: n. --> Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

java ::: n. --> One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.


jay ::: n. --> Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest.

jeronymite ::: n. --> One belonging of the mediaeval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome.

jew ::: n. --> Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.

jolly-boat ::: n. --> A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

judicial ::: a. --> Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.
Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.
Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.


kaleege ::: n. --> One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.

kangaroo ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the

keratose ::: n. --> A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode. ::: a. --> Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.

kind ::: superl. --> Characteristic of the species; belonging to one&

kingly ::: superl. --> Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand. ::: adv. --> In a kingly or kinglike manner.

komtok ::: n. --> An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

kurd ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies.

labiate ::: v. t. --> To labialize. ::: a. --> Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.
Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of


labroid ::: a. --> Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.

lacertiloid ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.

laity ::: a. --> The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
The state of a layman.
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.


lamellibranchiate ::: a. --> Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. ::: n. --> One of the Lamellibranchia.

land ::: n. --> Urine. See Lant.
The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet


laroid ::: a. --> Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae).

latian ::: a. --> Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin.

lauraceous ::: a. --> Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.

layman ::: n. --> One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).


leech ::: n. --> See 2d Leach.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.


legionary ::: a. --> Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. ::: n. --> A member of a legion.

leguminous ::: a. --> Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.


lewd ::: superl. --> Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.


lichened ::: a. --> Belonging to, or covered with, lichens.

lilliputian ::: n. --> One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift&

liner ::: n. --> One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.
A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.
A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.
A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.


lingula ::: n. --> A tonguelike process or part.
Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.


literator ::: n. --> One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
A learned person; a literatus.


lithosian ::: n. --> Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored.

lizard ::: n. --> Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.


lobster ::: n. --> Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

locality ::: n. --> The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.


longly ::: adv. --> With longing desire.
For a long time; hence, wearisomely.


longshore ::: a. --> Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.

louse ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly


lumbricoid ::: a. --> Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidae.

lumbricus ::: n. --> A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.

lungfish ::: n. --> Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

lust ::: 1. A passionate or overmastering desire or craving. 2. Longing desire; eagerness to possess. 3. Intense sexual desire or appetite; libidinous desire, degrading animal passion. 4. Desires. lust"s, lusts, lusted, lusting.

lust ::: n. --> Pleasure.
Inclination; desire.
Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
To list; to like.
To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or


lychnis ::: n. --> A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

lycopodiaceous ::: a. --> Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

macedonian ::: a. --> Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.
One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of


macrobiotics ::: n. --> The art of prolonging life.

magnate ::: --> A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.


maigre ::: a. --> Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

malacopterygious ::: a. --> Belonging to the Malacopterygii.

malacostracous ::: a. --> Belonging to the Malacostraca.

mammee ::: n. --> A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

manakin ::: n. --> Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.
A dwarf. See Manikin.


manor ::: n. --> The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.


manubial ::: a. --> Belonging to spoils; taken in war.

marshalsea ::: n. --> The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king&

martial ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance.
Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave.
Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; -- opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars.
Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as,


masculine ::: a. --> Of the male sex; not female.
Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.


megaric ::: a. --> Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece.

megasthenic ::: a. --> Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.

melastomaceous ::: a. --> Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.

meliphagan ::: a. --> Belonging to the genus Meliphaga. ::: n. --> Any bird of the genus Meliphaga and allied genera; a honey eater; -- called also meliphagidan.

menial ::: n. --> Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
A person of a servile character or disposition. html{color:


mensal ::: a. --> Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.
Occurring once in a month; monthly.


meridian ::: a. --> Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
Midday; noon.
Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.


mesozoic ::: a. --> Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology. ::: n. --> The Mesozoic age or formation.

metempirical ::: a. --> Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics.

micrometrical ::: a. --> Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer.

military ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. ::: n.


mine ::: n. 1. An excavation in the earth from which ore or minerals can be extracted. v. 2. To remove something from its source without attempting to replenish it. (All other references are to mine as: belonging to me.)

mine ::: n. --> See Mien. ::: pron. & a. --> Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.

moa ::: n. --> Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

moesogothic ::: a. --> Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia. ::: n. --> The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.

molluscoid ::: a. --> Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea. ::: n. --> One of the Molluscoidea.

monarch ::: in the manner of, belonging to, or characteristic of a sovereign, as a king, queen or emperor.

monodical ::: a. --> Belonging to a monody.
For one voice; monophonic.
Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.


monorganic ::: a. --> Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

moolley ::: n. --> Same as Mulley.
A mulley or polled animal.
A cow. ::: a. --> Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle;


mortal ::: a. --> Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or


mortal ::: n. 1. A human being. adj. 2. Of or relating to humankind; human. 3. Belonging to this world. 4. Causing death; fatal. mortal"s, mortals.

mouse ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.


my ::: a. --> Of or belonging to me; -- used always attributively; as, my body; my book; -- mine is used in the predicate; as, the book is mine. See Mine.

narine ::: a. --> Of or belonging to the nostrils.

natica ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

native ::: 1. Natural; originating naturally; naturally resulting. 2. Belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent. 3. Of indigenous origin, growth, or production. 4. Remaining or growing in a natural state; real, genuine, original. 5. Being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being.

nature ::: 1. The universe, with all its phenomena. 2. The forces and processes that produce and control all the phenomena of the material world. 3. The material world, esp. as surrounding human kind and existing independently of human activities. 4. The essential characteristics and qualities of a human being. 5. A particular combination of qualities belonging to a person, animal, thing, of class by birth, origin, or constitution; native or inherent character. 6. Characteristic disposition; temperament. nature"s, Nature"s, natures, earth-nature ("s), Earth-Nature"s, Heaven-nature"s, life-nature"s, soul-nature, World-Nature"s, twi-natured.

nostalgia ::: a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

our inner being we can grow one body with it. Sometimes the rapidity of this change depends on the strength of our longing for the Divine thus revealed, and on the intensity of our force of seeking ; but at others it proceeds rather by a passive sur- render to the rhythms of his all-wise working which acts always by its own at first inscrutable method. But the latter becomes the foundation when our love and trust are complete and our whole being lies in the clasp of a Power that is perfect love and wisdom.

outward ::: n. 1. Relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; the material or external world. outward"s, outwardness. adj. 2. Relating to the physical self. 3. Purely external; superficial. 4. Belonging or pertaining to external actions or appearances, as opposed to inner feelings, mental states, etc. 5. Pertaining to or being what is seen or apparent, as distinguished from the underlying nature, facts, etc.; pertaining to surface qualities only; superficial.

portion ::: 1. A part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it. 2. The part of a whole allotted to or belonging to a person or group; share. Also fig. 3. Something that is allotted to a person by God or fate. portions.

PRAYER. ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and therefore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudi- ties there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which ima- gines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flat- tered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little te^td to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essen- tial movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth.

The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham. ~ TSOY, SYN

Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is (here consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the givinc of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange.

In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.

Prayer for others ::: The fact of praying and the attitude it brings, especially unselfish prayer for others, itself opens you to the higher Power, even if there is no corresponding result in the person prayed for. 'Nothing can be positively said about that, for the result must necessarily depend on the persons, whe- ther they arc open or receptive or something in them can res- pond to any Force the prayer brings down.

Prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration.

Prayer {Ideal)'. Not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment, but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and heart with the Divine*and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in his own time.


present ::: adj. 1. Being, existing, occurring, or going on now, current. 2. Existing or in use at, or belonging to, the particular time under consideration n. 3. The present time, the time that now is (as opposed to the past and the future). present"s.

primaeval ::: belonging to the first or earliest age or ages; original or ancient.

prolong ::: to lengthen in duration; protract. prolongs, prolonged, prolonging.

prophetic ::: of, belonging to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.

Psychic sadness ::: “ Painful longing ” belongs to the vital, not

regal ::: 1. Of or pertaining to a king or queen; royal. 2. Belonging to or befitting a monarch; magnificent; splendid.

Savitri ::: Purani: “The word ‘Savitri’ is derived from the word ‘Savitru’ which in its turn is derived from the root ‘su’ = ‘to give birth to’. The word ‘Soma’ which indicates an ‘exhilarating drink’, symbolising spiritual ecstasy or delight, is also derived from the same root ‘su’. It links therefore the creation and the delight of creation. Savitru therefore, means the Divine Creator One who gives birth to or brings forth from himself into existence, the creation. In the Veda, Savita is the God of illumination, the God of Creation. Usually, he is represented by the material sun which also illuminates the solar system and is its creator and sustainer in the material sense. Savitri therefore would mean etymologically ‘some one descended from the Sun’, ‘one belonging to the Sun’, ‘an energy derived from the Sun, the Divine Creator’. In our poem, Savitri is the princess who embodies the Divine Grace descended in human birth to work out with the aspiring soul of humanity his divine destiny.”“Savitri“—An Approach and a Study

separate ::: v. 1. To set apart. 2. To put, bring or force apart, (two or more persons or things, or one from another); to disunite, disconnect, make a division between, part. 3. To sort, part or divide something previously combined or mixed. 4. To part or be parted from; depart or draw apart from; become divided; disunited. separates, separated. adj. 5. Detached, disconnected, or disjoined. 6. Withdrawn or divided from something else so as to have an independent existence by itself. 7. Being or standing apart; distant or dispersed. 8. Considered or reckoned by itself (although mentioned as one of several); single, individual. 9. Belonging or peculiar to one, not common to or shared with the other or the others. separateness.

sole ::: 1. Unrivalled; unique. 2. Being the only one; only; solitary. 3. Functioning automatically or with independent power. 4. Belonging or pertaining to one individual to the exclusion of all others; exclusive. Sole.

soothe ::: 1. To calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort. 2. To relieve or assuage (pain, longing, etc.) soothes, soothed.

sovereign ::: n. 1. One that exercises supreme, permanent authority, as a king, queen or monarch. Often applied to the Divine. child-sovereign. adj. 2. Supreme; pre-eminent; indisputable. 3. Being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc. 4. Having supreme rank, power or authority. 5. Belonging to or characteristic of a king, queen or other supreme ruler; royal, regal, majestic.

subjective ::: 1. Existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective). 2. Relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct from a thing in itself.

supernal ::: 1. Belonging to the realm or state above this world or this present life; pertaining to a higher world or state of existence; coming from above; belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine. 2. Lofty; of more than earthly or human excellence, powers, etc. **supernal"s.

Teedt falling ::: The falling of teeth means disappearance of old or fixed mental habits belonging to the physical mind.

Tehmi: “The inner urge of life, its aspirations and longings.”

thine ::: used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.

thirsted ::: fig. Felt an eager longing, craving, or yearning.

thirst ::: fig. An eager longing, craving, or yearning.

time ::: 1. Duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration. 2. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. 3. A period in the existence or history of the world; an age, an era. Time, time-born, time-bound, time-constructed, time-driven, time-field, time-flakes, time-inn, time-loop, time-made, time-plan, time-vexed, time-walk, world-time, World-Time"s.

Vilal being — its four parts ::: There arc four parts of the vital being— first, the menial vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or olher^vise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, litfle wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are

VISIONS. ::: Visions are due to the groivth of the • tvhich sees things belonging to all the planes of “'s'"

Vital being — its four parts: There arc four parts of the vital being — first, the mental vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the scat of various feelings such as love, Joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger rilal longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the held of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other tlungs. Their respective seats are



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1:My longing for truth was a single prayer. ~ Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross,
2:Extreme longing is the surest way to God-vision. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
3:My soul endures a magnificent longing. ~ Hafiz, @Sufi_Path
4:The desire for worldly things must be changed into a longing for God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
5:Be silent, be silent; savour this timeless moment, speak no more of longing
   ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
6:Cry unto the Lord with a longing and yearning heart, and then you shall see Him ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
7:Know for certain that He will not leave you. He will never fail you when you cry His name with a longing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda,
8:If you have true faith and longing, you will get everything by the Grace of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
9:If a devotee prays to God with real longing, God cannot help revealing Himself to him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
10:Struggle to pierce that darkness above you with the dart of longing love, and do not give up, whatever happens. ~ Anonymous English Monk,
11:People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking." ~ Bodhidharma,
12:While I wait for you lost in this longing suddenly there comes a stirring of my window blinds; the autumn wind is blowing. ~ Nukata c.638-710,
13:Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
14:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
15:One should have faith like that of an innocent child and the longing of a child who wants to see its mother. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
16:Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
   ~ Sri Ramakrishna, [T5],
17:One should have faith like that of an innocent child and such longing as a child has when it wants to see its mother. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
18:If the longing is there, realization will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Long for it intensely so that the mind melts in devotion. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
19:Everything depends on God's grace. To have His grace, whatever work you perform, do it with sincerity and earnest longing. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
20:As the rosy dawn comes before the rising sun, so is a longing and yearning heart the forerunner of the glorious vision of God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
21:Certainly, He will come to you. Only one thing is needed: your yearning, your earnest longing. He wants nothing else. You have to call on Him with earnestness. ~ Swami Akhandananda,
22: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,
23:A person feels anguish and emptiness at the death of a spouse or child; if one has that kind of longing for God for twenty-four hours continuously, God will definitely reveal Himself."
24:Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
25:The noble love of Jesus spurs to great deeds and excites longing for that which is more perfect. Love tends upward; it will not be held down by anything low. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ,
26:All things yield to a man and Zeus is himself his accomplice
When like a god he wills without remorse or longing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,
27:Near and real to the longing heart And to the body's passionate thought and sense Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,
28:Once longing awakens, one becomes absorbed in contemplating and meditating on God. Through constant contemplation and meditation, one begins having glimpses of the Truth, and these experiences strengthen his faith. ~ SWAMI RAMA,
29:A DEVOTEE: " Sir, what is the way.? ~ MASTER: " Discrimination between the Real and the unreal. one should always discriminate to the effect that God alone is real and the world unreal. And one should pray with sincere longing.",
30:Life with her wine-cup of longing under the purple of her tenture,
Death as her gate of escape and rebirth and renewal of venture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,
31:Seek the answer in God's grace, not in doctrine; in the longing of the will, not in the understanding; in the sighs of prayer, not in research; seek the bridegroom not the teacher; God and not man; darkness not daylight. ~ Bonaventure,
32:Soul's soar
It seemed the yearning of a lonely flute
That roamed along the shores of memory
And filled the eyes with tears of longing joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,
33:Wherever there is intense longing to see God, wherever there is unflinching devotion and unselfish love with the whole heart and soul, there is the manifestation of the formless One to fulfill the desire of the devotee. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA,
34:This heart remains undeserving of the True One (mighty and glorified is He) as long as it contains an atom of this world and longing for any creature. ~ Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jilani, @Sufi_Path
35:When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his Self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita VI.18, the Eternal Wisdom
36:He who seeks God with a longing heart can see Him, talk to Him as I am talking to you. Believe my words when I say that God can be seen. But ah! To whom am I saying these words? Who will believe me? ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
37:Longing is the means of realizing Ātman. A man must strive to attain God with all his body, with all his mind, and with all his speech. By thinking day and night of God one acquires the nature of God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
38:In this life no one can fulfill his longing, nor can any creature satisfy man's desire. Only God satisfies, he infinitely exceeds all other pleasures. That is why man can rest in nothing but God." ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas,
39:Prayer is the light of the spirit, true knowledge of God, mediating between God and man.... I speak of prayer, not words. It is the longing for God, love too deep for words, a gift not given by man but by God's grace. ~ Saint John Chrysostom [PG 64, 462-466],
40:The longing for untouched nature is it self a product of culture originating in the over artificiality of existence. In truth, nature begins to relate to us only when we begin to end well that, when culture begins in it. ~ Romano Guardini, Letters from Lake Como,
41:An aspirant must control the dissipation of the mind. Conquest over the senses and the mind helps one to attain freedom from the charms and temptations of the world. Free from worldly distractions, nothing remains in the mind but the longing to know God. ~ SWAMI RAMA,
42:The best path for this age is bhaktiyoga, the path of bhakti prescribed by Nārada: to sing the name and glories of God and pray to Him with a longing heart, 'O God, give me knowledge, give me devotion, and reveal Thyself to me!' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
43:Uqba ibn Muslim said: 'No quality in a man is dearer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than the longing to meet Him. At no moment is a man closer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than when he sinks down in prostration. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
44:Love and the need of mastery, joy and the longing for greatness
Rage like a fire unquenchable burning the world and creating,
Nor till humanity dies will they sink in the ashes of Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,
45:How long will you keep turning the rosary beads? Call on Him with intense longing. Gradually everything will come to a standstill. The rosary beads will stop, the fingers will not move, even the lips will not open to utter His name. All bonds will fall off,even that of clothes ~ Swami Akhandananda,
46:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
47:Pray to God with a longing heart. He will surely listen to your prayer if it is sincere. Perhaps He will direct you to holy men with whom you can keep company; and that will help you on your spiritual path. Perhaps someone will tell you, 'Do this and you will attain God.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
48:There is nothing wrong in the life of the world. There is no harm in that. But always keep your mind, on God. Know for certain that house, family & property are not yours. They are God's. Your real home is in God.' pray always with a longing heart for love of God's Lotus Feet ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
49:The longing of the worldly-minded for God is momentary, like a drop of water on a red-hot frying-pan. The water hisses & dries up in an instant. The attention of the worldly-minded is directed to the enjoyment of worldly pleasure. They do not feel yearning& restlessness for Go ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
50:There is nothing wrong in the life of the world. There is no harm in that. But always keep your mind, on God. Know for certain that house, family & property are not yours. They are God's. Your real home is in God.' pray always with a longing heart for love of God's Lotus Feet. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
51:The man in whom all desires disappear like rivers into a motionless sea, attains to peace, not he whom they move to longing. That man whose walk is free from longing, for he has thrown all desires from him, who calls nothing his and has no sense of ego, is moving towards peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 70-71, the Eternal Wisdom
52:If a man but once tastes the joy of God, his desire to argue takes wing. The bee, realizing the joy of sipping honey, doesn't buzz about any more. What will vou achieve by quoting from books? The pundits recite verses and do nothing else.

What will you gain by merely repeating 'siddhi'? You will not be intoxicated even by gargling with a solution of siddhi. It must go into your stomach; not until then will you be intoxicated. One cannot comprehend what I am saying unless one prays to God in solitude, all by oneself, with a longing heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna?,
53:Bride of the Fire :::

Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, -
Bride of the Fire!
I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose,
I have slain desire.

Beauty of the Light, surround my life, -
Beauty of the Light!
I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief,
I can bear thy delight.

Image of Ecstasy, thrill and enlace, -
Image of Bliss!
I would see only thy marvellous face,
Feel only thy kiss.

Voice of Infinity, sound in my heart, -
Call of the One!
Stamp there thy radiance, never to part,
O living sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,
54:Often he went to the workshop, to encourage the assistant Erich, who continued working at the altar and eagerly awaited his master's return. Sometimes the Abbot unlocked Goldmund's room, where the Mary figure stood, lifted the cloth from the figure carefully and stayed with her awhile. He knew nothing of the figure's origin; Goldmund had never told him Lydia's story. But he felt everything; he saw that the girl's form had long lived in Goldmund's heart. Perhaps he had seduced her, perhaps betrayed and left her. But, truer than the most faithful husband, he had taken her along in his soul, preserving her image until finally, perhaps after many years in which he had never seen her again, he had fashioned this beautiful, touching statue of a girl and captured in her face, her bearing, her hands all the tenderness, admiration, and longing of their love.

   ~ Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund,
55:Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi.
   For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make the existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow from her like the light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall of the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.
   Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines the mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,
56:Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is there consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the giving of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of mans life with God, the conscious interchange. In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Love,
57:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
   I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
   With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
   Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
   This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. ~ Bertrand Russell,
58:What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."

The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and He is He. That is all about it.

I have written all that only to explain what we mean whenwe speak of seeking the Divine for himself and not for anything else - so far as it is explicable. Explicable or not, it is one of the most dominant facts of spiritual experience. The call to selfgiving is only an expression of this fact. But this does not mean that I object to your asking for Ananda. Ask for that by all means, so long as to ask for it is a need of any part of your being - for these are the things that lead on towards the Divine so long as the absolute inner call that is there all the time does not push itself to the surface. But it is really that that has drawn from the beginning and is there behind - it is the categorical spiritual imperative, the absolute need of the soul for the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, Seeking the Divine,
59: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,
60:As far as heaven, as near as thought and hope,
Glimmered the kingdom of a griefless life.
Above him in a new celestial vault
Other than the heavens beheld by mortal eyes,
As on a fretted ceiling of the gods,
An archipelago of laughter and fire,
Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky.
Towered spirals, magic rings of vivid hue
And gleaming spheres of strange felicity
Floated through distance like a symbol world.
On the trouble and the toil they could not share,
On the unhappiness they could not aid,
Impervious to life's suffering, struggle, grief,
Untarnished by its anger, gloom and hate,
Unmoved, untouched, looked down great visioned planes
Blissful for ever in their timeless right.
Absorbed in their own beauty and content,
Of their immortal gladness they live sure.
Apart in their self-glory plunged, remote
Burning they swam in a vague lucent haze,
An everlasting refuge of dream-light,
A nebula of the splendours of the gods
Made from the musings of eternity.
Almost unbelievable by human faith,
Hardly they seemed the stuff of things that are.
As through a magic television's glass
Outlined to some magnifying inner eye
They shone like images thrown from a far scene
Too high and glad for mortal lids to seize.
But near and real to the longing heart
And to the body's passionate thought and sense
Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude.
In some close unattained realm which yet we feel,
Immune from the harsh clutch of Death and Time,
Escaping the search of sorrow and desire,
In bright enchanted safe peripheries
For ever wallowing in bliss they lie.
In dream and trance and muse before our eyes,
Across a subtle vision's inner field,
Wide rapturous landscapes fleeting from the sight,
The figures of the perfect kingdom pass
And behind them leave a shining memory's trail.
Imagined scenes or great eternal worlds,
Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths;
Unreal-seeming, yet more real than life,
Happier than happiness, truer than things true,
If dreams these were or captured images,
Dream's truth made false earth's vain realities.
In a swift eternal moment fixed there live
Or ever recalled come back to longing eyes
Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace,
Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God
And griefless countries under purple suns.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and the Fall of Life,
61:He continuously reflected on her image and attributes, day and night. His bhakti was such that he could not stop thinking of her. Eventually, he saw her everywhere and in everything. This was his path to illumination.

   He was often asked by people: what is the way to the supreme? His answer was sharp and definite: bhakti yoga. He said time and time again that bhakti yoga is the best sadhana for the Kali Yuga (Dark Age) of the present.

   His bhakti is illustrated by the following statement he made to a disciple:

   To my divine mother I prayed only for pure love.
At her lotus feet I offered a few flowers and I prayed:

   Mother! here is virtue and here is vice;
   Take them both from me.
   Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
   Mother! here is knowledge and here is ignorance;
   Take them both from me.
   Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
   Mother! here is purity and impurity;
   Take them both from me.
   Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.

Ramakrishna, like Kabir, was a practical man.
He said: "So long as passions are directed towards the world and its objects, they are enemies. But when they are directed towards a deity, then they become the best of friends to man, for they take him to illumination. The desire for worldly things must be changed into longing for the supreme; the anger which you feel for fellow man must be directed towards the supreme for not manifesting himself to you . . . and so on, with all other emotions. The passions cannot be eradicated, but they can be turned into new directions."

   A disciple once asked him: "How can one conquer the weaknesses within us?" He answered: "When the fruit grows out of the flower, the petals drop off themselves. So when divinity in you increases, the weaknesses of human nature will vanish of their own accord." He emphasized that the aspirant should not give up his practices. "If a single dive into the sea does not bring you a pearl, do not conclude that there are no pearls in the sea. There are countless pearls hidden in the sea.

   So if you fail to merge with the supreme during devotional practices, do not lose heart. Go on patiently with the practices, and in time you will invoke divine grace." It does not matter what form you care to worship. He said: "Many are the names of the supreme and infinite are the forms through which he may be approached. In whatever name and form you choose to worship him, through that he will be realized by you." He indicated the importance of surrender on the path of bhakti when he said:

   ~ Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya,
62:Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spoke thus: Man is a rope stretched between animal and overman - a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. I love those who know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the overman may some day arrive. I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the overman may someday live. Thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who works and invents, that he may build a house for the overman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. I love him who reserves no drop of spirit for himself, but wants to be entirely the spirit of his virtue: thus he walks as spirit over the bridge. I love him who makes his virtue his addiction and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more. I love him who does not desire too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for ones destiny to cling to. I love him whose soul squanders itself, who wants no thanks and gives none back: for he always gives, and desires not to preserve himself. I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: Am I a dishonest player? - for he is willing to perish. I love him who scatters golden words in front of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. I love him who justifies those people of the future, and redeems those of the past: for he is willing to perish by those of the present. I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must perish by the wrath of his God. I love him whose soul is deep even in being wounded, and may perish from a small experience: thus goes he gladly over the bridge. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going. I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the entrails of his heart; his heart, however, drives him to go down. I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that hangs over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and perish as heralds. Behold, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is called overman.
   ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
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   As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from this Lower Nature and open the floodgates. A little of the Divine Person may reveal itself or some Light, Power, Bliss, Love out of the Infinite. This may be a momentary revelation, a flash or a brief-lived gleam that soon withdraws and waits for the preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure, perverted or simply imperfect and inferior in the being is raised up, perhaps brought to its acme, dealt with, corrected, exhausted, shown its own disastrous results, compelled to call for its own cessation or transformation or expelled as worthless or incorrigible from the nature. This cannot be a smooth and even process; alternations there are of day and night, illumination and darkness, calm and construction or battle and upheaval, the presence of the growing Divine Consciousness and its absence, heights of hope and abysses of despair, the clasp of the Beloved and the anguish of its absence, the overwhelming invasion, the compelling deceit, the fierce opposition, the disabling mockery of hostile Powers or the help and comfort and communion of the Gods and the Divine Messengers. A great and long revolution and churning of the ocean of Life with strong emergences of its nectar and its poison is enforced till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 179,
64:All Yoga is a turning of the human mind and the human soul, not yet divine in realisation, but feeling the divine impulse and attraction in it, towards that by which it finds its greater being. Emotionally, the first form which this turning takes must be that of adoration. In ordinary religion this adoration wears the form of external worship and that again develops a most external form of ceremonial worship. This element is ordinarily necessary because the mass of men live in their physical minds, cannot realise anything except by the force of a physical symbol and cannot feel that they are living anything except by the force of a physical action. We might apply here the Tantric gradation of sadhana, which makes the way of the pasu, the herd, the animal or physical being, the lowest stage of its discipline, and say that the purely or predominantly ceremonial adoration is the first step of this lowest part of the way. It is evident that even real religion, - and Yoga is something more than religion, - only begins when this quite outward worship corresponds to something really felt within the mind, some genuine submission, awe or spiritual aspiration, to which it becomes an aid, an outward expression and also a sort of periodical or constant reminder helping to draw back the mind to it from the preoccupations of ordinary life. But so long as it is only an idea of the Godhead to which one renders reverence or homage, we have not yet got to the beginning of Yoga. The aim of Yoga being union, its beginning must always be a seeking after the Divine, a longing after some kind of touch, closeness or possession. When this comes on us, the adoration becomes always primarily an inner worship; we begin to make ourselves a temple of the Divine, our thoughts and feelings a constant prayer of aspiration and seeking, our whole life an external service and worship. It is as this change, this new soul-tendency grows, that the religion of the devotee becomes a Yoga, a growing contact and union. It does not follow that the outward worship will necessarily be dispensed with, but it will increasingly become only a physical expression or outflowing of the inner devotion and adoration, the wave of the soul throwing itself out in speech and symbolic act.
   Adoration, before it turns into an element of the deeper Yoga of devotion, a petal of the flower of love, its homage and self-uplifting to its sun, must bring with it, if it is profound, an increasing consecration of the being to the Divine who is adored. And one element of this consecration must be a self-purifying so as to become fit for the divine contact, or for the entrance of the Divine into the temple of our inner being, or for his selfrevelation in the shrine of the heart. This purifying may be ethical in its character, but it will not be merely the moralist's seeking for the right and blameless action or even, when once we reach the stage of Yoga, an obedience to the law of God as revealed in formal religion; but it will be a throwing away, katharsis, of all that conflicts whether with the idea of the Divine in himself or of the Divine in ourselves. In the former case it becomes in habit of feeling and outer act an imitation of the Divine, in the latter a growing into his likeness in our nature. What inner adoration is to ceremonial worship, this growing into the divine likeness is to the outward ethical life. It culminates in a sort of liberation by likeness to the Divine,1 a liberation from our lower nature and a change into the divine nature.
   Consecration becomes in its fullness a devoting of all our being to the Divine; therefore also of all our thoughts and our works. Here the Yoga takes into itself the essential elements of the Yoga of works and the Yoga of knowledge, but in its own manner and with its own peculiar spirit. It is a sacrifice of life and works to the Divine, but a sacrifice of love more than a tuning of the will to the divine Will. The bhakta offers up his life and all that he is and all that he has and all that he does to the Divine. This surrender may take the ascetic form, as when he leaves the ordinary life of men and devotes his days solely to prayer ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Way of Devotion, 571 [T1],

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
2:It is human longing that makes us holy. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
3:Only longing can fill with more of itself. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
4:The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove
5:Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove
6:Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. ~ jean-klein, @wisdomtrove
7:Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove
8:Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
9:Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
10:There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
11:My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
12:Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
13:My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
14:The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
15:I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
16:Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
17:I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove
18:But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
19:How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
20:A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
21:Desiring itself can be an unpleasant experience; even mild longing is subtly uncomfortable. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove
22:The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove
23:Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
24:Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavour and human creations. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
25:longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
26:Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove
27:To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
28:I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
29:Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove
30:Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
31:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove
32:Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove
33:People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove
34:Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
35:The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
36:The very desire to live is the. messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
37:I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
38:Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
39:Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
40:Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove
41:Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
42:The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove
43:There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
44:I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
45:Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
46:A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
47:How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
48:On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove
49:My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
50:So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
51:Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
52:Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
53:A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
54:I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
55:It was when I was happiest that I longed most... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing... to find the place where all the beauty came from. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
56:An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
57:suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
58:When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove
59:There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
60:What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
61:The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
62:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove
63:Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.  ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove
64:Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove
65:Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove
66:Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
67:There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
68:It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
69:Yet we do not need to put any strain on our longing. If we believe that the body is in the soul and the soul is divine ground, then the presence of the divine is completely here, close with us. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
70:The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
71:The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove
72:This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove
73:When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
74:I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
75:No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
76:I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction - if a house is falling upon you, for instance - one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . . ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
77:Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove
78:You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
79:Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
80:From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
81:People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove
82:A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
83:On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again... on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
84:When I reach within it feels as if God is reaching out to welcome me. I feel as if I am relaxing into the arms of the great Beloved … as if we’re lovers who’ve been longing to be together … to caress each other … to be one with each other. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
85:Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
86:Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature.The word &
87:There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold... Surely Texas is such a place. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
88:That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove
89:We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
90:Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove
91:To be human is to belong. Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature. The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: Being and Longing, the longing of our Being and the being of our Longing. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
92:You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
93:I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove
94:For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
95:The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
96:The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
97:What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
98:We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
99:Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove
100:False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove
101:The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
102:All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
103:By realisation I mean a wonderful experience of peace, goodness and beauty, when the world makes sense and there is an all-pervading unity of both substance and essence. While such experience does not last, it cannot be forgotten. It shines in the mind, both as memory and longing. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
104:Yes, I agree with Tennyson, who wrote,  ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. But heartbreak knocks the wind out of you, and the feelings of loss and longing can make getting out of bed a monumental task. Learning to trust and lean in to love again can feel impossible. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
105:When we understand that what we deeply long for can never be found in an object... substance... activity... relationship or state... our longing naturally and effortlessly loses its direction and dynamism and flows back to its source, and is revealed as the happiness for which we were in search. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
106:God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
107:Our true nature of eternal, infinite awareness is never completely forgotten or eclipsed by objective experience. However agitated or numbed objective experience may have rendered our mind, the memory of our eternity shines within it as the desire for happiness, or, in religious language, the longing for God. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
108:I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
109:The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
110:As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop) ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
111:In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
112:He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
113:This perpetual longing for happiness—which can, by definition, never be fulfilled because that very search itself denies the happiness that is present in our own being now—condemns us to an endless search in the future and thus perpetuates unhappiness. It is for this reason that the poet said, Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
114:When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
115:When I wake up to oneness I feel a limitless love which is so deep and poignant it embraces life in all its ecstasy and agony. I share in our collective joy and suffering. And I find my selfish preoccupations are replaced by a longing for everyone to love living. When I know I am the life-dreamer I want to enjoy the life-dream in all my many disguises. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
116:There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
117:Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
118:Karma is only a store of unspent energies, of unfulfilled desires and fears not understood. The store is being constantly replenished by new desires and fears. It need not be so for ever.  Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self, and your karma will dissolve like a dream. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
119:A true calling transcends the fulfilling of only personal needs; it is the longing to awaken to our divine nature and thus, become an instrument of peace. It is the desire to serve others and to create something that will benefit humanity. The deeper the calling, the more you can trust the power of universal intelligence to look after your needs and show you the way. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove
120:Q: How does one reach the Supreme State?  M: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you, keeps you back. Until you realise the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
121:That which Dante saw written on the door of the inferno must be written in a different sense also at the entrance to philosophy: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Those who look for true philosophy must be bereft of all hope, all desire, all longing. They must not wish for anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished. ~ friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling, @wisdomtrove
122:But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
123:I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth... I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
124:The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
125:The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
126:When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is your calling- and no matter what it is, if you go with it, you'll be guided, guarded, and assured of success. When a purpose or path is laid before you, you have the choice to just trust and let it flow, or remain stuck in fear. Trusting the perfection that resides within you is the key. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
127:Q: I find that I am always restless, longing, hoping, seeking, finding, enjoying, abandoning, searching again. What is it that keeps me on the boil?  M: You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfectly lovable. Due to ignorance, you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
128:Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
129:Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
130:Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfil them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
131:When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity. The sense of belonging keeps you in balance amidst the inner and outer immensities. The ancient and eternal values of human life - truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
132:The heart of the matter: You should never belong fully to something that is outside yourself. It is very important to find a balance in your belonging. You should never belong totally to any cause or system. People frequently need to belong to an external system because they are afraid to belong to their own lives. If your soul is awakened, then you realize that this is the house of your real belonging. Your longing is safe there. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
133:People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long haired guy and say, "That guy eats cake!" "He is on bundt cake!" Mothers saying to their daughters, "Don't bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove
134:A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
135:I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle? ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove
136:There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
137:You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul.  Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming.  That is why you have to be careful.  As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning.  You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
138:I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
139:In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
140:Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
141:One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
142:I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion... well, surely there was a way to learn that trick. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
143:thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove
144:Q: If I know myself, shall I not desire and fear?  M: For some time, the mental habits may linger in spite of the new vision, the habit of longing for the known past and fearing the unknown future. When you know these are of the mind only, you can go beyond them. As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself, you know yourself through the mist of these ideas; to know yourself as you are, give up all ideas. You cannot imagine the taste of pure water, you can only discover it by abandoning all flavourings. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
145:He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... . ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
146:The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
147:He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
148:She couldn't read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he'd seemed to glide through the sand the first time she'd ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister's wedding. And she heard again the words she'd said to him on the day they'd said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotionsîdesire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed? ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
149:Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.  They come through you but not from you.  And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.  You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls. for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.  You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.  ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove
150:There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility and our hearts to love life. Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no horizon would ever awaken our longing. Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life. This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
151:The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
152:God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
153:Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove

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1:Poetry keeps longing alive. ~ Robert Bly,
2:All language is a longing for home. ~ Rumi,
3:Longing is all that lasts. ~ Jennifer Stone,
4:I was born longing to die. ~ Gustave Flaubert,
5:Love can't exist without longing. ~ Faraaz Kazi,
6:s, ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#silence,#longing,#together,
7:For what’s a writer without longing? ~ Eric Arvin,
8:s, ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#silence,#longing,#together,
9:He is a longing I will never cure. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
10:Our greatest longing is to be intimate. ~ Tara Brach,
11:“and there is a deeper gust of longing” ~ Anne Carson,
12:I could see the longing in your eyes. ~ Gloria Whelan,
13:Longing on a large scale makes history. ~ Don DeLillo,
14:Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing. ~ Ram Dass,
15:All human eyes have longing in them. ~ Ernesto Cardenal,
16:Desire and longing are the whips of God. ~ Anna Wickham,
17:How can one live without hope and longing? ~ Sarah Moon,
18:...longing for someone I couldn’t have. ~ Penelope Ward,
19:My longing for truth was a single prayer. ~ Edith Stein,
20:Happiness is the longing for repetition. ~ Milan Kundera,
21:... longing for someone I couldn’t have. ~ Penelope Ward,
22:Longing is its own kind of perverse delight. ~ Jenny Han,
23:The longing in him was a force of its own. ~ B J Daniels,
24:No guilt or anger or longing changes that. ~ Ava Dellaira,
25:Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. ~ Tara Brach,
26:Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
27:My love is as a fever, longing still ~ William Shakespeare,
28:Without longing or dislike, No bonds exist. ~ Gil Fronsdal,
29:Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing. ~ Tom Robbins,
30:jejune longing is the chewing gum of life. ~ Padgett Powell,
31:My love is as a fever, longing still. ~ William Shakespeare,
32:Only longing can fill with more of itself. ~ Virginia Woolf,
33:Writing is a constant exercise in longing. ~ Isabel Allende,
34:Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. ~ George Herbert,
35:I don't have a vast longing for the stage. ~ Anthony Hopkins,
36:Sometimes, language is the sound of longing ~ Simon Van Booy,
37:The longing for paradise is paradise itself. ~ Khalil Gibran,
38:You are all that you are longing for. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
39:longing for the future and weariness of the present. ~ Seneca,
40:We have no hope and yet we live in longing. ~ Dante Alighieri,
41:What is vanity but the longing to survive? ~ Miguel de Unamuno,
42:155. "The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing. ~ Lao Tzu,
43:And
Her soul! Her soul is consumed by this longing. ~ Sappho,
44:Her voice is lonely and full of longing: for him. ~ Ally Condie,
45:I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. ~ Suketu Mehta,
46:Sometimes sluttiness is a sign of intense longing. ~ Rachel Vail,
47:A longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 ~ Anonymous,
48:Even a painful longing is some form of presence. ~ Anna Kamienska,
49:Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. ~ Jim Elliot,
50:A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. ~ Stanley Kunitz,
51:She was lost in her longing to understand ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
52:There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them. ~ Rumi,
53:Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. ~ Sharon Salzberg,
54:Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
55:She was lost in her longing to understand. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
56:She was lost in her longing to understand. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
57:The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. ~ Carl Jung,
58:A man can never fill the longing for my one true God. ~ Mesu Andrews,
59:And now the question: what do we do with the longing ~ Mary Jo Bang,
60:Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. ~ Margaret Mitchell,
61:Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground ~ Emily Dickinson,
62:Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation. ~ Chaim Potok,
63:My longing was beyond the power of opposition; ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs,
64:That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
65:Then he kissed me with days' worth of pent-up longing. ~ Tracy Brogan,
66:There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them. ~ Rumi,
67:Was the longing still there and the burning silence? ~ Marianne Fritz,
68:We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love. ~ Craig Groeschel,
69:The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back. ~ Leonard Cohen,
70:It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
71:Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. ~ Martin Heidegger,
72:There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. ~ Judi Dench,
73:And the pain was back again, and time, and longing too. ~ Cornelia Funke,
74:Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. ~ Jean Klein,
75:Love is the feedback cycle of longing, belonging, loss. ~ Richard Powers,
76:Night is longing, longing, longing, beyond all endurance. ~ Henry Miller,
77:The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. ~ Milan Kundera,
78:He who is too well off is always longing for something new. ~ Jacob Grimm,
79:How could a single quiet word convey such pain, such longing? ~ Anonymous,
80:Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. ~ Emily Dickinson,
81:What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing. ~ Robert Bly,
82:and on a soft bed
delicate
you would let loose your longing ~ Sappho,
83:I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it. ~ Dani Shapiro,
84:Longing for you is the sweetest anticipation I’ve ever known. ~ Cari Quinn,
85:Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear. ~ Anne Rice,
86:Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire. ~ Luanne Rice,
87:Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be. ~ Laurie Colwin,
88:Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. ~ Robert Hass,
89:Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. ~ Milan Kundera,
90:Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God. ~ Evelyn Underhill,
91:Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ~ Xunzi,
92:the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego. ~ Thomas Harris,
93:There is no romance in real grief. Only longing and fury. ~ Roshani Chokshi,
94:...waiting and longing are often the cheap fuel of desire. ~ Patti Callahan,
95:Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. ~ Erwin McManus,
96:My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage ~ Rumi,
97:longing to trust someone; I was making life a fiction, or writing ~ Hilton Als,
98:Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. ~ Blaise Pascal,
99:Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. ~ Criss Jami,
100:Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,
101:Seduction and passion are simply life longing for life ~ Douglas Carlton Abrams,
102:The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering ~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche,
103:with a thug of a string, i'd cut loose my pain, my longing... ~ Khaled Hosseini,
104:And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
105:If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. ~ Anna Freud,
106:Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow. ~ Robin Hobb,
107:There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
108:Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
109:My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
110:Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! ~ Paulo Coelho,
111:Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow. ~ Robin Hobb,
112:The fear of death is strangely mingled with the longing for repose. ~ Will Durant,
113:The longing for odysseys and faraway adventure is in our genes. ~ Edward O Wilson,
114:There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. ~ Wendell Berry,
115:The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
116:Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. ~ Rumi,
117:You're not desperate, you're not even really alone. You're longing.... ~ Yoav Blum,
118:I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi,
119:Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. ~ Sigmund Freud,
120:The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness. ~ Marion Woodman,
121:The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness. ~ Marion Woodman,
122:We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive ~ George Eliot,
123:A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. ~ William A Henry III,
124:I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
125:The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. ~ Khalil Gibran,
126:Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. ~ Louise Erdrich,
127:I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
128:My deepest hunger was my longing for connectedness and friendship. ~ Margaret Feinberg,
129:This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful. ~ Tara Brach,
130:When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light. ~ Maggie Nelson,
131:You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you, ~ Sadhguru,
132:All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
133:The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. ~ William James,
134:The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. ~ James Russell Lowell,
135:And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are. ~ Valerie Martin,
136:If I’d known you before I went inside, I’d have gone mad with longing. ~ Barbara Elsborg,
137:Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie? ~ Tom Robbins,
138:My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
139:The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. ~ Alain de Botton,
140:And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing. ~ Alexandra Christo,
141:It tasted of twilight and mist, moonlight and frost, emptiness and longing. ~ Julie Kagawa,
142:The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. ~ Alain de Botton,
143:The stories of this place, they alone changed our longing for attachment. ~ Affinity Konar,
144:When you are not with me, I am left with nothing but longing for you. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
145:...a particularly Jersey malaise--the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres. ~ Junot D az,
146:Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall. ~ Hari Kunzru,
147:In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation. ~ Theodor W Adorno,
148:To wish for what you want is not enough; With ardent longing you must strive for it. ~ Ovid,
149:You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire. ~ Sappho,
150:awaken in me a hunger and longing to weave your word into the fibers of my life. ~ Anonymous,
151:The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. ~ Cornelia Funke,
152:To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea. ~ Colleen Oakley,
153:you came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing ~ Sappho,
154:All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
155:And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. ~ Khalil Gibran,
156:I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God. ~ Martha McSally,
157:Love isn't something that fades with time. It just grows sharper with longing. ~ Amber Argyle,
158:Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time. ~ Philip the Apostle,
159:Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. ~ William Ames,
160:I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. ~ C S Lewis,
161:Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
162:All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. ~ Theodore Roethke,
163:Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. ~ Anselm Kiefer,
164:I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. ~ Soren Kierkegaard,
165:Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive. ~ Olivia Laing,
166:Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
167:... play, you big wild gypsy girl, until beauty and wildness and longing are one. ~ Tom Robbins,
168:The depth of longing I felt for him didn’t seem possible for someone my age. ~ Rachel Higginson,
169:... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ... ~ John Geddes,
170:You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing. ~ Daniel J Siegel,
171:Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! ~ Fernando Pessoa,
172:Be silent, be silent; savour this timeless moment, speak no more of longing
   ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
173:... now I was longing for stolen little glances that probably meant nothing to him. ~ Linda Kage,
174:O Lord, all my longing is known to you;           my sighing is not hidden from you. ~ Anonymous,
175:I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. ~ Kate Baldwin,
176:I kept longing for a secret conversation, away from the pitchforks of the Internet ~ Sarah Hepola,
177:It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. ~ Anders Petersen,
178:Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: ~ Cristina Henriquez,
179:our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. ~ Isak Dinesen,
180:our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. ~ Karen Blixen,
181:Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. ~ Barbara Kingsolver,
182:All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure. ~ Theodore Roethke,
183:He saw the monsters that love and longing could make, and they all had human faces. ~ Roan Parrish,
184:I’ve been destroying, destroying, destroying myself in longing for poetic truth… ~ Edgar Allan Poe,
185:My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. ~ Ravi Zacharias,
186:People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. ~ Donal Ryan,
187:Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other. ~ Kate Morton,
188:I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. ~ Lauren Slater,
189:She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars. ~ Anton Chekhov,
190:The best compromise between love and good sense is both to feel longing and to conquer it. ~ Seneca,
191:The longing knotted into such a simple question was more than he could contemplate. ~ Anthony Marra,
192:The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... ~ Lynne Reid Banks,
193:You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself. ~ Emily P Freeman,
194:But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed. ~ Dan B Allender,
195:Honestly, my deepest longing was to have a normal relationship, to love and be loved ~ Richelle Mead,
196:That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. ~ Paulo Coelho,
197:The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. ~ Gail Godwin,
198:The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change. ~ Ann Howard Creel,
199:[...]when the world remembers what it is to have mercy on the longing and the lost. ~ Seanan McGuire,
200:How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. ~ Hermann Hesse,
201:I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. ~ Karl Ove Knausgard,
202:I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly. ~ Rachel Weisz,
203:She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn’t mean anything. ~ Kevin O Brien,
204:Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing. ~ Justin Cartwright,
205:inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. ~ Anthony Doerr,
206:It's amazing what the sound of voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart ~ Colleen Hoover,
207:I want to run so much sometimes my body aches with longing more than the pain from my leg. ~ Jo Walton,
208:My weary old ground was broken and watered, and what sprang up was a generalized longing. ~ Leif Enger,
209:Nothing was eaten in the house that was not seasoned in the broth of longing. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
210:A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... ~ Hermann Hesse,
211:Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. ~ Gregory Maguire,
212:Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
213:Maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
214:Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told. ~ Paul Simon,
215:Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. ~ Rumi,
216:Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
217:Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, ~ Albert Einstein,
218:Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce. ~ E L Doctorow,
219:She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? ~ Lorrie Moore,
220:Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl. ~ Sappho,
221:Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
222:And that's what destroyed you in the end: The longing for something you could never have. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
223:But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
224:Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom. ~ Philip Yancey,
225:If a devotee prays to God with real longing, God cannot help revealing Himself to him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
226:I see my beauty in you.
I become a mirror that
cannot close it’s eyes
to your longing ~ Rumi,
227:It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. ~ Colleen Hoover,
228:It’s amazing what the sound of a voice you’ve been longing to hear can do to your heart. ~ Colleen Hoover,
229:The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ~ Orison Swett Marden,
230:Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future. ~ Joseph Goebbels,
231:Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. ~ Billy Graham,
232:Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. ~ Albert Einstein,
233:I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. ~ Richard Wagner,
234:Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? ~ Greta Garbo,
235:It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” God is longing to be good to you. ~ Joel Osteen,
236:What's the end of longing? More longing.

What's the point of longing? To continue. ~ Chelsea Hodson,
237:And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
238:and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. ~ Hermann Hesse,
239:How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. ~ Hermann Hesse,
240:longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
241:The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of? ~ Mary Balogh,
242:Dimitri always left my heart full of pain and longing, but I still wanted Adrian in my life. ~ Richelle Mead,
243:Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis. ~ Matt Chandler,
244:My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful. ~ Treat Williams,
245:please free me from this prison of longing! Let me feel whole and happy with OR without this. ~ Tosha Silver,
246:The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge,
247:To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means. ~ David Levithan,
248:He was going on four years of longing, of wanting to touch her, taste her, simply be near her. ~ Mandy M Roth,
249:Only your surface feels empty and longing; in your depths there is a firm weight of fullness. ~ Bryant McGill,
250:The longing in a single person’s heart for a wife or a husband finds its root in God’s glory. ~ Matt Chandler,
251:And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. He ~ Leigh Bardugo,
252:Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire. ~ Georges Bataille,
253:I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? – ~ Tennessee Williams,
254:You know, sometimes you look at me with longing...

... even though I'm here with you. ~ Craig Thompson,
255:the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe ~ Jess Walter,
256:A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. ~ Saul Bellow,
257:I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. ~ Donna Tartt,
258:…Longing, of course,
becomes its own object, the way
that desire can make anything into a god. ~ Mark Doty,
259:My God, how I burned, how I burned with longing to leave earthly and fly back to you. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,
260:No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping
Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open. ~ David Rakoff,
261:There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me. ~ Ira Gershwin,
262:To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
263:We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. ~ Honore de Balzac,
264:But nostalgia was the first disease associated with time, its victims longing for days gone by.7 ~ Simon Garfield,
265:Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. ~ Brenda Shoshanna,
266:I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. ~ Ayn Rand,
267:The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. ~ John Piper,
268:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
269:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself ~ Kahlil Gibran,
270:And I stand there in the dark: cold, utterly alone, full of fear and something that feels like longing. ~ A J Finn,
271:Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it. ~ Shirley Hazzard,
272:Even when the song had ended, he could still feel it inside him, like an echo of longing in his chest. ~ Anonymous,
273:People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. ~ Bodhidharma,
274:The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. ~ Meg Wolitzer,
275:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
276:What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing. ~ Roberto Bola o,
277:Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. ~ Dogen,
278:Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. ~ Seneca,
279:Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. ~ Stephen Covey,
280:I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. ~ Robert Bly,
281:In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
282:The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. ~ John Masefield,
283:We think that power, riches, and pleasure will satisfy our deepest longing, which is really for love. ~ Henry Cloud,
284:Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? ~ Colin Wilson,
285:Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire. ~ Georges Bataille,
286:I'm the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
287:My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well. ~ Heather Nova,
288:Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
289:"People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking." ~ Bodhidharma,
290:All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs. ~ Justin Torres,
291:Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. ~ Eduard Shevardnadze,
292:longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings. ~ Stephen Cope,
293:We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge. ~ Erwin Schr dinger,
294:and most of all his eyes-his eyes have this crazy hope and crazy longing and ridiculous giddiness in them ~ John Green,
295:Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual... ~ Andrei Tarkovsky,
296:Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. ~ Huston Smith,
297:Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
298:Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ~ Ayn Rand,
299:I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
300:She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ~ Jean Rhys,
301:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ Nicholas of Cusa,
302:There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. ~ Carrie Anne Noble,
303:Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ~ Ismail Merchant,
304:What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
305:Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
306:Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination. ~ Sadhguru,
307:Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. ~ Robert Bly,
308:How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. ~ Iris Murdoch,
309:Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
310:She’s a teenager longing to be an adult but with no clue how much work is involved once you get there. ~ Deborah Coonts,
311:Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes. ~ Lao Tzu,
312:Therefore this is His thirst and love-longing, to have us altogether whole in Him, to His bliss,—as ~ Julian of Norwich,
313:And you'd be left with beautiful memories and the longing for what had been and what could never be again ~ Julie Kagawa,
314:In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. ~ Joseph Hertz,
315:Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade. ~ Daniel Alarc n,
316:Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing? ~ Clive Barker,
317:Shane,” Jesse whispered. Just his name. But the longing and desire in that one word turned him inside out ~ Piper Vaughn,
318:What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. ~ Lisa See,
319:Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. ~ Rumi,
320:Bring me somewhere new
Away from this place;
Its memories haunt me
And I wish, longing to forget ~ Jenn Waterman,
321:I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. ~ Julia Margaret Cameron,
322:Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here. ~ Iris Marion Young,
323:That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite. ~ Shmuley Boteach,
324:He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. ~ Norton Juster,
325:If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them. ~ Eric Hobsbawm,
326:In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. ~ Tony Kushner,
327:I see his longing and frustration. “It hurts too much.” His face contorts.
“Everything we won’t have. ~ Angela Morrison,
328:I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon,
329:My heart is longing for a lost knowledge, slipped down out of the minds of men. ~ from the Sanskrit poem "Black Marigolds",
330:People say that a dog can sense the longing of a person, so perhaps he's barking in response to your heart. ~ Kim Dong Hwa,
331:There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. ~ Khalil Gibran,
332:What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away?
- Imru'l-Qays ~ Ann Chamberlin,
333:When you have resigned yourself to an eternity filled with little else but longing, a few seconds is enough. ~ Rin Chupeco,
334:For the body at best
   Is a bundle of aches,
Longing for rest;
   It cries when it wakes ~ Edna St Vincent Millay,
335:Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. ~ William Shakespeare,
336:People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only. ~ Richard Flanagan,
337:Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing. ~ George MacDonald,
338:We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
339:A blend of desolation and outrage. Or longing and fury. She wanted him back, she never wanted to see him again. ~ Ian McEwan,
340:And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go. ~ John Steinbeck,
341:Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life. ~ Carl Sagan,
342:I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. ~ Juliana Hatfield,
343:Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
344:My head didn’t ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen’s arms was so familiar, it was like it never left. ~ Kiera Cass,
345:The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. ~ Pankaj Mishra,
346:The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
347:All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
348:An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms. ~ Siobhan Davis,
349:But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future. ~ Jeri Smith Ready,
350:I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss. ~ Katy Lederer,
351:Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. ~ Laura Lippman,
352:I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. ~ Bram Stoker,
353:I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. ~ Rachel Zucker,
354:Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. ~ Saint Augustine,
355:Longing need no longer remain small and hidden; it has found its awakening, a blinding sunrise of fulfillment. ~ Muhammad Asad,
356:Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it. ~ Patti Callahan Henry,
357:Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. ~ Oscar Wilde,
358:People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. ~ Jean Vanier,
359:What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? ~ Lawrence Durrell,
360:Desire often lives next door to grief inside the soul. Access the grief, and you wake up the longing as well. ~ Emily P Freeman,
361:It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. ~ Simon Critchley,
362:More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me. ~ James MacDonald,
363:Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. ~ Anne Lamott,
364:Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. ~ Leonard Cohen,
365:She was like a dog or a child, and was unable not to be true. Lizzie was longing for a little mock sympathy, ~ Anthony Trollope,
366:True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing. ~ A W Tozer,
367:Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay,
368:Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. ~ Rumi,
369:Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing. ~ Alister E McGrath,
370:Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. ~ Derrick Jensen,
371:I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
372:I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk. ~ Joy Harjo,
373:It’s a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change. ~ Christina Baker Kline,
374:Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope. ~ Paul David Tripp,
375:Longing that is deeper than want. It’s not as simple as desire. It’s more like missing something you’ve never had. ~ T Greenwood,
376:The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. ~ Milan Kundera,
377:The only thing that truly satisfies the longing within is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday. ~ Joyce Meyer,
378:was you, Tate,” she said, and then thought, It was always you. One side of her heart longing, the other shielding. ~ Delia Owens,
379:What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? ~ Thomas Pynchon,
380:Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance. ~ Douglas Stone,
381:There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins. ~ George MacDonald,
382:We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing. ~ Valerie Martin,
383:Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. ~ John Eldredge,
384:I felt a sense of longing for him such as I’ve never experienced in my lifetime for any person, or even for any pet. ~ Rachel Cohn,
385:My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. ~ Gina Barreca,
386:The longing for company may be no less powerful or irresponsible in its effects than the sexual motive once was. ~ Alain de Botton,
387:The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. ~ Sigmund Freud,
388:To a man, first love is a victory, to a girl it is a sweet wonder, and a joy, and a tender longing, all in one ~ F Marion Crawford,
389:we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would. ~ Lev Grossman,
390:Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office],” he wrote to a friend, “a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~ Barbara W Tuchman,
391:How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton,
392:It was you, Tate,” she said, and then thought, It was always you. One side of her heart longing, the other shielding. ~ Delia Owens,
393:Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. ~ Hildegard of Bingen,
394:I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust. ~ Michelle Knudsen,
395:I don't remember anything about that summer because I existed in a lonely fog of memories, longing, and rejection. ~ Emily P Freeman,
396:I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. ~ Ayn Rand,
397:Maybe all this longing will snag itself
on the reeds or dissolve quick
as the waves weaving this shore. ~ Holly Wren Spaulding,
398:Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. ~ Carson McCullers,
399:Oh, God, give us a longing—not for the sin of this world to be judged—but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven. ~ Beth Moore,
400:What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something. ~ Aristotle,
401:Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. ~ John Grisham,
402:...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell,
403:Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing. ~ Kate Chopin,
404:I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. ~ Jostein Gaarder,
405:I hear longing in these notes. They go all the way to the past and forward to some future where I haven't yet arrived. ~ Cath Crowley,
406:Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
   ~ Sri Ramakrishna, [T5],
407:perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. ~ Omar El Akkad,
408:Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. ~ John C Maxwell,
409:Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. ~ John C Maxwell,
410:How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end. ~ Allegra Goodman,
411:I do not look at our stories as allegories or metaphors. Instead, I look at them as evidence of longing and desire. They ~ Mike Cosper,
412:Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing. ~ Ingmar Bergman,
413:There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. ~ Homer,
414:Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. ~ Swami Vivekananda,
415:We sang 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in full voice, in our native language, which was English tinged with sorrow and longing. ~ Mo Daviau,
416:But the longing for Africa, once contracted, is an incurable condition which, like malaria, recurs again and again. ~ Peter Matthiessen,
417:Every thirst gets satisfied except that of these fish, the mystics, who swim a vast ocean of grace still somehow longing for it! ~ Rumi,
418:My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. ~ Albert Einstein,
419:Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. ~ R C Sproul Jr,
420:Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.

[Songs of Longing] ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
421:…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. ~ Homer,
422:The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name. ~ Louise Miller,
423:The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn’t name. ~ Louise Miller,
424:They minister constantly to believers who feel within their breasts a longing which their teaching simply does not satisfy. ~ A W Tozer,
425:Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. ~ Seth Godin,
426:Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?'
'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. ~ Kiana Davenport,
427:It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein,
428:Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. ~ Diogenes,
429:One must give up the retrospective longing which only wants to resuscitate the torpid bliss and effortlessness of childhood. ~ Carl Jung,
430:A secret (or not-so-secret) longing for the world’s violent destruction is grossly unbecoming to the followers of the Lamb. ~ Brian Zahnd,
431:But missing something is okay. It's better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I'll take longing over boredom any day. ~ Ava Dellaira,
432:It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive. ~ Sadhguru,
433:When you get everything aligned, when love welcomes the longing, accepts it, learns to live with it, you make love. ~ Anne Calhoun,
434:Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears. ~ Carl Jung,
435:The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. ~ Nathaniel Branden,
436:The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul’s longing for Truth into another illusion. ~ Llewellyn Vaughan Lee,
437:Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. ~ Bryant H McGill,
438:Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. ~ Ikkyu,
439:Puffin the cat follows us for a while, with Finn shooing at her, which only makes her longing to join us more intense. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
440:"The language of love is silence, Speech is born out of longing,The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies...." ~ Rabia al Basri,
441:There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
442:The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
443:Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd ~ Albert Camus,
444:Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. ~ Madonna,
445:I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. ~ Criss Jami,
446:I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the center of your longing. ~ David Whyte,
447:“Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.” ~ Carl Jung,
448:The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. ~ Jon Krakauer,
449:We know there's more. We have a longing for eternity, and that longing is itself a longing for God who exists outside of time. ~ Jen Wilkin,
450:Best not to tiptoe around what you’re yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you’ll miss your life ahead, it read. ~ Beverly Lewis,
451:...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. ~ Jack Kerouac,
452:I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want to live longer. ~ Shirley Jackson,
453:If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place. ~ Faiz Ahmad Faiz,
454:In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR ~ James MacDonald,
455:Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. ~ Tullian Tchividjian,
456:Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would take me anywhere. ~ Sara Quin,
457:A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. ~ Hermann Hesse,
458:God’s Word promises if we start longing for that perfect love, everything … absolutely everything will follow that longing. ~ Karen Kingsbury,
459:If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you. ~ Marianne Williamson,
460:Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being. ~ Erin Keane,
461:The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to. ~ Pema Ch dr n,
462:You interpret my heart, my nature, as you wish to believe it. In truth, I have no secret longing to be saved from myself. ~ Alexander Pushkin,
463:I loved him. I know you don’t want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him. ~ Karin Slaughter,
464:Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all. ~ Catherine Lacey,
465:The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. ~ Helen Dunmore,
466:He kissed her into silence, and then said, his voice husky with passionate longing, “Take me back, Eloise. Please, take me back. ~ Eloisa James,
467:Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us? ~ Ocean Vuong,
468:My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe. ~ Chip Kidd,
469:The past was all right there before me: generations of Koreans separated by division; decades of longing, loss, hurt, regret, guilt. ~ Suki Kim,
470:The sensation I
had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of nameless
longing. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
471:The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from... ~ C S Lewis,
472:My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness. ~ Ransom Riggs,
473:People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child of ignorance ~ Thomas Mann,
474:The ancients rightly called this internal longing for wholeness “fate” or “destiny,” the “inner voice” or the “call of the gods.” ~ Rcihard Rohr,
475:Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. ~ Dean Koontz,
476:Here is a perfect poem; to awaken a longing, to nourish it, to develop it, to increase it, to stimulate it – and to gratify it. ~ Honor de Balzac,
477:I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me. ~ Gustaw Herling Grudzinski,
478:My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
479:----quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. ~ Anthony Doerr,
480:Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. ~ Eugen Herrigel,
481:A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
482:How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! ~ Mother Teresa,
483:... I could feel a nostalgia for the evening already setting in, a longing for the existence of this night building before my eyes. ~ Deirdre Shaw,
484:...sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are. ~ Shauna Niequist,
485:Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. ~ Madonna Ciccone,
486:Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. ~ Milan Kundera,
487:I didn't even know I could feel that way, that I could be filled with a longing so raw ad unexpected that it brought tears to my eyes. ~ Glenn Beck,
488:If we really want to come before God with clean hands and pure hearts, we need to have a greater awe and longing for His Word alone. ~ Francis Chan,
489:I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. ~ Elvis Costello,
490:So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. ~ Theodore Roethke,
491:The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms. ~ Mark Twain,
492:They watch the girls with level goat-eyes and make disparaging remarks to one another while their insides whimper with longing. In ~ John Steinbeck,
493:This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing
to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over. ~ Galway Kinnell,
494:You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. ~ Bernardine Dohrn,
495:All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
496:I thought about this. As I have already told you, I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy’s sense of longing, ~ Mohsin Hamid,
497:Krishna means love," she said. "But Radha means longing. Longing is older than love. I am older than he. Did you know that, Sita? ~ Christopher Pike,
498:People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child of ignorance. It ~ Thomas Mann,
499:When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn. ~ Albert Camus,
500:All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. ~ Anne Tyler,
501:If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing. ~ Khaled Hosseini,
502:It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable. ~ Shirley Jackson,
503:It turned out missing someone never became easier, it just became quieter. You learned to live with the longing pain inside you. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
504:Let me seek Thee in longing," pleaded Anselm, "let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding." Love ~ A W Tozer,
505:On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. ~ Soren Kierkegaard,
506:I missed Ash, and the longing was ripping my stomach to pieces, but I also wanted Puck to come back and kiss me some more" Meghan Chase ~ Julie Kagawa,
507:Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together. ~ Niall Williams,
508:After all, suffering, though of course unwanted, has its uses. Without it we would be like the gods, never longing for release from saṃsāra. ~ ntideva,
509:A wave of sadness washed over Sam. It was that feeling again, that sense of longing for something she couldn’t remember ever having. ~ Jennifer Hillier,
510:Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. ~ Matthew Arnold,
511:Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams. ~ Denise Linn,
512:I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. ~ Rumi,
513:My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
514:Nevertheless, seeing him made Cinder both warm with longing and miserable when she thought of the last few moments she’d seen him. Her, ~ Marissa Meyer,
515:She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release. ~ Peter Straub,
516:So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. ~ Mary Oliver,
517:There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society. ~ Isaac Asimov,
518:Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648). ~ Richard Baxter,
519:To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep. ~ Sarojini Naidu,
520:Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. ~ Donna Tartt,
521:I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind. ~ Storm Jameson,
522:If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that ~ Peter Kingsley,
523:Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know… Occult is not science. Occult is just technology. ~ Sadhguru,
524:telling him. Fear and longing were so prominent. “We can, baby. I’m not letting you go.” As she gazed down at his son rubbing his blond head, ~ K L Donn,
525:When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
526:Fame is longing. Not yours, but the audience’s. A star is nothing more, nothing less, than the public face of private desire. ~ Frances de Pontes Peebles,
527:September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
528:She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. ~ Anna Godbersen,
529:She was accustomed to murder, intrigue, jealousy and longing on a daily basis, all through the music she listened to and the operas she saw. ~ Tyburn Way,
530:We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times ~ Joachim Gauck,
531:...where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room. ~ Kelsey Sutton,
532:and scared through my system—adrenaline mixed with lust and longing. It’s a heady, potent cocktail. Christian’s stance has changed completely, ~ E L James,
533:And too intense a longing, everyone knows, can lead to poor decisions, rash actions, hopes that become outsized and in turn deform reality ~ Chang rae Lee,
534:For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. ~ Libba Bray,
535:Joy is distinct not only from pleasure in general but even from aesthetic pleasure. It must have the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing. ~ C S Lewis,
536:She shouldn’t long for his kiss. She did not know what the future held for her. But she did long for it. Her heart ached with longing. ~ Melanie Dickerson,
537:The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing. ~ Eiji Yoshikawa,
538:Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men. ~ Richard Hooker,
539:False visions of the world were a child’s right, not something to be resented, but neither were they worthy of any adult sense of longing. ~ Steven Erikson,
540:People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability. ~ Harriet Lerner,
541:The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it. ~ John Corapi,
542:A rabbit sneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow sitting with his rumps in a chicory clump and longing for a nice plump doe. ~ Richard Adams,
543:Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. ~ Spike Jonze,
544:I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips. ~ Warren G Harding,
545:It doesn’t 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 heart’s longing. ~ Oriah Dreamer,
546:So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition. ~ Theodore Roethke,
547:Teenagers, flooded with destabilizing hormones and a longing for elsewhere, are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives. ~ Edmund White,
548:The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
549:When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
550:Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit. ~ Alan Zweibel,
551:All things yield to a man and Zeus is himself his accomplice
When like a god he wills without remorse or longing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,
552:dull—she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more interesting lives. She ~ Alice McDermott,
553:He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason ~ Sinclair Lewis,
554:He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. ~ Maile Meloy,
555:It was a basic rule of life: Parents are full of promises; children are full of needs and longing. The perfect ingredients for disappointment. ~ Brad Meltzer,
556:The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections. ~ Otto Scharmer,
557:The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light. ~ Frederick Lenz,
558:What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
--Gravity's Rainbow, V699 ~ Thomas Pynchon,
559:Good fiction writers and poets possess a skill that few preachers have—they know how to expose longing. But preachers know how to fulfill longing. ~ Anonymous,
560:Longing is sort of a gross word. So is ache. Or yearn. They're all kind of gross. But that's how I had felt about touching, kissing, Coley. ~ Emily M Danforth,
561:The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart. ~ Gloria Furman,
562:This fever of longing is not love, he thought, it is the opposite of love. It is the separation from love that burns like the fires of hell. ~ Mark Beauregard,
563:Yet he no longer burned with that weird, obsessive longing. Loss and fear had snuffed it out: He felt as though he had been slapped awake again. ~ J K Rowling,
564:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you . . . ~ Wayne W Dyer,
565:For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. “Talking therapy is dead,” Gary said when she raised the idea. “It’s all pills now. ~ Rafael Yglesias,
566:He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities. ~ Natalia Sylvester,
567:Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well. ~ Kimbra,
568:Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. ~ Ellen Glasgow,
569:The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
570:The whole world can’t lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven’t got any more—and by remembering too much. ~ Margaret Mitchell,
571:What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing. ~ Stephen Mitchell,
572:A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. ~ Anni Albers,
573:Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I’m always too busy. ~ Paulo Coelho,
574:Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in. ~ Coleman Barks,
575:Longing for Death
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure. ~ Novalis,
576:Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for. ~ Jane Urquhart,
577:Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
578:My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
579:Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not knowing, not-not-not knowing? ~ Andr Aciman,
580:So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe. ~ Laini Taylor,
581:The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking ~ Brandon Mull,
582:Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. ~ James Russell Lowell,
583:A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
584:If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,’ said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, ‘I am waiting to go. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,
585:The poverty I felt most, then, was a scarcity of the heart, a near-constant state of longing for the mother right in front of me yet out of reach. ~ Sarah Smarsh,
586:The way of the nomad is to accept everything as it comes: there is no anticipation of better days, no longing for the unrequited, no despair for loss. ~ D J Niko,
587:The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. ~ Margaret Mitchell,
588:But his eyes caught me. There was something I recognized in them—a sorrow or a longing that was both gripping and haunting. I saw myself in those ~ Laurelin Paige,
589:He tried to ignore the feather of longing that tickled his heart. But it kept tickling. Because he hadn't quite made up his mind to stay here. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins,
590:I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost. ~ Quentin S Crisp,
591:The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind. ~ William S Burroughs,
592:You must reach God somehow or other. Call on Him in solitude and pray to Him, 'O Lord! reveal Thyself to me.' Weep for Him with a longing heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
593:Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart

for this is the cure.

The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires

and surrender the ego. ~ Rumi,
594:But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart. ~ George MacDonald,
595:Following an instinctual longing, we root around in the psyche to find its living waters, where renewal of consciousness occurs. ~ Monika Wikman, Pregnant Darkness,
596:He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even ~ Isabel Allende,
597:If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire. ~ Kevin Brockmeier,
598:Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there. ~ Matthew Henry,
599:Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . . ~ Calvin Trillin,
600:Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of childhood that makes a man a fool. ~ Barbara Hambly,
601:She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her soul, and fill her completely. ~ Elizabeth Fama,
602:the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while. ~ Charlaine Harris,
603:Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart. ~ Dalai Lama,
604:Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
605:Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." ~ Calvin Coolidge,
606:Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be. ~ Chenjerai Hove,
607:Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. ~ Peter H eg,
608:I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
609:I look around the strange entryway, allowing myself one moment of longing for my grandma and her home, where we lived until her death a month ago. ~ Cindy C Bennett,
610:It doesn't 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 heart's longing. ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer,
611:.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. ~ Sarah Waters,
612:Saudade.
A nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; "the love that remains". ~ Anonymous,
613:I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home," began Meg, in the complaining tone again. ~ Louisa May Alcott,
614:It was the feeling of not belonging, and longing for your familiar couch and your familiar TV with all those comforting TV people who couldn’t see you. ~ Deb Caletti,
615:She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other. ~ Catherine Lacey,
616:Some time ago she had tried to substitute irony for longing, and had almost succeeded. That was why this alternative life so nearly appealed to her. ~ Anita Brookner,
617:Stefan’s love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. She trembled with pleasure, with love, and with longing. ~ L J Smith,
618:The magic of that first snow, the first ice of the season.” A longing expression comes into his eyes and he smacks his lips. “It’s really something else. ~ Lily Kate,
619:The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever. ~ Terri Cheney,
620:When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
621:Where renunciation and longing for liberation are weak, tranquillity and the other virtues are a mere appearance, like the mirage in the desert. ~ Adi Shankaracharya,
622:At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world. ~ Simone Weil,
623:I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life. ~ Albert Einstein,
624:It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. ~ C S Lewis,
625:Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. Never give up, never lose hope. Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved." Crush your heart. Be broken. ~ Greg Mortenson,
626:Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
627:The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini,
628:there weren’t enough words in that moment to express the depth of our affection and our longing for each other. I never wanted this moment to end. “Levi. ~ J J McAvoy,
629:We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. ~ Charles Lamb,
630:I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. ~ Stevie Nicks,
631:It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion. ~ Sharon Salzberg,
632:It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. ~ Matt Taibbi,
633:She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire. ~ Erin Kellison,
634:That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost. ~ Scott Russell Sanders,
635:And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81 ~ Clare Vanderpool,
636:Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. ~ Gustave Flaubert,
637:Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect. ~ Xunzi,
638:She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing. ~ Katherine Applegate,
639:The flesh dies, or at least it changes, and its passions pass, but that other passion of the spirit — that longing for oneness — is undying as itself. ~ H Rider Haggard,
640:What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.’(Arthur Koestler) ~ Tony Judt,
641:What if I approached my life the way I look at the moon, with mystery and longing and a weight that is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time? ~ Emily P Freeman,
642:While I wait for you, My lord, lost in this longing, Suddenly there comes A stirring of my window blind: The autumn wind is blowing.

~ Nukata, Autumn Wind
,
643:An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
644:I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,
645:Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate. ~ Colin Farrell,
646:My God my bright abyss
into which all my longing will not go
once more I come to the edge of all I know
and believing nothing believe in this. ~ Christian Wiman,
647:Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately. ~ Robert Bly,
648:..."Not if I remember to take my pills," he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine. ~ William Gibson,
649:That longing feeling of missing him so much that I felt a part of me was missing, gone. That part of me would be returned in pieces, but not quite broken. ~ Portia Moore,
650:The longing and impatience of boyhood give way to the longing and discontent of manhood, and the future you anticipate is still just around the corner. ~ Morgan Llywelyn,
651:The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever. But ~ Terri Cheney,
652:Thus, then, I too became a dreamer with only one longing, the longing for wisdom, for that spirit touch which should open my eyes and enable me to see. ~ H Rider Haggard,
653:We are a lukewarm people and our longing for freedom is our longing for love. If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
654:We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. ~ Anne Lamott,
655:Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire. ~ Gautama Buddha,
656:Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost? ~ Binnie Kirshenbaum,
657:Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive. ~ Cassandra Clare,
658:We wouldn't like it, if the sunrise came right after the sunset! Love grows with longing; the longer the night, the greater our love for the sunrise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
659:As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one. ~ Rajneesh,
660:How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia."
"And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days. ~ Jessica Day George,
661:I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone. ~ Madonna Ciccone,
662:If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi,
663:I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope. ~ Heather Sellers,
664:Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings. ~ Ernst J nger,
665:I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality. ~ Orhan Pamuk,
666:Is the desire for vengeance stronger than the longing to be loved? What evil magic does it possess to draw the human heart so powerfully to it? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
667:Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
668:wonder if something like that can leave a DNA fingerprint of sorts. Something that creates a physical longing in one for a place in order to feel whole. ~ Loreth Anne White,
669:..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing. ~ Elizabeth Yates,
670:Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.' ~ Daya Mata,
671:Near and real to the longing heart And to the body’s passionate thought and sense Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,
672:O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
673:But words are vain; reject them all—
They utter but a feeble part:
Hear thou the depths from which they call,
The voiceless longing of my heart. ~ George MacDonald,
674:For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin,
675:Life with her wine-cup of longing under the purple of her tenture,
Death as her gate of escape and rebirth and renewal of venture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,
676:Prayer is the longing of the soul to hold communion with the Most High, the desire of the heart to obtain blessings at His hands.”–1895, Sermon 2433 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
677:Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know. ~ Josef Pieper,
678:Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro,
679:Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom. ~ Andrea Dworkin,
680:America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. ~ Arianna Huffington,
681:and he urges the old man to remember the last moment he felt his being without its relation to beloved Amedea, his last moment of individual happiness or longing— ~ Jess Walter,
682:I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing. ~ Lucy Christopher,
683:Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater,
684:Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it. ~ Joan D Chittister,
685:Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way. ~ Satish Kumar,
686:you still remember those small, sublime joys with an ache of longing. Because there’s no getting it back, is there? You can’t return to a state of innocence. ~ Beatriz Williams,
687:And in this form, they find themselves longing to ascend mountains, wander the seas, and conquer the air, seeking to recapture the limitlessness they once knew. ~ David Eagleman,
688:I was not ungrateful for the fortunate circumstances I found myself in, but through all my time in Williamsburg, my deep longing to return home did not abate. ~ Kathleen Grissom,
689:My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and longing and believing, but then not having. ~ Rachel Cohn,
690:So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.

And live
your life. ~ Mary Oliver,
691:There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
692:The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you. ~ Meindert DeJong,
693:Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer,
694:When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?"
"Yes."
"Yes, what?"
"All of it. ~ Katja Millay,
695:There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other. ~ Chief Dan George,
696:The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made your heart stop and ache and start again. ~ Karen Foxlee,
697:This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. ~ Jorie Graham,
698:We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are. ~ Marion Dane Bauer,
699:At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
700:How was it possible to miss someone as much as I missed my mother? I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. ~ Donna Tartt,
701:Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. ~ Lawren Harris,
702:I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise. ~ Michele Jaffe,
703:I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions. ~ Andrea Barrett,
704:I want to be there when every one suddenly understands what it has all been for. All the religions of the world are built by this longing, and I am a believer. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
705:More like longing. Uncomfortably like hope. I dashed that thought quickly, but suddenly, I wanted to fuck him. We could call it lust. We could call it convenience. ~ Pepper Winters,
706:She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified. ~ Jennifer Chiaverini,
707:Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement. ~ Sadhguru,
708:I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost. ~ Mohsin Hamid,
709:Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?"

"That's the airport talking. ~ David Cronenberg,
710:She was angry at him--she knew that, felt it--but as he came toward her, that anger dried up and blew away like dust beneath the longing that mattered so much more. ~ Kristin Hannah,
711:There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed. ~ Alain de Botton,
712:Were not the autonomy of the individual the secret longing of many people, it would scarcely be able to survive the collective suppression either morally or spiritually. ~ Carl Jung,
713:Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~ Hermann Broch,
714:Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not knowing, not-notnot knowing? ~ Andr Aciman,
715:Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She has no word for longing or despair. ~ M L Stedman,
716:Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?” “Yes.” “Yes, what?” “All of it,” I reply, because I’m all in now whether I like it or not. ~ Anonymous,
717:The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. ~ W E B Du Bois,
718:This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure. ~ Cassandra Clare,
719:Danny sees the face of Jeremiah, the one the newspaper used back then, not on the front page, inside the paper, black-and-white, the longing stare, the head canted ever ~ Bryan Gruley,
720:How far from the beginning are we? When did we first start to feel the wound? … This staunchless wound, the great longing for another place. To make this place another. ~ Susan Sontag,
721:I could not have known
what love is if I had never

felt this longing. Anything
done to excess becomes

boring, except this overflow
that moves toward you. ~ Rumi,
722:In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
723:Lila knew what it felt like to want something, knew the way it whispered and sang and screamed in your bones. And this felt like that, but wasn’t. An impostor of longing. ~ V E Schwab,
724:O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
And the marvel of earth and sun
Is all for the joy of woman and man
And the longing that makes them one. ~ William Ernest Henley,
725:She knows, every part of her knows, that she wants to kiss him. That he wants to kiss her. All of her skin prickles with longing. Her insides fizz. (The Lady and the Fox) ~ Kelly Link,
726:The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other. ~ Roland Barthes,
727:There was a word for this feeling, a Portuguese word he once learned from Lucia: Suadade. A vague longing for something that cannot exist again. Or perhaps never existed. ~ Mira T Lee,
728:For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? ~ Thomas Gray,
729:I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel. ~ Bill Bryson,
730:It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. ~ George Eliot,
731:We do not, therefore, recommend returning unless absolutely necessary. Visits may lead to symptoms such as melancholy and longing for things which can no longer be. ~ Margaret Dilloway,
732:What is required is heart, intense hankering, sincere longing for God. When, to a person, life without God is unbearable, then alone God reveals Himself to that soul. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
733:what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life? ~ Leo Tolstoy,
734:What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
735:Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ~ David Brainerd,
736:I could reach great heights with your love,and with longing for you
I will increase a hundredfold.
They ask, why are you circling him?
O ignorance, I am circling myself. ~ Rumi,
737:Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light."

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light. ~ Maggie Nelson,
738:Maybe not today. Or tomorrow. But someday," she said. "I'm not going to waste my life longing for the guy-that-almost-was. I'm going to move on and find the guy-to-be. ~ Nicole Williams,
739:The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea. ~ Sebastian Barry,
740:The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard. ~ George Santayana,
741:The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. ~ John Piper,
742:We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been—a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. ~ HeatherAsh Amara,
743:What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
744:A girl who would surrender every inhibition to her at night, yet still refused to become a dependant. Andria was more than erotic satisfaction, she filled the soul’s longing. ~ Anonymous,
745:As a species-old rite of passage she learned that flattering words, looks of longing, and inadvertent touches are often no more than skillfully applied means to an end. ~ Victoria Danann,
746:I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense. ~ Laura Wiess,
747:It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
748:Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder. ~ Nick Cave,
749:That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ~ Ben Kingsley,
750:The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ~ John le Carre,
751:The Portuguese have a word with no equivalent in English, saudade, which indicates a longing, tinged with nostalgia, madness, and sickness over something you have lost. ~ Caitlin Doughty,
752:What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one bit of weakness in, I’d tumble down that rabbit hole of sorrow. ~ Suzanne Palmieri,
753:Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. ~ T A Grey,
754:A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings. Nothing but longing. ~ Anuradha Roy,
755:Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. ~ Karl Rahner,
756:I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart. ~ Stephen Fry,
757:Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed. ~ Rumi,
758:Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that the tea could not moisten. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. ~ Grace Lin,
759:Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity. ~ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
760:They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart.
I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle. ~ Christopher Paolini,
761:They had left the silo in cleaning suits as all cleaners do, because a life cooped up becomes intolerable, and to stagger over a hill, even to death, becomes a great longing. ~ Hugh Howey,
762:Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop.) ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
763:We had been taken somewhere and brought back and we were different people, longing for another journey into paradise, no matter what hell we had to atone for on the way. ~ Terry Pratchett,
764:what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings. ~ Alexandre Dumas,
765:What is this longing, she will want to ask. This troubling feeling of more to come. You can make something out of it, I want to tell her. But that's what her life is for. ~ Abigail Thomas,
766:I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character. ~ Donald Miller,
767:One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from? ~ John Eldredge,
768:Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation. ~ Steven Millhauser,
769:Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told ~ Paul Simon,
770:The quality of the light through the amethyst, as the sun slants toward setting, stirs a feeling of longing and relief in me that I will one day learn is called homesickness. ~ N K Jemisin,
771:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ Bertrand Russell,
772:You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
773:You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper’s hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
774:But the work one does seeks to align our lives with God’s longing for us—that we be happy, joyful, and liberated from all that prevents us from seeing ourselves as God does. ~ Gregory Boyle,
775:In the lover's heart is a lute
Which plays the melody of longing.

You say he looks crazy—
That's only because your ears are not tuned
to the music by which he dances. ~ Rumi,
776:Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too. ~ Suzanne Collins,
777:Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
778:Soul's soar
It seemed the yearning of a lonely flute
That roamed along the shores of memory
And filled the eyes with tears of longing joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,
779:The myth of the hero ... is first and foremost a self-representation of the longing of the unconscious, of its unquenched and unquenchable desire for the light of consciousness. ~ Carl Jung,
780:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ Bertrand Russell,
781:When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
782:Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications. ~ Chloe Thurlow,
783:Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place. ~ Cristina Henriquez,
784:Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
785:Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. ~ Kenneth Grahame,
786:The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. ~ Saint Augustine,
787:The “other world,” which is the object of this world’s disdain and the subject of the drunkard’s mocking song, is our carefully chosen goal and the object of our holiest longing. ~ A W Tozer,
788:They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon ~ Christopher Paolini,
789:To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. ~ Edgar Lee Masters,
790:When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his Self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita VI.18,
791:It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ~ George Eliot,
792:When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description. ~ Martin Prechtel,
793:At the core of who we are, we crave the acceptance that comes from being loved. To satisfy this longing we will either be graspers of God’s love or grabbers for people’s love. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
794:History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. ~ Peter Ackroyd,
795:It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn't stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system. ~ Irene Cara,
796:Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just the beginning, and the longing for God is always the end. ~ Susan E Isaacs,
797:When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…)
A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife. ~ Gena Showalter,
798:Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do. ~ Lori Lansens,
799:She walked as if she had nothing in mind but her destination—or something beyond it—staring ahead with Mama’s elongated black eyes, glossy with a kind of circumspect longing. ~ Shawna Yang Ryan,
800:The only reliable motive for encouraging women’s ministry in the local church is an insatiable longing to see the display of God’s glory in the local church. (Ligon Duncan) ~ J Ligon Duncan III,
801:Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky. ~ Terry Pratchett,
802:He wanted her more than he’d ever wanted anything. It wasn’t just sexual desire, it was a longing deeper and more emotional than that. It was a yearning that came from his heart. ~ Chance Carter,
803:If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him? ~ Kat Von D,
804:I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. ~ Laura Dern,
805:Pekka Rollins had lured them with a warm fire and the promise of the life they’d lost. And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
806:...the longing to return to the place where your umbilical cord was buried would become overwhelming as years went by, and that he would not be able to stay on in the new place. ~ Easterine Kire,
807:Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell,
808:He hoped she was gazing into the future that included him.
A shiver rushed down his spine, and he wasn't sure if it was longing or fear. Truth be told, it was a little of both. ~ Mary Connealy,
809:One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. ~ Ramesh Menon,
810:Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
out of longing great wonders have been willed
they're only little tears darling let them spill
and lay your head upon my shoulder. ~ Nick Cave,
811:The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
812:The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard. ~ George Santayana,
813:The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. ~ W E B Du Bois,
814:The world, it seems, is full of people like this. Closet artists and aspiring authors—people longing to do meaningful, inspiring work. There’s just one problem: They’re not doing it. ~ Jeff Goins,
815:When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
816:[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child. ~ Robin McKinley,
817:My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please. ~ William Shakespeare,
818:So much longing.
So many lives
filled
with longing.

It's what stories―
all our stories―
are made of.

And what is longing
made of
except hope? ~ Marion Dane Bauer,
819:Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known. ~ Sri Chinmoy,
820:The first look was the deepest, watching her, with all her tricks and movements, fearfully, from across the room and feeling that hit of longing, and thinking she was out of my league. ~ Anonymous,
821:Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. ~ W E B Du Bois,
822:Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more. ~ Meher Baba,
823:We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another. ~ John Friend,
824:Birdsong brings relief
to my longing.

I am just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!

Please, universal soul, practice
some song, or something, through me! ~ Rumi,
825:But here’s the dilemma: Why is “how-to” so alluring when, truthfully, we already know “how to” yet we’re still standing in the same place longing for more joy, connection, and meaning? ~ Bren Brown,
826:I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model. ~ Saskia de Brauw,
827:If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. ~ V C Andrews,
828:I thought I longed for her, before. Now I begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, I fear it will never be assuaged. I think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. ~ Sarah Waters,
829:Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
830:The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
831:There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ~ Saul Bellow,
832:There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do. ~ Max Lucado,
833:Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
834:Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could. ~ Carol Oates,
835:He wanted to step away from the overtrodden pathways of thought that, painful as they were, had been too easy to follow again and again. It was, in short, a longing to begin anew. ~ Jennifer Delamere,
836:We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its
unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing,
but the brack of wanting what’s physical
to help us forget we are physical. ~ Cate Marvin,
837:I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
838:Life has a way of waking everybody up at some point. Everybody has that sudden, painful longing for yesterday, when they didn’t know how good they had it, just before the world fell in. ~ Kyle Idleman,
839:The thing to remember is that none of these will settle you in any enduring way. Human life is longing for unlimited expansion, and that is the only thing that will settle you for good. The ~ Sadhguru,
840:Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky.’ ‘Very ~ Terry Pratchett,
841:He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream. ~ Gautama Buddha,
842:I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests. ~ Penny Reid,
843:It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety. ~ John Steinbeck,
844:I was possessed by what the Germans call Sehnsucht, one of those wonderfully untranslatable words that combines longing and nostalgia for a home that one doesn’t even know is one’s home. ~ Rob Spillman,
845:She sings in deeply accented English, a song about a caged bird’s longing for freedom. Her voice soars and dips like a swallow in flight. Suddenly, or so it seems, the song is over. ~ Carrie Anne Noble,
846:To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. ~ Edgar Lee Masters,
847:Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard ~ Anne Lamott,
848:Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus. ~ Gautama Buddha,
849:I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day. ~ Philippa Gregory,
850:It’s funny how you can lie in bed next to the same person for years and he’ll never know you’re longing for somebody else, or that you don’t long for him. That you’ve never longed for him, ~ Carol Mason,
851:She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her. ~ Anne Tyler,
852:Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. ~ Adrienne Rich,
853:Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
854:Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
855:Heimthra' was the word used for longing: for home, for the past, for things to be as they once had been. Even the gods were said to know that yearning, from when the worlds were broken. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay,
856:I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable. ~ Mirabai Starr,
857:She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her. ~ Anne Tyler,
858:That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story . ~ Andrew Lam,
859:The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home. ~ Pico Iyer,
860:You are made of the dust of this earth, and you are made of the happiness of heaven, and you are flesh and you are spirit, and you are of two worlds longing for the home of forever and Him. ~ Ann Voskamp,
861:You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire. ~ Philippa Gregory,
862:Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent—yet here their parents are, gazing up at me, the doctor, with a fear-filled longing normally reserved for religious rapture. What ~ Harlan Coben,
863:[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
864:And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ~ Milan Kundera,
865:I squat on my heels by his side and move my palm over him - a finger's-width distant - so that I might feel my ache of longing for him as a deep and essential part of me before I let it go ~ Richard Zimler,
866:It’s like nothing else exists in the world right now except him, me, touching, exploring, longing, needing, sharing, having. So much for my straight-edge vow, because I am drunk on our ing’s. ~ Rachel Cohn,
867:No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
868:Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. ~ Derrick Bell,
869:The longing to touch / be touched. I feel gratitude when I touch someone—as well as affection, etc. The person has allowed me proof that I have a body—and that there are bodies in the world. ~ Susan Sontag,
870:We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.’” My lips rise at Jane. “‘ There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ~ Krista Ritchie,
871:At the end of this day there remains what was left behind of yesterday and what will be left behind of tomorrow: the insatiable, innumerable longing to be always the same and always other. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
872:Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed. ~ Rumi,
873:But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing ~ Abigail Thomas,
874:He kissed me at the base of my neck. His lips were full and soft, more than lips; they were the physical manifestation of every taste of longing, every tingle of desire, every scorch of ambition. ~ C D Reiss,
875:I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again. ~ Henri Barbusse,
876:More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent. ~ Mark Twain,
877:Recalling our band of firebrands to him fills me with longing. Those girls are married now, most of them, and the better part have moved away. But then, it was never the same with us, after. ~ Katherine Howe,
878:Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. ~ Derrick A Bell,
879:...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense. ~ Mary Doria Russell,
880:I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland. ~ Khaled Hosseini,
881:It’s a longing. And the kind of longing I have towards you is not just sweet or romantic. Even the mere thought of not having you in my life anymore makes me feel like my guts have been ripped out. ~ M V Kasi,
882:It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. ~ Suketu Mehta,
883:Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless. ~ Mabel Collins,
884:Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry. ~ Robert Bly,
885:thinking of her, he felt a sudden longing inside him. She had the face of a hawk, slim and cruel, with dark hair and eyes. Teresa was beautiful as a fine sword was beautiful; slim and hard. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
886:This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined. ~ Doris Lessing,
887:Because you know something won't ever happen, it doesn't stop you longing for it.
I know I'll never be able to speak or sing with my own voice.
I don't know why.
I wish I did. ~ Kevin Crossley Holland,
888:For the first time I can see this other longing--the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again. ~ Amie Kaufman,
889:My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
890:One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. ~ Tim Burton,
891:…struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother’s sorrow and his sister’s longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit’s skull. ~ Louise Penny,
892:That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire. ~ Albert Camus,
893:The cry is not yours. It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longing with your heart. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,
894:But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds. ~ Albert Einstein,
895:In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe ~ Jenny Han,
896:-It doesn’t 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 heart’s longing

The Invitation by Oriah ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer,
897:Longing for death and wishing for it weren’t exactly the same thing. Robert longed for a peaceful relinquishment from this life. What the man holding the gun offered was nothing of the sort. Robert ~ Drew Avera,
898:My brother and I were then longing for a new life, we dreamt about something enormous, about everything beautiful and sublime; such touching words with and still fresh, and a third without irony. ~ Joseph Frank,
899:Perhaps the gut issue is not how much theology we have studied or how much Scripture we have memorized. All that really matters is this: Have you experienced the furious longing of God or not? ~ Brennan Manning,
900:The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
901:there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea. ~ Carolyn Turgeon,
902:... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. ~ Anne Lamott,
903:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ~ Khalil Gibran,
904:Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for ever, though perhaps that we have lost it is all its value. ~ Barry Unsworth,
905:as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves ~ Bell Hooks,
906:as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves ~ bell hooks,
907:Hours of ashen wit, days of spatial longing, inner centuries of outer landscapes … And we did not ask ourselves what it was for, because we took pleasure in knowing that it wasn’t for anything. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
908:I don't remember my mother. She died when I was one year old. My distracted and callous sensibility comes from the lack of that warmth and from my useless longing after kisses I don't remember. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
909:If they became possessive and demanded exclusive attention, he disappeared completely, filling them with great misery and longing. They realized that bliss comes when love is shared with all. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,
910:You are my own. You are my own. He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her. ~ Mary Balogh,
911:The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. ~ Nicole Kidman,
912:And the black box in her arms whimpered itself to sleep with longing to be a normal person who is chosen, not a special person who is discovered. To be the kind of duck who gets included by wild swans ~ Nell Zink,
913:C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection. ~ Francis Collins,
914:Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief. ~ Jojo Moyes,
915:homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel,
916:In those eyes, I saw it, a longing for me and I knew the same thoughts were running through her mind, that any space between us was intolerable. Separation was against nature, against the Heavens. ~ Ashlan Thomas,
917:Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption. ~ N T Wright,
918:Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer. ~ Kathi Appelt,
919:She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again. ~ William Gibson,
920:The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love ~ Khalil Gibran,
921:An unanticipated longing washed over him; how he wished his father were here. For weeks he had kept this feeling at bay. Holding his son in his arms, he could no longer. Tears poured from his eyes. ~ Justin Cronin,
922:Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing. ~ Alain de Botton,
923:At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax. ~ Frank Pittman,
924:Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
Please universal soul, practice
some song or something through me!
~ Jalaluddin Rumi, Birdsong
,
925:His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing. ~ Tammara Webber,
926:In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for. ~ Alejandro Castro Espin,
927:In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre’s body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. Her voice called him to live again. But Lanre lay cold and dead. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
928:I wanted to tell you of a longing I have. I should like some one to torture me, marry me and then torture me, deceive me and go away. I don’t want to be happy.” “You are in love with disorder? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
929:Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. ~ Coco Chanel,
930:You can be the most grateful person in the world, but if you have not arrived at the place God wants you to be, to do the thing God has destined you and only you to do, that longing will never go away. ~ T D Jakes,
931:Baby,” Ty whispered against Zane’s lips. He had never felt this sort of heat and longing for another person. He didn’t know how Zane did it, but Ty knew that there would never be anyone else for him. ~ Abigail Roux,
932:Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. ~ Rick Warren,
933:Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City. ~ Louisa May Alcott,
934:The flesh of my body
Is nothing in my longing. What you think I want
Will be pure dust after hundreds of years and something from me be crying to something from you
High up in their air. ~ Robinson Jeffers,
935:They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. ~ Tim O Brien,
936:This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. ~ Albert Camus,
937:We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us. ~ Nina LaCour,
938:We're all my thoughts now suspect? The wounds and the wonders I'd carried from my youth-the dreams and desires I'd fostered for my future. . . the love and longing for the girl who'd stolen my heart? ~ Heidi Heilig,
939:When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery,
940:Because of unutterable love and joy in God, we tremble with the privilege of being in his presence and with an intense longing to honor him when we are there. We are deeply afraid of grieving him. ~ Timothy J Keller,
941:If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know. ~ Hans Christian Andersen,
942:I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . . ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
943:Leonard Cohen, even though when I met him I was too tongue-tied to say anything. Anyway, I’ve given away a number of copies of his Book of Longing, since it articulates a sense of the compassionate ~ Timothy Ferriss,
944:Swallowing the open field -- pheasant's cry [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

~ Yamei, Swallowing
,
945:We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted. ~ Edmund Morris,
946:you are today, you are me, because I see you, you are what [I'll be] tomorrow and I love you from the deck rail as when two ships pass, and there's a mysterious longing and regret in their passing. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
947:I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . . ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
948:... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart. ~ Marcel Proust,
949:O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16) ~ William Ernest Henley,
950:Run away with me—tonight.” Above them the brilliant moon beckoned, promising to light their way. Her voice sounded queer and far off, weak with longing and despair. “No runnin’ off like Ma done, Simon. ~ Laura Frantz,
951:So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man. ~ William Barclay,
952:...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longing we sometimes felt each other feel. With him life was routine; without him life was unbearable. ~ Harper Lee,
953:Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for ever, though it is perhaps that we have lost it is all its value. ~ Barry Unsworth,
954:At times I hardly can believe in you.
Except this ache,
this longing in my gut,
this emptiness which theorizes you
because if there is emptiness this deep,
there must be fullness somewhere. ~ Erica Jong,
955:Boys learn to cover up grief with anger; the more troubled the boy, the more intense the mask of indifference. Shutting down emotionally is the best defense when the longing for connection must be denied. ~ bell hooks,
956:Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback. ~ Louie Giglio,
957:He who seeks God with a longing heart can see Him, talk to Him as I am talking to you. Believe my words when I say that God can be seen. But ah! To whom am I saying these words? Who will believe me? ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
958:I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard. ~ William Joseph Burns,
959:I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
960:I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. ~ Alice Steinbach,
961:I was tired of waiting, tired of longing and hoping and wishing my brother would turn around and appreciate me. That Josef loved me, I had no doubt, but he, like so many others, had taken me for granted. ~ S Jae Jones,
962:She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
963:Slowly Tegan looked up and I saw wonderment on her face. It was of the variety only ever found in those young enough to yet have minds as open as the oceans and hearts longing to have proof of magic. ~ Paula Brackston,
964:The heart is like a candle
longing to be lit.
Torn from the beloved
it yearns to be whole again,
but you have to bear the pain.
You cannot learn about love.
Love appears on the wings of grace. ~ Rumi,
965:But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice. But certain moments were like reaching for something with a hand that wasn't there. ~ Carrie Vaughn,
966:Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves. ~ Jacob Nordby,
967:For most of our lives, sex seems fated to remain steeped in longing and awkwardness. Whatever the manuals may promise, there are really no solutions to the majority of the dilemmas sex creates for us. ~ Alain de Botton,
968:For Pythagoras as for Kepler, the two kinds of contemplation were twins; for them philosophy and religion were motivated by the same longing : to catch glimpses of eternity through the window of time. ~ Arthur Koestler,
969:I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi,
970:One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood. ~ Fred Rogers,
971:... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire. ~ Julian of Norwich,
972:I startled, as if awakened from a dream, and pulled my hand out of Philip's grip. The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
973:It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope. ~ N T Wright,
974:It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.'
Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live. ~ Robin Hobb,
975:No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself. ~ Marianne Williamson,
976:Rather let your longing be to glorify God by your life down here as long as He pleases, even though you live in the midst of toil and conflict and suffering. Leave Him to say when it is enough. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
977:The late evening crow of deep autumn longing suddenly cries out [2159.jpg] -- from The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

~ Yosa Buson, The late evening crow
,
978:What a blessing to love someone so much that you long for them at the core of your being. At the same time, when you are separated from that person, that longing is a torture I would not wish on anyone. ~ Steve Maraboli,
979:When Beth struggles for words it means she's on the verge of saying something worth hearing. Her emotions confuse her. Maybe tonight, she'll finally find the courage to say the words I'm longing to hear. ~ Katie McGarry,
980:And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate. ~ Joseph Conrad,
981:He searched her eyes, and there it was. A sense of time slowing down. A world melting away with only two souls remaining. An eternity of longing. Bittersweet and desperate.
Couldn’t she feel it, too? ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,
982:loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that. ~ Marilyn French,
983:McCandless was stirred by the austerity of the landscape, by its saline beauty. The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it, in sere geology and clean slant of light. ~ Jon Krakauer,
984:When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air? ~ Patrick Modiano,
985:And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,
986:I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity...I finally get it after all these month. That all those things combined are what letting go feels like. ~ Lauren Hammond,
987:In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves. ~ James Martin,
988:On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode. ~ Jenji Kohan,
989:She looked at him like he mattered, like she needed him, like all the happiness in her world was somehow bound to him, and it made a fierce longing, like he’d never experienced before, spring up within him. ~ Katy Regnery,
990:you fantasize too much. It will make you dream. Dreams will turn to hopes. Hopes will turn to longing. Longing will turn to despair. Despair will turn to laughter. And laughter will get you in trouble. ~ Stuart M Kaminsky,
991:Buddha's body accepts it... winter rain [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

~ Kobayashi Issa, Buddhas body
,
992:Cam had never seen anything like the mute longing that St. Vincent felt for his own wife. No one could fail to observe that whenever Evie entered the room, St.Vincent practically vibrated like a tuning fork. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
993:If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us? ~ Idries Shah,
994:My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep. ~ John Buchan,
995:those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before. ~ Malka Ann Older,
996:Your own dreams stand alone, longing to be fulfilled, and you wonder if it will ever happen. You must have faith. Just as the bus was a little late, so too can fulfilment of your desires come a bit late. ~ Stephen Richards,
997:Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
998:I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the former things. ~ Julie Klassen,
999:In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success. ~ Rani Mukerji,
1000:It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom. ~ Ted Dekker,
1001:It was slow but brief, and in those few seconds I felt that need, that sense of longing, that Aspen tended to inspire in me. One look at his emerald eyes, hungry and deep, and I felt my knees start to go shaky. ~ Kiera Cass,
1002:I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing of a pigeon. But that was in the afternoon. My only longing now was for a gun. Three ~ Jerome K Jerome,
1003:Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all. ~ Cormac McCarthy,
1004:Most people are not aware of the nature of their longing. When their longing finds unconscious expression, we call this greed, conquest, ambition. When their longing finds conscious expression, we call this yoga. ~ Sadhguru,
1005:Reliance soon became trust. Trust led to admiration. And then, before I was even aware it happened, admiration transformed into a longing that was at once terrific and terrible, and I realized I was in love. ~ Colleen Houck,
1006:The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all. ~ Bret Anthony Johnston,
1007:As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
1008:How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope? ~ Leigh Newman,
1009:Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die. ~ Lev Grossman,
1010:Mrs. Talbot’s voice carries like a freight train. Her words have the same dirty impact as a load of coal. I imagine Diana smiling, trying not to show her ignorance, and longing to know the rest of the story. ~ Julie Cantrell,
1011:Peter’s gone away on his training weekend. It’s only been one day and I’m already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July. Peter is my cocoa in a cup, my red mittens, my Christmas morning feeling. He ~ Jenny Han,
1012:There was so much feeling in the world. So much sadness. So much longing. So much joy. Everything had a soul. The petals of flowers. The mice of the field. The clouds and rain and the bare limbs of trees. All ~ Justin Cronin,
1013:They’re too tired for bathing, but they’re not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams. ~ Libba Bray,
1014:And what does he want?” I turn and face the serving girl. “The same thing we all want. He just won’t admit it.” I see longing in her eyes, and also anger, when she looks at Aladdin. “Freedom from the past.” I ~ Jessica Khoury,
1015:In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing. ~ Heinrich Heine,
1016:Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. ~ Barbara Kingsolver,
1017:The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting that truth with growing clarity, rejoicing in God’s incredible longing to rescue us in spite of everything. ~ Brennan Manning,
1018:She would have stopped him. She would have wished herself deaf, blind, made of unfeeling smoke. She would have stopped his words out of terror, longing. The way terror and longing had become indistinguishable. ~ Marie Rutkoski,
1019:So be careful how you listen; for whoever has [a teachable heart], to him more [understanding] will be given; and whoever does not have [a longing for truth], even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him. ~ Anonymous,
1020:What is hope, exactly? Is it the longing for something, such as the fulfilment of a dream? Or is it a sense of optimism within you, a sense of trust, an unwavering belief that everything is going to be okay? ~ Julianne MacLean,
1021:An ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore. ~ Elizabeth Strout,
1022:And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But also determined and as obstinate as a solid wall of shidan--stone. ~ Cameron Dokey,
1023:It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved. ~ Sigmund Freud,
1024:It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much longer than it had. ~ Michael Monroe,
1025:No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance! ~ Eric Ludy,
1026:Study the gospel — not like a seminarian studies doctrine to prepare for an exam, but the way you would study a sunset that has left you speechless, or the way a soldier longing for his fiancée studies her picture. ~ J D Greear,
1027:The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” He didn’t speak, mind you, of the “wish” or the “desire” or the “longing” to be appreciated. He said the “craving” to be appreciated. Here ~ Dale Carnegie,
1028:There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ~ Mark Kurlansky,
1029:We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. ~ Anne Lamott,
1030:When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. ~ Katherine Dunn,
1031:When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. ~ Katherine Dunn,
1032:Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give. ~ Michael Ventura,
1033:From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is in itself the very reverse of wishful thinking: it is more like thoughtful wishing. ~ C S Lewis,
1034:I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older. ~ Spike Jonze,
1035:I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1036:I thought about that as we waited for the ghouls to pass. I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend. ~ Rick Riordan,
1037:Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it. ~ John Owen,
1038:Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. ~ Albert Camus,
1039:She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return.
And he did. ~ Kate Forsyth,
1040:That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into the pouch of some benevolent kangaroo who would take me bounding, protected, through life. ~ Ariel Levy,
1041:You stare at your dream from a distance, longing, sighing, seeing what you deem is a warning of IMPOSSIBLE. But if you would squint real hard you would see the truth; the sign correctly reads 'I'M POSSIBLE. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
1042:I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole. ~ Nicole Lyons,
1043:In one gourd
Longing vaster than the heavens
In one gourd
Waiting longer than night
On top of the gate
On top of the roof
A lantern is lit

A woman dressed and ready eagerly awaits her love. ~ Kim Dong Hwa,
1044:I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well...In the morning when I stirred, I knew...I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not alone. ~ Tosca Lee,
1045:Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die. ~ Lev Grossman,
1046:Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. ~ Robert Southey,
1047:stopped. Within the stillness, I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be. I felt the longing more solemnly than anything I’d ever felt, even more than my old innate loneliness. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
1048:[…] there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf. ~ Robert Walser,
1049:There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing. ~ Ada Leverson,
1050:A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began. ~ Marguerite Duras,
1051:A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again. ~ Christine Fonseca,
1052:I watch
myself destroy the bodies of others.
& my wetness blooms across the sheets.
Maybe this is why I wake up sad.
Longing for my other body only to rise,
drowned in an echo of its silhouette. ~ Fatimah Asghar,
1053:One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing. ~ Richard Ford,
1054:She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it. ~ Mary Balogh,
1055:time apart has a way of creating distance – more than the mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much. ~ Jamie Ford,
1056:But an ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore. ~ Elizabeth Strout,
1057:He banished all memories and, with them, the longing for a world that had gifted him those memories. He narrowed his willpower into a knife-edge, razor sharp and formidable. At knifepoint, he kept madness at bay. ~ Shubhangi Swarup,
1058:I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines. ~ Thomas Lynch,
1059:It turned out missing someone never became easier, it just became quieter. You learned to live with the longing pain inside you. You mourned the moments you’d shared and allowed yourself to hurt sometimes, too. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
1060:Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book. ~ Dinty W Moore,
1061:From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . . ~ David Nicholls,
1062:How can I stay awake even when it hurts? What might those secrets at dawn be? Why am I so afraid to slow down and listen? What will it take for my longing for wakefulness to become stronger than my fear of change? ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
1063:I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed a strong belief that it’s just dramatic bullshit meant to entice readers. ~ Jessica Park,
1064:Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits. ~ Anatoli Boukreev,
1065:Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That’s the real pain. ~ T Greenwood,
1066:THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION

Sometimes, exhausted
with toil and endeavour,
I wish I could sleep
for ever and ever;
but then this reflection
my longing allays:
I shall be doing it
one of these days. ~ Piet Hein,
1067:What I feel is his need and desire and longing, crashing against me like waves against the shore, calling to those same unwanted feelings I hold for him. And always that inexplicable connection that draws me to him. ~ Robin LaFevers,
1068:When acted upon, hunger is a powerful emotion that is both exploitive and destructive to others. People mistakenly identify this desperate feeling with love and think of this primal longing as genuine affection. ~ Robert W Firestone,
1069:In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,
1070:So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness - self-preservation of an uglier stripe. And thus did they harden themselves, by choosing to meet hate with hate. ~ Laini Taylor,
1071:That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things. ~ Rob Bell,
1072:The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. ~ Albert Einstein,
1073:What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls. ~ Alice Hoffman,
1074:You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1075:Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back. ~ Mitch Albom,
1076:Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back. ~ Mitch Albom,
1077:Ember,” he said, his voice husky.
She liked the way he said her name, especially at that very moment. “Yes, Jack?” she answered; her own words sounded throaty and thick and full of longing.
“This was a mistake. ~ Colleen Houck,
1078:Love and the need of mastery, joy and the longing for greatness
Rage like a fire unquenchable burning the world and creating,
Nor till humanity dies will they sink in the ashes of Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,
1079:Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution. This emotion is one of the strongest reasons why wars continue. And ~ Doris Lessing,
1080:The longing for solitude is a deeply romantic passion. But then writing is a romantic thing to do, predicated on desire, urgency, and an ideal of human connection, hardly available in what we wistfully call real life. ~ Patricia Hampl,
1081:There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. ~ Ian McEwan,
1082:There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. ~ Ian Mcewan,
1083:They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1084:Why this longing for Life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard, and to suffer sore, till Old Age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. ~ Jack London,
1085:Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back ~ Morrie Schwartz,
1086:If she could make this journey three times a week while seven-year-old Sierra was at school---then she could get through another long, dark night. She could face the empty place in the bed beside her, face the longing ~ Karen Kingsbury,
1087:Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” Carter said, his pale eyes full of worry. “. . . But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. ~ Sarah Smarsh,
1088:Expecting his usual aloof expression, she saw instead that his smoky eyes were locked on her face and the walls that he usually hid behind were gone. There was something that looked almost like longing in his expression. ~ Kiki Hamilton,
1089:He knew the hollow longing and guilt were growing stronger and that there was no money or memory to hold on to. There were no facts to grip and the fictions were worn out. He then realised it was time to die, and he did. ~ Brian Catling,
1090:Do you feel it? I want to ask her.
Do you still feel what we had together?
Did you ever think of me on cold nights?
Did you feel that longing in your bones for just one more moment, one more chance?
~ Karina Halle,
1091:If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553). ~ Richard Baxter,
1092:I looked to my boyfriend to satisfy my Godbreathed longing for acceptance. I had my first glimpse of what it might feel like to be loved in a romantic way. It didn't take long for me to become addicted to that feeling. ~ Emily P Freeman,
1093:Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings. ~ Etty Hillesum,
1094:Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn't even known it was there. ~ Anne Ursu,
1095:The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. ~ A W Tozer,
1096:When you see a beautiful woman in the street, don’t look at her hatefully as if you’re about to kill her and don’t exhibit excessive longing either; just give her a little smile, avert your eyes, and walk on [1974]. Taking ~ Orhan Pamuk,
1097:It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another. ~ Rachel Weisz,
1098:It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what. ~ John Galsworthy,
1099:Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other. ~ Dan B Allender,
1100:Don’t offer me love I seek disinterest and denial Tenderness makes my skin crawl Understanding is vile When you offer me happiness You offer too much My ideal is a long-lasting longing For someone whom I cannot quite touch ~ Carrie Fisher,
1101:The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. ~ Oscar Wilde,
1102:And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay. ~ Gautama Buddha,
1103:God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. ~ Rumi,
1104:I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. ~ Warsan Shire,
1105:She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them together and she takes his hand, her eyes come up to him and they gaze at each other with absolute longing. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1106:Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there---days when we were younger and fresher than we are now. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
1107:the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it, ~ Gustav Meyrink,
1108:They both groaned into that first kiss. Four months and more of longing released in a frantic rush that started out fast and rolled into something more, faster than the gathering storm and threatening to do far more damage. And ~ S E Jakes,
1109:When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand. (Maria Magdalena Theotoky) ~ Robertson Davies,
1110:Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
1111:At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart. ~ Cornelius Plantinga,
1112:Attracting Love Love comes when we least expect it, when we are not looking for it. Hunting for love never brings the right partner. It only creates longing and unhappiness. Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us. ~ Louise L Hay,
1113:The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
1114:The vitality of a human life can be measured by the intensity of one's desire. We know we are truly alive when we experience a drive for the "more" life. Human desire or longing is the source of our spiritual energy. ~ Richard R Gaillardetz,
1115:I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. ~ Pico Iyer,
1116:Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation. ~ Arthur Kleinman,
1117:The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike. ~ Adrian McKinty,
1118:He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. ~ Milan Kundera,
1119:Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again. ~ Frederick Buechner,
1120:She had the look. it didn't have anything to do with brains or taste or character. It had to do with how you saw history, the history of the world around you and the history of yourself. It had to do with a longing for innocence. ~ James Gunn,
1121:Something shifts in my chest, and a longing pulls at the very core of me. I want that: the closeness, the overwhelming strength of emotion, the knowledge that no matter what life throws their way, they can handle it – together. ~ Talli Roland,
1122:The Buffalo nipple' became a secret phrase that referred not only to this specific event, but to any misguided action that a person might perform in life out of longing or weakness or fear, or pretty much out of anything human. ~ Meg Wolitzer,
1123:There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species. ~ David McCullough,
1124:Uqba ibn Muslim said: ‘No quality in a man is dearer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than the longing to meet Him. At no moment is a man closer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than when he sinks down in prostration. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
1125:What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not stay forever. Rage turns into sorrow; sorrow turns into tears; tears may fall for a long time, but then the sun comes out. ~ Jack Kornfield,
1126:Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. ~ Ravi Zacharias,
1127:And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. ~ Sela Ward,
1128:Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.”
The Girl You Left Behind ~ Jojo Moyes,
1129:Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite. ~ Judy Tatelbaum,
1130:I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1131:I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1132:Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream. ~ James Patterson,
1133:One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1134:The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity? ~ Rajneesh,
1135:There’s a softness to Raffe’s look that I’ve never seen before. It’s not that I see naked longing or tender love or anything like that. And if I did, it would just be in my messed-up fantasies.

Not that I fantasize about him. ~ Susan Ee,
1136:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,
1137:It is so that these impious ones wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify their yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring them to their desired end, not by exhaustion but by attainment. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,
1138:It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been poured a measure of longing, a measure of discontent, a measure of fatigue, a dash of bitterness, and pouf, there he stood. ~ Wallace Stegner,
1139:The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ~ Alva Myrdal,
1140:The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. ~ A W Tozer,
1141:To work magic is to dare. Finding our Divine Work in the world is a chance to risk what feels known. We must learn to trust intuition, and listen to the longing in our souls. To find your soul's work, follow your heart's desire. ~ T Thorn Coyle,
1142:Boatfinder, tell me, from the frozen time into the flowing time, is there a bridge?’ His smile was wistful, filled with longing. ‘There is.’ ‘But you cannot cross it.’ ‘No.’ ‘Because it’s burning.’ ‘Yes, witch, the bridge burns. ~ Steven Erikson,
1143:But each morning, when Eva wakes, she knows exactly who he is, and the knowledge of it leaves her with a faint, peculiar sense of longing: peculiar because it is for a man, a life, that she has never known, and surely never will. ~ Laura Barnett,
1144:He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread of his shoulders, tapering down to the narrow thrust of his hips, made my ovaries ache deep in my belly. ~ Emme Rollins,
1145:In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1146:People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future. ~ Stefan Heym,
1147:Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]

Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me. ~ Anne Lister,
1148:She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread ~ Anne Tyler,
1149:Being watched in the act of coitus is disconcerting, even for the most brazen. Yet, more than merely making the experience tolerable, masks reveal an innate longing to play to the crowd, to be naked, sweating, screaming in orgasm. ~ Chloe Thurlow,
1150:delete the past and move on to the next moment. To linger in the longing, the loss, the yearning is a way of feeling the rich and embroidered texture of life, the torn cloth of our world that is endlessly being ripped and rewoven ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
1151:Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. ~ Alain de Botton,
1152:even poorly planted rice plants slowly, slowly... green! [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

~ Kobayashi Issa, even poorly planted
,
1153:I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive. ~ Piper Kerman,
1154:I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed,
racing and chasing like a frightened horse, straight for the precipitous abyss, spurred on by dread
and longing to the consummation of death. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1155:There's something about the smells of your childhood, isn't there? ... You still remember those small sublime joys with an ache of longing because there's no getting it back, is there? You cannot return to a state of innocence. ~ Beatriz Williams,
1156:To be in pilgrimage is to have not yet arrived. There is a longing in prayer that is never fulfilled in this life, and sometimes the deep satisfactions we are looking for in prayer feel few and far between. Prayer is a journey. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1157:Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even I, in my terrible difference, wanted nothing less than purpose and meaning. Chapter 8, pgs 35-36 ~ Dean Koontz,
1158:From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes. ~ Swami Vivekananda,
1159:I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home. ~ James Taylor,
1160:No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur. ~ Martin Buber,
1161:She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden’s body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She ~ Katy Regnery,
1162:The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing to starboard
like a ship in a bottle
Human longing goes on
Loneliness a curse
Innocence persists
Ignorance persists ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
1163:What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better way to keep people longing for childhood than to paint a picture of adulthood no right-minded soul could ever want? ~ Susan Neiman,
1164:Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose. ~ John Irving,
1165:Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name. ~ Judy Collins,
1166:You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. ~ Nelson Algren,
1167:all the things we think are important really aren’t, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death. ~ Amos Oz,
1168:It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. ~ Pierre Loti,
1169:Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope. ~ George Eliot,
1170:The phrase “Old Soul” is the closest many can come to describing those who feel like they have seen and done it all before, who can see through the lies and illusions of existence, and who experience a tired longing to “return home. ~ Aletheia Luna,
1171:Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much. ~ Jamie Ford,
1172:In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, a depression, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. ~ David Richo,
1173:People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. ~ Bodhidharma,
1174:After years of searching, years of longing, years of hoping and then giving up, I’d found special in Carnal and in Tate. Special wasn’t exactly perfect but, even so, it was pretty fucking spectacular and it was finally, finally mine. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1175:But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him. ~ Karen Russell,
1176:In his eyes I could see the same love, the same longing. I wanted to kiss him; I wanted him to kiss me, and I could feel his longing so clearly I could not distinguish between my wanting and his. And in his arms I felt safe, warm, alive. ~ Kailin Gow,
1177:I think everyone can understand longing for home. But I realized that the strange anxiousness I’ve always felt to be elsewhere was called fernweh. I have fernweh. How most people long for the familiar, I’ve always longed for the unknown. ~ Penny Reid,
1178:On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. ~ Isaac Asimov,
1179:There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star. ~ John Steinbeck,
1180:A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1181:A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages… ~ Hermann Hesse,
1182:If we are driven by the Spirit, we are driven toward God and toward fellowship with one another. If we walk according to the flesh, our appetites start to control us. Pornography promises to address a real longing with a fake answer. ~ Russell D Moore,
1183:That counselor said ghosts – she used finger quotes around the word – are often manifestations of a guilty conscience. Check. Or sometimes of a deep inner longing. Check. She said the heart overcomes mind. Hope or fear overcomes reason. ~ Jandy Nelson,
1184:Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part. ~ Friedrich Schleiermacher,
1185:If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times. ~ Oskar Schlemmer,
1186:It's my first glimpse at my old self, and my heart constricts in pure longing for the girl I was. She's catty and shallow, but only because she hasn't learned how to like herself. How can she not see how beautiful she is, how special? ~ Cristin Terrill,
1187:She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave her seemed to reveal the depths of his lustful, longing, bitter soul. "Good-bye, Miss Fielding," he said hoarsely. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1188:There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. Just as words cannot describe what I feel right now, something between envy and shame, and between compassion and disappointment. “We ~ Carrie Anne Noble,
1189:When we enter the presence of the Lord, we must remember that we are sinners and have merited only the righteous wrath of our Creator. Thus, we should come before Him in a spirit of repentance, with sorrow for sin and longing for His mercy. ~ Anonymous,
1190:You stand as rocks stand
to which the sea reaches
in transparent waves of longing;
they are marred, finally;
everything fixed is marred.
And the sea triumphs,
like all that is false,
all that is fluent and womanly. ~ Louise Gl ck,
1191:A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages... ~ Hermann Hesse,
1192:Betsy and I are going to try as hard as we can not to put the burden of that longing on each other,” I said. “Instead, we will comfort each other in the longing and even love it for what it is, a promise that God will someday fulfill us. ~ Donald Miller,
1193:For the moment she was caught between the two worlds, neither one thing nor another. She would be sorry to let the former depart and yet she was longing for the latter to arrive: a new name and with it a new world and with it a new life. ~ Amanda Grange,
1194:Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
1195:Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing. ~ Jon Krakauer,
1196:Dusk"

The shadow covers the outer petals
The wind makes off with the final gestures of leaves
The foreign, now twice-silenced sea
inside a summer pitied for its lights

A longing from here
A memory from there ~ Alejandra Pizarnik,
1197:From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions – fear, desire, anger – serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost, and I felt its futility now. ~ David Nicholls,
1198:God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord. ~ N T Wright,
1199:He bent down and his kiss was so full of longing that tears pricked my eyes again. When another one rolled down my cheek, he wiped it away.
“No more of that,” he said.
“I’m just--”
“I know.” His lips moved to my ear. “So am I. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1200:In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs. ~ William Stolzenburg,
1201:Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him. ~ C S Lewis,
1202:Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel,
1203:There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place. ~ John Steinbeck,
1204:And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. ~ Khalil Gibran,
1205:Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected. ~ Ellen Glasgow,
1206:The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. ~ Josiah Royce,
1207:What if, after all of his longing to get out and get on with his life, in his comfortable middle age he would look back at this time and realize that his years in the army were the most vivid, the most startlingly real of his entire life? ~ Siobhan Fallon,
1208:Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought. ~ John Adams,
1209:A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself. ~ Cornelia Funke,
1210:As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" This is deep calling unto deep, and the longing heart will understand it. ~ A W Tozer,
1211:His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending. ~ Juliet Marillier,
1212:I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
1213:Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt,
1214:Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am. ~ Stephen Levine,
1215:Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound. ~ Juliet Marillier,
1216:. . . for, however old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection. ~ Charlotte Bront,
1217:I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing of twenty years spilling down our faces. ~ Diana Gabaldon,
1218:It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place in the heart of every wife that loves, until the end of time; and it shall be called by my name. ~ Mark Twain,
1219:Loneliness as a desire for closeness, for joining up, joining in, joining together, for gathering what has otherwise been sundered, abandoned, broken or left in isolation. Loneliness as a longing for integration, for a sense of feeling whole. ~ Olivia Laing,
1220:Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ. ~ Eugene H Peterson,
1221:We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching-
Longing-
Waiting-
For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo’s ~ Steven A Williams,
1222:Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. ~ John Eldredge,
1223:He had killed the Bowman Peter Williams, and years later had been tricked into eating his shrivelled head, which seated its longing deep in his marrow and its waking in the empty ventricles of the monster’s leather soul. Now it was waking up. ~ Brian Catling,
1224:I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself? ~ Iris Murdoch,
1225:Isn’t it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on our tongues, rather than invite the acrid tang of doubt, and undue longing, and the heart-stab of a freshly sundered bond? ~ Chang rae Lee,
1226:I watch in awe as Raffe pummels Beliel with blows so fast they're almost a blur. The force of the emotion behind those blows is immense. For the first time, he doesn't bother to hide his frustration and anger, or his longing for the wings he lost. ~ Susan Ee,
1227:some like to imagine
a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars,

mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light,
biting her lip of we teeter at some ledge. longing
to sweep us to her breast, she hopes for the best. ~ Tracy K Smith,
1228:That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now. ~ Chogyam Trungpa,
1229:The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. ~ Agatha Christie,
1230:Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet. ~ Aldous Huxley,
1231:I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could. ~ John Haines,
1232:Morning dawned bright and sparkling after the rain. The air was keen and crisp. The cedars glistened as if decked with diamonds. Pan felt the sweet scent of the damp dust, and it gave him a thrill and a longing for the saddle and the open country. ~ Zane Grey,
1233:The longing was easy enough to understand: it was what the Greeks called nostos, a word we translated as ‘homesickness’, though she had never liked that word. It seemed very English to try to pass off an emotional state as a sort of stomach bug. ~ Rachel Cusk,
1234:Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon. ~ Clive Barker,
1235:As we saw above, marriage is a creational institution ordained by God meant for the furtherance of the human race, the stability of society, and the satisfaction of deep longing for relationship and intimacy that exists between men and women. ~ Russell D Moore,
1236:But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine. ~ David Levithan,
1237:God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note. ~ Rumi,
1238:Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ. In ~ Eugene H Peterson,
1239:So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it. ~ Karen Joy Fowler,
1240:That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after. ~ Megan Smith,
1241:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
1242:Even as a little girl, Irma Leopold had wanted above all things to see everyone happy with the cake of their choice. Sometimes it became an almost unbearable longing, as when she had looked down at Mademoiselle asleep on the grass this afternoon. ~ Joan Lindsay,
1243:Myrnin froze, staring at her. He really was amazing, she thought; when he had that light in his eyes, it was possible to see past the crazy behavior and clothing chaos and recognize him as just…beautiful. The longing in his face was breathtaking. ~ Rachel Caine,
1244:She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. ‘I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It’s about the bomb. It’s a fantastic story. ~ Ian Fleming,
1245:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
1246:There’s always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night’s sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing. ~ Paul Russell,
1247:This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1248:Addictions are based on a longing for presence. Addicts somehow believe they can live in the presence of perfection: the perfect body, the perfect man or woman, the perfect nirvana. Addictions are archetypally based on the search for perfection. ~ Marion Woodman,
1249:It’s this stupid, desperate longing—this rose-colored-glasses way of looking backward—that makes it hard to concentrate on gymnastics, yet somehow makes everything I want seem more possible, too. Like maybe if I was happy once, I can get there again. ~ Anonymous,
1250:Longing is like the seed
That wrestles in the ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found.

The hour and the zone
Each circumstance unknown,
What constancy must be achieved
Before it see the sun! ~ Emily Dickinson,
1251:Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing. ~ Cormac McCarthy,
1252:Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies. ~ William Moulton Marston,
1253:Surprisingly he wasn’t jealous because his brother was kissing the girl he’d loved in high school and had hoped to marry. Instead it was the happiness they shared that he found himself longing for...

Will I ever find that kind of happiness? ~ Nancee Cain,
1254:There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been. ~ Paul Ric ur,
1255:Waldenlust.” This longing takes several forms: fantasies of the freedom that dispossession would bring; nostalgia for earlier, supposedly simpler times; and reverence for the primitive, which is assumed to be more authentic and closer to nature. ~ Gretchen Rubin,
1256:Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. ~ Seneca,
1257:He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin." Joanna about Ben ~ Vicki Pettersson,
1258:He was seized with longing so intense it ached in his chest, he wanted it always to keep, to drag out secretly and study it like a yellowed photograph, and he thought I am home, this is me, this is where I have been rambling down to all these years. ~ William Gay,
1259:Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs. ~ Heather Brewer,
1260:At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity. ~ J D McClatchy,
1261:Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace. ~ Francis J Beckwith,
1262:The Music of Negro religion is that plaintive rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and longing yet born on American soil. ~ W E B Du Bois,
1263:Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. ~ Donna Tartt,
1264:In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden. ~ Dorothy Richardson,
1265:Sitting watching Anna’s eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The ~ Emma Donoghue,
1266:Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand. ~ Isaac Marion,
1267:That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,
1268:Had a million things to say and none I knew how. I stepped forward and kissed him, like people kiss at airports, full of love and desperate longing, kisses that must imprint themselves on their recipient for the journey, for the weeks, the months ahead. ~ Jojo Moyes,
1269:Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else.
Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs. ~ Heather Brewer,
1270:Augustine insisted that this longing is as true for Christ-followers as it is for anyone else: “If I should ask you why you believe in Christ, and why you have become Christians, every man will answer truthfully by saying: for the sake of a happy life. ~ Randy Alcorn,
1271:Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart. ~ Charles Wesley,
1272:Leaders should never apologize for the strength of feeling that accompanies their God-given visions. God designed leaders to experience their longing, their desire, and their drive deeply, and to express it fully. And when they do, they energize others. ~ Bill Hybels,
1273:Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere. ~ Meindert DeJong,
1274:Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of. ~ Elizabeth Hand,
1275:Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. ~ Theodor W Adorno,
1276:He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her. He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, twisted by confusion, withered by sadness. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1277:If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in. ~ Cyndi Lauper,
1278:I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. ~ Albert Camus,
1279:My reading was always a kind of living,” he explained later, “a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come to know well and sometimes be friends with. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,
1280:Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust, violence and even affection- all of it seething and bleeding and writhing, like a pit of rats eating one another alive. ~ Laini Taylor,
1281:I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
1282:- it was only then that I understood how longing for a place can take you over so that you can do nothing except return, as I did, return and pick at the city, scraping together bits of the place you once knew. But what do you do if you can never return? ~ Ahdaf Soueif,
1283:Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. ~ Aldous Huxley,
1284:The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the "and" lies our great woe. If we omit the "and" we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing. ~ A W Tozer,
1285:The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the “and” lies our great woe. If we omit the “and” we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing. ~ A W Tozer,
1286:Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1287:It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes. ~ Arianna Huffington,
1288:Suffering often changes our ambitions. Before his conversion, Saul cared primarily about his reputation and perfecting his religiosity. The transformed Paul left reputation behind and instead boasted in weakness, longing to suffer and share in Christ’s death ~ Anonymous,
1289:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
1290:Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.' ~ Robert Bly,
1291:Have you any idea how boring it is living here?” “Probably not,” said Mort, adding with genuine longing, “I’ve heard about boredom but I’ve never had a chance to try it.” “It’s dreadful.” “If it comes to that, excitement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1292:You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1293:Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence. ~ Mark Helprin,
1294:Slim young women were swathed in chic black dresses, here to attend a ceremony in one of the hotel’s many reception rooms. They wore small but expensive accessories, like vampire finches in search of blood, longing for a hint of light they could reflect. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1295:But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester—perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else’s home? ~ Omar El Akkad,
1296:/Farsi & Turkish Not only do the thirsty seek water, The water too thirsts for the thirsty. [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

~ Jalaluddin Rumi, The Thirsty
,
1297:I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles, but your mercy was so much the greater according as you let nothing prove sweet to me that was apart from yourself. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,
1298:Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of thinking about other things. Since the object of love is that particular person, being separated brings about a longing and pain. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
1299:"Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfied longing for something beyond the present — a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened." ~ Alexander von Humboldt (Cosmos, 1845),
1300:I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ~ Jack Dee,
1301:It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent. ~ Maureen Corrigan,
1302:One feeling at least grows stronger in me with each year that passes—a longing to see the cranes. At this time of year I stand on a hill and watch the sky. Today they did not come. There were only wild geese. Geese would be beautiful if cranes did not exist. ~ Julian Barnes,
1303:The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again. ~ Albert Camus,
1304:And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you’re closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing. ~ Edeet Ravel,
1305:I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group. ~ Lily King,
1306:If you want to win the war for attention, don’t try to say ‘no’ to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say ‘yes’ to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.” For ~ Cal Newport,
1307:I like longing
climbing up the railings of sound and color
catching into my open mouth
the frozen scent
I like my loneliness
suspended higher
than a bridge
embracing the sky with its arms
and my love walking barefoot over the snow ~ Halina Po wiatowska,
1308:In their way the brigands, dressed in torn peasant costume with Bourbon rosettes, or in more gorgeous apparel, were avengers and champions of the people. If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them. ~ Eric Hobsbawm,
1309:Stumble on joy"--the phrase had knocked something loose in him. Joy: What did it feel like? Trying to remember, he was overcome by longing. He knew satisfaction, the exhilaration of success, contentment, and happiness to the extent he could identify it. But joy? ~ Amy Waldman,
1310:The worst of it is, that we can believe God about everything except the present pressing trial. This is folly. Come, my soul, shake off such sinfulness, and trust thy God with the load, the labour, the longing of this present. This done, all is done. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1311:In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay. ~ Christos Tsiolkas,
1312:Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1313:Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say that our longing for God is God’s longing for us. In this way, prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
1314:The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not made up of two isolated, individual experiences, but a genuine union. ~ Rollo May,
1315:You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1316:Don't say that. I cherish every moment i've had with you. Every single one, okay? Even when we fight. Don't wish it away. Maybe we wouldn't be us if things had been different. And i want this...the way it is between us now is worth all of the waiting and longing. ~ Kahlen Aymes,
1317:He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them,—almost sick with longing for that one half-hour—that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his—to come once again. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell,
1318:I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,
1319:Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart. ~ Keshub Chandra Sen,
1320:That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them. ~ L J Hayward,
1321:The foundation of the furious longing of God is the Father who is the originating Lover, the Son who is the full self-expression of that Love, and the Spirit who is the original and inexhaustible activity of that Love, drawing the created universe into itself. ~ Brennan Manning,
1322:This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection. ~ Abbi Glines,
1323:We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
1324:[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate. ~ Elisabeth Elliot,
1325:Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.” ========== Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) ~ Anonymous,
1326:Do you know the German word, sehnsucht," he asked.

"Yes," I answered. "The idea of an inconsolable longing for what we don't understand. You believe that longing is for God. Or heaven. And that we can confuse it with longing for someone or something else. ~ Patti Callahan,
1327:Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. ~ Sigrid Undset,
1328:For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1329:The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams. ~ Alain de Botton,
1330:The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience. ~ V S Pritchett,
1331:A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again. ~ Walter Pater,
1332:Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. ~ Shari Arison,
1333:I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing. ~ Isabel Allende,
1334:Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are. ~ William Shakespeare,
1335:My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests. ~ Albert Einstein,
1336:Paradox is the essence of living. Perhaps the greatest paradox in the human psyche is our longing for union, for peace, for solutions, though experience has taught us that it is our conflicts and our failures which are in fact our points of growth. ~ Irene Claremont de Castillejo,
1337:Practically every desire that has become part of human nature, from sexuality to aggression, from a longing for security to a receptivity to change, has been exploited as a source of social control by politicians, churches, corporations, and advertisers. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
1338:The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
1339:The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. Where this ideal has come from I have no idea, and as I now see it before me, in black and white, it almost seems perverse. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
1340:We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes... ~ Madeleine L Engle,
1341:When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping. ~ Richard K Morgan,
1342:He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through. ~ Mark Helprin,
1343:I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me. ~ Jon Foreman,
1344:Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of things, but it tells you something different. Something happy might be going on, but there can be this little sad tinge underneath that tells you something. ~ Fred Schepisi,
1345:The ancients rightly called internal longing for wholeness “fate” or “destiny,” the “inner voice” or the “call of the gods.” It has an inevitability, authority, and finality to it, and was at the heart of almost all mythology. Almost all heroes heard an inner voice. ~ Richard Rohr,
1346:"Where does the guilt lie? With the mother, or with the son? Probably with both. The unsatisfied longing of the son for life and the world ought to be taken seriously. There is in him a desire to touch reality, to embrace the earth and fructify the field of the world." ~ Carl Jung,
1347:His being had rested full of adoration for the glory which unifies all distances in such beauty and sorrow that one no longer wishes for anything–in unconquerable adversity, in unquenchable longing he felt that life had nevertheless been worth while living. ~ Halld r Kiljan Laxness,
1348:immediately i felt my body crumbling, shaking so fast that the very atoms of my being seemed to dissolve, and then i was dissolving too, my emotions shattering me, unitl there was nothing left of me but silver dust- and a final longing stare of awe,of passion, of love. ~ Kailin Gow,
1349:This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1350:This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world. ~ Ai Weiwei,
1351:What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love? ~ Donald Miller,
1352:What is love?" she asked...
"It is a perpetual longing for someone that gets into your blood. That someone lives inside your head, haunting you, filling your soul with dreams-dreams that could well turn to tragedy were they never to be fulfilled," he reaplied... ~ Marion Chesney,
1353:Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality. ~ E L Doctorow,
1354:In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1355:Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science. ~ Mark Z Danielewski,
1356:Of course I long for her, but in honesty I must say that I would rather long for her than have her continuously present. Travel agents assure us that 'getting there is half the fun'; I might say with at least equal truth that longing is some of the best of loving. ~ Robertson Davies,
1357:She dreamed a thousand dreams of those sunlit regions and was consumed with longing for this other and richer self, forgetting—what is so easily forgotten—that even the fairest dreams and the deepest longings do not add an inch to the stature of the human soul. ~ Jens Peter Jacobsen,
1358:They're talking as if nothing's happened, Soledad said to herself, and the jealousy ran from her ears into her heart, where it settled into her aorta and reshaped itself as longing and desire, the kind of want that makes one capable of poor but magnanimous decisions. ~ Derek Palacio,
1359:We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
1360:What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
1361:It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing. ~ Carrie Mae Weems,
1362:On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things. ~ James Allen,
1363:there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness ~ e e cummings,
1364:To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern. ~ George MacDonald,
1365:You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
1366:Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself. ~ Anne Lamott,
1367:A Shoe
A shoe
with its mouth open
lay on the road
longing for a draught of water.
A dog came,
shattered the shoe
and
took it to a stream.
Is thirst quenched?
A brick said to a stone:
'You are a part
I am the whole.'
~ Dina Nath Nadim,
1368:I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart. ~ H V Morton,
1369:In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic. ~ Chogyam Trungpa,
1370:I try to remember when time's measure
painfully chafes, for instance when autumn

flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing
to stay - how everything lives, shifting

from one bright vision to another, forever
in these momentary pastures. ~ Mary Oliver,
1371:Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day. It was the homesick look of the children who were lost in the chaos of warfare, witnessing death and disaster, longing for a meaningful touch. ~ Kien Nguyen,
1372:there in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest for fear it might be thought mere curiosity. Janie full of that oldest human longing—self-revelation. —ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD ~ Janet Mock,
1373:Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster. ~ Gerhard Richter,
1374:I experienced the happiest moment of my life when you took me in your arms as your wife and pressed me to your heart; when I even think of that moment my heart beats madly and I have a terrible longing for you, and I think I would hug you to death if I had you here now. ~ Hannah Pakula,
1375:I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need . ~ R S Thomas,
1376:In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object. ~ Alexander Rodchenko,
1377:[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1378:Whoever knows the world as something to be utilized knows God the same way. His prayers are a way of unburdening himself– and fall into the ears of the void. He– and not the 'atheist' who from the night and longing of his garret window addresses the nameless– is godless. ~ Martin Buber,
1379:It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things? ~ Kate Morton,
1380:I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself? ~ Alfred Stieglitz,
1381:Right now we are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. ~ A W Tozer,
1382:This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us. ~ Jackson Pearce,
1383:Longing, because I miss her. I miss talking to her as me.
Lust greater than I've ever known, because we're like this, it's the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and it's a need that's in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes. ~ Penelope Douglas,
1384:There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Why ~ James Fadiman,
1385:This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now -- it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us. ~ Jackson Pearce,
1386:This morning I heard: the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly, it was intimate, private, longing. The words, quiet and simple as they were, were strong, deep tosses that landed close, and loud. ~ Dagoberto Gilb,
1387:How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness? ~ Erich Fromm,
1388:Longing is like the Seed
Longing is like the Seed
That wrestles in the Ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found.
The Hour, and the Clime Each Circumstance unknown,
What Constancy must be achieved
Before it see the Sun!
~ Emily Dickinson,
1389:the lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. “You kids think you invented sex,” my mother was fond of saying. But hadn’t we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn’t we all come away feeling we’d discovered something unspeakably modern? ~ David Sedaris,
1390:When thou bendest thy knee in prayer to God, limit not thy petition to the narrow circle of thine own life, tried though it be, but send out thy longing prayers for the church’s prosperity, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” and thine own soul shall be refreshed. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1391:As his lips touched mine, I felt something deep in my stomach: a longing, a burning need, and it was spreading to every part of my body as the kiss deepened. His kissing was demanding, masterful, and sexy as hell. If I hadn’t been hot for him before, I undoubtedly was now. ~ Kirsty Moseley,
1392:As they went out of the room Rosa turned to look at Tommy and had an impulse to go back, to get into bed with him and just lie there for a while feeling that deep longing, that sense of missing him desperately, that came over her whenever she held him sleeping in her arms. ~ Michael Chabon,
1393:I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us. ~ Bernadette Roberts,
1394:Warm water sluices over me, and I realize that the fear in my heart has been replaced by longing. I was afraid to love Logan. Now I long to love Logan. And I do. Always will. But I have to give him up to protect something precious to him. I know that. I don’t have a choice. ~ Tammy Falkner,
1395:Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all other green, with tiny waves on the edges of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)—: why then have to be human—and, escaping from fate, keep longing for fate? . . . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1396:He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This must be clung to because the whole consequence of a life can depend on it. ~ Albert Camus,
1397:Jubilation knows and Longing grants —
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.

But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice’s constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1398:Pray to God with a longing heart. He will surely listen to your prayer if it is sincere. Perhaps He will direct you to holy men with whom you can keep company; and that will help you on your spiritual path. Perhaps someone will tell you, 'Do this and you will attain God.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
1399:There’s a small part of my heart that’s always sad
Part of me that walks with a slow aching step
Forever longing
The beauty of that
To be forever longing
Too much joy makes the time pass too quickly
A bit of sadness slows things down so you can see it ~ Henry Rollins,
1400:The true human being doesn't lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being. ~ Max Stirner,
1401:When you get old,” she had said on the occasion of her brother Tom’s dying, “you don’t have much emotion. It goes. At about seventy, I’d say. All those things and people you were passionate about, angry or adoring or longing, they all go, and a kind of dull calm takes over. I ~ Ruth Rendell,
1402:Out of bad faith comes a longing for control, for the law and the police. Bad faith suspects that the gift will not come back, that things won’t work out, that there is a scarcity so great in the world that it will devour whatever gifts appear. In bad faith the circle is broken. ~ Lewis Hyde,
1403:Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union ~ Rollo May,
1404:The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father’s grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams. ~ Roger Scruton,
1405:The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ~ William Christopher Handy,
1406:And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes. ~ Jess Walter,
1407:Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL ~ Philip Yancey,
1408:I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written. ~ Sandra Bullock,
1409:What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. ~ Isabel Wilkerson,
1410:You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar. ~ Samuel Johnson,
1411:Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there—to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it. ~ John Welwood,
1412:I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me (…) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I’ll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have. ~ Teresa Medeiros,
1413:Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given to me, there'll be some kind of shared moment in that. So it's very affectively intense - so much longing and lack of control. ~ How to Dress Well,
1414:War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. ~ Tim O Brien,
1415:And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued. ~ Khalil Gibran,
1416:Do you ever…” I heard her swallow hard. “Do you think about us? What we had?”
My chest ached at the longing in her voice. The fearful tentative reaching across the space between us.
“Every minute,” I said. “I think about us every minute of my life. All I do is think about us. ~ Emma Scott,
1417:Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt,
1418:I know you have to go away to grow. Does the seagull not fly across the sun, alone and without a nest? You must forego your longing for the land of your memories to move into the dwelling place of your greater desires; our love will not bind you, nor will our needs hold you. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,
1419:Opposite to where she sat the water was a boggy brown, but not too far along it was a dark violet colour, always changing, the way the sweep of the current changed, but as she saw it, her own life did not change at all - the same routine, the same longing and the same loneliness. ~ Edna O Brien,
1420:So we are looking for the remaining two volumes of this… what is it called, exactly?’ Colonel Hatherence asked. ‘Best translation,’ Fassin said, ‘is, The Algebraist. It’s all about mathematics, navigation as a metaphor, duty, love, longing, honour, long voyages home… all that stuff. ~ Anonymous,
1421:The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. ~ Olivia Williams,
1422:Witch, do this for me,
Find me a moon
made of longing.
Then cut it sliver thin,
and having cut it,
hang it high
above my beloved's house,
so that she may look up
tonight
and see it,
and seeing it, sigh for me
as I sigh for her,
moon or no moon. ~ Clive Barker,
1423:Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. ~ Saint Augustine,
1424:A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations. ~ Adriana Trigiani,
1425:But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives. ~ Michael Chabon,
1426:Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire. ~ Carolyn Hart,
1427:I am beginning to ramble. It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life.
Still no letters. ~ Iris Murdoch,
1428:I don’t want to go through this. I don’t want to be without her. I don’t want to miss her like I do, longing for her taste, her touch, her sounds. I don’t want to be reborn in this new world, a world that means nothing in her absence. I don’t want to be in this life without her. ~ Laurelin Paige,
1429:It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved ~ Michael Chabon,
1430:Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these. ~ Henry Rollins,
1431:Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
1432:Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you. And I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing. Do you feel nothing? ~ Sarah Kane,
1433:The desires of incarnations keep one endlessly wandering. Once, however, a sincere longing for God awakens in the heart, liberation is already assured, even though the process take more incarnations. For that longing for God, too, is a desire, and must be fulfilled eventually. ~ Swami Kriyananda,
1434:There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
1435:Tony longed for something poetic, something beautiful. It was an everyday longing, but there seemed to be no way out of the life he had been given. He wanted out of the gray but felt weighed down. “How am I supposed to start my day,” he wondered aloud, “when even the sky looks lazy? ~ Eric Arvin,
1436:Too much love won't spoil. Kindness doesn't provoke poor behaviour. Respect doesn't invite disrespect. This is backwards thinking which has caused us to feel trapped into being too harsh for too long. Generations of children are still searching and longing for unconditional love. ~ Rebecca Eanes,
1437:We weep for gladness, weep for grief;
The tears they are the same;
We sigh for longing, and relief;
The sighs have but one name,
And mingled in the dying strife,
Are moans that are not sad
The pangs of death are throbs of life,
Its sighs are sometimes glad. ~ George MacDonald,
1438:But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives. ~ Michael Chabon,
1439:God’s reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship. ~ John Piper,
1440:Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are. ~ William Shakespeare,
1441:I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
1442:We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going – blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events. ~ Walter Mosley,
1443:For one who is poison, there is great pleasure in anguish. In wild longing. In the meaningless explorations of delighted surrender, subjugation – well, subjugation that was in truth domination – no point in being coy here. I surrender in order to demand. Relinquish in order to rule. ~ Steven Erikson,
1444:How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. It has been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1445:Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1446:She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1447:The life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it, and always had done. So the life I led was not my own. I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
1448:Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast. ~ Francesca Lia Block,
1449:False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,
1450:Since you're going to Paris, you don't want to go to Paris. But if you were staying in New York, you'd want to be in Paris. But since you#re not staying, but going, just do me a favor.
When you're in Paris, think of yourself in New York longing for Paris, and everything will be fine. ~ Andr Aciman,
1451:What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work! ~ Albert Einstein,
1452:Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on. ~ Tabitha Suzuma,
1453:She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate. . . to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
1454:This is real.” Vince took Keegan’s hand, pulling him into his warm embrace. “And I do want you, Keegan. I want you more than I have ever wanted anything.” And with that, Vince closed the precious inches between their lips, giving Keegan and himself what they were both longing for. ~ Sandrine Gasq Dion,
1455:We were made to find our deepest pleasure in admiring what is infinitely admirable, that is, the glory of God. The glory of God is not the psychological projection of human longing onto reality. On the contrary, inconsolable human longing is the evidence that we were made for God’s glory. ~ John Piper,
1456:You’d better be writing because you can’t not write. You’d better love it. (Otherwise, quit now.) But if you do love it, I mean really love it, the world needs you far more than you know. We are waiting for your words. Longing to be changed. We need your art—whether you realize it or not. ~ Jeff Goins,
1457:I don't love you,” he said. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, a kiss of passion and desperation, a kiss of deep
currents and longing. “I don't love you,” he said again.
“Of course you don't,” she murmured happily. And she followed him out the door, into the lion's den. ~ Anne Stuart,
1458:Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was it about her that drove him crazy? He'd never had such a wild and instantaneous reaction to a woman before. ~ T A Grey,
1459:And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.”

“Don’t you like it here?”

“Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.”

“You don’t even know where I’m going.”

“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere. ~ John Steinbeck,
1460:Hannah." He looks at me, the same way he looked at me last night in the diner, with longing and sadness, and it's like everything I'm feeling I can see in his eyes. I want to kiss him so bad it hurts, but I know I can't. So instead, I tear my gaze from his and look down at the ground. ~ Lauren Barnholdt,
1461:How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion! ~ Boris Pasternak,
1462:Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
1463:The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer. ~ Evagrius Ponticus,
1464:The man in whom all desires disappear like rivers into a motionless sea, attains to peace, not he whom they move to longing. That man whose walk is free from longing, for he has thrown all desires from him, who calls nothing his and has no sense of ego, is moving towards peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 70-71,
1465:There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means “the longing for something.” It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C. S. Lewis defined it as the “inconsolable longing” in the human heart for “we know not what.” It seems rather German to be able to ========== ~ Anonymous,
1466:Agonized by her longing to go on thinking of her lover, and her fear of damnation if she does, she has hit on the idea of praying God to make her forget him and as she keeps on making this prayer every minute of the day, she's found a way of never letting him out of her mind. ~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,
1467:For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ~ Adam Johnson,
1468:And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. ~ Peter Matthiessen,
1469:Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, ~ W E B Du Bois,
1470:You can't change people. You know that. You can't make them stop hating each other, or longing to blow up the world, not by walking through the rain and singing to a small guitar. Most you can do for them is pull them out of the womb, thump them on the backside and let them get on with it. ~ John Mortimer,
1471:All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1472:Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor. ~ Jackson Browne,
1473:Christianity has spiritualised the egoism of Judaism into subjectivity (though … this subjectivity is again expressed as pure egoism), has changed the desire for earthly happiness, the goal of the Israelite religion, into the longing for heavenly bliss, which is the goal of Christianity. ~ Ludwig Feuerbach,
1474:I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it. ~ C J Redwine,
1475:If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1476:I touch her cheek before she can push my hand away. I am filled with longing, an aching need that will never be fulfilled. She will never be my mate. She will never let me claim her. She will never accept me into her arms and let me fill her belly with our child. Those things will not be mine. ~ Ruby Dixon,
1477:Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing. ~ Sheldon Vanauken,
1478:there's time for laughing and there's time for crying—
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
—a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing

but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness ~ E E Cummings,
1479:All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes of song, and when she came to the highest notes it seemed that all they had been given in their lives and all they had lost came together and made a weight that was almost impossible to bear. ~ Ann Patchett,
1480:A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. ~ Wassily Kandinsky,
1481:Aspiration is as much a bodily longing as an intellectual desire; appreciation as much a passion as a preference; conviction as much an intuition as a rational conclusion. Irrespective of the purpose to which we are committed, when such feelings are aroused, life is infused with meaning. ~ Stephen Batchelor,
1482:Don't get entangled
With what you long for or dislike.
Not seeing what you long for is suffering;
So also is seeing what you dislike.

Therefore, do not turn anything
Into something longed for,
For then it's dreadful to lose.
Without longing or dislike,
No bonds exist. ~ Anonymous,
1483:I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, the be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this. ~ Beau Taplin,
1484:Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. ~ Camron Wright,
1485:The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans. ~ Susan Straight,
1486:They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1487:Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the longing and itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. Also, she wanted to touch Aron, and she did. She put her hand on his arm and felt him shiver under her fingers. ~ John Steinbeck,
1488:Chanting, chanting the Beloved's name, I am myself become the Beloved. Whom then does that Name now name? [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

~ Bulleh Shah, Chanting, chanting the Beloveds name
,
1489:It's painful and terrible that youth is over, and with it that whole game of looking and longing and vying for attention, hoping for something, for some absolute transformation of everything. But it’s also a reprieve to be let off that hook and know that you’re simply in your own hands at last ~ Tessa Hadley,
1490:What a thing is Man, this lauded demi-god! Does he not lack the very powers he has most need of? And if he should soar in joy, or sink in sorry, is he not halted and returned to his cold, dull consciousness at the very moment he was longing to be lost in the vastness of infinity? ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1491:All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. ~ Carson McCullers,
1492:But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. ~ Derrick Jensen,
1493:Lighthearted boys and girls
were harvesting the grapes in woven baskets,
while on a resonant harp a boy among them
played a tune of longing, singing low
with delicate voice a summer dirge. The others,
breaking out in song for the joy of it,
kept time together as they skipped along. ~ Homer,
1494:People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring. ~ Bodhidharma,
1495:So speak that I may hear, Lord, my heart is listening; open it that it may hear Thee say to my soul I am Thy salvation. Hearing that word, let me come in haste to lay hold upon Thee. Hide not Thy face from me.19 Let me see Thy face even if I die,20 lest I die with longing to see it. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,
1496:…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer. ~ Lydia Millet,
1497:In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. ~ Guy Finley,
1498:I’ve always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn’t happened to them. ~ Roshani Chokshi,
1499:As she worked, Anna glanced occasionally at the Flossie Flirt doll wedged at the end of a shelf. She had wanted one so violently two years ago that some of her desperation seemed to have broken off and stayed inside her. It was strange and painful to discover that old longing now, in this place. ~ Jennifer Egan,
1500:It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich. ~ Reinhard Heydrich,

IN CHAPTERS [150/443]



  181 Poetry
   50 Yoga
   47 Integral Yoga
   42 Philosophy
   25 Mysticism
   19 Christianity
   17 Psychology
   17 Occultism
   17 Fiction
   7 Sufism
   6 Baha i Faith
   4 Theosophy
   4 Mythology
   3 Science
   1 Integral Theory
   1 Alchemy


   94 Sri Aurobindo
   42 Sri Ramakrishna
   23 Friedrich Nietzsche
   16 H P Lovecraft
   16 Carl Jung
   15 William Wordsworth
   12 William Butler Yeats
   12 The Mother
   11 Rabindranath Tagore
   11 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   9 Walt Whitman
   9 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   8 Swami Krishnananda
   8 Saint Teresa of Avila
   7 Rainer Maria Rilke
   7 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   7 Kabir
   7 Friedrich Schiller
   7 Baha u llah
   6 Jalaluddin Rumi
   5 Saint John of Climacus
   5 Rudolf Steiner
   5 Robert Browning
   4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   4 Satprem
   4 Plato
   4 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   4 Ovid
   4 Li Bai
   4 John Keats
   3 Mirabai
   3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   3 Franz Bardon
   3 Bulleh Shah
   3 Al-Ghazali
   3 Aldous Huxley
   2 Symeon the New Theologian
   2 Mansur al-Hallaj
   2 Lalla
   2 Kobayashi Issa
   2 Jordan Peterson
   2 James George Frazer
   2 Farid ud-Din Attar
   2 Abu-Said Abil-Kheir


   41 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   22 Savitri
   20 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   16 Lovecraft - Poems
   15 Wordsworth - Poems
   15 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   12 Yeats - Poems
   12 Collected Poems
   10 Tagore - Poems
   8 Whitman - Poems
   8 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   7 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   7 Schiller - Poems
   7 Rilke - Poems
   6 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   6 Talks
   6 5.1.01 - Ilion
   5 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   5 Essays On The Gita
   5 Browning - Poems
   4 Theosophy
   4 The Life Divine
   4 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   4 Shelley - Poems
   4 Metamorphoses
   4 Li Bai - Poems
   4 Keats - Poems
   4 Hymn of the Universe
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   3 Vedic and Philological Studies
   3 Twilight of the Idols
   3 The Perennial Philosophy
   3 The Book of Certitude
   3 The Alchemy of Happiness
   3 Songs of Kabir
   3 Questions And Answers 1956
   3 Letters On Yoga IV
   3 Letters On Yoga III
   3 Letters On Yoga II
   3 Goethe - Poems
   3 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   3 City of God
   2 The Way of Perfection
   2 The Secret Doctrine
   2 The Golden Bough
   2 The Future of Man
   2 The Bible
   2 Rumi - Poems
   2 Record of Yoga
   2 Questions And Answers 1953
   2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   2 Maps of Meaning
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 Initiation Into Hermetics
   2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire


0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   As his love for God deepened, he began either to forget or to drop the formalities of worship. Sitting before the image, he would spend hours singing the devotional songs of great devotees of the Mother, such as Kamalakanta and Ramprasad. Those rhapsodical songs, describing the direct vision of God, only intensified Sri Ramakrishna's longing. He felt the pangs of a child separated from its mother. Sometimes, in agony, he would rub his face against the ground and weep so bitterly that people, thinking he had lost his earthly mother, would sympathize with him in his grief. Sometimes, in moments of scepticism, he would cry: "Art Thou true, Mother, or is it all fiction — mere poetry without any reality? If Thou dost exist, why do I not see Thee? Is religion a mere fantasy and art Thou only a figment of man's imagination?" Sometimes he would sit on the prayer carpet for two hours like an inert object. He began to behave in an abnormal manner
  , most of the time unconscious of the world. He almost gave up food; and sleep left him altogether.
  --
   Sri Ramakrishna now devoted himself to scaling the most inaccessible and dizzy heights of dualistic worship, namely, the complete union with Sri Krishna as the Beloved of the heart. He regarded himself as one of the gopis of Vrindavan, mad with longing for her divine Sweetheart. At his request Mathur provided him with woman's dress and jewelry. In this love-pursuit, food and drink were forgotten. Day and night he wept bitterly. The yearning turned into a mad frenzy; for the divine Krishna began to play with him the old tricks He had played with the gopis. He would tease and taunt, now and then revealing Himself, but always keeping at a distance. Sri Ramakrishna's anguish brought on a return of the old physical symptoms: the burning sensation, an oozing of blood through the pores, a loosening of the joints, and the stopping of physiological functions.
   The Vaishnava scriptures advise one to propitiate Radha and obtain her grace in order to realize Sri Krishna. So the tortured devotee now turned his prayer to her. Within a short time he enjoyed her blessed vision. He saw and felt the figure of Radha disappearing into his own body.
  --
   Contact with the Brahmos increased Sri Ramakrishna's longing to encounter aspirants who would be able to follow his teachings in their purest form. "There was no limit", he once declared, "to the longing I felt at that time. During the day-time I somehow managed to control it. The secular talk of the worldly-minded was galling to me, and I would look wistfully to the day when my own beloved companions would come. I hoped to find solace in conversing with them and relating to them my own realizations. Every little incident would remind me of them, and thoughts of them wholly engrossed me. I was already arranging in my mind what I should say to one and give to another, and so on. But when the day would come to a close I would not be able to curb my feelings. The thought that another day had gone by, and they had not come, oppressed me. When, during the evening service, the temples rang with the sound of bells and conch-shells, I would climb to the roof of the kuthi in the garden and, writhing in anguish of heart, cry at the top of my voice: 'Come, my children! Oh, where are you? I cannot bear to live without you.' A mother never longed so intensely for the sight of her child, nor a friend for his companions, nor a lover for his sweetheart, as I longed for them. Oh, it was indescribable! Shortly after this period of yearning the devotees1 began to come."
   In the year 1879 occasional writings about Sri Ramakrishna by the Brahmos, in the Brahmo magazines, began to attract his future disciples from the educated middle-class Bengalis, and they continued to come till 1884. But others, too, came, feeling the subtle power of his attraction. They were an ever shifting crowd of people of all castes and creeds: Hindus and Brahmos, Vaishnavas and Saktas, the educated with university degrees and the illiterate, old and young, maharajas and beggars, journalists and artists, pundits and devotees, philosophers and the worldly-minded, jnanis and yogis, men of action and men of faith, virtuous women and prostitutes, office-holders and vagabonds, philanthropists and self-seekers, dramatists and drunkards, builders-up and pullers-down. He gave to them all, without stint, from his illimitable store of realization. No one went away empty-handed. He taught them the lofty .knowledge of the Vedanta and the soul

01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  An infant longing clutched the sombre Vast.
  Insensibly somewhere a breach began:

01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Ah, with what longing once again I turn!2
   is just on the borderland: it has succeeded in leaving behind the mystic domain, but has not yet entered the city of the Spiritat the most, it has turned the corner and approached the gate. Listen now,

01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."
  The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and

0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   No, its solely a question of health. If I could. Listen, I also had a longing to go to the Himalayas, I had a great longing for it when I was in France. When I came here the first time it was fine, I was very happy, everything was beautiful, everything was perfect, but oh, to go to the Himalayas for a while! (I have always loved mountains.) I was living over there in the Dupleix house, and I used to meditate while walking back and forth. There was a small courtyard with a dividing wall, and shards of glass were stuck on top of the wall to keep out thieves. And I was meditatingmeditating on the spiritual lifewhen suddenly something caught my eye: a ray of sunlight on a sharp piece of blue glass on top of the wall. And positively, spontaneously, without thinking or reflecting or anything I saw the summits of the Himalayas: I was on the summits of the Himalayas.
   It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and the lightness of the mountainsit was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.

0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It yearned from the longing depths it could not leave.
   In the centre of its vast and fateful trance

0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And then (Mother points to her own body), this seems to be the lesson for these aggregates (bodies, you know, seem to me to be simply aggregates). And as long as there is, behind, a will to keep this together for some reason or other, it stays together, but These last few days (yesterday or the day before), there was this: a sort of completely decentralized consciousness (I am always referring to the physical consciousness, of course, not at all to the higher consciousness), a decentralized consciousness that happened to be here, there, there, in this body, that body (in what people call this person and that person, but that notion doesnt quite exist anymore), and then there was a kind of intervention of a universal consciousness in the cells, as though it were asking these cells what their reason was for wanting to retain this combination (if we may say so) or this aggregate while in fact making them understand or feel the difficulties that come, for example, from the number of years, wear and tear, external difficultiesfrom all the deterioration caused by friction, wear and tear. But they seemed to be perfectly indifferent to that! The response of the cells was interesting enough, in the sense that they seemed to attach importance ONLY TO THE CAPACITY TO REMAIN IN CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH THE HIGHER FORCE. It was like an aspiration (not formulated in words, naturally), and like a what in English they call yearning, a longing for that Contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth and the Force of Love, and [the cells response was] that because of that, they valued the present combination.
   It was an altogether different point of view.

0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This sort of longing, this feeling of something lacking something you want, which is lacking the farther you go, the more it increases.
   Yes, but thats not exactly the point. I dont know where I stand, I dont know on which road I am. I dont know, I know nothing at all!

02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  But near and real to the longing heart
  And to the body's passionate thought and sense
  --
  Or ever recalled come back to longing eyes
  Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
  --
  In spite of yearning mind and longing sense,
  To a sad Thought by grey experience formed
  --
  Conceived in a longing distance by the heart
  Of one who walks in the shadow of earth-pain.

02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  And leads the thought and longing of the flesh
  And the keen lust and hunger of its will.
  --
  All Nature's longing drive none can resist,
  Comes surging through the blood and quickened sense;
  --
  And bodily longings shared and quarrel and play,
  And tears and laughter and the need called love.
  --
  A murmur of heart to longing wordless heart,
  Glimmerings of knowledge with no shape of thought

02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The perfect longing for imperfection's charm,
  The illumined caught by the snare of Ignorance,
  --
  The passion that possessed her longing limbs,
  The trouble and rapture of her yearning breasts,
  --
  A deathless longing is hers, a veiled self's call;
  A prisoner in the mortal's limiting world,
  --
  This wave of being longing for delight,
  This eager turmoil of unsatisfied strengths,

02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    The air was packed with longings brute and fierce;
    Crowding and stinging in a monstrous swarm

02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  And filled the eyes with tears of longing joy.
  A cricket's rash and fiery single note,

03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Touching through him all longing sentient things.
  A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
  --
  And crushed the many longings for whose sake
  We lose the One for whom our lives were made.

03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It yearned from the longing depths it could not leave.
  In the centre of his vast and fateful trance

03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  A boundless Heart was near his longing heart,
  A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape.
  --
  Her form retreated from the longing earth
  Forsaking nearness to the abandoned sense,

03.12 - TagorePoet and Seer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The miracle that Tagore has done is this: he has brought out the very soul of the raceits soul of lyric fervour and grace, of intuitive luminosity and poignant sensibility, of beauty and harmony and delicacy. It is this that he has made living and vibrant, raised almost to the highest pitch and amplitude in various modes in the utterance of his nation. What he always expresses, in all his creations, is one aspect or another, a rhythm or a note of the soul movement. It is always a cry of the soul, a profound experience in the inner heart that wells out in the multifarious cadences of his poems. It is the same motif that finds a local habitation and a name in his short stories, perfect gems, masterpieces among world's masterpieces of art. In his dramas and novels it is the same element that has found a wider canvas for a more detailed and graphic notation of its play and movement. I would even include his essays (and certainly his memoirs) within the sweep of the same master-note. An essay by Rabindranath is as characteristic of the poet as any lyric poem of his. This is not to say that the essays are devoid of a solid intellectual content, a close-knit logical argument, an acute and penetrating thought movement, nor is it that his novels or dramas are mere lyrics drawn out arid thinned, lacking in the essential elements of a plot and action and character. What I mean is that over and above these factors which Tagores art possesses to a considerable degree, there is an imponderable element, a flavour, a breath from elsewhere that suffuses the entire creation, something that can be characterised only as the soul-element. It is this presence that makes whatever the poet touches not only living and graceful but instinct with something that belongs to the world of gods, something celestial and divine, something that meets and satisfies man's deepest longing and aspiration.
   I have been laying special stress upon this aspect of Tagore's genius, because humanity is in great need of it today, because all has gone wrong with the modern world since it lost touch with its soul and was beguiled into a path lighted by false glimmers and will-o'-the-wisps, hires of a superficial and infra-human consciousness, or into the by-ways and backwashes and aberrations of a sophisticated intellectualism.

04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Or longing with their self of life and flesh
  They clung to her for heart's nourishment and support:
  --
  Or bound by the senses and the longing heart,
  Adoring with a turbid human love,
  --
  Impatient subjects, their tied longing hearts
  Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,
  --
  And hoped to bind her close with longing's cords.
  Or finding her touch desired too strong to bear

04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  An ancient longing struck again new roots:
  The air drank deep of unfulfilled desire;
  --
  For somewhere on the longing breast of earth,
  Thy unknown lover waits for thee the unknown.

05.02 - Physician, Heal Thyself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Will is a twofold power: it is energy and it is light. True will, will in essential purity, that is to say, when one is perfectly sincere and determined to follow up one's sincerity, impels rightly and impels infallibly. The consciousness is there of the right thing to do and the energy is also there inherent in that consciousness to work it out inevitably. There is a will be longing to a lower level, to the mind which is only a variant of wish, and in reference to that only it is said that even if the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. This will is a light, but without the fire that vivifies: and that is because there is a division in the consciousness, one can love and yet one can betray, in the words of a famous novelist.
   But as we have already said, man is not condemned to this malady of schizophrenia: he is not by nature a Manichean creature. He is whole and entire in his inner reality and true consciousness and he can assert his integrality, he has the freedom and the power to do so-he has to and will do so, since it is not merely a possibility but an inevitability that is to come about in the course of his growth and evolution.

06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  A blue Immense he leans to the longing world,
  Time's joy borrowed out of eternity,

06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Thy love and longing are not arbiters there;
  Leave the world's fate and her to God's sole guard.

07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Man's hopes and longings build the journeying wheels
  That bear the body of his destiny

07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Old thoughts, old longings, dead passions live again,
  Recur in sleep or move the waking man

07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  And the longing all eternity cannot fill.
  It called to the mountain secrecies of the soul

07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  And longings of physical sweetness and ecstasy
  Translated into the accents of a cry

09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  He sees above him with a longing heart
  Bare spaces more unconscious than himself
  --
  I yield to his blind father's longing heart
  Kingdom and power and friends and greatness lost
  --
  And gave my longings as a sacrament.
  Who shall prohibit or hedge in his course,
  --
  With honey of physical longings and the heart's fire
  And, a vain oneness seeking, to embrace

10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Head of her loveliness of longing dreams
  And captain of the fancies of her soul.

10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Cloud satisfies cloud, phantom to longing phantom
  Leans sweetly, sweetly is clasped or sweetly chased.
  --
  Thy mortal longing made for thee a soul.
  This angel in thy body thou callst love,
  --
  Vain is thy longing to build heaven on earth.
  Artificer of Ideal and Idea,

10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The longing and the hoping and the cry,
  The battle and the victory and the fall,
  --
  Satisfies his little longings like the beast;
  He pores upon life's book with student eyes.
  --
  On the body's longings grew heaven-rapture's flower
  And made desire a pure celestial flame,

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  This is the Day in which He Who held converse with God hath attained the light of the Ancient of Days, and quaffed the pure waters of reunion from this Cup that hath caused the seas to swell. Say: By the one true God! Sinai is circling round the Dayspring of Revelation, while from the heights of the Kingdom the Voice of the Spirit of God is heard proclaiming: "Bestir yourselves, ye proud ones of the earth, and hasten ye unto Him." Carmel hath, in this Day, hastened in longing adoration to attain His court, whilst from the heart of Zion there cometh the cry: "The promise is fulfilled. That which had been announced in the holy Writ of God, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the Best-Beloved, is made manifest."
  81
  --
  Such are the words with which My Forerunner hath extolled My Being, could ye but understand. Whoso reflecteth upon these verses, and realizeth what hidden pearls have been enshrined within them, will, by the righteousness of God, perceive the fragrance of the All-Merciful wafting from the direction of this Prison and will, with his whole heart, hasten unto Him with such ardent longing that the hosts of earth and heaven would be powerless to deter him. Say: This is a Revelation around which every proof and testimony doth circle. Thus hath it been sent down by your Lord, the God of Mercy, if ye be of them that judge aright. Say: This is the very soul of all Scriptures which hath been breathed into the Pen of the Most High, causing all created beings to be dumbfounded, save only those who have been enraptured by the gentle breezes of My loving-kindness and the sweet savours of My bounties which have pervaded the whole of creation.
  137

1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
    At that time, in the fortieth year of my life, I had achieved everything that I had wished for myself I had achieved honor, power, wealth, knowledge, and every human happiness. Then my desire for the increase of these trappings ceased, the desire ebbed from me and horror came over me. 32 The vision of the flood seized me and I felt the spirit of the depths but I did not understand him. 33 Yet he drove me on with unbearable inner longing and I said:
    [I] 34 My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you-are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.
  --
  34. November 12, 1913. After longing, the Draft has at the beginning of the following month, I seized my pen and began writing this (p. 13).
  35. This affirmation occurs a number of times in Jung's later writings see for example, Jane Pratt,
  --
  41. In 1912, Jung had written, "It is a common error to judge longing in terms of the quality of the object... Nature is only beautiful on account of the longing and love accorded to it by man. The aesthetic attributes emanating therefrom apply first and foremost to the libido, which alone accounts for the beauty of nature" (Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, CW B, 147).
  42. In Psychological Types, Jung articulated this primacy of the image through his notion of esse in anima (CW 6, 66ff, 7IIff). In her diary notes, Cary Baynes commented on this passage: What struck me especially was what you said about the Bild [image] being half the world. That is the thing that makes humanity so dull. They have missed understanding that thing. The world, that is the thing that holds them rapt. Das Bild, they have never seriously considered unless they have been poets (February 8,1924, CFB).

1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "It is necessary to pray to Him with a longing heart. The kitten knows only how to call its mother, crying, 'Mew, mew!' It remains satisfied wherever its mother puts it. And the mother cat puts the kitten sometimes in the kitchen, sometimes on the floor, and sometimes on the bed. When it suffers it cries only, 'Mew, mew!' That's all it knows.
  But as soon as the mother hears this cry, wherever she may be; she comes to the kitten."

1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  Now that it is clear that the happiness of the heart consists in the knowledge and love of God, we may say that the heart that does not feel the necessity of the knowledge of God, and a longing for the love of God, but rather craves after and seeks the world, resembles a sick person who has no appetite for food, but even prefers such things as earth and clay to meat, regarding them as necessary, not-withstanding they have no nourishing qualities. If no remedy can be found, speedily, to recover his appetite for food, and if he continue indulging in perverse notions of what is necessary, his malady will grow in strength; until if he continue in this state, he will perish and lose the joys this world can give. In the same manner the heart which does not feel a necessity for the knowledge and love of God, and where the love of other objects reigns, is a heart that is sick and ready to perish, unless a remedy be applied, unless its affections be turned away from other things, and the love of God become predominant. Future bliss will be lost and eternal misery will be its portion. Our refuge is in God!
  You should know also that the enjoyments of this world that are procured through the senses are cut off at death. The enjoyment of the love and knowledge of God, which depends upon the heart, is alone lasting. At death the hindrances that result from the presence of the external senses being removed, the light and brilliancy of the heart come to have full play, and it feels the necessity of the vision of beauty. What has hitherto been said is sufficient to enable a person of intelligence to comprehend the [36] dignity of the heart of man. The subject could not be discussed more at large in this short treatise.

1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed for fervour, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing this. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever has caused this. For the former fervour can return only through the same door through which it was lost.
  The man who renounces the world from fear is like burning incense, that begins with fragrance but ends in smoke. He who leaves the world through hope of reward is like a millstone, that always moves in the same way.3 But he who withdraws from the world out of love for God has obtained fire at the very outset; and, like fire set to fuel, it soon kindles a larger fire.

1.01 - The Cycle of Society, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The tendency of the conventional age of society is to fix, to arrange firmly, to formalise, to erect a system of rigid grades and hierarchies, to stereotype religion, to bind education and training to a traditional and unchangeable form, to subject thought to infallible authorities, to cast a stamp of finality on what seems to it the finished life of man. The conventional period of society has its golden age when the spirit and thought that inspired its forms are confined but yet living, not yet altogether walled in, not yet stifled to death and petrified by the growing hardness of the structure in which they are cased. That golden age is often very beautiful and attractive to the distant view of posterity by its precise order, symmetry, fine social architecture, the admirable subordination of its parts to a general and noble plan. Thus at one time the modern litterateur, artist or thinker looked back often with admiration and with something like longing to the mediaeval age of Europe; he forgot in its distant appearance of poetry, nobility, spirituality the much folly, ignorance, iniquity, cruelty and oppression of those harsh ages, the suffering and revolt that simmered below these fine surfaces, the misery and squalor that was hidden behind that splendid faade. So too the Hindu orthodox idealist looks back to a perfectly regulated society devoutly obedient to the wise yoke of the Shastra, and that is his golden age,a nobler one than the European in which the apparent gold was mostly hard burnished copper with a thin gold-leaf covering it, but still of an alloyed metal, not the true Satya Yuga. In these conventional periods of society there is much indeed that is really fine and sound and helpful to human progress, but still they are its copper age and not the true golden; they are the age when the Truth we strive to arrive at is not realised, not accomplished,4 but the exiguity of it eked out or its full appearance imitated by an artistic form, and what we have of the reality has begun to fossilise and is doomed to be lost in a hard mass of rule and order and convention.
  For always the form prevails and the spirit recedes and diminishes. It attempts indeed to return, to revive the form, to modify it, anyhow to survive and even to make the form survive; but the time-tendency is too strong. This is visible in the history of religion; the efforts of the saints and religious reformers become progressively more scattered, brief and superficial in their actual effects, however strong and vital the impulse. We see this recession in the growing darkness and weakness of India in her last millennium; the constant effort of the most powerful spiritual personalities kept the soul of the people alive but failed to resuscitate the ancient free force and truth and vigour or permanently revivify a conventionalised and stagnating society; in a generation or two the iron grip of that conventionalism has always fallen on the new movement and annexed the names of its founders. We see it in Europe in the repeated moral tragedy of ecclesiasticism and Catholic monasticism. Then there arrives a period when the gulf between the convention and the truth becomes intolerable and the men of intellectual power arise, the great swallowers of formulas, who, rejecting robustly or fiercely or with the calm light of reason symbol and type and convention, strike at the walls of the prison-house and seek by the individual reason, moral sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its whited sepulchres. It is then that the individualistic age of religion and thought and society is created; the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom. A partial and external freedom, still betrayed by the conventional age that preceded it into the idea that the Truth can be found in outsides, dreaming vainly that perfection can be determined by machinery, but still a necessary passage to the subjective period of humanity through which man has to circle back towards the recovery of his deeper self and a new upward line or a new revolving cycle of civilisation.

1.01 - The Human Aspiration, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  1:THE EARLIEST preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, - for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment, - is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, - God, Light, Freedom, Immortality.
  2:These persistent ideals of the race are at once the contradiction of its normal experience and the affirmation of higher and deeper experiences which are abnormal to humanity and only to be attained, in their organised entirety, by a revolutionary individual effort or an evolutionary general progression. To know, possess and be the divine being in an animal and egoistic consciousness, to convert our twilit or obscure physical mentality into the plenary supramental illumination, to build peace and a self-existent bliss where there is only a stress of transitory satisfactions besieged by physical pain and emotional suffering, to establish an infinite freedom in a world which presents itself as a group of mechanical necessities, to discover and realise the immortal life in a body subjected to death and constant mutation, - this is offered to us as the manifestation of God in Matter and the goal of Nature in her terrestrial evolution. To the ordinary material intellect which takes its present organisation of consciousness for the limit of its possibilities, the direct contradiction of the unrealised ideals with the realised fact is a final argument against their validity. But if we take a more deliberate view of the world's workings, that direct opposition appears rather as part of Nature's profoundest method and the seal of her completest sanction.

1.025 - Sadhana - Intensifying a Lighted Flame, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  It has been said that all great things are mysteries. They are not calculated effects produced logically by imagined causes, but are mysteries, which is another way of saying that all of this is unthinkable by the human mind. Knowledge somehow arises. One fine morning we get up and find that we are fired with a love for God. What has happened to us? Why is it that we suddenly we say, "Oh, today I am something different." Why we are something different today? From where has this inspiration come? Nobody knows what has happened. If we read the lives of great masters, sages and saints, we will find that they were all suddenly fired with a longing which they could not explain, and no one can explain ordinarily. That knowledge, that aspiration, that love of God has not come from books. It has not come from any imaginable source. It has simply come that is all. How? Nobody knows.
  Inasmuch as it is a super-logical mystery, there would be no necessity on our part to investigate the causes thereof and the methods thereof, logically or scientifically, beyond a certain limit, though logical and scientific thinking is a help to corroborate the presence of this aspiration. The aspiration is already present within us. It is not created by logical thinking and, therefore, such logical thinking is only a bulwark that we create to reinforce the aspiration that is already there. We already have a faith in God. We already believe that God-realisation is the goal of life. This belief has taken possession of us already, and now all that we do is only an ancillary process which is contri butory to streng thening this aspiration and enabling it to become more and more potent and influential in our daily life. We cannot create a concept of God by any amount of effort.

1.02 - In the Beginning, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  The periods of renascence have always been those centuries in which the longing for the Beautiful has awakened along with the need for the True; they are the epochs in which crucified sensibility and Reason have been restored to life.
  Catholicism itself was modified for the better under the influence of the feminine Principle from the day when the Virgin Mother took her place close to the masculine Trinity, and it is the cult of Mary, more than anything else, that has saved the Faith from the fanatical aberrations of the Middle Ages and the Church from the reprisals with which she was threatened. If this feminine symbol had been the object of interpretations less gross, the Church might have found in it the means by which she could have succeeded in wedding together the two contrary tendencies of the human mind, unifying the discoveries of Science with the intuitions of faith and transforming her ignorant spiritual dogmatism into a spirituality worthy of the name. She would then have understood that the true Mater Dolorosa is no other than this suffering Matter whose progressive evolution is indeed a perpetual Assumption.

1.02 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  First my guru gives molasses for the making of the Wine; My longing is the ferment to transform it.
  Knowledge, the maker of the Wine, prepares it for me then; And when it is done, my mind imbibes it from the bottle of the mantra,
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  Prayer and holy company & Earnest longing
  MASTER: "Prayer and the company of holy men. You cannot get rid of an ailment without the help of a physician. But it is not enough to be in the company of religious people only for a day. You should constantly seek it, for the disease has become chronic. Again, you can't understand the pulse rightly unless you live with a physician. Moving with him constantly, you learn to distinguish between the pulse of phlegm and the pulse of bile."

1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  How many things there are in your body in reference to which you do not know their reality and essence, such as [46] desire, love, misery and pleasure. Their existence is admitted, but their quantity and quality cannot be measured. If you desire to learn the absolute truth about them, you cherish a vain longing; and it is the same, if you desire to know the absolute nature of voice, nutrition or hearing. As that which is perceived by the eye has no relation to voice, and as that which is perceived by the ear has no relation to form, and as that which is perceived by the sense of smelling has no relation to taste, so that the one can be known by means of the other, in the same manner that which is perceived through the medium of the mind or of divine power, cannot be perceived by the senses. Again, as the spirit exists and controls the body, and yet we know not the mode and essence of it, so God is present in all things, and controls and governs all things, but his form, essence and quality are exempt from being known. Exemption and freedom may be illustrated in still another manner. In the same way that the spirit pervades all the limbs and the body, and the body is entirely subject to its control, and that the spirit is indivisible, while the body is divisible, so also in relation to God, all that exists, springs from him, all creatures exist by his word, and in all possible things his operations are seen, yet still he is not related to place, nor does he reason about anything, and he is free from relation or affinity to any quality of bodies or to quantity.
  This topic of exemption and freedom, beloved, cannot be perfectly explained, until the mystery about the soul shall have been developed. The law, however, gives no permission to develop this secret, and it is not lawful to stretch out one's hand to do what the legislator forbids. But the language of his excellency the glory of the world,1 "God created man in his own image," cannot be explained [47] until die mystery about the nature of the soul or spirit has been explained.

1.02 - Outline of Practice, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism
  They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.
  But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix

1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  19.: As I said elsewhere,29' he works like a file, secretly and silently wearing its way: I will give you some examples to show how he begins his wiles. For instance: a nun has such a longing for penance as to feel no peace unless she is tormenting herself in some way.30' This is good in itself; but suppose that the Prioress has forbidden her to practise any mortifications without special leave, and the sister thinking that, in such a meritorious cause, she may venture to disobey, secretly leads such a life that she loses her health and cannot even fulfil the requirements of her rule-you see how this show of good ends. Another nun is very zealous about religious perfection; this is very right, but may cause her to think every small fault she sees in her sisters a serious crime, and to watch constantly whether they do anything wrong, that she may run to the Prioress to accuse them of it. At the same time, may be she never notices her own shortcomings because of her great zeal about other people's religious observance, while perhaps her sisters, not seeing her intention but only knowing of the watch she keeps on them, do not take her behaviour in good part.
  20.: The devil's chief aim here is to cool the charity and lessen the mutual affection of the nuns, which would injure them seriously. Be sure, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these command- ments, the more perfect we shall be. The sole object of our Rule and Constitutions is to help us to observe these two laws.

1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
  Once Petrarch reaches the summit, however, his narrative becomes unsettled; the shifts of tense indicate his intense agitation even at the mere recollection of his experience at the summit. "Shaken by the unaccustomed wind and the wide, freely shifting vistas, I was immediately awe-struck. I look: the clouds lay beneath my feet . . . . I look toward Italy, whither turned my soul even more than my gaze, and sigh at the sight of the Italian sky which appeared more to my spirit than to my eyes, and I was overcome by an inexpressible longing to return home . . . . Suddenly a new thought seized me, transporting me from space into time [a locistraduxit ad tempora]. I said to myself: it has been ten years since you left Bologna . . . ." In the lines that follow, recollecting a decade of suffering, and preoccupied by the overpowering desire for his homel and that befell him during the unaccustomed sojourn on the summit, he reveals that his thoughts have turned inward. Still marked by his encounter with what was then a new reality, yet shaken by its effect, he flees "from space into time," out of the first experience with space back to the gold-ground of the Siena masters.
  Having confessed his anguish and unburdened his soul, he describes further his perception of space: "Then I turn westward; in vain my eye searches for the ridge of the Pyrenees, boundary between France and Spain . . . . To my right I see the mountains of Lyon, to the left the Mediterranean surf washes against Marseille before it Breaks on Aigues-Mortes. Though the distance was considerable, we could see clearly; the Rhne itself lay beneath our gaze."

1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  So, this intensity of asking, the profundity of the soul's aspiration for the object that is being sought, mentioned in this sutra of Patanjali, tvra savegnm sanna, is the crux of the whole matter. We are also told that mumukshutva is the most important qualification of a spiritual seeker. All other things, even viveka, vairagya, shatsampat, come afterwards. Mumukshutva intense longing swallows up every other thing. What qualification did the gopis have? They were not qualified MA's, graduates from Oxford. They had no viveka or vairagya in the sense that we describe academically, in philosophical parlance. We should not even apply these technical aspects to them. It was simply a surge of their souls. They wanted it and wanted nothing else, and there ended the matter. "You don't tell me anything else. I want it, I want it, and I don't want anything else." This kind of aspiration was in their hearts, and we should not bring any other argument here either philosophical, or academic, or logical, or scientific. We do not want to hear anything else. When these arguments were brought in an academic manner by Uddhava, they said, "You bundle up your knowledge and go from here. We want Him, that is all, and we do not want to hear anything else." This wanting is something which is inscrutable, though it is very easily said.
  Well, we may say, "If it is such a simple matter, then this is what we want and we won't want anything else." But, my dear friends, this wanting is almost everything; there is nothing which it does not include because this tivra samvegatva this wanting, this intensity of asking is of a very strange character. We have never been accustomed to this kind of wanting in this world. We cannot want even our father and mother with the intensity that is expected here. What is the dearest object in this world? Perhaps it is our parents; we cannot think of a dearer thing than father and mother, for instance. We cannot like even them so much, unless certain conditions are fulfilled. Even our love for parents is conditional; unconditioned love is impossible. Certain conditions must be fulfilled only then we love. Otherwise we say, "Good bye, I don't want to look at you." But here it is not like that; this is unconditioned asking. It is not limited by space, time, causality, or any kind of qualification from outside. Whatever may happen, and whatever be the difficulties on the way - whatever be the obstacles and whatever be the temptations we shall not yield to any of these but move straight towards the objective that is before us.
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  Such an asking, such a kind of aspiration, this kind of longing is unknown to us. Neither can you understand it, nor can I understand it. It is impossible for any human mind to have such an aspiration for anything in this world. We have tentative longings; we have conditional desires and limited loves, but unlimited love is unknown to us. Nevertheless, this is what is needed if we want success. Unfortunately, as the mind has been tethered to conditions of various types right from its birth in this physical world, this kind of aspiration has been a strange phenomenon even to the farthest stretch of imagination. But now we have come to a field of a new type of training where such an old prejudice of thought is to be abandoned and a new understanding is to be awakened in ourselves, which has nothing to do with the factors which may condition this asking in any manner whatsoever. Bondage is of two kinds that which looks bad, and that which looks good. There are two types of bondage in this world. There are certain things which everybody appraises as valuable, considers wonderful and praiseworthy; that is one kind of bondage, and it is as powerful a bondage as the second kind that which we call 'bad' in this world. This is because the idea of bad and good is, again, conditional in respect of circumstances, conditions and stages of evolution. What is bad at one time may be good at another time, and vice versa. So in this unconditional asking of the soul for its supreme object, it gets rid of the shackles of conditional factors either in the form of virtue or in the form of vice.
  Spiritual aspiration is a non-ethical movement of consciousness where it becomes superior to all conditions either of morality, or ethics, or law, because it has a law of its own. The law of divine love is different from the law of the world. It cannot be appreciated by ordinary minds, nor can it be understood, because every desire, every wish, every effort, every longing, every love in this world has an ulterior purpose. Whenever we love something in this world, it is with an ulterior motive. We want to achieve something out of it, so the love is not an end in itself. It is the means to the achievement of something else and, therefore, we cannot understand the nature of that love, which is a law unto itself. We are acquainted only with that love which is conditioned by other laws. What are those laws? They are the laws of achievement of an ulterior object, for which purpose love is used as a means or an instrument. So, we are not really unselfish lovers in this world.
  Unselfish love is unknown, because love is used as an instrument for the achievement of something else. How then can we call it unselfish? But here, love is a law unto itself in the sense that it has no object outside it it is itself the object. We may ask how it is possible. Here the divine aspiration, or the love of the Supreme Reality, is not an emotion. It is not merely a psychological function. It is not the mind thinking of something, or feeling in respect of an external object. It is a rising up of the soul towards a higher condition of itself. This is a great differentiating factor between ordinary objects which are sought in the world, and the spiritual object which is the goal of yoga or spiritual life.

1.037 - Preventing the Fall in Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Sometimes it so happens that these impediments persist for a long time. They do not cease after a few days. We should not worry if they continue even for a few years, in the case of certain people. Then it happens that we get fed up. There is a feeling of dullness, and a sense of having had enough with the practice. This is what Patanjali refers to as styana, which follows vyadhi; vyadhi is illness and styana is dullness. The enthusiasm comes down and all our vigour goes. The ardour that we felt for the practice vanishes because we have been suffering and suffering for months and years, and who would like that pain or agony? Then, naturally, the alternative for the mind would be to slow down the intensity of the practice, and slow down even the feeling and the longing that it had earlier. But the trouble will not end merely with this arising of dullness.
  There is a series of difficulties that follows this condition of lethargic inactivity and the slowing down of the intensity of meditation. The mind will expect only one chance to enter in, and if we give the least chance for this peculiar trait of the mind to counteract any good thing that we do, it will set up a tempest, a cyclone of counteracting work, which will prevent us from taking further steps in the practice of yoga. It will create doubts in the mind. "Oh, maybe something is seriously wrong either with the initiation that I have received, or I may not be fit for the practice. Otherwise, why have I been suffering like this for years? I have achieved nothing. I have not had the vision of God after ten years or fifteen years of meditation, and the only thing that I have is purging. I have no desire to eat anything, and I cannot sleep.
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  Avirati is a sudden flare-up of buried desires in a very vehement manner, pouncing on anything and everything that is in front. It may be even an inanimate object it may be a fountain pen, a wristwatch, a transistor, or it may be a donkey. It does not matter what it is, because the desire that has been kept suppressed for years together wants only an immediate satisfaction, even through the silliest object possible. This condition of avirati (avirati means the absence of virati, which is the same as rati) attachment, affection, craving, and longing for the smallest satisfaction available will completely divert the attention of the mind from the original ideal. Even a little stream can draw the entire mass of water of a large river with a force that can burst all boundaries and devastate everything that is around. This is what we call 'the fall' in yoga. When a person reaches this state, he has fallen. We talk of a fall and hear of these things happening in the Epics and Puranas, where the mind has come back to the original condition from where it wanted to rise; only it is in a worse state.
  All of these virulent flare-ups are to be guarded against before they actually happen. It is better to prevent the rise of a disease by prophylactics, etc., rather than to try to treat the disease when it has already come up in a violent form. This is only to present before the mind of the seeker the possibilities of impediments and the nature of the difficulties that may arise. The teacher also prescribes methods of remedying them in a proper manner.

1.03 - On Children, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Lifes longing for itself.
  They come through you but not from you,

1.03 - On exile or pilgrimage, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  Exile means that we leave forever everything in our own country that prevents us from reaching the goal of the religious life. Exile means modest manners, wisdom which remains unknown, prudence not recognized as such by most, a hidden life, an invisible intention, unseen meditation, desire for humiliation, longing for hardship, constant determination to love God, abundance of charity, renunciation of vainglory, depth of silence.
  Those who have come to love the Lord are at first unceasingly and greatly disturbed by this thought, as if burning with divine fire. I speak of separation from their own, undertaken by the lovers of perfection so that they may live a life of hardship and simplicity. But great and praiseworthy as this is, yet it requires great discretion; for not every kind of exile, carried to extremes, is good.

1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
  82. QUESTION: Concerning the first Obligatory Prayer it hath been ordained, "one should perform it at whatever time one findeth oneself in a state of humbleness and longing adoration": is it to be performed once in twenty-four hours, or more frequently?
  ANSWER: Once in twenty-four hours is sufficient; this is that which hath been uttered by the Tongue of Divine Command.

1.03 - Some Aspects of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  for his childhood longings, but, going beyond himself into the sphere of the
  collective psyche, he will enter first into the treasure-house of collective

1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  Probably with both. The unsatisfied longing of the son for life
  and the world ought to be taken seriously. There is in him a

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "You may say that there are many errors and superstitions in another religion. I should reply: Suppose there are. Every religion has errors. Everyone thinks that his watch alone gives the correct time. It is enough to have yearning for God. It is enough to love Him and feel attracted to Him: Don't you know that God is the Inner Guide? He sees the longing of our heart and the yearning of our soul. Suppose a man has several sons. The older boys address him distinctly as 'Baba' or 'Papa', but the babies can at best call him 'Ba' or 'Pa'. Now, will the father be angry with those who address him in this indistinct way? The father knows that they too are calling him, only they cannot pronounce his name well. All children are the same to the father. Likewise, the devotees call on God alone, though by different names. They call on one Person only. God is one, but His names are many."
  Thursday, August 24, 1882.

1.04 - Communion, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  able longing to be united with you beyond life;
  through death? The consecration of the world

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds may be thought of, in Ren Gunons phrase, as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godheads creative energy. The creature, as creature, may be very far from God, in the sense that it lacks the intelligence to discover the nature of the divine Ground of its being. But the creature in its eternal essenceas the meeting place of creatureliness and primordial Godheadis one of the infinite number of points where divine Reality is wholly and eternally present. Because of this, rational beings can come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, non-rational and inanimate beings may reveal to rational beings the fulness of Gods presence within their material forms. The poets or the painters vision of the divine in nature, the worshippers awareness of a holy presence in the sacrament, symbol or imagethese are not entirely subjective. True, such perceptions cannot be had by all perceivers, for knowledge is a function of being; but the thing known is independent of the mode and nature of the knower. What the poet and painter see, and try to record for us, is actually there, waiting to be apprehended by anyone who has the right kind of faculties. Similarly, in the image or the sacramental object the divine Ground is wholly present. Faith and devotion prepare the worshippers mind for perceiving the ray of Godhead at its point of intersection with the particular fragment of matter before him. Incidentally, by being worshipped, such symbols become the centres of a field of force. The longings, emotions and imaginations of those who kneel and, for generations, have knelt before the shrine create, as it were, an enduring vortex in the psychic medium, so that the image lives with a secondary, inferior divine life projected on to it by its worshippers, as well as with the primary divine life which, in common with all other animate and inanimate beings, it possesses in virtue of its relation to the divine Ground. The religious experience of sacramentalists and image worshippers may be perfectly genuine and objective; but it is not always or necessarily an experience of God or the Godhead. It may be, and perhaps in most cases it actually is, an experience of the field of force generated by the minds of past and present worshippers and projected on to the sacramental object where it sticks, so to speak, in a condition of what may be called second-hand objectivity, waiting to be perceived by minds suitably attuned to it. How desirable this kind of experience really is will have to be discussed in another section. All that need be said here is that the iconoclasts contempt for sacraments and symbols, as being nothing but mummery with stocks and stones is quite unjustified.
  The workmen still in doubt what course to take,

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  When motives of humility and real longing for salvation decide us to bend our neck and entrust ourselves to another in the Lord, before entering upon this life, if there is any vice and pride in us, we ought first to question and examine, and even, so to speak, test our helmsman, so as not to mistake the sailor for the pilot, a sick man for a doctor, a passionate for a dispassionate man, the sea for a harbour, and so bring about the speedy shipwreck of our soul. But when once we have entered the arena of religion and obedience we must no longer judge our good manager4 in any way at all, even though we may perhaps see in him some slight failings, since he is only human. Otherwise, by sitting in judgment we shall get no profit from our subjection.
  It is absolutely indispensable for those of us who wish to retain undoubting faith in our superiors to write their good deeds indelibly in our hearts and constantly remember them, so that when the demons sow among us distrust towards them, we may be able to silence them by what is preserved in our memory. For the more faith flourishes in the heart, the more alacrity the body has in service. But he

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  The spiritual torment cannot be understood, until a person is acquainted with his own soul and spirit. His soul exists in its own individuality: it is not dependent upon form or mould : it has neither hand or foot, nor eye or ear. The external senses which it possessed were dependent on the body, and remain inactive and useless after death, and all the enjoyments resulting from them become entirely null. Wife, children, friends, property, slaves and domestics, equipage, cattle, estates and fields were formerly sources of enjoyment to it. And if he were a lover of, and a seeker after these things, so that he had been always occupied with them, the torment of separation from them will make a deep impression upon his soul, and he will be most certainly the subject of sorrow and lamentation. But if his heart was untrammeled by these delights, and was inclined towards the future world and was always awaiting death, if the enjoyments of the world were distasteful to him, while he was always occupied with the wants of the soul, which are to find out God - then, in the event of death, he will have attained his longing and his love, and have reached rest, joy and happiness.
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  Call to mind now, that the spirit of a man is eternal: it has not perished at death. Can you doubt then, that that spirit which had chosen the glare and glitter of the world for its beloved object, and had been absorbed heart and soul in the occupations of the world - when in a moment of time, all that which it had been gaining day after day, which it had obtained with great perseverance and industry, and which it had been coveting and striving for during many years, is taken out of its hands by death, can you doubt that it will be the prey of endless sorrow and grief, of abundant mortification, regret and remorse ? This accords with what the apostle of God declares, "Love what thou hast loved: but thou shalt be separated from it." But when a man realizes that this world is a stage of a journey, and that the purpose of his coming hither is to attain the knowledge and love of God, and when he is day and night occupied with this, forsaking the world before death arrives, and perhaps even envying and longing for death, there can be no doubt that in the event of death, he is delivered from all paiu and sorrow, and obtains rest and spiritual union.
  From what has been said, it follows that the torments of the grave are for the friends of this world and the seekers of the world, and not for the devout and pious. And here we find an explanation of what the prophet of God said : that "the world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the infidel."
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  If you say, O student of the mysteries, that "the torments of the grave are occasioned by the relations arising from this present world, from which no one can be exempt, [85] since every one has either children, a house, horses or servants, and that it results, without doubt, in causing a feeling of dependence upon them: and hence, no person will be able to escape the torments of the grave," we observe, in reply, that what yon say is correct, but then there are persons who have relations of dependence upon the world, and who always desire death from the Lord God. The prophets themselves did not puss away from the world until they longed for death. You should know also, that the rich who are attached to this world are of two classes. One class includes those, who although they have a love for the world, yet they love the blessed God more. Au illustration of the character of men of this class, may be found in the man who owns a house in each of two cities; while living in one of them he has no longing to remove to the other. But it happens that an office is conferred upon him in that other city, and immediately he is overjoyed, and is eager to go there, and makes every preparation to remove thither and to forsake his first house. His longing for an office, leads him to move, and takes away all desire of remaining where he was previously. Now although men of this class have an inclination to the world, yet as on the other side the love of God preponderates, they prefer to go to the future world, and would not indeed, if it were possible to do otherwise, remain here a day. When persons of this class die, whose affections preponderate towards the other world, they do not experience the torments of the grave.
  The other class, beloved, includes those who are entirely absorbed in the love of the world, and of pleasure. This class cannot escape from the torments of the grave, as the Lord in his everlasting word declares: "There are none of you who will not be precipitated."1But some of this class occasionally have a leaning towards eternal truth, especially [86] if there is any trace of the love of God remaining in their hearts, and when they are about to leave the world, they forget it and never more yearn towards it. In that case they also are saved from the tribulations of the grave. A picture of this class is found in the person who also'has a house in each of two cities, and as long as he is living in the one, he has no longings for the other. But at last some necessity compels him to quit his first house, and to go and reside in the second. After a few days residence, the love he had for the first house dies away from his heart and it appears better to him not to return thither. This class suffer torment in the grave up to the point where they forget the world, but after familiarizing themselves with the mansions of the future world, they are freed from their pain. Those, however, whose hearts were immersed in the pleasures and cares of the world, and whose hearts bore no trace of the love of God, or of thought fulness for the future world, and who preferred this world to the other, will never be delivered from torment.
  There is not a person in the world who will admit that he does not love God, or but that will pretend that he does love God. But this pretention can be brought to a touchstone and standard and found out by experiment. Just look at his actions and conduct, and see whether he will do a thing which has the holy approbation of God, or whether he will abstain from doing a thing which has not the divine approbation, notwithstanding the strong opposing inclinations of his soul, and thus show his reverence for the Holy Law. If he does thus oppose the desires of his soul, he is correct when he affirms, "I love God." But if he is following the inclinations of his soul, and is only saying with his tongue that he loves God, his declaration is a lie. When a person in this state of mind utters the confession, "There is no God but God," a voice from God addresses him saying, "You are a liar, for your actions [87] are opposed to your words." In this state of mind there is no use in making the declaration, "I love God." The prophet of God says however, that it is not an idle act to utter the phrase "There is no God but God" for the sake of preserving a man from the divine vengeance, so long as the man is one who does not prefer worldly works to the works of the future world....

1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  dous war which so afflicts us, this remolding, this universal longing
  for a new order, what are they but the shock, the tremor and the
  --
  sionate longing to grow, to be, is what we need. There can be no
  place for the poor in spirit, the sceptics, the pessimists, the sad of
  --
  quer the World and a passionate longing to be united with God:
  the vital act, specifically new, corresponding to a new age in the

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  comfort avails any more; longing transcends a world after death, even the gods; existence is negated
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1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  But even such a science, when completed, could not, owing to the paucity of our records be, by itself, a perfect guide. It would be necessary to discover, fix & take always into account the actual ideas, experiences and thought-atmosphere of the Vedic Rishis; for it is these things that give colour to the words of men and determine their use. The European translations represent the Vedic Rishis as cheerful semi-savages full of material ideas & longings, ceremonialists, naturalistic Pagans, poets endowed with an often gorgeous but always incoherent imagination, a rambling style and an inability either to think in connected fashion or to link their verses by that natural logic which all except children and the most rudimentary intellects observe. In the light of this conception they interpret Vedic words & evolve a meaning out of the verses. Sayana and the Indian scholars perceive in the Vedic Rishis ceremonialists & Puranists like themselves with an occasional scholastic & Vedantic bent; they interpret Vedic words and Vedic mantras accordingly. Wherever they can get words to mean priest, prayer, sacrifice, speech, rice, butter, milk, etc, they do so redundantly and decisively. It would be at least interesting to test the results of another hypothesis,that the Vedic thinkers were clear-thinking men with at least as clear an expression as ordinary poets have and at least as high ideas and as connected and logical a way of expressing themselvesallowing for the succinctness of poetical formsas is found in other religious poetry, say the Psalms or the Book of Job or St Pauls Epistles. But there is a better psychological test than any mere hypothesis. If it be found, as I hold it will be found, that a scientific & rational philological dealing with the text reveals to us poems not of mere ritual or Nature worship, but hymns full of psychological & philosophical religion expressed in relation to fixed practices & symbolic ceremonies, if we find that the common & persistent words of Veda, words such as vaja, vani, tuvi, ritam, radhas, rati, raya, rayi, uti, vahni etc,an almost endless list,are used so persistently because they expressed shades of meaning & fine psychological distinctions of great practical importance to the Vedic religion, that the Vedic gods were intelligently worshipped & the hymns intelligently constructed to express not incoherent poetical ideas but well-connected spiritual experiences,then the interpreter of Veda may test his rendering by repeating the Vedic experiences through Yoga & by testing & confirming them as a scientist tests and confirms the results of his predecessors. He may discover whether there are the same shades & distinctions, the same connections in his own psychological & spiritual experiences. If there are, he will have the psychological confirmation of his philological results.
  Even this confirmation may not be sufficient. For although the new version may have the immense superiority of a clear depth & simplicity supported & confirmed by a minute & consistent scientific experimentation, although it may explain rationally & simply most or all of the passages which have baffled the older & the newer, the Eastern & the Western scholars, still the confirmation may be discounted as a personal test applied in the light of a previous conclusion. If, however, there is a historical confirmation as well, if it is found that Veda has exactly the same psychology & philosophy as Vedanta, Purana, Tantra & ancient & modern Yoga & all of them indicate the same Vedic results which we ourselves have discovered in our experience, then we may possess our souls in peace & say to ourselves that we have discovered the meaning of Veda; its true meaning if not all its significance. Nor need we be discouraged, if we have to disagree with Sayana & Yaska in the actual rendering of the hymns no less than with the Europeans. Neither of these great authorities can be held to be infallible. Yaska is an authority for the interpretation of Vedic words in his own age, but that age was already far subsequent to the Vedic & the sacred language of the hymns was already to him an ancient tongue. The Vedas are much more ancient than we usually suppose. Sayana represents the scholarship & traditions of a period not much anterior to our own. There is therefore no authoritative rendering of the hymns. The Veda remains its own best authority.
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  Indra and Varuna are called to give victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.
  We see the results & the conditions of the action ofVaruna in the four remaining verses. By their protection we have safety from attack, sanema, safety for our shansa, our rayah, our radhas, by the force of Indra, by the protecting greatness of Varuna against which passion & disturbance cast themselves in vain, only to be destroyed. This safety & this settled ananda or delight, we use for deep meditation, ni dhimahi, we go deep into ourselves and the object we have in view in our meditation is prarechanam, the Greek katharsis, the cleansing of the system mental, bodily, vital, of all that is impure, defective, disturbing, inharmonious. Syad uta prarechanam! In this work of purification we are sure to be obstructed by the powers that oppose all healthful change; but Indra & Varuna are to give us victory, jigyushas kritam. The final result of the successful purification is described in the eighth sloka. The powers of the understanding, its various faculties & movements, dhiyah, delivered from self-will & rebellion, become obedient to Indra & Varuna; obedient to Varuna, they move according to the truth & law, the ritam; obedient to Indra they fulfil with that passivity in activity, which we seek by Yoga, all the works to which mental force can apply itself when it is in harmony with Varuna & the ritam. The result is sharma, peace. Nothing is more remarkable in the Veda than the exactness with which hymn after hymn describes with a marvellous simplicity & lucidity the physical & psychological processes through which Indian Yoga proceeds. The process, the progression, the successive movements of the soul here described are exactly what the Yogin experiences today so many thousands of years after the Veda was revealed. No wonder, it is regarded as eternal truth, not the expression of any particular mind, not paurusheya but impersonal, divine & revealed.

1.053 - A Very Important Sadhana, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Nehbhikramanosti pratyavyo na vidyate (B.G.II.40), says the Bhagavadgita. Even a little good that we do in this direction has its own effect. Even if we credit one paisa (one-hundredth of an Indian rupee) to our account in the bank, it is a credit, though it is very little. It is only one paisa that we have put there, but still it is there. We cannot say it is not there. Likewise, even a little bit of sincere effort that is put forth in the direction of sense control and devotion to God is a great credit indeed accumulated by the soul. There should not be a doubt whether it will yield fruit. We should not expect fruit in the way we would dream in our mind, because the nature of the response that is generated by the practice depends upon the extent of obstacles that are already present and not eliminated. The peculiar impressions created inside by frustrated feelings will also act as an obstacle. The frustrated feelings are the subtle longings of the mind, deeper than the level of conscious activity, which create a sense of disquiet and displeasure in the mind.
  We are always in a mood of unhappiness. We cannot know what has happened to us. We are not satisfied neither with people, nor with our sadhana, nor with anything in this world. This disquiet, peacelessness and displeasure which can manifest as a sustained mood in spiritual seekers is due to the presence of the impressions left by frustrated desires. We have not withdrawn our senses from objects wantonly or deliberately, but we have withdrawn them due a pressure from scriptures, Guru, atmosphere, monastery, or other conditions.

1.05 - Problems of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  and longings which previously caused him to cling obstinately to a childs
  paradise, or at least to look back at it over his shoulder. Normal adaptation
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  the right thing becomes a bore for the man who knows how, whereas theeternal bungler cherishes a secret longing to be right for once in some
  distant future.

1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   lotus in the region of the heart, and, as already indicated, it is to this center that the life-currents of the etheric body must be directed. The fourth attri bute, the longing for liberation, serves to bring to fruition the etheric organ in the heart region. Once this attri bute becomes an inner habit, the individual frees himself from everything which depends only upon the faculties of his own personal nature. He ceases to view things from his own separate standpoint, and the boundaries of his own narrow self fettering him to this point of view disappear. The secrets of the spiritual world gain access to his inner self. This is liberation. For those fetters constrain the individual to regard tings and beings in a manner corresponding to his own personal traits. It is from this personal manner of regarding things that the student must become liberated and free.
  It will be clear from the above that the instructions given in esoteric training exert a determining influence reaching the innermost depths of human nature. Such are the instructions regarding the four qualities mentioned above. They can be found in one form or another in all the great cosmogonies that take account of the

1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
     But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence it has leaned on earthly love, affection, tenderness, goodwill, compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength and courage, on all that can help to refine and purify the grossness and commonness of human nature; but it knows how mixed are these human movements at their best and at their worst how fallen and stamped with the mark of ego and self-deceptive sentimental falsehood and the lower self profiting by the imitation of a soul movement. At once, emerging, it is ready and eager to break all the old ties and imperfect emotional activities and replace them by a greater spiritual Truth of love and oneness. It may still admit the human forms and movements, but on condition that they are turned towards the One alone. It accepts only the ties that are helpful, the heart's reverence for the Guru, the union of the God-seekers, a spiritual compassion for the ignorant human and animal world and its peoples, the joy and happiness and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere. It plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart's secret centre and, while that call is there, no reproach of egoism, no mere outward summons of altruism or duty or philanthropy or service will deceive or divert it from its sacred longing and its obedience to the attraction of the Divinity within it. It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and is ready to shed all the downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness and the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.
     All true truths of Love and of the works of Love the psychic being accepts in their place; but its flame mounts always upward and it is eager to push the ascent from lesser to higher degrees of Truth, since it knows that only by the ascent to a highest Truth and the descent of that highest Truth can Love be delivered from the cross and placed upon the throne; for the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns life into a state of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  the longings in our dreams. We then began the tussle with our wet shoes, into which we could scarcely
  force our feet, which were sore and swollen with edema. And there were the usual moans and groans

1.06 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice 2 The Works of Love - The Works of Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It is possible, as in a certain high exaggeration of the path of knowledge, to cut here also the knot of the problem, escape the difficulty of uniting the spirit of love with the crudities of the world-action by avoiding it; it is open to us, withdrawing from outward life and action altogether, to live alone with our adoration of the Divine in the heart's silence. It is possible too to admit only those acts that are either in themselves an expression of love for the Divine, prayer, praise, symbolic acts of worship or subordinate activities that may be attached to these things and partake of their spirit, and to leave aside all else; the soul turns away to satisfy its inner longing in the absorbed or the God-centred life of the saint and devotee. It is possible, again, to open the doors of life more largely and to spend one's love of the Divine in acts of service to those around us and to the race; one can do the works of philanthropy, benevolence and beneficence, charity and succour to man and beast and every creature, transfigure them by a kind of spiritual passion, at least bring into their merely ethical appearance the greater power of a spiritual motive. This is indeed the solution most commonly favoured by the religious mind of today and we see it confidently advanced on all sides as the proper field of action of the Godseeker or of the man whose life is founded on divine love and knowledge. But the integral Yoga pushed towards a complete union of the Divine with the earth-life cannot stop short in this narrow province or limit this union within the lesser dimensions of an ethical rule of philanthropy and beneficence. All action must be made in it part of the God-life, our acts of knowledge, our acts of power and production and creation, our acts of joy and beauty and the soul's pleasure, our acts of will and endeavour and struggle and not our acts only of love and beneficent service. Its way to do these things will be not outward and mental, but inward and spiritual, and to that end it will bring into all activities, whatever they are, the spirit of divine love, the spirit of adoration and worship, the spirit of happiness in the Divine and in the beauty of the Divine so as to make all life a sacrifice of the works of the soul's love to the Divine, its cult of the Master of its existence.
  It is possible so to turn life into an act of adoration to the Supreme by the spirit in one's works; for, says the Gita, "He who gives to me with a heart of adoration a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a cup of water, I take and enjoy that offering of his devotion"; and it is not only any dedicated external gift that can be so offered with love and devotion, but all our thoughts, all our feelings and sensations, all our outward activities and their forms and objects can be such gifts to the Eternal. It is true that the special act or form of action has its importance, even a great importance, but it is the spirit in the act that is the essential factor; the spirit of which it is the symbol or materialised expression gives it its whole value and justifying significance. Or it may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole, - a practical worship of the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation with the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart and soul and spirit. It is so that life can be changed into worship, - by putting behind it the spirit of a transcendent and universal love, the seeking of oneness, the sense of oneness; by making each act a symbol, an expression of Godward emotion or a relation with the Divine; by turning all we do into an act of worship, an act of the soul's communion, the mind's understanding, the life's obedience, the heart's surrender.
  In any cult the symbol, the significant rite or expressive figure is not only a moving and enriching aesthetic element, but a physical means by which the human being begins to make outwardly definite the emotion and aspiration of his heart, to confirm it and to dynamise it. For if without a spiritual aspiration worship is meaningless and vain, yet the aspiration also without the act and the form is a disembodied and, for life, an incompletely effective power. It is unhappily the fate of all forms in human life to become crystallised, purely formal and therefore effete, and although form and cult preserve always their power for the man who can still enter into their meaning, the majority come to use the ceremony as a mechanical rite and the symbol as a lifeless sign, and because that kills the soul of religion, cult and form have in the end to be changed or thrown aside altogether.
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  As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the
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1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  10:Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the supreme Mother there is a subtler mystery of her nature and without it Wisdom and Force would be incomplete things and without it perfection would not be perfect. Above them is the miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of an irresistible universal charm and attraction that draws and holds things and forces and beings together and obliges them to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from behind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures. This is the power of MAHALAKSHMI and there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings. Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi. For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow out from her like light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss. Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
  11:And yet it is not easy to meet the demand of this enchanting Power or to keep her presence. Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of the life and surroundings, this is the demand of Mahalakshmi. Where there is affinity to the rhythms of the secret world-bliss and response to the call of the AllBeautiful and concord and unity and the glad flow of many lives turned towards the Divine, in that atmosphere she consents to abide. But all that is ugly and mean and base, all that is poor and sordid and squalid, all that is brutal and coarse repels her advent. Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come; where they are mixed and disfigured with baser things, she turns soon to depart or cares little to pour her riches. If she finds herself in men's hearts surrounded with selfishness and hatred and jealousy and malignance and envy and strife, if treachery and greed and ingratitude are mixed in the sacred chalice, if grossness of passion and unrefined desire degrade devotion, in such hearts the gracious and beautiful Goddess will not linger. A divine disgust seizes upon her and she withdraws, for she is not one who insists or strives; or, veiling her face, she waits for this bitter and poisonous devil's stuff to be rejected and disappear before she will found anew her happy influence. Ascetic bareness and harshness are not pleasing to her nor the suppression of the heart's deeper emotions and the rigid repression of the soul's and the life's parts of beauty. For it is through love and beauty that she lays on men the yoke of the Divine. Life is turned in her supreme creations into a rich work of celestial art and all existence into a poem of sacred delight; the world's riches are brought together and concerted for a supreme order and even the simplest and commonest things are made wonderful by her intuition of unity and the breath of her spirit. Admitted to the heart she lifts wisdom to pinnacles of wonder and reveals to it the mystic secrets of the ecstasy that surpasses all knowledge, meets devotion with the passionate attraction of the Divine, teaches to strength and force the rhythm that keeps the might of their acts harmonious and in measure and casts on perfection the charm that makes it endure for ever.

1.06 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Intense longing enables one to see God
  BRAHMO DEVOTEE: "What are the means by which one can see God?"
  MASTER: "Can you weep for Him with intense longing of heart? Men shed a jugful of tears for the sake of their children, for their wives, or for money. But who weeps for God? So long as the child remains engrossed with its toys, the mother looks after her cooking and other household duties. But when the child no longer relishes the toys, it throws them aside and yells for its mother. Then the mother takes the rice-pot down from the hearth, runs in haste, and takes the child in her arms."
  Why so much controversy about God?
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  My longing for deliverance
  Will be Thy gentle gopi maids.

1.075 - Self-Control, Study and Devotion to God, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Whatever we think in our mind, that we will become, and that we will get. But, this thinking should not be a shallow thinking; it should be a very deep absorption of oneself in what one expects. The whole of us should be saturated with our longing for the ideal which is in our mind. There should be no other thought except of the qualities, characters and nature of the ideal which is in our mind. Anything and everything can be obtained in this world if only there is a will behind it. If the force of thought is intense enough, there is nothing which is impossible. This is the point made out in this sutra.
  The svadhyaya that is referred to here is not reading in a library. It is not going to the library and reading any book that is there on the shelf. It is a holy resort to a concentrated form of study of a chosen scripture. It may be even two or three texts it does not matter which will become the object of ones daily concentration and meditation, because what is known as svadhyaya,or Self-study, or holy study, or sacred study is a form of meditation itself in a little diffused form.
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  Even Garuda, who is the fastest of birds, cannot move if he is shackled with iron chains. What is the use of saying that he is a very fast bird? He cannot move, because he has been tied to a peg with strong ropes or chains. Likewise, whatever be our ardour, whatever be our longing or fervour, that would be set at naught by the calls of the earth the demands of the senses, the feelings of the mind, and the loves of the emotions. These are terrific things, and the teacher of yoga has been cautious in laying the basic foundations in the very beginning itself so that these impediments may be obviated to a large extent. No one can be completely free from them, not even the best of sages. One day or the other they will come in some form, but at least they will be in a milder form not in a violent, wind-like form.
  The advice intended by these sutras propounding the yamas and the niyamas is that no one, not even the best of students of yoga, can be free from the possibility of a reversion. There is no such thing as the best of students everyone is in some stage which is other than the best. And so, there is always a chance of it being possible for one to listen to the calls of the realms which one has attempted to transcend, inasmuch as the senses, or the means of perception be longing to the earlier stages, are still present.

1.078 - Kumbhaka and Concentration of Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Here we are not concerned with bahya or krodha, or with raga of the ordinary type; but if we want to call it raga, we may call it so. It is a great love for the great ideal of yoga; the ardour that is expected in every student of yoga. The yearning that he cherishes within, the longing that is uncontrollable for God-realisation may be regarded as a kind of superior raga that is present, which prevents the mind from thinking anything else. When the prana is suddenly withheld not accompanied either by expulsion or inhalation that type of retention which is suddenly introduced, for any reason whatsoever, is called stambha vritti. They are the three types of kumbhaka mentioned in the sutra, bhya bhyantara stambha vtti (II.50).
  Now Patanjali mentions dea kla sakhybhi parida (II.50). The measure or the calculation of the method of breathing for the purpose of retention is referred to here. We can find out to what extent we have mastered the technique of pranayama by the extent of the length of space occupied by the movement of the prana, externally or internally. As it was suggested, a cotton fibre held near the nostrils will give us an idea of the space that is occupied by the prana in expulsion. When we have greater and greater mastery over the prana, the distance will be lessened gradually so that we may have to bring the cotton fibre nearer and nearer the nose to see its movement.

1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
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  A Song of longing
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  he following is a request prayer to Tara, A Song of longing for Tara,
  the Infallible (Tib: Dung bo lu may ma) written by Lama Lobsang Ten-
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  7. A Song of longing was translated by Lama Thubten Yeshe. Reprinted with kind permission from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archives
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  I cannot rely on non-virtuous friends for even a day. They pretend to
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  Please hook that ring! Hook my deep spiritual longing and aspirations. I
  know my life has deep meaning, and I want to be close to your wisdom and
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  time to develop it; we start with the earnestness, sincerity, and genuine spiritual longing that we have now, and then we build upon them.
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  A Song of longing is one of my favorite recitations. Lama Lobsang
  Tenpey Gyaltsen put into words very profound feelings that resonate within

1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Thus I retriev'd her to my longing arms,
  And many happy days possess'd her charms.

1.07 - Hymn of Paruchchhepa, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  his high-lifted longing1 hungers with his flame for the blaze
  of the offering of light, for its current poured on him as an

1.07 - THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  This is an easy path. You will attain God if you sing His name and glories and pray to Him with a longing heart. There is not the least doubt about it.
  "Suppose you draw a line on the surface of water with a bamboo stick. The water appears to be divided into two parts; but the line doesn't remain for any length of time.
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  "But it isn't any and every kind of bhakti that enables one to realize God. One cannot realize God without prema-bhakti. Another name for prema-bhakti is raga-bhakti. God cannot be realized without love and longing. Unless one has learnt to love God, one cannot realize Him.
  "There is another kind of bhakti, known as vaidhibhakti, according to which one must repeat the name of God a fixed number of times, fast, make pilgrimages, worship God with prescribed offerings, make so many sacrifices, and so forth and so on. By continuing such practices a long time one gradually acquires raga-bhakti. God cannot be realized until one has raga-bhakti. One must love God. In order to realize God one must be completely free from worldliness and direct all of one's mind to Him.
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  "If the devotee but once feels this attachment and ecstatic love for God, this mature devotion and longing, then he sees God in both His aspects, with form and without form."
  Purity of heart
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  "What is there in mere scholarship? God can be attained by crying to Him with a longing heart. There is no need to know many things.
  "He who is an chrya has to know different things. One needs a sword and shield to kill others; but to kill oneself, a needle or a nail-knife suffices.

1.083 - Choosing an Object for Concentration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  When the cause is brought to the surface of consciousness, the problem is brought to the surface of consciousness and then we can deal with it directly in the manner required. This is what yoga does. In the great endeavour called concentration of mind, or dharana, we try to pull up to the surface of consciousness the infinitude of aspiration that is behind the desires of the mind which are limited in nature. If this is properly understood, we will know how and why the object of concentration should be our ishta, because it is that which can fulfil the infinite longings of this infinite background. It is, really speaking, a symbol of all-round perfection that we place before ourselves as the object of meditation. The object of meditation is symbolic of perfection; it should have no defects. It should be artistically beautiful, philosophically sound and spiritually solacing. That is the nature of the object of concentration, because if there is any defect either from the point of view of the understanding of the intellect or the appreciation of the aesthetic sense, or in any other manner the mind will not move towards this object. It should contain all the characteristics that are regarded as valuable in the world.
  Thus, we have to superimpose, in the beginning, all those blessed qualities which we require to be satisfied in our mind, ordinarily speaking. This is a type of psychological analysis that we are making of the point on which the mind is to be fixed the desa, as the sutra puts it, to which the mind has to be tied. The mind cannot be tied to a point like that easily, unless all this background, or its history, is properly known. From this analysis we also come to the understanding that this point is not merely a dot on the wall, as many people imagine. Rather, it is a symbolic focusing point, a metaphorical point not a geometrical point which allows all the infinite characteristics of our longings to converge upon one point. It is the point, really speaking, where we find the satisfaction of our desires. Though the desires of the mind are endless, how is it that the mind sometimes rushes forward towards a single object? How does it become possible for the mind to see all perfection in a single object at the time when it runs towards the object? That is because at that particular moment of time, the given object manages to attract towards itself all the values which the mind seeks. That becomes the converging point of all our longings for that particular time only. Afterwards, that object will withdraw itself and some other object will come to the forefront. So unless all our aspirations get focused at that particular point, it cannot become the point of concentration.
  We now conclude that this point is not merely a physical point. It is more a type of conceptual point, or rather the centre of our affection, which cannot find a physical location anywhere. It cannot be seen in this world. Such is the intricacy that is involved in the choosing of the object of meditation itself. This difficulty is a little bit obviated by the assistance that we receive from a Guru at the time of initiation.

1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  And as she sate, and pleas'd her longing sight,
  Viewing the king's pavilion veil'd with white,

1.08 - ON THE TREE ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  want up high? My contempt and my longing grow at
  the same time; the higher I climb, the more I despise

1.08 - Psycho therapy Today, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  deep-seated longing for a patriarchal and hierarchical order finds an
  appropriate concrete expression which accords only too well with the herd

1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
  When, on the other hand, human beings universally recognize each other "as beings with a certain worth or dignity," then history in that sense "comes to an end because the longing that had driven the historical process-the struggle for recognition-has been satisfied in a society characterized by universal and reciprocal recognition. No other arrangement of human social institutions is better able to satisfy this longing, and hence no further progressive historical change is possible."63 The End of History.
  Echoing Hegel, Fukuyama notes that "this does not mean that the natural cycle of birth, life, and death would end, or that important events would no longer happen, or that newspapers reporting them would cease to be published.

1.098 - The Transformation from Human to Divine, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The two terms, vairagya and abhyasa, sum up the requisites for yoga practice. Is there a taste lingering in the senses and a subtle longing of the personality or the ego? No one can openly admit that there are lingering desires of the senses; nor would the ego permit such an analysis, because any such analysis is the death of the ego and a frustration of the senses. So one cannot, for oneself, know where one stands, inasmuch as one always stands only on the level of a predominant manifested feature of ones personality, and not the total features. One cannot know oneself wholly, because the whole of the personality does not manifest in conscious life. That is the difficulty.
  Thus, we cannot be prepared for things now itself, inasmuch as we do not know what it is that is there inside of us. But if we are persistent enough in our practice, these weaknesses will show their heads gradually, like snakes coming out from the hole. They will not come out if the practice is very mild. The practice has to be very intense, continuous, and for hours together daily practice, without remission of effort. If this is not possible, the only other alternative is the knowledge that we have to gain of ourselves through our Guru, as our Guru is likely to know more about us than we know about ourselves because of his experience, and because of the insight that he has into human nature. But without these preparations, neither can we do anything for ourselves, nor will we accept the advice of others. If this is the situation, then danger is there, ahead.

1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "There are certain signs of God-realization. The man in whom longing for God manifests its glories is not far from attaining Him. What are the glories of that longing? They are discrimination, dispassion, compassion for living beings, serving holy men, loving their company, chanting the name and glories of God, telling the truth, and the like. When you see those signs of longing in an aspirant, you can rightly say that for him the vision of God is not far to seek.
  "The state of a servant's house will tell you unmistakably whether his master has decided to visit it. First, the rubbish and jungle around the house are cleared up.

1.09 - Man - About the Body, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
  The food contains the elements mingled with each other. The result of taking in food is a chemical process by which the elements are preserved in our body. From the medical point of view, the taking in of any kind of food, together with the breathing, causes a process of combustion. The hermetist sees far more in this process than just a simple chemical event. He regards this combustion as the mutual dissolving of food, just like the fire is kept burning by fuel. Therefore the whole life depends on the continuous supply of fuel, that is the food and the breathing. To supply every element with the necessary preserving substances, a mixed food is advisable which contains the fundamental materials of the elements. If we were to restrict our whole life to a one-sided kind of food only, our body would, without any doubt, fall ill, meaning that such a kind of food would produce a disharmony in the body. By the disintegration of air and food, the elements are provided with the supporting substances and in this way their activity is maintained. Such is mans natural mode of life. If an element is missing, as it were, the fuel, all the functions depending on it are immediately affected. If, e.g., the fiery element in the body works excessively, we feel thirsty, the air element makes us feel hungry, the element of water causes a feeling of cold, and the earthy element produces tiredness. On the other hand, every over-saturation of the elements causes reinforced effects in the body. A surplus of the fiery element creates a yearning for movement and activity. If this be the case with the watery element, the secretive process will be stronger. Any over-saturation of the airy element indicates that we must be moderate in taking food at all. An over-saturation of the earth element affects the aspects of sexual life, which must not necessarily find expression in the sexual instinct in the fleshly sense. It is quite possible -- and this will especially occur in the case of elderly people that they will feel a longing for increased activity and for productive agility.
  In their active and passive polarity the electric and the magnetic fluids have the task of forming acid combinations in all the organic and inorganic bodies, from the chemical point of view, eventually from the alchemistic standpoint too. In the active sense they are constructive, and in the negative sense they are destructive, dissolving and disintegrating. All this explains the biological functions in the body. The final result is the circulation of life, which is brought into existence, thrives, ripens and fades away. This is the sense of evolution of all things created. a.

1.09 - Talks, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  Yet they came so unexpectedly, for Sri Aurobindo, as we had come to know and see him during the Darshan, had succeeded in building in our minds a picture of him high-poised as his Life Divine, far-moving as his Synthesis of Yoga, unapproachable, except perhaps by the gods, not at all close and intimate like his Essays on the Gita or accessible to our mortal longings. Of course, few of us had the extraordinary good fortune of knowing his human side through his inestimable correspondence, on the strength of which I wrote to him, "You thrashed me for calling you grave and austere at the Darshan time. But see, when we go to the Mother, how seraphically she smiles, while your noble Self being near, appears still far away at some Olympian height. It is difficult to discern the gravity or the jollity of a face at such a height. I suppose our conception of the gods was formed from the vision of such a figure." He replied, "Neither gravity nor jollity, but a large, easy, quiet, amiable condition. The gods can't be amiable?" And it was this amiable aspect that came to the forefront in our talks. We came to know much later that Sri Aurobindo used to hold "table-talks" in the pre-Ashram days, with his few young followers. But I believe ours were an advance on those talks by the ease, the informality, the natural diversity and intimacy of communication due to the exceptional circumstances in which they were held. Sri Aurobindo had no need of vocal self-expression, either in our time or before. It is my conviction that the interchange with us was an act of compassion to entertain us in return for the medical attendance we had been called upon to render him. I may add here that any personal service offered to the Divine, however small, brings an ample reward.
  When after the first few days of discomfort and submission to medical rigours, he had adjusted himself to the new mode of life, the talks started. At first they were in the form of medical enquiries. Dr. Manilal would come up in the morning (for he was living outside the Ashram compound) and stand with folded hands before Sri Aurobindo who lay in bed. After pranam he would ask, smiling, "How are you, Sir? Did you sleep well?" to which Sri Aurobindo's answers were genially brief.

1.1.01 - Seeking the Divine, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."
  The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and

11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The two longing to join, yet walk apart,
  Idly divided by their vain conceits;
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  Thou shalt discover the one and quivering note,

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  His longing eyes, impatient, backward cast
  To catch a lover's look, but look'd his last;

1.10 - Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
  Speak to me, and my longings satisfy;
  The people who are lying in these tombs,

1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "I mean the enjoyment of 'woman and gold'. It is risky to put a typhoid patient in a room where pitchers of water and jugs of pickled tamarind are kept. Most people don't feel any longing for God unless they have once passed through the experience of wealth, name, fame, creature comforts, and the like, that is to say, unless they have seen through these enjoyments."
  BRAHMO: "Who is really bad, man or woman?"
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  "If people feel sincere longing, they will find that all paths lead to God. But one should have nishtha, single-minded devotion. It is also described as chaste and unswerving devotion to God. It is like a tree with only one trunk shooting straight up. Promiscuous devotion is like a tree with five branches.
  Such was the single-minded devotion of the gopis to Krishna that they didn't care to look at anyone but the Krishna they had seen at Vrindvan-the Shepherd Krishna, bedecked with a garl and of yellow wild-flowers and wearing a peacock feather on His crest. At the sight of Krishna at Mathura with a turban on His head and dressed in royal robes, the gopis pulled down their veils. They would not look at His face. 'Who is this man?' they said. 'Should we violate our chaste love for Krishna by talking to him?'
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  NEIGHBOUR: "Can one get this longing for God through frequenting the company of holy men?"
  MASTER: "Yes, it is possible. But not for a confirmed scoundrel. A sannyasi's kamandalu, made of bitter gourd, travels with him to the four great places of pilgrimage but still does not lose its bitterness."

1.10 - The Yoga of the Intelligent Will, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Buddhi, which is simply the determinative power that determines all inertly out of indeterminate inconscient Force, takes for us the form of intelligence and will. Manas, the inconscient force which seizes Nature's discriminations by objective action and reaction and grasps at them by attraction, becomes sense-perception and desire, the two crude terms or degradations of intelligence and will, - becomes the sense-mind sensational, emotive, volitional in the lower sense of wish, hope, longing, passion, vital impulsion, all the deformations (vikara) of will. The senses become the instruments of sense-mind, the perceptive five of our senseknowledge, the active five of our impulsions and vital habits, mediators between the subjective and objective; the rest are the objects of our consciousness, vis.ayas of the senses.
  This order of evolution seems contrary to that which we perceive as the order of the material evolution; but if we remember that even Buddhi is in itself an inert action of inconscient
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  For evidently there are two possibilities of the action of the intelligent will. It may take its downward and outward orientation towards a discursive action of the perceptions and the will in the triple play of Prakriti, or it may take its upward and inward orientation towards a settled peace and equality in the calm and immutable purity of the conscious silent soul no longer subject to the distractions of Nature. In the former alternative the subjective being is at the mercy of the objects of sense, it lives in the outward contact of things. That life is the life of desire. For the senses excited by their objects create a restless or often violent disturbance, a strong or even headlong outward movement towards the seizure of these objects and their enjoyment, and they carry away the sense-mind, "as the winds carry away a ship upon the sea"; the mind subjected to the emotions, passions, longings, impulsions awakened by this outward movement of the senses carries away similarly the intelligent will, which loses therefore its power of calm discrimination and mastery. Subjection of the soul to the confused play
  The Yoga of the Intelligent Will
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   world enter into him as waters into the sea, yet he has no desire nor is troubled. For while they are filled with the troubling sense of ego and mine and thine, he is one with the one Self in all and has no "I" or "mine". He acts as others, but he has abandoned all desires and their longings. He attains to the great peace and is not bewildered by the shows of things; he has extinguished his individual ego in the One, lives in that unity and, fixed in that status at his end, can attain to extinction in the Brahman,
  Nirvana, - not the negative self-annihilation of the Buddhists, but the great immergence of the separate personal self into the vast reality of the one infinite impersonal Existence.

1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  About her waiste his longing arms he flung,
  From which embrace the great Achilles sprung.
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  Thus, thus return'st thou to thy longing wife!
  She said, and to the neighbouring mole she strode,

1.12 - The Divine Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  its longing for a release from suffering or its cry for the extinction
  of the trouble of becoming and makes that the supreme aim of

1.12 - THE FESTIVAL AT PNIHTI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "No, that is not so. One should pray to God with a longing heart. God certainly listens to prayer if it is sincere. There is no doubt about it."
  A DEVOTEE: "Yes, sir. There is this 'I-consciousness' in us; therefore we must pray."
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  (To Govinda) "The fact is that one does not feel the longing to know or see God as long as one wants to enjoy worldly objects. The child forgets everything when he plays with his toys. Try to cajole him away from play with a sweetmeat; you will not succeed. He will eat only a bit of it. When he relishes neither the sweetmeat nor his play, then he says, 'I want to go to my mother.' He doesn't care for the sweetmeat any more. If a man whom he doesn't know and has never seen says to the child, 'Come along; I shall take you to your mother', the child follows him. The child will go with anyone who will carry him to his mother.
  The soul becomes restless for God when one is through with the enjoyment of worldly things. Then a person has only one thought-how to realize God. He listens to whatever anyone says to him about God."

1.13 - THE MASTER AND M., #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "Another day it was revealed to me that I had devotees-my intimate companions, my very own. Thereafter I would climb to the roof of the kuthi as soon as the bells and the conchshells of the evening service sounded in the temples, and cry out with a longing heart: 'Oh, where are you all? Come here! I am dying to see you!'
  (To M.) "Well, what do you think of these visions?"

1.13 - The Supermind and the Yoga of Works, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  This is not only an absurd expectation but full of danger. For the vital desire may very well bring in an action of dark or vehement vital powers which hold out before it a promise of immediate fulfilment of its impossible longing; the consequence is likely to be a plunge into many kinds of self-deception, a yielding to the falsehoods and temptations of the forces of darkness, a hunt for supernormal powers, a turning away from the Divine to the
  Asuric nature, a fatal self-inflation into an unnatural unhuman and undivine bigness of magnified ego. If the being is small, the nature weak and incapable, there is not this large-scale disaster; but a loss of balance, a mental unhinging and fall into unreason or a vital unhinging and consequent moral aberration or a deviation into some kind of morbid abnormality of the nature may be the untoward consequence. This is not a Yoga in which

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "In reality there are not two. There is only One. A man may call on God by any name; if he is sincere in his prayer he will certainly reach Him. He will succeed if he has longing."
  As Sri Ramakrishna spoke these words to the devotees, he was overwhelmed with divine fervour. Coming down to partial consciousness of the world, he said to Balarm's father, "Are you the father of Balarm?"
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  "Once I said to Harish: 'What is the use of going to Benares if one does not feel restless for God? And if one feels that longing, then this very place is Benares.'
  "They make so many pilgrimages and repeat the name of God so much, but why do they not realize anything? It is because they have no longing for God. God reveals Himself to the devotee if only he calls upon Him with a longing heart.
  "At the beginning of a yatra performance much light-hearted restlessness is to be observed on the stage. At that time one does not see Krishna. Next the sage Nrada enters with his flute and sings longingly, 'O Govinda! O my Life! O my Soul!' Then Krishna can no longer remain away and appears with the cowherd boys."
  Tuesday, October 16, 1883

1.14 - ON THE FRIEND, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  like to have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend
  is our betrayer. And often love is only a device to overcome envy. And often one attacks and makes an enemy
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  an arrow and a longing for the overman.
  Have you ever seen your friend asleep-and found

1.14 - The Principle of Divine Works, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   in life, in action, not outside life and action. Yes, there is a truth in that, replies the Gita; the fulfilment of God in man, the play of the Divine in life is part of the ideal perfection. But if you seek it only in the external, in life, in the principle of action, you will never find it; for you will then not only act according to your nature, which is in itself a rule of perfection, but you will be - and this is a rule of the imperfection - eternally subject to its modes, its dualities of liking and dislike, pain and pleasure and especially to the rajasic mode with its principle of desire and its snare of wrath and grief and longing, - the restless, alldevouring principle of desire, the insatiable fire which besieges your worldly action, the eternal enemy of knowledge by which it is covered over here in your nature as is a fire by smoke or a mirror by dust and which you must slay in order to live in the calm, clear, luminous truth of the spirit. The senses, mind and intellect are the seat of this eternal cause of imperfection and yet it is within this sense, mind and intellect, this play of the lower nature that you would limit your search for perfection!
  The effort is vain. The kinetic side of your nature must first seek to add to itself the quietistic; you must uplift yourself beyond this lower nature to that which is above the three gunas, that which is founded in the highest principle, in the soul. Only when you have attained to peace of soul, can you become capable of a free and divine action.
  The quietist, the ascetic, on the other hand cannot see any possibility of perfection into which life and action enter. Are they not the very seat of bondage and imperfection? Is not all action imperfect in its nature, like a fire that must produce smoke, is not the principle of action itself rajasic, the father of desire, a cause that must have its effect of obscuration of knowledge, its round of longing and success and failure, its oscillations of joy and grief, its duality of virtue and sin? God may be in the world, but he is not of the world; he is a God of renunciation and not the Master or cause of our works; the master of our works is desire and the cause of works is ignorance. If the world, the
  Kshara is in a sense a manifestation or a lla of the Divine, it is an imperfect play with the ignorance of Nature, an obscuration

1.15 - LAST VISIT TO KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The devotees were deeply touched to hear of Sri Ramakrishna's love for Keshab and his longing for the Brahmo leader.
  MASTER: "But this time, to tell the truth, I didn't feel anxious to that extent. Only for two or three days did I feel a little worried."

1.16 - Advantages and Disadvantages of Evocational Magic, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
  If a magician is sent by Divine Providence to the earth-zone or into our physical world to fulfill a certain task as a human being, he starts longing for a sphere set above him. Should a magician, after having been allied to a genius in a certain zone, be incarnated in our physical world, then such a former alliance becomes obvious by the magician's special ability either in the field of hermetic science or in any other cultural field such as art, literature etc. This shows that the procedure is the same, no matter whether it is a positive or negative one, and a genuine magician will never be hindered in his development by any pact with a genius or an angel, but will advance in his development unimpeded. By an equal affection for all beings the magician will always remain conscious of his desire to become a perfect human being, created as the true image of God, and true divinity will be reflected in him. He is not influenced by any sphere, therefore he can reach true perfection, providing that no one element is prevailing within him and that he has been able to develop within himself the absolute equilibrium of all forces and powers and to maintain the standard of this development in future.
  The higher spheres are the place where it is decided whether a magician is willing to reach the highest perfection possible or likes to become a saint. A magician desirous of the highest degree of perfection may become the greatest and highest lord of creation, for he fully symbolises the true and complete image of God in all his aspects. A saint, however, remains under one aspect only and reaches perfection therein. He becomes a part of that aspect, and finally, when he has reached perfection in this aspect, he loses his individuality. The highest degree of perfection that man is ever able to reach is that of becoming a true sovereign, a true magician, thus actually representing a true and complete image of God, whereby he never loses or is forced to give up his individuality.

1.16 - PRAYER, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Lord, teach me to seek thee and reveal Thyself to me when I seek thee. For I cannot seek Thee except Thou teach me, nor find Thee except Thou reveal Thyself. Let me seek thee in longing, let me long for thee in seeking: let me find Thee in love and love Thee in finding. Lord, I acknowledge and I thank Thee that Thou hast created me in this thine image, in order that I may be mindful of Thee, may conceive of Thee and love Thee: but that image has been so consumed and wasted away by vices and obscured by the smoke of wrong-doing that it cannot achieve that for which it was made, except Thou renew it and create it anew. Is the eye of the soul darkened by its infirmity, or dazzled by thy glory? Surely, it is both darkened in itself and dazzled by Thee. Lord, this is the unapproachable light in which Thou dwellest. Truly I see it not, because it is too bright for me; and yet whatever I see, I see through it, as the weak eye sees what it sees through the light of the sun, which in the sun itself it cannot look upon. Oh supreme and unapproachable light, oh holy and blessed truth, how far art thou from me who am so near to Thee, how far art Thou removed from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere Thou art wholly present, and I see Thee not. In Thee I move and in Thee I have my being, and cannot come to Thee, thou are within me and about me, and I feel Thee not.
  St. Anselm

1.16 - Religion, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
  Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

1.16 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The boy burst into tears and cried: 'O Lord, my father asked me to feed You. Why won't You come down? Why won't You eat from my hands?' The boy wept for some time with a longing soul. At last the Deity, smiling, came down from the altar and sat before the meal and ate it. After feeding the Deity, the boy came out of the shrine room. His relatives said: 'The worship is over. Now bring away the offering.' 'Yes,' said the boy, 'the worship is over. But God has eaten everything.' 'How is that?' asked the relatives.
  The boy replied innocently, 'Why, God has eaten the food.' They entered the shrine and were speechless with wonder to see that the Deity had really eaten every bit of the offering."
  --
  MASTER: "Weep for God with a longing heart. Tears shed for Him will wash away the clay. When you have thus freed yourself from impurity, you will be attracted by the magnet. Only then will you attain yoga."
  MUKHERJI: "Priceless words!"
  --
  "One must call on God with a longing heart. One must learn from the guru how God can be realized. Only if the guru himself has attained Perfect Knowledge can he show the way.
  "A man, gets rid of all desires when he has Perfect Knowledge. He becomes like a child five years old. Sages like Dattatreya and Jadabharata had the nature of a child."

1.18 - M. AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "I used to cry for God all alone, with a longing heart. I used to weep, 'O God, where art Thou?' Weeping thus, I would lose all consciousness of the world. My mind would merge in the Mahvyu.
  Renunciation of worldly attachment
  --
  "Therefore, like Valmiki, one should at first renounce everything and cry to God in solitude with a longing heart. The first thing necessary is the vision of God; then comes reasoning-about the scriptures and the world.
  (To M.) "That is why I have been telling you not to reason any more. I came from the pine-grove to say that to you. Through too much reasoning your spiritual life will be injured; you will at last become like Hazra. I used to roam at night in the streets, all alone, and cry to the Divine Mother, 'O Mother, blight with Thy thunderbolt my desire to reason!' Tell me that you won't reason any more."

1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "Discrimination between the Real and the unreal. One should always discriminate to the effect that God alone is real and the world unreal. And one should pray with sincere longing."
  DEVOTEE: "But, sir, where is our leisure for these things?"

1.19 - The Victory of the Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Next the example of the human fathers is given as the original type of this great becoming and achievement. "Now also, even as our supreme ancient fathers, O Agni, seeking to possess the Truth, expressing the Word, travelled to the purity and the light; breaking open the earth (the material being) they uncovered the ruddy ones (the Dawns, the Cows); perfected in works and in light, seeking the godheads, gods, forging the Births like iron (or, forging the divine births like iron), making Agni a pure flame, increasing Indra, they attained and reached the wideness of the Light (of the Cows, gavyam urvam). As if herds of the Cow in the field of riches, that was manifested to vision which is the Births of the Gods within, O puissant One; they both accomplished the wide enjoyments (or, longings) of mortals and worked as aspirers for the increase of the higher being"; a yutheva ks.umati pasvo akhyad, devanam yaj janima anti ugra; martanam cid urvasr akr.pran, vr.dhe cid arya uparasya ayoh..
  Evidently, this is a repetition in other language of the double idea of possessing the riches of Diti, yet safeguarding Aditi. "We have done the work for thee, we have become perfect in works, the wide-shining Dawns have taken up their home in the Truth

1.20 - ON CHILD AND MARRIAGE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  creator. Thirst for the creator, an arrow and longing
  for the overman: tell me, my brother, is this your will

1.20 - On Time, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

1.20 - RULES FOR HOUSEHOLDERS AND MONKS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "The longing of the worldly-minded for God is momentary, like a drop of water on a redhot frying-pan. The water hisses and dries up in an instant. The attention of the worldly-minded is directed to the enjoyment of worldly pleasure. Therefore they do not feel yearning and restlessness for God.
  Different forms of austerity
  --
  It is being revealed to me that there is a greater manifestation of God in man than in other created beings. God is telling me, as it were: 'I dwell in men. Be merry with men.' Among men God manifests Himself in a still greater degree in pure-souled devotees. That is why I feel great longing for Narendra, Rkhl, and other such youngsters.
  "One often sees small holes along the edge of a lake. Fish and crabs accumulate there.

1.2.11 - Patience and Perseverance, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  His sincerity must enable him to persevere always - for it is a longing for the Divine that nothing can quench, neither delay nor disappointment nor difficulty nor anything else.
  You have got troubled again because you have allowed your mind to become active again in its ignorance, questioning, trying to refute the simplest and most established spiritual truths, trying to decide without waiting for the inner knowledge. Throw all that away and go on in quietude, not minding if it takes short or long for things to open up. That was what you had undertaken to do. Keep to it and, however slowly, the consciousness will open and light come.

1.21 - A DAY AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  From one Ghat the Hindus take water in jars and call it 'jal'. From another Ghat the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani'. From a third the Christians take the same thing and call it 'water'. (All laugh.) Suppose someone says that the thing is not 'jal' but 'pani', or that it is not 'pani' but 'water', or that it is not 'water' but 'jal'. It would indeed be ridiculous. But this very thing is at the root of the friction among sects, their misunderstandings and quarrels. This is why people injure and kill one another, and shed blood, in the name of religion. But this is not good. Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart.
  (To M.) "This is for you. All scriptures-the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras-seek Him alone and no one else, only that one Satchidananda. That which is called Satchidananda Brahman in the Vedas is called Satchidananda Shiva in the Tantra. Again it is He alone who is called Satchidananda Krishna in the Puranas."

1.22 - ADVICE TO AN ACTOR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER (to the actor): "You asked me about Self-realization. longing is the means of realizing tman. A man must strive to attain God with all his body, with all his mind, and with all his speech. Because of an excess of bile one gets jaundice. Then one sees everything as yellow; one perceives no colour but yellow. Among you actors, those who take only the roles of women acquire the nature of a woman; by thinking of woman your ways and thoughts become womanly. Just so, by thinking day and night of God one acquires the nature of God.
  "The mind is like white linen just returned from the laundry. It takes on the colour you dip it in."

1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  ate efforts of souls tense with longing to escape from the earth.
  This pressure will be unanimous. Scripture, however, tells us that

1.23 - FESTIVAL AT SURENDRAS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Radha was the foremost of the gopis, and Krishna's chief playmate. She felt an indescribable longing for union with Him. A moment's separation from Krishna would rend her heart and soul.
  During many a moonlit night Krishna would dance with Radha and the gopis in the sacred groves of Vrindvan, and on such occasions the gopis would experience the highest religious ecstasy. At the age of eleven Krishna was called to be the king of Mathura. He left the gopis, promising them, however, His divine vision whenever they concentrated on Him in their hearts.
  For centuries and centuries the lovers of God in 1ndia have been worshipping the Divine by recreating in themselves the yearning of the gopis for Krishna. Many of the folk-songs of India have as their theme this sweet episode of Krishna's life. Sri Chaitanya revived this phase of Hindu religious life by his spiritual practice and his divine visions. In his ecstatic music Chaitanya assumed the role of Radha and manifested the longing to be united with Krishna. For a long period Sri Ramakrishna also worshipped God as his beloved Krishna, looking on himself as one of the gopis or as God's handmaid.
  At Surendra's garden house the kirtan had begun early in the morning. The musicians were singing about the love of Krishna and Radha for each other. The Master was frequently in samdhi. The room was crowded with devotees, among them Bhavanath, Niranjan, Rkhl , Surendra, Ram, and M., and many members of the Brahmo Samaj.
  --
  Gaurnga embraces monastic life. He is being consumed with longing for a vision of Krishna. He leaves Navadvip and goes away as a wandering monk to seek out his Beloved. His devotees, unable to bear the pangs of separation, weep bitterly and beg Gaurnga to return.
  The musician sang:
  --
  MASTER: "The best path for this age is bhaktiyoga, the path of bhakti prescribed by Nrada: to sing the name and glories of God and pray to Him with a longing heart, 'O
  God, give me knowledge, give me devotion, and reveal Thyself to me!' The path of karma is extremely difficult. Therefore one should pray: 'O God, make my duties fewer and fewer; and may I, through Thy grace, do the few duties that Thou givest me without any attachment to their results! May I have no desire to be involved in many activities!'
  --
  "Therefore I say that, whatever you may do, you will find better and better things if only you go forward. You may feel a little ecstasy as the result of japa, but don't conclude from this that you have achieved everything in spiritual life. Work is by no means the goal of life. Go forward, and then you will be able to perform unselfish work. But again I say that it is most difficult to perform unselfish work. Therefore with love and longing in your heart pray to God: 'O God, grant me devotion at Thy Lotus Feet and reduce my worldly duties. Please grant me the boon that the few duties I must do may be done in a detached spirit.' If you go still farther you will realize God.
  You will see Him. In time you will converse with Him."
  --
  But always keep your mind, on God. Know for certain that house, family and property are not yours. They are God's. Your real home is in God.' Also I ask them to pray always with a longing heart for love of God's Lotus Feet."
  Again the conversation turned to the English people. A devotee said, "Sir, I understand that nowadays the pundits of England do not believe in the existence of God."

1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  "I long for bhakti. I want more of this longing. Even realisation does not matter for me. Let me be strong in my longing."
  M.: If the longing is there, Realisation will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Subhechcha is the doorway for realisation.
  D.: Let it be so. But I am content with longing. Even when I am away from this place I must not relax in my devotion. May Sri Bhagavan give me the necessary strength. Such longing could only be through
  His Grace. I am personally too weak.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  I long for bhakti. I want more of this longing. Even realisation does not matter for me. Let me be strong in my longing.
  M.: If the longing is there, Realisation will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Subhechcha is the doorway for realisation.
  D.: Let it be so. But I am content with longing. Even when I am away from this place I must not relax in my devotion. May Sri Bhagavan give me the necessary strength. Such longing could only be through
  His Grace. I am personally too weak.
  --
  Having cast out without remains all longing born of thought for self,
  Having drawn in by mind alone his team of senses from all sides As for practice (abhyasa):

1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "One feels restless for God when one's soul longs for His vision. The guru said to the disciple: 'Come with me. I shall show you what kind of longing will enable you to see God.' Saying this, he took the disciple to a pond and pressed his head under the water. After a few moments he released the disciple and asked, 'How did you feel?' The disciple answered: 'Oh, I felt as if I were dying! I was longing for a breath of air.' "
  SHASHADHAR: "Yes! Yes! That's it. I understand it now."

1.25 - SPIRITUAL EXERCISES, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  And therefore, if thou wilt stand and not fall, cease never in thine intent, but beat overmore on this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and thy God, with a sharp dart of longing love. And loa the to think of aught under God. And go not thence for anything that befalleth. For this only is that work that destroyeth the ground and the root of sin.
  Yea, and what more? Weep thou never so much for sorrow of thy sins, or of the passion of Christ, or have thou never so much thought of the joys of heaven, what may it do to thee? Surely much good, much help, much profit, much grace will it get thee. But in comparison of this blind stirring of love, it is but little that it doth, or may do, without this. This by itself is the best part of Mary, without these other. They without it profit but little or nought. It destroyeth not only the ground and the root of sin, as it may be here, but also it getteth virtues. For if it be truly conceived, all virtues shall be subtly and perfectly conceived, felt and comprehended in it, without any mingling of thine intent. And have a man never so many virtues without it, all they be mingled with some crooked intent, for the which they be imperfect. For virtue is nought else but an ordered and measured affection, plainly directed unto God for Himself.

1.26 - FESTIVAL AT ADHARS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  M: "Renunciation does not mean simply dispassion for the world. It means dispassion for the world and also longing for God."
  MASTER: "You are right. You no doubt need money for your worldly life; but don't worry too much about it. The wise course is to accept what comes of its own accord. Don't take too much trouble to save money. Those who surrender their hearts and souls to God, those who are devoted to Him and have taken refuge in Him, do not worry much about money. As they earn, so they spend. The money comes in one way and goes out the other. This is what the Git describes as 'accepting what comes of its own accord'."
  --
  Down the path of hope I gaze with longing, day and night.
  Thou art the Lord of all the worlds, and I but a beggar here; How can I ask of Thee to come and dwell within my heart?

1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  (H) a longing for death (T) master of the body
  (I) hatred of life (U) controller of nature
  --
  He who has conquered the passions wounds the demons; by pretending that he still has passions he deceives his foes and remains unassailable. One of the brethren once suffered disgrace and without being in the least moved in his heart he prayed in his mind. Then he began to bewail the disgrace, hiding his dispassion by passion. Another of the brethren who had no longings at all for the office of
  1 Deuteronomy iv, 9.

1.26 - Sacrifice of the Kings Son, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  seized with a fierce longing to partake of human flesh, and cast
  lots among themselves which should give up her child to furnish a

1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Down the path of hope I gaze with longing, day and night. . . .
  The sadhaka closed his eyes in meditation as he listened to the song. It was four o'clock in the afternoon. The rays of the setting sun fell on his body. Sri Ramakrishna quickly opened an umbrella and placed it near the door so that the sun might not disturb the sadhaka.

1.27 - On holy solitude of body and soul., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  47. Engaged in the middle task, I was among the middle orders; and an angel enlightened me, thirsting as I was. And again I was among them, and when I asked: What was the Lord before He took visible form? the angel could not tell me, for he was not allowed. So I asked him: In what state is He now? He replied: In the state proper to Him, but not in this (our state). I asked: What is the meaning of the standing and sitting on the right hand of the Father? He said: It is impossible to grasp these mysteries by hearing with the human ear. I implored him on the spot to lead me where my longings drew me,5 and he said: The hour has not yet come, because the fire of incorruption does not yet burn sufficiently within you. Whether I was then with this earth, I know not; or out of it I am quite unable to say.6
  48. It is difficult to overcome the midday nap, especially in the summer time; then, and perhaps only then, is manual work permissible.

1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  Having cast out without remains all longing born of thought for self,
  Having drawn in by mind alone his team of senses from all sides As for practice (abhyasa):

1.34 - Continues the same subject. This is very suitable for reading after the reception of the Most Holy Sacrament., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  Him. So great, indeed, may be your longing for Him that He will reveal Himself to you wholly.
  But if we pay no heed to Him save when we have received Him, and go away from Him in

1.3 - Mundaka Upanishads, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  2. He who cherishes desires and his mind dwells with his longings, is by his desires born again wherever they lead him,
  but the man who has won all his desire10 and has found his

1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  We had a great sage for our Guru. He advised us to "take the name of Hari," saying that it is all in all; no effort is necessary for concentrating the mind. Concentration will come of itself if Harinam is persisted in. So we are doing it. The Guru passed away. We felt like a rudderless ship in mid-ocean. In our anxiety to find a safe guide we read and heard of you and so desired to come here. Our desire has been fulfilled after two years' longing. On coming here and hearing Sri Bhagavan we understand that the Master teaches
  Atma-vichara (self-quest). This is the method of knowledge (jnana marga), whereas the other master taught us bhakti marga (method of devotion).

14.01 - To Read Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment, is also the highest which his thought can envisage: It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, God, Light, Freedom, Immortality.1
   There is indeed a personality behind it and you have to make acquaintance with that personality. That is what I meant when I said: become it, by an approach through love, an approach through your soul. Even in studies you shouldn't approach with the mere intellect, mere mental understanding; however fine an understanding or intellect you may have, it won't lead you very far. Only through your soul you can go far. Even intellectual things can be approached through your soul because the soul is the very essence of all your faculties and being. The soul is not mere consciousness, mere being, it gathers in all the elements of your personality. The seeds of your mind, your vital, even of the physical personality, the true physical personality, are there in your soul, and you can establish a true relation with things and persons through that part of your being your soul. And remember the soul is not very far from you because you are that-rather your mind, your vital, your physical are away from you; they are not your true personality. It is your soul that is nearest to you.

1.40 - Describes how, by striving always to walk in the love and fear of God, we shall travel safely amid all these temptations., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  only desire is to please the Beloved. Such persons die with longing for Him to love them and so
  they will give their lives to learn how they may please Him better. Will they hide their love? No:

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  We had a great sage for our Guru. He advised us to take the name of Hari, saying that it is all in all; no effort is necessary for concentrating the mind. Concentration will come of itself if Harinam is persisted in. So we are doing it. The Guru passed away. We felt like a rudderless ship in mid-ocean. In our anxiety to find a safe guide we read and heard of you and so desired to come here. Our desire has been fulfilled after two years longing. On coming here and hearing Sri Bhagavan we understand that the Master teaches
  Atma-vichara (self-quest). This is the method of knowledge (jnana marga), whereas the other master taught us bhakti marga (method of devotion).
  --
  M.: The longing for happiness never fades. That is bhakti.
  D.: How shall I get it quicker? Suppose I concentrate two hours today.

1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  M.: The longing for happiness never fades. That is bhakti.
  D.: How shall I get it quicker? Suppose I concentrate two hours today.

1.56 - The Public Expulsion of Evils, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  malignity exasperates him; he longs with an unspeakable longing to
  be rid of them altogether, and from time to time, driven to bay, his

19.06 - The Wise, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The wise may go anywhere, but being wise they do not prattle of desires and longings. Whether touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise do not show any ups and downs.
   [9]

19.07 - The Adept, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   They whose longings have withered, who are indifferent to their food, who have realised the emptiness of things and the unconditioned freedom, their movement is hard to follow even as that of the bird in the air.
   [5]

19.26 - The Brahmin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   I call him a Brahmin who has no desire in this world or in the other, who has no longing, who is free.
   [29]

1929-06-02 - Divine love and its manifestation - Part of the vital being in Divine love, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The manifestation of the love of the Divine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-giving. The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness. And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not clo the itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of its sacrifice. The force of love in the world is trying to find consciousnesses that are capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it. This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the worlds heart and in all hearts, is the impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking. It touches millions of instruments, trying always, always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments and suddenly one day there will awake in them the capacity of self-giving, the capacity of loving.
  The movement of love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with Nature: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and intense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here. Once you have come in contact with this large, pure and true Divine love, if you have felt it even for a short time and in its smallest form, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of it. It has become in human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, or else it is something weak and sentimental, made up of the pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exacting. And this baseness and brutality or this self-regarding weakness they call love!
  Is our vital being to take part in the Divine love? If it does, what is the right and correct form of participation it should take?
  --
  Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love! And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead matter, till Divine love descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of life, but it has taken in its search every kind of wrong turn and mistaken way, it has wandered hither and thither in the dark. The mass of this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. The maximum it has reached is what seems to human beings love in its highest form, its purest and most disinterested kind, like the love of the mother for the child. This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is. The moment mans consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the Souls aspiration, that brings the awakening of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms that are of the ignorance, all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete.
  Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal being, is easier to realise; it is more difficult when it is unmanifested or impersonal in its movement. A human being, awakened by this personal touch, with this personal intensity, to the consciousness of the Divine love, will find his work and change made more easy; the union for which he seeks becomes more natural and close. And the union, the realisation will become for him, too, more full, more perfect; for the wide uniformity of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and beauty of all possible relations with the Divine.

1953-06-17, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, but could you give me an idea and the thoughts in which it can be expressed? That is what I am asking. Can anyone give me an example? (Looking at a disciple) He is longing to speak. Tell us something, we shall see.
   The manifestation of the Divine upon earth is an idea and the transformation is a thought.

1953-08-19, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The movement of love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with nature, you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees, and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres, up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and in- tense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here.
   Questions and Answers 1929-1931 (2 June 1929)

1956-02-15 - Nature and the Master of Nature - Conscious intelligence - Theory of the Gita, not the whole truth - Surrender to the Lord - Change of nature, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But if one wants to be wise even without being a great yogi, one must be able to look at all these things with a smile, and not be affected by them. You have your own experience; try to make it as true and complete as possible, but leave each one to his own experience. Unless they come seeking you as a guru and tell you, Now, lead me to the Light and the Truth; then, there your responsibility begins but not before. (Looking at a disciple) He is longing to speak!
    Sri Aurobindo has said, The Gita pauses at the borders of the highest spiritual mind and does not cross them into the splendours of the supramental Light.

1956-02-29 - Sacrifice, self-giving - Divine Presence in the heart of Matter - Divine Oneness - Divine Consciousness - All is One - Divine in the inconscient aspires for the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  (Turning to a disciple) Oh! he is longing to speak!
  Mother, there is a magnificent sentence!

1956-07-25 - A complete act of divine love - How to listen - Sports programme same for boys and girls - How to profit by stay at Ashram - To Women about Their Body, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    It may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole,a practical worship of the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation with the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart and soul and spirit.
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 152-53

1958-07-09 - Faith and personal effort, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  As in everything else in the ascent of humanity, there is the necessityespecially at the beginningof personal effort. It is possible that in some exceptional circumstances, for reasons which completely elude our intelligence, faith may come almost accidentally, quite unexpectedly, almost without ever having been solicited, but most frequently it is an answer to a yearning, a need, an aspiration, something in the being that is seeking and longing, even though not in a very conscious and systematic way. But in any case, when faith has been granted, when one has had this sudden inner illumination, in order to preserve it constantly in the active consciousness individual effort is altogether indispensable. One must hold on to ones faith, will ones faith; one must seek it, cultivate it, protect it.
  In the human mind there is a morbid and deplorable habit of doubt, argument, scepticism. This is where human effort must be put in: the refusal to admit them, the refusal to listen to them and still more the refusal to follow them. No game is more dangerous than playing mentally with doubt and scepticism. They are not only enemies, they are terrible pitfalls, and once one falls into them, it becomes tremendously difficult to pull oneself out.

1.ac - A Birthday, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Each longing a little, each a little long,
  But each aspiring only to express

1.asak - A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Vraje Abramian Original Language Persian/Farsi A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary, or a drunkard in a tavern, any gift you bring the Beloved will be accepted as long as you come in longing. It is this most secret pain, this bleeding separation, which will guide you to your Heart of Hearts. [1472.jpg] -- from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, Translated by Vraje Abramian

1.asak - Love came and emptied me of self, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Vraje Abramian Original Language Persian/Farsi Love came and emptied me of self, every vein and every pore, made into a container to be filled by the Beloved. Of me, only a name is left, the rest is You my Friend, my Beloved. [2652.jpg] -- from The longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.at - The Higher Pantheism, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   Original Language English The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains -- Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? Is not the Vision He? tho' He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb, Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him? Dark is the world to thee: thyself art the reason why; For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel 'I am I'? Glory about thee, without thee; and thou fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet -- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision -- were it not He? [2652.jpg] -- from The longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.bs - Chanting, chanting the Beloveds name, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Punjabi Chanting, chanting the Beloved's name, I am myself become the Beloved. Whom then does that Name now name? [2652.jpg] -- from The longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.bs - One Thread Only, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Punjabi One thread, one thread only! Warp and woof, quill and shuttle, countless cloths and colors, a thousand hanks and skeins -- with ten thousand names ten thousand places. But there is one thread only. [2652.jpg] -- from The longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.bs - What a carefree game He plays!, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by J.R. Puri and T.R. Shangari Original Language Punjabi He said, "Let there be," and it happened. He made the latent turn into the manifest, Out of the formless He created the form. What a wondrous game He played! What a carefree game He plays! When He disclosed the hidden secret, He lifted the veil from over His face. Why does He now hide from me? The Real permeates everyone. What a carefree game He plays! He said, "We have honored mankind; None has been created like you; You are the crown of all creation." What a proclamation with the beat of drum! What a carefree game He plays! He himself indulges in these carefree acts; He himself feels frightened of himself; He has taken abode in every house; And the people keep wandering in delusion. What a carefree game He plays! He himself aroused longing to become mad in love. He himself became Laila to steal Majnun's heart. Himself He wept, himself consoled himself. 0, what a game of love He plays! What a carefree game He plays! Himself the lover, He himself is the Beloved. Here logic and reason have no part to play. Bullah rejoices in his union with the Beloved. Why does He create separation now? What a carefree game He plays! [bk1sm.gif] -- from Bulleh Shah: The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast (Mystics of the East series), by J. R. Puri / Tilaka Raja Puri <
1.bv - When I see the lark beating, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Craig E. Bertolet Original Language Provencal When I see the lark beating Its wings in joy against the rays of the sun That it forgets itself and lets itself fall Because of the sweetness that comes to its heart, Alas! Such great envy then overwhelms me Of all those whom I see rejoicing, I wonder that my heart, at that moment, Does not melt from desire. Alas! How much I thought I knew About love, and how little I know, Because I cannot keep myself from loving The one from whom I will gain nothing. She has all my heart, and my soul, And herself and the whole world; And when she left, nothing remained But desire and a longing heart. I have never had power over myself Nor been by own man from the very hour When she let me see into her eyes, Into a mirror that pleases me so much. Mirror, since I saw myself in you, I have been slain by deep sighs, That I have lost myself just as the handsome Narcissus did in the fountain. I despair of ladies; I will never trust them again; As I used to defend them Now I shall abandon them, Because I see no one who does any good for me Against her who destroys and confounds me, I fear and distrust them all, Because I know very well that they are all alike. She really shows herself to be a woman in this, My lady, for which I condemn her; Because she does not want what she should want, And what she shouldn't do, she does. I have fallen on an evil grace, And I have indeed acted like the fool on the bridge And I do not know how this happened to me, Unless I tried to climb too high on the mountain. Mercy is indeed lost, And I never knew it, Because she, who ought to have most of it, Has none, and where will I look for it? Ah! It would never seem, when looking at her, That she would let this love-sick wretch, Who will never be well without her, To die, without helping him. Since these things will never bring me good from my lady, Neither prayers, pity, nor the rights I have, Nor is it a pleasure to her That I love her, I will never tell her again. Thus I part from her and give her up. She has slain me, and through death I will respond, And I go away, since she does not ask me to stay, Wretched, into exile, I know not where. Tristan, you will have nothing more from me, For I go away, wretched, I know not where. I will withdraw from singing and renounce it, And I hide myself from joy and love.

1f.lovecraft - Ashes, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   bizarre and the dangerous, and my longing to explore far reaches of
   little-known lands, I had been doomed to a life of prosaic, flat,

1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   greater than the longing to share his rejoicing, for no explanation was
   ever offered by him. It was after this transition, which appears to
  --
   little practical use. longing yet not daring to ask questions, Mr. Ward
   gave the requisite orders and a man brought some stout pine logs,

WORDNET



--- Overview of noun longing

The noun longing has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (4) longing, yearning, hungriness ::: (prolonged unfulfilled desire or need)

--- Overview of verb long

The verb long has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
                      
1. (6) hanker, long, yearn ::: (desire strongly or persistently)


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun longing

1 sense of longing                          

Sense 1
longing, yearning, hungriness
   => desire
     => feeling
       => state
         => attribute
           => abstraction, abstract entity
             => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun longing

1 sense of longing                          

Sense 1
longing, yearning, hungriness
   => hankering, yen
   => pining
   => wishfulness
   => wistfulness
   => nostalgia
   => discontentment, discontent, discontentedness


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun longing

1 sense of longing                          

Sense 1
longing, yearning, hungriness
   => desire




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun longing

1 sense of longing                          

Sense 1
longing, yearning, hungriness
  -> desire
   => ambition, aspiration, dream
   => bloodlust
   => temptation
   => craving
   => wish, wishing, want
   => longing, yearning, hungriness
   => sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction
   => urge, itch
   => caprice, impulse, whim




--- Grep of noun longing
belonging
longing



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Nellie the Elephant (1990 - 1991) - Based on the classic children's song of the same name, this series follows the adventures of a big pink elephant: the titular Nellie. One night, she hears the head of the herd calling to her from far, far away. Tired of performing in the circus & longing for home, Nellie packs her trunk & begins the...
Friday the 13th Part III(1982) - This film takes place right after the events of Friday The 13th Part 2. In the midst of chaos surrounding mass killings at Crystal Lake a group of teens and young adults take their carefree attitude to a vacation home belonging to the family of one of the girls. Failing to heed the warnings of a cra...
Ninja III: The Domination(1984) - When a telephone repairwoman (Lucinda Dickey) runs into a ninja who was fatally shot by a group of cops, she reluctantly takes his Katana. Little does she know is that the sword is possessed by the deceased ninja's spirit and now she is under the control of the dead ninja who is longing for vengeanc...
Iron Eagle(1986) - When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombin...
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde(1995) - In this spoof of Robert Louis Stevens classic novel comes a very fine comedy with Tim Daly and Sean Young. Dr. Richard Jacks(Daly), is a man who creates perfumes for companies. One day he discovers a journal belonging to his great grandfather, Dr. Henry Jekyll, that talks about a revolutionary disco...
Cannon Movie Tales: Puss In Boots(1988) - A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make him appear human when he puts them on. However, his owner...
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland(1999) - In this movie adoption of "Sesame Street", Elmo loses his beloved blanket in Oscar the Grouch's trashcan, so he must go to Grouchland to get it back. Unfortunately, the greedy Huxley steals it, along with many other things belonging to the Grouches. Elmo must go an quest to Huxley's castle to return...
Steel Dawn(1987) - This futuristic drama offers the classic story of Shane with a few interesting twists. The tale is set in a smouldering, decimated post WW III world in the town of Meridian which has been besieged by bad-guys belonging to a powerful landowner who is trying to monopolize the precious local water supp...
Jersey Girl(1992) - Toby Mastallone (Jami Gertz) wants to trade her local diner for upmarket dates in Manhattan. But what is a New Jersey schoolteacher who longs to look 'like a city girl' to do? Ever resourceful, she decides to collide her battered VW into the brand new Mercedes belonging to Sal (McDermott). Will her...
Prince of Darkness(1987) - A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate s...
Madeline: Lost in Paris(1999) - Madeline is the smallest of twelve girls in a boarding school, in an old house in Paris. When long lost Uncle Horst pays a surprise visit to Madeline, promising to move her to a new home in Vienna, her longing for a family seems to be fulfilled. Madeline becomes suspicious when her new Uncle loses h...
Tom & Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers(2006) - Tom & Jerry are chasing each other upon a pirate ship belonging to Red Pirate Ron and his jolly old crew. It turns out Red is after the legendary Lost Treasure of the Spanish Mane. Tom hides the map leading to the treasure after they crash land on the island so he can find the treasure for himself b...
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Surviving Christmas(2004) - Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer lives there. This...
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100 Things (2018) ::: 6.4/10 -- 100 Dinge (original title) -- 100 Things Poster Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that ... S Director: Florian David Fitz Writer: Florian David Fitz
Faraway, So Close! (1993) ::: 7.3/10 -- In weiter Ferne, so nah! (original title) -- Faraway, So Close! Poster -- A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans. Director: Wim Wenders Writers:
Nothing Personal (2009) ::: 7.0/10 -- 1h 25min | Drama | 19 November 2010 (USA) -- Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her ... S Director: Urszula Antoniak Writer:
Raising Victor Vargas (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2 May 2003 (USA) -- A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother. Director: Peter Sollett Writers:
Summer Hours (2008) ::: 7.2/10 -- L'heure d't (original title) -- Summer Hours Poster -- Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession. Director: Olivier Assayas Writer:
The Last House on the Left (2009) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Horror, Thriller | 13 March 2009 (USA) -- After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. Director: Dennis Iliadis Writers:
The Muppets (2011) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 23 November 2011 (USA) -- A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures. Director: James Bobin Writers:
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Chocolat no Mahou -- -- SynergySP -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Supernatural Drama Magic Shoujo -- Chocolat no Mahou Chocolat no Mahou -- Chocolatier Chocolat Aikawa and her enigmatic acquaintance Cacao Theobroma run a shop named Chocolat Noir, which is famous for its specially crafted chocolates, known to miraculously grant wishes. A variety of troubled individuals find themselves in front of the shop, seeking its merchandise, but these chocolates are expensive—each customer must pay with their most precious belonging. -- -- Although Chocolat seems to be a lady who would have no problems of her own, due to her ability to grant wishes, beneath her mysterious facade is a distressed young girl who has not settled a score from her past... -- -- OVA - Mar 3, 2011 -- 6,757 6.19
Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Sesshoku-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Sesshoku-hen Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Sesshoku-hen -- Scouring the universe in pursuit of knowledge, mankind has discovered three large trucks and a giant spaceship belonging to an extinct alien civilization on the planet Solo. During their excavation, a humanoid alien race known as the Buff Clan arrives at Solo, and Karala Ajiba—daughter of the Buff Clan's military leader—flies down to the planet against orders. In hunting for Karala, the Buff Clan attacks and destroys the Earth settlement to bring her back. -- -- Desperate to stave off their assaulters, earthlings Cosmo Yuuki, Kasha Imhof, and Bes Jordan board the trucks, which form into the powerful giant robot Ideon when combined. As they fight back against their enemies, the remaining survivors board the spacecraft Solo Ship and flee, while the Buff Clan relentlessly seeks Ideon and the mysterious power source contained within it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- Movie - Jul 10, 1982 -- 3,431 6.10
Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You -- -- Manglobe -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Harem Parody Shounen -- Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You -- Taking place one month after the events that occurred in the movie Heaven is a Place on Earth. Living at the Sanzenin Mansion once again, Nagi returns to her old ways of life, until she receives word from American authorities informing her that she has a week to pick up her late father's belongings that was indefinitely delayed due to various circumstances. After receiving news of her father whom she doesn't remember, Nagi then meets a mysterious girl (with a hidden agenda) claiming to be Nagi's little sister. -- -- The series tells a new story that is original to the anime and not directly based on the manga. The main author of the original series Kenjiro Hata personally created the original concept for the story of this anime. -- -- (Source: Hayate no Gotoku! Wikia) -- 47,602 7.04
Iron Man -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Mecha Drama -- Iron Man Iron Man -- Tony Stark, CEO of a large weapons manufacturer, physicist, engineer, and brilliant inventor, is wounded by shrapnel from one of his own weapons. While held captive by terrorists, he develops the Iron Man Suit and escapes. From that day on, he vows not to waste his second chance at life and to change the world for the better. For that purpose, he comes to Japan. -- -- In Lab 23 in Japan, great strides have been taken to develop, and build, a unique power station which does not run on fossil fuels, the Arc Station. Stark intends to join this project, and, for that, he is ready to announce his retirement as Iron Man. At the same time, he will also announce the Mass-produced Iron Men, to which he will pass on his duties. However, during the ceremonies, Stark is suddenly attacked by combat mecha belonging to an organization known as Zodiac. -- -- Licensor: -- Marvel Entertainment -- TV - Oct 1, 2010 -- 24,875 6.09
Iron Man -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Mecha Drama -- Iron Man Iron Man -- Tony Stark, CEO of a large weapons manufacturer, physicist, engineer, and brilliant inventor, is wounded by shrapnel from one of his own weapons. While held captive by terrorists, he develops the Iron Man Suit and escapes. From that day on, he vows not to waste his second chance at life and to change the world for the better. For that purpose, he comes to Japan. -- -- In Lab 23 in Japan, great strides have been taken to develop, and build, a unique power station which does not run on fossil fuels, the Arc Station. Stark intends to join this project, and, for that, he is ready to announce his retirement as Iron Man. At the same time, he will also announce the Mass-produced Iron Men, to which he will pass on his duties. However, during the ceremonies, Stark is suddenly attacked by combat mecha belonging to an organization known as Zodiac. -- TV - Oct 1, 2010 -- 24,875 6.09
Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) -- -- MAPPA -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural School Shounen -- Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) -- Idly indulging in baseless paranormal activities with the Occult Club, high schooler Yuuji Itadori spends his days at either the clubroom or the hospital, where he visits his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a turn for the strange when he unknowingly encounters a cursed item. Triggering a chain of supernatural occurrences, Yuuji finds himself suddenly thrust into the world of Curses—dreadful beings formed from human malice and negativity—after swallowing the said item, revealed to be a finger belonging to the demon Sukuna Ryoumen, the "King of Curses." -- -- Yuuji experiences first-hand the threat these Curses pose to society as he discovers his own newfound powers. Introduced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical High School, he begins to walk down a path from which he cannot return—the path of a Jujutsu sorcerer. -- -- 1,008,447 8.79
Kimi ni Todoke -- -- Production I.G -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Drama Romance School Shoujo -- Kimi ni Todoke Kimi ni Todoke -- Known for her semblance to the Sadako character of The Ring series, Sawako Kuronuma is given the nickname "Sadako" and misunderstood to be frightening and malicious like her fictional counterpart, despite having a timid and sweet nature. Longing to make friends and live a normal life, Sawako is naturally drawn to the cheerful and friendly Shouta Kazehaya, the most popular boy in her class. From their first meeting, Sawako has admired Kazehaya's ability to be the center of attention and aspires to be like him. -- -- When Kazehaya organizes a test of courage for the entire class and encourages her to attend, Sawako sees this as an opportunity to get along with her classmates, starting with Ayane Yano and Chizuru Yoshida. Through each new encounter and emotion she experiences, Sawako believes that meeting Kazehaya has changed her for the better. Little does Sawako know, her presence has also changed Kazehaya. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- 679,229 8.01
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai -- -- Studio VOLN -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Slice of Life Drama Romance -- Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai -- The aloof protagonist: a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled "Living with Dying." He soon identifies it as a secret diary belonging to his popular, bubbly classmate Sakura Yamauchi. She then confides in him about the pancreatic disease she is suffering from and that her time left is finite. Only her family knows about her terminal illness; not even her best friends are aware. Despite this revelation, he shows zero sympathy for her plight, but caught in the waves of Sakura's persistent buoyancy, he eventually concedes to accompanying her for her remaining days. -- -- As the pair of polar opposites interact, their connection strengthens, interweaving through their choices made with each passing day. Her apparent nonchalance and unpredictability disrupts the protagonist's impassive flow of life, gradually opening his heart as he discovers and embraces the true meaning of living. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Sep 1, 2018 -- 499,135 8.59
Kotoura-san -- -- AIC Classic -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School -- Kotoura-san Kotoura-san -- Since childhood, Haruka Kotoura's classmates have seen her as a creepy and monstrous person. This is due to her ability to read other people's minds—the same ability that drove her parents away, leaving her alone with her grandfather. As a result, she has grown accustomed to the bitter treatment by the people around her, becoming completely cold and unsociable to others. -- -- However, everything starts to change when Haruka transfers to a new school. While most are off put by her as usual, she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, who finds her power astonishing. Yoshihisa then proceeds to befriend Haruka, promising to never leave her no matter what happens. -- -- Haruka's new experiences of social belonging thus begin, meeting new friends and learning to open herself along the way. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- TV - Jan 11, 2013 -- 275,232 7.21
Kotoura-san -- -- AIC Classic -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School -- Kotoura-san Kotoura-san -- Since childhood, Haruka Kotoura's classmates have seen her as a creepy and monstrous person. This is due to her ability to read other people's minds—the same ability that drove her parents away, leaving her alone with her grandfather. As a result, she has grown accustomed to the bitter treatment by the people around her, becoming completely cold and unsociable to others. -- -- However, everything starts to change when Haruka transfers to a new school. While most are off put by her as usual, she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, who finds her power astonishing. Yoshihisa then proceeds to befriend Haruka, promising to never leave her no matter what happens. -- -- Haruka's new experiences of social belonging thus begin, meeting new friends and learning to open herself along the way. -- -- TV - Jan 11, 2013 -- 275,232 7.21
Macross -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 36 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Military Music Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Macross Macross -- After a mysterious spaceship crashes into Earth, humanity realizes that they are not alone. Fearing a potential threat from space, the world pushes aside their nationalism, conflicting interests, and cultural differences, unifying under the banner of the United Nations. The newly formed UN forces decide to repurpose the alien spacecraft, naming it SDF-1 Macross. Unfortunately, on the day of its maiden voyage, a fleet of spaceships belonging to a race of aliens known as the Zentradi descend upon Earth, and the SDF-1 Macross, acting of its own accord, shoots down the incoming squadron, sparking an intergalactic war. -- -- In an attempt to escape, the Macross tries to launch itself into the Moon's orbit, but the ship—as well as the city it was in—is teleported to the far reaches of space. Caught up in this mess are Hikaru Ichijou, a free-spirited acrobatic pilot, and Minmay Lynn, an aspiring singer. These two, alongside Macross' crew, experience an epic journey rife with grief and drama, coming face-to-face with the cruelties of war along the way. -- -- 85,330 7.93
Macross -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 36 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Military Music Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Macross Macross -- After a mysterious spaceship crashes into Earth, humanity realizes that they are not alone. Fearing a potential threat from space, the world pushes aside their nationalism, conflicting interests, and cultural differences, unifying under the banner of the United Nations. The newly formed UN forces decide to repurpose the alien spacecraft, naming it SDF-1 Macross. Unfortunately, on the day of its maiden voyage, a fleet of spaceships belonging to a race of aliens known as the Zentradi descend upon Earth, and the SDF-1 Macross, acting of its own accord, shoots down the incoming squadron, sparking an intergalactic war. -- -- In an attempt to escape, the Macross tries to launch itself into the Moon's orbit, but the ship—as well as the city it was in—is teleported to the far reaches of space. Caught up in this mess are Hikaru Ichijou, a free-spirited acrobatic pilot, and Minmay Lynn, an aspiring singer. These two, alongside Macross' crew, experience an epic journey rife with grief and drama, coming face-to-face with the cruelties of war along the way. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, AnimEigo -- 85,330 7.93
Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst -- -- Yokohama Animation Lab -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Magic Fantasy -- Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst -- In the technologically and magically advanced Wahrheit Empire, rumors of a returning catastrophe known only as the "light" causes a disturbance amongst the people. Meanwhile, in the capital of the Empire, transporter Innumael Grauer prepares his daily deliveries, struggling to make ends meet for himself and his sister. Leocadio Wöhler, a newly recruited soldier, assists Innumael whilst commuting to work—unknowingly loading a mysterious package containing contraband artillery belonging to a criminal organization. -- -- Innumael is accused of smuggling the package, facing possible execution due to the Empire's strict oversight of weapons in response to the rising disorder. However, unbeknownst to him, the very syndicate that placed him in this unfortunate predicament may save him from this fate, at least temporarily. Elsewhere, Leocadio is assigned his first mission—to apprehend the criminal group known as "Headkeeper," suspected of transporting illegal weaponry. -- -- Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst follows these two young men on a journey encompassing the Wahrheit Empire, triggering a chain of events that will not only change their lives but also alter the course of the Empire as they know it. -- -- 26,782 6.58
Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst -- -- Yokohama Animation Lab -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Magic Fantasy -- Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst -- In the technologically and magically advanced Wahrheit Empire, rumors of a returning catastrophe known only as the "light" causes a disturbance amongst the people. Meanwhile, in the capital of the Empire, transporter Innumael Grauer prepares his daily deliveries, struggling to make ends meet for himself and his sister. Leocadio Wöhler, a newly recruited soldier, assists Innumael whilst commuting to work—unknowingly loading a mysterious package containing contraband artillery belonging to a criminal organization. -- -- Innumael is accused of smuggling the package, facing possible execution due to the Empire's strict oversight of weapons in response to the rising disorder. However, unbeknownst to him, the very syndicate that placed him in this unfortunate predicament may save him from this fate, at least temporarily. Elsewhere, Leocadio is assigned his first mission—to apprehend the criminal group known as "Headkeeper," suspected of transporting illegal weaponry. -- -- Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst follows these two young men on a journey encompassing the Wahrheit Empire, triggering a chain of events that will not only change their lives but also alter the course of the Empire as they know it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 26,782 6.58
Mekakucity Days -- -- - -- 5 eps -- Music -- Music Psychological Sci-Fi -- Mekakucity Days Mekakucity Days -- Mekakucity Days is a series of music videos that tell the stories of some of the members of the "Mekakushi-dan." -- -- Kagerou Daze -- In the scorching heat haze of summer, Hibiya Amamiya feels every day is monotonous. On a swing in a park, he meets up with Hiyori Asahina, who gently strokes the cat in her arms. However, when the cat leaps away, Hiyori runs headlong into a never-ending tragedy—and Hibiya will do whatever it takes to see her safe. -- -- Headphone Actor -- "The end of the world is nigh," the news broadcast proclaims. Amidst the chaos, Takane Enomoto hears a voice in her headphones, asking if she wants to live. Following its directions, she races onward, but what awaits her may not be the salvation that she desires. -- -- Souzou Forest -- Due to her red eyes and white hair, everybody sees Mari Kozakura as a monster. Although she lacks the courage to do so, she dreams of escaping her house in the forest where she lives alone, imagining the world outside. Fortunately, her lonesome life begins to change with a simple knock on the door. -- -- Konoha no Sekai Jijou -- The android-like being Konoha lacks many memories. What he recalls are feelings of longing, but by who and for who, he cannot place. What he does know, however, is that in the heat haze of summer, a young boy and girl face a tragedy. But fate is unchangeable, and his desperate attempts to save them can never seem to rewrite the future. -- -- Toumei Answer -- Shintarou Kisaragi knows how every day will go. Blessed with a photographic memory, he knows he will score full marks on his next exam, and he knows that Ayano Tateyama, the girl who sits next to him, will do poorly. But with his genius also comes unrelenting boredom; not even Ayano's bright smile and optimistic outlook can make him waver. His apathy may finally be broken, however, when Ayano does something that shakes Shintarou to his very core. -- -- Music - May 30, 2012 -- 8,282 7.51
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE -- -- Sunrise -- 49 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Mobile Suit Gundam AGE -- In A.G. 101 (the 101st year of the Advanced Generation calendar) a mysterious entity known only as "UE", or "unknown enemy", attacks and destroys the space colony Angel. This brutal attack becomes infamous as the "The Day the Angel Fell", and marks the beginning of humanity's war for survival. -- -- The series begins in A.G. 108 when the UE attack the space colony Ovan, where Flit Asuno lives with his mother. Flit's mother is killed by the UE, and in her belongings (in an object called a "AGE Device") he discovers the blueprints for a powerful weapon from the past - the ancient messiah named "Gundam." -- -- From these blueprints, Flit spends the next several years studying engineering at an Earth Federation base on the Nora space colony and designing the AGE-1 Gundam. Seven years later, in A.G. 115, Flit completes the Gundam, just as the UE attack Nora. Flit and his lineage's battle piloting the AGE-1 to protect mankind is about to begin. -- -- (Source: GoodAnime.net) -- TV - Oct 9, 2011 -- 26,963 6.49
One Piece: Romance Dawn Story -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Fantasy Comedy Super Power Shounen -- One Piece: Romance Dawn Story One Piece: Romance Dawn Story -- The Straw Hat Pirates, searching for the great passage "Grand Line", are in trouble when their food runs out! Luffy, searching for food on his own, finds a ship belonging to the pirate, Gary, and takes it over!! He lands at a nearby town... -- -- Luffy was attacked by a young girl, Silk, who mistook him for a member of the other pirate gang. As the two eat a meal, they tell their stories. Meanwhile, Gary and his band are burning with anger at Luffy, demanding payment from the town's defenseless citizens...!! -- -- (Source: jumpland.com/animetour/op/index_en.html) -- OVA - Nov 24, 2008 -- 39,720 7.38
Petshop of Horrors -- -- Madhouse -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Horror Josei Mystery Supernatural -- Petshop of Horrors Petshop of Horrors -- Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract are followed, everything goes fine, but if someone should break the rules of the contract, the pet shop cannot be held responsible for anything unfortunate that might happen. Leon Orcot, a homicide detective, has linked many odd and unexplainable deaths together; they all were customers of Count D's pet shop, and he intends to find out why. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks, Urban Vision -- TV - Mar 2, 1999 -- 52,941 7.26
Petshop of Horrors -- -- Madhouse -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Horror Josei Mystery Supernatural -- Petshop of Horrors Petshop of Horrors -- Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract are followed, everything goes fine, but if someone should break the rules of the contract, the pet shop cannot be held responsible for anything unfortunate that might happen. Leon Orcot, a homicide detective, has linked many odd and unexplainable deaths together; they all were customers of Count D's pet shop, and he intends to find out why. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Mar 2, 1999 -- 52,941 7.26
Shigofumi -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy Psychological Supernatural Thriller -- Shigofumi Shigofumi -- There are some things that people are unable to say while they are alive; for these, there are "shigofumi," letters carried from the world of the dead to the world of the living. When a person with strong emotions dies, they are able to create a shigofumi, whether their feelings are of love, longing, or resentment. It is the quiet and mysterious Fumika's job to deliver these messages from the departed. Along with her talking magic staff Kanaka, she ensures that each shigofumi reaches its intended recipient, even if that person does not want to face its contents. -- -- Fumika witnesses the tragedies of people, both dead and alive, and sees their deepest secrets revealed. What is unclear, however, are the details of Fumika's past. Who was she before she came to be a carrier of shigofumi? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 6, 2008 -- 79,028 7.49
Shigofumi -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Original -- Drama Fantasy Psychological Supernatural Thriller -- Shigofumi Shigofumi -- There are some things that people are unable to say while they are alive; for these, there are "shigofumi," letters carried from the world of the dead to the world of the living. When a person with strong emotions dies, they are able to create a shigofumi, whether their feelings are of love, longing, or resentment. It is the quiet and mysterious Fumika's job to deliver these messages from the departed. Along with her talking magic staff Kanaka, she ensures that each shigofumi reaches its intended recipient, even if that person does not want to face its contents. -- -- Fumika witnesses the tragedies of people, both dead and alive, and sees their deepest secrets revealed. What is unclear, however, are the details of Fumika's past. Who was she before she came to be a carrier of shigofumi? -- -- TV - Jan 6, 2008 -- 79,028 7.49
Shukufuku no Campanella -- -- AIC -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Adventure Fantasy Harem Magic -- Shukufuku no Campanella Shukufuku no Campanella -- The story takes place in a trading city Ert'Aria. Leicester Maycraft is an item engineer belonging to an adventurer guild "Oasis." One night, he is at a party with his friends to see a meteor stream on the rooftop of a chapel. One meteor grazes them and hits the steeple of the chapel. There he finds a secret room and a sleeping girl. The girl wakes up and says "You must be my father!" The encounter with the mysterious girl brings an unexpected adventure to Leicester. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Jul 3, 2010 -- 28,216 6.30
Shukufuku no Campanella -- -- AIC -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Adventure Fantasy Harem Magic -- Shukufuku no Campanella Shukufuku no Campanella -- The story takes place in a trading city Ert'Aria. Leicester Maycraft is an item engineer belonging to an adventurer guild "Oasis." One night, he is at a party with his friends to see a meteor stream on the rooftop of a chapel. One meteor grazes them and hits the steeple of the chapel. There he finds a secret room and a sleeping girl. The girl wakes up and says "You must be my father!" The encounter with the mysterious girl brings an unexpected adventure to Leicester. -- TV - Jul 3, 2010 -- 28,216 6.30
Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai -- -- Artland, TNK -- 12 eps -- Other -- Ecchi Fantasy -- Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai -- Lucifer, an Archangel and former head of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, is banished from Heaven after revolting against the Lord's will.. While plummeting from the skies, she is halted halfway between Heaven and Hell after crashing through the roof of a high school church. Though she is witnessed by Maria Totsuka, a soft-spoken student at the academy, Lucifer swiftly continues her descent into the depths of Hell. -- -- Soon after her arrival, Lucifer is found by aspiring Demon Lord and fangirl Leviathan. The two decide to overthrow the Seven Sins, the authorities of Hell under the leadership of Belial. But with their combined powers, the Seven Sins are able to repel Lucifer and contain her divine powers by placing a Garb of Punishment over her body, transforming Lucifer into a Demon Lord. -- -- Longing for revenge and accompanied by Leviathan, Lucifer makes her way back to Earth, where she forces Maria to become her immortal slave. Together with her new accomplices, Lucifer sets out on a mission to subdue the Seven Sins so she may be free of the curse brought upon by her Garb. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 115,034 5.69
The Big O -- -- Sunrise -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mystery Psychological Mecha -- The Big O The Big O -- Paradigm City, a city of amnesia and a place of belonging. It remains populated by forgotten pasts and the ruins of their labors due to a calamity 40 years ago. Shrouded in a fog-like mystery, it is up to people like Roger Smith to shine a light through the mist. Acting as a professional negotiator and suave agent, Roger is a self-tailored ladies man whose only love is for funeral black. However, as he gets deeply involved with his clients, what often starts as a simple negotiation evolves into Roger saving Paradigm from crime and peril. -- -- In the process, Roger stumbles even deeper into the untold folds of the city. As a rule, things are hardly ever as they appear. Serving as gray knight in a gray world, Roger is not without allies. By his side are Norman, a loyal and widely skilled butler, and Dorothy, a human-like android with deadpan snark. Together with the relic Big O, a jet-black mecha of gargantuan size and weight, they help Roger serve iron justice to Paradigm's lurking villains as he discovers the truth about 40 years ago. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 13, 1999 -- 77,182 7.53
Vampiyan Kids: Pilot -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Comedy Kids Vampire -- Vampiyan Kids: Pilot Vampiyan Kids: Pilot -- A young boy ends up at a castle belonging to a vampire and his daughter. -- Special - ??? ??, 1999 -- 959 6.10
Visual Prison -- -- A-1 Pictures -- ? eps -- Original -- Music Supernatural Vampire -- Visual Prison Visual Prison -- Ange Yuki—a boy who wrestles with deep-seated loneliness and can't fit in. With nobody to call family, he leaves his hometown. Longing to see an artist he admires perform, he heads for Harajuku, where he encounters a live battle between visual kei units ECLIPSE and LOS † EDEN. Overwhelmed by the energetic performance, he is suddenly struck by an intense pain... -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- TV - Oct ??, 2021 -- 1,528 N/A -- -- Zoku Gosenzo San'e -- -- - -- 4 eps -- Original -- Hentai Vampire -- Zoku Gosenzo San'e Zoku Gosenzo San'e -- A direct sequel, continuing about nine months after the first season ends. -- OVA - Oct 25, 2000 -- 1,430 5.50
Yami Shibai 7 -- -- DRAWIZ, ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 7 Yami Shibai 7 -- A rusted door opens to a decrepit apartment filled with darkness. Inside, the masked Storyteller waits to spin more twisted tales of horror, inviting all to listen. -- -- In one story, a woman is tormented by her past sins; in another, a man visits a chilling art exhibit, where things quickly go awry when he ignores the warnings regarding taking photographs. That is not all, though—an unsuspecting woman hears strange noises from her veranda, but when her boyfriend investigates, he receives the shock of his life; a lady receives a frantic call from her sister, who begs her to come to a phone booth, but when she arrives, she realizes that things are not as they appear; and a man looks for one of his belongings in his little sister's room, only to soon discover that a malevolent presence lives there. The Storyteller is all too eager to share these tales, which will no doubt shock and terrify his audience. -- -- 12,990 5.93
Zenonzard The Animation -- -- 8bit -- 9 eps -- Game -- Action Game Fantasy -- Zenonzard The Animation Zenonzard The Animation -- Hinaria is unemployed, gaming every day. One day she decides to hack the servers belonging to the Beholder Group for some money, and she stumbles across a carefully secured record of two witches, Alice and Rimel. The two women wished to coexist with mankind, and the history they experienced is connected to the modern ZENONZARD. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- ONA - Jan 31, 2020 -- 11,370 6.06
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