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losable ::: a. --> Such as can be lost.
losange ::: n. --> See Lozenge.
lose "jargon" ({MIT}) 1. To fail. A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner. 2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant). 4. Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!" [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-19)
lose ::: (jargon) (MIT) 1. To fail. A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner.2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky.3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant).4. Refers to something that is losing, especially in the phrases That's a lose! and What a lose![Jargon File] (1995-04-19)
losel ::: n. --> One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. ::: a. --> Wasteful; slothful.
losengerie ::: n. --> Flattery; deceit; trickery.
losenger ::: n. --> A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
loser "jargon" An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person. Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally). Someone who knows not and knows not that he knows not. Emphatic forms are "real loser", "total loser", and "complete loser" (but not **"moby loser", which would be a contradiction in terms). See {luser}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-19)
loser ::: (jargon) An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person. Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally). Someone who total loser, and complete loser (but not **moby loser, which would be a contradiction in terms).See luser.[Jargon File] (1995-04-19)
loser ::: n. --> One who loses.
lose ::: v. t. --> To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one&
losing ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lose ::: a. --> Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. ::: v. t.
losing "jargon" Said of anything that is or causes a {lose} or {lossage}. [{Jargon File}]
losing ::: (jargon) Said of anything that is or causes a lose or lossage.[Jargon File]
losingly ::: adv. --> In a manner to incur loss.
los ::: n. --> Praise. See Loos.
lossage "jargon" /los'*j/ The result of a {bug} or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. "What a loss!" and "What lossage!" are nearly synonymous. The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a continuing {lose} of which the speaker is currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-19)
lossage ::: (jargon) /los'*j/ The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. What a loss! and What lossage! are nearly synonymous. The Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.[Jargon File] (1995-04-19)
lossful ::: a. --> Detrimental.
loss ::: (jargon) Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing. Emphatic forms include moby loss, and total loss, an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has positive connotations.Compare lossage. (1995-04-19)
loss "jargon" Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing. Emphatic forms include "moby loss", and "total loss", "complete loss". Common interjections are "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that "moby loss" is OK even though **"moby loser" is not used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has positive connotations. Compare {lossage}. (1995-04-19)
lossless ::: a. --> Free from loss.
lossless "algorithm, compression" A term describing a data {compression} {algorithm} which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. {Unix} {compress} and {GNU} {gzip} perform lossless compression. Opposite: {lossy}. (1995-03-29)
lossless ::: (algorithm, compression) A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression.Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression.Opposite: lossy. (1995-03-29)
lossless audio compression "audio, compression" Any kind of {audio compression} in which the original signal and the decoded signal are bitwise identical. Lossless audio compression algorithms are usually based on a data compression algorithm like {PKzip} or {gzip} but specialized for {PCM} audio data. The signal is divided into predictable {tonal} components and unpredictable noisy components. Tonal components are stored as coefficients of a predictor, the remaining signal is coded by {Rice coding}, {Huffman coding} or {arithmetic coding}. (2001-12-24)
lossless audio compression ::: (audio, compression) Any kind of audio compression in which the original signal and the decoded signal are bitwise identical. Lossless audio compression coefficients of a predictor, the remaining signal is coded by a Rice, Huffman, or arithmetic coder.(2001-12-24)
loss ::: v. t. --> The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
lossy "algorithm" A term describing a data {compression} {algorithm} which actually reduces the amount of information in the data, rather than just the number of bits used to represent that information. The lost information is usually removed because it is subjectively less important to the quality of the data (usually an {image} or {sound}) or because it can be recovered reasonably by {interpolation} from the remaining data. {MPEG} and {JPEG} are examples of lossy compression techniques. Opposite: {lossless}. (1995-03-29)
lossy ::: (algorithm) A term describing a data compression algorithm which actually reduces the amount of information in the data, rather than just the number of image or sound) or because it can be recovered reasonably by interpolation from the remaining data.MPEG and JPEG are examples of lossy compression techniques.Opposite: lossless. (1995-03-29)
lossy audio compression "audio, compression" Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are {MP1}, {MP2}, {MP3}, {AAC}. (2001-12-24)
lossy audio compression ::: (audio, compression) Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.(2001-12-24)
lost in the noise ::: Synonym lost in the underflow. This term is from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be separated from low-intensity noise in the system. Though popular among hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers, astronomers, and statisticians all use it.[Jargon File]
lost in the noise Synonym {lost in the underflow}. This term is from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be separated from low-intensity noise in the system. Though popular among hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers, astronomers, and statisticians all use it. [{Jargon File}]
lost in the underflow "jargon" Too small to be worth considering; more specifically, small beyond the limits of accuracy or measurement. This is a reference to "{floating point underflow}". The {Hacker's Jargon File} claimed that it is also a pun on "undertow" (a kind of fast, cold current that sometimes runs just offshore and can be dangerous to swimmers). "Well, sure, photon pressure from the stadium lights alters the path of a thrown baseball, but that effect gets lost in the underflow". Compare {epsilon}, {epsilon squared}; see also {overflow bit}. (1997-09-05)
lost in the underflow ::: (jargon) Too small to be worth considering; more specifically, small beyond the limits of accuracy or measurement. This is a reference to floating point underflow.The Hacker's Jargon File claimed that it is also a pun on undertow (a kind of fast, cold current that sometimes runs just offshore and can be dangerous to swimmers).Well, sure, photon pressure from the stadium lights alters the path of a thrown baseball, but that effect gets lost in the underflow.Compare epsilon, epsilon squared; see also overflow bit. (1997-09-05)
lost ::: v. t. --> Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.
Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way;
Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen. See BLO BZANG CHOS KYI RGYAL MTSHAN
Los (Lucifer?)—the agent of divine providence,
Loss - Finance, is when the expenses of an entity exceed sales or revenues of the entity, i.e. items are sold for less than they cost the firm.
Loss leaders - Products with prices set deliberately below average total cost to attract customers who will then buy other; more profitable, products.
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression ::: (audio, compression) (LPAC) A lossless audio compression algorithm with compression ratios from 1.5 to 4, depending on the input. Software is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris. LPAC files (*.pac) can be played with a Winamp plug-in. .(2001-12-17)
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression "audio, compression" (LPAC) A {lossless} {audio} {compression} {algorithm} with compression ratios from 1.5 to 4, depending on the input. Software is available for {Microsoft Windows}, {Linux} and {Solaris}. LPAC files (*.pac) can be played with a {Winamp} {plug-in}. {(http://www-ft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~liebchen/lpac.html)}. (2001-12-17)
Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden.
Lost Books of the Bible.
Lost, but as Raphael by Dryden in State of
Lost (I, 438), Astarte is a fallen angel, equated with
Lost I, 534 describes Azazel as “a cherub tall,” but
Lost I, after a sculpture by Darodes. Reproduced from Hayley, The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Lost II, 4, where he is described as “the fiercest
Lost Soul An entity who through a series of rebirths has been slowly following the easy descent to Avernus. A lost soul is one who is not merely “soulless” in the ordinary theosophical usage, but is one who has lost the last link, the last delicate thread of consciousness, connecting him with his inner god.
Lost V); as a “six-winged seraph”; and as one of
Lost VI, 199, Milton speaks of “the Rebel Thrones.”
Lost VI, 447), Nisroc is a ruling angel of the order
Lost VI, where he is overthrown by the angel
Lost Word According to the Masonic ritual of the third or Master Mason’s degree, the Word which was in the possession of the three Grand Masters of the Craft, King Solomon, Hiram of Tyre, and Hiram Abif, and could be given only when the three were “present and agreed,” was said to have been lost on the death of Hiram Abif, in consequence of which it was decreed that until the True Word was again found, a Substitute Word should be used. By the death of Hiram Abif not only was the Master’s True Word lost, but it was discovered that there were no plans upon the Trestle-Board for continuing the work of the building of the Temple. This gives a clue to the meaning of the Lost Word which “ought to stand as ‘lost words’ and lost secrets, in general, for that which is termed the lost ‘Word’ is no word at all, as in the case of the Ineffable Name” (TG 191). Communicated to man in the childhood of the human race, these lost secrets were passed on from hierophant to hierophant in turn.
Lost XI, 221, uses the term as the equivalent of the
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. Accompanying in a circumstantial relation; going with as a concomitant; closely consequent. 2. Following closely. 3. Waiting for, awaiting, expecting (a future time, event, result, decision, etc.)
1. A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2. A mental representation; idea; conception. 3. Form; appearance; semblance. 4. A type; embodiment. 5. An idol or representation of a deity. 6. A person or thing that resembles another closely; counterpart, double or copy. 7. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else. images, image-face.
1. Brings out of a folded state; spreads or opens out. 2. Discloses or lays open to the view; displays. Also fig.
1. Closely intimate or personal. 2. A close friend or associate. 3. Having fair knowledge; acquainted.
1. Disappeared gradually; vanished. 2. Having lost freshness, brilliance of colour, etc.
1. Enclosed protectively; enveloped. embosoming.
1.* Fig. To hold steadfastly to; cling to; cherish. 2. To stay close to, esp. the shore. *hugs, hugged, hugging.
1. Not discovered, found, or come upon. 2. Undisclosed, unrevealed.
1. Of or pertaining to the present time or moment. 2. Next in line or relation; closest or most direct in effect or relationship. 3. Without intervening medium or agent; direct.
1. Opened or released by or as if by undoing a lock. 2. Laid open; disclosed.
1. Stripped a mask or disguise from. 2. Revealed the true character of; disclosed; exposed. 3. Put off one"s mask; appeared in true nature. unmasks.
1. That unfolds, discloses, or develops. 2. Spreading out or laying open to view; revealing; displaying. unfoldings. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
1. The expenditure of something, such as time or labour, necessary for the attainment of a goal. Also fig. **2. The price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay. 3. **Suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty.
1. The fact, character, or quality of being useful or serviceable; fitness for some desirable purpose or valuable end; usefulness, serviceableness. 2. Philos. The ability, capacity, or power of a person, action, or thing to satisfy the needs or gratify the desires of the majority, or of the human race as a whole. 3. A useful, advantageous, or profitable thing, feature, etc.; a use. Chiefly in pl. utility"s, utilities.
"1. ‘The Golden Embryo" in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative"; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State"; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
1. To become dim, as light, or lose brightness of illumination. 2.* Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly, lit. and fig. *3. To lose strength or vitality; wane. 4. To vanish slowly; die out. 5. To grow dim, fade away, become less loud. fades, faded, fading.
3. In the Mahabharata and the Puranas, the second member of the Triad, the embodiment of sattva-guna, the preserving and restoring power. This power has manifested in the world as the various incarnations of Vishnu, generally accepted as being ten in number. Vishnu"s heaven is Vaikuntha, his consort Lakshmi and his vehicle Garuda. He is portrayed as reclining on the serpent-king Sesa and floating on the waters between periods of cosmic manifestation. The holy river Ganga is said to spring from his foot. (A; V. G.; Dow)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings in the Hebrew Scriptures. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity. 2. Any secret or occult doctrine or science. 3.”Esoteric system of interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures based on the assumption that every word, letter, number, and accent in them has an occult meaning. The system, oral at first, claimed great antiquity, but was really the product of the Middle Ages, arising in the 7th century and lasting into the 18th. It was popular chiefly among Jews, but spread to Christians as well. (Col. Enc). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
::: "A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul"s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law — or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul’s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law—or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception,—the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
adj. 1. Lacking in colour or brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc. 2. Indistinct, ill-defined; dim; faded; slight. 3. Feeble through hunger, fear, exhaustion, etc. 4. Inclined to ‘faint" or swoon. faintest, faint-foot. v. 5. To lose strength, brightness, colour, courage etc.; to fade. 6. To grow weak. 7. To feel weak, dizzy or exhausted; falter; about to lose consciousness. 8. To weaken in purpose or spirit. faints, fainted, fainting.
"A fabulous tribe of wild, beastlike monsters, having the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse. They live in the woods or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, and Thessaly. They are representative of wild life, animal desires and barbarism. (M.I.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.*
“A fabulous tribe of wild, beastlike monsters, having the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse. They live in the woods or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, and Thessaly. They are representative of wild life, animal desires and barbarism. (M.I.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works.
affiliated ::: being in close formal or informal association; related.
Alacananda ::: “One of the four head streams of the river Ganga in the Himalayas. According to the Vaishnavas it is the terrestrial Ganga which Shiva received upon his head as it fell from heaven. The famous shrine of Badrinath is situated on the banks of this stream. (Dow). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
Alacananda ::: “One of the four head streams of the river Ganga in the Himalayas. According to the Vaishnavas it is the terrestrial Ganga which Shiva received upon his head as it fell from heaven. The famous shrine of Badrinath is situated on the banks of this stream.(Dow). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
alacananda ::: "One of the four head streams of the river Ganga in the Himalayas. According to the Vaishnavas it is the terrestrial Ganga which Shiva received upon his head as it fell from heaven. The famous shrine of Badrinath is situated on the banks of this stream. (Dow.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
“All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we look closely at it, the Infinite’s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit’s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being,—an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves,—but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” The Life Divine
". . . all birth is a progressive self-finding, a means of self-realisation.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“… all birth is a progressive self-finding, a means of self-realisation.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
“All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another—Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect’ of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect’.” Letters on Yoga
alley ::: a passage between buildings; hence, a narrow street, a lane; usually only wide enough for foot-passengers. blind alley*: one that is closed at the end, so as to be no thoroughfare; a cul de sac*.
"All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All prayer rightly offered brings us closer to the Divine and establishes a right relation with Him.” *Letters on Yoga
“All prayer rightly offered brings us closer to the Divine and establishes a right relation with Him.” Letters on Yoga
"Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga
“Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga
Amal: “I believe this phrase—like ‘The sun-eyed Guardians and the Golden Sphinx’—refers to the denizens of the Supermind just as do the lines mentioning ‘the belt of the unchanging Truth’ and ‘the presence of the Ineffable’. The earlier words—‘The gold ridge of the world-dream’—point to the overmind. In the same context the words ‘Between the slayer and the saviour fires’ remind us of the closing lines of the sonnet ‘Nirvana’ which ends with lines:
Amal: “The phrase ‘the Book of Bliss’ is a reference to the plane of Ananda which is beyond-behind the plane of the Supermind. I have equated ‘beyond’ to ‘behind’ because there is nothing higher than the Supermind. Through Supermind comes the disclosure of the supreme Ananda which may be called its inmost self.”
Amal: “This is the scientific building of knowledge by a logical process—a massing together of little observations into a coherent whole. It implies the loss of the original knowledge which was direct and grasped at once from all sides and not structured piece by piece from small bits of logical deduction.”
"A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously tend towards it; not only so, but the life of humanity will be enlightened, uplifted, governed, harmonised by this luminous principle and even the body become something much less powerless, obscure and animal in its propensities and capable instead of a new and harmonised perfection. It is this possibility that we have to look at and that would mean a new humanity uplifted into Light, capable of a spiritualised being and action, open to governance by some light of the Truth-consciousness, capable even on the mental level and in its own order of something that might be called the beginning of a divinised life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously tend towards it; not only so, but the life of humanity will be enlightened, uplifted, governed, harmonised by this luminous principle and even the body become something much less powerless, obscure and animal in its propensities and capable instead of a new and harmonised perfection. It is this possibility that we have to look at and that would mean a new humanity uplifted into Light, capable of a spiritualised being and action, open to governance by some light of the Truth-consciousness, capable even on the mental level and in its own order of something that might be called the beginning of a divinised life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
ananke ::: "In Greek mythology, personification of compelling necessity or ultimate fate to which even the gods must yield.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Ananke ::: “In Greek mythology, personification of compelling necessity or ultimate fate to which even the gods must yield.” (Mother India) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
Ananke ::: “This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience, and mostly as an ordered ethical law or fatality set over against the self-will and strength of man: but it was clouded over by other ideas inconsistent with any reign of law, vague ideas of some superior caprice or of some divine jealousy,—that was a notion of the Greeks,—a blind Fate or inscrutable Necessity, Ananke, or, later, the mysterious ways of an arbitrary, though no doubt an all-wise Providence.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“And raise a lost Power from its python sleep”
"A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"An exclusive inner concentration on the Real, the Eternal is possible, even a self-immersion by which we can lose or put away the dissonances of the universe.” The Life Divine
“An exclusive inner concentration on the Real, the Eternal is possible, even a self-immersion by which we can lose or put away the dissonances of the universe.” The Life Divine
"An OMNIPRESENT Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose themselves on the verges of the Ineffable, the Reality is one and not a sum or concourse. From that all variations begin, in that all variations consist, to that all variations return. All affirmations are denied only to lead to a wider affirmation of the same Reality.” The Life Divine ::: *reality, absolute See **absolute reality**
“An OMNIPRESENT Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose themselves on the verges of the Ineffable, the Reality is one and not a sum or concourse. From that all variations begin, in that all variations consist, to that all variations return. All affirmations are denied only to lead to a wider affirmation of the same Reality.” The Life Divine
"A paradise of the Hindus; the heaven of Vishnu, sometimes described as on Mount Meru, at other times as in the ‘Northern Ocean" of Puranic cosmology.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
"A philosophy of change?(1) But what is change? In ordinary parlance change means passage from one condition to another and that would seem to imply passage from one status to another status. The shoot changes into a tree, passes from the status of shoot to the status of tree and there it stops; man passes from the status of young man to the status of old man and the only farther change possible to him is death or dissolution of his status. So it would seem that change is not something isolated which is the sole original and eternal reality, but it is something dependent on status, and if status were non-existent, change also could not exist. For we have to ask, when you speak of change as alone real, change of what, from what, to what? Without this ‘what" change could not be. ::: —Change is evidently the change of some form or state of existence from one condition to another condition.” Essays Divine and Human
“A philosophy of change?(1) But what is change? In ordinary parlance change means passage from one condition to another and that would seem to imply passage from one status to another status. The shoot changes into a tree, passes from the status of shoot to the status of tree and there it stops; man passes from the status of young man to the status of old man and the only farther change possible to him is death or dissolution of his status. So it would seem that change is not something isolated which is the sole original and eternal reality, but it is something dependent on status, and if status were non-existent, change also could not exist. For we have to ask, when you speak of change as alone real, change of what, from what, to what? Without this ‘what’ change could not be.
A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos. 2. (in Gnostic and some other philosophies) The creator of the universe, supernatural but subordinate to the Supreme Being. Demiurges.
appalled ::: filled or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear, resulting in the loss of courage in the face of something dreadful.
a structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed. Also fig.
"A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
“A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
atom ::: “In the very atom there is a subconscious will and desire which must also be present in all atomic aggregates because they are present in the Force which constitutes the atom.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
babel ::: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
babel ::: “The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens’. God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
barrage ::: an overwhelming quantity or explosion as of artillery fire, words, blows, or criticisms.
barriered ::: closed off; blocked, obstructing passage. Also fig.
bays ::: bodies of water partially enclosed by land but with a wide mouth, affording access to the sea.
blossom ::: v. 1. To produce or yield flowers. 2. To flourish; develop. blossomed.* *n. 3. The flower of a plant. mango-blossoms.**
"Beauty is Ananda taking form — but the form need not be a physical shape. One speaks of a beautiful thought, a beautiful act, a beautiful soul. What we speak of as beauty is Ananda in manifestation; beyond manifestation beauty loses itself in Ananda or, you may say, beauty and Ananda become indistinguishably one.” The Future Poetry
“Beauty is Ananda taking form—but the form need not be a physical shape. One speaks of a beautiful thought, a beautiful act, a beautiful soul. What we speak of as beauty is Ananda in manifestation; beyond manifestation beauty loses itself in Ananda or, you may say, beauty and Ananda become indistinguishably one.” The Future Poetry
bed-fellows ::: those who are closely associated or allied with one another.
betray ::: 1. To be false or disloyal to. 2. To lead astray; deceive. 3. To divulge, disclose in a breach of confidence, a secret. 4. To show signs of; reveal; indicate. betrays, betrayed, betraying, moon-betrayed.
blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” The Life Divine
blink ::: n. **1. A glance, often with half-shut eyes; a wink. v. 2. To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly; shut the eyelids momentarily and involuntarily; to wink for an instant. 3. To shut the eyes to; to evade, shirk, pass by, ignore. blinks, blinked.**
blockade ::: 1. The isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place. 2. Any obstruction of passage or progress.
bloom ::: n. **1. The flower of a plant. 2. Fig. A condition or time of vigour, freshness, and beauty; prime. 3. Fig. Glowing charm; delicate beauty. blooms. v. 4. To bear flowers; to blossom. Also fig. 5. To be in a healthy, glowing, or flourishing condition. 6. To flourish or grow. 7. To cause to flourish or grow; to flourish. Chiefly fig. blooms, bloomed.**
booths ::: partly enclosed compartments or partitioned areas.
bound and –bound ::: 1. Pp. and pt. of bind. *adj. 2. Being under a legal or moral obligation. 3. Circumscribed; kept within bounds. * close-bound, death-bound, earth-bound, fate-bound, form-bound, heart-bound, self-bound, sleep-bound, steel-bound, stone-bound, time-bound, trance-bound.
bound ::: n. 1. A boundary; a limit. bounds, earth-bounds. *v. *2. To constitute the limit of; contain; enclose. bounds.
Brahma ::: “Brahma is the nominative; the uninflected form of the word is brahman; it differs from brahman ‘the Eternal’ only in gender.” Glossary of Terms in Sri Aurobindo’s Writings
brahma ("s) ::: "Brahma is the nominative; the uninflected form of the word is brahman; it differs from brahman ‘the Eternal" only in gender.” *Glossary of Terms in Sri Aurobindo"s Writings
burnished ::: having a smooth glossy appearance ; luster, as rubbed and polished metal.
"But the role of subliminal forces cannot be said to be small, since from there come all the greater aspirations, ideals, strivings towards a better self and better humanity without which man would be only a thinking animal — as also most of the art, poetry, philosophy, thirst for knowledge which relieve, if they do not yet dispel, the ignorance.” Letters on Yoga*
“But the role of subliminal forces cannot be said to be small, since from there come all the greater aspirations, ideals, strivings towards a better self and better humanity without which man would be only a thinking animal—as also most of the art, poetry, philosophy, thirst for knowledge which relieve, if they do not yet dispel, the ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"But the Titan will have nothing of all this; it is too great and subtle for his comprehension. His instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
". . . but this divine grace . . . is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“… but this divine grace . . . is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
cabbala ::: 1 A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings in the Hebrew Scriptures. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity. 2. Any secret or occult doctrine or science. 3. "Esoteric system of interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures based on the assumption that every word, letter, number, and accent in them has an occult meaning. The system, oral at first, claimed great antiquity, but was really the product of the Middle Ages, arising in the 7th century and lasting into the 18th. It was popular chiefly among Jews, but spread to Christians as well. (Col. Enc.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
cabin ::: 1. A small, roughly built house; a simple cottage. 2. An enclosed space; a confined area.
cabined ::: confined in an enclosed space like a cabin. fig. hampered, hindered, impeded, in ability to think or act.
calamity ::: 1. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster. 2. Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy. calamities.
call ::: “All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.” The Synthesis of Yoga
call ::: Sri Aurobindo: "All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
calyx ::: the outermost group of floral parts enclosing the bud and surrounding the base of a flower; the sepals.
carved ::: 1. Divided into pieces by cutting; sliced. 2. Cut or sculpted into a desired shape; fashioned by cutting. 3. Engraved or cut figures. carves, carving, close-carved, star-carved.
cased ::: sheathed, enclosed, covered or protected, contained within.
"Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
chamber ::: 1. Archaic or poetic: A room in a private house, esp. a bedroom. 2. An enclosed space; compartment. chamber"s, chambers, work-chamber.
chambered ::: enclosed in or as in a chamber.
circling ::: 1. Making or forming a circle around; enclosing. 2. Encircling. 3. Moving in a circle. ever-circling, far-circling.
circumscribe ::: to enclose or restrict within limits; confine. circumscribed, circumscribing.
cleave ::: 1. To adhere closely to; stick; cling. 2. To be faithful (usually fol. by to.)
cling ::: 1. To come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation 2. To hold fast or adhere to as if by embracing. 3. To be emotionally or intellectually attached or remain close to. 4. To hold on tightly or tenaciously to. 5. To remain attached as to an idea, hope, memory, etc. clings, clung, clinging.
clustering ::: a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch. 2. A group of things or persons close together.
clusters ::: a group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together.
colossal ::: anything of immense size; huge; gigantic.
Coilas ::: (Most often spelled Kailas). One of the highest and most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the southwestern part of China. It is an important holy site both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva and also regard it as the abode of Kubera, and to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
coilas ::: (Most often spelled Kailas.) "One of the highest and most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the southwestern part of China. It is an important holy site both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva and also regard it as the abode of Kubera, and to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
colony ::: a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. colonies.
concentration ("s) ::: exclusive attention to one object; close mental application.
confessional ::: a small enclosed stall in which a priest hears confessions.
confine ::: 1. To enclose within bounds, limit, restrict. 2. To shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc. confined.
consanguinity ::: 1. Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor. **2*.** *A close affinity or connection.
consequence ::: “ Karma is nothing but the will of the Spirit in action, consequence nothing but the creation of will. What is in the will of being, expresses itself in karma and consequence. When the will is limited in mind, karma appears as a bondage and a limitation, consequence as a reaction or an imposition. But when the will of the being is infinite in the spirit, karma and consequence become instead the joy of the creative spirit, the construction of the eternal mechanist, the word and drama of the eternal poet, the harmony of the eternal musician, the play of the eternal child.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
conserved ::: 1. Prevented the waste or loss of; preserved. 2. Carefully protected; preserved.
corner ::: 1. The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle. 2. The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner. 3. A region, part, quarter. 4. A remote, secluded, or secret place. corners, corner-Mind.
cosmos ::: “But if the individual is a persistent reality, an eternal portion or power of the Eternal, if his growth of consciousness is the means by which the Spirit in things discloses its being, the cosmos reveals itself as a conditioned manifestation of the play of the eternal One in the being of Sachchidananda with the eternal Many.” The Life Divine
court ::: 1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard. 2. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace. courts, courtyard, courtyard"s.
covering ::: n. **1. Anything that veils, screens, disguises or shuts from sight. 2. Something that covers or is laid, placed, or spread over or upon something else. v. 3. Protecting or shielding from harm, loss, or danger. coverings.**
cramped ::: closed in; restricted; confined in space, action, etc.
creep ::: 1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees. 2. To go or approach stealthily or furtively. 3. To move slowly, quietly, or cautiously. creeps, crept.
crouch ::: 1. To stoop, especially with the knees bent esp. in fear, humility or submission. 2. (of animals) to lie close to the ground, in fear, readiness for action etc. crouches, crouched, crouching.
crowded ::: 1. Filled near or to capacity. 2. Filled with a crowd. 3.* Fig.* packed closely together, as experiences, events; occurrences.
::: "Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound for ever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound for ever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
**death"s, deathbound, death-bound, death-claimed, death-closed, death-hunted.**
defeat ::: 1. A bringing to naught; frustration. 2. An overthrow or overturning; vanquishment. 3. The act or event of being bested; losing. **defeats, defeated.
::: "Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
demiurges ::: 1. A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos. 2. (in Gnostic and some other philosophies) The creator of the universe, supernatural but subordinate to the Supreme Being. ::: Demiurges.
dense ::: 1. Having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact. 2. Relatively opaque; transmitting little light. 3. Intense; extreme. 4. Impenetrable. denser, dense-maned. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
despair ::: the state in which all hope is lost or absent. despairs, despairing *adj.* Characterized by or resulting from despair; hopeless.
dimmed ::: v.**1. Made or became dim; lost brightness. Also fig. adj. 2. Not brilliant; dull in lustre. 3.** Dulled; indistinct; not seen clearly or in detail as of sight or vision.
disclose ::: 1. To make known; reveal or uncover. 2. To cause to appear; allow to be seen; lay open to view. discloses, disclosed, disclosing , heart-disclosing.
disclosure ::: the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
discovered ::: made known; revealed, disclosed.
discredit ::: loss or lack of repute or esteem; impaired reputation; disrepute.
“Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.” Letters on Yoga
divine love ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.” *Letters on Yoga
division ::: “God and Man, World and Beyond-world become one when they know each other. Their division is the cause of ignorance as ignorance is the cause of suffering.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
divorced ::: 1. Separated; cut off; as a complete or radical severance of closely connected things. 2. Dissolved the marriage bond between.
durga ::: "In Hindu religion, the goddess who is the Energy of Shiva and the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. She is the slayer of many demons including Mahisasura. Durga is usually depicted in painting and sculpture riding a lion, having eight or ten arms, each holding the special weapon of one or another of the gods who gave them to her for her battles with demons. (A; Enc. Br.)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
Dyumatsena ::: : “Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” (Note at the beginning of Savitri from a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple.)
dyumatsena ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.
ellipse ::: a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it.
embedded ::: surrounded tightly or firmly; enveloped or enclosed.
embrace ::: n. 1. The act of clasping another person in the arms. Also fig. **embraces. v. 2. To take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom. 3. To take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly. 4. To include or contain. 5. To surround; enclose; entwine. 6. To take up willingly or eagerly. embraced, embracing, all-embracing.**
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
“Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga
enclosed ::: 1. That is surrounded (with walls, fences, or other barriers) so as to prevent free ingress or egress. 2. That is shut up or hemmed in; secluded, imprisoned.
enclosed with a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, or fence. Also fig. **sense-railed.**
encirclement ::: the act of forming a circle around; enclosing within a circle; surrounding.
engulfed ::: swallowed up or overwhelmed by or as if by overflowing and enclosing. engulfing.
enshrine ::: to place or enclose in or as if in a shrine. enshrined, enshrining.
ensphering ::: enclosing in, or as in, a sphere; encircling.
::: "Erinyes, in Greek mythology, the goddesses of vengeance, usually represented as three winged maidens, with snakes in their hair. They pursued criminals, drove them mad, and tormented them in Hades. They were spirits of punishment, avenging wrongs done especially to kindred. In Roman literature they were called Furies.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works*
Eternal"s. Sri Aurobindo: ". . . that which is, cannot perish; it can only lose itself. All is eternal in the eternal spirit.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Eternal ::: “… that which is, cannot perish; it can only lose itself. All is eternal in the eternal spirit.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
ethics ::: 1. A system of moral principles. 2. The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. **ethics".
“Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear in the evolution; what was original and primal in the involution is in the evolution the last and supreme emergence.” The Life Divine ::: "Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
explosion ::: a violent outburst; an outbreak.
experience ::: 1. Knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone. 2. Philos. The totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. **world-experience.
film ::: 1. A movie. 2. A thin flexible strip of cellulose coated with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives and transparencies.
fitting ::: 1. Appropriate or proper; suitable. 2. Used with prefixed adverbs to denote an appropriate or inappropriate fit. 3. Of a manufactured article: Of the right measure or size; made to fit, accurate in fit, well or close-fitting. close-fitting, ill-fitting.
flowered ::: flower 1. Blossomed or bloomed. Also fig. 2. Decorated with flowers. 3. Came into full development; matured; blossomed.
flute ::: n. 1. A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. flutes. *v. 2. To play a flute. *fluted, fluting.
folded ::: 1. Enclosed, wrapped, enveloped. 2. Clasped as in prayer. 3. Brought (the arms, hands, etc.) together in an intertwined or crossed manner; clasped, crossed.
fold (s) ::: v. 1. To envelope or clasp; enfold. 2. To bring (the wings) close to the body, as a bird on alighting. folding. *n. 3. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; one part turned or bent and laid on another. Also fig. *4. A coil of a serpent, string, etc.
forfeit ::: to lose or become liable to lose, as in consequence of crime, fault, or breach of engagement. forfeits, forfeited, forfeiting.
::: "For what we understand by law is a single immutably habitual movement or recurrence in Nature fruitful of a determined sequence of things and that sequence must be clear, precise, limited to its formula, invariable.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“For what we understand by law is a single immutably habitual movement or recurrence in Nature fruitful of a determined sequence of things and that sequence must be clear, precise, limited to its formula, invariable.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” The Synthesis of Yoga
freedom ::: “Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: . . . .” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Furies ::: “Erinyes, in Greek mythology, the goddesses of vengeance, usually represented as three winged maidens, with snakes in their hair. They pursued criminals, drove them mad, and tormented them in Hades. They were spirits of punishment, avenging wrongs done especially to kindred. In Roman literature they were called Furies.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
gandhamadan ::: "In Hindu mythology, a mountain and forest in Ilavrta, the central region of the world which contains Mount Meru. Gandhamadan dorms the division between Ilavrta and Bhadrasva, to the east of Meru. The forest of Gandhamadan is renowned for its fragrance. (Dow.; Enc. Br.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
gather ::: v. 1. To accumulate something (things or people) gradually; amass. 2. To summon up; muster. 3. To come together around a single point; collect, assemble. 4. To accumulate; increase. 5. To draw and bring closer. 6. To draw around or close. gathers, gathered, gathering, fast-gathering.
gloss ::: 1. A superficial lustre or shine. 2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
gloss ::: 1. A surface shininess or luster. 2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance. 3. An misleading interpretation or explanation.
glossary ::: a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions; a partial dictionary.
"God is one but he is not bounded by his unity.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“God is one but he is not bounded by his unity.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
graft ::: to join or unite closely.
grave ::: 1. An excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body. 2. Any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past.
gulf ::: 1. A portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land. 2. A deep, wide chasm; an abyss. 3. Any wide separation. gulfs.
heart-cords, heart-close, heart-disclosing, heart-disturbing, heart-plan, heart-pulse, heart-seeking, cave-heart, child-heart, child-heart"s, dim-heart, earth-heart, earth-hearts, fire-heart"s, lotus-heart, sea-heart, world-heart.
hedge ::: n.** 1. A row of closely planted shrubs or low-growing trees forming a fence or boundary. 2. Any barrier or boundary. hedges. v. 3. To hem in, hinder, or restrict with or as if with a hedge. hedged, fate-hedged. **
heed ::: n. 1. Close and careful attention. v. 2. To pay close attention to (someone or something). heeds.
hemmed ::: confined or bound by an environment of any kind; enclosed, shut in, limited, restrained, imprisoned; often followed by in.
"How can a spirit entity be enclosed in a material gland? So far as I know the self or spirit is not enclosed in the body, rather the body is in the self. When we have the full experience of the self, we feel it as a wide consciousness in which the body is a very small thing, an adjunct or a thing contained, not a container.” *Letters on Yoga
“How can a spirit entity be enclosed in a material gland? So far as I know the self or spirit is not enclosed in the body, rather the body is in the self. When we have the full experience of the self, we feel it as a wide consciousness in which the body is a very small thing, an adjunct or a thing contained, not a container.” Letters on Yoga
**"I certainly won"t have ‘attracted" [in place of ‘allured"] — there is an enormous difference between the force of the two words and merely ‘attracted by the Ecstasy" would take away all my ecstasy in the line — nothing so tepid can be admitted. Neither do I want ‘thrill" [in place of ‘joy"] which gives a false colour — precisely it would mean that the ecstasy was already touching him with its intensity which is far from my intention.Your statement that ‘joy" is just another word for ‘ecstasy" is surprising. ‘Comfort", ‘pleasure", ‘joy", ‘bliss", ‘rapture", ‘ecstasy" would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight" is just another word for ‘lightning" — or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri*
"Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: "If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself, — or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also, — not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
“If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two key-terms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The Self, the Spirit, the Reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself,—or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also,—not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half-fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.” The Life Divine
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
“Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth,—truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
ignorance ::: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information. Ignorance, ignorance"s, Ignorance"s, ignorance", world-ignorance, World-Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"Ignorance is the consciousness of being in the successions of Time, divided in its knowledge by dwelling in the moment, divided in its conception of self-being by dwelling in the divisions of Space and the relations of circumstance, self-prisoned in the multiple working of the unity. It is called the Ignorance because it has put behind it the knowledge of unity and by that very fact is unable to know truly or completely either itself or the world, either the transcendent or the universal reality.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, — truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
". . . all ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge . . . .”The Life Divine
"This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Knowledge is no doubt the knowledge of the One, the realisation of the Being; Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being, the experience of separateness in the multiplicity and a dwelling or circling in the ill-understood maze of becomings: . . . .” The Life Divine*
inconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.” *The Life Divine
"All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we look closely at it, the Infinite"s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit"s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves, — but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” *The Life Divine
"Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience.” Letters on Yoga
*inconscience.
Inconscience ::: “The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.” The Life Divine
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
"Indian devotion has especially seized upon the most intimate human relations and made them stepping-stones to the supra-human. God the Guru, God the Master, God the Friend, God the Mother, God the Child, God the Self, each of these experiences — for to us they are more than merely ideas, — it has carried to its extreme possibilities.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Indian devotion has especially seized upon the most intimate human relations and made them stepping-stones to the supra-human. God the Guru, God the Master, God the Friend, God the Mother, God the Child, God the Self, each of these experiences—for to us they are more than merely ideas,—it has carried to its extreme possibilities.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"In Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred arms, a son of Uranus and Ge, who fought against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned beneath Mt. Aetna in Sicily. When he stirs, the mountain shakes; when he breathes, there is an eruption. (M.I.; Web.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
“In Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred arms, a son of Uranus and Ge, who fought against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned beneath Mt. Aetna in Sicily. When he stirs, the mountain shakes; when he breathes, there is an eruption. (M.I.; Web). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light. Even, it is by the projection of this luminous Overmind corona that the diffusion of a diminished light in the Ignorance and the throwing of that contrary shadow which swallows up in itself all light, the Inconscience, became at all possible. For Supermind transmits to Overmind all its realities, but leaves it to formulate them in a movement and according to an awareness of things which is still a vision of Truth and yet at the same time a first parent of the Ignorance. A line divides Supermind and Overmind which permits a free transmission, allows the lower Power to derive from the higher Power all it holds or sees, but automatically compels a transitional change in the passage. The integrality of the Supermind keeps always the essential truth of things, the total truth and the truth of its individual self-determinations clearly knit together; it maintains in them an inseparable unity and between them a close interpenetration and a free and full consciousness of each other: but in Overmind this integrality is no longer there. And yet the Overmind is well aware of the essential Truth of things; it embraces the totality; it uses the individual self-determinations without being limited by them: but although it knows their oneness, can realise it in a spiritual cognition, yet its dynamic movement, even while relying on that for its security, is not directly determined by it. Overmind Energy proceeds through an illimitable capacity of separation and combination of the powers and aspects of the integral and indivisible all-comprehending Unity. It takes each Aspect or Power and gives to it an independent action in which it acquires a full separate importance and is able to work out, we might say, its own world of creation. Purusha and Prakriti, Conscious Soul and executive Force of Nature, are in the supramental harmony a two-aspected single truth, being and dynamis of the Reality; there can be no disequilibrium or predominance of one over the other. In Overmind we have the origin of the cleavage, the trenchant distinction made by the philosophy of the Sankhyas in which they appear as two independent entities, Prakriti able to dominate Purusha and cloud its freedom and power, reducing it to a witness and recipient of her forms and actions, Purusha able to return to its separate existence and abide in a free self-sovereignty by rejection of her original overclouding material principle. So with the other aspects or powers of the Divine Reality, One and Many, Divine Personality and Divine Impersonality, and the rest; each is still an aspect and power of the one Reality, but each is empowered to act as an independent entity in the whole, arrive at the fullness of the possibilities of its separate expression and develop the dynamic consequences of that separateness. At the same time in Overmind this separateness is still founded on the basis of an implicit underlying unity; all possibilities of combination and relation between the separated Powers and Aspects, all interchanges and mutualities of their energies are freely organised and their actuality always possible.
::: "Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.” *Letters on Yoga
"Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.” Letters on Yoga
“Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.” Letters on Yoga
in political and legal philosophy and theology, doctrines based on the theory that there are certain unchanging laws which pertain to man"s nature, which can be discovered by reason, and therefore ethically binding in human society, and to which man-made laws should conform.
"In spiritual experience it [nirvana]is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcendence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. . . Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising and living in our true eternal being, living divinely in the Divine. But this we can do in the world and in life.” Letters on Yoga
“In spiritual experience it [nirvana]is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcendence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. . . Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising and living in our true eternal being, living divinely in the Divine. But this we can do in the world and in life.” Letters on Yoga
". . . in the Veda, Lord of the hosts of delight; in later mythology, the Gandharvas are musicians of heaven, ‘beautiful, brave and melodious beings, the artists, musicians, poets and shining warriors of heaven". . . .” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works ::: *Gandharvas.
intimacy ::: 1. A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group. 2. An embracing inner closeness. Intimacy, intimacies.
intimate ::: n. 1. A close friend or confidant. intimates. adj. 2. Marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity. 3. Of or relating to the essential part or nature of something; intrinsic. 4. Very private; closely personal. 5. Familiarly associated. adv. intimately.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
::: "I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a book that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
“I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a book that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
“Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone’ but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone’. One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don’t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
"It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin — there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
“It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin—there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
It is the cryptic verses of the Veda that help us here; for they contain, though concealed, the gospel of the divine and immortal Supermind and through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action and expression, infallible ordinance or law. Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description.” *The Life Divine
It is the cryptic verses of the Veda that help us here; for they contain, though concealed, the gospel of the divine and immortal Supermind and through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action and expression, infallible ordinance or law. Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description.” The Life Divine
Jhumur: “The ‘lost Power’ is the involved Power that has to uncoil itself.”
::: "Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity. . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity….” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Karmic ::: “If we believe that the soul is repeatedly reborn in the body, we must believe also that there is some link between the lives that preceded and the lives that follow and that the past of the soul has an effect on its future; and that is the spiritual essence of the law of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
kernel ::: 1. The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone. 2. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.
keyed ::: adj. **1. Secured, fastened, or fitted with a key or something compared to a key, with its power of locking or unlocking; opening up or closing, the way to something. v. 2.** Regulated or adjusted (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.) to a particular state or activity; brought into conformity.
knitted ::: to join closely; unite securely.
lakshmi ::: ". . . in Hindu mythology, the goddess of wealth and good fortune, consort of Vishnu. According to a legend she sprang from the froth of the Ocean when it was churned, in full beauty, with a lotus in her hand. (Dow.)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
::: "Law is nothing but a mode or rule of action; it is called in our philosophy not Law but Dharma, holding together, it is that by which the action of the universe, the action of its parts, the action of the individual is held together.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Law is nothing but a mode or rule of action; it is called in our philosophy not Law but Dharma, holding together, it is that by which the action of the universe, the action of its parts, the action of the individual is held together.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: " . . . liberation is self-possession. . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“… liberation is self-possession….” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
lifeless ::: 1. Having lost life; dead. 2. Having no life; inanimate. 3. Not inhabited by living beings; not capable of sustaining life. 4. Lacking vitality or animation; dull.
lotus (as chakra) ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life, — though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. Love leads us from the suffering of division into the bliss of perfect union, but without losing that joy of the act of union which is the soul"s greatest discovery and for which the life of the cosmos is a long preparation. Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfilment. ” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. Love leads us from the suffering of division into the bliss of perfect union, but without losing that joy of the act of union which is the soul’s greatest discovery and for which the life of the cosmos is a long preparation. Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfilment.” The Synthesis of Yoga
lustre ::: 1. Reflected light; sheen; gloss. 2. Radiance or brilliance of light. 3. Great splendour of the countenance. beauty, etc. lustres.
Madhav: “The powers that create and fashion this world in accordance with the Truth with which they are charged, are not involved, lost in the world-movement. They stand above, governing, shaping, directing the growing world-complex. They know precisely what takes place and why. They are not misled by appearances of phenomena; each event is seen by them as developing from its veiled cause which they perceive undeceived by apparent sequences on the surface.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. II.
Madhav: “There is an eternal light in every one of us. But it is as if guarded, protected from the profane, vulgar sight by a cave of darkness. Cave signifies a narrowing, dimming enclosure. This blanket of darkness guards that Light. Where there is such a concentration of thick darkness in yourself, you can be sure that deep inside there is the ‘Light Eternal’. This is the light of the Self of which the Rishi’s speak. It stands veiled by layers and layers of the darkness of Ignorance.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The triple world is the world of higher thought: the lower reaches are close to the thinking human mind; the next pertains to a knowledge that knows the truth of things from within; the highest, bordering on the planes of eternity is where knowledge as such—with the triad of knower, known and knowledge—ceases and it is one with the truth of all. Three successive steps of ascent lead to this triple realm of higher thought.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “This is another key idea in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, that Nature, what is called Prakriti in Indian philosophy, is not different, not alien to the Purusha. Nature is not foreign to the soul, to God. It is a conscious front of God. Scratch Nature, look behind the exterior of Nature and you will find God. The apparent difference, distinction between Nature and God is only a superficial appearance. Nature is really a power of God. It is devatma shakti, the self-power of God—svagunair nigudham lost in its qualitative workings. She is not separate; conscious, not something unconscious. Nature is aware that it is only a front of God behind.” The Book of the Divine Mother
madra ::: "Name of an ancient country and its people in northwestern India, mentioned in the Mahabaharata. The territory extended from the River Beas to the Chenab or perhaps as far as the Jhelum. Savitri"s father Asvapati was king of this country. (Dow.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works ::: **Madra"s.**
"Man is God hiding himself from Nature so that he may possess her by struggle, insistence, violence and surprise. God is universal and transcendent Man hiding himself from his own individuality in the human being.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Man is God hiding himself from Nature so that he may possess her by struggle, insistence, violence and surprise. God is universal and transcendent Man hiding himself from his own individuality in the human being.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
". . . [man"s] nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar. . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga
“… [man’s] nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar….” The Synthesis of Yoga
marry ::: to unite in a close, usually permanent way.
matrix ::: 1. Something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops. 2. A substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed.
::: "Matter is only so much mobile energy vibrating intensely into form.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Matter is only so much mobile energy vibrating intensely into form.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Maya ::: “Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” The Life Divine
maya ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” *The Life Divine
“Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine.
merge ::: to become combined, united, swallowed up or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending. merges, merged, merging.
mimicked ::: imitated; simulated, resembled closely.
mind of light ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing direct from it, . . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
mislaid ::: lost temporarily; especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place, misplaced.
mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” The Mother ::: "The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine.
"That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her [the Mother"s] most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life.” *The Mother
: "The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible.” *Letters on the Mother
"When one does sadhana, the inner consciousness begins to open and one is able to go inside and have all kinds of experiences there. As the sadhana progresses, one begins to live more and more in this inner being and the outer becomes more and more superficial. At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external. The inner consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother.” Letters on Yoga ::: **mighty Mother, World-Mother, World-Mother"s.**
mourned ::: felt or expressed sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss or anything regretted). mournst.
n. **1. Any group or band that associates together. 2. A group of people, animals or things. v. 3. To put together closely or compactly; to form into a compact mass or body; to crowd together; to fit (many things, experiences, etc.) into a limited space or time. 4. To press tightly together; cram; as with an audience, etc. packs, packed.**
n. **1. A rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined as to surround sizeable empty spaces. 2. Form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order. 3. Applied to the heaven, earth, etc. regarded as a structure. 4. A body, esp. the human body; physique. 5. A border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc. ::: frames, world-frame. v. 6. To contrive, devise, or compose, as a plan, law, or poem. 7. To fashion or shape. 8. To shape or adapt to a particular purpose. framed, framing, self-framed.**
Name ::: Jhumur: “Hold onto the Name. That is the only power. I remember Mother once told me—because there was a moment when I was attacked by a certain person. She was mad and so had a certain number of people she chose to attack with her vibrations, with her words. If she could she would throw stones. I was very, very young, about 17 or 18. I said, ‘Every time I see her, Mother, I really start to tremble. It has become something so physically terrifying. Once she (the mad person) had thrown a big paperweight, a cement paperweight in the library. It went just past my head, it could have killed me. After that I became really frightened. So Mother told me ‘Nothing will happen to you. Each time you see her just say ‘Ma, Ma, Ma.’ But it was so difficult. Each time I saw her from far I would think, ‘I have to say Ma.’ But when she came close enough I could not say the Name, for a long time, for a very long time. I was so frightened the fear would take the Name away. I knew very well I had to say the Name That is what Mother told me. And one day I could, finally I could and the mad person lost interest in me!”
narad ::: "A well-known Rishi and Vaishnava Bhakta who moves about in the various worlds playing on a lute and having a special role in bringing about events according to the Divine Will.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names In Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Necessity ::: “… Necessity is the child of the spirit’s free self-determination. What affects us as Necessity, is a Will which works in sequence and not a blind Force driven by its own mechanism.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
necessity ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . Necessity is the child of the spirit"s free self-determination. What affects us as Necessity, is a Will which works in sequence and not a blind Force driven by its own mechanism.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
nestling ::: lying close and snug, like a bird in a nest.
next of kin ::: the person or persons most closely related by blood to another person.
not enclosed with or as if with a wall.
not enclosed with or as with a hedge.
"Nothing can be more remarkable and suggestive than the extent to which modern Science confirms in the domain of Matter the conceptions and even the very formulae of language which were arrived at, by a very different method, in the Vedanta, — the original Vedanta, not of the schools of metaphysical philosophy, but of the Upanishads. And these, on the other hand, often reveal their full significance, their richer contents only when they are viewed in the new light shed by the discoveries of modern Science, — for instance, that Vedantic expression which describes things in the Cosmos as one seed arranged by the universal Energy in multitudinous forms.(1) Significant, especially, is the drive of Science towards a Monism which is consistent with multiplicity, towards the Vedic idea of the one essence with its many becomings.” The Life Divine
“Nothing can be more remarkable and suggestive than the extent to which modern Science confirms in the domain of Matter the conceptions and even the very formulae of language which were arrived at, by a very different method, in the Vedanta,—the original Vedanta, not of the schools of metaphysical philosophy, but of the Upanishads. And these, on the other hand, often reveal their full significance, their richer contents only when they are viewed in the new light shed by the discoveries of modern Science,—for instance, that Vedantic expression which describes things in the Cosmos as one seed arranged by the universal Energy in multitudinous forms.(1) Significant, especially, is the drive of Science towards a Monism which is consistent with multiplicity, towards the Vedic idea of the one essence with its many becomings.” The Life Divine
“ Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
“Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
outgrow ::: fig. To lose or discard (past habits, etc.) in the course of growth or maturation.
"Pain and grief are Nature"s reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“Pain and grief are Nature’s reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
parked ::: 1. Placed or left temporarily. 2. Stationed in one place. 3. Enclosed in, or as in a park.
park ::: to enclose in or as in a park.
"Patience is our first great necessary lesson, but not the dull slowness to move of the timid, the sceptical, the weary, the slothful, the unambitious or the weakling; a patience full of a calm and gathering strength which watches and prepares itself for the hour of swift great strokes, few but enough to change destiny.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Patience is our first great necessary lesson, but not the dull slowness to move of the timid, the sceptical, the weary, the slothful, the unambitious or the weakling; a patience full of a calm and gathering strength which watches and prepares itself for the hour of swift great strokes, few but enough to change destiny.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
pen ::: to shut in or as if in a pen; i.e. a small enclosure for animals.
pent ::: penned or shut up; closely confined.
perdition ::: loss of the soul; eternal damnation. perdition"s.
peril ::: 1. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss. 2. Something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction. perils.
**philosophies.**
philosophy ::: “All philosophy is concerned with the relations between two things, the fundamental truth of existence and the forms in which existence presents itself to our experience.” The Hour of God
::: ". . . philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,. . . .” Essays on the Gita
“… philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,….” Essays on the Gita
philosophy
poop ::: an enclosed superstructure at the stern of a ship.
::: "Possession in oneness and not loss in oneness is the secret. God and Man, World and Beyond-world become one when they know each other. Their division is the cause of ignorance as ignorance is the cause of suffering.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Possession in oneness and not loss in oneness is the secret. God and Man, World and Beyond-world become one when they know each other. Their division is the cause of ignorance as ignorance is the cause of suffering.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
press ::: n. 1. A crowd, throng, or multitude. 2. A crowding, thronging, or pressing together; a collective force. 3. Pressure or demands of affairs; urgency, haste, hurry. v. 4. To exert weight, force or pressure. 5. To advance or carry on vigorously despite obstacles in one"s way. 6. To impress (a thing) upon the mind, etc., emphasize, inculcate. 7. To beset or harass; afflict. 8. To cause to move in some direction or into some position by pressure; to push, drive, thrust. 9. To compress or squeeze. 10. To squeeze out or express, as juice. 11. To urge or entreat strongly or insistently. 12. To hold closely as in an embrace; clasp. presses, pressed, pressing.
::: "Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being; . . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being; …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
pursue ::: 1. To follow in pursuit, to chase. 2. To seek or ‘hunt" after. 3. To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase. 4. To follow close upon; go with; attend. 5. To strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.). 6. To continue, carry on or participate in an activity; be involved in. pursues, pursued, pursuing.
radha ::: "In Hindu religion, the chief of the Gopis or milkmaids, the favourite of Krishna while he lived among the cowherds in Vrindavana.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
rage ::: violent, explosive anger.
rails ::: 1. Naut. Horizontal members capping a bulwark (a solid wall enclosing the perimeter of a weather or main deck of a ship). 2. Steel bars used, usually in pairs, as tracks for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.
rank ::: 1. A relative position in a society. 2. A line of persons, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file). 3. Orderly arrangement; array. 4. A row, line, series, or range. ranks, ranked.
reality ::: 1. The quality or state of being actual or true. 2. Philos. a. Something that exists independently of ideas concerning it. b. Something that exists independently from all other things and from which all other things derive. 3. The state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be. **reality"s, realities.
reconcile ::: 1. To bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent. 2. To re-establish a close relationship between. reconciles, reconciled. *adj. reconciling.
recover ::: 1. To get back; regain. 2. To find again or obtain the return of (something lost). 3. To regain a normal or usual condition, as of health. recovers, recovered, recovering. *adj. *recovered. 4. Restored, regained something; brought back to its normal state.
"Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
“Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
revealings ::: revelations, disclosures.
revelation ::: 1. A manifestation of divine will or truth. 2. Something revealed by divine disclosure. 3. Something revealed or disclosed, esp. a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized. revelation"s, Revelation"s, revelations.
ring ::: n. 1. Anything having the form of a circular band. 2. An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place. 3. A group or number of things arranged in an approximately circular arrangement. rings, aeon-rings. *v. 4. To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle.* rings, ringed.
satyavan ::: "Son of King Dyumatsena; the tale of Satyavan and Savitri is told in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
savitri ::: "In the Mahabharata, the heroine of the tale of Satyavan and Savitri; . . . . She was the daughter of King Ashwapati, and lover of Satyavan, whom she married although she was warned by Narada that he had only one year to live. On the fatal day, when Yama carried off Satyavan"s spirit, she followed him with unswerving devotion. Ultimately Yama was constrained to restore her husband to life.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Sri Aurobindo: "Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; . . . .” (Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.)
"Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother . . . .” Letters on Savitri
The Mother: "Savitri [the poem] is a mantra for the transformation of the world.” Spoken to Udar
"Science is a right knowledge, in the end only of processes, but still the knowledge of processes too is part of a total wisdom and essential to a wide and a clear approach towards the deeper Truth behind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Science is a right knowledge, in the end only of processes, but still the knowledge of processes too is part of a total wisdom and essential to a wide and a clear approach towards the deeper Truth behind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
scrutiny ::: the act of examining something closely.
self-loss ::: loss of the recognition of oneself; one"s being.
self-lost
self-closed ::: self-contained.
self identification lost by uniting with something higher.
self-revealing ::: displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one"s inner feelings, thoughts, etc.; esp. the inner nature, qualities aspects, etc. of the self.
Seraphim ::: “Hybrid celestial beings [including Cherubim] with human, animal, or birdlike characteristics that are depicted in Jewish, Christian and Islamic literature. They act as throne bearers or throne guardians of the deity. In later theology Cherubim is an angel of the second order, and Seraphim of the first. They correspond, according to Sri Aurobindo, to the Gandharvas and Venas of India tradition. (Enc. Br). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
seraphim ::: "Hybrid celestial beings [including Cherubim] with human, animal, or birdlike characteristics that are depicted in Jewish, Christian and Islamic literature. They act as throne bearers or throne guardians of the deity. In later theology Cherubim is an angel of the second order, and Seraphim of the first. They correspond, according to Sri Aurobindo, to the Gandharvas and Venas of India tradition. (Enc. Br.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
shade ::: 1. The comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area. 2. A place or an area of comparative darkness, as one sheltered from the sun. 3. A shadow. 4. A spectre; a shadow. 5. Something that provides a shield or protection from a direct source of light. 6. A colour that varies slightly from a standard colour due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity. 7. Fig. Something resembling a ghost or a disembodied spirit; something insubstantial or fleeting. 8. shades. Darkness gathering at the close of day. Shade, shades.
shalwa ::: "In the Mahabarata, name of a country in western India; also the name of its king or its people.” (Dow.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
sheath ::: 1. A covering or case; an inclosing pocket, bag, or envelope, specifically one fitting closely. 2. Biol. A closely enveloping part or structure, as in an animal or plant. **sheaths.
shell ::: 1. An exterior or enclosing cover or case; an external part. Also fig. 2. Something without substance; hollow. Also fig. 3. The outer covering of crustaceans, molluscs, and other invertebrates, often with reference to the formation of pearls within the shells of molluscs. conch-shells.* See under *conch.
shiva ::: "The ‘auspicious one"; a name of the third deity of the Hindu Trinity; . . . represented mostly as ‘the pure and white, the ascetic, the still, contemplative Yogin". The name Shiva is not found in the Vedas; however, the name Rudra occurs both in the singular and the plural. This Rudra of the Vedas developed in the course of time into Shiva, considered in the Puranic tradition mainly as the destroying or dissolving Power. He has a third eye in the middle of the forehead, a fiery glance from which once reduced Kamadeva to ashes. In his creative aspect he is represented as a Linga (phallus), symbolising the male procreative energy in nature. It is under the form of the Linga that Shiva is mostly worshipped. His abode is on Mt. Kailash, Parvati is his spouse and the Trisula (the trident) his weapon.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
shutter ::: to close, as with a shutter, a solid or louvered movable cover, slide, etc. for an opening such as a window.
"Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements —- when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother - Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
“Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements—when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother—Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
"Silence of the mind, peace or calm in the mind are three things that are very close together and bring each other.” *Letters on Yoga
“Silence of the mind, peace or calm in the mind are three things that are very close together and bring each other.” Letters on Yoga
sleek ::: smooth and lustrous as if polished; glossy.
sorrow ::: 1. Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair. 2. Expression of sorrow; grieving; poet., tears. sorrow"s, Sorrow"s, sorrows, Man of Sorrows (see Man)
sorrowing ::: sorrowful through loss or deprivation.
speculator ::: one who risks losses in a commercial venture for the possibility of considerable gains.
Sphinx ::: Tehmi: “The Sphinx poses the riddle of man’s life. If he can’t answer that he is lost.”
spirit of Delight ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
spread ::: 1. To extend or cause to extend over a larger expanse of space or time. Also fig. 2. To become stretched out or extended; expand, as in growth. 3. To be distributed or dispersed (a substance or a number of things) over a certain or area; to be scattered. 4. To spread out or open from a closed or folded state, like sails. 5. To distribute and expand widely. spreads, far-spread.
sputter ::: the action or sound of forcibly or explosively emitted sparks, particles, etc.
Sri Aurobindo: "All philosophy is concerned with the relations between two things, the fundamental truth of existence and the forms in which existence presents itself to our experience.” *The Hour of God
Sri Aurobindo: "But if the individual is a persistent reality, an eternal portion or power of the Eternal, if his growth of consciousness is the means by which the Spirit in things discloses its being, the cosmos reveals itself as a conditioned manifestation of the play of the eternal One in the being of Sachchidananda with the eternal Many.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: . . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "God and Man, World and Beyond-world become one when they know each other. Their division is the cause of ignorance as ignorance is the cause of suffering.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "His [the Titan"s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "If we believe that the soul is repeatedly reborn in the body, we must believe also that there is some link between the lives that preceded and the lives that follow and that the past of the soul has an effect on its future; and that is the spiritual essence of the law of Karma.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "In the very atom there is a subconscious will and desire which must also be present in all atomic aggregates because they are present in the Force which constitutes the atom.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: " Karma is nothing but the will of the Spirit in action, consequence nothing but the creation of will. What is in the will of being, expresses itself in karma and consequence. When the will is limited in mind, karma appears as a bondage and a limitation, consequence as a reaction or an imposition. But when the will of the being is infinite in the spirit, karma and consequence become instead the joy of the creative spirit, the construction of the eternal mechanist, the word and drama of the eternal poet, the harmony of the eternal musician, the play of the eternal child.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle. Babel-builders’.
Sri Aurobindo: "The nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship, self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union. Self-giving is the character of both; both are necessary in the yoga and each gets its full force when supported by the other.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The real subconscious is a nether diminished consciousness close to the Inconscient; the subliminal is a consciousness larger than our surface existence. But both belong to the inner realm of our being of which our surface is unaware, so both are jumbled together in our common conception and parlance.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "This idea of universality, of oneness not only with God or the eternal Self in me, but with all humanity and other beings, is growing to be the most prominent strain in our minds and it has to be taken more largely into account in any future idea or computation of the significance of rebirth and karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience, and mostly as an ordered ethical law or fatality set over against the self-will and strength of man: but it was clouded over by other ideas inconsistent with any reign of law, vague ideas of some superior caprice or of some divine jealousy, — that was a notion of the Greeks, — a blind Fate or inscrutable Necessity, Ananke, or, later, the mysterious ways of an arbitrary, though no doubt an all-wise Providence.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga *Ananke"s.
Sri Aurobindo: “This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience, and mostly as an ordered ethical law or fatality set over against the self-will and strength of man: but it was clouded over by other ideas inconsistent with any reign of law, vague ideas of some superior caprice or of some divine jealousy,—that was a notion of the Greeks,—a blind Fate or inscrutable Necessity, Ananke, or, later, the mysterious ways of an arbitrary, though no doubt an all-wise Providence.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
staggered ::: fig. Began to lose confidence or strength of purpose; wavered.
star ::: 1. Any of the celestial bodies visible at night from Earth as relatively stationary, usually twinkling points of light. 2. One who is prominent or distinguished in some way. 3. Fig. A guiding light. 4. A celestial body, esp. a planet or a star, supposed to influence events, personalities, etc. stars, stars", star-carved, star-defended, star-entangled, star-field, star-gemmed, star-jewelled, star-led, star-lost, star-lustrous, star-white.
stiffening ::: becoming rigid; losing the natural suppleness or mobility of (the limbs, joints, muscles, etc.).
stifling ::: suffocating; oppressively close.
stoic ::: adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. n. 2. A member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. Stoic"s.
stops ::: the closings of the finger-holes or ventages in the tube of a wind instrument so as to alter the pitch; the metal keys used for this purpose. Also, the holes or apertures thus closed. (All other uses of the word are in the sense of halt.)
straitened ::: enclosed in a limited area; confined.
string ::: 1. Any series of things arranged or connected in a line or following closely one after another. 2. The vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments and is composed of lengths of a flexible material kept under tension so that they may vibrate freely, but controllably, made of gut, fibre, wire, etc. 3. Slender cords or thick threads used for binding or tying; lines or something resembling this. Also fig. **strings, heart-strings, heart-strings", apron strings (see apron).**
study ::: n. 1. A room furnished with books and intended or equipped for studying or writing. 2. The pursuit of knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research. v. 3. To examine closely; scrutinize. Also fig. studies, studied, studying.
subliminal ::: “The real subconscious is a nether diminished consciousness close to the Inconscient; the subliminal is a consciousness larger than our surface existence. But both belong to the inner realm of our being of which our surface is unaware, so both are jumbled together in our common conception and parlance.” The Life Divine
subtle Matter ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All that manifested from the Eternal has already been arranged in worlds or planes of its own nature, planes of subtle Matter, planes of Life, planes of Mind, planes of Supermind, planes of the triune luminous Infinite. But these worlds or planes are not evolutionary but typal. A typal world is one in which some ruling principle manifests itself in its free and full capacity and energy and form are plastic and subservient to its purpose. Its expressions are therefore automatic and satisfying and do not need to evolve; they stand so long as need be and do not need to be born, develop, decline and disintegrate.” Essays Divine and Human*
suffering ::: n. 1. The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress. 2. Pain, misery, or loss experienced by a person who suffers. adj. 3. Troubled by pain or loss. suffering"s, sufferings.
superconscience ::: “But a third power or possibility of the Infinite Consciousness can be admitted, its power of self-absorption, of plunging into itself, into a state in which self-awareness exists but not as knowledge and not as all-knowledge; the all would then be involved in pure self-awareness, and knowledge and the inner consciousness itself would be lost in pure being. This is, luminously, the state which we call the Superconscience in an absolute sense,—although most of what we call superconscient is in reality not that but only a higher conscient, something that is conscious to itself and only superconscious to our own limited level of awareness.” The Life Divine
superconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "But a third power or possibility of the Infinite Consciousness can be admitted, its power of self-absorption, of plunging into itself, into a state in which self-awareness exists but not as knowledge and not as all-knowledge; the all would then be involved in pure self-awareness, and knowledge and the inner consciousness itself would be lost in pure being. This is, luminously, the state which we call the Superconscience in an absolute sense, — although most of what we call superconscient is in reality not that but only a higher conscient, something that is conscious to itself and only superconscious to our own limited level of awareness.” The Life Divine
"Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
swoon ::: a state of fainting or loss of consciousness. swooning.
taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; carefully observant.
templed ::: like a temple or enclosed as in a temple.
the lost herds of the sun
“The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: "The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
“The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature,—wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action,—and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended,—and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” Letters on Yoga
"The force is Prakriti or Shakti, the female principle in Nature which is at the root of all action.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The force is Prakriti or Shakti, the female principle in Nature which is at the root of all action.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The form is the manifestation or appearance, the idea is the truth. The form is phenomenon, the idea is reality.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The form is the manifestation or appearance, the idea is the truth. The form is phenomenon, the idea is reality.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The gradual self-liberation from bondage to Nature is the true progress of humanity.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The gradual self-liberation from bondage to Nature is the true progress of humanity.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: "The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of creation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppressive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lingers or seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair not therefore, but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God"s purpose and thy will to accomplish.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of creation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppressive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lingers or seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair not therefore, but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God’s purpose and thy will to accomplish.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn towards the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degree, of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn towards the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degree, of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing direct from it, …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
The Mother: "For me poetry is beyond all philosophy and beyond all explanation.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: “For me poetry is beyond all philosophy and beyond all explanation.” On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body – they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don"t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body—they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don’t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
“The nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship, self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union. Self-giving is the character of both; both are necessary in the yoga and each gets its full force when supported by the other.” Letters on Yoga
"The Non-Manifestation is not a Non-Existence. Non-Existence is a term created by the mind and has no absolute significance; there is no such thing as an absolute Nihil or Zero. It is agreed even by the philosophies of the Nihil, Tao or Zero (Sunya) that the Non-Existence of which they speak is a Nought in which all is and from which all comes. Tao, Nihil or Zero is not different from the Absolute or the Supreme Brahman of Vedanta; it is only another way of describing or naming it. The Supreme is an Existence beyond what we know of our existence and therefore only it can seem to our mind as a Zero, a Nihil, a Non-Existence.” Essays Divine and Human*
“The Non-Manifestation is not a Non-Existence. Non-Existence is a term created by the mind and has no absolute significance; there is no such thing as an absolute Nihil or Zero. It is agreed even by the philosophies of the Nihil, Tao or Zero (Sunya) that the Non-Existence of which they speak is a Nought in which all is and from which all comes. Tao, Nihil or Zero is not different from the Absolute or the Supreme Brahman of Vedanta; it is only another way of describing or naming it. The Supreme is an Existence beyond what we know of our existence and therefore only it can seem to our mind as a Zero, a Nihil, a Non-Existence.” Essays Divine and Human
“The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” The Life Divine
"There are, according to the Sankhya philosophy accepted in this respect by the Gita, three essential qualities or modes of the world-energy and therefore also of human nature, sattva, the mode of poise, knowledge and satisfaction, rajas, the mode of passion, action and struggling emotion, tamas, the mode of ignorance and inertia.” Essays on the Gita
“There are, according to the Sankhya philosophy accepted in this respect by the Gita, three essential qualities or modes of the world-energy and therefore also of human nature, sattva, the mode of poise, knowledge and satisfaction, rajas, the mode of passion, action and struggling emotion, tamas, the mode of ignorance and inertia.” Essays on the Gita
These notes were written apropos of Bergson"s ‘philosophy of change", ‘you" would refer to a proponent of this philosophy.
These notes were written apropos of Bergson’s ‘philosophy of change’, ‘you’ would refer to a proponent of this philosophy.
"The sense of free will, illusion or not, is a necessary machinery of the action of Nature, necessary for man during his progress, and it would be disastrous for him to lose it before he is ready for a higher truth. If it be said, as it has been said, that Nature deludes man to fulfil her behests and that the idea of a free individual will is the most powerful of these delusions, then it must also be said that the delusion is for his good and without it he could not rise to his full possibilities.” Essays on the Gita
“The sense of free will, illusion or not, is a necessary machinery of the action of Nature, necessary for man during his progress, and it would be disastrous for him to lose it before he is ready for a higher truth. If it be said, as it has been said, that Nature deludes man to fulfil her behests and that the idea of a free individual will is the most powerful of these delusions, then it must also be said that the delusion is for his good and without it he could not rise to his full possibilities.” Essays on the Gita
::: "The shoreless stream of idea and thought, imagination and experience, name and form, sensation and vibration sweeps onward for ever, without beginning, without end, rising into view, sinking out of sight; through it the one Intelligence with its million self-expressions pours itself abroad, an ocean with innumerable waves. One particular self-expression may disappear into its source and continent, but that does not and cannot abolish the phenomenal universe. The One is for ever, and the Many are for ever because the One is for ever. So long as there is a sea, there will be waves.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The shoreless stream of idea and thought, imagination and experience, name and form, sensation and vibration sweeps onward for ever, without beginning, without end, rising into view, sinking out of sight; through it the one Intelligence with its million self-expressions pours itself abroad, an ocean with innumerable waves. One particular self-expression may disappear into its source and continent, but that does not and cannot abolish the phenomenal universe. The One is for ever, and the Many are for ever because the One is for ever. So long as there is a sea, there will be waves.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: "The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
“The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
"The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its masks, but in their perfection should be its moulds.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its masks, but in their perfection should be its moulds.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The spiritual destiny always stands — it may be delayed or seem to be lost for a time, but it is never abolished.” Letters on Yoga
“The spiritual destiny always stands—it may be delayed or seem to be lost for a time, but it is never abolished.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The spiritual law of Karma is that the nature of each being can be only the result of his past energies; . . . .” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The spiritual law of Karma is that the nature of each being can be only the result of his past energies; …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The Vedas are the oldest holy books of India, perhaps the oldest of such works in the world. They are the foundation of the Hindu religion. The hymns they contain, written in an old form of Sanskrit, are said to have been ‘revealed" to the Rishis and subsequently were transmitted orally from generation to generation. They continued to be so handed down even after they had been collected and arranged by Krishna Dwaipayana (Veda Vyasa). It is not known when they were committed to writing. The Vedas are four in number: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva. In reality the Rig-Veda is the Veda; many of its hymns occur with a different arrangement in the other three Vedas. According to some scholars, each Veda is divided into four parts: Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka, and Upanisad. But generally the term ‘Veda" is reserved for the Samhita, the metrical hymns. (Dow)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
"The world is a great game of hide and seek in which the real hides behind the apparent, spirit behind matter.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“The world is a great game of hide and seek in which the real hides behind the apparent, spirit behind matter.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The world knows three kinds of revolution. The material has strong results, the moral and intellectual are infinitely larger in their scope and richer in their fruits, but the spiritual are the great sowings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“The world knows three kinds of revolution. The material has strong results, the moral and intellectual are infinitely larger in their scope and richer in their fruits, but the spiritual are the great sowings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life,—though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"This is the great truth now dawning on the world, that Will is the thing which moves the world and that Fate is merely a process by which Will fulfils itself.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“This is the great truth now dawning on the world, that Will is the thing which moves the world and that Fate is merely a process by which Will fulfils itself.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man"s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man’s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Titan ::: : “His [the Titan’s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel,—if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly,—it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
titan ::: "In Greek mythology, one of a family of gigantic beings, the twelve primordial children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth); also certain of the offspring of these Titans. The names of the twelve Titans, the ancestors of the Olympian gods, were Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetos, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronos. Cronos, the youngest of them, ruled the world after overthrowing and castrating Uranus. He swallowed each of his own children at birth but Zeus escaped. Cronos was made to vomit up the others (including Hera, Demeter, Poseidon, and Hades) and, after a protracted struggle, he and the other Titans were vanquished, all of them but Atlas imprisoned in Tartarus, and the reign of Zeus was established. More broadly, the word Titan may be applied to any being of a colossal force or grandiose and lawless self-assertion, or even to whatever is huge or mighty.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
to break or remove the seal of; open, as something sealed or firmly closed. Also fig.
to dig out of the earth, to exhume; to disclose by the removal of earth; hence, fig. to bring to light; to disclose, reveal, discover, etc.
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
“To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote ’His anger climbed against me in a stream’, it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
to reveal or disclose by or as if by removing a veil or covering. unveils, unveiled, unveiling.
tragedy ::: 1. The tragic element of drama, or literature generally, or of life. 2. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life. tragedies.
trance ::: 1. A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze. 2. A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state. 3. A state of deep musing or mental abstraction from external things; absorption, exaltation, rapture, ecstasy. trance-bound, trance-claimed, trance-closed, splendour-trance.
trinity ::: a group or combination consisting of three closely related members, beings, etc.
unclosed ::: not enclosed or shut in; unenclosed.
unclosing ::: a bringing or coming out of a closed state; an opening.
"Unconsciousness is only an intermediate swoon of the conscious or its obscure sleep; . . . .” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“Unconsciousness is only an intermediate swoon of the conscious or its obscure sleep; …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
uncover ::: 1. To lay open or bare by the removal of some covering thing or matter. 2. Fig. To disclose, lay bare, make known, reveal. uncovers, uncovered, uncovering.
underlying ::: 1. Being at the basis of; forming the foundation of. 2. Implicit; discoverable only by close scrutiny or analysis. 3. Fundamental; basic.
undisclosed :::
universality ::: “This idea of universality, of oneness not only with God or the eternal Self in me, but with all humanity and other beings, is growing to be the most prominent strain in our minds and it has to be taken more largely into account in any future idea or computation of the significance of rebirth and karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Vamana, the Dwarf, in Hindu mythology, one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, born as a son of Kashyapa and Aditi. The titan King Bali had by his austerities acquired dominion of all the three worlds. To remedy this, Vishnu came to him in the form of a dwarf and begged of him as much land as he could step over in three paces. Bali complied. In two strides the dwarf covered heaven and earth, and with the third step, on Bali"s head, pushed him down to Patala, the infernal regions.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
"Veda, then, is the creation of an age anterior to our intellectual philosophies. In that original epoch thought proceeded by other methods than those of our logical reasoning and speech accepted modes of expression which in our modern habits would be inadmissible. The wisest then depended on inner experience and the suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind"s ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner. Indian tradition has faithfully preserved this account of the origin of the Vedas. The Rishi was not the individual composer of the hymn, but the seer (drashtâ ) of an eternal truth and an impersonal knowledge. The language of Veda itself is shruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that came vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit for the impersonal knowledge.” The Secret of the Veda
“Veda, then, is the creation of an age anterior to our intellectual philosophies. In that original epoch thought proceeded by other methods than those of our logical reasoning and speech accepted modes of expression which in our modern habits would be inadmissible. The wisest then depended on inner experience and the suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind’s ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner. Indian tradition has faithfully preserved this account of the origin of the Vedas. The Rishi was not the individual composer of the hymn, but the seer (drashtâ ) of an eternal truth and an impersonal knowledge. The language of Veda itself is shruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that came vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit for the impersonal knowledge.” The Secret of the Veda
veldts ::: in South Africa, unenclosed country or open pasture-lands.
veldts ::: Jhumur: “Veldts are huge endless grasslands in South Africa, vast empty spaces. Perhaps in the early centuries there was no direction, no path, no clear-cut line…if I follow this path I am going to come out. You get lost. Because destiny is a force that pushes man as long as he doesn’t push destiny. When he becomes supremely conscious he can control his destiny. Otherwise he is at the mercy of all these forces and it is this that creates the whole chain of causality.”
velvet *n. 1. A fabric of silk, cotton, nylon, etc., with a thick close soft usually lustrous pile. adj. *2. Resembling or suggesting velvet; smooth; soft; velvety.
venture ::: n. 1. An undertaking or proceeding the outcome of which is uncertain, but which is attended by the risk of danger or loss. ventures. v. 2. To take a risk; dare. ventured, venturing.
verge ::: 1. The extreme edge or margin; a border. 2. An enclosing limit, line, belt, or strip. 3. The edge of something as the horizon, mainly poetic. 4. The limit beyond which something happens or changes. verge"s, verges.
virat ::: "(Purusha) The universal or cosmic Soul; ‘God practical"; Lord of Waking-Life, who governs, preserves and maintains the sensible creation which Hiranyagarbha has shaped.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
void ::: n. 1. An empty space. 2. The state of nonexistence. 3. Something experienced as a loss or privation. adj. 4. Containing no matter; empty. 5. Without contents; empty; vacant. 6. Devoid; destitute (usually followed by of). 7. Useless, ineffectual; vain, without content; empty. Void, Void"s.
walled ::: 1. Having an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall. 2. Enclosed, shut off, divided, protected, etc. with or as if with a wall, often followed by in.
wander ::: 1. To move about without a definite destination or purpose. 2. To go via an indirect route or at no set pace. 3. To proceed in an irregular course; meander. 4. To deviate in conduct, belief, etc.; err; go astray. 5. To lose clarity or coherence of thought or expression. 6. To move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes. wanders, wandered.
wanes ::: 1. Draws to a close; approaches an end. 2. Decreases gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree; declines. waned.
watchful ::: vigilant or alert; closely observant.
watching ::: looking or observing attentively or carefully; being closely observant.
watch ::: n. 1. The act or process of keeping awake or mentally alert, especially for the purpose of guarding. 2. The act of observing closely or the condition of being closely observed; surveillance. v. 3. To keep under attentive view or observation, as in order to see or learn something; view attentively or with interest. 4. To guard, tend, or oversee, esp. for protection or safe keeping. watches, watched, watching, serpent-watched.
waylost ::: A word coined by Sri Aurobindo as an adj. to mean one who or that which has lost the way.
waylost ::: a word coined by Sri Aurobindo as an adj. to mean one who or that which has lost the way.
weakness ::: “Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"We are ignorant also of the superconscient, that which we ordinarily call spirit or oversoul; yet this we find to be our highest and widest self, Sachchidananda creating and governing all that we are and become by His divine Maya.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“We are ignorant also of the superconscient, that which we ordinarily call spirit or oversoul; yet this we find to be our highest and widest self, Sachchidananda creating and governing all that we are and become by His divine Maya.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
weariness ::: temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work.
::: "We have to face the future"s offer of death as well as its offer of life, and it need not alarm us, for it is by constant death to our old names and forms that we shall live most vitally in greater and newer forms and names.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“We have to face the future’s offer of death as well as its offer of life, and it need not alarm us, for it is by constant death to our old names and forms that we shall live most vitally in greater and newer forms and names.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
weld ::: 1. To join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point. 2. Fig. To bring into close association or union.
"We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there is in it an action of light, of truth, of knowledge in which inconscience, ignorance and error claim no place.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there is in it an action of light, of truth, of knowledge in which inconscience, ignorance and error claim no place.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“When one does sadhana, the inner consciousness begins to open and one is able to go inside and have all kinds of experiences there. As the sadhana progresses, one begins to live more and more in this inner being and the outer becomes more and more superficial. At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external. The inner consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Wherever thou seest a great end, be sure of a great beginning. Where a monstrous and painful destruction appals thy mind, console it with the certainty of a large and great creation. God is there not only in the still small voice, but in the fire and in the whirlwind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Wherever thou seest a great end, be sure of a great beginning. Where a monstrous and painful destruction appals thy mind, console it with the certainty of a large and great creation. God is there not only in the still small voice, but in the fire and in the whirlwind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Whether we take the modern scientific or the ancient Hindu standpoint the progress of humanity is a fact. The wheel of Brahma rotates for ever but it does not turn in the same place; its rotations carry it forward.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Whether we take the modern scientific or the ancient Hindu standpoint the progress of humanity is a fact. The wheel of Brahma rotates for ever but it does not turn in the same place; its rotations carry it forward.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
world-lines ::: physics and Philos.: The succession of points in space-time that are occupied by a particle.
Your statement that ‘joy’ is just another word for ‘ecstasy’ is surprising. ‘Comfort’, ‘pleasure’, ‘joy’, ‘bliss’, ‘rapture’, ‘ecstasy’ would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight’ is just another word for ‘lightning’—or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri
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58 Carlos Ruiz Zaf n
48 Anonymous
15 Carlos Fuentes
14 William Carlos Williams
11 Paulo Coelho
11 John Green
10 William Shakespeare
10 Walter Schloss
10 Toba Beta
9 Victor Hugo
9 Plato
9 Czeslaw Milosz
9 Carlos Ruiz Zafon
8 Rumi
8 Nancy Pelosi
8 Laozi
7 Publilius Syrus
7 George Herbert
6 Stephen King
6 Ninon de L Enclos
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Los Angeles is just New York lying down. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 2:Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 3:Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 4:I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 5:God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 6:Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 7:Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 8:Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 9:You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 10:All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 11:A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as & 12:The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 13:Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it's easier for them to increase their awareness there. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 14:We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 15:Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home) ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 16:I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 17:When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 18:I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway". ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 19:Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Día de los Muertos. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
2:Los Der Armen
~ Anton Wildgans,#NFDB
3:Los humanos me acechan. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
4:Me mataron los murmullos ~ Juan Rulfo, #NFDB
5:Hasta los dragones mueren. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
6:La verdad los hará libres. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
7:los juegos nocturnos. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
8:los sueños no caducan. ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
9:Abre bien los ojos, mira. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
10:los sacaba al azar. Harry ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
11:DE LOS MÁS SOBERBIOS BEMOLES ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
12:Los chicos buenos son lindos ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
13:la suerte es para los tontos ~ John Green, #NFDB
14:los cereales Cap’n Crunch. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
15:los mil modos del no amor. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
16:Los muertos nacen, no mueren. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
17:Los que menos corren, vuelan ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
18:Los tiempos hacen al hombre ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
19:los domingos son para el barrio, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
20:Los últimos serán los primeros ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
21:El amor se mide por los hechos. ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
22:el diablo habita en los detalles. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
23:el infierno son los otros. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
24:el terrorismo de los chismorreos, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
25:¡Ay, los hombres, qué necios! ~ Matilde Asensi, #NFDB
26:Los límites (en los seres extensos) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
27:-Los que gustan de contemplar la verdad ~ Plato, #NFDB
28:Los recuerdos no se crean solos. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
29:Que Dios bendiga a los soñadores. ~ J J Ben tez, #NFDB
30:LA TIERRA DOMINADA POR LOS MARCIANOS ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
31:los distraídos suelen oxidarse ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
32:los humanos no somos lógicos. ~ Mike Michalowicz, #NFDB
33:los tramposos siempre hacían trampa. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
34:Nadie recuerda los por qués ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
35:Somos los que simulamos ser”.» ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
36:Es la mente la que mata a los vivos. ~ Anchee Min, #NFDB
37:«Los dragones son fuego hecho carne.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
38:«Se le acabaron los años». ~ Juan Gabriel V squez, #NFDB
39:todos los pájaros; Alanus de Insulis, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
40:Los ojos negros... ¿Leyenda o realidad ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
41:Por los frutos conocerás el árbol”, ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
42:Amar es desnudarse de los nombres. ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
43:Cierro los ojos para verte mejor. ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
44:Los Angeles can be a really sad city. ~ Adam Lambert, #NFDB
45:Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
46:Los ojos muestran la fuerza del alma. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
47:No todos los venenos tienen antídoto ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
48:Dói-me tanto vê-los parvos! ~ Jos de Almada Negreiros, #NFDB
49:¡Guárdate de los idus de marzo! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
50:It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
51:libaban su vino y jugaban a los solteros, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
52:Lo que dicen los libros es verdad. ~ Alejo Carpentier, #NFDB
53:«Los demás tienen más miedo que tú». ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
54:Los recuerdos son siempre un asco... ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
55:«La suerte es el cuidado de los detalles.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
56:La vida se desperdicia con los vivos ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
57:Los deseos no deben contarse a nadie ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
58:Los enemigos son el precio del éxito ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
59:los nietos son el postre de la vida ~ Camilla L ckberg, #NFDB
60:Lykken — En Los, Letsindig Froken
~ Emil Aarestrup,#NFDB
61:Nada engaña mas que los recuerdos. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
62:novela de Osvaldo Aguirre Los indeseables, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
63:Sólo los locos no tienen miedo. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
64:Todos los dias se aprende algo nuevo ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
65:Actúe o deje que los demás actúen por usted ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
66:Dejemos las conclusiones para los idiotas. ~ P o Baroja, #NFDB
67:Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas. ~ Ricardo Piglia, #NFDB
68:¿Es que no oye los latidos de mi corazón? ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
69:Hasta los malos poetas aman la muerte ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
70:In Los Angeles, everyone is a star. ~ Denzel Washington, #NFDB
71:La ciudad era papel, pero los recuerdos no ~ John Green, #NFDB
72:Los Angeles is many places in one place. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
73:Los locos son los reyes de los portazos. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
74:Los verdaderos poemas son incendios. ~ Vicente Huidobro, #NFDB
75:No cierres mis labios abriendo los tuyos. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
76:Pensé que los Espartanos nunca renunciaban. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
77:Todos los que viven sueñan ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca, #NFDB
78:Atraigo a los locos y a los animales. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
79:Benditos los que no confían la vida a nadie. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
80:El orgullo es el lujo de los fuertes. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
81:El tiempo, ay, daba prisa a los hombres. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
82:inmóvil. Los caballos relincharon. La espera ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
83:La ciudad era papel, pero los recuerdos no. ~ John Green, #NFDB
84:los amores naturales no son autosuficientes. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
85:Los Angeles is just New York lying down. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
86:Los genes operan de manera misteriosa. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
87:Los sueños se quiebran con facilidad ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
88:¡Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida! ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
89:Para los puros, todas las cosas son puras. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
90:Tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
91:¡Todos los actos humanos tienen dos caras! ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
92:Y la memoria es el tormento de los celosos ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
93:confirma mis sospechas de que los hemos ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
94:Dios es el más noble de los seres. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
95:Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
96:Heráclito, «los sentidos son malos testigos». ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
97:La especialización es para los insectos ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
98:La gentileza es el lujo de los sabios. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
99:Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
100:Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems. ~ Ross Kemp, #NFDB
101:Nada acalla a los gruñones como la gratitud. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
102:porque los tuve en el vientre de la ballena49 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
103:a los dioses y nobles monarcas persuaden los dones ~ Plato, #NFDB
104:Aprendemos de los fracasos; no de los éxitos ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
105:A veces los perros perdidos vuelven a casa. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
106:El mundo conspira a favor de los soñadores. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
107:El tiempo recompensa a los adversarios honestos. ~ Colette, #NFDB
108:La decepción es la ira de los débiles. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
109:llevó el Führer? La pregunta los sorprendió ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
110:Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
111:«Los héroes conservadores no existen». ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
112:Los hijos recogen lo que sus padres son ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
113:Los recuerdos son peores que las balas ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
114:Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
115:No hay honor en traicionar a los amigos. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
116:Aprendemos de los fracasos; no de los éxitos. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
117:...callamos los volcanes florecidos! ~ Francisco de Quevedo, #NFDB
118:Cómo ser feliz en bicicleta a los noventa años. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
119:Cuando los hechos hablan,las palabras callan... ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
120:Lo similar se atrae, los opuestos se repelen. ~ Yehuda Berg, #NFDB
121:Los nombres del Amor cambian como los días ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
122:Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen. ~ Jos Mart, #NFDB
123:Los recuerdos son peores que las balas. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
124:Los to jedno z imion naszej bezradności ~ Wies aw My liwski, #NFDB
125:Mira dentro de los misterios de la vida misma”, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
126:Vivo de aquello que los otros no saben de mí ~ Peter Handke, #NFDB
127:al pobre y al caliente los delata la prisa. ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
128:A todos los animalitos se les enrosca la cola ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
129:El amor verdadero nace de los tiempos difíciles ~ John Green, #NFDB
130:Él descarta una colcha por temor a los bichos. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
131:Eres la más opaca de todos los opacos ~ Laura Gallego Garc a, #NFDB
132:Humanos o no, todos los animales son iguales. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
133:I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
134:los bancos disfrutando de la música o examinaban ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
135:Los buenos suelen fallecer antes que los malos ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
136:Los ojos se cierran,
las palabras se abren. ~ Octavio Paz,#NFDB
137:Los tímidos somos capaces de cualquier cosa ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
138:No hay nada más corrompible que los incorruptos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
139:pero él empezó deliberadamente con los libros. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
140:sí puedes cambiar los frutos del mañana. Pero, ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
141:Visitaba a los pobres mientras tenía dinero, y ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
142:A los mejores destinos se llega perdiéndose. ~ Iria G Parente, #NFDB
143:A veces los árboles nos impiden ver el bosque ~ Michelle Zink, #NFDB
144:continued to perform as Los Reyes Jalisco. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
145:creciente ira y el descontento entre los judíos. ~ Reza Aslan, #NFDB
146:El amor verdadero nace de los tiempos difíciles. ~ John Green, #NFDB
147:El recuerdo es el idioma de los sentimientos ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
148:Era cierto, no existían los milagros pequeños. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
149:La Economía es el juicio aplicado a los consumos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
150:La gente debe enamorarse con los ojos cerrados. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
151:La muerte de todos empieza a los veinte años ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
152:Los bares y restaurantes son ejemplos extremos: ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
153:Los chicos no tiene el monopolio de las miradas. ~ John Green, #NFDB
154:(...) Los dioses no están exentos de sentir la cólera. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
155:Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles. ~ Warren Cuccurullo, #NFDB
156:-Odio los tíos como tu.
-¿Irresistibles? ~ Federico Moccia,#NFDB
157:Protegeré tu corazón todos los días de mi vida ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
158:Solo los niños saben lo que buscan ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
159:Sos muy cachorro pa miar como los perros grandes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
160:Aprende de los grandes, no de la competencia ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
161:Congregados los sentidos, surge el alma. ~ Adolfo Bioy Casares, #NFDB
162:Dios sólo existe en la mente de los hombres. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
163:«El amor verdadero nace de los tiempos difíciles», ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
164:«Es como si no nos viésemos los unos a los otros», ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
165:Están los libros que te enamoran o los que olvidas ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
166:—Hay peores castigos que los que imparte la ley. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
167:La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios. ~ Juan Eslava Gal n, #NFDB
168:«Los errores son los portales del descubrimiento». ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
169:Los floreros disimulan La puerta del Infierno ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
170:Los hombres somos la suma total de nuestro pasado. ~ Leon Uris, #NFDB
171:Los objetivos concretos simplifican la vida. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
172:Mientras hablaba, los caballos comenzaron a piafar ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
173:Muchos de los ángeles de Dios no tienen alas... ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
174:Nadie acierta a su objetivo con los ojos cerrados. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
175:no se sabe muy bien qué hacer con los muertos, ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
176:Piensa que los demás tienen más miedo que tú. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
177:Pocas cosas engañan más que los recuerdos. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
178:Que cosan las rajas, yo entro por los ojos. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
179:Todo lo que sé lo he aprendido de los demás. ~ Giovanni Papini, #NFDB
180:arte era suyo y los recuerdos eran míos, ¿qué ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
181:A veces los finales son en realidad comienzos. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
182:El miedo a morir infunde aliento a los recuerdos. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
183:En los años veinte, y especialmente en los treinta, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
184:Es imposible encontrar secretos si no los buscas. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
185:Filosóficamente no puede confiarse en los ojos. ~ Charles Simic, #NFDB
186:¿Han dejado ya de llorar los corderos, Clarice? ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
187:La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
188:LA HISTORIA DE LOS HIJOS DE HÚRIN (NARN I HÎN HÚRIN ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
189:Las armas de los poetas son los versos ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
190:Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
191:Los libros son la magia más portátil que existe. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
192:Los sueños son de quien los sueña y de nadie mas ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
193:Los sueños son de quién los sueña y de nadie más ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
194:Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta. ~ Raymond Carver, #NFDB
195:Los tiempos cambian, pero ¿y los humanos? ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
196:Los viajes acaban cuando los amantes se encuentran. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
197:recitar oraciones, afirmaciones, renegar de los ~ Gary R Renard, #NFDB
198:religiones siempre han sido el opio de los pueblos, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
199:Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
200:algunos de los mejores magos y brujas de su tiempo ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
201:Hará falta el sentido común de los humanos. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
202:La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
203:Lo peor de la muerte es a los que deja vivos. ~ Eva Garc a S enz, #NFDB
204:Los cuentos tienen que contarse o acaban muriendo. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
205:Los fantasmas construyen su nido en las fracturas. ~ Fred Vargas, #NFDB
206:«Los ordenadores de hoy son idiotas brillantes ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
207:...los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
208:Los suenos son de quien los sueña y de nadie más. ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
209:no debía temer a los muertos, sino a los vivos, ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
210:«Piensa en los obstáculos como en oportunidades, ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
211:También para los recuerdos es demasiado tarde ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
212:The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
213:(todos sabemos lo tolerante que son los tolerantes)- ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
214:Ahora los reyes se hacen muy a menudo vulgares. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
215:A los que beben sin brindar los llamamos alcohólicos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
216:Cuando los arcángeles juegan, los mortales sufren. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
217:El amor da a los demás el poder para destruirte ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
218:«El orgullo, el omnipresente error de los estúpidos», ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
219:«el sentido común es el menos común de los sentidos», ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
220:en la guerra, el fin justifica los medios. Aquel ~ Jaime Manrique, #NFDB
221:En Murmansk, hasta los osos polares llevaban bufanda; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
222:Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles. ~ Kyle Chandler, #NFDB
223:La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos. ~ Mo Yan, #NFDB
224:Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos. a ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
225:... los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
226:Los locos siempre confían en la primera impresión. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
227:Los niños y los locos dicen las verdades”. Refrán ~ Mario Escobar, #NFDB
228:Los trabajos interesantes son los que creas tú. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
229:Los vanidosos sólo oyen las alabanzas. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
230:No todos pueden ver los sueños de la misma manera. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
231:Para mirar los diarios, hay que bajar los ojos. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
232:Pero le gustaban los lugares así, con pasado. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
233:Quedaban los corruptos, siempre los había, ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
234:Unicamente yo tenia secos los ojos, seco el corazon ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
235:Vivía en los libros más que en cualquier otra parte ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
236:Al tiempo lo miden las circunstancias, no los relojes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
237:¿crees que los recuerdos pueden llenar el presente? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
238:dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado. ~ Erasmus, #NFDB
239:el paisaje de la vida de los ronquidos con el del día. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
240:Es horrible sentirse indigno a los ojos de tus padres. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
241:La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
242:Las cosas son dueñas de los dueños de las cosas. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
243:La Semana Santa de los indios termina sin Resurrección ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
244:Libérate de la influencia de las opiniones de los demás. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
245:lo esencial es invisible para los ojos. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
246:Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh, #NFDB
247:Los cínicos critican y los ganadores analizan. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
248:Los muertos nunca acuden a su propio entierro. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
249:Los preámbulos son una manía de escritores alegres ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
250:Normalmente, nos estorbamos los unos a los otros ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
251:Para los hijos los padres siempre somos molestos. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
252:Un estante de libros es el más hermoso de los jardines ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
253:A grandes voces despertaron a los araucanos. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
254:algunas concubinas, mientras los ministros dudaban ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
255:al menos los humanos tienen el buen juicio de morir. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
256:A los niños no hay que educarlos. Hay que quererlos. ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
257:El sordo siempre cree que los que bailan están locos. ~ Jorge Bucay, #NFDB
258:Follar es lo único que desean los que van a morir. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
259:Katniss Everdeen, ha sobrevivido de nuevo a LOS JUEGOS, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
260:La muerte es cuando los monstruos se adueñan de uno. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
261:leerla, cerré los ojos y pensé: «Qué triste está Hermana ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
262:Los amores sin futuro forman parte de la vida.- Carla ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
263:Los compañeros perfectos no tienen menos de cuatro patas. ~ Colette, #NFDB
264:Los gatos, en efeto, son del amor un índice perfeto, ~ Lope de Vega, #NFDB
265:Los hechos estan para los que no tienen imaginacion ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
266:Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya ~ Miguel Delibes, #NFDB
267:Los pájaros nos traspasan en vuelo silencioso. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
268:No se recuerdan los días, se recuerdan los momentos ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
269:¡O la existencia o yo!». Uno de los dos debe ceder. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
270:Puedes escuchar los rumores, pero no puedes conocerlos. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
271:«Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios» ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
272:Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios". ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
273:Un animal enjaulado; los barrotes: su propia locura. ~ Shannon Kirk, #NFDB
274:uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos ~ Edward Rutherfurd, #NFDB
275:Vienen los días y van los días y el amor queda. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
276:Yo creo que los feos se hacen modernos para disimular. ~ Rebeca Rus, #NFDB
277:¿Cómo cierras los ojos una vez que los has abierto? ~ Gennifer Albin, #NFDB
278:Cuanto más agitas los árboles más hojas caen de ellos. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
279:El amor concede a los demás el poder de destruirte ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
280:El respeto a los demás nace del respeto a uno mismo… ~ Marcos Chicot, #NFDB
281:El tamiz de los cuentos es el ojo de la cerradura. ~ Pascal Quignard, #NFDB
282:En los mundos de mi invención, todo es posible. Todo. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
283:I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
284:Los viejos, entre viejos, son menos viejos. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
285:Me gustan mucho más los murciélagos que; los burócratas. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
286:Nunca se me ocurrió que los monstruos pueden sentir dolor ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
287:podemos también determinar los límites de la razón pura; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
288:si uno vive lo suficiente, los círculos se cierran. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
289:Sonreír es el arte de hacer que los demás se lo crean. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
290:Audentes fortuna iuvat.
La fortuna favorece a los audaces ~ Virgil,#NFDB
291:Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
292:El corazón de los mártires es siempre fuerte ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
293:El universo siempre conspira a favor de los soñadores. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
294:Es casi ley, los amores eternos, son lo más breves. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
295:Es difícil liberar a los tontos de las cadenas que veneran ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
296:I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
297:I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously! ~ Gustavo Dudamel, #NFDB
298:I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
299:La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
300:Los Angeles is a mother that devours her children. ~ Donald O Donovan, #NFDB
301:Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran. ~ Lydia Cacho, #NFDB
302:Los cobardes mueren muchas veces antes de morir ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
303:los impuestos pueden llegar a ser tu mayor gasto. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
304:Los momentos con comida basura significaban nostalgia. ~ Jens Lapidus, #NFDB
305:Los objetos no deberían tocar, puesto que no viven ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
306:Los objetos que solías poseer ahora te poseen a ti. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
307:»No juzguen a nadie, para que nadie los juzgue a ustedes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
308:No me gusta desperdiciar. Menos los sentimientos. ~ ngeles Mastretta, #NFDB
309:Nunca son los cambios que queremos los que cambian todo. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
310:Pensando arrancarse los recuerdos como Edipo los ojos ~ Mario Morenza, #NFDB
311:Por Ella Han De Llorar Los Cinamomos...
~ Alphonsus de Guimaraens,#NFDB
312:Si mantienes los ojos abiertos, siempre estarás perdido ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
313:Sólo los que dialogan pueden tender puentes y vínculos ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
314:Únete a los que se exponen y no temen ser vulnerables: ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
315:Vivimos sometidos a la tiranía de los deseos ajenos ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
316:We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles. ~ Stephen Hopkins, #NFDB
317:A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles. ~ Viggo Mortensen, #NFDB
318:«Ama a quien quieras pero cásate con los de tu clase» era ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
319:como se suele decir, los amigos son para las ocasiones. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
320:Cuando llegue mañana, piensa los pensamientos de mañana. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
321:Deje que los muertos entierren a los muertos. (Heck Tate) ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
322:El amor convierte en mentirosos a los de tu especie. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
323:El orgullo es el vicio siempre presente de los imbeciles ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
324:El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas". ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
325:El signo de los tiempos es un signo de interrogación. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
326:Es casi ley, los amores eternos, son los más breves. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
327:Estamos hechos de la misma materia que los sueños. ~ Lesley Livingston, #NFDB
328:Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
329:Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
330:Me gustan tanto los hoy como miedo me dan los mañanas. ~ Elvira Sastre, #NFDB
331:Me rodean un par de cosas, los desvelos y el silencio. ~ Fatos Kongoli, #NFDB
332:Nos interesan los demás cuando se interesan por nosotros". ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
333:para el llanto nacemos, y el motivo sólo los dioses saben. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
334:Todo depende de los espejitos de colores con que nos miren ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
335:Todo el mundo habla de lo que los demás dicen o no dicen. ~ John Green, #NFDB
336:Todos los grandes cuadros son en realidad autorretratos. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
337:Ustedes los humanos son tan adeptos a afirmar lo obvio. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
338:y el sexo, Los amantes del círculo polar, Piedras—were ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
339:Como se sabe, los Borbones ni aprenden, ni olvidan. ~ Juan Eslava Gal n, #NFDB
340:conocer los hechos no implica necesariamente comprenderlos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
341:Cuando no se puede tener la realidad, bastan los sueños. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
342:«Desconfía de los argumentos que proceden de la autoridad.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
343:Esta danza recibe el nombre de «Alegría de los famas». ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
344:I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles. ~ Taylor Schilling, #NFDB
345:La cosa más noble que puedes hacer es dar a los demás. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
346:Las huellas que dejamos los hombres suelen ser cicatrices. ~ John Green, #NFDB
347:La verdad siempre es mucho menos heroica que los sueños. ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
348:Leer buenos libros te impide disfrutar de los malos. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
349:Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
350:los asesinos en masa son exaltados que oyen la voz de Dios. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
351:Los detallistas son unos paranoicos en su primer estadio. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
352:Los días pasan, la noche permanece. Te echo de menos. ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
353:—Los sabios hacen preguntas, Perry. Los débiles dudan. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
354:Los Sufis dicen: Esto no es una religión: es LA religión. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
355:no eran rivales para los Orcos, que iban calzados de hierro ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
356:¿Por qué la modestia nunca es uno de los atributos del héroe? ~ Y S Lee, #NFDB
357:Vea con buen humor sus fracasos y no los tome muy en serio ~ Sam Walton, #NFDB
358:Y ahora hay caballos galopando dentro de ella. Los oigo. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
359:A donde los humanos fueran, los perros irían también. ~ Greg Van Eekhout, #NFDB
360:A veces no hay nada tan importante como los recuerdos. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
361:...como un rey destronado, iba errante por los caminos... ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
362:De todas maneras, los únicos genios verdaderos son artistas ~ John Green, #NFDB
363:Dicen los chinos que crisis es peligro más oportunidad. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
364:Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
365:Falta de medicinas descompensa a los pacientes psiquiátricos ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
366:I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
367:la inmadurez espiritual es uno de los signos de este tiempo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
368:La muerte les llega a los que esperan y a los que no. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
369:Las palabras tienen que morir si los humanos han de vivir. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
370:Los algoritmos de búsqueda de Google, por ejemplo, arrojan ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
371:[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city... ~ John D MacDonald, #NFDB
372:Los condenados
Él sueña y yo existo en la realidad. ~ Woody Allen,#NFDB
373:LOS JÓVENES VAN A TENER QUE INVENTARSE SUS TRABAJOS ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
374:Los más inflexibles pensamientos son los más prestos a caer. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
375:Los mortales se olvidan de advertir que el tiempo pasa. ~ Jackson Pearce, #NFDB
376:Los motivos de las mujeres son tan inescrutables... ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
377:Los recuerdos - incluso los más bellos - se desvanecen. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
378:Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
379:Necesitaba de la intriga tanto como de los alimentos. ~ Rodrigo Rey Rosa, #NFDB
380:¿Qué son los hombres al lado de los valles y las montañas? ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
381:Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
382:también los idealistas aciertan de vez en cuando. ~ Juan Gabriel V squez, #NFDB
383:The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
384:Dios provee el alimento, los hombres proveen los cocineros. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
385:el vago rosa trémulo que se ve con los ojos cerrados, ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
386:En el verdadero amor no manda nadie; obedecen los dos. ~ Alejandro Casona, #NFDB
387:Eres todos los colores en uno, con su máxima intensidad. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
388:Había que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
389:Hay en los celos más amor propio que amor. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
390:...lo malo de los muertos era que no aceptaban disculpas. ~ Enrique Serna, #NFDB
391:(…) lo odiaba con la virulencia de los impotentes. ~ Albert S nchez Pi ol, #NFDB
392:Los ciegos están siempre en guerra, siempre lo han estado. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
393:Los demonios huyen cuando un hombre bueno va a la guerra. ~ Steven Moffat, #NFDB
394:Los je ucenik onaj, koji je ne nadmasi svog ucitelja. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
395:Los libros me ayudaron a no perder la cabeza por completo. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
396:Los líderes siguen adelante a pesar de sus propios temores. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
397:Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
398:Los mitos son historias sobre verdades que hemos olvidado. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
399:Los sentimientos, por muy intensos que sean, no son fatales. ~ Edith Eger, #NFDB
400:Los síntomas del amor son los mismos del cólera. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
401:¡Oh vosotros los que entráis, abandonad toda esperanza! ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
402:Quien no desconfía de sí no merece la confianza de los demás. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
403:Si no puedo convencer al cielo, moveré a los infiernos. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
404:solo las ideas, no los individuos, tienen verdadera realidad, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
405:Solo los actos deciden acerca de lo que se ha querido. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
406:¡Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles! ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
407:Cuán hermosos son los viajes hasta cuando se vuelve de ellos ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
408:Deshechas en blanca espuma, las olas nos bañan los pies. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
409:De todos los tugurios del mundo, tenía que entrar en el mío ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
410:Dicen que los miedos desaparecen si te abraza la persona correcta. ~ Ne ra, #NFDB
411:educa a los niños y no tendrás que castigar a los adultos. ~ Marcos Chicot, #NFDB
412:En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol. ~ Miguel Delibes, #NFDB
413:In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
414:La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
415:[...] la literatura y los aviones, qué espléndidas drogas ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
416:Las flores son los Romeos y Julietas de la naturalez. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
417:¡Lo que los castellanos llamáis unidad es opresión! ~ Albert S nchez Pi ol, #NFDB
418:Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic. ~ Jonathan Culler, #NFDB
419:Los años de ahora ya no vienen como los de antes. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
420:Los instantes se desangran a la vez, el tiempo no se detiene ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
421:Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente, ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
422:Los pájaros protegieron con sus cuerpos el fuego robado. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
423:No todos los hombres están destinados a la danza de dragones.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
424:People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
425:Sólo importan aquellos a los que no has podido ayudar. ~ Juan Gomez Jurado, #NFDB
426:Solo los bárbaros y los locos disfrutan con el combate. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
427:Todos los libros del mundo están esperando a que los lea. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
428:«Un buen cristiano nunca jura su lealtad sobre los Evangelios». ~ Dario Fo, #NFDB
429:Un hombre enamorado no es el mejor de los soldados. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
430:—Al loco siempre le parece que los locos son los demás. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
431:Ante los crisantemos blancos las tijeras vacilan un instante. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB
432:Antes de acusar a los otros, uno debe aprender a vivir ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
433:Convirtió los fracasos de los otros en su propio triunfo. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
434:CREONTE. —¡Valiente obra, honrar a los transgresores del orden! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
435:En la cárcel, los secretos se venden y el silencio salva. ~ Beatriz Esteban, #NFDB
436:Es bastante aburrido, pero los jugadores, bueno, ya saben... ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
437:Es de noche, siempre es de noche al final de los textos. ~ Alejandro Zambra, #NFDB
438:I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco. ~ Mick Ralphs, #NFDB
439:Jocko Podcast, uno de los podcasts mejor valorados. Es un ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
440:La imaginación tiene sus propios motivos y nos los oculta. ~ Benjamin Black, #NFDB
441:la nueva traducción de los cuentos, obra de Hermione Granger. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
442:LOS AUTOS QUE SE MANEJAN SOLOS SERÁN MUCHO MÁS BARATOS ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
443:—Los ojos muestran la fuerza del alma —repuso el Alquimista. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
444:los paraísos artificiales acaban en infiernos naturales... ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
445:Los pequeños detalles muestran la extensión de lo que no sabes ~ Joann Sfar, #NFDB
446:Me doy buenos consejos a mí misma , pero rara vez los sigo. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
447:—Música, melancólico alimento para los que vivimos de amor ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
448:Música! Melancólico alimento para los que vivimos de amor. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
449:nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
450:Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
451:Pero él no lo creía, porque juzgaba a los demás por sí mismo. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
452:salir del armario no es algo que preocupe a los heteros. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
453:Si se lo permitimos, los niños pueden enseñarnos la salida. ~ Brian L Weiss, #NFDB
454:—Solo se puede odiar de verdad a aquellos a los que amas. ~ Kristan Higgins, #NFDB
455:todos los placeres están íntimamente emparentados con el dolor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
456:Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas? ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
457:El amor divino existe y se expresa a través de los seres humanos ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
458:en el Distrito Federal? Sólo los héroes o los idiotas. ~ Guillermo Fadanelli, #NFDB
459:He adoptado el rostro estúpido e incomprensible de los dioses ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
460:«La caridad encubre todos los pecados», decía san Pedro. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
461:la vida se abre paso siempre por los muros de nuestra seguridad. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
462:«Los años de ahora ya no vienen como los de antes», ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
463:Los desiertos necesitan árboles, los hombres sabiduría. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
464:Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
465:Los hombres ofenden antes al que aman que al que temen. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
466:Los limites de mi lenguaje son los limites de mi mundo ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
467:Los necios se jactan de lo que harán. Los héroes lo hacen. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
468:Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
469:Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
470:Se escribe para uno mismo y se reescribe para los demás. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
471:sólo los valientes se atreven a decir lo que piensan! ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
472:son los actos y no las palabras los que marcan la diferencia. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
473:(todos los libros del mundo están esperando a que los lea). ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
474:un mocoso drogado los arruinara, aunque en realidad éste no ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
475:Vivimos en silencio para no herirnos los unos a los otros. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
476:El aspecto más doloroso de los golpes es el insulto que incluyen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
477:El infierno está vacío, y todos los diablos están aquí. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
478:él no tenía necesidad de familiaridad para acercarse a los seres. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
479:Es el problema de los secretos; los llevas contigo por siempre. ~ Kass Morgan, #NFDB
480:Esencialmente, los datos masivos consisten en hacer predicciones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
481:In Los Angeles, windows separated the dogs from the bitches. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
482:I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
483:Las mafias no temen a los escritores; temen a los lectores. ~ Roberto Saviano, #NFDB
484:Los amigos no te mienten. Los amigos intentan comprenderte. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
485:Los corazones de los nobles son las tumbas de las confidencias. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
486:Los sueños proveen un necesario escape para todo el mundo. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
487:Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
488:No había riesgo mayor que la franqueza en los asuntos del corazón ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
489:Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
490:Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
491:Ser útil para los demás no es lo mismo que ser igual que ellos. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
492:Sé un tigre… si estás preparado para los problemas de un tigre. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
493:Si los deseos fueran peces todos arrojaríamos nuestras redes. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
494:Si todo hombre fuera juez, todos los hombres estarían locos ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
495:Una inteligencia sin límites es el mayor tesoro de los hombres. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
496:Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
497:at his office while he was in Los Angeles. David was certain ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
498:A veces los locos pueden imitar increíblemente bien la cordura. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
499:Boggs tiene razón: es verme, verme viva, lo que los inspira. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
500:El hombre es un demonio, el hombre es un dios. Los dos son verdad. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
501:Ellos, los ricos y los curas, mandando y el resto obedeciendo. ~ Mario Escobar, #NFDB
502:El muerto no sabe lo que es la muerte, pero los vivos tampoco ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
503:...en Chile todos los actos poéticos terminaban en desastres. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
504:Es fácil olvidar la claridad con que ven las cosas los niños. ~ Katherine Webb, #NFDB
505:Llámanse progresos los preparativos de las catástrofes. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
506:Lo más importante de los libros son las manos que los entregan. ~ Juan Villoro, #NFDB
507:Los besos en el cuerpo hacen llorar. Diríase que consuelan. ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
508:Los celos hacen que las personas hagan y digan cosas estúpidas ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
509:Los frutos del amor son intangibles. Este es uno de sus enigmas. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB
510:los jóvenes no tienen vergüenza, la vergüenza llega con la edad. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
511:Los líderes aceptan la culpa; los perdedores se la pasan a otro. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
512:Los monstruos se encuentran unos a los otros en la oscuridad. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
513:Los muertos también tienen que saber desprenderse de las cosas. ~ David Safier, #NFDB
514:Los terremotos son inspectores de la honestidad arquitectónica. ~ Juan Villoro, #NFDB
515:Me tienen hasta los huevos. It means I’ve had it up to my balls. ~ Emma Straub, #NFDB
516:Mira, sólo hay un medio para matar los monstruos; aceptarlos. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
517:—queda el olor de los muertos cuando nada más queda de ellos—, ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
518:¿Qué sería de Jesús si nadie hubiera escrito los Evangelios? ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
519:¿Quién ha dicho que sólo pueden hacernos sufrir los malvados? ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
520:«Si quieres volar con las águilas, ¡no nades con los patos!». Yo ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
521:Sólo los más afortunados encuentran a su parte perdida, ya ves. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
522:There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles]. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
523:Todos los idiotas se enamoran; así que muérete , listo. ~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra, #NFDB
524:¡Una inteligencia sin límites es el mayor tesoro de los hombres! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
525:ARÁCNIDO" si no te importa. Los Spiderman somos muy sensibles ~ Chris Claremont, #NFDB
526:Así es el amor: su impacto se multiplica como los panes y los peces. ~ Bob Goff, #NFDB
527:con su visión recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
528:Déjenme aunque sea el derecho de pataleo que tienen los ahorcados! ~ Juan Rulfo, #NFDB
529:De los aztecas al PRI, con esa pelota nunca hemos jugado aquí. ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
530:Deseamos con nuestras manos; eso es lo que hacemos los artistas. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
531:«Después de los cincuenta, la vanidad sólo sirve para sufrir», ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
532:Donde no hay mujeres no existen los buenos modales ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
533:el amor era la llave para la comprensión de todos los misterios. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
534:El orgullo conlleva el deseo de ser reconocido por los demás. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
535:la arrogancia propia de los que nacen rubios, fuertes y atractivos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
536:La desaprobación de los cobardes es un elogio para los valientes. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
537:Los actos que nos avergüenzan son los que mejor nos definen. ~ Eva Garc a S enz, #NFDB
538:Los costes de acceso a esos nichos están bajando notablemente. ~ Chris Anderson, #NFDB
539:Los hombres no significan nada para mí, en ninguna parte. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
540:Los hombres tienen las leyes, Alix. Las mujeres, sus vestidos.» ~ Espido Freire, #NFDB
541:Los milagros, para el Sufi, no son evidentes; son instrumentales. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
542:Los perros nos toman por su dios y su madre, es decir, su amo. ~ Sylvain Tesson, #NFDB
543:Los tiempos malos no duran. Tienes que aguantar hasta que pasan. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
544:Los timadores, al final, acaban siendo ellos mismos timados. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
545:No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
546:Porque nada de lo que existe en el mundo de los sentidos permanece. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
547:Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
548:Soy una apasionada de los libros escritos por testigos oculares. ~ Helene Hanff, #NFDB
549:Tenía esa belleza de la que sólo los vencidos son capaces. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
550:that all there is is love. Pity us not. Los Angeles 29 June 1987 ~ Paul Monette, #NFDB
551:Todos los días van hacia la muerte, el último la alcanza. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
552:«Una inteligencia sin límites es el mayor tesoro de los hombres.» ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
553:We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles. ~ Rue McClanahan, #NFDB
554:Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas. ~ Paul Hoffman, #NFDB
555:¿conocemos alguna vez de verdad los sentimientos de un muerto? ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
556:De los pedazos es imposible construir nada sin que se noten las grietas. ~ Ne ra, #NFDB
557:El señor Soulis no temía ni a los hombres ni al diablo. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
558:En una palabra pueden encerrarse todos los deseos del corazón. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
559:es imposible hallar al caballo perfecto en todos los aspectos ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
560:había aprendido que los instantes eran simplemente eso: una ilusión. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
561:Igual que los burdeles, los periódicos duermen por las mañanas. ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
562:Lo que se van a comer los gusanos, que lo disfruten los humanos. ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
563:Los dos sabíamos cuál podía ser el final, y no nos importaba. ~ Mariana Enr quez, #NFDB
564:Los hechos de una vida previa encauzan la vida presente. Tolstói ~ Brian L Weiss, #NFDB
565:los hombres que trataban bien a su madre eran las mejores parejas. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
566:Los hombres tienen el ego más frágil que una cáscara de huevo. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
567:Los monarcas vienen y van, pero el mundo sigue necesitando médicos ~ Noah Gordon, #NFDB
568:los que más gritan por la paz, son los primeros en quebrantarla. ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
569:«Los que no recuerdan el pasado están condenados a repetirlo». ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
570:Los 'yo-no-quiero' son los que te impiden alcanzar el éxito. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
571:Marc es autor de la obra Los delitos del futuro (Ariel, 2015). ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
572:Necesitamos llegar a comprender las relaciones entre los objetos. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
573:«Ningún mortal puede aproximarse más a los dioses», escribió Halley, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
574:No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
575:Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. Me ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
576:Pensemos en algo: Los chicos básicamente quieren besar a las chicas ~ John Green, #NFDB
577:Qué poco necesitan los recuerdos para joderte la existencia. ~ El sabet Benavent, #NFDB
578:Siempre encontrarás un libro que te apoye. Los libros son leales. ~ Juan Villoro, #NFDB
579:Siempre he dicho que los celos saben más que la verdad. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
580:Sólo creen en la conquista del mundo los que saben que es imposible. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
581:Somos, cada vez más, los defectos que tenemos, no las cualidades. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
582:Alibaba pulveriza los récords de comercio 'online' el Día del Soltero ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
583:As palavras também têm caminhos por dentro, há que percorrê-los ~ Valter Hugo M e, #NFDB
584:Cuando no reconoces los errores del pasado, el futuro se venga. ~ Ian C Esslemont, #NFDB
585:¡Dios bendiga los tiempos antiguos, en que existían cosas raras...! ~ Knut Hamsun, #NFDB
586:Dos métricas establecen los límites para una distribución efectiva. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
587:El mundo, en el que somos por turnos las manchas y los pinceles. ~ Sylvain Tesson, #NFDB
588:«En los preámbulos del amor ningún error es corregible», ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
589:En un mundo sin melancolía, los ruiseñores se pondrían a eructar. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
590:Era como si allí los huesos de la Tierra afloraran a la superficie. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
591:I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles. ~ Kristin Chenoweth, #NFDB
592:I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
593:In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die. ~ David Geffen, #NFDB
594:intentar escapar de los malos pensamientos es
salir a buscarlos. ~ Jorge Bucay,#NFDB
595:La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
596:La música es lo único que amansa a las fieras y reduce los males. ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
597:La nostalgia es un perro perseguidor que le muerde los talones. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
598:la virtud se aloja frecuentemente en los de condición humilde, ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
599:Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. ~ Layne Staley, #NFDB
600:Los ángeles malos, como los hombres malos, son enteramente prácticos. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
601:Los Angeles: where dreams go to make movies about themselves dying. ~ Liz Feldman, #NFDB
602:«Los cerebros son como los corazones, van donde se les aprecia». ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
603:Los futuros no realizados son sólo ramas del pasado: ramas secas. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
604:Los grandes conquistadores y estrategas no eran precisamente mujeres. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
605:Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes. ~ Isaac Newton, #NFDB
606:Los huesos se sueldan. El arrepentimiento perdura para siempre ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
607:Los humanos son vulnerables porque son capaces de ser heridos ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
608:Los ojos son ciegos. Hace falta buscar con el corazón. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
609:Los que están sanos no necesitan médico, sino los que están enfermos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
610:Los que padecéis porque amáis, amad más aún. Morir de amor es vivir ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
611:Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
612:Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
613:No dejes que la desaprobación de los demás dicte tus actos. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
614:Pero los aniversarios son las grandes puertas de la estupidez... ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
615:Si leyera lo mismo que los demás, acabaría pensando como ellos. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
616:Si uno es ciego, ¿podrá ayudar a los demás a cruzar a la otra orilla? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
617:Te curarás, Elena. Y entonces te enseñaré cómo bailan los ángeles. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
618:Todos los juegos son limpios si todo el mundo es engañado a la vez ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
619:Y entonces los cascabeles se convierten en lágrimas... ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
620:Yo no temo a Dios. A mí lo que me da miedo son los hombres. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
621:A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
622:Añadiré —Dalí me lo hizo observar— que los surrealistas eran guapos. ~ Luis Bu uel, #NFDB
623:El silencio sigue siendo el mejor antídoto para los desacuerdos. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
624:Es natural que le guste el rock pesado si tiene plomo en los pies. ~ Enrique Serna, #NFDB
625:hay en los hombres más cosas dignas de admiración que de desprecio. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
626:I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. ~ Sebastian Bach, #NFDB
627:La ética -dijo- se imagina que los médicos somos de palo. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
628:La gente no quiere oír hablar de la muerte. De los horrores. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
629:La música, la luz de la luna y los sueños son mis armas mágicas. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
630:La nostalgia desgasta y aniquila, es el vicio de los desterrados. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
631:Las dudas matas mas sueños que los que han matado nunca los errores. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
632:Las marcas que los humanos dejan también son muy a menudo cicatrices. ~ John Green, #NFDB
633:Las musas tenían por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban. ~ Katherine Neville, #NFDB
634:La vida es muy corta para ser la misma persona todos los días. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
635:Los grandes acontecimientos a menudo avanzan sobre pequeñas ruedas. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
636:Los huesos se sueldan. El arrepentimiento perdura para siempre. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
637:Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna. ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
638:Los lamentos no son sino el deseo de abrir aún más la herida. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
639:Los libros están para recordarnos lo tontos y estúpidos que fuimos. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
640:Los nombres se sufren, los apodos siempre se eligen con mayor acierto. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
641:los ritos de iniciación confieren un carácter definitivo e imborrable; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
642:Necesitas de los recuerdos para mantener vivas las cosas del pasado. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
643:¿No es la descortesía con todos los demás, la misma esencia del amor ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
644:Nunca escucharás las palabras de los otros. Tendrás que vivirlas. ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
645:Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles. ~ Rona Barrett, #NFDB
646:Rara vez deja de haber ironía incluso en el mayor de los horrores. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
647:relamiéndose los labios como si aquello le pareciese un chiste ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
648:Se abusa del poder porque albergamos deseos feos, herencia de los animales. ~ Osho, #NFDB
649:Se manda sobre las acciones pero no sobre los sentimientos. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
650:Tal vez los enemigos que nunca ha tenido han decidido reunirse. ~ Alejandro Zambra, #NFDB
651:A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
652:«Como el agua apaga el fuego llameante, la limosna perdona los pecados» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
653:¿Cuál es la pregunta más importante que los humanos deberán responder? ~ John Green, #NFDB
654:El que no tiene temor ante los hechos tampoco tiene miedo a la palabra. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
655:en el amor los silencios suelen ser más elocuentes que las palabras. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
656:Es con estas pequeñas desgracias como los niños se van haciendo adultos ~ Quim Monz, #NFDB
657:Hay que desconfiar de los tipos que te meten la nariz en la boca. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
658:I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
659:la amistad, la de verdad, es uno de los tesoros más bien preciados. ~ Lorena Franco, #NFDB
660:La coherencia, señora, es el principal de los deberes cristianos. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
661:«la naturaleza confunde á los pirrónicos, y la razon á los dogmáticos.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
662:Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
663:Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
664:Los adultos no deberían llorar. No tienen una madre que los consuele. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
665:Los chismes son magia negra de la peor clase, porque son puro veneno. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
666:Los escritores quizá tengan esa necesidad de más de una realidad. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
667:Los ideales pertenecen a un mundo que sólo el sabio puede entender ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
668:Los infrasoles (Drummond diría los alegres muchachos proletarios). ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
669:«Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo». ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
670:los “medios” de hoy son en realidad un conjunto de técnicas de software ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
671:Los monumentos elevados al ingenio sobreviven a los elevados al poder ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
672:Los nombres son importantes porque dicen mucho sobre la persona. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
673:Los Perez son a la guía telefónica lo que los chinos a la población mundial ~ Quino, #NFDB
674:Los sueños son para los que duermen, a nosotros nos toca vivir. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
675:Não falemos do passado! (...) Os mortos deixemo-los dormir em paz. ~ Jos de Alencar, #NFDB
676:No has solicitado el ingreso, pero la tribu de los ancianos te reclama. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
677:No todo lo pueden los inmortales: antes alcanzan los hombres el abismo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
678:Para los optimistas el futuro es bienvenido; los pesimistas lo temen. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
679:¿Resucitan los muertos? Los libros dicen que no, la noche grita que sí ~ John Fante, #NFDB
680:Sólo el silencio puede sustentar el avance de los supervivientes. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
681:Son los momentos en los que al dejar de juzgar surge la pura armonía. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
682:Uno tiene que cometer sus propios errores, no los de los demás. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
683:¿Y, en ese caso, qué? ¿Cómo podría revertir los posibles daños?». ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
684:¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
685:A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las páginas impresas. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
686:Del orden accidental, en todo caso, surgen los mejores hallazgos. ~ Valeria Luiselli, #NFDB
687:Dios mío, dame paciencia o te juro que éste hoy se traga los dientes ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
688:El mundo es más brillante con la felicidad de los niños y niñas ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
689:El orgullo y los halagos con frecuencia nublan nuestra razón. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
690:El poder de los jefes reside en la tristeza de los disciplinados. ~ Emmanuelle Arsan, #NFDB
691:estar abierto a los problemas es el primer paso para aprender de ellos. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
692:I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be. ~ Corey Haim, #NFDB
693:Los dos mayores misterios de la naturaleza son la mente y el universo. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
694:Los franciscanos decimos: no poseemos nada, todo lo tenemos en uso. Él ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
695:Los secretos Sufis son percibidos, no entendidos a través de palabras. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
696:¿Los sordos pueden oír los latidos de su propio corazón, frau Elena? ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
697:Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. ~ Farrah Fawcett, #NFDB
698:Me diste un para siempre dentro de los días numerados y estoy agradecida ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
699:Música, melancólico alimento del alma para los que vivimos de amor. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
700:No temas a los enemigos que te atacan. Teme a los amigos que te adulan". ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
701:Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to los Estados Unidos.’” There ~ Carmen Amato, #NFDB
702:»Roma se tapa los oídos cuando te oye; y el mundo se ríe de ti. ~ Henryk Sienkiewicz, #NFDB
703:Supongo que uno no puede prever los inconvenientes de la soledad. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
704:Te enfrentas a tu miedo todos los días. No conozco a nadie tan valiente. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
705:Tenemos que seguir viviendo, a pesar de todos los cielos desplomados. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
706:This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. ~ Jeffrey Jones, #NFDB
707:Un trato era un trato, y este lo llevaba en la sangre y en los huesos. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
708:A los ídolos no hay que tocarlos: se queda el dorado en las manos. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
709:A los norteamericanos les chifla ver cómo se disculpan los pecadores. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
710:A missile from North Korea would take 38 minutes to reach Los Angeles. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
711:¡Aprenderás a masticar los cataclismos, pequeño, y te los tragarás! ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
712:Así que cierras los ojos y recuerdas cosas. A veces está bien hacer eso ~ Sally Green, #NFDB
713:Bueno, el tiempo es el viejo juez que interroga a los culpables ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
714:Con el tiempo, incluso los malos recuerdos se disfrazan de blanco ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
715:Cuando uno se escapa a un desierto el silencio te grita en los oídos. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
716:Dios es un jugador de snooker. Por eso todos los planetas giran! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
717:El brillo ha sido vuestra paz, vuestra prosperidad, no la de los demás. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
718:El que tiene fe en si mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
719:Hay personas que viven al margen de esos estándares y son los innovadores ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
720:I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. ~ Beth Henley, #NFDB
721:La edad no es la huida de los años, sino el amanecer de la sabiduría. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
722:La gente le tiene muchísimo más miedo a las palabras que a los cañones ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
723:La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas. ~ Laura Esquivel, #NFDB
724:las almas en pena se identifican y se atraen para asustar a los vivos. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
725:las experiencias de vida cambian los significados de los libros. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
726:La vida práctica siempre me ha parecido el menos cómodo de los suicidios. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
727:Lo que mata es la soledad, los recuerdos son peores que las balas ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
728:Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía. ~ Ildefonso Falcones, #NFDB
729:-Los ideales pertenecen a un mundo que sólo el sabio puede entender. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
730:—Los libros se escriben para hacerse oír, no para quedarse callados. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
731:Los pequeños pasos paulatinos son el único camino seguro hacia delante. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
732:...Los quizás podían retorcer cosas que en realidad nunca existieron ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
733:Me elogió los cuadros de tal manera que comprendí que los detestaba. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
734:No hay que tocar a los ídolos: su dorado se nos queda en las manos ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
735:Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
736:para verte como yo quería era necesario empezar por cerrar los ojos, ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
737:Por el amor de Dios, la virgen y todos los santos habidos y por haber ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
738:Porque los que luchan contra el mal son los soldados de D•os. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
739:Quien conoce a los otros es sabio; quien se conoce a sí mismo es iluminado. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
740:¿Quiénes se creen los demás para decidir cómo han de ser nuestras vidas? ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
741:Tú sabes cómo se aprecia el despotismo en los placeres que gozamos. ~ Marquis de Sade, #NFDB
742:You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away. ~ Brooke Fraser, #NFDB
743:cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
744:Cuando fracasan, incluso los mejores proyectos parecen estúpidos. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
745:cuando una envejece, todos los recuerdos pesan, incluso los más felices. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
746:El orgullo y los halagos con frecuencia nublan nuestra razón... ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
747:En los días más oscuros, el Señor pone a las mejores personas en tu vida. ~ John Green, #NFDB
748:If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles? ~ Pat Paulsen, #NFDB
749:La gente cambia, los amigos se van y la vida no se detiene por nadie ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
750:las sensaciones de bienestar surgen en los momentos más extraños... ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
751:Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
752:Los Angeles is like San Diego’s older, uglier sister that has herpes. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
753:Los hombres son más interesantes en los libros que en la vida real. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
754:–Los mejores líderes dejan que su gente haga lo que mejor sabe hacer. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
755:Los muebles crujen. El cuerpo. La necesidad de darlo, la de amar. ~ Alejandra Pizarnik, #NFDB
756:Los placeres de la viudedad solo duran hasta que te vuelves a casar. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
757:Muchas veces, los hechos hablan tan claramente que no precisan palabras. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
758:Necesitaba detalles: me emocionan los detalles, no las generalidades. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
759:¿No volverán a juntarse nunca los pedazos que nos hicieron posibles? ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
760:Para contemplar la belleza de Layla hay que tener los ojos de Majnún. ~ Nizami Ganjavi, #NFDB
761:Para los vanidosos todos los demás hombres son admiradores. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
762:pero el vino de la agonía estaba servido y ahora había que beberlo. Los ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
763:Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro. ~ Giovanni Papini, #NFDB
764:Pero no es un libro sobre cáncer, los libros sobre cáncer son una mierda. ~ John Green, #NFDB
765:¿Podéis creerlo? La tumba tiene más poder que los ojos de la amada. ~ Vicente Huidobro, #NFDB
766:Según Confucio, el sabio olvida las ofensas como un ingrato los favores ~ Kerstin Gier, #NFDB
767:«se podría meter un camión por los agujeros de nuestros protocolos». ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
768:Siempre acabamos llegando a donde nos esperan. LIBRO DE LOS ITINERARIOS ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
769:Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotros no podemos amar? ~ Laura Gallego Garc a, #NFDB
770:Todos los que viven cometen la falta de hacer diferencias demasiado netas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:Vendrán las iguanas vivas a morder a los hombres que no sueñan ~ Federico Garc a Lorca, #NFDB
772:a fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
773:Ahorro en la comida, en el agua, en el fuego y en los adjetivos. ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB
774:-A la mierda Los Vengadores -replicó Daemon- Necesitamos a Loki ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
775:Dame gente con habilidades blandas, que yo después los actualizo’. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
776:Dormir era precisamente abrir los ojos, desde un paisaje inmóvil. ~ Carmen Mart n Gaite, #NFDB
777:Doy gracias a mi lentitud. Casi todos los novelistas escriben demasiado. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
778:El amor se deteriora, los humanos fracasan, las eras concluyen. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
779:El Paraíso está aquí; siempre y cuando uno sepa cómo armar los fragmentos. ~ Jos Donoso, #NFDB
780:El valor de las omisiones, las que mantienen a salvo a los que amas. ~ Eva Garc a S enz, #NFDB
781:En todos los tiempos, el hombre honrado es un cobarde y un esclavo ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
782:Es autor de tres superventas entre los que figura The Power of Broke. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
783:es decir, entre los fundadores y los inversores que conforman el consejo. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
784:gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los dem ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
785:I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly. ~ John Larroquette, #NFDB
786:La promesa de dinero logra que los seres humanos hagan cosas horribles. ~ Julie Hockley, #NFDB
787:Las grandes oportunidades no se ven con los ojos sino con la mente. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
788:Lo mismo vale para los otros mercados Long Tail que hemos considerado: ~ Chris Anderson, #NFDB
789:lo que he dicho es que no todo el mundo debe seguir los mismos pasos. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
790:Los errores son imprescindibles para dar con aciertos y progresar. ~ Christophe Galfard, #NFDB
791:Los errores son siempre perdonables, si se tiene la valentía de admitirlos. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
792:los incas de la nobleza rara vez tenían consideraciones con su pueblo. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
793:Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
794:Los malos recuerdos te persiguen sin necesidad de llevarlos contigo ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
795:Los niños deben ser muy indulgentes con las personas grandes ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
796:...los pesimistas viven más de lo que quisieran. Esa es su condena. ~ Bernardo Esquinca, #NFDB
797:Los planes razonables nunca funcionan. Solo los demenciales tienen éxito. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
798:Los que habían sobrevivido eran precisamente los que no se permitían vivir. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
799:-Pero los ojos son ciegos. Hay que buscar con el corazón. Yo ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
800:—Pero los ojos son ciegos. Hay que buscar con el corazón. Yo ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
801:Por el amor, que nos deja ver a los otros como los ve la divinidad. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
802:[…] porque, aunque no lo amaba, él aman por los dos y eso los salvaba. ~ Paolo Giordano, #NFDB
803:Quien cree en las palabras de un dictador es el rey de los tontos! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
804:Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
805:Un escritor no es quien resuelve los problemas, sino quien los plantea. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
806:un poeta puede conocer en profundidad al hombre pero muy mal a los hombres; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
807:9Teman al SEÑOR, ustedes sus santos, pues nada les falta a los que le temen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
808:actué exactamente como Voldemort espera que actuemos los locos que amamos. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
809:A finales de noviembre los días llegaron a tener cuarenta horas. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
810:Creo que los postres son como sueños que hacen felices a las personas ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
811:De los sufrimientos, los que más afligen, son los que uno mismo ha escogido. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
812:Dicen que los cobardes mueren muchas veces: eso les pasa a los seres amados. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
813:Dicho del Profeta
Reflexión
Los Fieles son espejos, unos para otros. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
814:El anhelo puede venir hacia una persona en los momentos más inoportunos. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
815:El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman. ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
816:Esto no significa ver los problemas, aceptarlos y dejar que degeneren. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
817:Hay personas que pueden herir a los demás por el mero hecho de existir ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
818:I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day. ~ Ree Drummond, #NFDB
819:I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary. ~ Dan Fogelberg, #NFDB
820:La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
821:—Las escuelas solo son un complemento de la enseñanza de los padres. En ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
822:Los ángeles son los poderes ocultos en las facultades y órganos del hombre ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
823:Los católicos siempre están intentando saber si tú también eres católico. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
824:Los conocimientos importantes conllevan importantes responsabilidades. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
825:Los Diamantes no son la unica coso que prefiero en tamaño extra, Teniente-Kat ~ Jo Davis, #NFDB
826:los niños. Siempre son más perceptivos. Todavía no han aprendido a no ver. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
827:Los ojos que miran son muy comunes, pero los ojos que ven son muy raros”. ~ Myles Munroe, #NFDB
828:Los payasos son hombres tristes; es la gente la que se ríe de ellos. —Bien, ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
829:Los placeres más simples de nuestra vida son nuestras mayores alegrías. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
830:Los que disfrutan pateando perros, siempre encontrarán perros que patear. ~ Sue Harrison, #NFDB
831:No te pongas años de más, sabandijilla, que ya te los pondrá la vida ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
832:Para el inteligente y con suerte, todos los caminos están abiertos! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
833:Pero el problema de ser rara radicaba en que los demás eran normales ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
834:Pero los Sufis trabajan EN el mundo, y por lo tanto CON 'cosas del mundo'. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
835:(...) porque en el mundo, (...) todos los que viven sueÑan. ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca, #NFDB
836:Que ayudes siempre a los demás y que dejes a los demás ayudarte4. Bob Dylan ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
837:«Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.» ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
838:Tan malo como el tabaco para los pulmones es el rencor para el alma; ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
839:Un líder cobarde es el más peligroso de los hombres.
Julia Shumway ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
840:vive conmigo un día y una noche y te mostraré el origen de todos los poemas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
841:Y, además, los mejores sentimientos acaban por desgastarse, todo se degrada. ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
842:Anhelo los signos de exclamación, pero me ahogo en los puntos suspensivos. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
843:—Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas ~ Edward Rutherfurd, #NFDB
844:Dicho del Profeta
Reflejo
Los creyentes son espejos, unos para otros. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
845:El que cree en las palabras de un dictador es el rey de los idiotas! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
846:En los días más oscuros el Señor te pone en el camino a las mejores personas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
847:En todos los tiempos, el hombre honrado fue un cobarde y un esclavo. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
848:Es imposible no terminar siendo como los otros creen que uno es. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
849:Evitar los problemas es un problema. La negación del fracaso es un fracaso. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
850:Hay aquí un individuo que, si hablo, me robaría los pensamientos. ~ Torcuato Luca de Tena, #NFDB
851:Hay personas que pueden herir a los demás por el mero hecho de existir. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
852:Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year. ~ Rex Reed, #NFDB
853:La guerra sólo le sirve a los amos de la guerra y a los camposantos! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
854:La santidad es lo que agrada a los dioses, y la impiedad es lo que les desagrada. ~ Plato, #NFDB
855:Las mujeres van tras lo que quieren, los hombres terminan como los tontos. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
856:¡Los gritos nunca me han asustado y los de los cobardes aún menos! ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
857:Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son. ~ Eduardo Sacheri, #NFDB
858:Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
859:Los libros no valen más que en la medida en que nos enseñan a amar ~ Andr Comte Sponville, #NFDB
860:Los más cercanos al líder determinarán el nivel de éxito de dicho líder. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
861:Los planes son sólo eso, planes. Pero la vida no siempre les hace caso. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
862:Los que no cambian nunca de opinión deben cerciorarse bien antes de juzgar. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
863:Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe — ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
864:Los riachuelos que nos refrescan, ¿no son producidos por las tormentas? ~ Thomas Bernhard, #NFDB
865:los roles individuales no pueden permanecer estáticos durante mucho tiempo. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
866:«Los sueños se realizan cuando mantenemos nuestro compromiso con ellos». ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
867:Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
868:Ni una sola vez luché por los iraquíes. Ellos no me importaban ni un carajo. ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
869:Pasan trenes todos los días, pero eso no significa que tengamos que cogerlos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
870:Pero no sé qué ganará con verme. Hago mal a todos los que se me acercan. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
871:Quería a alguien que la hiciera olvidar todos los labios que había conocido. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
872:¿Sabe que los libros huelen a nuez moscada o a especias de países lejanos? ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
873:Si quieres cambiar los frutos, tendrás que modificar primero las raíces. Si ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
874:»Son los hombres quienes no interpretaron bien las palabras de los sabios. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
875:Tu riqueza está en tu esencia: Quien eres, los talentos con los que naciste. ~ Mabel Katz, #NFDB
876:verdad es que las mujeres que crían deben traer los pechos ligeros de sacar". ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
877:Y los humanos piensan. Planean. Sueñan y después hacen realidad los sueños. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
878:4 Los pensamientos se extienden al compartirse, pues no se pueden perder. ~ Helen Schucman, #NFDB
879:al cabo de los siglos, todas las cosas recuperarán su estado anterior, ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
880:Cuanto más leía, más insondables le parecían los abismos de su ignorancia. ~ Enrique Serna, #NFDB
881:Dios no solo juega a los dados, a veces los tira donde no se pueden ver. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
882:El miedo al amor es uno de los mayores miedos que padecen los seres humanos. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
883:El mundo era un cuchillo inmenso esperando a hundirse en los corazones blandos ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
884:En la hermosura caminaré; todo el día caminaré; pasarán los años y caminaré. ~ Jen Minkman, #NFDB
885:En los días más oscuros el Señor te pone en el camino a las mejores personas. ~ John Green, #NFDB
886:En nuestro barrio, cuando tienes trece años ya sabes dónde están los límites. ~ S E Hinton, #NFDB
887:Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve... ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
888:—Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
889:Hay cosas que nos hacen envejecer más que el trascurso de los años... ~ Ildefonso Falcones, #NFDB
890:Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años. ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
891:Hipócrates[207], tras sanar muchas enfermedades, enfermó él y murió. Los ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
892:I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas. ~ Jamie Lynn Sigler, #NFDB
893:La autopsia al final de una velada era uno de los rasgos de su vida conyugal. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
894:La fuerza de los fantasmas, sin embargo, reside precisamente en su irrealidad. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
895:Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
896:Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB
897:Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. ~ Ice T, #NFDB
898:Los años arrugan la piel, pero renunciar al entusiasmo arruga el alma. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
899:— Los barriletes son juegos de varones.
— Los juguetes no tienen sexo. ~ Silvina Ocampo,#NFDB
900:Los hombres son todos iguales, cuando se sienten mal, no quieren reconocerlo. ~ Robin Cook, #NFDB
901:Los ojos son las únicas manos que nos van quedando a unos cuantos, bonita ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
902:Los ojos son las unicas manos que nos van quedanso a unos cuantos, bonita ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
903:Los recuerdos son una carga inútil y el pasado está hecho de recuerdos. La ~ Mario Escobar, #NFDB
904:Los sueños son verdad mientras duran, y nosotros, ¿no vivimos en sueños? ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
905:Melito representa los poetas, Anito los políticos y artistas y Licon los oradores. ~ Plato, #NFDB
906:No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
907:No hay fenómenos de moral, hay interpretación moral de los fenómenos ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
908:No importa lo que digan los demás; lo único importante es mantenerse en pie. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
909:No podía hacer nada contra la atracción que ejercían los libros sobre ella. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
910:No te compadezcas de ti mismo. Eso sólo lo hacen los mediocres.-Nagasawa ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
911:Para alcanzar todos los deseos, mira hacia allá, mira la luz. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
912:pero no puedes juzgar a quién amas más por la cantidad de tiempo que los amas. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
913:) ¿Por qué los británicos y franceses se repartieron el Medio Oriente en 1916? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
914:¿Qué mejor manera de pasar los últimos días del mundo que enamorándose? ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
915:Si dejamos de aferrarnos al pasado, hacemos lugar para los milagros. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
916:Si tienes la necesidad de que te maltraten, será fácil que los demás lo hagan. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
917:Son los días malos los que hacen que los buenos sean todavía mejores. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
918:«Tienen suerte los gobernantes de que los hombres no piensen.» Adolf Hitler ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
919:Uno de los más fornidos salta al ruedo. «Inche Caupolicán!», se presenta. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
920:Y al final mostrarán su verdadero color, eso es lo que hacen los animales. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
921:Yo también creía que por París uno podía hacer todos los sacrificios. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
922:Y si no respetamos la libertad de elegir de los demás, la paz no es posible. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
923:Al dividirse las fuerzas de los viracochas, como llamaban a los españoles, ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
924:Al principio, todos los caminos parecen interminables; pero no lo son! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
925:Aunque lo parezca, no fingimos ante los otros, fingimos ante nosotros mismos ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
926:Creo que a los humanos les gusta contemplar la destrucción a pequeña escala. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
927:Dime si la luz es el reino de lo oscuro como es la noche el día de los astros ~ Clara Jan s, #NFDB
928:El colapso financiero de 1929: ¿Por qué hubo una gran depresión en los años 30? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
929:El cuerpo humano no está hecho para los años que uno podría vivir. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
930:El dinero es como los hombres, si se queda a dormir te jode la existencia. ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
931:En casi todos los mercados hay más bienes de nicho que productos de éxito. ~ Chris Anderson, #NFDB
932:en los negocios, el equilibrio significa estasis, y estasis significa muerte. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
933:En los ojos de la gente puede verse lo que verán, no lo que han visto. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
934:Es así como suelen hablar los locos; nadie puede desviarlos de sus ideas fijas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
935:-Estoy intentando pensar como los ancianos que están más tristes que yo ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
936:Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
937:I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press. ~ Mary Louise Parker, #NFDB
938:La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
939:La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa
hasta pulverizarse los ojos. ~ Alejandra Pizarnik,#NFDB
940:La tarea del educador moderno no es podar las selvas, sino regar los desiertos. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
941:La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás... ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
942:La vida bella y efímera, como los altares de flores y los amores de paso. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
943:La vida práctica siempre me ha parecido el menos cómodo de los suicidios. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
944:Los adultos somos insensatos y descuidados cuando subestimamos a los jóvenes. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
945:Los colombianos constantemente buscaban excusas para verter más sangre. De ~ Jaime Manrique, #NFDB
946:los hombres a circunstancias jamás imaginadas siquiera en los peores desvaríos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
947:Los humanos podemos resultar difíciles cuando sufrimos por un ser querido ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
948:—Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
949:Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
950:los miembros de Creekside Community también se estaban dañando a sí mismos. ~ Steve Corbett, #NFDB
951:«los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros», ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela, #NFDB
952:Los nombres y las palabras son vestiduras muy pobres para nuestras experiencias ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
953:Los pensamientos pueden dejar cicatrices más profundas que ninguna otra cosa. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
954:«Los pingüinos son, en esencia, salchichas emplumadas para osos polares.» ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
955:Los que critican el amor son sobre todo aquellos que más lo necesitan. ~ Fr d ric Beigbeder, #NFDB
956:My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week. ~ Paula Fox, #NFDB
957:Ni todas las aguas del mundo pueden apagar el amor, ni los diluvios hundirlo ~ Ruth Rendell, #NFDB
958:No dejes que los planes que tienes para ti sean más importantes que tú mismo ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
959:para comprobar una vez más que los síntomas del amor son los mismos del cólera. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
960:Pasé de los insultos al silencio. Eran menos dolorosos los primeros. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
961:Primero los padres te dan la vida, pero luego intentan imponerte la suya. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
962:Reducir las necesidades al mínimo, para no depender en nada de los demás. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
963:«Se tomaron todos los cunchos que había en la casa», dijo Mallarino. ~ Juan Gabriel V squez, #NFDB
964:Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
965:Tal vez las mujeres necesitasen más a los hombres que los hombres a las mujeres ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
966:Vi a mi padre aterrado, que era como si te quitaran el suelo de los pies. ~ Juan Jos Mill s, #NFDB
967:ya no podemos tomarnos en serio al Gobierno, al Govern ni a los demás partidos, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
968:-Algunas cosas no deberían olvidarse.
-Los recuerdos nunca son inútiles. ~ Gennifer Albin,#NFDB
969:Creo que parte de mi amor a la vida se lo debo a mi amor a los libros. ~ Adolfo Bioy Casares, #NFDB
970:«Cuando desaparece algo suele desaparecer ahí, en el abismo de los ojos.» ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
971:Cuando los adultos se aplican, superan siemrpe un nuevo umbral de crueldad ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
972:El origen de los conocimientos no está en los hechos, sino en la curiosidad. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
973:El peor de los asesinatos es el que termina matando nuestra alegría de vivir. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
974:Era de los que no se lo creían todo pero, en el fondo, deseaban hacerlo. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
975:Exponer los errores no significa actuar sin amor, sino ser bíblico, lo ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
976:Fuimos llamados para ser los arquitectos del futuro, no sus víctimas. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
977:Hay que rendirse a la evidencia, no soy yo el muerto, sino todos los demás. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
978:»Hay que soportar el viento de los dioses / y sus trabajos sin queja«[357] ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
979:If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
980:I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen, #NFDB
981:In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something. ~ Eva Green, #NFDB
982:Katie habia aprendido que los instantes eran simplemente eso: una ilusion. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
983:la ceguera es una cuestión privada entra la persona y los ojos con que nació. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
984:La culpa es de uno cuando no enamora, y no de los pretextos ni del tiempo. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
985:La libertad pertenece al orden de los relámpagos, no al de la luz eléctrica. ~ Jacques Ellul, #NFDB
986:La manía por el absurdo y la paradoja es la alegría animal de los tristes. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
987:La naturaleza hizo libres a los humanos sin reparar en el color de la piel. ~ Matilde Asensi, #NFDB
988:-La plata y la estaca me romperán el corazón, mas los hombres jamás me herirán. ~ Kim Newman, #NFDB
989:Las mujeres juegan con su belleza como los niños con un cuchillo, y se hieren. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
990:los damnificados no pueden causar molestias, porque son pobres y están aislados, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
991:los enigmas más terribles, para no revelarse como tales, se disfrazan de locura. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
992:Los equipos optimizan el potencial de un líder y minimizan sus debilidades. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
993:Los hombres inseguros suelen sentirse amenazados por las mujeres poderosas. ~ Louise O Neill, #NFDB
994:Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
995:Los pechos arrugados de las viejas se movían bajo los chalecos de cuero pintado, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
996:Los problemas sin solucionar no son mudos… gritan como una jodida hiena. ~ El sabet Benavent, #NFDB
997:Los que son amados no pueden morir,
Porque amor significa inmortalidad. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
998:Los tangos están hechos por pedazos de vida que han sobrevivido por casualidad ~ John Berger, #NFDB
999:No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los sueños y olvidarse de vivir, recuérdalo. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1000:No hay puerto seguro; Sólo hay puertos en los que nos sentimos seguros. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1001:Para el Mazo de la Mente Superior, los cielos son la bola más pequeña posible. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1002:Para lectores de todo el mundo que están aprendiendo inglés y los niños que leen ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1003:Para una nubera, los años eran breves como silbidos si la aguardaba el amor. ~ Liliana Bodoc, #NFDB
1004:¿Se puede saber, en nombre de los calzones más andrajosos de Merlín, qué te ha ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1005:Solo el hombre con mente libre puede alcanzar los infinitos horizontes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1006:Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
1007:Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón? ~ Ernesto Che Guevara, #NFDB
1008:Todos los pensamientos basados en el propio yo tienden a limitar la vasta mente. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1009:Uno acaba convirtiéndose en aquello que ve en los ojos de quienes desea. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1010:12Este es mi mandamiento: Que os améis los unos á los otros, como yo os he amado. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1011:12Yo, la sabiduría, habito con la discreción, Y hallo la ciencia de los consejos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1012:«Allí donde se dirige la atención, fluye la energía y aparecen los resultados». ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1013:Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
1014:Creo que a veces no sentimos todo lo que somos, pero los demás sí lo notan. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1015:Cuando tenemos los grandes tesoros delante de nosotros, nunca los reconocemos. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1016:Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza
Paciencia: un soporte para los decepcionados. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1017:Dicho del Profeta
Mujeres
Las mujeres son la mitad gemela de los hombres. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1018:El joven la miró a los ojos. —Ayor anosh’ni —murmuró en una voz casi inaudible. ~ Jen Minkman, #NFDB
1019:Ella por lo general se daba excelentes consejos (aunque rara vez los seguía), ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1020:El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1021:El privilegio de los grandes animales es ser muy dueños de su estado de humor. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1022:El Señor me ayuda y no temeré nada que los hombres puedan hacerme”. —HEBREOS 13:6 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1023:¿En qué momento dejamos de ser los cazadores para convertirnos en presas? ~ Juan Gomez Jurado, #NFDB
1024:Entendiste que las pequeñas cosas son las responsables de los grandes cambios. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1025:has gastado los años y te han gastado, y todavía no has escrito el poema. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1026:I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn. ~ Greg Evigan, #NFDB
1027:I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time. ~ Joan Juliet Buck, #NFDB
1028:Jugar a Los Sims sería mucho más fácil si tuviera un portátil actualizado. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
1029:la enorme mayoría de los artistas deberá buscar el éxito por sí mismos”, ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1030:La guerrilla se beneficia sobre todo del rutinario incumplimiento de los acuerdos ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1031:La sabiduría excluye la audacia... Por eso los buhos no son buenos héroes. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1032:Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1033:Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1034:Las mentiras de los débiles nos vuelven insensibles al sufrimiento de los demás. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1035:Las recompensas por los avances son más eficaces que los castigos por los errores ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1036:La vida es misteriosa, los dioses caprichosos y nosotros inconstantes. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
1037:Lo imposible es el fantasma de los tímidos y el refugio de los cobardes. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
1038:Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys. ~ Marge Piercy, #NFDB
1039:Los argumentos contra la locura caen con un leve sonido ahogado capa sobre capa.. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1040:Los crueles son los debiles; la bondad sólo puede esperarse de los fuertes. ~ Leo F Buscaglia, #NFDB
1041:Los humanos buscan respuestas constantemente.
Pero saben que no hay ninguna. ~ Noah Cicero,#NFDB
1042:Los moribundos son egoístas; se guardan sus momentos para sí, como los niños. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
1043:Los pensamientos podrían dejar cicatrices más profundas que cualquier otra cosa ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1044:Los que matan en la guerra deberían celebrar cada conquista con un funeral. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
1045:Los secretos son mentiras.
Compartir es querer.
La privacidad es un robo. ~ Dave Eggers,#NFDB
1046:-Medio penique por cabeza. Eso es. Los que no tengan cabeza entran gratis. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1047:Me gustan los hombres que conocen el valor de las palabras y no las derrochan. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
1048:mi conclusión es que la mayoría de los padres no conocen realmente a sus hijos.» ~ John Green, #NFDB
1049:No es para los imbéciles para quienes el gran idealista soñó su armonía! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1050:Pero los hijos lo ignoramos todo sobre los padres, o tardamos en interesarnos ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
1051:—¡Queremos abolir a Dios! —declaró Gregory abriendo los ojos con fanatismo—. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1052:Se poseen los objetos, no los sujetos. Los sujetos desean y elijen por sí mismos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1053:SOLDADO COMPTON: Anda allá, Harry. Dale una en el ojo. Está a favor de los bóers. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1054:Son nuestros secretos los que nos definen, y no la cara que mostramos al mundo. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1055:Un gran hombre demuestra su grandeza por la forma en que trata a los pequeños ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1056:Y como Black Leclère era también un demonio, los dos formaban una buena pareja. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1057:Y el principito añadió: —Pero los ojos son ciegos. Hay que buscar con el corazón. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1058:18Si es posible, en cuanto de ustedes dependa, estén en paz con todos los hombres. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1059:19Vale más humillarse con los oprimidos que compartir el botín con los orgullosos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1060:7Él reserva su ayuda para la gente íntegra y protege a los de conducta intachable. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1061:«Abrid los ojos y observad todo lo que podáis antes de cerrarlos para siempre» ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1062:Acaso el mejor conversador del mundo es aquel que ayuda a hablar a los demás. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1063:A él no le importaba en absoluto lo que pensaran los demás. Él era quien era. Esa ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
1064:A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1065:Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1066:Benditos sean los olvidadizos pues superan, incluso, sus propios errores ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1067:Bienaventurados los pobres en espíritu, porque de ellos es el reino de los cielos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1068:Como el resto del mundo, los médicos deberán adaptarse o se extinguirán”, ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1069:Comprendo la Palabra, y los medios por los que opera, y de esta forma me disuelvo ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
1070:Ejército, matrimonio, Iglesia y banca: los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1071:El aburrimiento es el mal de aquellos para los que el tiempo no tiene valor. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
1072:El mar lo devuelve todo después de un tiempo, especialmente los recuerdos. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1073:El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1074:En nuestra sociedad los que trabajan no adquieren y los que adquieren no trabajan. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1075:!Hablas como los adultos!;!Lo Confundes todo...No sabes distinguir! ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1076:Hasta los ateos nos encomendamos a Dios antes que encomendarnos a la policía ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
1077:If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn. ~ Marisa de los Santos, #NFDB
1078:I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air. ~ Marc Maron, #NFDB
1079:In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. ~ Delia Ephron, #NFDB
1080:La Historia demuestra que, a veces, de los incendios y el degüello nacen Venecias. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1081:La memoria es engañosa porque está coloreada por los acontecimientos de hoy. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1082:Las cosas más terribles que hacen los hombres, las hacen en nombre del amor. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1083:Las cosas simples son las más extraordinarias, y sólo los sabios consiguen verlas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1084:l día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo, ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1085:Los ejércitos en sí mismos no son malos, lo que son malas son las guerras. ~ Juan Gomez Jurado, #NFDB
1086:los más débiles son los que más gritan y los que más hacen sufrir a los demás. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
1087:Los terrenos bajos son húmedos, lo cual provoca enfermedades y dificulta el combate. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1088:Los viajes por el camino del recuerdo nunca son buenos cuando se está deprimido ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1089:Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1090:Nada consume tanto a una persona como los esfuerzos innecesarios y absurdos. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1091:Porque Dulkacenllin era uno de los que había nacido donde debieron nacer diez. ~ Liliana Bodoc, #NFDB
1092:resulta muy duro en los tiempos que vivimos estar loco y ser de mediana edad ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
1093:Sabía que los pensamientos, como el vino, necesitan tiempo para clarificarse. ~ Domingo Villar, #NFDB
1094:Sólo se ve bien con el corazón. Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1095:Sus deseos son simples, pero innegociables. Los experimenta como necesidades. ~ Vivian Gornick, #NFDB
1096:tardó diez años en crear? ¿Reparaste en los bellos pergaminos de mi biblioteca? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1097:The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. ~ Phil Ochs, #NFDB
1098:The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles. ~ Sean William Scott, #NFDB
1099:Todos los mayores han sido primero niños. (Pero pocos lo recuerdan) ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1100:Únete a los que experimentan, arriesgan, caen, se hieren y vuelven a arriesgar. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1101:Uno de los hábitos de la mente es la invención de imaginaciones horribles. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1102:Uno sabe que fue feliz solo cuando ya no lo es. El hombre vive de los cambios. ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
1103:(«Bienaventurados los que tienen sueño, porque ellos se dormirán antes», Nietzsche) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1104:Cerrar los ojos y pretender que algo no sucede no hace que deje de ser verdad ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1105:¨¿De qué sirve que el más lúcido de los hombres señale el sol de noche?¨ ~ Albert S nchez Pi ol, #NFDB
1106:dicen los entendidos que el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres, ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1107:dios escribe derecho con renglones torcidos, y son esos mismos los que prefiere. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1108:El Dios de los blancos ordena el crimen. Nuestros dioses nos piden venganza. ~ Alejo Carpentier, #NFDB
1109:El reloj marca los minutos…
pero ¿y la eternidad?
¿Qué marca la eternidad? ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1110:En la tenue claridad de la luna cada uno adivinó el amor en los ojos del otro. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1111:Estas páginas son los garabatos de mi consciencia intelectual sobre mí mismo. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1112:Estoy cansada de ser lo que todos los demás han hecho de mí. Quiero ser yo misma. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1113:Jesús es la vía recta que nos salva del laberinto circular en que andan los impíos; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1114:Las convenciones siempre nos imponen su locura en los momentos menos apropiados. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
1115:Las novelas nunca las han escrito mas que los que son incapaces de vivirlas. ~ Alejandro Casona, #NFDB
1116:Les sobraban las teorías pero carecían de datos concretos en los que centrarse. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
1117:Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home. ~ Naveen Andrews, #NFDB
1118:Los corazones están marcados para siempre por nuestra verdadera naturaleza. ~ Alexandra Christo, #NFDB
1119:Los dos estaban enamorados de la música, y luego se enamoraron el uno del otro". ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1120:Los luxen no fueron las victimas en su guerra. Fueron la causa de ella. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1121:Los sueños eran acertijos inconscientes e importantes que reflejaban el alma. ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
1122:Los sueños pueden prestarse o tomarse prestados cuando la ocasión lo requiere ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1123:«No se puede tocar ni oler, pero los que la hemos visto jamás lo olvidaremos...» ~ Laura Tejada, #NFDB
1124:Pero nosotros, que comprendemos la vida, nos burlamos de los números ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1125:Se puede tratar de olvidar los recuerdos. Pero no se puede borrar la historia ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1126:«Si educamos a los niños en la barbarie serán indolentes ante el sufrimiento». ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
1127:Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago. ~ Eduardo Mendoza, #NFDB
1128:si no elegías servir a los poderosos, tendrías que pertenecer a los famélicos”. ~ Mario Escobar, #NFDB
1129:Sin palabras los seres humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos el juicio ~ Maite Carranza, #NFDB
1130:Si quieres que otros labios te sean generosos, abre también los tuyos. ~ H ctor Abad Faciolince, #NFDB
1131:Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos. ~ Guillermo Fadanelli, #NFDB
1132:Soy el silencio de los arcanos misterios; y soy el conocimiento de quienes conocen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1133:Todos los mayores han sido primero niños. (Pero pocos lo recuerdan). ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1134:un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas. ~ Michael D O Brien, #NFDB
1135:Uno de los grandes Sufis dijo: "Un santo es un santo a menos que sepa que lo es". ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1136:9 Dios bendice a los que procuran la paz, porque serán llamados hijos de Dios. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1137:Apuesto que puedes encontrar todos los misterios del universo en la mano de alguien. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1138:Comunicar los deseos imaginados y las imágenes deseadas es la tarea más ardua. ~ Giorgio Agamben, #NFDB
1139:Cualquier hombre con carácter y valor siempre ha sido inquetante para los demás. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1140:cuando juzgas a los demás sólo es una manera de no mirarnos a nosotros mismos; ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1141:Damas y caballeros, ¡que empiecen los Septuagésimos Cuartos Juegos del Hambre! ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1142:debemos alentar a los niños a que encuentren sus fuentes de automotivación. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1143:El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1144:Ella debió creer que era la luz del sol la que me llenaba los ojos de lágrimas. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
1145:El niño Dios te escrituró un establo y los veneros del petróleo el diablo. ~ Ram n L pez Velarde, #NFDB
1146:El problema, primer ministro, es que los del otro bando también saben hacer magia. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1147:El taco sudado es el Volkswagen de los tacos: práctico, bueno y económico ~ Jorge Ibarg engoitia, #NFDB
1148:El trato con los semejantes fomenta el cinismo. ¿Debería evitarlo por esa causa? ~ E M Delafield, #NFDB
1149:es en nuestros corazones donde los dioses nacen, y el lugar al que deben regresar… ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1150:hay dos clases de problemas, los que se arreglan solos y los que no tienen solución, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1151:Hay relaciones en las que las palabras dice amistad, pero los ojos gritan romance. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1152:I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. ~ Betty White, #NFDB
1153:La integridad de un hombre de bien es siempre antipática a los malvados. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
1154:la inteligencia artificial no puede emular el sentido común de los humanos, ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1155:La práctica de los Sufis es demasiado sublime como para poseer un comienzo formal. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1156:Las ciudades son experiencias provisorias que los bosques recubrirán algún día. ~ Sylvain Tesson, #NFDB
1157:Las cosas simples son las más extraordinarias y solo los sabios consiguen verlas. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1158:Las mentiras de los poderosos nos hacen desconfiar de gobiernos y grandes empresas. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1159:Los consejos son la teoría de la vida; la práctica, en general, es muy diferente. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1160:Los datos sugieren que el optimismo es algo muy extendido, pertinaz y costoso. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1161:Los hombres dicen que el tiempo pasa....el tiempo dice que los hombres mueren ~ Katherine Pancol, #NFDB
1162:Los más talentosos nunca están del todo satisfechos con lo que han logrado. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1163:Los monumentos existen para recordarle a la historia lo que tiene que pensar. ~ Carlos Monsiv is, #NFDB
1164:(Los niños... A veces son mucho más astutos que los atontados y pesados adultos.) ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1165:los pedantes, es decir, gente que conoce las cosas in abstracto pero no in concreto. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1166:Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad. ~ Nicol s G mez D vila, #NFDB
1167:—Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1168:Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1169:Los ríos, como los hombres, sólo cerca del fin acaban sabiendo para qué nacieron. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1170:Los seres nobles no pretenden apartar a los demás para abrir su propio camino. ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
1171:Medita en los principios rectores de otros[260], de qué huyen y qué persiguen. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1172:«Mirar a alguien a los ojos… suele ser el antídoto contra lo que nos enferma.» ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1173:No se ve bien sino con el corazón,lo esencial es invisible a los ojos ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1174:Nosotros contamos la verdad por cuanto en los cuentos siempre triunfa la verdad. ~ Stanis aw Lem, #NFDB
1175:Pasaban los años,y la única persona que no cambiaba era la joven de su libro ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
1176:Pero los clientes tienen una mentalidad abierta cuando se trata de categorías. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1177:Pero nosotros, que comprendemos la vida, nos burlamos de los números. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1178:Si fuéramos de naturaleza ideal, podríamos conformarnos con los movimientos del sol. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1179:Simplemente volvieron juntos a casa, con los pies doloridos y el corazón cansado. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1180:Sin la negatividad de los umbrales, sin su experiencia, se atrofia la fantasía. ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
1181:Si somos tolerantes con los demás, es más fácil aceptar nuestros propios errores. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1182:Sólo entonces comprendí que morir es no estar nunca más con los amigos. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1183:Todos los seres humanos habían, más o menos, deseado la muerte de los que amaban. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1184:una cosa buena que tiene la ignorancia es que nos defiende de los falsos saberes. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1185:451° Fahrenheit: la temperatura a la que el papel de los libros se inflama y arde. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1186:¿Acaso los robots heredarán la Tierra? Sí, pero serán nuestros hijos. MARVIN MINSKY ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1187:al recordar mis besos, podría estremecerse y decir que se los había robado.» ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1188:A veces me siento como si los libros fueran lo único que hace que valga la pena vivir ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
1189:Cada vez que las lágrimas de la abuelita caen sobre la flor, los colores cobran vida, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1190:como dice García Márquez, se parece al amor, pero sin los problemas del amor. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1191:Como Keynes dijo una vez, cuando los hechos cambian uno debe cambiar de opinión. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
1192:—Demasiados secretos son los que llevan a un hombre a la tumba antes de hora. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1193:El alma que hablar puede con los ojos también puede besar con la mirada. ~ Gustavo Adolfo B cquer, #NFDB
1194:El bosque sería muy aburrido si sólo cantaran los pájaros que mejor lo hacen. ~ lex Rovira Celma, #NFDB
1195:El ceder sin convicción no habla en favor del entendimiento de ninguno de los dos . ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1196:El color es el tacto del ojo, la música de los sordos, una palabra en la oscuridad. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
1197:El destino es el que baraja las cartas, pero nosotros somos los que jugamos ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1198:El mejor de los reconocimientos, empero, es aquel que surge de los incidentes mismos, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1199:En este momento, eres todo mi universo, brillando en todos los lugares correctos. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1200:En la vida como en la fotografía, hay que pasar los negativos a positivos ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
1201:Este arte magnífico, creado por los vándalos, ha sido asesinado por los académicos. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1202:estrellas. Pero los demonios no pueden inmiscuirse en el movimiento de las estrellas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1203:La mentira es el único privilegio del hombre sobre todos los demás animales. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1204:Las cosas simples son las más extraordinarias, y sólo los sabios consiguen verlas. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1205:Las personas son como los piojos: se te meten bajo la piel y se entierran en ella. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1206:Lisbeth Salander era la mujer que odiaba a los hombres que odiaban a las mujeres. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
1207:lógica productivista y se asienta en la monocultura de los criterios de productividad ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1208:Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic. ~ Gerald Celente, #NFDB
1209:Los hombres hacen lo que pueden, las mujeres hacen lo que los hombres no pueden. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1210:Los niños quieren a sus padres, aunque estos no se lo merezcan; es inevitable. ~ Julianna Baggott, #NFDB
1211:Nada en este mundo debe ser más tremendo que los escombros de un hombre. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1212:No el mundo arrastra una tragedia, Charlie, y aunque así fuera no los excusaría ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1213:No se ve bien sino con el corazón, lo esencial es invisible a los ojos ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1214:Pero al amanecer creo que nosotros somo los contemporáneos del día siguiente. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1215:¿por qué esa manía de querer encontrar explicación a todos los actos de la vida? ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
1216:—¿Qué les pasa a los hombres con sus autos? Parece que son una extensión de su pipí. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
1217:Tener que pagar por los propios sueños debe de ser la peor de las desesperaciones. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1218:Aprende a conocer y a distinguir los elogios que enaltecen de los que denigran ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1219:Así como los hombres cansados exigen reposo, los hechos consumados exigen garantías. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1220:Aunque la comprensión no puede alterar los hechos, ayuda a hacerlos más soportables. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1221:A veces, hay personas que pueden herir a los demás por el mero hecho de existir. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1222:(...)El amor para los hombres, era como el agua para los gatos.
Los espantaba. ~ Lissa D Angelo,#NFDB
1223:Ella, mientras dormía, pronunciaba palabras de amor con los dedos de los pies. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
1224:El modelo sólo sirve para mostrar cómo los demás definieron sus propias realidades. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1225:El olor a castañas asadas se mezcla con el anhídrido carbónico de los escapes. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
1226:El problema de los negocios competitivos va mucho más allá de la falta de beneficios ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1227:El tiempo no significa más que la huida de los objetos que parecían verdaderos. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1228:En aquellas noches de insomnio, rememoraba los recuerdos con toda su intensidad. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1229:en esta ciudad que exalta en exceso los ánimos y hace promesas que luego no cumple. ~ Elvira Lindo, #NFDB
1230:En la montaña de los Thunderbolts no todo es lo que parece, Andreas”- Piedra lunar. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
1231:En una familia, los niños y los perros lo saben todo, y sobre todo lo que no se dice”. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1232:Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
1233:Hay épocas y lugares en los que no ser nadie es más honorable que ser alguien. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1234:—Hazme lo que quieras —susurró. Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1235:Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1236:La incredulidad resiste más que la fe, porque se sustenta de los sentidos ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1237:La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces. ~ Walter Riso, #NFDB
1238:Le gustaría que refrenar la crueldad no le reportara la admiración de los demás. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1239:Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air. ~ Ed Begley Jr, #NFDB
1240:Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
1241:Los años se restan, se diluyen, se esfuman, en vertiginoso retroceso del tiempo ~ Alejo Carpentier, #NFDB
1242:Los cazadores matan para vencer un miedo que los enloquece y los pudre por dentro ~ Luis Sep lveda, #NFDB
1243:Los cien pronto dejarían de serlo. El resto de la colonia estaba a punto de aterrizar. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1244:Los jóvenes siguen siendo niños y los niños a veces tienen derecho a ser cabezotas. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1245:Los pobres lamentan su pobreza... ,pero los ricos también lamentan su riqueza. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1246:Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo». ~ Mario Alonso Puig, #NFDB
1247:Mi mujer y mis 9 gatos me parecen los más grandes genios de este mundo. Lo son. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1248:no leas odas, hijo mío: lee los horarios de trenes.
son más exactos. ~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger,#NFDB
1249:nos propuso con las pupilas brillantes celebrar una orgía erótica los tres juntos. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1250:«Nos salvamos juntos o nos hundimos separados.» Juan Rulfo, México y los mexicanos ~ Nicanor Parra, #NFDB
1251:Nunca es fácil pasar de la mirada a la conversación, de los ojos a las palabras. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB
1252:Quien no acepta los detalles, probablemente es que lo quiere todo, absolutamente todo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1253:Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera... ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
1254:Siempre he creído que los juramentos son un triste sustituto de la inteligencia. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
1255:Si se le da a alguien el poder de los dioses, se volverá tan indiferente como ellos. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1256:Sólo se ve bien con el corazón. Lo esencial es invisible para los ojos. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1257:Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
1258:un señor jamás deja que los sentimientos se interpongan en el camino de su ambición... ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1259:Ve con cuidado mañana, eres el mejor de los hombres, el mejor de los mirmidones. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
1260:Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles? ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
1261:(...) Y las armas del más bravo de los hombres fueron la recompensa del más elocuente (...) ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1262:21Muchos son los planes en el corazón del hombre, Mas el consejo del SEÑOR permanecerá. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1263:All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium. ~ Ralph Kiner, #NFDB
1264:Aunque dicen que sólo los imbéciles son felices, confieso que me sentía feliz. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
1265:Bolívar replicó que los hijos de Caracas y Cartagena eran miembros de la misma familia. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1266:Cuando la vida te da limones, asegúrate de saber en los ojos de quién exprimirlos. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1267:«Cuando me mires a los ojos y escuches el latido de tu corazón, sabrás que soy yo». ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
1268:De todos los fantasmas, los de nuestros antiguos amores son los más dolorosos. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1269:¿Dónde han quedado los adornos de mi alma? ¿Dónde los sentimientos de mi corazón? ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1270:El emparejamiento de los cuerpos no llevaba necesariamente a la unión de las mentes. ~ Karen Ranney, #NFDB
1271:El "etcétera" es el descanso de los sabios y la excusa de los ignorantes. ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela, #NFDB
1272:El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
1273:ellos son una generación castrada, no pueden evitarlo, tienen el miedo en los huesos. ~ Elia Barcel, #NFDB
1274:En el alma de los hombres que viven solos siempre hay algo que les gustaría contar. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1275:Ese es el problema de los hombres buenos y los hombres malos. ¡Son todos hombres! ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1276:I love Los Angeles. It has a lot to offer culturally and has amazing restaurants. ~ Greg Rutherford, #NFDB
1277:La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1278:...la muerte acaba siempre por imponer su silencio en los que la contemplan. ~ Jorge Ibarg engoitia, #NFDB
1279:Los agujeros son engañosos. No sabes si estás dentro de uno hasta que ya has salido. ~ Kevin Brooks, #NFDB
1280:los chinos pasan de la Navidad porque es una historia sin dragones ni petardos. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1281:Los prepotentes no tardan en amanarse cuando les haces probar su propia medicina. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1282:Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1283:Necesitamos un par de días malos con el fin de mantener los buenos en perspectiva. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1284:No me gustan los poetas; enturbian las aguas para que parezcan más profundas. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1285:Nuestra familia Titanic se fue hundiendo cada vez más a medida que pasaban los años. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1286:Parece que los hombres viven las relaciones y son las mujeres las que las piensan ~ Marcela Serrano, #NFDB
1287:Pero ¿a qué conceden más importancia? ¿A sus vidas o a quitarles la vida a los demás? ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1288:Por el amor de Dios, de la virgen, de las estrellas y de todos los santos mundiales ~ Megan Maxwell, #NFDB
1289:Ray Kurzweil La Singularidad está cerca Cuando los humanos transcendamos la biología ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
1290:Siempre seremos conocidos por nuestras acciones. Déjales ser siempre los buenos. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1291:...sólo los auténticos perezosos son capaces de hacer inventos para ahorrar trabajo. ~ G nter Grass, #NFDB
1292:Tengo beicon de soja. Y estos huevos en polvo no están tan mal, si los salas bien... ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
1293:The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1294:Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados. ~ Yehuda Berg, #NFDB
1295:When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me. ~ Jessica Chastain, #NFDB
1296:y los amigos discutían para decidir a quién le tocaba pagar la ronda de cerveza. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1297:acontecido es por eso mucho menos grave siempre que los temores y las hipótesis, las ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
1298:A los libros ya no es necesario que los prohíba la policía, los prohíbe el precio. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
1299:Asesinos que matan a su propio reflejo: los asesinos en serie son rompedores de espejos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1300:Así termina la Historia de los Hijos de Húrin, la más larga de las baladas de Beleriand. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1301:Confía en mí, aunque el mundo se desintegre y los montes se derrumben y caigan al mar. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1302:creo en un Dios solo y eterno, que los cielos todos mueve inmóvil, con amor y con deseo; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1303:Cuando hay una tormenta los pajaritos se esconden, pero las águilas vuelan más alto ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1304:—«Dios se ríe de los hombres que se lamentan de los efectos cuyas causas adoran.» ~ Laurent Gounelle, #NFDB
1305:El mundo guarda silencio salvo por los latidos constantes de nuestros corazones. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
1306:Escribir es reescribir. Se escribe para uno mismo y se reescribe para los demás. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1307:Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve... JOHN LENNON ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1308:I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school. ~ Natalie Massenet, #NFDB
1309:I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life. ~ Nathan Fillion, #NFDB
1310:La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1311:La deuda no es un instrumento; es un método para hacer ricos a los bancos, no a usted. ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
1312:La paz y el reposo de los domingos reinaba en todas partes, excepto en mi corazón. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1313:Las buenas amigas guardan los secretos; las amigas íntimas te ayudan a no contarlos. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1314:LAS DESIGUALDADES EN LOS PAÍSES EMERGENTES: MÁS REDUCIDAS QUE EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
1315:las historias viejas son como los viejos amigos, hay que visitarlas de cuando en cuando. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1316:Las naturalezas creativas no son especulativas. Eso las distingue de los imitadores. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
1317:lo que los demás piensan no importa: lo que importa es la alegría de nuestro corazón. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1318:lo que los occidentales llaman “arte” es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna. ~ Marc Aug, #NFDB
1319:Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. ~ Gustavo Dudamel, #NFDB
1320:Los ciegos no necesitan nombre, yo soy esta voz que tengo, lo demás no es importante. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1321:Los muertos no te engañan, ni te desilusionan. Sólo comparten su paz contigo. ~ Santiago Roncagliolo, #NFDB
1322:los países que más progresan ya no compiten por territorios, sino por talentos. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1323:Los que jamás fueron heridos de amor, nunca podrán decir: “Viví”. Porque no vivieron. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1324:Los seres nobles no pretenden apartar a los demás para abrir su propio camino. Era ~ Takashi Hiraide, #NFDB
1325:Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos.
Firmin Richard. ~ Gaston Leroux,#NFDB
1326:«Lucio la miró con inquietud en los ojos, como si temiera daňarla de alguna forma...» ~ Laura Tejada, #NFDB
1327:Menospreciar al enemigo, escuchadme bien los dos, es el camino de la derrota. ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
1328:Morrissey acepta enumerar los principales secretos del negocio discográfico. Tomen nota: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1329:No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
1330:No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia. ~ Xavier Velasco, #NFDB
1331:No todas las mujeres son feministas y no todos los hombres son misóginos. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1332:-Para eso sirven los sueños, ¿no? Para enseñarnos hasta donde podemos llegar. ~ Laura Gallego Garc a, #NFDB
1333:Por más que escondamos los recuerdos, jamás podemos cambiar lo que ya ha ocurrido. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1334:Problemas, ya ves, son la palabra que generaliza los motivos por los que Dios existe. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1335:que a los soldados, ya se sabe, se les da una orden y matan, se les da otra y mueren, ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1336:-¡Quiquiriquí! Cúmplase el destino; hágase en mí según la voluntad de los imbéciles. ~ Leopoldo Alas, #NFDB
1337:Resolver los conflictos sin darles tiempo a crecer hará que tu vida sea más fácil. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
1338:Ser humano consiste en afirmar lo evidente; una y otra vez, hasta el fin de los tiempos. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1339:Si Dios no pudiera perdonar a los sacerdotes lascivos habría muy poco clero en el cielo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1340:Una vida en la que no te brillen los ojos es una vida controlada, pero no es una vida plena. ~ Ne ra, #NFDB
1341:«Ya salen los borrachos de las tabernas se dijo Deben de ser más de las dos.» ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1342:Algunas mujeres no quieren llamarse feministas porque la palabra aleja a los hombres. ~ Jessa Crispin, #NFDB
1343:A los libros, ya no es necesario que los prohíba la policía: los prohíbe el precio. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
1344:A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
1345:Cuando bajasen las temperaturas y los zombis se congelasen, algunos podríamos sobrevivir. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1346:Decididamente, los adultos son raros, pensó el principito durante el viaje ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1347:Demasiada verdad tergiversa los hechos. Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1348:De todos los fantasmas, los fantasmas de nuestros amores pasados son los peores. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
1349:Dicho del Profeta
Objetos
Es tu apego a los objetos lo que te hace ciego y sordo. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1350:El amor es como el sol, no brilla menos para ti, solo por que brilla para los demás ~ Marquis de Sade, #NFDB
1351:Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1352:...el más mediocre de los varones se considera frente a las mujeres un semidiós. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
1353:El que es un miserable no se vuelve generoso con los años...se vuelve más miserable. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1354:En la Europa contemporánea los judíos han alcanzado la forma suprema de la espiritualidad ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1355:En la historia del mundo, nunca antes los no-lugares han ocupado tanto espacio”. Los ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB
1356:En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
1357:En México, las traiciones, como los cojones y los ovarios, vienen de a pares. ~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II, #NFDB
1358:Eres un pesimista, y los pesimistas viven más de lo que quisieran. Es su condena. ~ Bernardo Esquinca, #NFDB
1359:Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve ...‐John Lennon ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1360:Estar ávido en los gatos, nunca sabes cuando encontrarás la respuesta en ellos. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1361:existen momentos en los que todavía es necesario correr riesgos, dar pasos insensatos. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1362:Fue lectora voraz desde muy corta edad, con los peligros que esa costumbre conlleva. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1363:Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney. ~ Matthew Nable, #NFDB
1364:Hay ladrones a los que no se castiga, pero que roban lo más preciado: el tiempo. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
1365:He ordenado una biblioteca a lo largo de mi vida y los libros han desordenado mi vida. ~ Juan Villoro, #NFDB
1366:I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind. ~ Marisa de los Santos, #NFDB
1367:I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A. ~ Rachelle Lefevre, #NFDB
1368:La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en "El Juego del Ángel") ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1369:La mayor parte de los conflictos en una startup se dan entre la propiedad y el control, ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1370:La mentira y el deterioro se suelen colar a través de los adverbios del tiempo. ~ Carmen Mart n Gaite, #NFDB
1371:las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad. ~ Hayden White, #NFDB
1372:Las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los límites de la legitimidad. ~ Hayden White, #NFDB
1373:La suerte es un pobre consuelo para aquellos que no tienen a los dioses de su parte. ~ Iria G Parente, #NFDB
1374:Los celos, hasta entonces ahogados en llanto, se hicieron dueños de su alma. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1375:Los cinturones de seguridad reducen el peligro de muerte hasta en un 70 por ciento; ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
1376:Los datos quedarán encriptados cuando la máquina esté apagada o en modo suspendido. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1377:Los economistas inútiles acaban siendo contables; los abogados inútiles, diputados. ~ Petros Markaris, #NFDB
1378:Los fantasmas son recuerdos, y los llevamos porque los que amamos no dejan el mundo ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1379:Los humanos son vulnerables - Continuó Patch - porque son capaces de ser heridos. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1380:Los libros son el medio más eficaz que tenemos los humanos para realizar la telepatía. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1381:Los libros son mejor auxilio que el psicoanálisis. Lo dicen todo, mejor que la vida. ~ Sylvain Tesson, #NFDB
1382:Los Sufis han dicho: “La importancia de algo está en proporción inversa a su atractivo. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1383:No existen libros morales o inmorales. Los libros están bien o mal escritos. Eso es todo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:No existen los valientes, sólo las personas que aceptan ir codo a codo con su miedo. ~ Luis Sep lveda, #NFDB
1385:No hay mejor sistema para que se desvanezcan los fantasmas que mirarles a los ojos. ~ Patrick Modiano, #NFDB
1386:No nos engañemos: todos los grandes espíritus son escépticos. Zaratustra lo es. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1387:No se ve bien más que con el corazón; lo esencial es invisible a los ojos. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1388:Of course, that was nothing compared to what it was like back in downtown Los Angeles, ~ Blake Pierce, #NFDB
1389:O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1390:Pero he descubierto que el veneno más puro es la amargura en los corazones humanos. ~ Zoraida C rdova, #NFDB
1391:Pero la publicidad importa porque funciona. Funciona con los nerds, y funciona contigo. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1392:Picasso tenía un dicho: “Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban”, ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1393:Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1394:pues consideran que Rafael Correa sigue los trazos del presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1395:Pues cuando los ojos hablan tutean, aunque los labios no hayan pronunciado todavía un . ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
1396:Querer a los que tienen el poder es un instinto humano natural.
El Maestro ~ William Nicholson,#NFDB
1397:Quizá solo se trate de encontrar a quien te sigue mirando cuando tú cierras los ojos. ~ Elvira Sastre, #NFDB
1398:son más difíciles de ahuyentar los fantasmas que han estado en nuestras habitaciones. ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
1399:Tenía consigo la indestructible calma de los hombres que se sienten en su lugar. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
1400:Todo lo necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada ~ Juan Gomez Jurado, #NFDB
1401:Todos los problemas le parecen infantiles después de que se los hayan explicado. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1402:30 La paz en el corazón da salud al cuerpo; los celos son como cáncer en los huesos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1403:9El hipócrita con la boca daña á su prójimo: Mas los justos son librados con la sabiduría. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1404:ambos no resisten juntos, pero tampoco ninguno de los dos puede hacer nada contra el otro, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1405:-Atención -decía Bobby Thompson-. Éste es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes. ~ Richard Bachman, #NFDB
1406:Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media. ~ Philip Ball, #NFDB
1407:Cierro los ojos y me concentro en el miedo que toca su canción de guerra en mi pecho. ~ Gennifer Albin, #NFDB
1408:Como todos sabemos que somos imperfectos, intentamos ayudarnos los unos a los otros. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1409:Con los años no es que se profundice lo peor de uno, sino que por fin sale a la luz. ~ Claudia Pi eiro, #NFDB
1410:Cuando los estetas se ponen metafísicos, suelen quedarse en alegóricos, y eso jode. ~ Francisco Umbral, #NFDB
1411:Dios asume la responsabilidad por los corazones y las mentes de aquellos que creen en él. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1412:El cuento de que los niños merecen felicidad lo inventó Walt Disney para ganar plata. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1413:El guardián me había transformado los ojos para que pudiera ver cosas excepcionales. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1414:El hombre ambicioso es el más temeroso de los hombres, porque tiene miedo de ser lo que es ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1415:En los momentos de crisis, solo la imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1416:En ocasiones necesitamos tiempo para adquirir sabiduría y reparar los errores del pasado ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
1417:era necesario tratar con cuidado los libros porque llevan una persona dentro, el autor. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1418:–Es lo que dice mi padre de los hombres que no beben –dice Eamon–, que no son de fiar. ~ Frank McCourt, #NFDB
1419:Estoy obligado a tolerar que el sol salga todos los días. Es monstruoso. Es inhumano. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
1420:Es una vieja costumbre de la humanidad ésa de pasar al lado de los muertos y no verlos. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1421:Ignoro por qué atesoré aquel jirón de esperanza que se habían de llevar los vientos. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1422:Incluso ahora no sé, exactamente, lo que en mí es mío y qué parte he sacado de los libros. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1423:Incluso en el banquillo de los acusados es siempre interesante oír hablar de uno mismo. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1424:La realidad es un manojo de poemas sobre los cuales nadie reclama derechos de autor. ~ Mario Benedetti, #NFDB
1425:La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1426:«Los gusanos nunca están satisfechos, no importa la cantidad de comida que les des», ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
1427:Los maestros Sufis no son, como podrías esperar, gente que te haga sentir paz y armonía. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1428:Los niños de hoy (listos por naturaleza) disciernen perfectamente cuando hay
trampa. ~ Benito Taibo,#NFDB
1429:Los perros no pueden decidir con quién viven. Las personas decidían nuestro destino. ~ W Bruce Cameron, #NFDB
1430:los que se toman en serio dominar lo que sucede en su conciencia viven una vida más feliz. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1431:Los sabores forman parte del patrimonio de cada generación, igual que la música o la moda. ~ J M Mulet, #NFDB
1432:Me miro los zapatos, veo cómo una fina capa de cenizas se deposita sobre el cuero gastado. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1433:No hagas promesas que no vas a poder cumplir, así es como los enamorados se hacen daño. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1434:No se amaba a sí mismo y tal vez por eso pensaba que no merecía el amor de los demás. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1435:Nosotros estudiamos la conducta de los chimpancés, ellos no estudian la
nuestra. ~ Manuel Alfonseca,#NFDB
1436:Para los psicoanalistas la casa, en nuestros sueños, representa la estructura de la psique ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1437:Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1438:Podrán romperme los huesos con palos y piedras, pero las palabras jamás podrán herirme. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1439:Según la doctrina idealista, los verbos vivir y soñar son rigurosamente sinónimos. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1440:The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers. ~ Tommy Lasorda, #NFDB
1441:Uno es de donde nace, pero también de todos los lugares que ama. la única patria es la vida ~ Pon Pons, #NFDB
1442:Uno no puede elegir los sueños que tiene, son los sueños los que eligen a las personas. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1443:25Temer a los hombres resulta una trampa, pero el que confía en el SEÑOR sale bien librado. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1444:Alguna vez has convencido a un arbol de que se haga de noche para dejar paso a los pajaros? ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
1445:Allí donde no le entiendas, en los espacios blancos, en los huecos, pon: Te quiero. ~ Elena Poniatowska, #NFDB
1446:Amor no es mirarse el uno al otro, sino mirar los dos en la misma dirección. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1447:At last count, in 2017, there were almost sixty thousand homeless people in Los Angeles. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
1448:Aunque a los malvados se les castigue severamente, difícilmente cambian su naturaleza desviada. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1449:Conocer a un individuo es descubrir en él aquellas notas que lo distinguen de los demás ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1450:El hombre se expresa para llegar a los demás, para salir del cautiverio de su soledad. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
1451:El modelo tradicional deja totalmente desprotegidos a los niños de hogares pobres. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1452:El opresor no sería tan fuerte si no tuviese cómplices entre los propios oprimidos ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
1453:El terror anula a los seres humanos, y para poder sobrevivir saca los peores instintos. ~ Julia Navarro, #NFDB
1454:En los exámenes los estúpidos preguntan cosas que los sabios no pueden responder ~ Santiago Posteguillo, #NFDB
1455:Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve … – John Lennon ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1456:I used to live in Los Angeles,” Norma said. “Off a winding road called Coldheart Canyon. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
1457:La baja remuneración de un consejero delegado determina el estándar para todos los demás. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1458:La capacidad del actor para distinguirse de los otros debe ser reconocida por esos “otros”. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1459:La característica principal de la mentalidad de crecimiento es la pasión por los retos, ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1460:Lee los mejores libros primero; lo más seguro es que no alcances a leerlos todos. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1461:Lo importante es el resultado final, y no los fracasos que se sufren en el camino. ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1462:—Lo peor no es la muerte. Es la tristeza de los que quedamos vivos. Es el vacío. ~ Santiago Roncagliolo, #NFDB
1463:Mucho después de su muerte sentía que sus pensamientos flotaban en torno a los míos. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1464:nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1465:Pasear, paradójicamente, hace posible la quietud. Pasear es trazar un mapa con los pies. ~ Lauren Elkin, #NFDB
1466:«pequeñas diferencias de habilidad pueden generar enormes diferencias en los resultados». ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1467:Pero, ¿por qué esa manía de querer encontrar explicación a todos los actos de la vida? ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
1468:Porque los libros del mundo, todos juntos, son como dicen que es el universo, infinitos. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1469:Propagar por el mundo los viejos modos de crear riqueza generará devastación, no riqueza. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1470:Se negaron a entrar en combate declarando que «los portugueses no combatían a portugueses». ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1471:Sin embargo, los odio. Aunque claro, ahora odio a casi todo el mundo, Sobretodo a mi. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1472:una persona debería anteponer sus necesidades a los caprichos, la esencia a la apariencia. ~ Amanda Sun, #NFDB
1473:«Vivimos en la era de los nudos corredizos», pensó. «La inquietud aumentará bajo el cielo.» ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1474:y cuando le enredo los dedos en el pelo, supo la verdad. Trescientos no serian suficientes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1475:clave de la manipulación es poner en contacto a los hombres con sus deseos más intensos. ~ Marcos Chicot, #NFDB
1476:Como dice san Pablo: « Con el corazón se cree […], y con los labios se profesa » (Rm 10,10). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1477:Desde el principio, los hombres han utilizado a Dios para justificar lo injustificable. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1478:El siglo XX ha perfeccionado los odios religiosos al convertirlos en pasiones ideológicas. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB
1479:el silencio resulta admisible mientras alguno de los que lo guardan está haciendo cosas, ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
1480:El único problema que tienen los sueños es que no puedes elegir cuáles te tocan. ~ Geraldine McCaughrean, #NFDB
1481:En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1482:Es curioso cómo nos aferramos a los objetos del pasado mientras aguardamos nuestro futuro. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1483:Es defecto común de los hombres no preocuparse por la tempestad durante la bonanza. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1484:Ése es uno de los principales problemas de estar loco: nunca estás seguro de las cosas ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
1485:Es natural que los productos de unos seres terrenales tengan un carácter tan poco celestial. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1486:es posible pararle los pies a una turba, simplemente porque continúan siendo seres humanos. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1487:Es que la gente parece que le tiene miedo a los estereotipos, a los lugares comunes... ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
1488:¿existe una fuerza interior que hace que todos los seres vivos crezcan y se transformen? ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1489:I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city. ~ Terry O Quinn, #NFDB
1490:I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1491:La miró a los ojos y hubo una comunicación entre dos infiernos: el de ella y el de él ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1492:La oscuridad encubre el verdadero tamaño de los temores, las mentiras y los pesares ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
1493:LA PRIORIDAD NÚMERO UNO DE LOS EDUCADORES: AYUDAR A LOS NIÑOS A ENCONTRAR SU PASIÓN ~ Andr s Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1494:La única riqueza es la que encierran los pechos. !Pero cuán dificil es encontrar su camino!. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1495:La vejez es más traumática para los que piensan que pueden controlar el paso de los años. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1496:Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. ~ Patrick Duffy, #NFDB
1497:Los buenos terminan triunfando. ¿O quizá los triunfadores terminan siendo los buenos? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1498:Los delirios eran escasos com tiburones atrapados en las redes repletas de peces comunes ~ Ismail Kadare, #NFDB
1499:Los hombres son naturalmente indiferentes entre sí; las mujeres son enemigas por naturaleza. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1500:Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
1008 Integral Yoga
639 Poetry
163 Philosophy
132 Occultism
124 Fiction
124 Christianity
100 Mysticism
89 Yoga
53 Psychology
21 Science
20 Sufism
19 Mythology
17 Philsophy
17 Hinduism
15 Integral Theory
11 Education
9 Theosophy
6 Kabbalah
6 Baha i Faith
5 Cybernetics
5 Buddhism
2 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
588 Sri Aurobindo
504 The Mother
304 Satprem
197 Nolini Kanta Gupta
77 William Wordsworth
77 H P Lovecraft
57 Percy Bysshe Shelley
54 Aleister Crowley
48 Sri Ramakrishna
48 Carl Jung
46 Rabindranath Tagore
43 William Butler Yeats
42 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
40 Walt Whitman
39 Robert Browning
39 Plotinus
39 Jorge Luis Borges
36 James George Frazer
30 Saint Augustine of Hippo
29 John Keats
23 Friedrich Nietzsche
22 Saint Teresa of Avila
21 A B Purani
20 Swami Krishnananda
18 Swami Vivekananda
18 Friedrich Schiller
18 Aldous Huxley
17 Ralph Waldo Emerson
16 Saint John of Climacus
16 Kabir
16 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14 Rudolf Steiner
14 Ovid
14 Lucretius
13 Rainer Maria Rilke
13 Jalaluddin Rumi
11 Plato
11 Nirodbaran
9 Sri Ramana Maharshi
8 Vyasa
8 Li Bai
8 Farid ud-Din Attar
8 Edgar Allan Poe
8 Anonymous
7 George Van Vrekhem
7 Baha u llah
6 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
6 Jordan Peterson
6 Henry David Thoreau
6 Franz Bardon
5 Thubten Chodron
5 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
5 Saint John of the Cross
5 Norbert Wiener
5 Lalla
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
4 Peter J Carroll
4 Paul Richard
4 Patanjali
4 Jacopone da Todi
4 Ibn Arabi
4 Alice Bailey
4 Al-Ghazali
3 Wang Wei
3 R Buckminster Fuller
3 Ramprasad
3 Hakim Sanai
3 Hafiz
3 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
2 Saint Hildegard von Bingen
2 Omar Khayyam
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Ken Wilber
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jetsun Milarepa
2 Jean Gebser
2 Italo Calvino
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Bulleh Shah
2 Bokar Rinpoche
2 Aristotle
133 Record of Yoga
92 The Synthesis Of Yoga
77 Wordsworth - Poems
77 Lovecraft - Poems
57 Shelley - Poems
47 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
45 The Life Divine
44 Tagore - Poems
43 Yeats - Poems
42 Savitri
42 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
39 Browning - Poems
37 Whitman - Poems
36 The Golden Bough
35 Letters On Yoga IV
33 Agenda Vol 01
32 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
32 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
32 Agenda Vol 03
30 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
29 Keats - Poems
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
27 Questions And Answers 1953
27 Liber ABA
25 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
25 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
24 Magick Without Tears
24 Letters On Yoga II
24 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
24 Agenda Vol 04
23 Borges - Poems
23 Agenda Vol 08
23 Agenda Vol 02
22 Agenda Vol 12
21 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
21 Essays On The Gita
21 Collected Poems
21 City of God
20 The Study and Practice of Yoga
20 Questions And Answers 1955
20 Agenda Vol 13
20 Agenda Vol 07
19 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
19 Questions And Answers 1956
19 Agenda Vol 10
18 The Perennial Philosophy
18 Schiller - Poems
18 Questions And Answers 1954
18 Prayers And Meditations
17 Words Of Long Ago
17 Emerson - Poems
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
17 Agenda Vol 05
16 The Practice of Psycho therapy
16 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
16 The Human Cycle
16 Labyrinths
16 Agenda Vol 11
15 Mysterium Coniunctionis
15 Agenda Vol 09
14 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
14 On the Way to Supermanhood
14 Of The Nature Of Things
14 Metamorphoses
14 Letters On Yoga I
13 The Way of Perfection
13 The Phenomenon of Man
13 The Bible
13 Songs of Kabir
13 Rilke - Poems
13 Essays Divine And Human
12 The Future of Man
12 Talks
12 Some Answers From The Mother
12 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
12 Faust
12 Agenda Vol 06
11 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
11 The Divine Comedy
11 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
11 On Education
11 Letters On Yoga III
10 Vedic and Philological Studies
10 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
9 Rumi - Poems
9 Raja-Yoga
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
9 Let Me Explain
9 Isha Upanishad
8 Vishnu Purana
8 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
8 Li Bai - Poems
8 Hymn of the Universe
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
7 Preparing for the Miraculous
7 Poe - Poems
7 Letters On Poetry And Art
7 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
7 Dark Night of the Soul
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 Walden
6 The Secret Of The Veda
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Practice of Magical Evocation
6 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
6 The Blue Cliff Records
6 Maps of Meaning
6 General Principles of Kabbalah
6 Aion
5 Words Of The Mother II
5 Theosophy
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
5 Cybernetics
5 Bhakti-Yoga
5 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
4 Words Of The Mother III
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 The Integral Yoga
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 Liber Null
4 Kena and Other Upanishads
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 Goethe - Poems
4 Crowley - Poems
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
4 Amrita Gita
3 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Song of Myself
3 Arabi - Poems
2 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
2 The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
2 The Gateless Gate
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
2 Symposium
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Selected Fictions
2 Poetics
2 Milarepa - Poems
2 Hafiz - Poems
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Agenda Vol 1
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We had our bellyful of adventure at last: if you go astray in the forest, you get delightfully lost yet still with the same old skin on your back, whereas here, there is nothing left to get lost in! It is no longer just a matter of getting lost - you have to CHANGE your skin. Or die. Yes, change species.
Or become one more nauseating little worshipper - which was not on our program. 'We are the enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' She told us one day with her mischievous little smile.
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Then we have caught the tail of the Great Possible, we are upon the wayless way, radically in the new, and we flow with the little lizard, the pelican, the big man, we flow everywhere in a world that has lost its old separating skin and its little baggage of habits. We begin seeing otherwise, feeling otherwise. We have opened the gate into an inconceivable clearing. Just a light little vibration that carries you away. Then we begin to understand how it CAN CHANGE, what the mechanism is - a light little mechanism and so miraculous that it looks like nothing. We begin feeling the wonder of a pure little cell, and that a sparkling of joy would be enough to turn the world inside out. We were living in a little thinking fishbowl, we were dying in an old, bottled habit. And then suddenly, all is different. The Earth is free! Who wants freedom?
It begins in a cell.
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain of intra-atomic forces. If one comes, all on a sudden, into contact with a force here without the necessary preparation to hold and handle it, he may get seriously bruised, morally and physically. The adventure into the mystic domain has its own toll of casualtiesone can lose the mind, one can lose one's body even and it is a very common experience among those who have tried the path. It is not in vain and merely as a poetic metaphor that the ancient seers have said
Kurasya dhr niit duratyay1
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The mystic truth has to be approached through the heart. "In the heart is established the Truth," says the Upanishad: it is there that is seated eternally the soul, the real being, who appears no bigger than the thumb. Even if the mind is utilised as an instrument of knowledge, the heart must be there behind as the guide and inspiration. It is precisely because, as I have just mentioned, Gargi sought to shoot uplike "vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself" of which Shakespeare speaksthrough the mind alone to the highest truth that Yajnavalkya had to pull her up and give the warning that she risked losing her head if she persisted in her questioning endlessly.
For true knowledge comes of, and means, identity of being. All other knowledge may be an apprehension of things but not comprehension. In the former, the knower stands apart from the object and so can envisage only the outskirts, the contour, the surface nature; the mind is capable of this alone. But comprehension means an embracing and penetration which is possible when the knower identifies himself with the object. And when we are so identified we not merely know the object, but becoming it in our consciousness, we love it and live it.
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother would be seated in this rather medieval-looking chair with its high, carved back, her feet on a little tabouret, while we sat on the floor, on a slightly faded carpet, conquered and seduced, revolted and never satisfied - but nevertheless, very interested. Treasures, never noted down, were lost until, with the cunning of the Sioux, we succeeded in making Mother consent to the presence of a tape recorder. But even then, and for a long time thereafter, She carefully made us erase or delete in our notes all that concerned Her rather too personally - sometimes we disobeyed Her.
But finally we were able to convince Her of the value inherent in keeping a chronicle of the route.
It was only in 1958 that we began having the first tape-recorded conversations, which, properly speaking, constitute Mother's Agenda. But even then, many of these conversations were lost or only partly noted down. Or else we considered that our own words should not figure in these notes and we carefully omitted all our questions - which was absurd. At that time, no one - neither Mother, nor ourself - knew that this was 'the Agenda' and that we were out to explore the 'Great Passage.'
Only gradually did we become aware of the true nature of these meetings. Furthermore, we were constantly on the road, so much so that there are sizable gaps in the text. In fact, for seven years,
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, this is the All, the Universal. One has to realise it and possess in one's consciousness. And that can be done only in one way: one has to identify oneself with it, be one with it, become it. Thus by losing one's individuality one lives the life universal; the small lean separate life is enlarged and moulded in the rhythm of the Rich and the Vast. It is thus that man shares in the consciousness and energy that inspire and move and sustain the cosmos. The Upanishad most emphatically enjoins that one must not decry this cosmic godhead or deny any of its elements, not even such as are a taboo to the puritan mind. It is in and through an unimpaired global consciousness that one attains the All-Life and lives uninterruptedly and perennially: Sarvamanveti jyok jvati.
Still the Upanishad says this is not the final end. There is yet a higher status of reality and consciousness to which one has to rise. For beyond the Cosmos lies the Transcendent. The Upanishad expresses this truth and experience in various symbols. The cosmic reality, we have seen, is often conceived as a septenary, a unity of seven elements, principles and worlds. Further to give it its full complex value, it is considered not as a simple septet, but a threefold heptad the whole gamut, as it were, consisting of 21 notes or syllables. The Upanishad says, this number does not exhaust the entire range; I for there is yet a 22nd place. This is the world beyond the Sun, griefless and deathless, the supreme Selfhood. The Veda I also sometimes speaks of the integral reality as being represented by the number 100 which is 99 + I; in other words, 99 represents the cosmic or universal, the unity being the reality beyond, the Transcendent.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Prior to the c losing down of the Mandrake Press in London about 1930-31, I was employed as company secretary for a while. Along with several Crowley books, the Mandrake Press published a lovely little monogram by D. H. Lawrence entitled "Apropos of Lady Chatterley's Lover." My own copy accompanied me on my travels for long years. Only recently did I discover that it had been lost. I hope that any one of my former patients who had borrowed it will see fit to return it to me forthwith.
The last chapter of A Garden deals with the Way of Return. It used almost entirely Crowley's concept of the Path as described in his superb essay "One Star in Sight." In addition to this, I borrowed extensively from Lawrence's Apropos. Somehow, they all fitted together very nicely. In time, all these variegated notes were incorporated into the text without acknowledgment, an oversight which I now feel sure would be forgiven, since I was only twenty-four at the time.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
gaining nor losing any energy. Nature is not employing the three dimensional,
omniinterperpendicular, parallel frame of the XYZ axial coordinates of academic
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Gadadhar was now permitted to worship Raghuvir. Thus began his first training in meditation. He so gave his heart and soul to the worship that the stone image very soon appeared to him as the living Lord of the Universe. His tendency to lose himself in contemplation was first noticed at this time. Behind his boyish light-heartedness was seen a deepening of his spiritual nature.
About this time, on the Sivaratri night, consecrated to the worship of Siva, a dramatic performance was arranged. The principal actor, who was to play the part of Siva, suddenly fell ill, and Gadadhar was persuaded to act in his place. While friends were dressing him for the role of Siva — smearing his body with ashes, matting his locks, placing a trident in his hand and a string of rudraksha beads around his neck — the boy appeared to become absent-minded. He approached the stage with slow and measured step, supported by his friends. He looked the living image of Siva. The audience loudly applauded what it took to be his skill as an actor, but it was soon discovered that he was really lost in meditation. His countenance was radiant and tears flowed from his eyes. He was lost to the outer world. The effect of this scene on the audience was tremendous. The people felt blessed as by a vision of Siva Himself. The performance had to be stopped, and the boy's mood lasted till the following morning.
Gadadhar himself now organized a dramatic company with his young friends. The stage was set in the mango orchard. The themes were selected from the stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Gadadhar knew by heart almost all the roles, having heard them from professional actors. His favourite theme was the Vrindavan episode of Krishna's life, depicting those exquisite love-stories of Krishna and the milkmaids and the cowherd boys. Gadadhar would play the parts of Radha or Krishna and would often lose himself in the character he was portraying. His natural feminine grace heightened the dramatic effect. The mango orchard would ring with the loud kirtan of the boys. lost in song and merry-making, Gadadhar became indifferent to the routine of school.
In 1849 Ramkumar, the eldest son, went to Calcutta to improve the financial condition of the family.
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The whole symbolic world is represented in the temple garden — the Trinity of the Nature Mother (Kali), the Absolute (Siva), and Love (Radhakanta), the Arch spanning heaven and earth. The terrific Goddess of the Tantra, the soul-enthralling Flute-Player of the Bhagavata, and the Self-absorbed Absolute of the Vedas live together, creating the greatest synthesis of religions. All aspects of Reality are represented there. But of this divine household, Kali is the pivot, the sovereign Mistress. She is Prakriti, the Procreatrix, Nature, the Destroyer, the Creator. Nay, She is something greater and deeper still for those who have eyes to see. She is the Universal Mother, "my Mother" as Ramakrishna would say, the All-powerful, who reveals Herself to Her children under different aspects and Divine Incarnations, the Visible God, who leads the elect to the Invisible Reality; and if it so pleases Her, She takes away the last trace of ego from created beings and merges it in the consciousness of the Absolute, the undifferentiated God. Through Her grace "the finite ego loses itself in the illimitable Ego — Atman — Brahman". (Romain Holland, Prophets of the New India, p. 11.)
Rani Rasmani spent a fortune for the construction of the temple garden and another fortune for its dedication ceremony, which took place on May 31, 1855.
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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.
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The disciplines of Tantra are graded to suit aspirants of all degrees. Exercises are prescribed for people with "animal", "heroic", and "divine" outlooks. Certain of the rites require the presence of members of the opposite sex. Here the aspirant learns to look on woman as the embodiment of the Goddess Kali, the Mother of the Universe. The very basis of Tantra is the Motherhood of God and the glorification of woman. Every part of a woman's body is to be regarded as incarnate Divinity. But the rites are extremely dangerous. The help of a qualified guru is absolutely necessary. An unwary devotee may lose his foothold and fall into a pit of depravity.
According to the Tantra, Sakti is the active creative force in the universe. Siva, the Absolute, is a more or less passive principle. Further, Sakti is as inseparable from Siva as fire's power to burn is from fire itself. Sakti, the Creative Power, contains in Its womb the universe, and therefore is the Divine Mother. All women are Her symbols. Kali is one of Her several forms. The meditation on Kali, the Creative Power, is the central discipline of the Tantra. While meditating, the aspirant at first regards himself as one with the Absolute and then thinks that out of that Impersonal Consciousness emerge two entities, namely, his own self and the living form of the Goddess. He then projects the Goddess into the tangible image before him and worships it as the Divine Mother.
Sri Ramakrishna set himself to the task of practising the disciplines of Tantra; and at the bidding of the Divine Mother Herself he accepted the Brahmani as his guru. He performed profound and delicate ceremonies in the Panchavati and under the bel-tree at the northern extremity of the temple compound. He practised all the disciplines of the sixty-four principal Tantra books, and it took him never more than three days to achieve the result promised in any one of them. After the observance of a few preliminary rites, he would be overwhelmed with a strange divine fervour and would go into samadhi, where his mind would dwell in exaltation. Evil ceased to exist for him. The word "carnal" lost its meaning. The whole world and everything in it appeared as the lila, the sport, of Siva and Sakti. He beheld held everywhere manifest the power and beauty of the Mother; the whole world, animate and inanimate, appeared to him as pervaded with Chit, Consciousness, and with Ananda, Bliss.
He saw in a vision the Ultimate Cause of the universe as a huge luminous triangle giving birth every moment to an infinite number of worlds. He heard the Anahata Sabda, the great sound Om, of which the innumerable sounds of the universe are only so many echoes. He acquired the eight supernatural powers of yoga, which make a man almost omnipotent, and these he spurned as of no value whatsoever to the Spirit. He had a vision of the divine Maya, the inscrutable Power of God, by which the universe is created and sustained, and into which it is finally absorbed. In this vision he saw a woman of exquisite beauty, about to become a mother, emerging from the Ganges and slowly approaching the Panchavati. Presently she gave birth to a child and began to nurse it tenderly. A moment later she assumed a terrible aspect, seized the child with her grim jaws, and crushed it. Swallowing it, she re-entered the waters of the Ganges.
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Totapuri asked the disciple to withdraw his mind from all objects of the relative world, including the gods and goddesses, and to concentrate on the Absolute. But the task was not easy even for Sri Ramakrishna. He found it impossible to take his mind beyond Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe. "After the initiation", Sri Ramakrishna once said, describing the event, "Nangta began to teach me the various conclusions of the Advaita Vedanta and asked me to withdraw the mind completely from all objects and dive deep into the Atman. But in spite of all my attempts I could not altogether cross the realm of name and form and bring my mind to the unconditioned state. I had no difficulty in taking the mind from all the objects of the world. But the radiant and too familiar figure of the Blissful Mother, the Embodiment of the essence of Pure Consciousness, appeared before me as a living reality. Her bewitching smile prevented me from passing into the Great Beyond. Again and again I tried, but She stood in my way every time. In despair I said to Nangta: 'It is hopeless. I cannot raise my mind to the unconditioned state and come face to face with Atman.' He grew excited and sharply said: 'What? You can't do it? But you have to.' He cast his eyes around. Finding a piece of glass he took it up and stuck it between my eyebrows. 'Concentrate the mind on this point!' he thundered. Then with stern determination I again sat to meditate. As soon as the gracious form of the Divine Mother appeared before me, I used my discrimination as a sword and with it clove Her in two. The last barrier fell. My spirit at once soared beyond the relative plane and I lost myself in samadhi."
Sri Ramakrishna remained completely absorbed in samadhi for three days. "Is it really true?" Totapuri cried out in astonishment. "Is it possible that he has attained in a single day what it took me forty years of strenuous practice to achieve? Great God! It is nothing short of a miracle!" With the help of Totapuri, Sri Ramakrishna's mind finally came down to the relative plane.
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The Divine Mother asked Sri Ramakrishna not to be lost in the featureless Absolute but to remain, in bhavamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness, the border line between the Absolute and the Relative. He was to keep himself at the "sixth centre" of Tantra, from which he could see not only the glory of the seventh, but also the divine manifestations of the Kundalini in the lower centres. He gently oscillated back and forth across the dividing line. Ecstatic devotion to the Divine Mother alternated with serene absorption in the Ocean of Absolute Unity. He thus bridged the gulf between the Personal and the Impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent aspects of Reality. This is a unique experience in the recorded spiritual history of the world.
--- TOTAPURI'S LESSON
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Toward the end of 1866 he began to practise the disciplines of Islam. Under the direction of his Mussalman guru he abandoned himself to his new sadhana. He dressed as a Mussalman and repeated the name of Allah. His prayers took the form of the Islamic devotions. He forgot the Hindu gods and goddesses — even Kali — and gave up visiting the temples. He took up his residence outside the temple precincts. After three days he saw the vision of a radiant figure, perhaps Mohammed. This figure gently approached him and finally lost himself in Sri Ramakrishna. Thus he realized the Mussalman God. Thence he passed into communion with Brahman. The mighty river of Islam also led him back to the Ocean of the Absolute.
--- CHRISTIANITY
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During this period Sri Ramakrishna suffered several bereavements. The first was the death of a nephew named Akshay. After the young man's death Sri Ramakrishna said: "Akshay died before my very eyes. But it did not affect me in the least. I stood by and watched a man die. It was like a sword being drawn from its scabbard. I enjoyed the scene, and laughed and sang and danced over it. They removed the body and cremated it. But the next day as I stood there (pointing to the southeast verandah of his room), I felt a racking pain for the loss of Akshay, as if somebody were squeezing my heart like a wet towel. I wondered at it and thought that the Mother was teaching me a lesson. I was not much concerned even with my own body — much less with a relative. But if such was my pain at the loss of a nephew, how much more must be the grief of the householders at the loss of their near and dear ones!" In 1871 Mathur died, and some five years later Sambhu Mallick — who, after Mathur's passing away, had taken care of the Master's comfort. In 1873 died his elder brother Rameswar, and in 1876, his beloved mother. These bereavements left their imprint on the tender human heart of Sri Ramakrishna, albeit he had realized the immortality of the soul and the illusoriness of birth and death.
In March 1875, about a year before the death of his mother, the Master met Keshab Chandra Sen. The meeting was a momentous event for both Sri Ramakrishna and Keshab. Here the Master for the first time came into actual, contact with a worthy representative of modern India.
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Gopal Sur of Sinthi came to Dakshineswar at a rather advanced age and was called the elder Gopal. He had lost his wife, and the Master assuaged his grief. Soon he renounced the world and devoted himself fully to meditation and prayer. Some years later Gopal gave the Master the ochre cloths with which the latter initiated several of his disciples into monastic life.
--- NARENDRA
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But during his third visit Narendra fared no better. This time, at the Master's touch, he lost consciousness entirely. While he was still in that state, Sri Ramakrishna questioned him concerning his spiritual antecedents and whereabouts, his mission in this world, and the duration of his mortal life. The answers confirmed what the Master himself had known and inferred. Among other things, he came to know that Narendra was a sage who had already attained perfection, and that the day he learnt his real nature he would give up his body in yoga, by an act of will.
A few more meetings completely removed from Narendra's mind the last traces of the notion that Sri Ramakrishna might be a monomaniac or wily hypnotist. His integrity, purity, renunciation, and unselfishness were beyond question. But Narendra could not accept a man, an imperfect mortal, as his guru. As a member of the Brahmo Samaj, he could not believe that a human intermediary was necessary between man and God. Moreover, he openly laughed at Sri Ramakrishna's visions as hallucinations. Yet in the secret chamber of his heart he bore a great love for the Master.
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Narendra began to talk of his doubt of the very existence of God. His friends thought he had become an atheist, and piously circulated gossip adducing unmentionable motives for his unbelief. His moral character was maligned. Even some of the Master's disciples partly believed the gossip, and Narendra told these to their faces that only a coward believed in God through fear of suffering or hell. But he was distressed to think that Sri Ramakrishna, too, might believe these false reports. His pride revolted. He said to himself: "What does it matter? If a man's good name rests on such slender foundations, I don't care." But later on he was amazed to learn that the Master had never lost faith in him. To a disciple who complained about Narendra's degradation, Sri Ramakrishna replied: "Hush, you fool! The Mother has told me it can never be so. I won't look at you if you speak that way again."
The moment came when Narendra's distress reached its climax. He had gone the whole day without food. As he was returning home in the evening he could hardly lift his tired limbs. He sat down in front of a house in sheer exhaustion, too weak even to think. His mind began to wander. Then, suddenly, a divine power lifted the veil over his soul. He found the solution of the problem of the coexistence of divine justice and misery, the presence of suffering in the creation of a blissful Providence. He felt bodily refreshed, his soul was bathed in peace, and he slept serenely.
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Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the c losing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
The Holy Mother secretly went to a Siva temple across the Ganges to intercede with the Deity for the Master's recovery. In a revelation she was told to prepare herself for the inevitable end.
One day when Narendra was on the ground floor, meditating, the Master was lying awake in his bed upstairs. In the depths of his meditation Narendra felt as though a lamp were burning at the back of his head. Suddenly he lost consciousness. It was the yearned-for, all-effacing experience of nirvikalpa samadhi, when the embodied soul realizes its unity with the Absolute. After a very long time he regained partial consciousness but was unable to find his body. He could see only his head. "Where is my body?" he cried. The elder Gopal entered the room and said, "Why, it is here, Naren!" But Narendra could not find it. Gopal, frightened, ran upstairs to the Master. Sri Ramakrishna only said: "Let him stay that way for a time. He has worried me long enough."
After another long period Narendra regained full consciousness. Bathed in peace, he went to the Master, who said: "Now the Mother has shown you everything. But this revelation will remain under lock and key, and I shall keep the key. When you have accomplished the Mother's work you will find the treasure again."
Some days later, Narendra being alone with the Master, Sri Ramakrishna looked at him and went into samadhi. Narendra felt the penetration of a subtle force and lost all outer consciousness. Regaining presently the normal mood, he found the Master weeping.
Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "Today I have given you my all and I am now only a poor fakir, possessing nothing. By this power you will do immense good in the world, and not until it is accomplished will you return." Henceforth the Master lived in the disciple.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself
in The Charioting.
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of fire whose summit is lost in Heaven. Upon it
have I burned the corpse of my desires.
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from Eternity; and it is lost within the Body of
Our Lady of the Stars.
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This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love
through which I am no longer I.
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As man loses his personality in physical love, so
does the magician annihilate his divine personality in
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Then thou art not lost in love; speak not of love.
Love Alway Yieldeth: Love Alway Hardeneth.
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The secrets of his order were, however, not lost, and
are still being communicated to the worthy by his
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of the Sojourner; for THE WORD was lost.
This is the Report of the Sojourners: THE WORD
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truth, that I who love have lost; and how may I
regain?
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The only sense which abides is that of loss, and the
craving to retrieve it. In paragraph 3 it is seen that this
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Is loss of the stability of earth.
Matter and sense and mind have had their day:
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"success" in "life": blank loss.
Is there no end to this immortal ache
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
This epoch-making event of his life came about in a very strange way. M. belonged to a joint family with several collateral members. Some ten years after he began his career as an educationist, bitter quarrels broke out among the members of the family, driving the sensitive M. to despair and utter despondency. He lost all interest in life and left home one night to go into the wide world with the idea of ending his life. At dead of night he took rest in his sister's house at Baranagar, and in the morning, accompanied by a nephew Siddheswar, he wandered from one garden to another in Calcutta until Siddheswar brought him to the Temple Garden of Dakshineswar where Sri Ramakrishna was then living. After spending some time in the beautiful rose gardens there, he was directed to the room of the Paramahamsa, where the eventful meeting of the Master and the disciple took place on a blessed evening (the exact date is not on record) on a Sunday in March 1882. As regards what took place on the occasion, the reader is referred to the opening section of the first chapter of the Gospel.
The Master, who divined the mood of desperation in M, his resolve to take leave of this 'play-field of deception', put new faith and hope into him by his gracious words of assurance: "God forbid! Why should you take leave of this world? Do you not feel blessed by discovering your Guru? By His grace, what is beyond all imagination or dreams can be easily achieved!" At these words the clouds of despair moved away from the horizon of M.'s mind, and the sunshine of a new hope revealed to him fresh vistas of meaning in life. Referring to this phase of his life, M. used to say, "Behold! where is the resolve to end life, and where, the discovery of God! That is, sorrow should be looked upon as a friend of man. God is all good." ( Ibid P.33.)
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. Subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the design controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the designs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
discovers that he is not an isolated unit lost in the cosmic solitudes,
and realises that a universal will to live converges and is hominised
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Evening Talks collected here may afford to the outside world a glimpse of his external personality and give the seeker some idea of its richness, its many-sidedness, its uniqueness. One can also form some notion of Sri Aurobindo's personality from the books in which the height, the universal sweep and clear vision of his integral ideal and thought can be seen. His writings are, in a sense, the best representative of his mental personality. The versatile nature of his genius, the penetrating power of his intellect, his extraordinary power of expression, his intense sincerity, his utter singleness of purpose all these can be easily felt by any earnest student of his works. He may discover even in the realm of mind that Sri Aurobindo brings the unlimited into the limited. Another side of his dynamic personality is represented by the Ashram as an institution. But the outer, if one may use the phrase, the human side of his personality, is unknown to the outside world because from 1910 to 1950 a span of forty years he led a life of outer retirement. No doubt, many knew about his staying at Pondicherry and practising some kind of very special Yoga to the mystery of which they had no access. To some, perhaps, he was living a life of enviable solitude enjoying the luxury of a spiritual endeavour. Many regretted his retirement as a great loss to the world because they could not see any external activity on his part which could be regarded as 'public', 'altruistic' or 'beneficial'. Even some of his admirers thought that he was after some kind of personal salvation which would have very little significance for mankind in general. His outward non-participation in public life was construed by many as lack of love for humanity.
But those who knew him during the days of the national awakening from 1900 to 1910 could not have these doubts. And even these initial misunderstandings and false notions of others began to evaporate with the growth of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from 1927 onwards. The large number of books published by the Ashram also tended to remove the idea of the other-worldliness of his Yoga and the absence of any good by it to mankind.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
say, in all truth, that I never lose consciousness throughout the
twenty-four hours, which thus form an unbroken sequence, and
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HERE are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of the spirit revivifying the dead or dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life. To be perpetually reborn is the condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces, experimented on, combined and recombined either to perish and provide the scattered material of new forms or to emerge rejuvenated and changed for a fresh term of existence. Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface
The Conditions of the Synthesis
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But as in physical knowledge the multiplication of scientific processes has its disadvantages, as that tends, for instance, to develop a victorious artificiality which overwhelms our natural human life under a load of machinery and to purchase certain forms of freedom and mastery at the price of an increased servitude, so the preoccupation with Yogic processes and their exceptional results may have its disadvantages and losses. The
The Conditions of the Synthesis
Yogin tends to draw away from the common existence and lose his hold upon it; he tends to purchase wealth of spirit by an impoverishment of his human activities, the inner freedom by an outer death. If he gains God, he loses life, or if he turns his efforts outward to conquer life, he is in danger of losing
God. Therefore we see in India that a sharp incompatibility has been created between life in the world and spiritual growth and perfection, and although the tradition and ideal of a victorious harmony between the inner attraction and the outer demand remains, it is little or else very imperfectly exemplified. In fact, when a man turns his vision and energy inward and enters on the path of Yoga, he is popularly supposed to be lost inevitably to the great stream of our collective existence and the secular effort of humanity. So strongly has the idea prevailed, so much has it been emphasised by prevalent phi losophies and religions that to escape from life is now commonly considered as not only the necessary condition, but the general object of Yoga. No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature in a liberated and perfected human life or, in its method, not only permit but favour the harmony of our inner and outer activities and experiences in the divine consummation of both. For man is precisely that term and symbol of a higher Existence descended into the material world in which it is possible for the lower to transfigure itself and put on the nature of the higher and the higher to reveal itself in the forms of the lower. To avoid the life which is given him for the realisation of that possibility, can never be either the indispensable condition or the whole and ultimate object of his supreme endeavour or of his most powerful means of self-fulfilment. It can only be a temporary necessity under certain conditions or a specialised extreme effort imposed on the individual so as to prepare a greater general possibility for the race. The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious
Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga."
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
keep it: NEVER losE YOUR TEMPER.
I told you already that far from diminishing, your hold upon
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have lost the "spirit". I was not referring to the things given at
the "stores", and I was most surprised to see that you did not
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made, the conscious will loses nearly all control over them unless
a counter-formation is made to destroy them. Something like
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Having recognised this, I have lost all joy in action.
Simply welcome the fact that you have become aware of a lack
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someone.) I regret having lost my temper while pronouncing these last sentences. I have noticed that even
when I am conscious, if I open my mouth I lose my selfcontrol. I get angrier and angrier from one sentence to
the next.
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shall discuss the matter quietly. When will you learn not to lose
courage and confidence at the slightest setback, when things are
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I am at even more of a loss to make a selection. Therefore I
am giving them three weeks' advance notice: as of July 1st the
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I don't know why I have lost my self-control and
peace.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must not lose patience or courage; everything will turn
out all right.
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There is only one remedy, and you must lose no time in
accepting it: recover your smile, regain your faith, become once
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precise movement, one loses one's patience and calm and the
work one does is no longer neat and trim; everything becomes
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we talk about evaporate and we lose the benefit they could have
brought us.
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I find that I have lost everything. All that was good
in me, all is lost. Previously I always felt that all I did
was for You; in all the work I did, this feeling of "doing
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Now I find that I have lost this feeling.
My dear little child,
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.
The schools of Indian Yoga lent themselves to the compromise. Individual perfection or liberation was made the aim, seclusion of some kind from the ordinary activities the condition, the renunciation of life the culmination. The teacher gave his knowledge only to a small circle of disciples. Or if a wider movement was attempted, it was still the release of the individual soul that remained the aim. The pact with an immobile society was, for the most part, observed.
The utility of the compromise in the then actual state of the world cannot be doubted. It secured in India a society which lent itself to the preservation and the worship of spirituality, a country apart in which as in a fortress the highest spiritual ideal could maintain itself in its most absolute purity unoverpowered by the siege of the forces around it. But it was a compromise, not an absolute victory. The material life lost the divine impulse to growth, the spiritual preserved by isolation its height and purity, but sacrificed its full power and serviceableness to the world. Therefore, in the divine Providence the country of the Yogins and the Sannyasins has been forced into a strict and imperative contact with the very element it had rejected, the element of the progressive Mind, so that it might recover what was now wanting to it.
We have to recognise once more that the individual exists not in himself alone but in the collectivity and that individual perfection and liberation are not the whole sense of God's intention in the world. The free use of our liberty includes also the liberation of others and of mankind; the perfect utility of our perfection is, having realised in ourselves the divine symbol, to reproduce, multiply and ultimately universalise it in others.
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
perhaps, but of the worst kind. The beasts lose more and more
confidence and joy and peace and finally their strength and even
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even in a certain sense the capacity of a greater enjoyment of physical living have been carried out on an abnormal scale. But the weakness of Hathayoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. If in return for this loss we gain another life in another world within, the mental, the dynamic, these results could have been acquired through other systems, through Rajayoga, through Tantra, by much less laborious methods and held on much less exacting terms. On the other hand the physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves, apart from the common life, for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sum of the world's activities. Hathayoga attains large results, but at an exorbitant price and to very little purpose.
Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My heart wants to run to your feet; it wants to lose
itself in you. This is what I want, but have I done it? I
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You must never lose confidence in my unvarying love.
30 August 1934
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regularly, your brain will waste away and you will lose your
intelligence, and then?
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I don't know why I have lost all my happiness and
peace. I don't know when it will come back to my heart.
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completely lost and lifeless. You know everything, my
mother. Will you tell me what it is?
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Do not lose heart and do not be impatient; these things take
a long time to disappear. You know, don't you, that our force,
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becomes more and more mental and you lose contact with the
Series Five - To a Child
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am then on the verge of losing my mind.
Still, there is something in me which says very
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tantric Yogin pursued the aims of his discipline, - mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude. Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. But in the end, as is the general tendency of Prakriti, Tantric Yoga largely lost its principle in its machinery and became a thing of formulae and occult mechanism still powerful when rightly used but fallen from the clarity of their original intention.
We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
It is difficult to express adequately the sense of loss that one feels at the
premature truncation of this eloquent treatise.13 We have already given our
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treatise. They lose both in flexibility and in substance through the c loseness with
which they follow the stanzas of which they are the exposition. In the Ascent and
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all but lost in the resonance of the phi losopher's voice and the eloquent tones of the
preacher. Nor have the other treatises the learning and the authority of these.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
my heart; I could not bear to lose You.
There is no question of losing me. We carry in ourselves an
eternal consciousness and it is of this that one must become
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Whatever the reason may be, as soon as my consciousness loses You I become joyless and without energy.
At no moment do I forget you. Don't you rather allow too many
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It is precisely because of this that you lose the feeling of the
Presence.
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the Divine and never loses this contact.
The Divine is constantly present in the psychic being and the
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was feeling quite lost. Suddenly I felt something that
rose from the depths of my being, through a crowd of
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that I told You I was losing all human feelings.
This can hardly be called a loss; I consider it an inestimable gain.
A love which is sufficiently strong can make a person the
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2nd: One loses confidence, begins to criticise, is not satisfied.
3rd: One revolts and sinks into falsehood.
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risk of losing what one has rather than passing it on to others.
Series Six - To a Young Sadhak
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One must never lose hope or faith - there is nothing incurable,
and no limit can be set to the power of the Divine.
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never lose sight of the fact that this is not a source of knowledge and that it is not in this way that one can draw c lose
to knowledge. Naturally, this does not hold good for The Life
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The most important is to master yourself and never lose your
temper. If you don't have control over yourself, how can you
0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
8. I remained, lost in oblivion; My face I reclined on the Beloved.
All ceased and I abandoned myself, Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
will come and go. But may I never lose sight of your
luminous smiling face through all these passing clouds!
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
them, we lose our tranquillity and come galloping down to rush
into the great hall that forms the base of the tower and is the
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themselves slowly, gracefully, calmly descend, without losing
anything of their elegance or beauty and, as they cross the
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being, we can never lose it. Isn't that so? But can we
come into contact with it from time to time when we are
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo said, Our Yoga is not for ourselves but for humanity, many heaved a sigh of relief and thought that the great soul was after all not entirely lost to the world, his was not one more name added to the long list of Sannyasins that India has been producing age after age without much profit either to herself or to the human society (or even perhaps to their own selves). People understood his Yoga to be a modern one, dedicated to the service of humanity. If service to humanity was not the very sum and substance of his spirituality, it was, at least, the fruitful end and consummation. His Yoga was a sort of art to explore and harness certain unseen powers that can better and ameliorate human life in a more successful way than mere rational scientific methods can hope to do.
Sri Aurobindo saw that the very core of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his saying. So he changed his words and said, Our Yoga is not for humanity but for the Divine. But I am afraid this change of front, this volte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all hope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be totally lost and he came to be looked upon again as an irrevocable metaphysical dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even like the Immutable Brahman.
II
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is the lesson of life that always in this world everything fails a man - only the Divine does not fail him, if he turns entirely towards the Divine. It is not because there is something bad in you that blows fall on you - blows fall on all human beings because they are full of desire for things that cannot last and they lose them or, even if they get, it brings disappointment and cannot satisfy them. To turn to the Divine is the only truth in life.
To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiritual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable and all the resit is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to manifest Him, - that is, first of all to transform one's own limited consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, to live in the infinite Peace, Light, Love, Strength, Bliss, to become that in one's essential nature and, as a consequence, to be its vessel, channel, instrument in one's active nature. To bring into activity the principle of oneness on the material plane or to work for humanity is a mental mistranslation of the Truth - these things cannot be the first true object of spiritual seeking. We must find the Self, the Divine, then only can we know what is the work the Self or the Divine demands from us. Until then our life and action can only be a help or a means towards finding the Divine and it ought not to have any other purpose. As we grow in inner consciousness, or as the spiritual Truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and action must indeed more and more flow from that, be one with that. But to decide beforeh and by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, substituting the pure Gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the material plane. To hold up a mental ideal or principle and impose that on the inner working brings the danger of limiting ourselves to a mental realisation or of impeding or even falsifying by a halfway formation the truth growth into the full communion and union with the Divine and the free and intimate outflowing of His will in our life. This is a mistake of orientation to which the mind of today is especially prone. It is far better to approach the Divine for the Peace or Light or Bliss that the realisation of Him gives than to bring in these minor things which can divert us from the one thing needful. The divinisation of the material life also as well as the inner life is part of what we see as the Divine Plan, but it can only be fulfilled by an ourflowing of the inner realisation, something that grows from within outwards, not by the working out of a mental principle.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A spark of deity lost in Matter's crypt
Its lustre vanishes in the inconscient planes,
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
An organ in the human being has been especially developed to become the effective instrument of this accelerated Yogic process the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his psychic being; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolutionary movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his external consciousness. It is also the channel through which the Divine Consciousness can flow down into the inferior levels of human nature. It is the being no bigger than the thumb ever seated within the heart, spoken of in the Upanishads. It is likewise the basis of true individuality and personal identity. It is again the reflection or expression in evolutionary Nature of one's essential selfjivtman that is above, an eternal portion of the Divine, one with the Divine and yet not dissolved and lost in it. The psychic being is thus on the one hand in direct contact with the Divine and the higher consciousness, and on the other it is the secret upholder and controller' (bhart, antarymin) of the inferior consciousness, the hidden nucleus round which the body and the life and the mind of the individual are built up and organised.
The first decisive step in Yoga is taken when one becomes conscious of the psychic being, or, looked at from the other side, when the psychic being comes forward and takes possession of the external being, begins to initiate and influence the movements of the mind and life and body and gradually free them from the ordinary round of ignorant nature. The awakening of the psychic being means, as I have said, not only a deepening and heightening of the consciousness and its release from the obscurity and limitation of the inferior Prakriti, confined to the lower threefold status, into what is behind and beyond; it means also a return of the deeper and higher consciousness upon the lower hemisphere and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of the latter. Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental consciousness which will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of the external nature, its transfiguration into a perfect body of the Truth-consciousness in a word, its divinisation.
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its beginning lost, its motive and plot concealed,
A once living story has prepared and made
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Recover the lost habit of happiness,
Feel her bright nature's glorious ambience,
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To win or lose the godlike game for man,
Was her soul's issue thrown with Destiny's dice.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And loses his kinship to mortality.
A beam of the Eternal smites his heart,
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These symbol figures lost their right to live,
All tokens dropped our sense can recognise;
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Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time
In the dust and crannies of his mounting route
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And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun.
In a splendid extravagance of the waste of God
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And lost life's incapacity for bliss.
All now suppressed in us began to emerge.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Divine will bring Ananda, therefore it must be for the Ananda that we seek the union, is not true and has no force. One who loves a queen may know that if she returns his love it will bring him power, position, riches and yet it need not be for the power, position, riches that he seeks her love. He may love her for herself and could love her equally if she were not a queen; he might have no hope of any return whatever and yet love her, adore her, live for her, die for her simply because she is she. That has happened and men have loved women without any hope of enjoyment or result, loved steadily, passionately after age has come and beauty has gone. Patriots do not love their country only when she is rich, powerful, great and has much to give them; their love for country has been most ardent, passionate, absolute when the country was poor, degraded, miserable, having nothing to give but loss, wounds, torture, imprisonment, death as the wages of her service; yet even knowing that they would never see her free, men have lived, served and died for her - for her own sake, not for what she could give. Men have loved Truth for her own sake and for what they could seek or find of her, accepted poverty, persecution, death itself; they have been content even to seek for her always, not finding, and yet never given up the search.
That means what? That men, country, Truth and other things besides can be loved for their own sake and not for anything else, not for any circumstance or attendant quality or resulting enjoyment, but for something absolute that is either in them or behind their appearance and circumstance. The Divine is more than a man or woman, a stretch of land or a creed, opinion, discovery or principle. He is the Person beyond all persons, the
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the Yogi is a wholly conscious being; a perfect Yogi is he who possesses a conscious and willed control over his instruments, he silences them, as and when he likes, and makes them convey and express with as little deviation as possible truths and realities from the Beyond. Now the question is, is it possible for the poet also to do something like that, to consciously create and not to be a mere unconscious or helpless channel? Conscious artistry, as we have said, means to be conscious on two levels of consciousness at the same time, to be at home in both equally and simultaneously. The general experience, however, is that of "one at a time": if the artist dwells more in the one, the other retires into the background to the same measure. If he is in the over-consciousness, he is only half-conscious in his brain consciousness, or even not conscious at allhe does not know how he has created, the sources or process of his creative activity, he is quite oblivious of them" gone through them all as if per saltum. Such seems to have been the case with the primitives, as they are called, the elemental poetsShakespeare and Homer and Valmiki. In some others, who come very near to them in poetic genius, yet not quite on a par, the instrumental intelligence is strong and active, it helps in its own way but in helping circumscribes and limits the original impulsion. The art here becomes consciously artistic, but loses something of the initial freshness and spontaneity: it gains in correctness, polish and elegance and has now a style in lieu of Nature's own naturalness. I am thinking of Virgil and Milton and Kalidasa. Dante's place is perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versificationalthough here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille are of this order in French poetry.
The three or four major orders I speak of in reference to conscious artistry are exampled characteristically in the history of the evolution of Greek poetry. It must be remembered, however, at the very outset that the Greeks as a race were nothing if not rational and intellectual. It was an element of strong self-consciousness that they brought into human culture that was their special gift. Leaving out of account Homer who was, as I said, a primitive, their classical age began with Aeschylus who was the first and the most spontaneous and intuitive of the Great Three. Sophocles, who comes next, is more balanced and self-controlled and pregnant with a reasoned thought-content clothed in polished phrasing. We feel here that the artist knew what he was about and was exercising a conscious control over his instruments and materials, unlike his predecessor who seemed to be completely carried away by the onrush of the poetic enthousiasmos. Sophocles, in spite of his artistic perfection or perhaps because of it, appears to be just a little, one remove, away from the purity of the central inspiration there is a veil, although a thin transparent veil, yet a veil between which intervenes. With the third of the Brotherhood, Euripides, we slide lower downwe arrive at a predominantly mental transcription of an experience or inner conception; but something of the major breath continues, an aura, a rhythm that maintains the inner contact and thus saves the poetry. In a subsequent age, in Theocritus, for example, poetry became truly very much 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought', so much of virtuosity and precocity entered into it; in other words, the poet then was an excessively self-conscious artist. That seems to be the general trend of all literature.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Calls to those lucent lost immensities.
Even when we fail to look into our souls
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Towards an undying Light for ever lost;
Only it hears, sole echo of its call,
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That draw her as if mighty kinsmen lost
Approaching with estranged great luminous gaze.
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The murmurs lost by Life's uncaring ear,
A prophet-speech in Thought's omniscient trance.
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Our hearts recall the lost divine Idea,
Reconstitute the perfect word, unite
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And all by which we find or lose ourselves,
Things sweet and bitter, magnificent and mean,
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As if he had lost an inner light he seeks:
As a sojourner lingering amid alien scenes
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And transient splendours won and lost by the days.
Or passing through a gate of pillar-rocks,
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And raise a lost Power from its python sleep
That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The riddle grew plain and lost its catch obscure.
A larger lustre lit the mighty page.
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For all we have acquired soon loses worth,
An old disvalued credit in Time's bank,
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A picture lost in far and fading streaks,
The earth-nature's summits sank below his feet:
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Illusion lost her aggrandising lens;
As from her failing hand the measures fell,
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The expanding zero lost its giant curve.
The old adamantine vetoes stood no more:
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Giving to her her lost forgotten soul.
A grand solution c losed the long impasse
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It grouped the golden links that they had lost
And showed to them their divine unity,
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Mind's winding search lost every tinge of doubt
Led to its end by an all-seeing speech
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A paean swelled from the lost musing deeps;
An anthem pealed to the triune ecstasies,
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding The lost Footsteps by Silviu Craciunas) This
book shows how Sri Aurobindo is working in every corner of the world. We who are here in the Ashram still
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to lose his case; his client is accused of murder, all the
evidence is against him, but the master-stroke of the
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having lost both legs in an accident, he vowed that he
would continue his career as a pilot. He is a man of
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have lost my sense of direction. Where exactly am I?
I would like to have an indication, a way to get out,
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Everything else has lost all value and is not worth seeking, so
there is no longer any question of renouncing it because it is no
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The resolutions I make lose their intensity and ardour after a time. How can I keep this enthusiasm and
increase it more and more?
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conscience, who has lost it by having disregarded it too
often?
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man, however great and puissant he may be, is a perishable thing. People who gather or are gathered round a man and cling to him through the tie of a personal relation must fall off and scatter when the man passes away and the personal tie loses its hold. What remains is a memory, a gradually fading memory. But memory is hardly a creative force, it is a dead, at best, a moribund thing; the real creative power is Presence. So when the great man's presence, the power that crystallises is gone, the whole edifice crumbles and vanishes into air or remains a mere name.
Love and admiration for a mahapurusha is not enough, even faith in his gospel is of little avail, nor can actual participation, consecrated work and labour in his cause save the situation; it is only when the principles, the bare realities for which the mahapurusha stands are in the open forum and men have the full and free opportunity of testing and assimilating them, it is only when individuals thus become living embodiments of those principles and realities that we do create a thing universal and permanent, as universal and permanent as earthly things may be. Principles only can embrace and unify the whole of humanity; a particular personality shall always create division and limitation. By placing the man in front, we erect a wall between the Principle and men at large. It is the principles, on the contrary, that should be given the place of honour: our attempt should be to keep back personalities and make as little use of them as possible. Let the principles work and create in their freedom and power, untrammelled by the limitations of any mere human vessel.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We fear Mr. Huxley has completely missed the point of the cryptic sentence. He seems to take it as meaning that human kindness and morality are a means to the recovery of the lost Way-although codes of ethics and deliberate choices are not sufficient in themselves, they are only a second best, yet they mark the rise of self-consciousness and have to be utilised to pass on into the unitive knowledge that is Tao. This explanation or amplification seems to us somewhat confused and irrelevant to the idea expressed in the apophthegm. What is stated here is much simpler and transparent. It is this that when the Divine is absent and the divine Knowledge, then comes in man with his human mental knowledge: it is man's humanity that clouds the Divine and to reach the' Divine one must reject the human values, all the moralities, sarva dharmn, seek only the Divine. The lesser way lies through the dualities, good and evil, the Great Way is beyond them and cannot be limited or measured by the relative standards. Especially in the modern age we see the decline and almost the disappearance of the Greater Light and instead a thousand smaller lights are lighted which vainly strive to dispel the gathering darkness. These do not help, they are false lights and men are apt to cling to them, shutting their eyes to the true one which is not that that one worships here and now, nedam yadidam upsate.
There is a beautiful quotation from the Chinese sage, Wu Ch'ng-n, regarding the doubtful utility of written Scriptures:
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elementsSakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic materialenter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so,a single unitary body was formed out of such varied and shifting materialsnot in the political, but in a socio-religious sense. For a catholic religious spirit, not being solely doctrinal and personal, admitted and embraced in its supple and wide texture almost an infinite variety of approaches to the Divine, of forms and norms of apprehending the Beyond. It has been called Hinduism: it is a vast synthesis of multiple affiliations. It expresses the characteristic genius of India and hence Hinduism and Indianism came to be looked upon as synonymous terms. And the same could be defined also as Vedic religion and culture, for its invariable basis the bed-rock on which it stood firm and erectwas the Vedas, the Knowledge seen by the sages. But there had already risen a voice of dissidence and discord that of Buddha, not so much, perhaps, of Buddha as of Buddhism. The Buddhistic enlightenment and discipline did not admit the supreme authority of the Vedas; it sought other bases of truth and reality. It was a great denial; and it meant and worked for a vital schism. The denial of the Vedas by itself, perhaps, would not be serious, but it became so, as it was symptomatic of a deeper divergence. Denying the Vedas, the Buddhistic spirit denied life. It was quite a new thing in the Indian consciousness and spiritual discipline. And it left such a stamp there that even today it stands as the dominant character of the Indian outlook. However, India's synthetic genius rose to the occasion and knew how to bridge the chasm, c lose up the fissure, and present again a body whole and entire. Buddha became one of the Avataras: the discipline of Nirvana and Maya was reserved as the last duty to be performed at the end of life, as the culmination of a full-length span of action and achievement; the way to Moksha lay through Dharma and Artha and Kama, Sannyasa had to be built upon Brahmacharya and Garhasthya. The integral ideal was epitomized by Kalidasa in his famous lines about the character of the Raghus:
They devoted themselves to study in their boyhood, in youth they pursued the objects of life; when old they took to spiritual austerities, and in the end they died united with the higher consciousness.
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Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
History abounds in instances of racial and cultural immixture. Indeed, all major human groupings of today are invariably composite formations. Excepting, perhaps, some primitiveaboriginal tribes there are no pure races existent. The Briton, the Dane, the Anglo-Saxon, and the Norman have combined to form the British; a Frenchman has a Gaul, a Roman, a Frank in him; and a Spaniard's blood would show an Iberian, a Latin, a Gothic, a Moorish element in it. And much more than a people, a culture in modern times has been a veritable cockpit of multifarious and even incongruous elements. There are instances also in which a perfect fusion could not be accomplished, and one element had to be rejected or crushed out. The complete disappearance of the Aztecs and Mayas in South America, the decadence of the Red Indians in North America, of the Negroes in Africa as a result of a fierce clash with European peoples and European culture illustrate the point.
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Islam comes with a full-fledged spiritual soul and a mental and vital formation commensurable with that inner being and consciousness. It comes with a dynamic spirit, a warrior mood, that aims at conquering the physical world for the Lord, a temperament which Indian spirituality had not, or had lost long before, if she had anything of it. This was, perhaps, what Vivekananda meant when he spoke graphically of a Hindu soul with a Muslim body. The Islamic dispensation, however, brings with it not only something complementary, but also something contradictory, if not for anything else, at least for the strong individuality which does not easily yield to assimilation. Still, in spite of great odds, the process of assimilation was going on slowly and surely. But of late it appears to have come to a dead halt; difficulties have been presented which seem insuperable.
If religious toleration were enough, if that made up man's highest and largest achievement, then Nature need not have attempted to go beyond cultural fusion; a liberal culture is the surest basis for a catholic religious spirit. But such a spirit of toleration and catholicity, although it bespeaks a widened consciousness, does not always enshrine a profundity of being. Nobody is more tolerant and catholic than a dilettante, but an ardent spiritual soul is different.
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Vivekananda said that if human society is to be remodelled, one must first of all learn not to think and act in terms of claims and rights but in terms of duties and obligations. Fulfil your duties conscientiously, the rights will take care of themselves; it is such an attitude that can give man the right poise, the right impetus, the right outlook with regard to a collective living. If instead of each one demanding what one considers as one's dues and consequently scrambling and battling for them, and most often not getting them or getting at a ruinous pricewhat made Arjuna cry, "What shall I do with all this kingdom if in regaining it I lose all my kith and kin dear to me?"if, indeed, instead of claiming one's right, one were content to know one's duty and do it as it should be done, then not only there would be peace and amity upon earth, but also each one far from losing anything would find miraculously all that one most needs and must have,the necessary, the right rights and all.
It might be objected here however that actually in the history of humanity the conception of Duty has been no less pugnacious than that of Right. In certain ages and among certain peoples, for example, it was considered the imperative duty of the faithful to kill or convert by force or otherwise as many as possible belonging to other faiths: it was the mission of the good shepherd to burn the impious and the heretic. In recent times, it was a sense of high and solemn duty that perpetrated what has been termed "purges"brutalities undertaken, it appears, to purify and preserve the integrity of a particular ideological, social or racial aggregate. But the real name of such a spirit is not duty but fanaticism. And there is a considerable difference between the two. Fanaticism may be defined as duty running away with itself; but what we are concerned with here is not the aberration of duty, but duty proper self-poised.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony
Of death and birth.
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..... our losses, the torn seine,
The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
not lose your money."
If the Mother could make these two men honest
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make up for all the lost time.
Whatever the past may have been, it is not time that is needed
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why and how does one lose one's spiritual gain by
going elsewhere? One can make a conscious effort and
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however, few of them take the trouble to do it, so they lose the
fine opportunity that has been given to them.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the
path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At times, finding the world unready to receive Her, She contemplates withdrawing. But how cruel a loss this would be!
It is true that at present, her presence is more rhetorical than factual, since so far She has had no chance to manifest. Yet even so, She is a powerful instrument in the Work, for of all the Mothers aspects, She holds the greatest power to transform the body. Indeed, those cells which can vibrate at the touch of the divine Joy, receive it and bear it, are cells reborn, on their way to becoming immortal.
0 1956-03-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The control over the movements of the vertebrae, lost a long time ago (which resulted in a kind of insensitivity and incapacity to move them at will) has returned to a great extent: the consciousness is once again able to express itself and the back can straighten up very visibly.
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0 1956-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I understand now that as long as my whole being has not ACCEPTED that it must finish its life here, there is no way out nor any recovery possible. Through my mental force alone, this acceptance is impossible; I have been turning infernally in circles these past two months, and the mind is in league with the vital. Therefore, a force greater than mine must help me accept that my way is here. I need you, Mother, for without you I am lost. I need you to tell me that the Truth of my being is indeed here and that I am truly ready to follow this path. Mother, I beseech you, help me to see the truth of my being, give me some sign that my way is here and not elsewhere. I beg of you, Mother, help me to know.
I also had a very clear sensation that you were abandoning me, that you had no further interest in me and I could just as well do as I pleased. Perhaps you cannot forgive some of my inner rebellions which have been so very violent? Am I totally guilty? Is it true that you are abandoning me?
0 1956-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The difficulties of the past weeks have taught me that as soon as one strays from the true consciousness, in however trifling a way, anything may happen, any excess, any aberration, any imbalance and I have felt very dangerous things prowling about me. Mother, you told me in regard to Patrick1 that the law of the manifestation was a law of freedom, even the freedom to choose wrongly. This evening, it has been my very deep perception that this freedom is virtually always a freedom to choose wrongly. I harbor a great fear of losing the true consciousness once again. I have become aware of how fragile everything in me is and that very little would be enough to carry me away.
Therefore, Sweet Mother, I come to ask a great grace of you, from the depths of my heart: take my freedom into your hands. Prevent me from falling back, far away from you. I place this freedom in your hands. Keep me safe, Mother, protect me. Grant me the grace of watching over me and of taking me in your hands completely, like a child whose steps are unsure. I no longer want this Freedom. It is you I want, the Truth of my being. Mother, as a grace, I implore you to free me from my freedom to choose wrongly.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But for this only like can know like. Only the Supramental Consciousness in an individual can perceive the Supramental acting in the earth atmosphere. Those who, for whatever reason, have developed this perception can see it. But those who are not even remotely conscious of their inner beings, who would be quite at a loss to say what their souls look like, are certainly not ready to perceive the difference in the earth atmosphere. They still have quite a way to go for that. Because, for those whose consciousness is more or less exclusively centered in the outer beingmental, vital and physicalthings need to have an absurd or unexpected appearance to be noticeable. And then they call it a miracle.
But we do not call a miracle the constant miracle of the forces that intervene to change circumstances and human natures and which have very far-reaching consequences, for we see only the appearance, and this appearance seems quite natural. But in truth, if you were to reflect upon the least thing that happens, you would be forced to acknowledge that it is miraculous.
0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I feel a bit lost, cut off from you. The idea of going to the Himalayas is absurd and I am abandoning it. My friends tell me that I may remain with them as long as I wish, but this is hardly a solution; I dont even feel like writing a book any longernothing seems to appeal to me except the trees in this garden and the music that fills a large part of my days. There is no solution other than the Ashram or Brazil. You alone can tell me what to do.
I KNOW that ultimately my place is near you, but is that my place at present, after all these failings? Spontaneously, it is you I want, you alone who represent the light and all that is real in this world; I can love no one but you nor be interested in anything but this thing within me, but will it not all begin again once I have returned to the Ashram? You alone know the stage I am at, what is good for me, what is possible.
0 1956-10-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Complete surrender It is not a matter of giving what is small to something greater nor of losing ones will in the divine will; it is a matter of ANNULLING ones will in something that is of another nature.
What comes to replace this human will?
0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I am facing the same difficulties as before my departure to Hyderabad, and I have made the same mistakes. The main reason for this state is that, on the one hand, words and ideas seem to have lost all power over me, and on the other, the vital elan which led me thus far is dead. So upon what shall my faith rest? I still have some faith, of course, but it has become totally ABSTRACT. The vital does not cooperate, so I feel all withered, suspended in a void, nothing seems to give me direction anymore. There is no rebelliousness in me, but rather a void.
In this state, I am ceaselessly thinking of my forest in Guiana or of my travels through Africa and the ardor that filled me with life in those days. I seem to need to have my goal before me and to walk towards it. Outer difficulties also seem to help me resolve my inner problems: there is a kind of need in me for the elements the sea, the forest, the desert for a milieu with which I can wrestle and through which I can grow. Here, I seem to lack a dynamic point of leverage. Here, in the everyday routine, everything seems to be falling apart in me. Should I not return to my forest in Guiana?
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One should beware of the charm of memories. What remains of past experiences is the effect they have had in the development of the consciousness. But when one attempts to relive a memory by placing oneself again in similar circumstances, one realizes quite rapidly how devoid they are of their power and charm, because they have lost their usefulness for progress.
You are now beyond the stage when the virgin forest and the desert can be useful for your growth. They had put you in contact with a life vaster than your own and they widened the limits of your consciousness. But now you need something else.
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I realize that all the progress I was able to make during the first two years has been lost and I am just as before, worse than beforeas if all my strength were in ruin, all faith in myself undoneso much so that at times I curse myself for having come here at all.
That is the situation, Mother. I feel my unworthiness profoundly. I am the opposite of Satprem, unable to love and to give myself. Everything in me is sealed tight.
0 1957-07-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
She clearly remembered where her room was, but each time she set out to go there, either the staircase disappeared or things were so changed that she could no longer find her way! So she went here and there, up and down, searched, went in and out but it was impossible to find the way to her room! Since all of this assumed a physical appearanceas I said, a very familiar and very common appearance, as is always the case in these symbolic visions there was somewhere (how shall I put it?) the hotels administrative office and a woman who seemed to be the manager, who had all the keys and who knew where everyone was staying. So the daughter went to this person and asked her, Could you show me the way to my room?But of course! Easily! Everyone around the manager looked at her as if to say, How can you say that? However, she got up, and with authority asked for a key the key to the daughters roomsaying, I shall take you there. And off she went along all kinds of paths, but all so complicated, so bizarre! The daughter was following along behind her very attentively, you see, so as not to lose sight of her. But just as they should have come to the place where the daughters room was supposed to be, suddenly the manageress (let us call her the manageress), both the manageress and her key vanished! And the sense of this vanishing was so acute that at the same time, everything vanished!
So to help you understand this enigma, let me tell you that the mother is physical Nature as she is, and the daughter is the new creation. The manageress is the worlds organizing mental consciousness as Nature has developed it thus far, that is, the most advanced organizing sense to have manifested in the present state of material Nature. This is the key to the vision.
0 1957-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, this is what is rising from my soul: I feel in me something unemployed, something seeking to express itself in life. I want to be like a knight, your knight, and go off in search of a treasure that I could bring back to you. The world has lost all sense of the wonderful, all beauty of Adventure, this quest known to the knights of the Middle Ages. It is this that calls so relentlessly within me, this need for a quest in the world and for a beautiful Adventure which at the same time would be an adventure of the soul. How I wish that the two things, inner and outer, be JOINED, that the joy of action, of the open road and the quest help the souls b lossoming, that they be like a prayer of the soul expressed in life. The knights of the Middle Ages knew this. Perhaps it is all childish and absurd in the midst of this 20th century, but this is what I feel, this that is summoning me to leavenot anything base, not anything mediocre, only a need for something in me to be fulfilled. If only I could bring you back a beautiful treasure!
After that, perhaps I would be riper to accept the everyday life of the Ashram, and know how to give myself better.
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration. And suddenly, all Nature rushed forth in an immense bounding of joy, saying, I accept! I will collaborate! And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquillity, to allow this receptacle, this body, to receive and contain without breaking and without losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she sawwith all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play.
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
0 1958-02-03a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A Sannyasi, or wandering monk, whom Satprem would join a few weeks later in Ceylon, on February 27, and who would initiate him as a Sannyasi. Unfortunately, almost all the correspondence from this period has been lost.
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0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
On the way, I stopped at J and Es place. They are living like native fishermen, in loincloths, in a coconut grove by the sea. The place is exceedingly beautiful, and the sea full of rainbow-hued coral. And suddenly, within twenty-four hours, I realized an old dreamor rather, I purged myself of an old and tenacious dream: that of living on a Pacific island as a simple fisherman. And all at once, I saw, in a flash, that this kind of life totally lacks a center. You float in a nowhere. It plunges you into some kind of higher inertia, an illumined inertia, and you lose all true substance.
As for me, I am totally out of my element in this new life, as though I were uprooted from myself. I am living in the temple, in the midst of pujas,1 with white ashes on my forehead, barefoot dressed like a Hindu, sleeping on cement at night, eating impossible curries, with some good sunburns to complete the cooking. And there I am, clinging to you, for if you were not there I would collapse, so absurd would it all be. You are the only realityhow many times have I repeated this to myself, like a litany! Apart from this, I am holding up quite well physically. But inside and outside, nothing is left but you. I need you, thats all. Mother, this world is so horrifyingly empty. I really feel that I would evaporate if you werent there. Well, no doubt I had to go through this experience Perhaps I will be able to extract some book from it that will be of use to you. We are like children who need a lot of pictures in order to understand, and a few good kicks to realize our complete stupidity.
0 1958-07-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At heart, this is the symbol of the earthly Paradise and the tree of Knowledge: by biting into the fruit of Knowledge, one loses the spontaneity of movement and begins objectivizing, learning, questioning. So as soon as they ate of this fruit, they were full of sin.
I say that every fruit should be eaten in its own way. The being who lives according to his own nature, his own truth, must spontaneously find the right way of using things. When you live according to the truth of your being, you dont need to learn things: you do them spontaneously, according to the inner law. When you sincerely follow your nature, spontaneously and sincerely, you are divine. As soon as you think or look at yourself acting or start questioning, you are full of sin.
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They have lost their divinity.
Truly, the human species is at a point in the spiral which is not very pretty.
0 1958-09-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Something the modern world has completely lost is the sense of the sacred.
Ever since my childhood, I have spent my time veiling myself: one veil over another veil over another veil, so as to remain invisible. Because to see me without the true attitude is the great sin. Anyway, sin in the sense Sri Aurobindo defines itmeaning that things are no longer in their place.
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Money is not meant to generate money; money should generate an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. This is its true use. What I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything that education in all its forms can providenot as its generally understood, but as we understand it here: education in art, education in from the education of the body, from the most material progress, to the spiritual education and progress through yoga; the whole spectrum, everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money should serve to augment that and to augment the material base for the earths progress, the best use of what the earth can giveits intelligent utilization, not the utilization that wastes and loses energies. The use that allows energies to be replenished.
In the universe there is an inexhaustible source of energy that asks only to be replenished; if you know how to go about it, it is replenished. Instead of draining life and the energies of our earth and making of it something parched and inert, we must know the practical exercise for replenishing the energy constantly. And these are not just words; I know how its to be done, and science is in the process of thoroughly finding outit has found out most admirably. But instead of using it to satisfy human passions, instead of using what science has found so that men may destroy each other more effectively than they are presently doing, it must be used to enrich the earth: to enrich the earth, to make the earth richer and richer, more active, generous, productive and to make all life grow towards its maximum efficiency. This is the true use of money. And if its not used like that, its a vicea short circuit and a vice.
0 1958-11-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All this together constitutes one collective entity, and the individual is lost in it. If I had to deal with this person or that person individually, it would be different. But all together, taking them all together as a collective entity, well, its not brilliant.
Mother is referring to the Ashram as a collectivity.
0 1958-11-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But as soon as you want to express it, it escapes like water running through your fingers; all the fluidity is lost, it evaporates. A rather vague, poetic or artistic expression is much truer, much nearer to the truth something hazy, nebulous, undefined. Something not concretized like a rigid mental expressionthis rigidity that the mind has introduced right down into the Inconscient.
This vision of the Inconscient (Mother remains gazing for a moment) it was the MENTAL Inconscient. Because the starting point was mental. A special Inconscientrigid, hard, resistantwith all that the mind has brought into our consciousness. But it was far worse, far worse than a purely material Inconscient! A mentalized Inconscient, as it were. All this rigidity, this hardness, this narrowness, this fixitya FIXITYcomes from the presence of the mind in creation. When the mind was not manifested, the Inconscient was not like that! It was formless and had the plasticity of something that is formless the plasticity has gone.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Truly speaking, perhaps one is never rid of the hostile forces as long as one has not permanently emerged into the Light, above the lower hemisphere. There, the term hostile forces loses its meaning; they become only forces of progress, they force you to progress. But to see things in this way, you have to get out of the lower hemisphere, for below, they are very real in their opposition to the divine plan.
It was said in the ancient traditions that one could not live for more than twenty days in this higher state without leaving ones body and returning to the supreme Origin. Now this is no longer true.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As soon as you had left, and since I was following you, I saw that nothing of the kind was going to happen, but rather something very superficial which would not be of much use. And when I received your letters and saw that you were in difficulty, I did something. There are places that are favorable for occult experiences. Benares is one of these places, the atmosphere there is filled with vibrations of occult forces, and if one has the slightest capacity, it spontaneously develops there, in the same way that a spiritual aspiration develops very strongly and spontaneously as soon as one lands in India. These are Graces. Graces, because it is the destiny of the country, it has been so throughout its history, and because India has always been turned much more towards the heights and the inner depths than towards the outer world. Now, it is in the process of losing all that and wallowing in the mud, but thats another story it was like that and it is still like that. And in fact, when you returned from Rameswaram with your robes, I saw with much satisfaction that there was still a GREAT dignity and a GREAT sincerity in this endeavor of the Sannyasis towards the higher life and in the self-giving of a certain number of people to realize this higher life. When you returned, it had become a very concrete and a very real thing that immediately commanded respect. Before, I had seen only a copy, an imitation, an hypocrisy, a pretentionnothing that was really lived. But then, I saw that it was true, that it was lived, that it was real and that it was still Indias great heritage. I dont believe it is very prevalent now, but in any case, it is still there, and as I told you, it commands respect. And then, as I felt you in difficulty and as the outer conditions were not only veiling but spoiling the inner, well, on that day I wrote you a short note I no longer recall when it was exactly, but I wrote you just a word or two, which I put in an envelope and sent you I concentrated very strongly upon those few words and sent you something. I didnt note the date, I dont remember when it was, but its likely that it happened as I wished when you were in Benares; and then you had this experience.
But when you returned the second time, from the Himalayas, you didnt have the same flame as when you returned the first time. And I understood that this kind of difficult karma still clung to you, that it had not been dissolved. I had hoped that your contact with the mountains but in a true solitude (I dont mean that your body had to be all alone, but there should not have been all kinds of outer, superficial things) Anyway, it didnt happen. So it means that the time had not come.
0 1958-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Basically, the vast majority of men are like prisoners with all the doors and all the windows shut, so they suffocate (which is quite natural), but they have with them the key that opens the doors and the windows, and they dont use it Certainly, there is a period when they dont know that they have the key, but even long after they do know it, long after they have been told, they hesitate to use it and doubt that it has the power to open the doors and windows, or even that it may be advisable to open them. And even once they feel that After all, it might be a good thing, a fear pursues them: What is going to happen once all these doors and these windows open? They become afraidafraid of losing themselves in this light and in this freedom. They want to remain what they call themselves. They love their falsehood and their slavery. Something in them loves it and remains clinging to it. They feel that without their limits, they would no longer exist.
That is why the journey is so long, so difficult. For if one would truly consent no longer to be, everything would become so easy, so swift, so luminous, so joyousthough perhaps not in the way men conceive of joy and ease. At heart, there are very few beings who are not enamored of struggle. There are very few who would consent to having no darkness or who can conceive of light as anything other than the opposite of obscurity: Without shadow, there would be no painting. Without struggle, there would be no victory. Without suffering, there would be no joy. That is what they think, and as long as they think like that, they are not yet born to the spirit.
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your letter, Sweet Mother, has filled me with strength and resolution. I want to be victorious and I want to serve you. I see very well that gradually I can be taught many useful things by X. The essential thing is first of all to lose this ego which falsifies everything. Finally, through your grace, I believe that I have passed a decisive turning point and that there is a beginning of real consecration and I feel your Love, your Presence. Things are opening a little.
Sweet Mother, I love you and I want to serve you truly.
0 1959-03-26 - Lord of Death, Lord of Falsehood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The power of this Titan comes from an Asura. There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical bodythey have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount The Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I dont know what has become of him.1 As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted, but he found it disgusting!
At times he calls himself the Lord of Nations. It is he who sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation nor the supramental world, for that would spell his end. Besides, he knows We talk to each other; beyond all this, we have our relationship. For after all, you see (laughing), I am his mother! One day he told me, I know you will destroy me, but meanwhile, I will create all the havoc possible.
0 1959-06-13a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have received your last two letters of the 10th and 11th. I told X what you wrote about this trip to France and that your finances are in an almost desperate state. He replied with perfect assurance, Soon it will increase, very soon it will change. I am obviously hesitant to accept your generous offer and I do not know what I should do. I had never thought of returning to France, except in a distant future. I dont know why X told me that I should return there, except perhaps because he felt who my mother is. I know that she is sad, that she believes me lost to her and thinks she will die without seeing me again. It would surely be a great joy to her. But other than that, I have no desire to go there, for each time I go to France, I feel like I am entering a prison. Naturally I would be happy for my mothers joy; she is a great soul, but is this reason enough?
Sunday, 14th
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To make use of your nights is an excellent thing, for it has a double effect: a negative effect, in that it keeps you from falling backwards, from losing what youve gained (that is really painful); and a positive effect, in that you progress, you continue progressing. You make use of your nights, so theres no more residue of fatigue.
There are two things to avoid: falling into a stupor of unconsciousness, with all those things coming up from the subconscious and the unconscious that invade and penetrate you, and a vital and mental hyperactivity in which you pass your time literally fightingterrible battles. People come out of that black and blue, as if they had been beaten and they have been, it is not as if! And I see only one way outto change the nature of sleep.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I turned around and saw all this water rushing down, and I thought, Now lets see if we can do something here. There was someone behind who interested me, someone or somethingit was still something; it was very likable and had something of the blue color that was here on the other side. Not really individuals, but more like beings representative of something that was following me quite c losely. When I was there, it also was there, but it could not keep up, it kept losing groundas my speed increased, its decreased. It could not keep up. But it interested me in a special way. Oh, hes so c lose (he or it); he might just make it, I thought. And at that moment, I saw that all this destructive will with its instrument of water, symbolically water, had rushed past and was spreading out everywhere. But there was still a chance of saving all those who were along this path. And thats immediately what I thought of, it was my first wish: Lets see if they can still get across, if I can manage to get them across. I remembered some especially dangerous spots (while speeding past, I had remarked, Oh, here we might still be able to do this, there that could still be donemy consciousness moved at the same speed, and I noted everything along the way), and once I was firmly there on the other side, I started sending back messages.
Down below, the water was having a grand time; it was it was hopeless. But here, along this path, there was still a hope, even even after the water had passed; I probably had a certain power at my disposal to help others cross these fissured places. But because I woke up, I didnt see what it was. So that stopped everything. Probably because I woke up rather abruptly, I could not see what it meant.
0 1960-09-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Imagine! I thought I had lost my hearing. But I just realized that when I dont hear its because Im elsewhere.
Just now, I concentrated a little and tuned into your voice. And not one word escaped me! It became clear, absolutely clear.
Normally Im not there. And some people I hear, others I dont hear. But I hadnt imagined that it depended on this I thought I had lost my hearing. But just now I stopped everything, absolutely everything, I concentrated and tuned init became so clear!
Basically, it must be the same for my eyes. Sometimes I see wonderfully, and sometimes its blurred. It must be for the same reason I probably have to learn to concentrate!
0 1960-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In these modern languages, its as if things are passed through a sieve and broken up into separate little bits, so then you have all the work of putting them back together. And something is always lost.
But I even doubt that the modern mind, built as it now is, would be able to know Sanskrit in this way. I think they are cutting up Sanskrit as well, out of habit.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yesterday, I suddenly saw a huge living head of blue lightthis blue light which is the force, the powerful force in material Nature (this is the light the tantrics use). The head was made entirely of this light, and it wore a sort of tiaraa big head, so big (Mother indicates the length of her forearm); its eyes werent c losed, but rather lowered, like this. The immobility of eternity, absolutely the repose, the immobility of eternity. A magnificent head, quite similar to the way the gods here are represented, but even better; something between certain heads of the Buddha and (these heads most probably come to the artists). Everything else was lost in a kind of cloud.
I felt that this kind of yes, immobility came from there: everything stops, absolutely everything stops. Silence, immobility truly, you enter into eternity.I told him it wasnt time!
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But if I were to pass that on to them, theyd all think they were becoming rattle-brained, that they were losing their faculties, that their energy was spent. For they only feel energy when they spend it. They are incapable of feeling energy in immobility they have to be stirring about, they have to be spending it. Or else, it has to be pounded into them.
I looked at this problem yesterday; it occupied me for much of the day. And Im sure this head came to give me the solution. For me, its very easyat once three seconds, and everything stops, everything. But the others are stubborn! And yet Im positive, Im positive, I tell them, But relax; why are you on pins and needles like that? Relax! Its the only way to overcome your fatigue. But they immediately start feeling that theyll lose their faculties and become inert the opposite of life!
And this is surely what oriented my night, for I started my night looking at this problem: How can I make them accept this? For neither should they fall into the other extreme and slip from this weary agitation into tamas.3 Thats obvious.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
On his way to the grandmo thers house, he passed by the station and went in to drink something. While drinking, two persons who were there started playing with some balls in front of him. He WATCHED. But suddenly, he felt very uneasy; he wanted to leave and ran towards an exit that opened onto the tracksit was c losed and he could not get out. And these two people were just behind him; suddenly he lost consciousness: I dont know what happened to me after that.
He woke up in a railway station somewhere between Bombay and Poona, and he began telling them that he was hungry (he was with those same two persons). They punched him in the stomach and put a handkerchief over his nosehe again passed out! At Poona, he woke up again (hed lost his appetite by then!), and again they put the handkerchief over his nose. And it went on like thatthey kept on punching him a lot. When he woke up in the country on the outskirts of Poona, four men were around him arguing in a language he didnt know (his language is Gujarati). They were probably speaking in some other language, I dont know which oneit seems they were very dark. He didnt understand, but from various signs they made he could see that they were arguing about whether to kill him or not. Finally, they told him (probably in a language he could understand), Either you join our gang, or well kill you. He grunted in reply so as not to commit himself. The others decided to wait for their chief (thus the chief wasnt there): Well decide after he comes. Then just to make sure, they punched him a few more times in the belly and put the handkerchief over his noseout!
Sometime later (he doesnt know how long, for until he returned he had no sense of time), he woke up in a rather dark, low-roofed house way out in the country; there were five persons now, not four. They were busy eating, so he was careful not to budge. Mainly they were drinking (they have prohibition there). Four of them were already dead drunk. So he got up to have a look. The fifth one, whom he hadnt seen before (he must have been the chief), was not yet totally drunk; when he saw the boy stirring, he let out a fearful growlso the poor boy threw himself flat in the corner and lay stillhe waited. After awhile, the fifth one (after downing another bottle) was also dead drunk. So now that he saw them all fast asleep, he got up very cautiously and he said he ran for an hour and a half! A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadnt eaten for four days! I think thats a miracle.
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I found out the details: this boy had to go to the station, but on his way, he went into a shoe store just next to the station to buy a pair of sandals. As he entered, he saw a man there choosing a pair of womens shoes for himself! This seemed strange to him: Whats this man doing buying and he WATCHEDsuddenly, nothing more. He lost consciousness and no longer knew what happened to him. And thats how the story begana man selecting womens shoes in a shop! He must do strange thingsprobably intentionallyto attract peoples attention. Naturally, out of curiosity, the boy started watching, and that was thatall of a sudden, blank, nothing more! And long afterwards he found himself far away in a train with this man. Hes here now with his mother they came to thank me. Its he who gave me the details. Hes a nice boy, but all this has left him with some anxiety, especially when he speaks of it. Hes trying to forget. He told me hed like to join the army and asked my permission. The boy feels a need for force and he has the idea that to be part of such a force would be good for him. (Of course, he didnt tell me all this, hes not that conscious. But thats what he feels the need to be supported by an organization of force.) So I encouraged him. I told him it was a good idea. His mother wasnt very happy! She feared he was leaping from the frying pan into the fire!
Another curious detail is that after having taken away all his appetite and having put him in the caf as a waiter, they told him, Now you must eat, so he tried to eat, and for four days he vomited up everything he put init was completely black! After that, he was able to start eating a little. Its a fantastic story!
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have so totally forgotten a whole world of incidents and events that when someone reminds me of something (the people around me have lived with me, so theyve seen things and remember them), I get the feeling that they are speaking of someone or something elseit no longer has any connection with me at all. And its the same with everything, whether near or far, which has brought to my consciousness whatever it had to bring, lost its utility anddisappeared. Only, these memories probably still have some utility for the others, so they remain. But for me its completely erased, absolutely, as if it had never been.
Its the only way to forget.
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It was no longer this (that is, life as it is on earth) becoming conscious of That (the eternal soul, this portion of the Supreme as Sri Aurobindo said); it was the eternal soul seeing life in its own way but without separation, without any separation, not like something looking from above that feels itself to be different How strange it is! Its not something else, its NOT something else, its not even a distortion, not even Its losing its illusory quality as described in the old spiritualities thats not what it is! In my experience, there was there was clearly an emotion I cant describe it, there are no words. It wasnt a feeling, it was something like an emotion, a vibration of such TOTAL c loseness and at the same time of compassion, a compassion of love. (Oh, words are so pitiful! ) One was this outer thing, which was the total negation of the other and AT THE SAME TIME the other, without the least separation between them. It WAS the other. So what was born in one was born in the other as well, in this eternal light. A sweetness of identity, precisely, an identity that was necessarily such total understanding with such perfect love but love says it poorly, all words are poor! Its not that; its something else! Its something that cannot be expressed.
I lived that this morning, upstairs.
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Consider the case of a woman with many friends, and these friends are very fond of her for her special capacities, her pleasant company, and because they feel they can always learn something from her. Then all of a sudden, through a quirk of circumstances, she finds herself socially ostracizedbecause she may have gone off with another man, or may be living with someone out of wedlockall those social mores with no value in themselves. And all her friends (I dont speak of those who truly love her), all her social friends who welcomed her, who smiled so warmly when passing her on the street, suddenly look the other way and march by without a glance. This has happened right here in the Ashram! I wont give the details, but it has happened several times when something conflicted with accepted social norms: the people who had shown so much affection, so much kindness oh! Sometimes they even said, Shes a lost woman!
I must say that when this happens here. In the world at large it seems quite normal, but when this happens here it always gives me a bit of a shock, in the sense that I say to myself, So theyre still at that level!
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I saw my own domain through them and through it all; I saw my domain: I can see it!, I said. But no sooner would I start on my way than the path would be lost, I no longer saw it, I couldnt see anymore where I was going. It became almost impossible to get my bearings there: hundreds and thousands of people, thingsutter confusion. An incoherent immensity and violent, what violence!
I felt something last night.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Does a servant come to your house? No one is sick in his family? Because what happens is that they dont want to lose their jobs or their salary, so they dont warn you. They may have smallpox or measles or chickenpox and they dont take the slightest care to wash or change their clothes; they come to your house and of course they bring along the disease. So the number of cases keeps multiplying and multiplying. I have been meaning to tell Pavitra to be careful of that little character who works for himeven ordinarily I dont like to see him running around here. Its strange how it sullies the atmosphereoh, you cant imagine! Almost all of them, almost all!
Its not at all the same as in the West, in Europe or America, not at all. Basically, the people in those countries are made of the same stuff as we are. But here thats not the case, because for centuries it never changeda Brahmin, for example, always remained a Brahmin, a Kshatria was always a Kshatria and all his servants were Kshatrias. It stayed in the family, in the sense that in each caste the servantsoften poor relativesbe longed to that same caste. From a social standpoint this might not have been too pleasant, but as far as atmosphere was concerned, it was very good. This was changed, however, first by the Muslim invasion, and then especially by the British.
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In the Vedas, the panis and dasyus represent beings or forces hidden in subterranean caves who have stolen the 'Riches' or the 'Lights', symbolized by herds of cows. With the help of the gods, the Aryan warrior must recover these lost riches, the 'sun in the darkness,' by igniting the flame of sacrifice. It is the path of subterranean descent.
Indra represents the king of the gods, the master of mental power freed from the limitations and obscurities of the physical consciousness.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost (I say almost because the body hasnt had every experience), but almost all pains can be reduced to something absolutely negligible. (Of course, some pains it hasnt had, but it has had a sufficient number!) Its this anxiety resulting from a semi-mental vibration (the first stirrings of Mind) that complicates everything, everything! For example, take this difficulty I mentioned of climbing the stairs: in the doctors consciousness or anyone elses, pain causes it. According to their ordinary reasoning, pain is what tenses the nerves and muscles so one can no longer walk but this is absolutely FALSE. Pain does not prevent my body from doing anything at all. Pain isnt a factor, or rather its a factor that can be easily dealt with. Its not that: it is Matter; Matter (probably cellular matter, or) losing its capacity to respond to the will, to will-power. But why? I dont know! It depends upon the particular disorganization; but why is it like that? I dont know. Now each time I climb the stairs, I am trying to find the means of infusing Will in such a way that this lack of response doesnt last but I still havent found it. Although theres all this accumulated force and power and will (a tremendous accumulation, I am BATHED in it, the whole body is bathed in it!), yet for some reason it doesnt respond. Here and there, groups of cells fail to respond, and the Force cannot act. So what must be found is.
(silence)
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Its a curious thing speaking evidently helps me follow the experience. But I cant just begin speaking all alone up in my room! And talking to a tape recorder is useless. Up to now, it certainly flows the best with youby far. I havent tried with others, although occasionally Ive said something to Nolini, but his receptivity is fuzzy (I dont know whether you can understand this impression: its as though my. words were going into cotton-wool). Once, as I told you, I spoke with R., and with him I felt that three quarters of it was absolutely lostand as a matter of fact it was. But with you I begin to SEE, and the need to formulate makes me concentrate on my vision. And this I experience with you more than I ever have with anyone. So.
So you are bearing the consequences!
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
56When, O eager disputant, thou hast prevailed in a debate, then art thou greatly to be pitied; for thou hast lost a chance of widening knowledge.
How fine! Many things could be said.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there are days when you are in contact with the divine Consciousness, with the Grace, and all is tinged, colored by this Presence, and things which usually seem dull to you become charming and pleasant all is alive, all is vibrant. At other moments you are clouded, c losed, you no longer feel anything, everything loses its flavor you are like a walking block of wood.
It comes and goes along the way, you dont keep it permanently; its like crossing a zone, a perfumed zone, and then its past for the moment, its over. A fleeting caress.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was mainly on your right side I banged on it. But strangely enough, it didnt break it became supple, but then it lost its beauty. (It was so beautiful, as though sculptured!) I tried to pass through it, but to do so (this is what I found interesting), instead of passing through at this level (the chest), the psychic plane the level of the souls vibration I had to climb up above and then descend; and finally, without even realizing it, I found myself inside I had entered through sheer force of concentration. There, at the vital level, the emotional vital (solar plexus), I put two flowers: one very large Endurance in the Most Material Vital [zinnia] and another flower like the one X just gave me [cosmos] but bigger and pure white (it concerns sexual movements, light in sexual movements). But curiously enough, I passed inside through a trance; I was quite busy trying to make it more fluid when all at once, poof! I found myself inside. But since I entered through a trance it became completely objective: no more thought, nothing. And I saw I had put these two flowers there (at the levels of the abdomen and chest), one more active, a very large, dark purple Endurance flower, and another much smaller, pure white, slightly lower down. While I was watching this I think the clock must have struck something pulled me and it all faded away.
And I found it interesting that when I received your letter yesterday evening I concentrated for a moment, almost out of curiosity: Why doesnt he ever feel he has an experience? Why doesnt he feel anything? I wanted to know precisely what type of experience would give you the feeling of having an experience!
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Before that, I lost another one from that kind of typhoid cats get. He was called Browny and he was so beautiful, so nice, such a marvelous cat! Even when utterly sick, he wouldnt make a mess, except in a corner prepared just for that; he would call me to carry him to his box, with such a soft and mournful voice. He was so nice, with something sweeter and more trusting than a child. There is a trust in animals which doesnt exist in humans (even children already have too much of a questioning mind). But with him, there was a kind of worship, an adoration, as soon as I took him in my armsif he could have smiled, he would have. As soon as I held him, he became blissful.
That one too was beautiful, with such a color! Golden chestnut, I have never seen a cat like him. He is buried here beneath the tree I named Service. I put him beneath the roots myself. There had been an old mango tree there that was withering away. We replaced it with a little copper pod tree with yellow flowers.
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They are really something, you cant imagine! Once, when she was due to give birth and was very heavy, she was walking along the window ledge and I dont know what happened, but she fell. She had wanted to jump from the ledge, but she lost her footing and fell. It must have injured something. The kittens didnt come right away, they came later, but three of them were deformed (there were six in all). Well, when she saw how they were, she simply sat on themkilled them as soon as they were born. Such incredible wisdom! (They were completely deformed: the hind paws were turned the wrong way roundthey would have had an impossible life.)
And she used to count her little ones. She knew perfectly well how many she had. I just had to tell her, Keep only two or threealthough the first time there were only three, which was still too many, yet it was absolutely impossible not to let her keep them all. But later on I had to chide her. I didnt take them from her, but I would speak to her, convince her: Its too much, youll be ill. Just keep these. See how nice these two are. Take care of them.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only, as I have told you, practically speaking this experience can be dangerous. When it came, you see, one part of me was having the experience, and one part wasnt yet ready for it. Well, I was awake enough to tell myself, The part experiencing this prevails and keeps the rest calm, yet if the preparation had not been adequate, it could have produced an imbalance. And if by mischance someone without sufficient strength had the possibility of picking up something of that, well, he would lose his head.
This has made it very clear to me why certain things can illuminate some people (I have clearly seen it) and drive others utterly madcompletely destroy their balance. You might say to me, Then its because they had to go mad! Yes, evidently.
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Once during the night, I went exploring inside this head; some cells still had fresh imprints of things registered during the day for whatever reason they hadnt had time to be combined into the whole, so they showed up as tiny, very clear images, minuscule things utterly devoid of any mental or psychological movementsimply like tiny photographic images. There were three or four images like that, and it was so shocking to see them in this Presence that all at once I said to myself, Am I going mad?! It was that shocking. And I had to bring in a peace, a peacenot to make the movement of possession stop, but to accompany it simultaneously with a mighty peace so I wouldnt tell myself, Youre losing your head. Thats how shocking it was.
A tiny, very tiny image, just like a little photograph, clear! Everything else was in a vibration of transformationsplendid!
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day, I told N. (and I told him loud enough for everyone to hear): We can dispense with a good half of the ashramites straight-away and not lose a single sadhak.4
Well, his jaw dropped! People imagine that by the simple fact of being here they become disciples and apprentice yogis! But its not true.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all the same, cant it be said that whatever the appearances these vital spiders or frightful Kalis the Divine still acts and helps people through them? Its not all totally swallowed up and lost, is it?
No, but this is something else. Those who are capable of personal experiences pass through everything. But not the common herd.
0 1961-05-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I dont see, I really do not see why all that needs to manifest in order to disappear. Because before, when it didnt manifest, it faded away by itself; but now it creates problems and problems and problems. (For me they are not problems but stupidities; they are problems and complications for others.) And its so useless! So much time is lost, so much time coping with stupid reactions. I dont know why.
And nothing can be done until its over.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something is inevitably lost in translating; we translate, we lose something.
Not somethinga great deal. A great deal.
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But I could not remain in that state long enough (it would have to go on for HOURS), I could not, due to all these constant interruptions. And then, when the body is pulled brusquely out of it, it seems to lose its balanceit has a few difficult moments.
I understand people who choose to leave! But thats not what is wanted of me! I should have enough flexibility so that the two can exist together (gesture expressing the interlocking or the fusion of the two worlds).
0 1961-06-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The time has not yet come when we can stop eating. Never in my life has food interested me; there have been long periods when I ate almost nothing. One day I said to myself, Why lose so much time eating? And the reply was, Dont stop yet, wait; thats not your look-out.
After that I decided I would encourage everyone to eat!
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was keeping I.B. near me because I already had the idea of putting him immediately back into another bodyhis soul was not satisfied, it had not finished its experience (there was a whole combination of circumstances) and it wanted to continue to live on earth. Then, that night, his inner being went to find V., lamenting, saying he was dead and hadnt wanted to die, that he had lost his body and wanted to continue to live. V. was very perplexed. He let me know about it in the morning: Heres what has happened. I sent word to him of what I was doing, that I was keeping I.B. in my atmosphere and that he should stay very calm and not get excited, for I was going to put him back into a body as soon as possible I already had something in view. The same evening I.B. again went to find V., with the same complaint. V. told him very clearly, Here is what Mother says, here is what she is going to do; come now, be calm and dont torment yourself. And he saw in I.B.s face that he had understood (the inner being was taking on I.B.s physical appearance, naturally); his face relaxed, he became content.
He went away and he never came back. That is, he stayed tranquilly with me, until I was able to put him into C.s child.
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At least fifty people wait for the last days of the month to see me and they imagine. One thing I have not yet comprehended: what to do to make physical time lose its physical reality? It may come. As you see, I still have to watch the clock, and when I am late, well, time gets short! Maybe Ill get the power of (what is it called?) ubiquity. I believe thats the solution! To be here, and then therejust like that! It would be very amusing.
Satprem no longer has the text of this letter.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To be in a condition in which all is the Supreme, all is wonderful, all is marvelous, all is marvelous love, all is all is profound Joyan unchanging, immutable, ever-present condition. To live in That, and then to have this bodily substance contradict it through every possible stupidity losing sight, losing strength, pains here, pains there, disorders, weaknesses, incapacities of every type. And at the SAME TIME, the response within this body, no matter what happens to it, is, O Lord, Your Grace is infinite. The contradiction is VERY disconcerting.
From experience, I know perfectly well that when one is satisfied with being a saint or a sage and constantly maintains the right attitude, all goes well the body doesnt get sick, and even if there are attacks it recovers very easily; all goes very well AS LONG AS THERE IS NOT THIS WILL TO TRANSFORM. All the difficulties arise in protest against the will to transform; while if one says, Very well, its all right, let things be as they are, I dont care, I am perfectly happy, in a blissful state, then the body begins to feel content!
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because when one loses his ego and finds this central being, Sri Aurobindo says that an individuality remainsit isnt a dissolutionone retains a personality.
Yes, a personality remains.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When my grandmo ther died. My grandmo ther had the occult sense. She had made her own fortune (a sizeable fortune) and had had five children, each one more extravagant than the other. She considered me the only sensible person in the family and she shared her secrets with me. You see, she told me, these people are going to squander all my money! She had a sixty year old son (she had married in Egypt at the age of fifteen, and had had this son when she was quite young). You see this boy, he goes out and visits impossible people! And then he starts playing cards and loses all my money! I saw this boy, I was there in the house when he came to her and said very politely, Good-bye, mother, Im going out to so-and-sos house. Ah, please dont waste all my money, and take an overcoatits getting chilly at night. Sixty years old! It was comical. But to return to my story, after my grandmo ther died (I took a lot of care over her), she came to my mother (my mother was with her when she died; they embalmed hershe had gotten it into her head that she wanted to be burned, and since she died at Nice they had to embalm her so she could be burned in Paris). I was in Paris. My mother arrived with the body and told me, Just imagine, Im constantly seeing her! And whats more, she gives me advice! Dont waste your money! she tells me. Well, shes right, one must be careful, I replied. But look here, shes dead! Dead! How can she talk to me! Shes dead, I tell you, and quite dead at that! I said to her, What does it mean, to die?
It was all very funny.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It took Satprem fourteen years to lose the habit of correcting.
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0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But we have not yet reached the heart of the Vedic secret. The birth of Agni, the soul (and so many men are still unborn) is merely the start of the voyage. This inner flame seeks, it is the seeker within us, for it is a spark of the great primordial Fire and will never be satisfied until it has recovered its solar totality, the lost sun of which the Veda incessantly speaks. Yet even when we have risen from plane to plane and the Flame has taken successive births in the triple world of our lower existence (the physical, vital and mental world), it will still remain unsatisfiedit wants to ascend, ascend further. And soon we reach a mental frontier where there seems to be nothing to grasp any longer, nor even to see, and nothing remains but to abolish everything and leap into the ecstasy of a great Light. At this point, we feel almost painfully the imprisoning carapace of matter all around us, preventing that apotheosis of the Flame; then we understand the cry, My kingdom is not of this world, and the insistence of Indias Vedantic sagesand perhaps the sages of all worlds and all religions that we must abandon this body to embrace the Eternal. Will our flame thus forever be truncated here below and our quest always end in disappointment? Shall we always have to choose one or the other, to renounce earth to gain heaven?
Yet beyond the lower triple world, the Rishis had discovered a certain fourth, touryam svid; they found the vast dwelling place, the solar world, Swar: I have arisen from earth to the mid-world [life], I have arisen from the mid-world to heaven [mind], from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light (Yajur-veda 17.67). And it is said, Mortals, they achieved immortality (Rig-veda I.110.4). What then was their secret? How did they pass from a heaven of mind to the great heaven without leaving the body, without, as it were, going off into ecstasies?
The secret lies in matter. Because Agni is imprisoned in matter and we ourselves are imprisoned there. It is said that Agni is without head or feet, that it conceals its two extremities: above, it disappears into the great heaven of the supraconscient (which the Rishis also called the great ocean), and below, it sinks into the formless ocean of the inconscient (which they also called the rock). We are truncated. But the Rishis were men of a solid realism, a true realism resting upon the Spirit; and since the summits of mind opened out upon a lacuna of lightecstatic, to be sure, but with no hold over the worldthey set upon the downward way.6 Thus begins the quest for the lost sun, the long pilgrimage of descent into the inconscient and the merciless fight against the dark forces, the thieves of the sun, the panis and vritras, pythons and giants, hidden in the dark lair with the whole cohort of usurpers: the dualizers, the confiners, the tearers, the COVERERS. But the divine worker, Agni, is helped by the gods, and in his quest he is led by the intuitive ray, Sarama, the heavenly hound with the subtle sense of smell who sets Agni on the track of the stolen herds (strange, shining herds). Now and again there comes the sudden glimmer of a fugitive dawn then all grows dim. One must advance step by step, digging, digging, fighting every inch of the way against the wolves whose savage fury increases the nearer one draws to their denAgni is a warrior. Agni grows through his difficulties, his flame burns more brilliantly with each blow from the Adversary; for, as the Rishis said, Night and Day both suckled the divine Child; they even said that Night and Day are the two sisters, Immortal, with a common lover [the sun] common they, though different their forms (I.113.2,3). These alternations of night and brightness accelerate until Day breaks at last and the herds of Dawn7 surge upward awakening someone who was dead (I.113.8). The infinite rock of the inconscient is shattered, the seeker uncovers the Sun dwelling in the darkness (III.39.5), the divine consciousness in the heart of Matter. In the very depths of Matter, that is to say, in the body, on earth, the Rishis found themselves cast up into Light that same Light which others sought on the heights, without their bodies and without the earth, in ecstasy. And this is what the Rishis would call the Great Passage. Without abandoning the earth they found the vast dwelling place, that dwelling place of the gods, Swar, the original Sun-world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental World: Human beings [the Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place (I.36.8). They have entered the True, the Right, the Vast, Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, the unbroken light, the fearless light, where there is no longer suffering nor falsehood nor death: it is immortality, amritam.
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0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I read the Veda I thought I understood that the Rishis, finding the passage blocked above (since they would fall into ecstasy and lose their hold over the body), set out to find the Supermind by the downward path.
But reading Sri Aurobindo, I seemed to understand the opposite: that FIRST he rose up, and then made the Light redescend to open the passage, and that the pressure of the Light from above is what opens the doors below, in Matter.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I myself have never had it in trance, and neither did Sri Aurobindonei ther of us ever had trances! I mean the kind of trance where contact with the body is lost. Thats what he always said, and one of the first things I told him when we met was, Well, everybody talks about trance and samadhi and all those things, but I have never had them! I have never lost consciousness. Ah, he replied, its exactly the same for me!
It depends upon the level of development, thats what Theon used to say: One goes into trance only when certain links are missing. He saw people as made up of innumerable small bridges, with intermediary zones. If you have an intermediary zone that is undeveloped, he said, a zone where you are not conscious because its not individualized, then you will be in trance when you cross it. Trance is the sign of non-individualization the consciousness is not awake and so your body goes into trance. But if your consciousness is wide awake you can sit, keeping full contact with things, and have the total experience. I could go out of my body with no need of trance, except when Theon wanted me to do a particular work. That was a different business the vital force (not the consciousness, the vital force) had to go out for that work, so the body had to go into trance. But even then. For instance, very often when I am called and go to do something in response, my body does become still, but its not in trance; I can be sitting and, even in the middle of a gesture, suddenly become immobile for a few seconds.7 But I was doing another type of work with Theondangerous work, at thatand it would last for an hour. Then all the bodys vital energy would go out, all of it, as it does when you die (in fact, thats how I came to experience death).
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last year there was a conflict between Krishna on one side (he came, I saw him), and some kind of spirit coming from Shiva; Krishna was playing, and the two of them were constantly quarreling! One wanted it to be like this, with roseate colorations, and the other wanted it all in blues and silvers. And then suddenly, as I was playing (in fact, it was the last time I played and it had started off entirely with Krishna and was going quite well) but suddenly something came like the blow of a fist (gesture of a blow to the arm), wham! I completely lost my balancereally I almost.
But then here I am, watching it all, enjoying myself immensely! Its very interesting.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No damage at all, but it was a bizarre sensation. So I tried to understand how it could have happened, how I could have so lost my sense of relation to things. For a long time my body had been telling me, Ive got to lie down, Ive got to lie down. And I would very sternly reply, You dont have time! (Laughing) So then this happened. Had I obeyed it and laid down, there would obviously have been no problem. But I was in my experience, going on with my experience, and at the same time I was getting ready to come downstairs. So I told my body, Its all right, its all right, youll lie down later. But it had its own way of lying down! (Laughing) It just stretched out right where it was. Actually it wasnt even stretched outit was all askew.
Afterwards, I looked into it a bit. Whats wrong with you, anyway? I said. If you dont have the strength to bear experiences you wont be able to do the work! My body answered me very clearly that I was overworking it; and Sri Aurobindos will was clearly behind it, saying, Its overwork. You cant keep on seeing people and talking for hours on end and then going into these kinds of experiences. You cant do both, you have to choose, or at least strike a better balance. Well, I certainly wasnt going to stop my experiences, so I took advantage of this little incident to get some rest. It was nothing, really! The doctors were saying, Take care, the heart isnt working properly, and all that. They wanted to start drugging me! All I need is peace and quiet, not drugs. So I took a restand since I had to have an excuse, I said I wasnt well and needed rest.
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not that the problem hasnt been partially solved: hatha yogis have solved it, partiallyprovided you do nothing else (thats the trouble). Yet having the knowledge, we should have the power to do whats necessary without making it our exclusive preoccupation. At any rate, this possibility is certainly not altogether unknown; for the first few months after I retired to my room,4 when I had cut all contact with the outside, it was working very well even extraordinarily so! Lots of disorders in my body were surmounted, and I had many fairly precise indications that if I continued like that long enough I would regain everything that had been lost, and with an even better equilibrium. I mean that the functional equilibrium was far superior. Only when I came back into contact with the world did it all come to a halt and begin to deteriorateall the more so as it was aggravated by this discipline of expansion making me constantlyCONSTANTLYabsorb mountains of difficulties to be resolved. And so.
With the mind, its rather easyyou can put things back in order in five minutes, its not difficult. With the vital its already a bit more troublesome, it takes a little longer. But when you come to the material level, well. Theres a CONTAGION of wrong cellular functioning and a kind of internal disorganizationthings not staying in their proper places. Each vibration absorbed from the outside instantly creates a disorder, dislocates everything, creates wrong contacts and disrupts the organization; it sometimes takes HOURS to put it all back in order. Consequently, if I really want to make use of this bodys possibility without having to face the necessity of changing it because it cant follow along, then, materially, I would really need, as much as possible, to stop having to gulp down all sorts of things that drag me years backwards.
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So long as theres no question of physical transformation, the psychological and in large part, the subjective point of view is sufficientand thats relatively easy. But when it comes to incorporating matter into the work, matter as it is in this world where the very starting point is false (we start off in unconsciousness and ignorance), well, its very difficult. Because, to recover the consciousness it has lost, Matter has had to individualize itself, and for that for the form to last and retain this possibility of individualityit has been created with a certain indispensable measure of rigidity. And that rigidity is the main obstacle to the expansion, to the plasticity and suppleness necessary for receiving the Supermind. I constantly find myself facing this problem, which is utterly concrete, absolutely material when youre dealing with cells that have to remain cells and not vaporize into some nonphysical reality, and at the same time have to have a suppleness, a lack of rigidity, enabling them to widen indefinitely.
There have been times, while working in the most material mind (the mind ingrained in the material substance), when I felt my brain swelling and swelling and swelling, and my head becoming so large it seemed about to burst! On two occasions I was forced to stop, because it was (was it only an impression, or was it a fact?) in any event it seemed dangerous, as if the head would burst, because what was inside was becoming too tremendous (it was that power in Matter, that very powerful deep blue light which has such powerful vibrations; it is able to heal, for example, and change the functioning of the organsreally a very powerful thing materially). Well then, thats what was filling my head, more and more, more and more, and I had the feeling that my skull was (it was painful, you know) that there was a pressure inside my skull pushing out, pushing everything out. I wondered what was going to happen. Then, instead of following the movement, helping it along and going with it, I became immobile, passive, to see what would happen. And both times it stopped. I was no longer helping the movement along, you see, I simply remained passive and it came to a halt, there was a sort of stabilization.
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Then that suppleness. It means a capacity for decrystallizing oneself; the whole span of life given over to self-individualization is a period of conscious, willed crystallization, which then has to be undone. To become a conscious, individualized being there has to be a constant, constant, willed crystallization, in everything; and afterwards, again constantly, the opposite movement has to be madewith an even greater will. But at the same time, the consciousness must not lose the benefit of what has been acquired through individualization.
It is difficult, I must say.
For thought, its elementary, very simple. Its not difficult for the feelings either; for the heart, the emotional being, to expand to the dimensions of the Supreme is relatively easy. But this body! Its very difficult, very difficult to do without the body losing its center (how can I put it?) its center of coagulationwithout it dissolving into the surrounding mass. Although, if one were in a natural environment, with mountains and forests and rivers, with lots of space and lots of natural beauty, it could be rather pleasant! But its physically impossible to take a single step outside ones body without meeting unpleasant, painful things. At times you come in contact with a pleasant substance, something harmonious, warm, vibrating with a higher light; it happens. But its rare. Flowers, yes, sometimes flowers sometimes, not always. But this material world, oh! It batters you from all sides; it claws you, mauls youyou get clawed and scraped and battered by all sorts of things which which just dont b lossom. How hard it all is! Oh, how c losed human life is! How shriveled, hardened, without light, without warmth let alone joy.
While sometimes, when you see water flowing along, or a ray of sunlight in the treesoh, how it sings! The cells sing, they are happy.
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He used to say it would take at least three hundred yearsso theres been no time lost.
To begin with, the body needs something that will allow it to last three hundred years.
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This is part of the lost treasures, never noted down, because at the time Satprem was not aware that the experiences Mother was relating to him were already part of the Agenda.
This letter has vanished with the others.
This story is also part of the lost treasures of 1957 or 1958.
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0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I used to dictate. Thon taught me to speak while in trance (that is, he had taught my BODY to express itself), and I would tell him everything I was doing while doing it. And he never noted any of it down I suspect he did it on purpose: he wasnt interested in making revelations. So its all lost. But had it been noted down, hour by hour, minute by minute, it would have made an extraordinary scientific document on the occultextraordinary! He never noted it down.
But that vital being who was given a bodydid it live on earth for any length of time?
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It happened again recently: K.s sister came because she had lost her sonit had just occurred and he was still here (he hadnt left yet). So I arranged everything, saw to the mothers condition and so forth; I arranged it all nicely, very carefully keeping the son here and telling his mother he would shortly return in some family member. Everything was well organized.
But naturally that was against the rules I make a habit of doing everything against the rules, otherwise there would be no point in my being here; the rules could just go on and on! So they went to see X. They shouldnt have said anything, but they did. And that was thatall sorts of things were said and my work was completely mucked up.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can have that experience at any moment whatsoever: one second of concentration, stepping back from action, and its Bliss. And when I dont step back, then its something like an eternal omnipotence geared to action and entirely upheld and englobed by That. This power geared to action is the first manifestation of That thats what manifests first when That begins to exist consciously. (Mother places her palms together and, without separating them, turns her hands from side to side, as if to show two faces of the same thing.) So its indissoluble: its not two things, not even two aspects, because it isnt an aspect at all (words are idiotic, imbecilic, meaningless). The experience is renewable at will: one single thing in its essence, innumerable in its expression, and apparently increasing in power. I have experienced this at will, in every possible circumstance, including physically fainting (I told you the other day). Its called fainting, but I didnt lose consciousness for a minute! Not for one minute did I PHYSICALLY lose consciousness and behind it all, witnessing everything, was this experience.
(Pavitra enters the room to ask Mother an urgent question)
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I always have the most acute experiences when I am getting ready to go down for the balcony [darshan]. Thats when they come, during the most prosaic part of daily life. When I am meditating or walking or even seeing someone, its different: physical things fade away, they lose their significance. But in this case, its when I am in the very midst of physical life.
It was odd this morning because on one side I felt (one sideits not even a side; I dont know how to explain, they are both together) the body was unwell, most unharmonious (someone in an ordinary consciousness would have said the body was ill, or at any rate very weak, very not at all in good condition), and simultaneously, in the SAME PHYSICAL SENSATION: a glory! A marvelous glory of blissfulness, joy, splendor! But how could the two be together?
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now I have lost the knack, I can barely do more than 6 (Mother demonstrates). I count: 1-2-3-4 no quicker.
And exhale slowly thats very difficultbeing careful to empty the top part of the lungs, because air often stagnates there. This seems to be one of the most frequent causes of coughs and colds. When I had bronchitis I learned to empty the air out completely. And I knew singing, so I was familiar with the method: you learn to hold the air and then release it slowly, slowly, so as to keep singing nonstop.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Really, I dont understand anything any more. I dont understand. I have absolute faith in Something Else thats always been there, it doesnt waver. But there seems to be no progress. I see nothing ahead of me, nothing behind me, nothing. I dont know, Ive already been here a good number of years and I dont feel Ive made an inch of progress, nothing I see nothing. Not that Im losing faith, thats my only reason for living; without this certainty of Something Else, I would kill myself. But practically speaking.
There are periods like that.
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Whats annoying, though, is that in order to shake it all up, I have to go through some pretty bad moments physically. So dont worry, I understand how it is for others! I myself never lose either consciousness or contact with not with Knowledge, but with the total EXPERIENCE of identification. Only here in Matter does the work have this particular nature. So l understand how it is for people who live heedlessly from day to day, from minute to minute, for whom its not a constant, permanent work of each second, totally conscious and deliberate. And besides, this body is so willing the poor thing, sometimes I have found it crying like a child, imploring, How do you get out of this mess? Thats exactly why all the people who have achieved the inner realization have called this work impossible. Its their own impossibility! I know its not impossible, I know it will come, but how long will it take? That I dont know.
My feeling is that if you try to hurry, to rush, to speed things up a little, it jams, it becomes like stoneit turns to stone again. It took the stone a long time to become a man. So I dont want that. You cant get too impatientits not even impatience, but pressure. Beyond a certain pressure, it turns to stone. So I understand people who attain realization and, blissfully enjoying it, kick the whole thing out: Fine, Ill do without it!
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But impatience and irritation. Well, if it makes you feel better. Some people need it as a safety valve but it makes you lose a lot of time.
One day I was all tensed up; things had become so intolerable, as people say, that something in the most material vital went into whats usually considered a fit of rage (it was totally under control I mean it was working as a safety valve and being observed as such in all its vibrations). I was alone in the bathroom, nobody to see me; I grabbed hold of I dont remember what and smashed it on the floor!
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can tell you the result: a lot of people will lose all confidence in what they see. Then it becomes impossible to work with them. I cant even teach them to receive what I tell them in silence any more; they instantly start wondering, Oh, is it Mother or a spirit of falsehood? They really have no sense of discrimination, you see, they dont KNOW! So if they have to come every time, wondering Was it you or was it? And when theyre in that state they dont listen properly. Theres a whole range of work I cant do any more, because they lack the necessary discrimination. So I normally dont say anything.
I really prefer to say nothing.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If he loses his skin, he loses itso what, it doesnt matter.
You understand?
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then a Voice was explaining everything to me (not exactly a Voice, but something that was Sri Aurobindos origin, like the most recent gust from the Origin). As the experience unfolded, this Voice explained each gust to me, each span of the universe; and then it explained how it all became like this (Mother makes a gesture of reversal): the distortion of the universe. And I was wondering how it was possible, with that Consciousness, that supreme Consciousness, to relate to the present, distorted universe. How to make the connection without losing that Consciousness? A relationship between the two seemed impossible. And thats when that sort of Voice reminded me of my promise, that I had promised to do the Work on earth and it would be done. I promised to do the Work and it will be done.
Then began the process of descent,1 and the Voice was explaining it to me I lived through it all in detail, and it wasnt pleasant. It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer herewhat was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And a rather illusory appearance, besides. As soon as you rise to a certain height (I saw it quite clearly during that progressive reconcretization5), this appearance quickly loses its reality. Our external appearance is very, very illusory. Our particular form (this ones form, that ones form), the form we see with our physical eyes is very superficial, you know. From the vital world onwards, its completely different.
Well. I think thats all I can say for today.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The beginning of this conversation, unfortunately not kept, dealt with certain instances of human ugliness. The topic, in fact, was Satprem's break with X who had been his guru for the past few years. The reasons for this rupture may one day be told, but it should be stressed right now that the fault did not really lie with X, whom Satprem continued to respect, but with a group of schemers at the Ashram who fastened onto X in the hope of god knows what "powers." It is perhaps just as well that the human "ugliness" here in question has vanished from Satprem's records, foralthough it did come up again immediately after Mother's departureit concerned only the Ashram disciples. All the details and all Mother's reflections on the subject have thus been lost, with the exception of this last fragment:)
What a world!
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is I know there is. Theres simply a void between two parts of your consciousness, and when your consciousness passes through, it loses touch with everything on the other side. Its as though you had fallen into a hole, and then, ooh!
It takes a very long time to build, but there must be a way to make a bridge thats what I am hunting for now.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And what nights I have! Nights like the one I told you about the other day, with visions and actions; and then I have nights. All night last night, I didnt lose consciousness, I dont feel I slept for a minute; and it was like being in a sort of temporal Infinity (both hands open above the head). From time to time, I look at the clock (all at once I feel something pulling me and I look at the clock): two or two and a half hours have passedlike a second. Did I sleep, you ask? Did the consciousness fall asleep? No, not for a second. But the sense of time completely disappears into into an inner immobility. But an immobility in motion!
If it keeps on like this, they will put me in a padded cell!
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But one thing has happened practically without my noticing it. In the past, before that experience [April 13], the body used to feel the struggle against the forces of wear and tear (different organs wearing out, losing their endurance, their power of reaction, and certain movements, for instance, becoming less easy to make). Thats what the body felt, although the body-consciousness never sensed any aging, never, none that simply didnt exist. But in actual material fact, there was some difficulty. And now, looking at it in the ordinary way, externally, superficially, you might say there has been a great deterioration; well, the body doesnt feel that way at all! What it feels is that a particular movement, effort, gesture or action belongs to the worldthis world of ignorance and isnt being performed in the true way: its not the true movement, done in the true way. And its sensation or perception is that the state I was speaking of, soft, with no angles, has to develop along a certain line and produce effects on the body that will make true action possible, action expressing the true will. With no difference on the surface, perhaps (I dont know about that yet) but done in another way. And I am not talking about grandiose things, mind you, but of everyday activities: getting up, walking, taking a bath. I no longer have a feeling of incapacity, but a feeling of (whats the word for it?) an unwillingnessa bodily unwillingnessto do things in the old way.
There is another way to be found.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I spoke to him, you know, when I went to see him, it was just after my japa and I was in a state of absolute inner calmabsolute, with not a. I simply felt he had to be helped, because he was saying things that were going against him. So I had this feeling, a very strong feeling of affection, but an affection that states things clearly and unemotionally. I was very calm when I said all that. I did get upset afterwards, but I was upset mainly because he immediately had such an incredible reaction! So then I was at a loss. But the way I put things to him. Really, if he had the least. But even a man who has never done any yoga would have felt I was speaking from my heart, candidly. Even a man with no spiritual culture would have felt that. So how could he take it in such a way!
I am not sure he did.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything that happened prior to the experience of April 13 has disappeared, as it were, and the usual functioning of the consciousness has been totally annulled; it is trying little by little to create a new mode of operationnot merely trying: it is in the PROCESS of doing so on a truer foundation; a truer foundation, or truer relations, or vibrations, or functionings (I dont know the right word for it: all these things at once). That presence the other day [the tall white Being] was nothing essentially newit had already intervened a good many times; and yet it was new, because the whole functioning was new. Its like my experience two nights ago [the recharging of batteries], I had it for months on end; well, it was new because it was based on a new functioning. And each time (is it out of habit, or to make me understand, to make me see the difference?), each time the old functioning starts up, first of all I really feel I am losing the true contact, that the TRUE thing is escaping, and then I wonder how anybody can function like that without going insane! Thats what strikes me nowthis feeling of going insane! I mean it grates, it scrapes, it makes no senseit misses the point. It is not the TRUE thing, its beside the point. It tries to imitate something inimitable. And so I ask myself, What is this? Am I going crazy? Am I losing my faculties? And then I realize its not that at all! Above theres a state of immutable and UNSHAKABLE concentration, constant and almighty, and with but a drop of That, a spark of That, all problems are solved. Then I see clearly that its only a demonstration to make me see the inadequacy of the old, habitual functioningto really and truly convince me that its inadequate. Its rather hard to bear, actually. Last night I had it, I have seen it again in recent days: it lasts a few secondsjust enough for a satisfactory lesson! It may also happen to make me understand, but afterwards I wonder, Well, if everybody is in this state they dont know it, but its just terrible! And I realize that the LEAST thing, the slightest circumstance, is COMPLETELY distorted, instantly distorted by the way people work it out, the way they cause events to develop.
Thats an ever-present experience.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As you know, N.S. has left his body. It was the result of an accident (he had a weak heart, and he worried about it). He took a fall, probably because he fainted, and fractured his skull: loss of consciousness due to cerebral hemorrhage (thats modern science speaking!). When the accident occurred, he came to me (not in a precise form, but in a state of consciousness I immediately recognized), and stayed here motionless, in complete trust and blissful peacemotionless in every state of being, absolutely (gesture of surrender) total, total trust: what will be, will be; what is, is. No questions, not even a need to know. A cosy peace a great ease.
They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead (by the way, according to doctors, when the body dies the heart beats on faintly for a few seconds; then it stops and its all over). In his case, those faint beats (not strong enough to pump blood) continued for half an hour the kind of heartbeats typical of the trance state. (They all seem to be crassly ignorant! But anyway, it doesnt matter.) And they all said, even the doctors, Oooh, he must be a great yogi, this only happens to yogis! I have no idea what they mean by that. But I do know that although those heartbeats arent strong enough to pump blood through the body (thus putting the body into a cataleptic state), they do suffice to maintain life, and thats how yogis can remain in trance for months on end. Well, I dont know what type of doctors they are (probably very modern), but theyre ignorant of this fact. Anyway, according to them he had those pulsations for half an hour (normally they last a few seconds). All right. Hence their remarks. And he was here the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I lookedhe was gone. I was busy and didnt note the time, but it was in the afternoon, thats all I know. Later I was told that they had decided to cremate him, and had done so at that time.
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People say, He has lost consciousness. They made this assumption in N.S.s case because there were no vital signs and the consciousness in the body was reduced to a minimum; there was still some left (because it did react!), but it was a bare minimum, without much reacting powerhe wasnt an accomplished yogi, after all, only an apprentice yogi. It would have been entirely different, for instance, and far more serious, for someone who had practiced hatha yoga. But I mean to say that N.S. was here beside me, fully conscious, and could have moved on to another mode of manifestation without having to go through the throes of death thats not at all indispensable! Such is my experience, and I find it very important, tremendously important.
Besides, this is the first time it has happened. All those (like I.B., for example) who were hurled violently out of their bodies through an accident have, after a time, become conscious again the consciousness gathers itself back together. But N.S.s consciousness never scattered, he never lost consciousness.
His time had come the instant the accident happened, I knew it was time for him to leave his body. His time had come, but the circumstances had been arranged (had been arrangedyou know, I dont say by whom), circumstances had been arranged to derive the utmost benefit. This made me understand a lot of things. Practically speaking, you need a lot of experiences to learn anything.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, thats where you have to give in. You have to put all this trying to make them understand out of the picture. If you want to include those things for your personal satisfaction, because it makes the thing more real, more living, I agree; but get rid of this trying to make them understand, its impossible. I tell you, as soon as you go beyond the matter-of-fact (Mother sticks her hand right under her nose), theyre lost. But tell them what they can see when they get off the train: All these houses, thats the Ashram; here is the library, those are the tennis courts, theres the sports ground, thats. Ah! They understand.
Its going well; it will be a very good book. But probably only a small portion of it will make them say, Ah, finally! Something practical!
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And then after all, if its lost, its lost! It will have been the Lords decision, so it doesnt matter.
The Lord we must help Him out a little!
0 1962-07-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, something is toss, irredeemably lost. We need another mode of expression.
Silence, perhaps.
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, the ordinary consciousness is like an axis with everything revolving around it. An axis fixed somewhere, and everything revolves around it thats the ordinary individual consciousness. And if the axis shifts, one feels lost. Its like a big axis (more or less big, it can also be tiny) planted straight up in time, with everything revolving around it. The consciousness may be more or less extended, more or less high, more or less strong, but it always turns on an axis. And now for me there is no more axis.
I was looking it just isnt there any moregone, vanished!
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I think Ive lost you! (Mother laughs.)
Its an interesting experience. No more axis.
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can bring it on at will simply by putting myself in a certain state. But then I notice that someone (someone well, thats a way of speaking) is dosing it out, allowing the contact for a certain length of time or in a certain amount; and theres nothing to be done about it, its an Order from above. A mere hint of impatience would spoil everything the power to establish the contact would probably be lost. I have never done this and I dont intend to.
(silence)
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The old way of yoga failed to bring about the harmony or unity of Spirit and life: it instead dismissed the world as Maya [Illusion] or a transient Play. The result has been loss of life-power and the degeneration of India. As was said in the Gita, These peoples would perish if I did not do worksthese peoples of India have truly gone down to ruin. A few sannyasins and bairagis [renunciants] to be saintly and perfect and liberated, a few bhaktas [lovers of God] to dance in a mad ecstasy of love and sweet emotion and Ananda [Bliss], and a whole race to become lifeless, void of intelligence, sunk in deep tamas [inertia]is this the effect of true spirituality? No, we must first attain all the partial experiences possible on the mental level and flood the mind with spiritual delight and illumine it with spiritual light, but afterwards we must rise above. If we cannot rise above, to the supramental level, that is, it is hardly possible to know the worlds final secret and the problem it raises remains unsolved. There, the ignorance which creates a duality of opposition between the Spirit and Matter, between truth of spirit and truth of life, disappears. There one need no longer call the world Maya. The world is the eternal Play of God, the eternal manifestation of the Self. Then it becomes possible to fully know and fully realize Godto do what is said in the Gita, To know Me integrally. The physical body, the life, the mind and understanding, the supermind and the Ananda these are the spirits five levels. The higher man rises on this ascent the nearer he comes to the state of that highest perfection open to his spiritual evolution. Rising to the Supermind, it becomes easy to rise to the Ananda. One attains a firm foundation in the condition of the indivisible and infinite Ananda, not only in the timeless Parabrahman [Absolute] but in the body, in life, in the world. The integral being, the integral consciousness, the integral Ananda b lossoms out and takes form in life. This is the central clue of my yoga, its fundamental principle.
This is no easy change to make. After these fifteen years I am only now rising into the lowest of the three levels of the Supermind and trying to draw up into it all the lower activities. But when this siddhi will be complete, then I am absolutely certain that through me God will give to others the siddhi of the Supermind with less effort. Then my real work will begin. I am not impatient for success in the work. What is to happen will happen in Gods appointed time. I have no hasty or disorderly impulse to rush into the field of work in the strength of the little ego. Even if I did not succeed in my work I would not be shaken. This work is not mine but Gods. I will listen to no other call; when God moves me then I will move.
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People now talk of spiritualizing politics. Its result will be, if there be any permanent result, some kind of Indianized Bolshevism. Even to that kind of work I have no objection. Let each man do according to his inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms the water of the Causal ocean into raw vesselsei ther the raw vessels will break and the water will be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of an ape and setting it up in the temple of Shiva. If the ape is endowed with life and made powerful, he may play the part of the devotee Hanuman and do much work for Rama,2 so long as that life and that power remain. But what we want in the Temple of India is not Hanuman, but the god, the avatar, Rama himself.
We can mix with all, but in order to draw all into the true path, keeping intact the spirit and form of our ideal. If we do not do that we shall lose our direction and the real work will not be done. If we remain individually everywhere, something will be done indeed; but if we remain everywhere as parts of a Samgha, a hundred times more will be done. As yet that time has not come. If we try to give a form hastily, it may not be the exact thing we want. The Samgha will at first be in unconcentrated form. Those who have the ideal will be united but work in different places. Afterwards, they will form something like a spiritual commune and make a compact Samgha. They will then give all their work a shape according to the demand of the spirit and the need of the agenot a bound and rigid form, not an achalayatana3, but a free form which will spread out like the sea, mould itself into many waves and surround a thing here, overflood a thing there and finally take all into itself. As we go on doing this there will be established a spiritual community. This is my present idea. As yet it has not been fully developed. All is in Gods hands; whatever He makes us do, that we shall do.
Now let me discuss some particular points of your letter. I do not want to say much in this letter about what you have written as regards your yoga. We shall have better occasion when we meet. To look upon the body as a corpse is a sign of Sannyasa, of the path of Nirvana. You cannot be of the world with this idea. You must have delight in all thingsin the Spirit as well as in the body. The body has consciousness, it is Gods form. When you see God in everything that is in the world, when you have this vision that all this is Brahman, Sarvamidam Brahma, that Vasudeva is all thisVasudevah sarvamiti then you have the universal delight. The flow of that delight precipitates and courses even through the body. When you are in such a state, full of the spiritual consciousness, you can lead a married life, a life in the world. In all your works you find the expression of Gods delight. So far I have been transforming all the objects and perceptions of the mind and the senses into delight on the mental level. Now they are taking the form of the supramental delight. In this condition is the perfect vision and perception of Sachchidananda.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats what Sri Aurobindo always says! As soon as we start describing something, heres what happens (gesture of taking one step after another); and the moment that happens, the real thing is lost.
We just have to make the best of it.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I understand your question. You want to know if this has an effect on all identical vibratory modes in the world. In principle, yes. But the effects may not be immediately visible; in the first place, our field of observation is nothingmaterially, what do we know? Only our immediate surroundings thats nothing. In 1920, for example, I had an experience of that type, which resulted in a symbolic but terrestrial action. It was a vision (I dont remember enough details to make it interesting) where each nation was represented by a symbolic entity, and there was a certain type of horrorof terror, rather. A certain will of terror was trying to manifest in that gathering of all nations. And I was witness to the whole thing. I remember it being a very conscious and rather long and detailed vision with a more intense reality than physical things have (it was in the subtle physical). And after it was over and I had done what needed to be done (I am not saying what because I dont remember all the details, and without accuracy it loses its value), when I came out of it I could say with TOTAL conviction: Terror has been overcome in the world. Of course, its not literally true, plenty of people still feel terror, but a certain type of terror was as if UNDERMINED at the foundations. What had already manifested kept on and is gradually being exhausted, but the terror that was trying to increase and dominate the life of nations was stopped cold.
I have had other similar experienceson Durgas day, for instance, when Sri Aurobindo was still here (you know, thats the day when Durga masters an asura; she doesnt kill him, she masters him). Well, each year one particular type of thing was undermined (and my experiences were never mental: the experience would suddenly come, and AFTERWARDS I would realize it was Durgas day), and each time I used to tell Sri Aurobindo, Looktoday this (or that) thing has been cut off at the roots. Thats how it works with the adverse forcesyes, like something being uprooted from the world. Whatever has already spread out keeps going and follows its karma, but the SOURCE is dried up. Thats also what happened (it was in 1904, I believe) when the Asura of Consciousness and Darkness made his surrender and was converted; he told me, I have millions and millions of emanations, and these will keep on living, but their source has now run dry.4 How much time will it take to exhaust it all? We cant say, but the source has dried up and that is something extremely important. In 1920, that terror was trying to spread all over the world and to become really catastrophic; and then in my inner vision I could see that a whole movement had dried up at its source. This means that little by little, little by little, little by little the karma is being exhausted.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Outwardly, of course, these troubles (these apparent troubles) upset people, especially the doctor! Ive explained to him that it was all yoga and transformation, and he shouldnt worry, but evidently its upsetting to ordinary eyes. One fact in particular is bewildering to ordinary vision: I am very, very regularly losing weight. Its already down to a ridiculous figure I weigh only 85 pounds! With my height and bone structure, my normal weight should be 130 pounds; when I was twenty-five I weighed 130 or 135. Now I am down to only 85, and its going down quite regularly. I understand how disturbing this might be for people who see things in the ordinary way! I dont eat much (not a little, not a lot, just average), and I dont seem to benefit from what I eat thats how it looks on the surface. And then there are these strange phenomena; I dont usually talk about them (youre the only one I have explained them to, nobody else), I dont talk about them, but from time to time I appear to I must appear to be fainting. And not in the usual way, you know, thats the thing! Nothing happens in the usual way, so its very upsetting! (Mother laughs) The Energy is tremendous, more tremendous than it has ever been; and there is practically no physical strength. I can act, but only if I bring in the Energy: the least physical act demands the Energy. I think the body is completely flimsy; it seems sometimes I touch it to see if its still if its hard or if its soft!
(silence)
0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has even come to the point where things lit from outside seem artificial to me. They have lost their light.
There may be a very dim and subdued lightnot bright, I mean but its self-luminous. And so the higher you rise, the more brilliant and uniform light becomes.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
78When knowledge is fresh in us, then it is invincible; when it is old, it loses its virtue. This is because God moves always forward.
So, whats your question?
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No later than yesterday night, I had this feeling: My god, theres always farther down to go! Its always lower, ever lower. And at the same time, my identity with the Supreme keeps growing while I simultaneously seem to be going down into the most incredible dark dregs of yes, of mud, ever possible in life. Look, you speak of Sri Aurobindos experiencewell, I never knew hed had the vision of all sorts of torture,1 but I have just had it myself in detail, bit by bit and what things! Incredible, incredible. And I was wondering, But why! Why am I seeing all this? Am I losing my contact? On the contrary, it felt c loser and c loser, stronger and stronger, more and more conscious, luminous, and at the same time this (gesture below).
You have formulated it very, very well. Do you unwittingly feel my experience and write it, or do I. I dont know, its all bound up together. But its most interesting.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the body very distinctly feels that things are ALWAYS that way. Always that way. And that everything oh, the feeling of just how artificial all lifes complications and problems are, and how different it could be! Thats always in the background. For example, whenever the body feels ill at ease or something isnt working right, theres always a kind of deep feeling behind that its just bad habitswhich are lingering, fading away, losing their force and becoming more and more unreal. But its its like a machine that takes time to run down.
In the other consciousness (the human consciousness), you have the joy, the excitement of the experience; that has completely gone away, absolutely. Theres neither the joy of the experience nor the wonder nor. Everything is so obvious, so obvious: thats IT. And its not something youre looking at: its LIKE THAT. Thats all, its just like that.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I havent seen much of that room,2 I havent been there often. I went to see what it was like for the first time the evening before the inauguration, and it gave me the feeling of something totally emptyyou know, hollow and dry. It was so strong that the body felt like this (wavering gesture, as if Mother were losing her footing). Thats how the BODY felt, its not the consciousness; I am talking about the body-consciousness. The room seemed so hollow and empty that the body felt drained, as if all its force and consciousness had to spread out everywhere in order to fill up that emptiness.
The next day it wasnt like that any more; the work had been done the day before, in one minute (it gets done very quickly, but in a very intense and violent way). I had purposely gone to the room the previous evening, to set things in order, and so the next day it was better, the work was already done. Then I sat down at the organ it was much better than I expected. It was as if a formation were waiting, and as soon as I sat down it descended. Oh, a marvelous musical joy! I didnt have to look and when I wasnt looking, I saw everything from within: all the notes, my hands, everything, with eyes c losed. And so it descended I was very happy. I must have played for a good twenty minutes.
0 1962-12-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This cleansing of the middle ground is the whole story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother I had been dredging, dredging, dredging the mire of the subconscious. The supramental light was coming down before November,2 but afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped.3 Once again Sri Aurobindo verified, not individually this time but collectively, that if one pulls down too strong a light, the violated darkness below is made to moan. It is noteworthy that each time Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had some new experience marking a progress in the transformation, this progress automatically materialized in the consciousness of the disciples, without their even knowing anything about it, as a period of increased difficulties, sometimes even revolts or illnesses, as though everything were grating and grinding. But then, one begins to understand the mechanism. If a pygmy were abruptly subjected to the simple mental light of a cultivated man, we would probably see the poor fellow traumatized and driven mad by the subterranean revolutions within him. There is still too much jungle beneath the surface. The world is still full of jungle, thats the crux of the matter in a word; our mental colonization is a minuscule crust plastered over a barely dry quaternary. And the battle seems endless; one digs and digs, said the Rishis, and the deeper one digs, the more the bottom seems to recede: I have been digging, digging. Many autumns have I been toiling night and day, the dawns aging me. Age is diminishing the glory of our bodies. Thus, thousands of years ago, lamented Lopamudra, wife of Rishi Agastya, who was also seeking transformation. But Agastya doesnt lose heart, and his reply is magnificently characteristic of the conquerors the Rishis were: Not in vain is the labor which the gods protect. Let us relish all the contesting forces, let us conquer indeed even here, let us run this battle race of a hundred leadings.
(Rig-Veda I.179)
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what made him lose his eyesight, you know; his eyes were overstrained. I know its due to that, because I heard him say so. Once, they had brought him a stack of books to sign and other things and, unaware that he could be heard, he exclaimed, Oh, they want to make me blind!1 Thats how I knew his eyes were tired. He was indeed losing his sight. At the end, he couldnt see a thing, he had to look at very c lose range.
So I am not giving in.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here, there was some hesitation between de linstant [the instants] and du moment [the moments]. Then he showed me (I cant explain how it takes place), he showed me both words, moment and instant, and he showed me how, compared to moment, instant is mechanical; he said, Its the mechanism of time; moment is full and contains the event. Things of that sort, inexpressible (I put it into words but it loses all its value). Inexpressible, but fantastic! There was some hesitation between instant and moment, I dont know why. Then he showed me instant: instant was dry, mechanical, empty, whereas moment contained all that takes place at every instant. So I wrote moment.
(Mother reads the end of her translation)
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Unfortunately, I have lost the habit of French, the words I use to express myself are quite limited and the right word doesnt come something looks up in the word store and doesnt find the word. I can sense it as if elusively, I feel there is a word, but all sorts of substitutes come forward that are worthless.
Now the sensation is altogether, altogether new. Its not the customary movement of words pouring in and so on: you search and suddenly you catch hold of somethingits no longer that way at all: as though it were the ONLY thing that remained in the world. All the restmere noise.
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had asked Sujata for two copies, but then I realized it wasnt at all necessary. I told you I would give it to A. for him to read, and when A. came, I showed him one or two of the latest [Agenda conversations] typed by Sujata and soon lost any desire to try again.
Well, when do I see you next?
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know how to explain it. Putting it like this implies an arbitrary fiat, but theres no such thing: it isnt a gentleman who decides to withdraw certain things he no longer likes! Its not that way. They are things which, owing to their own propensity (what we might call their essential truth), had at a given moment their place in the Manifestation, and which, once they have lost their purpose, quite naturally leave the Manifestation I could put it in fifty different ways just as poorly, I cant see how to explain it properly. But the fact was evident. It was part of such a wonderfully complete and harmonious Whole that Harmony is beyond us, we cannot understand it, caught as we are in the sensation of opposites. But there, opposites do not exist, there are only things that Like the fact of the Supreme seemingly dominated by His creation, wholly obedient to His creationas though He had no power, no knowledge, no vision, so things follow their course in the chaos we know. Well, when we put it like this, there is something unbelievable and shocking about it, yet it was so very natural, so very true, and part of such a perfect whole!
Only, you cannot see it unless you see the whole. At the time, everything was preexistent, although unfolding in time for the Manifestation. But it was preexistent. Not preexistent as we understand it, not everything at a given moment. Oh, how impossible! Its impossible to express it. I still feel what I could call the warmth of the experience the reality, the life, the warmth of the experience are there. You know, I have lived in a Light! A Light which isnt our light, which has nothing to do with what we call light, a Light so warm and powerful! A creative Light. So powerful! Everything was so perfectly harmonious: everything, everything without exception, even the things that appear to be the very negation of divinity. And a rhythm! (gesture as of great waves) A harmony, so wonderful a TOTALITY, where the sense of sequence Sequence doesnt mean things being like this (chopping gesture), one being abolished by the next, it is At the time I might have been able to find or invent the words, I dont know, now now, its only the memory of it. The memory, not the presence itself.
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A third of my letters are either censored or lost.
Yes, exactly. More than half of my correspondence doesnt arrive. But do you know why? Its not at all that they find it suspicious or anything, its that they are snowed under with work, tired, on edge: so instead of opening a letter carefully and making it possible to c lose it again, they tear it open in such a way that they cant decently pass it on! Its nothing but that. Its the same with parcels, you cant imagine! The way they open parcels a child would do it better! Its disgusting. They break things, spoil everything, spill bottles. Then, of course, what can they do about it? Sometimes they cant even forward the parcel, its too damaged.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Also when I was eleven or twelve, my mother rented a cottage at the edge of a forest: we didnt have to go through the town. I used to go and sit in the forest all alone. I would sit lost in reverie. One day (it happened often), one day some squirrels had come, several birds, and also (Mother opens her eyes wide), deer, looking on. How lovely it was! When I opened my eyes and saw them, I found it charming they scampered away.
The memory of all these things returned AFTERWARDS, when I met Thonlong afterwards, when I was more than twenty, that is, more than ten years later. I met Thon and got the explanation of these things, I understood. Then I remembered all that had happened to me, and I thought, Well! Because Madame Thon said to me (I told her all my childhood stories), she said to me, Oh, but I know, you are THAT, the stamp of THAT is on you. I thought over what she had said, and I saw it was indeed true. All those experiences I had were very clear indications that there were certainly people in the invisible looking after me! (Mother laughs)
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my case I never went into trance in my life, I never even lost the contact with the outside.
Didnt you ever see your body?
0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But during the morning meditation, I was at a loss. Is it the symbol of a clinging to the past? Possible. But then there are plenty of people like that in the world, who cling to the past, plenty.
(silence)
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My eyes are no good, Ive lost all my power of expression because of that (Mother takes her magnifying glass to draw). Before, I used to do these letters so easily, and now I cant see any more.
Here.
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One must learn to lose everything in order to gain everything. Always, every minute.
There we are.
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Just before leaving, Satprem rests his forehead on Mothers feet. The previous time, when Satprem had made the same gesture, Mother, who was standing then, had lost her balance and almost fallen.)
You saw last time how I lost my balance. When you touched my foot, there came down a not a column, it was a tornado! Of a light so white, so white! Not transparentsparkling white, white like milk. But such a powerful mass! It came so violently that I lost my balance. Thats all, I only lost my balance. And it remained there, it was thereyou saw how I stood a moment without raising my head, it was because I was looking at it. It was it was MUCH MORE SOLID THAN MATTER. Something very peculiar, it was solid! More solid, MORE MATERIAL THAN MATTER. And a power, a weight, a densityextraordinary! Like a great column, and everything became pure white. Absolutely white. Nothing but white, everywhere. It stayed on a few seconds. And the power of it threw me off balance.
I was in no condition to tell you all this at the time!
0 1963-06-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was something happening. I was brushing it away when something said to me, If you dont tell this to Satprem, it will be lost forever. But I was already erasing it, so now I dont remember what it was.
It was last night, in the middle of the night.
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Silvius Craciunas, author of The lost Footstep.
Yuvaraj Karan Singh.
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in reality, Catholicism finds its equilibrium because of Communism; so that the rapprochement between the two was a masterstroke. And I dont think the new man (who is a sly fox, I find) will want to lose the advantage the other had gained. The friendship with Russia is very clever. They are todays two platforms of influence in the earths atmosphere.
We shall see.
0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He was very conscious, with a lovely faith. He was an active man, very energetic (a short man). How active! And very energetic, with great authority, oh! The idea of being dependent on people who would have to nurse him he preferred to leave. He was conscious enough to know that the essence of his being, of his experience, is not lost but still there is all that materially one has built painstakingly, and especially in his case, his position is the result of a whole life. I dont know.
Begin again in a little baby? (Mother shakes her head negatively) Theres the rub, you see. When Sri Aurobindo left, he said, I will return in a being formed supramentallyentirely conscious, with full capacities.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive lost the habit of asking him!
He doesnt answer.
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The body had based its sort of sense of good health on a certain number of vibrations, and whenever those vibrations were present, it felt in good health; when something came and disturbed them, it felt that it was about to fall ill or that it was ill, depending on the intensity. All that has changed now: those basic vibrations have simply been removed, they no longer exist; the vibrations on which the body based its sense of good or ill healthremoved. They are replaced by something else, and something else of such a nature that good health and illness have lost all meaning! Now, there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: its no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isnt affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (its a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, Whats that? What effect will it have? Whats going to happen? (what the body calls the desire to learn), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure (laughing) that youll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the bodys functioning. While if you dont have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.
The body is unable to know things in the way it did formerly.
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truthwhat I call the supramental and its Divine Power. Otherwise Love itself blinded by the confusions of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles and, even otherwise, may find itself unrecognised, rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in the frailty of mans inferior nature. But when it comes in the divine truth and power, Divine Love descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it applies itself to persons according to the Divine Truth and Will, creating a vaster, greater, purer personal love than any the human mind or heart can now imagine. It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the birth and action of the Divine Love in the world.
(XXIII.753)
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