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low-bandwidth ::: [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits! Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.[Jargon File]
low-bandwidth [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not {content-free}, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of {suits}!" Compare {zero-content}, {bandwidth}, {math-out}. [{Jargon File}]
lowbell ::: n. --> A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. ::: v. t. --> To frighten, as with a lowbell.
lowborn ::: a. --> Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.
lowbred ::: a. --> Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.
low-brow ::: one who is not intellectual; unaesthetic, unrefined.
low-brow ::: see **low-brow.**
low-built ::: comb. Forming with ppl. adjs. used attrib. numerous quasi-compounds, usually hyphened, such as low-built; built, constructed, in a low or inferior way.
low-church ::: a. --> Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.
low-churchism ::: n. --> The principles of the low-church party.
low-churchman ::: n. --> One who holds low-church principles.
low-churchmanship ::: n. --> The state of being a low-churchman.
low comedy: This comedy contains silly, crude slapstick and violence rather than clever dialogue or banter. See comedy.
low earth orbit ::: (communications) (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.[Ovum report, Applications for the superhighway, John Moroney]. (1996-02-06)
low earth orbit "communications" (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high {bandwidth} for {video on demand}, television, and {Internet} communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a {geostationary orbit}, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service. [Ovum report, "Applications for the superhighway", John Moroney]. (1996-02-06)
lowed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Low
lower ::: a. --> Compar. of Low, a.
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one&
lower bound: A value which is less than all elements of a given set.
lower-case ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
lowered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lower
of Lower
lowering ::: bringing down the voice to a lower level.
loweringly ::: adv. --> In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
lowering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Lower
of Lower ::: a. --> Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
lower limit: One of the limits of integration in the evaluation of a definite integral that is used as the argument in the indefinite integral that is used as the subtrahend (i.e. the number to be subtracted, not the number to subtract from).
lowermost ::: superl. --> Lowest.
lower motor neuron ::: Spinal motor neuron; directly innervates muscle (also referred to as α or primary motor neuron).
lower motor neuron syndrome ::: Signs and symptoms arising from damage to α motor neurons; these include paralysis or paresis, muscle atrophy, areflexia, and fibrillations.
lower regions who requires of all the deceased that
lower representative ::: in October 1920, equivalent to what representative had meant earlier in that year, when it referred to a form of intuitive revelatory logistis; this came to be described as "lower representative" when representative vijñana came to mean highest representative ideality.
lower revelatory ::: (in 1920) a term used for a form or forms of logistic ideality other than the highest kinds of revelatory logistis, but containing an element of revelation, such as revelatory intuition, revelatory inspired logistis or the lower forms of intuitive revelatory logistis.
lower revelatory representative ::: pertaining to a form of intuitive revelatory logistis that combines lower revelatory and representative elements.
lower set "mathematics" A {finite} non-empty {downward closed} subset of a {partial order}. (1999-03-17)
lower set ::: (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order. (1999-03-17)
lower triangular matrix: A square matrix where all values on or above the leading diagonal is zero. (i.e. a matrix M where mi,j = 0 for i ≥ j )
lower vital ::: see vital.
lower waters at the time of Creation, and again
lower waters at the time of Creation; and was
lowery ::: a. --> Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
lowess: LOcally WEighted Scatterplot Smoothing - a method for modelling through regression.
lowgh ::: --> Alt. of Lowh
lowh ::: --> strong imp. of Laugh.
lowing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Low ::: n. --> The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
lowings ::: the deep, low sounds characteristic of cattle.
lowish ::: a. --> Somewhat low.
lowk ::: n. --> See Louk.
lowlander ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.
lowland ::: n. --> Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
low-level language "language" Any {programming language} which either is {assembly language}, or which is meant to be closely related to, and easily translated into, {machine language}. Low-level languages lack the amenities of {high-level languages} but it may be possible to write more efficient code in them. (2000-08-10)
low-level language ::: (language) Any programming language which either is assembly language, or which is meant to be closely related to, and easily translated into, machine language. Low-level languages lack the amenities of high-level languages but it may be possible to write more efficient code in them.(2000-08-10)
lowlihead ::: n. --> A lowly state.
lowlihood ::: n. --> Alt. of Lowlihead
lowlily ::: adv. --> In a lowly place or manner; humbly.
lowliness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.
Low condition, especially as to manner of life.
low-lived ::: a. --> Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.
lowly ::: 1. Humble in station, condition, or nature; modest. 2. Humble in attitude, behaviour, or spirit; meek.
lowly ::: a. --> Not high; not elevated in place; low.
Low in rank or social importance.
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
Having a low esteem of one&
low-minded ::: a. --> Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
low-mindedness ::: n. --> The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
low-necked ::: a. --> Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman&
lowness ::: humble in status or character; lowly; also unrefined, coarse.
lowness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being low.
lown ::: n. --> A low fellow.
low pass filter "electronics, graphics" A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In {image processing}, a low pass filter might be used to remove {noise} from an {image}. (2000-04-19)
low pass filter ::: (electronics, graphics) A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal.In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.(2000-04-19)
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low-pressure ::: a. --> Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
lowry ::: n. --> An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
low-spirited ::: a. --> Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
low ::: --> strong imp. of Laugh. ::: v. i. --> To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
To burn; to blaze.
low-studded ::: a. --> Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
low-thoughted ::: a. --> Having one&
low voice
Low Bandwidth X "networking" (LBX) An implementation of the {X Window System} designed to improve performance over {ISDN}, {WAN}, and {serial lines}. [Details?] (2003-07-09)
Low Bandwidth X ::: (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.[Details?](2003-07-09)
Lower Confidence Limit ::: The lower limit of a confidence interval. If prediction states that the true score falls between 80 and 90, then the lower confidence level is 80.
Lower Dantian ::: Also "Lower Dantien." See Svasthithana Chakra.
Lower Face or Lower Countenance. See MICROPROSOPUS
Lower Layer Protocol "networking, protocol" (LLP, or lower-layer protocol) Any {protocol} residing in {OSI} layers one to four. These protocols package, {route}, verify and transmit {datagrams}. A prime example would be {TCP/IP}. Lower layer protocols support the {upper layer protocols}. (1999-02-17)
Lower Layer Protocol ::: (networking, protocol) (LLP, or lower-layer protocol) Any protocol residing in OSI layers one to four.These protocols package, route, verify and transmit datagrams. A prime example would be TCP/IP. Lower layer protocols support the upper layer protocols. (1999-02-17)
Lower Nature, Lower Self The dual human nature arises from the fact that manas (mind), the field and substance of human thought and reasoning, is the scene of interaction between the spiritual soul (buddhi-manas) and the animal soul (kama-manas). Thus there is a threefold division, so that lower self may be considered as either the kama-manas as opposed to buddhi-manas, or else the dual human consciousness or false ego, consisting of both selfish and unselfish elements. The term lower nature, however, refers to the animal and selfish side of human nature, that part which tends downwards and which has to be regenerated and raised.
Lower Principles, Lower Quaternary According to the septenary division of human nature, the septenate is divided into a triad above and a quaternary below, four being a number in this case corresponding to matter, and three corresponding to spirit and intellect. Theosophical teachings enumerate the seven principles in several different ways which tends to keep the student’s ideas fluid and thus prevent dogmatic orthodoxy.
Lower quaternary: In occult terminology, the physical body, the etheric double, the astral body, and the mental body (q.v.).
Lower spirits: The elementals (q.v.).
Lower vital ::: Anger, fear, jealousy, touch the heart no doubt just as they touch the mind but they rise from the navel region and entrails (i.e., the lower or at highest the middle vital).
Lowest common denominator – The smallest number that can be divided evenly by all denominators in the problem.
Lowest-Observed-Adverse-Effect-Level (LOAEL)::: A dose-response model which, like the probit model, leads to an S-shaped dose-response curve, symmetrical about the 50% response point. The logit model leads to lower "very safe doses" than the probit model even when both models are equally descriptive of the data in the observable range.
Low-income Developing Countries - Countries with a low standard of living such that many people cannot meet even their basic needs. These include some of the most populous countries in the world covering approximately 3 billion people.
Low Insertion Force "hardware" (LIF) {PGA}/{SPGA} sockets with no handle. The {integrated circuit} is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most {motherboard} {processor} sockets are now {ZIF} rather than LIF. (1999-08-05)
Low Insertion Force ::: (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF. (1999-08-05)
Lowliness (shiflut) :::&
LOWL "language" The {abstract machine} for {bootstrapping} {ML/1}, developed by P.J. Brown of the {University of Kent at Canterbury}. ["Macro Processors and Techniques for Portable Software", P.J. Brown, published by Wiley, ISBN 0.471.11005.1]. [Mentioned in "Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages", W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271]. [What does LOWL stand for?] (1997-11-04)
LOWL ::: (language) The abstract machine for bootstrapping ML/1, developed by P.J. Brown of the University of Kent at Canterbury.[Macro Processors and Techniques for Portable Software, P.J. Brown, published by Wiley, ISBN 0.471.11005.1].[Mentioned in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271].[What does LOWL stand for?] (1997-11-04)
Low Voltage Differential ::: (hardware) (LVD) A method of driving SCSI cables that will be formalised in the SCSI-3 specifications. LVD uses less power than the current differential drive (HVD), is less expensive and will allow the higher speeds of Ultra-2 SCSI. LVD requires 3.3 Volts DC instead of 5 Volts DC for HVD. (1999-02-16)
Low Voltage Differential "hardware" (LVD) A method of driving {SCSI} cables that will be formalised in the {SCSI-3} specifications. LVD uses less power than the current differential drive ({HVD}), is less expensive and will allow the higher speeds of {Ultra-2 SCSI}. LVD requires 3.3 Volts DC instead of 5 Volts DC for HVD. (1999-02-16)
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. Adorned with jewels. 2. Shining or glowing as with jewels. Also fig. star-jewelled.
1. A sweet yellowish or brownish viscid fluid produced by various bees from the nectar of flowers and used as food. 2. Something sweet, delicious or delightful. 3.* Fig. Sweetness. *honey-buds, honey-drunk, honey-fire, honey-packed, honey-sweet, honey-wine.
1. Flickering lightly over or on a surface. 2. Having a gentle glow; luminous.
1. Made one in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually followed by with); associated inseparably. 2. Became one with. 3. Made, represented to be, or regarded or treated as the same or identical. identifies, identifying.
1. Not holy; not sacred or hallowed. 2. Not holy; impious, profane, wicked.
1. Not proud or arrogant; modest. 2. Low in rank, importance, status, quality, etc.; lowly.
"1. ‘The Golden Embryo" in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative"; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State"; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
1. The state or quality of being divine. 2. A deity, such as a god or goddess; the Supreme Being. 3. The nature of a deity or the state of being divine. 4. A being having divine attributes, ranking below God but above humans. divinity"s, divinities.
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.
abased ::: lowered, humbled, degraded in condition, character, feelings, etc.
A being of the lower vital planes who has assumed the discarded vital sheath of a departed human being or a fragment of his vital personality and appears and acts in the form and perhaps with the surface thoughts and memories of that person.
A being of the lower vital plane who by the medium of a living human being or by some other means or agency is able to materialise itself sufficiently so as to appear and act in a visible form or speak with an audible voice or, without so appearing, to move about material things, e.g., furniture or to materialise objects or to shift them from place to place. This accounts for what are called poltergeists , phenomena of stone-throwing, tree-inhabiting Bhutas, and other well-known phenomena.
abounds ::: present in overflowing measure; plentiful; prevails widely.
absorbed ::: 1. Engrossed or entirely occupied; preoccupied. 2. Swallowed up, or comprised, so as no longer to exist apart.
abyss ::: 1. The great deep, the primal chaos; the ‘bowels of the earth", the supposed cavity of the lower world; the ‘infernal pit". 2. A bottomless gulf; any unfathomable or apparently unfathomable cavity or void space; a profound gulf, chasm, or void extending beneath. Abyss, abyss"s, abysses.
accustomed ::: 1. Customary, habitual, usual. 2. Habituated; acclimated (usually followed by to).
acolyte ::: an attendant or junior assistant in any ceremony or operation; a novice; follower. acolytes.
"A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
adj. 1. Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty. 2. Unconstrained; unconfined. 3. Unobstructed; clear. 4. Ready or generous in using or giving; liberal; lavish. 5. Exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one"s will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted. 6. Exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually followed by from or of). 7. Given readily or in profusion. freer, thought-free, world-free. *adv. *8. In a free manner; without constraints; unimpeded. v. 9. To make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint. 10. To disengage or clear something from an entanglement. 11. To relieve or rid of a burden, an inconvenience or an obligation. freed. set free. Released; liberated; freed.
adj. **1. Void or empty space. 2. Having a cavity, gap, or space within. 3. Fig. Without substance or character; devoid of truth or validity; specious. n. 3. A void space. 4. A cavity, opening, space, or burrow. hollows.**
admit ::: 1. To allow to enter, let in, receive (a person or thing). 2. Fig. To allow a matter to enter into any relation to action or thought. 3. To accept as true, or as a fact, to acknowledge, concede. 4. To allow, permit, grant. admits, admitted, admitting.
Adversary ::: “When there is some lowering or diminution of the consciousness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adversary—or the Censor—who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view, and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force. Become conscious and cast out the possibility of its renewal, that is all that is to be done.” Letters on Yoga
"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.*
affinity ::: 1. Causal relationship or connexion (as flowing the one from the other, or having a common source). 2. A psychical or spiritual attraction believed by some sects to exist between persons.
agree ::: 1. To be in harmony or unison in opinions, feelings, conduct, etc.; to be in sympathy; to live or act together harmoniously; to have no causes of variance. 2. To give consent; assent (often followed by to). agreed.
a large group of rather pretty birds, chiefly of Australasia, popularly called Honey-eaters, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the sweet juices of many flowers.
allowed ::: 1. Permitted the occurrence or existence of. 2. Allotted, assigned, bestowed. allows.
all- ::: prefix: Wholly, altogether, infinitely. Since 1600, the number of these [combinations] has been enormously extended, all-** having become a possible prefix, in poetry at least, to almost any adjective of quality. all-affirming, All-Beautiful, All-Beautiful"s, All-Bliss, All-Blissful, All-causing, all-concealing, all-conquering, All-Conscient, All-Conscious, all-containing, All-containing, all-creating, all-defeating, All-Delight, all-discovering, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, all-harbouring, all-inhabiting, all-knowing, All-knowing, All-Knowledge, all-levelling, All-Life, All-love, All-Love, all-negating, all-powerful, all-revealing, All-ruler, all-ruling, all-seeing, All-seeing, all-seeking, all-shaping, all-supporting, all-sustaining, all-swallowing, All-Truth, All-vision, All-Wisdom, all-wise, All-Wise, all-witnessing, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s.**
allured ::: Sri Aurobindo: [referring to the following lines]
"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
amber ::: a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator. 2. The yellowish-brown colour of resin.
ambling ::: going at a slow, easy pace, strolling; sauntering.
an elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom. valleys, valley-clefts.
::: "An executive cosmic force shapes us and dictates through our temperament and environment and mentality so shaped, through our individualised formulation of the cosmic energies, our actions and their results. Truly, we do not think, will or act but thought occurs in us, will occurs in us, impulse and act occur in us; our ego-sense gathers around itself, refers to itself all this flow of natural activities. It is cosmic Force, it is Nature that forms the thought, imposes the will, imparts the impulse. Our body, mind and ego are a wave of that sea of force in action and do not govern it, but by it are governed and directed.” The Synthesis of Yoga —**cosmic forces.**
an insect, the female of which emits a sustained, glowing, greenish light.
a person holding an inferior relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, servant, follower, or retainer.
arabesques ::: 1. Any ornaments or ornamental objects such as rugs or mosaics, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern. 2. *Fine Arts.* A sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif.
ardent ::: 1. Having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; glowing with passion, animated by keen desire; intensely eager, zealous, fervent, fervid. 2. Burning, fiery, or hot. ardent-hued.
arrested ::: stopped, checked the course of, stayed, slowed down. arresting.
artist ::: 1. One who practises the creative arts; one who seeks to express the beautiful in visible form. 2. A follower of a manual art; an artificer, mechanic, craftsman, artisan. artists. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adj.)
A slow miraculous gesture dimly came. ::: Sri Aurobindo ref: the above line from Savitri:
A slow miraculous gesture"s dim appeal.**
::: "As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not, — they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not — or if the lines of power change, one"s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces, — spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces — and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
"As long as we live in the ignorant seeming, we are the ego and are subject to the modes of Nature. Enslaved to appearances, bound to the dualities, tossed between good and evil, sin and virtue, grief and joy, pain and pleasure, good fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
asoca ::: bot.: Saraca indica , Asoka, Sorrowless tree. A small flowering tree native to India with glowing clusters of orange and yellow flowers. asocas.
asphodel ::: a genus of liliaceous plants with very attractive white, pink or yellow flowers, mostly natives of the south of Europe; by the poets made an immortal flower, and said to cover the Elysian (heavenly, paradisal) fields.
"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
avatars ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The word Avatar means a descent; it is a coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.” *Essays on the Gita
Avatar ::: “The word Avatar means a descent; it is a coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.” Essays on the Gita
awake ::: v. 1. To arouse from sleep or inactivity. 2. Fig. To rise from a state resembling sleep, such as death, indifference, inaction; to become active or vigilant. 3. To come or bring to an awareness, to become cognizant, to be fully conscious, to appreciate fully (often followed by to). awakes, awoke, awaking. *adj.* 4. Not asleep; conscious; vigilant, alert. half-awake.
backward ::: 1. To, toward or into the past. 2. In or toward a past time. 3. Late in developing, behind; slow, esp. relating to time or progress. far-backward.
balance ::: n. **1. A state of equilibrium or equipoise; mental, psychological or emotional. 2. A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless. 3. An undecided or uncertain state in which issues are unresolved. v. 4. To have an equality or equivalence in weight, parts, etc.; be in equilibrium. adj. 5. Being in harmonious or proper arrangement or adjustment, proportion. 6. Mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behaviour, judgement. balanced, balancing.**
barrage ::: an overwhelming quantity or explosion as of artillery fire, words, blows, or criticisms.
basement ::: the substructure or foundation of a building usually below ground level.
base ::: n. 1. The fundamental principle or underlying concept of a system or theory; a basis, foundation. 2. A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent. adj. 3. Having or showing a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency; morally low. base"s. baser.
battered ::: damaged especially by blows or hard usage.
blow ::: 1. A sudden, hard stroke with a hand, fist, or weapon; a stroke. 2. A sudden attack or drastic action. 3. Fig. A sudden shock, calamity, severe disaster experienced by someone. blows.
blow ::: to produce a sound or cause to sound as by expelling a current of air.
beat ::: n. 1. A stroke or blow. 2. A regular sound or stroke. 3. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. 4. A pulsating sound. 5. A forceful flapping of wings. beats, nerve-beat, hammer-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats", moment-beats, rhyme-beats. v. 6. To strike or pound with repeated blows. 7. To shape or break by repeated blows, as metal. 8. To sound in pulsations. 9. To throb rhythmically; pulsate, as the heart. 10. To flap, especially wings. 11. To strike with or as if with a series of violent blows, dash or pound repeatedly against, as waves, wind, etc. beats, beaten, beating. *adj. *sun-beat.
Below navel — lower vital.
below the human race in evolutionary development.
bed-fellows ::: those who are closely associated or allied with one another.
bee-croon ::: the soft, soothing, low murmuring sound produced by bees.
bellowed ::: emitted a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow; roared.
benumbed ::: made (any part of the body) insensible, torpid, or powerless; made numb, deprived of sensation; stupefied or stunned, as by a blow or shock; now mostly used for the effects of cold.
billowing ::: surging up, swelling out, puffing up.
blaze ::: n. 1. A brilliant burst of fire, a bright glowing flame. 2. A brilliant, striking display; a brilliant light; resplendent with bright colour. 3. A steady, clear light. 4. Fig. An intense outburst of passion, etc. ::: sun-blaze. v. 5. blazed.
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.**
blossom ::: v. 1. To produce or yield flowers. 2. To flourish; develop. blossomed.* *n. 3. The flower of a plant. mango-blossoms.**
low-brow ::: one who is not intellectual; unaesthetic, unrefined.
low-brow ::: see **low-brow.**
low-built ::: comb. Forming with ppl. adjs. used attrib. numerous quasi-compounds, usually hyphened, such as low-built; built, constructed, in a low or inferior way.
lowering ::: bringing down the voice to a lower level.
lowings ::: the deep, low sounds characteristic of cattle.
lowly ::: 1. Humble in station, condition, or nature; modest. 2. Humble in attitude, behaviour, or spirit; meek.
lowness ::: humble in status or character; lowly; also unrefined, coarse.
"Body is the outward sign and lowest basis of the apparent division which Nature plunging into ignorance and self-nescience makes the starting-point for the recovery of unity by the individual soul, unity even in the midst of the most exaggerated forms of her multiple consciousness.” The Life Divine
“Body is the outward sign and lowest basis of the apparent division which Nature plunging into ignorance and self-nescience makes the starting-point for the recovery of unity by the individual soul, unity even in the midst of the most exaggerated forms of her multiple consciousness.” The Life Divine
break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a room. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, mood, etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.
breathe ::: 1. To be alive; live. 2. To take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire. Also fig. 3. To control the outgoing breath in producing voice and speech sounds. 4. To utter, especially quietly. 5. To make apparent or manifest; express; suggest. 6. To exhale (something); emit. 7. To impart as if by breathing; instil. 8. To move gently or blow lightly, as air. breathes, breathed, breathing. ::: To breathe upon fig. To taint; corrupt.
brimmed ::: referring to the upper edge or rim of anything hollow.
brim ::: the rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin, bowl, etc.
bronze ::: 1. Any of various alloys of copper and tin in various proportions. 2. A moderate yellowish to olive brown color.
brute ::: n. **1. Any animal except man; a beast; a lower animal. brute"s. adj. 2. Animal, not human. 3. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence. 4. Wholly instinctive; senseless; coarse; brutish; dull. 5. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; cruel or savage. brute-sensed.**
bud ::: 1. A rudimentary inflorescence, i.e. flower bud. 2. *Fig. Something in an undeveloped or immature condition. *buds, honey-buds, lotus-bud.
built ::: pt. and pp. of build. dream-built, high-built, low-built, mind-built, new-built. *adj. *built in. Constructed or included as an integral part of. adj. built-up. Built by the fastening together of several parts or enlarged by the addition of layers.
burn ::: 1. To be very eager; aflame with activity, as to be on fire. 2. To emit heat or light by as if by combustion; to flame.. 3. To give off light or to glow brightly. 4. To light; a candle; incense, etc.) as an offering. 5. To suffer punishment or death by or as if by fire; put to death by fire. 6. To injure, endanger, or damage with or as if with fire. 7. Fig. To be consumed with strong emotions; be aflame with desire; anger; etc. 8. To shine intensely; to seem to glow as if on fire. burns, burned, burnt, burning.
burning ::: adj. 1. Aflame; on fire. Also fig. 2. Very bright; glowing; luminous. 3. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate. 4. Urgent or crucial. 5. Extremely hot; scorching. 6. Very hot. ever-burning.* *n. 7. The state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. altar-burnings.**
"But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all if we yield to it in an entire faith and follow and assent to its workings with a constant courage and patience.” The Synthesis of 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
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
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.
cave ::: 1. A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface. 2. A hollow in the side of a hill or cliff, or underground of any kind; a cavity. Cave, caves, death-cave, deep-caved, cave-heart.
cavernous ::: like a cavern in vastness, depth, or hollowness.
cavity ::: a hollow; a hole.
chain ::: n. 1. A series of things connected or following in succession. 2. Something that binds or restrains. chains. v. 3. Fig. To restrain or confine with or as with a chain.
chameleon ::: any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the colour of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
chased ::: 1. Followed rapidly in order to catch; overtake; pursued. 2. Put to flight; driven away by force.
chase ::: v. **1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue. 2. To follow or devote one"s attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc. 3. To put to flight; drive out. ::: —chases, chased.* *n. 3. The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture thunder-chase.**
check ::: v. 1. To investigate, examine or verify as to correctness; examine carefully or in detail; to ascertain the truth about. 2. To inspect so as to determine accuracy, authenticity, quality, or other condition; test. checked.* n. *3. A person or thing that stops, limits, slows, or restrains.
chill ::: adj. 1. Cold, often unpleasantly so; numbing. 2. Discouraging; dispiriting. 3. Unduly formal; unfriendly; unfeeling. v. 4. To lower in temperature; cool; make cold. 5. Fig. To depress (enthusiasm, etc.); discourage. chilled, chilling.
chrysolites ::: brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as gemstones such as topaz, etc.
circuit ::: 1. The act of following a curved or circular route or one that lies around an object. 2. A complete route or course, esp. one that is curved or circular and begins and ends at the point of departure. 3. The boundary line encompassing an area or object. 4. A regular or accustomed course from place to place. circuits.
clash ::: n. 1. A loud, harsh noise, such as that made by two metal objects in collision. 2. An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish. 3. A conflict, as between opposing or irreconcilable ideas. v. 4. To engage in a physical conflict or contest, as in a game or a battle (often followed by with). 5. To come into conflict; be in opposition. clashes, clashed, clashing.
communion ::: 1. The act or an instance of sharing, as of thoughts or feelings. 2. Religious or spiritual fellowship. communion"s, communions.
companionship ::: the relationship of friends or companions; fellowship.
::: "Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound — for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious, — supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
consequence ::: 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. 2. Significance; importance.
coral ::: a reddish yellow; light yellowish red; pinkish yellow.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
cradle ::: n. 1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers. 2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. cradles v. 2.* *To hold gently and carefully as in a cradle. 3. To hold gently or protectively. cradles, cradled.**
crawl ::: n. 1. The action of moving slowly on the hands or knees or dragging the body along the ground. 2. A very slow movement or progress. v. 3. To move slowly, either by dragging the body along the ground or on the hands and knees. 4. To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops. crawls, crawled, crawling.
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.
crooning ::: a soft, soothing, low murmuring sound. bee-croon.
current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.
dams ::: 1. Barriers to obstruct the flow of water, esp. one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river. 2. Any barriers resembling dams.
dart ::: n. 1. A small, slender missile that is pointed at one end and usually feathered at the other and is propelled by hand, as in the game of darts, or by a blowgun when used as a weapon. 2. Something similar in function to such a missile, as the stinging member of an insect. *v. 2. To thrust or move suddenly or rapidly.* darts.
dealt ::: took action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with).
deduction ::: logic. A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
deep ::: n. 1. A vast extent, as of space or time; an abyss. 2. Fig. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; as an unfathomable thought, idea, esp. poetic. Deep, deep"s, deeps. adj. 3. Extending far downward below a surface. 4. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination. 5. Coming from or penetrating to a great depth. 6. Situated far down, in, or back. 7. Lying below the surface; not superficial; profound. 8. Of great intensity; as extreme deep happiness, deep trouble. 9. Absorbing; engrossing. 10. Grave or serious. 11. Profoundly or intensely. 12. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to penetrate or understand. 13. Low in pitch or tone. 14. Profoundly cunning, crafty or artful. 15. The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night”; "in the deep of winter”. deeper, deepest, deep-browed, deep-caved, deep-concealed, deep-etched, deep-fraught, deep-guarded, deep-hid, deep-honied, deep-pooled, deep-thoughted. *adv. *16. to a great depth psychologically or profoundly.
degraded ::: lowered or reduced in character, quality or value; debased; vulgarized.
delay ::: n. 1. The putting off or deferring of action, etc. v. 2. To slow up, hinder, or cause to be late; detain. delays, delaying.
deliberate ::: 1. Carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional. 2. Leisurely and steady in movement or action; slow and even; unhurried.
descend ::: to move or pass from a higher to a lower place; come down. Also fig. descends, descended.
designs or pictures transferred from engraved plates, wood blocks, lithographic stones or other media. flower-prints.
"Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Outwardly also, the nation or community or race which shrinks too long from destroying and replacing its past forms of life, is itself destroyed, rots and perishes and out of its debris other nations, communities and races are formed. By destruction of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
devour ::: 1. To swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously. 2. To engulf or swallow up. devours, devoured, devouring.
dips ::: 1. Plunges briefly into water or another liquid and removes quickly. 2. Sinks or drops down, or below a particular level, as if dipping into water; goes down, sinks, sets. 3. Has a downward inclination; inclines or slopes downwards; is inclined to the horizon. dipped, dipping.
disciples ::: those who are pupils or adherents of the doctrines of another; followers.
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.
"Divine Love is of two kinds — the divine Love for the creation and the souls that are part of itself, and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and physical instincts.” Letters on Yoga
divine 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
dogged ::: followed or tracked like a dog, especially with hostile intent; hounded. dogs, dogging.
dole ::: n. **1. A portion or allotment of money, food, etc., esp. as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance. v. 2. To give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out). doled, doles.**
downward ::: adj. 1. Descending from a source or beginning. 2. Moving or tending to a lower place or condition. 3. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank. adv. 4. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
drab ::: 1. Dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc. 2. Dull grey; dull browning or yellowish grey. drab-hued.
drag ::: n. 1. A slow, laborious motion or movement against resistance. v. 2. To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul. 3. To trail along the ground. 4. To be drawn or hauled along. 5. To introduce; inject; insert. drags, dragged, dragging.
draught ::: the act or an instance of drinking; a gulp or swallow. Also fig. draughts.
dribbled ::: flowed or fell in drops or an unsteady stream; trickled.
drift ::: n. 1. A driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure. 2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. 3. Tendency, trend, meaning, or purport. 4. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. 5. Something moving along in a current of air or water. 6. Any group of stars having a random distribution of velocities; usually applied to a group of stars with an apparent systematic motion towards some point in the sky. v. 7. To be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water. 8. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose. drifts, drifted, drifting, sleet-drift, slow-drifting.
drone ::: a continuous low humming or buzzing sound.
dull ::: adj. **1. Causing boredom; tedious; uninteresting. 2. Not brisk or rapid; sluggish. 3. Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive. 4. Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. 5. (of color) Very low in saturation; highly diluted; 6. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. duller, dull-eyed, dull-hued, dull-visioned. v. 7. To make numb or insensitive. 8. To make or become dull or sluggish. 9. To make less lively or vigorous. dulls, dulled.**
"Each person follows in the world his own line of destiny which is determined by his own nature and actions — the meaning and necessity of what happens in a particular life cannot be understood except in the light of the whole course of many lives. But this can be seen by those who can get beyond the ordinary mind and feelings and see things as a whole, that even errors, misfortunes, calamities are steps in the journey, — the soul gathering experience as it passes through and beyond them until it is ripe for the transition which will carry it beyond these things to a higher consciousness and higher life.” Letters on Yoga*
ebb ::: n. **1. The flowing back of the tide from high to low water or the period in which this takes place. v. 2. To flow back or recede; subside, abate. ebbed, ebbing.**
emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous.
"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*
endure ::: 1. To undergo (hardship, strain, privation, etc.) without yielding; bear. 2. To bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate. 3. To admit of; allow; bear. 4. To continue to exist; last. endures, endured.
engulfed ::: swallowed up or overwhelmed by or as if by overflowing and enclosing. engulfing.
equal ::: adj. 1. As great as; the same as (often followed by to or with). 2. Having the same quantity, value, or measure as another. 3. Evenly proportioned or balanced. 4. Tranquil; equable; undisturbed. 5. Impartial; just; equitable. n. 6. One who is equal to another in any specified quality. v. **7. To become equal or level with. equalled.**
"Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness and it is this from which a sadhak deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance, — though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even illimitably, a man"s power of endurance and forbearance. Letters on Yoga
estuaries ::: arms or inlets of the sea at the lower end of a river.
"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
::: "Faith is the soul"s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.” *Letters on Yoga
familiar visage. Sri Aurobindo [in reference to the following lines]:
flowered ::: flower 1. Blossomed or bloomed. Also fig. 2. Decorated with flowers. 3. Came into full development; matured; blossomed.
flower-symbol ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Flowers are the moment"s representations of things that are in themselves eternal.” On Himself
flowing ::: moving in or as if in a stream.
flow ::: n. 1. To move or progress freely as if in a stream. 2. Fig. Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. v. 3. To circulate. 4. To move or progress freely as if in a stream. 5. To stream or well forth. 6. To proceed or be produced continuously and effortlessly from or out of a source. flows, flowed.
flown ::: moved or travelled swiftly, passed rapidly, rushed along. (Pp. of fly.)
fellow (‘s) ::: a comrade or associate. fellows.
fervent ::: poetic: boiling, burning, or glowing; fervid; heated
fiery ::: 1. Like or suggestive of fire. 2. Burning or glowing. 3. Charged with emotion; fervent, vehement, impassioned. fierier, fiery-footed.
"Find the Guide secret within you or housed in an earthly body, hearken to his voice and follow always the way that he points. At the end is the Light that fails not, the Truth that deceives not, the Power that neither strays nor stumbles, the wide freedom, the ineffable Beatitude.” Essays Divine and Human
flame ::: n. 1. Burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor. 2. Fig. A brilliant light; fiery glow. 3. Fig. Intense ardour, zeal, passion, vitality. 4. Spiritual fire. 5. Inner fire. 6. Bright colouring; a streak or patch of color. Flame, flames, flame-ascensions, flame-born, flame-bright, flame-child, flame-discovery, flame-edge, flame-eyed, flame-foot, flame-hills, flame-pure, flame-signs, flame-stabs, flame-throw, flame-white, flame-wrapped, moon-flame. v. 8. To burn with a flame or flames; burst into flames; blaze. 7. To burn or glow as if with fire; become red or fiery 8. To burn or burst forth with strong emotion. flames, flamed. ::: flames out. Bursts out in or as if in flames.
flaming ::: adj. 1. Emitting flames; blazing; burning; fiery. 2. Glowing brightly; brilliant. 3. Intensely ardent or passionate. 4. Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form. 5. Like a flame in brilliance, heat or shape. 6. Very intense, ardent; fiery, as a disposition. flaming-silent.* n. 7. The action of burning or being on fire. Also fig. *flamings.
flood ::: n. **1. A large body of water; a great flow or stream of any fluid; any great overwhelming quantity, also poet. & fig. 2. The rise and flowing in of the tide. 3. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 4. Any great outpouring or stream. floods. v. 5. To flow or pour in or as if in a flood. flooded, flooding. ::: And heard the questioning of the unsatisfied flood **
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.
flux ::: 1. Constant or frequent change; fluctuation; movement. 2. A flowing or flow: Also used with reference to other forms of matter and energy that can be regarded as flowing, such as radiant energy, particles, etc.
follow ::: 1. To come or go after; proceed behind. 2. Lit. and fig. To move along the course of; take a path. 3. Fig. To come after in order, time, or position. 4. To occur or be evident as a consequence; result. 5. Fig. To accompany; attend. 6. To take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master; to accept the authority or example of, obey the dictates or guidance of; to adhere to, espouse the opinions, side, or cause of. 7. Fig. To go after in or as if in pursuit. 8. To accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of. 9. To watch or trace the movements, progress, or course of. follows, followed, following. ::: following out. Proceeding; following; pursuing something to an end or conclusion.
follower ::: 1. Someone who travels behind or pursues another. 2. One who subscribes to the teachings or methods of another; an adherent. followers.
fordless ::: having no ford, i.e. a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
formal ::: following or being in accord with accepted forms, conventions, or regulations.
" 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.” The Synthesis of Yoga
frieze ::: the upper part of the wall of a room, below the cornice, esp. one that is decorated. friezes.
furrow ::: a long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plough. Also fig. furrows.
garland ::: a wreath or festoon, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
glowing ::: shining brightly, brilliantly and steadily, especially without a flame; luminous.
glow ::: n. 1. A light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence. 2. Brilliance or warmth of colour. 3. Intensity of emotion; ardour. joy-glow, petal-glow. v. 4. To shine intensely, as if from great heat. 5. To show a strong bright colour. glows, glowed, glowing.
glow-worm
gleam ::: n. **1. A brief beam or flash of light. 2. A brief or dim indication; a trace. 3. The appearance of radiant beauty. Gleam, gleams. v. 4. To emit a gleam; flash or glow briefly or faintly. gleams, gleamed, gleaming, gleam-ridge. ::: *
glean ::: 1. To gather laboriously, bit by bit. 2. To gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gathers. 3. To learn, discover, of find out, usually little by little or slowly. gleaner.
glistening ::: reflecting a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shining lustrously.
glory ::: n. 1. Majestic and radiant beauty and splendour; resplendence. 2. Great honour, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown. 3. A state of extreme happiness or exaltation. 4. A state of absolute happiness; gratification. Glory, glory"s, glories, self-glory. v. 5. Rejoice proudly (usually followed by in). glories, gloried, glorying.
golden Child ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
gong ::: a large bronze disk of Asian origin, having an upturned rim that produces a vibrant, hollow tone when struck, usually with a soft mallet.
good ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Below [the ethical] hides that secret of good in all things which the human being approaches and tries to deliver partially through ethical instinct and ethical idea; above is hidden the eternal Good which exceeds our partial and fragmentary ethical conceptions.” *Social and Political Thought
grace ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flow of its being. ::: It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law — for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate — only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. A state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes, then the Grace itself acts. ” *Letters on Yoga
growl ::: 1. (of animals, esp. when hostile) to utter (sounds) in a low inarticulate manner. 2. To make a deep rough sound, as of thunder. growls, growled.
gurgling ::: flowing in a broken, irregular, noisy current; emitting a sound as of bubbling liquid.
hallowed ::: regarded as holy; venerated; sacred.
hang ::: 1. To fasten or attach (pictures, etc.) to a wall. 2. To suspend (something) around or in front of anything. 3.* Fig. To remain unresolved or uncertain. 4. To make (an idea, form, etc.) dependent on the situation, structure, concept, or the like, usually derived from another source. 5. To fasten or be fastened from above, esp. by a cord, chain, etc.; suspend. 6. To be suspended or poised; hover. 7. To bend forward or downward; to lean over. *hangs, hung, hanging, flower-hung, shadow-hung. ::: hung on: Remained clinging, usually implying expectation or unwillingness to sever one"s connection.
having a particular pace or movement. large-paced, quick-paced, slow-paced.
heavily ::: very slowly and with difficulty; laboriously.
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. **
hemmed ::: confined or bound by an environment of any kind; enclosed, shut in, limited, restrained, imprisoned; often followed by in.
herbs ::: a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody.
hew ::: 1. To cut something by repeated blows, as of an axe. 2. To make or shape as with an axe. 3. To sever from a larger or another portion as with a blow. 4. To cut down with an axe; fell; slay. hews, hewed, hewn, hewing, hewer, half-hewn, rock-hewn. ::: rough-hewn. Shaped out roughly, given crude form to; worked or executed in the rough. (Here in reference to Satyavan"s abode.)
"He who is the high and low, the saint and the sinner, the god and the worm, Him worship, the visible, the knowable, the real, the omnipresent; break all other idols. In whom there is neither past life nor future birth, nor death nor going nor coming, in whom we always have been and always will be one, Him worship; break all other idols."" The Synthesis of Yoga*
hinge ::: a jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
hollow
**"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. To the pragmatical intellect which takes its stand upon the ever-changing present, ideals are not truths, not realities, they are at most potentialities of future truth and only become real when they are visible in the external fact as work of force accomplished. But to the mind which is able to draw back from the flux of force in the material universe, to the consciousness which is not imprisoned in its own workings or carried along in their flood but is able to envelop, hold and comprehend them, to the soul that is not merely the subject and instrument of the world-force but can reflect something of that Master-Consciousness which controls and uses it, the ideal present to its inner vision is a greater reality than the changing fact obvious to its outer senses. The Supramental Manifestation*
"I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights, — yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
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*
incline ::: n. 1. A steep slope or rise. *v. 2. To bow, nod, or bend (the head, body, etc.). 3. To dispose (a person) in mind, habit, etc. (usually followed by to). 4. To listen, especially willingly or favourably. *inclined, inclining.
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.
inferior ::: 1. Lower in rank, position, importance or status; subordinate. 2. Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation.
infiltration ::: the act or process of penetrating or seeping into slowly; permeating.
influx ::: the act of flowing in; inflow. Also fig. Influx.
inrushes ::: that which rushes or pours in; inflow, influx.
"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
instinct ::: adj. Filled or infused with some animating principle (usually followed by with).
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
intermediate zone ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higher Mind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels , but one can receive something from them, even from the overmind, indirectly. Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers. ::: It is not necessary for everyone to struggle through the intermediate zone. If one has purified oneself, if there is no abnormal vanity, egoism, ambition or other strong misleading element, or if one is vigilant and on one"s guard, or if the psychic is in front, one can either pass rapidly and directly or with a minimum of trouble into the higher zones of consciousness where one is in direct contact with the Divine Truth.
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
"In yoga experience the consciousness widens in every direction, around, below, above, in each direction stretching to infinity.” Letters on Yoga
"It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others, ``Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you — if secretly, he will yet show himself in good time, — do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey."" Letters on Yoga
"It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, — and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, — is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole.” Letters on Yoga
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, — and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, — is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
::: "It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
jasmine (s) ::: intensely fragrant white (or yellow) flowers of the genus Jasminum. **jasmine"s.**
jowl ::: a jaw, esp. the lower jaw.
joy ::: n. 1. The emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation. 2. A state of happiness or felicity. joys, joyless, joylessness, joy-glow, soul-joy. v. 3. To feel happiness or joy. **joys, joyed.
"Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power & wrathful Love. She slays with her furious blows the self in body, life & mind in order to liberate it as spirit eternal.” Essays Divine and Human
laggard ::: moving, developing, or responding slowly; sluggish; dilatory; backward.
lapse ::: 1. An accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard. 2. A gradual decline or a drop to a lower degree, condition, or state. 3. A gradual deterioration or decline; regression. 4. The act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc. slowly or by degrees. lapsed, lapsing, far-lapsing.
lays low ::: overpowers or kills; defeats.
lead ::: v. 1. To go in advance; act as a guide; show the way. 2. To guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc. 3. Of a way, road, etc.: To serve as a passage for, conduct (a person) to or into a place; hence, to have a specified goal or direction. 4. To pass or go through; live. 5. To result in; tend toward (often followed by to). 6. To indicate, as a clue, guide or indication of a route way, course. leads, leading, leadst.* n. 7. Anything or anyone who guides or directs by leading; going in front. ::: (Note: See also *sounding leads.)
least ::: 1. Lowest in importance or rank. 2. Smallest in magnitude or degree. 3. To or in the lowest or smallest degree.
leave ::: 1. To go away from, depart from permanently, quit (a place, person, or thing). 2. To let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc. 3. To go without taking. 4. To permit, allow. 5. To let (someone) remain in a position to do something without interference. 6. To give in charge; entrust. 7. Have as a result or residue. leaves. (All other references to leaves are as pl. of leaf.)
lightened ::: 1. Made lighter or brighter. Also fig. **2.** Shone, glowed, became luminous.
light ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.” *The Life Divine
"Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision"s limited range.
For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.
God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light.” *The Hour of God
"Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.” The Mother
The Mother: "The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15. ::: *Light, light"s, lights, light-petalled, light-tasselled, half-light.
linger ::: 1. To be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance; tarry. 2. To be tardy in acting; procrastinate. 3. To remain present although waning or gradually dying. 4. To dwell in contemplation, thought, or enjoyment. lingers, lingered, lingering.
liquid ::: 1. Shining, transparent, or brilliant. 2. Smooth and flowing in quality, as a bird song; entirely free of harshness.
litany ::: a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response.
lotus ::: any aquatic plant of the genus Nelumbo, of the water lily family, having shieldlike leaves and showy, solitary flowers usually projecting above the water. lotuses, lotus-bud, lotus-cup, lotus-heart, lotus-leaf, lotus-pools, lotus-throne.
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
lucid ::: 1. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. 2. Shining or glowing. lucidities.
lurid ::: 1. Sallow or pallid, or murky in colour. 2. Glowing with an unnatural glare as fire through a haze.
lustrous ::: having a sheen or glow; gleaming with or as if with brilliant light; radiant; shining; luminous. star-lustrous.
lute ::: a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too imperfect for that, too imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too imperfect in will and action, too imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity. The inmost need of man is not to perfect his humanity, but to be greater than himself, to be more than man, to be divine, even to be the Divine.” Essays Divine and Human
marsh ::: low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etc.
mass ::: n. 1. A body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size. 2. A large amount or number, such as a great body of people. masses, flower-masses. 3. Bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness. 4. The main body, bulk, or greater part of anything. 5. Physics. A measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body. adj. 6. Of, involving, composed of masses of people (or things) or the majority of people (or a society, group, etc.); done, made, etc., on a large scale. v. 7. To gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble. massed.
mastodon ::: a massive elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from the Myocene through the Pleistocene epochs having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
mean ::: 1. Low or poor in quality or grade; inferior. 2. Ignoble; base. 3. Of little importance or consequence. meanest.
mellow ::: 1. Rich and soft in quality. 2. Pleasantly agreeable; free from tension or discord.
melt ::: 1. To become liquid; dissolve; evaporate; disperse. 2. To pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into). 3. To remake or refashion into something else. melted, melting.
menial ::: pertaining to domestic servants. In current usage, lowly and sometimes degrading; servile.
merge ::: to become combined, united, swallowed up or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending. merges, merged, merging.
metamorphosis ::: 1. Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. 2. A change or succession of changes in form during the life cycle of an animal, allowing it to adapt to different environmental conditions, as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
mind, Ideal Mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The link between the spiritual and the lower planes of the being is that which is called in the old Vedantic phraseology the vijñâna and which we may describe in our modern turn of language as the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or supermind. There the One and the Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the divine Truth and the inspiration of the divine Will and Knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
moan ::: n. 1. A low, sustained, mournful cry, usually indicative of sorrow or pain. 2. A grumble or complaint. moaning. v. 3. To utter sounds in a low mournful manner. 4. To grumble or complain. moaned, moaning.
mobile ::: 1. Flowing freely. 2. Changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc. 3. Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place. mobility.
morass ::: an area of low-lying, soggy ground; hence fig., any confusing or troublesome situation, esp. one from which it is difficult to free oneself.
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.**
mould ::: n. 1. An often hollow matrix or form by which something is shaped; a model, a pattern. 2. Bodily form, body. Chiefly poet. **3. Poetic, the earth. moulds, moulders. v. 4. To work into a shape; fashion a material into a form. Chiefly poet. 5. To shape of form in or on a mould. moulds, moulded, moulding. adj. moulding. 6. Forming, shaping. moulded. 7. **Shaped or cast in a mould; made according to a mould; cut or shaped to a mould.
murmur ::: n. 1. A low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind or trees, or of low, indistinct voices. 2. An indistinct, whispered, or confidential complaint; a mutter. 3. A mumbled or subdued expression of discontent. murmurs, murmurs", murmurings. *v. 4. To make a low, continuous, indistinct sound or succession of sounds. 5. To say in a low indistinct voice; utter indistinctly. 6. To complain in low mumbling tones; grumble. murmurs, murmured, murmuring, many-murmured. adj. *murmurous.
muted ::: of low intensity and reduced volume; softened.
mutter ::: n. 1. A low grumble or indistinct utterance. 2. A low rumbling sound. muttering, mutterings. *v. muttered. 3. Made a low continuous murmuring sound. 4. Complained murmuringly; grumbled. adj. *5. Uttered something in a low and indistinct tone.
n. 1. A humming sound. 2. A low continuous murmuring sound as of distant voices or noises. welcome-hum. v. 3. To emit the continuous droning sound of a bee on the wing; buzz. humming.
n. **1. A manner of walking or running. 2. Fig. The relative speed of progress or change. 3. A rate of activity, progress, growth, performance; tempo. 4. Fig. The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds. v. 5. To walk with slow regular strides. 6. To walk with regular slow or fast paces or steps. paces, paced, pacing.**
n. 1. The lower interior part of a ship or airplane where cargo is stored. 2. The act or a means of grasping. v. 3. To have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 4. To bear, sustain, or support, as with the hands or arms, or by any other means. 5. To contain or be capable of containing. 6. To keep from departing or getting away. 7. To withstand stress, pressure, or opposition; to maintain occupation of by force or coercion. 8. To have in its power, possess, affect, occupy. 9. To engage in; preside over; carry on. 10. To have or keep in the mind; think or believe. 11. To regard or consider. 12. To keep or maintain a grasp on something. 13. To maintain one"s position against opposition; continue in resistance. 14. To agree or side (usually followed by with). holds, holding. ::: hold back. 15. a. To retain possession of; keep back. b. To refrain from revealing; withhold. c. To refrain from participating or engaging in some activity.
n. 1. The horizontal line or plane in which anything is situated, with regard to its elevation. 2. A plane or position in a graded scale; position in a hierarchy. 3. On the same plane, on an equality (with). levels. *adj. 4.** *Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. 5. Height, position, strength, rank, plane, etc. Also fig. v. 6. Fig. To bring persons or things to an equal level; equalize. levelled, all-levelling.**
nether ::: 1. Dwelling beneath the surface of the earth. 2. Lower or under.
not borne in mind; allowed to drop out of mind; forgotten.
not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting; also, not allowing for mistakes, carelessness or weakness.
not hit; not dealt or delivered, as a blow with the hand, weapon, or tool.
oblivious ::: 1. Without remembrance or memory. 2. Unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of ).
*"OM is the syllable (the Imperishable); one should follow after it as the upward song (movement); for with OM one sings (goes) upwards;
orchid ::: any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers.
"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
organ ::: an instrument consisting of a number of pipes that sound tones when supplied with air and a keyboard that operates a mechanism controlling the flow of air to the pipes.
"Our highest Self which possesses and supports this universal Power [the Divine Will] is not our ego-self, not our personal nature; it is something transcendent and universal of which these smaller things are only foam and flowing surface.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our subliminal self is not, like our surface physical being, an outcome of the energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution.” The Life Divine
outpoured ::: flowed out rapidly; poured out. (Chiefly poetic.)
outrush ::: a flowing or rushing out; a rapid or intense outflow.
overflowed ::: 1. Flowed or ran over the top, brim, or banks. Also fig. **2. Spread or covered over; flooded. overflowing.**
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
oxymoron ::: a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.; e.g. "cruel kindness” or "to make haste slowly”.
passing ::: adj. 1. Moving by; going past:. 2. Of brief duration; transitory or momentary. slowly-passing.
passion-flower ::: any of various climbing, tendril-bearing, chiefly tropical American vines of the genus Passiflora, having large showy flowers with a fringelike crown and a conspicuous stalk that bears the stamens and pistil, with some varieties yielding a delicious fruit. [From the resemblance of its parts to the instruments of the Passion.]
passion ::: n. 1. Suffering. 2. A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger. 3. An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger. 4. Strong sexual desire; lust. 5. Violent anger. 6. The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament. passion"s, passions, world-passion. adj. **passioning. v. 7. To be affected by intense emotions such as love, joy, hatred, anger, etc. passions, passioned, passioning, passion-tranced. ::: **
pass ::: v. 1. To move on or ahead; proceed. 2. To move by. 3. To go or get through (something), lit. and fig. **4. To go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross. 5. To cross, traverse, in reference to times, stages, states, conditions, processes, actions, experiences, etc. 6. To be transferred from one to another; circulate. 7. To come to or toward, then go beyond. 8. To come to an end. 9. To cease to exist. 10. To convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on). 11. To be accepted as or believed to be. 12. To sanction or approve. passes, passed, passing. n. 13. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. passes. ::: pass by. To let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overlook.
"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
peak ::: 1. The pointed top of a mountain or ridge. 2. The highest or most important point or level. peaks, peaked, peak-climb, low-peaked, highpeaked, eagle-peaks.
peasant ::: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm labourers of low social rank.
perfection ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Perfection in the sense in which we use it in Yoga, means a growth out of a lower undivine into a higher divine nature. In terms of knowledge it is a putting on the being of the higher self and a casting away of the darker broken lower self or a transforming of our imperfect state into the rounded luminous fullness of our real and spiritual personality. In terms of devotion and adoration it is a growing into a likeness of the nature or the law of the being of the Divine, to be united with whom we aspire, . . . .” *The Synthesis of Yoga
permits ::: allows the doing of (something); consents to; affords opportunity or possibility for.
permitted ::: allowed by.
pioneers ::: those who venture into the unknown to open up new areas of thought, research, or development, that others may follow: forerunners.
piston ::: a solid cylinder or disk that fits snugly into a hollow cylinder and moves back and forth under the pressure of a fluid (typically a hot gas formed by combustion, as in many engines), or moves or compresses a fluid, as in a pump or compressor. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adjective.)
plane ::: higher or lower level, grade, degree. **planes.
playfellows ::: companions at play; playmates.
pour ::: Sri Aurobindo [in reference to the following lines]: ::: **Here too the gracious mighty Angel poured
powers ::: Sri Aurobindo: "These are the forces and beings that are interested in maintaining the falsehoods they have created in the world of the Ignorance and in putting them forward as the Truth which men must follow. In India they are termed Asuras, Rakshasas, Pishachas (beings respectively of the mentalised vital, middle vital and lower vital planes) who are in opposition to the Gods, the Powers of Light. These too are Powers, for they too have their cosmic field in which they exercise their function and authority and some of them were once divine Powers (the former gods, purve devah , as they are called somewhere in the Mahabharata) who have fallen towards the darkness by revolt against the divine Will behind the cosmos.” Letters on Yoga
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
privy ::: made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret, usually followed by to.
purblind ::: 1. Slow or deficient in understanding, imagination or vision. 2. Fig. Slow in understanding or discernment; dull.
"Pure indeed is he for whom as for the eater of things there is the flowing progression by Nature,(1) as by an axe, and with a happy travail she, his Mother, brought him forth that he may accomplish her works and taste of the enjoyment.(2)
"Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse.” *Letters on Yoga
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.
rapture ::: the state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. rapture"s, rapture", rapture-drink, rapture-flowers, rapture-offering, rapture-thrill, world-rapture, heaven-rapture"s.
ration ::: a fixed allowance of food, provisions, etc.
recur ::: to occur, happen, take place, appear, again, as an event, experience, etc. recurs, recurred. *adj. *recurring, slow-recurring.
rejoice ::: (often followed by in.) To feel joyful; be filled with joy; be delighted. rejoices, rejoiced, rejoicing.
religion ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There is no word so plastic and uncertain in its meaning as the word religion. The word is European and, therefore, it is as well to know first what the Europeans mean by it. In this matter we find them, — when they can be got to think clearly on the matter at all, which is itself unusual, — divided in opinion. Sometimes they use it as equivalent to a set of beliefs, sometimes as equivalent to morality coupled with a belief in God, sometimes as equivalent to a set of pietistic actions and emotions. Faith, works and pious observances, these are the three recognised elements of European religion . . . . ::: Religion in India is a still more plastic term and may mean anything from the heights of Yoga to strangling your fellowman and relieving him of the worldly goods he may happen to be carrying with him. It would therefore take too long to enumerate everything that can be included in Indian religion. Briefly, however, it is Dharma or living religiously, the whole life being governed by religion.” *From an unpublished essay
repined ::: was discontented or low in spirits; complained or fretted.
rest ::: n. 1. A state of repose, quiescence, or inactivity. 2. Relief or freedom, esp. from anything that wearies, troubles, or disturbs. 3. Mental or emotional or spiritual tranquillity. 4. Termination or absence of motion. 5. The repose of death. v. 6. To cease motion, work, or activity. 7. To be, become, or remain temporarily still, quiet, or inactive. 8. To be present; dwell; linger (usually followed by on or upon). 9. To depend or rely on. rests, rested, resting.
retarding ::: delaying or slowing down (the progress, speed, or development) of (something); hindering.
rhythm ::: 1. Procedure marked by the regular recurrence of particular elements, phases, etc.; flow, pulse, cadence. 2. Regular recurrence of elements in a system of motion. 3. Music. The pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. 4. Measured movement, as in dancing. 5. Physiol. The regular recurrence of an action of function, as of the beat of the heart. 6. The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables. 7. Pros. Metrical or rhythmical form; metre; a particular kind of metrical form or metrical movement. rhythms, rhythm-beats, fire-rhythm, jewel-rhythm, world-rhythms. (Sri Aurobindo also employs rhythms as a v., rhythmed as a v. and an adj., and rhythming as a v. and an adj.)
rhythmical ::: 1. Having a flowing rhythm. 2. Of, relating to, or having rhythm; recurring with measured regularity.
rich ::: 1. Abounding in desirable elements or qualities. 2. Having great worth or value. 3. Abundant. 4. Possessing great material wealth: Also fig. **5. Expensively elegant, elaborate, or fine; costly. 6. Magnificent; sumptuous. 7. Warm and strong in colour. 8. Of sounds: Pleasantly full and mellow. Also fig. richer, richest, richly, rich-coloured, rich-hearted, rich-plumaged.**
rippled ::: v. 1. Flowed with a light rise and fall. 2. Of sound: undulated or rose and fell in tone, inflection, or magnitude. rippling. *adj. 3. Marked with small undulations, ruffles, or folds; formed of small waves as water agitated by a breeze. *wind-rippled, forward-rippling.
robe ::: n. 1. A long loose flowing outer garment. 2.* An official garment worn on formal occasions to show office or rank, as by a judge or high church official; a ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office. 3. Fig. A covering likened to a robe. robes. v. 4. Cover or dress in or as if in a robe. Also fig. *robes, robed, dark-robed, green-robed, hue-robed.
rocked ::: 1. Moved back and forth or from side to side, especially gently or rhythmically, as a cradle. Also fig. 2. Swayed violently, as from a blow, shock or other impact. 3. Effected deeply; stunned; moved or swayed powerfully, as with emotion. rocks.
rose ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The rose is among the first of flowers because of the richness of its colour, the intensity of sweetness of its scent and the grace and magnificence of its form.”
rotated ::: caused to go through a cycle of changes; caused to pass or follow in a fixed routine of succession.
routine ::: 1. A prescribed, detailed course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. 2. A set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities.
ruby-eyed ::: having eyes the colour of the ruby; a glowing purple-tinged red.
sacred ::: 1. Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. 2. Reverently dedicated to some person, purpose, or object; consecrated, hallowed. 3. Secured against violation, infringement, etc., as by reverence or sense of right; sacrosanct. 4. Entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy; venerable; divine.
sanction ::: n. 1. Authoritative permission or approval, as for an action. 2. Something that supports or encourages, gives approval to. v. 3. To authorize, approve or allow. sanctions, sanctioned, sanctioning.
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
slow-drifting ::: see drift.
slow-moving ::: making slow progress; advancing or acting slowly.
slow-paced ::: see **paced.**
slow-recurring ::: see recur.
slow-scaled ::: see scale.
scale ::: n. 1. A progressive or graduated series or classification. 2. An ascending or descending collection of pitches proceeding by a specified scheme of intervals. 3. A standard of measurement or judgment; a criterion. 4. Relative or proportionate size or extent; degree, proportion. slow-scaled. *v. 5. To climb; ascend; move upward; mount. *scales.
scheme ::: 1. A plan, design, or program of action to be followed. 2. A systematic plan of action to achieve a specific end. 3. A diagram, map, or the like. schemes, schemed, scheme-lines, world-scheme.
scooped ::: hollowed out with or as with a scoop (a utensil, usually in the form of a ladle or a concave shovel with a straight handle) to form a concavity or depression in. Also with out.
screen ::: n. 1. A moveable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. 2. Something interposed as a partition so as to conceal from view. 3. A window or door insertion or framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow. 4. A specially prepared, light reflecting, flat vertical surface for the reception of images as from a slide or motion picture projector. screens. v. 5. To conceal from view with or as if with a screen. screens, screened.
scribe ::: a general designation for any public official (whether of high or low rank) concerned with writing or the keeping of accounts; a secretary, clerk. Scribe, scribes.
self-knowledge ::: knowing of oneself, without help from another.
Sri Aurobindo: The possibility of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge, although still classified, even when its value and power are admitted, as a hallucination. In the psychology of the East it has always been recognised as a reality and the aim of our subjective progress. The essence of the passage over to this goal is the exceeding of the limits imposed on us by the ego-sense and at least a partaking, at most an identification with the self-knowledge which broods secret in all life and in all that seems to us inanimate. *The Life Divine
"Therefore the only final goal possible is the emergence of the infinite consciousness in the individual; it is his recovery of the truth of himself by self-knowledge and by self-realisation, the truth of the Infinite in being, the Infinite in consciousness, the Infinite in delight repossessed as his own Self and Reality of which the finite is only a mask and an instrument for various expression.” The Life Divine
"The Truth-Consciousness is everywhere present in the universe as an ordering self-knowledge by which the One manifests the harmonies of its infinite potential multiplicity.” The Life Divine
self-will ::: wilful or obstinate persistence in following one"s own desires, aims or opinions.
sequel ::: that followed after, subsequent.
sequence ::: 1. A following of one thing after another; succession. 2. A related or continuous series. 3. Order of succession. sequences.
sequent ::: following in order or succession.
seraph ::: a member of the highest order of angels, often represented as a child"s head with wings above, below, and on each side. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) seraph"s, seraph-winged.
serf ::: a member of the lowest feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights; one in bondage or servitude.
shadow ::: n. 1. A dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light. 2. Shade or comparative darkness, as in an area. 3. Darkness that is caused by the interception of light. 4. A phantom; a ghost. 5. An obscure indication; a symbol, type; a prefiguration, foreshadowing. 6. A hint or faint, indistinct image or idea; intimation. 7. A mere semblance. 8. A mirrored image or reflection. 9. Shelter; protection. 10. A dominant or pervasive threat, influence, or atmosphere, esp. one causing gloom, fear, doubt, or the like. Shadow, shadow"s, shadows. v. 11. To represent faintly, prophetically; to indicate obscurely or in slight outline; to symbolize, typify, prefigure. (Often followed by forth.) shadowed. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) shadowlike, shadow-hung, shadow-self, shadow-soul, shadow-Sphinx.
shallow ::: 1. Of little depth; not deep. 2. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, feeling or knowledge.
shallows ::: a shallow part of a body of water, of the sea, of a lake or river; shoal.
shatter ::: 1. To break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow; smash. 2. To impair or destroy (health, nerves, etc.). 3. To weaken, destroy, or refute (ideas, opinions, etc.). 4. To damage, as by breaking or crushing. shattered, shatterer.
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.
shock ::: 1. A violent collision or impact; a heavy blow. 2. Something that jars the mind or emotions as if with a violent, unexpected blow. 3. A sudden disturbance of function, equilibrium or mental faculties caused by such a blow; violent agitation. shocks.
sigh ::: n. 1. An audible exhale following a long, deep breath, in weariness or relief. 2. Fig. A sound made by wind moving through the leaves of a tree. v. sighing. 3. Expressing with or as if with an audible exhalation.
"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.
"Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will.” The Mother - The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
sink ::: n. 1. A cesspool; a covered cistern into which waste water and sewage flow. Also fig. 2. An area of ground that slopes below the level of the surrounding land. v. 3. To descend to the bottom; submerge. 4. To fall, drop, or descend gradually to a lower level. 5. To decline or cause to decline in moral value, pass into a lower state or condition. etc. 6. To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages; subside, as land. 7. To diminish or appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting. 8. To become lower in volume or pitch; gradually become fainter. sunk.
slipped ::: 1. Moved, flowed, passed, or went smoothly or easily; glided. v. **2. To move stealthily; steal. 3. To move, slide gradually from a place or position. 4. To pass into a certain state; become involved or absorbed easily. slips, slipping.**
sluggish ::: 1. Not active or working with full vigour, as bodily organs. 2. Moving or flowing slowly.
smite ::: 1. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon. 2. To deliver or deal (a blow, hit, etc.) by striking hard. 3. To affect, imbue, impress, strike suddenly or strongly with some feeling or sentiment. 4. To afflict or attack with deadly or disastrous effect. 5. To strike down, injure, or slay. 6. To affect suddenly with deep feeling; aflame with love. 7. To affect sharply, impress favourably. 8. To strike forcibly or abruptly as the sun beats down on. Also fig. smites, smiting, smitten, form-smitten.
snap ::: 1. To bring the jaws briskly together, often with a clicking sound; bite. (often followed by up or off). 2. To break suddenly, esp. with a sharp, cracking sound. snaps.
snatched ::: 1. Seized by a sudden or hasty grasp. 2. Made a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
softly ::: 1. Gently, tenderly. 2. With a soft or subdued voice or utterance; in a low or gentle tone.
‘soil" was an error for ‘soul". But ‘soil" is correct; for I am describing the revealing light falling upon the lower levels of the earth, not on the soul. No doubt, the whole thing is symbolic, but the symbol has to be kept in the front and the thing symbolised has to be concealed or only peep out from behind, it cannot come openly into the front and push aside the symbol.” Letters on Savitri — 1946
solidarity ::: a union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group; fellowship of responsibilities and interests.
sombre ::: 1. Dim, gloomy, shadowy. 2. Extremely serious; grave. 3. Of a colour, sober, dull, or dark. 3. Gloomy, depressing, melancholy, dismal. 4. Of persons, their appearance, etc., gloomy, lowering, dark and sullen or dejected.
soul ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘soul", as also the word ‘psychic", is used very vaguely and in many different senses in the English language. More often than not, in ordinary parlance, no clear distinction is made between mind and soul and often there is an even more serious confusion, for the vital being of desire — the false soul or desire-soul — is intended by the words ‘soul" and ‘psychic" and not the true soul, the psychic being.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with all its desires and passions. That was why the word psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish this divine portion from the instrumental parts of the nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul has various meanings according to the context; it may mean the Purusha supporting the formation of Prakriti, which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean, on the other hand, specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving formations here.” *Letters on Yoga
"A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine — none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being supported by such a soul essence but without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.)” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of the Ignorance into the Light. It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual or soul individuality which grows from life to life, using the evolving mind, vital and body as its instruments. It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . for the soul is seated within and impervious to the shocks of external events. . . .” *Essays on the Gita
". . . the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness; for the most part it is veiled in its inner sanctum and to reveal itself it has to call on the mind, the life-force and the physical consciousness and persuade them, as best they can, to express it; ordinarily, it succeeds at most in suffusing their outwardness with its inner light and modifying with its purifying fineness their dark obscurities or their coarser mixture. Even when there is a formed psychic being able to express itself with some directness in life, it is still in all but a few a smaller portion of the being — ‘no bigger in the mass of the body than the thumb of a man" was the image used by the ancient seers — and it is not always able to prevail against the obscurity or ignorant smallness of the physical consciousness, the mistaken surenesses of the mind or the arrogance and vehemence of the vital nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the soul is an eternal portion of the Supreme and not a fraction of Nature.” 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
*Soul, soul"s, Soul"s, souls, soulless, soul-bridals, soul-change, soul-force, Soul-Forces, soul-ground, soul-joy, soul-nature, soul-range, soul-ray, soul-scapes, soul-scene, soul-sense, soul-severance, soul-sight, soul-slaying, soul-space,, soul-spaces, soul-strength, soul-stuff, soul-truth, soul-vision, soul-wings, world-soul, World-Soul.
spend ::: 1. To pay out, disperse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.). 2. To employ (labour, thought, words, time, etc.) as on some object or in some proceeding. 3. To use up lavishly; squander. 4. To allow or cause to flow; to shed. 5. To use up or exhaust one"s energy. spends, spent, spending.
spilled ::: caused or allowed a substance such as liquids to run or fall out of a container. spills.
spiral ::: n. 1. A curve on a plane that winds around a fixed centre point at a continuously increasing or decreasing distance from the point. spirals. adj. 2. Coiled round like a spring, with each coil the same size as the one below. 3. Of an ascending or descending path.
split ::: to divide from end to end or along the grain by or as if by a sharp blow. splits.
spray ::: water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets or fine mist-like particles and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
spring ::: n. 1. A small stream of water flowing naturally from the earth. 2. Fig. A source, origin, or beginning. 3. The season of the year, occurring between winter and summer, during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive. 4. The act or an instance of jumping or leaping. 5. Fig. An actuating force or factor; a motive. Spring, springs, spring-bird"s, master-spring. v. 6. To rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position. 7. To proceed or originate from a specific source or cause. 8. To come into being by growth, as from a seed or germ, bulb, root, etc.; grow, as plants. springs.
squat ::: short and thick; low and broad.
Sri Aurobindo: A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation…. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of ours is a symbol of our real being and everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are, however, different kinds of symbols: 1. Conventional symbols, such as the Vedic Rishis formed with objects taken from their surroundings. The cow stood for light because the same word `go ‘ meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly in danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also was one of their favourite symbols, and a more easily adaptable one, since its force and energy were quite evident. 2. What we might call Life-symbols, such as are not artificially chosen or mentally interpreted in a conscious deliberate way, but derive naturally from our day-to-day life and grow out of the surroundings which condition our normal path of living. To the ancients the mountain was a symbol of the path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. A journey, involving the crossing of rivers and the facing of lurking enemies, both animal and human, conveyed a similar idea. Nowadays I dare say we would liken yoga to a motor-ride or a railway-trip. 3. Symbols that have an inherent appositeness and power of their own. Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4.* Mental symbols, instances of which are numbers or alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. In my experience the square symbolises the supermind. I cannot say how it came to do so. Somebody or some force may have built it before it came to my mind. Of the triangle, too, there are different explanations. In one position it can symbolise the three lower planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones: so both can be combined together in a single sign. The ancients liked to indulge in similar speculations concerning numbers, but their systems were mostly mental. It is no doubt true that supramental realities exist which we translate into mental formulas such as Karma, Psychic evolution, etc. But they are, so to speak, infinite realities which cannot be limited by these symbolic forms, though they may be somewhat expressed by them; they might be expressed as well by other symbols, and the same symbol may also express many different ideas. Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "By attaining to the Unborn beyond all becoming we are liberated from this lower birth and death; by accepting the Becoming freely as the Divine, we invade mortality with the immortal beatitude and become luminous centres of its conscious self-expression in humanity.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "By immortality we mean the absolute life of the soul as opposed to the transient and mutable life in the body which it assumes by birth and death and rebirth and superior also to its life as the mere mental being who dwells in the world subjected helplessly to this law of death and birth or seems at least by his ignorance to be subjected to this and to other laws of the lower Nature.” *The Upanishads
Sri Aurobindo: "Every man is knowingly or unknowingly the instrument of a universal Power and, apart from the inner Presence, there is no such essential difference between one action and another, one kind of instrumentation and another as would warrant the folly of an egoistic pride. The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. The attitude of our mind must not be ‘This is my strength" or ‘Behold God"s power in me", but rather ‘A Divine Power works in this mind and body and it is the same that works in all men and in the animal, in the plant and in the metal, in conscious and living things and in things apparently inconscient and inanimate."” The Synthesis of 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: "History teaches us nothing; it is a confused torrent of events and personalities or a kaleidoscope of changing institutions. We do not seize the real sense of all this change and this continual streaming forward of human life in the channels of Time. What we do seize are current or recurrent phenomena, facile generalisations, partial ideas. We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism, the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; we espouse causes and ardent enthusiasms whose triumph turns to an early disillusionment and then forsake them for others, perhaps for those that we have taken so much trouble to destroy. For a whole century mankind thirsts and battles after liberty and earns it with a bitter expense of toil, tears and blood; the century that enjoys without having fought for it turns away as from a puerile illusion and is ready to renounce the depreciated gain as the price of some new good. And all this happens because our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. The moral is not the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim.” *The Human Cycle etc.
Sri Aurobindo: "If this higher buddhi {{understanding in the profoundest sense] could act pure of the interference of these lower members, it would give pure forms of the truth; observation would be dominated or replaced by a vision which could see without subservient dependence on the testimony of the sense-mind and senses; imagination would give place to the self-assured inspiration of the truth, reasoning to the spontaneous discernment of relations and conclusion from reasoning to an intuition containing in itself those relations and not building laboriously upon them, judgment to a thought-vision in whose light the truth would stand revealed without the mask which it now wears and which our intellectual judgment has to penetrate; while memory too would take upon itself that larger sense given to it in Greek thought and be no longer a paltry selection from the store gained by the individual in his present life, but rather the all-recording knowledge which secretly holds and constantly gives from itself everything that we now seem painfully to acquire but really in this sense remember, a knowledge which includes the future(1) no less than the past. ::: Footnote: In this sense the power of prophecy has been aptly called a memory of the future.]” *The Synthesis of 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 other words, ethics is a stage in evolution. That which is common to all stages is the urge of Sachchidananda towards self-expression. This urge is at first non-ethical, then infra-ethical in the animal, then in the intelligent animal even anti-ethical for it permits us to approve hurt done to others which we disapprove when done to ourselves. In this respect man even now is only half-ethical. And just as all below us is infra-ethical, so there may be that above us whither we shall eventually arrive, which is supra-ethical, has no need of ethics. The ethical impulse and attitude, so all-important to humanity, is a means by which it struggles out of the lower harmony and universality based upon inconscience and broken up by Life into individual discords towards a higher harmony and universality based upon conscient oneness with all existences. Arriving at that goal, this means will no longer be necessary or even possible, since the qualities and oppositions on which it depends will naturally dissolve and disappear in the final reconciliation.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: [in reference to the following lines of Virgil] ::: Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit
Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
"Sri Aurobindo: "It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "[‘Its passive flower of love and doom it gave."] Good Heavens! how did Gandhi come in there? Passion-flower, sir — passion, not passive.” Letters on Savitri [in reference to a typographical error]
Sri Aurobindo: " Mental intelligence thinks out because it is merely a reflecting force of consciousness which does not know, but seeks to know; it follows in Time step by step the working of a knowledge higher than itself, a knowledge that exists always, one and whole, that holds Time in its grasp, that sees past, present and future in a single regard.: The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . obedience is necessary so as to get away from one"s own mind and vital and learn to follow the Truth. . . . Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision"s limited range.” *Essays Divine and Human
**Sri Aurobindo: [referring to the following lines]
Sri Aurobindo: " Sin is the working of the lower nature for the crude satisfaction of its own ignorant, dull or violent rajasic and tamasic propensities in revolt against any high self-control and self-mastery of the nature by the spirit.” *Essays on the Gita
Sri Aurobindo: "That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies"] might be all right for mental poetry — it won"t do for what I am trying to create — in that, one word won"t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam" and ‘glow" are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri *
Sri Aurobindo: "The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: *"The seer does not need the aid of thought in its process as a means of knowledge, but only as a means of representation and expression, — thought is to him a lesser power and used for a secondary purpose. If a further extension of knowledge is required, he can come at it by new seeing without the slower thought processes that are the staff of support of the mental search and its feeling out for truth, — even as we scrutinise with the eye to find what escaped our first observation” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "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
Sri Aurobindo: "Vices are simply an overflow of energy in irregulated channels.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "What the "void" feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if" that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if"s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows. . . .” Letters on Savitri
*Sri Aurobindo: "When there is some lowering or diminution of the consciousness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adversary — or the Censor — who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view, and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force. Become conscious and cast out the possibility of its renewal, that is all that is to be done.” Letters on Yoga
stars ::: Sri Aurobindo: "But it does not follow that the stars rule our destiny; the stars merely record a destiny that has been already formed, they are a hieroglyph, not a Force, — or if their action constitutes a force, it is a transmitting energy, not an originating Power. Someone is there who has determined or something is there which is Fate, let us say; the stars are only indicators.” Letters on Yoga
stoop ::: 1. To bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position. 2. To carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward. 3. To descend from a height or superior position. 4. To swoop down, like a hawk at prey. Also fig. **5. To submit; yield. 6. To lower or debase oneself. Stoops, stooped, stooping.**
streaming ::: n. 1. An act or instance of flowing. adj. **2.** Pouring forth; streaming; overflowing.
stream ::: n. 1. A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river. Also fig. 2. A continuous flow of anything. thought-streams. 3. A beam or ray of light. v. 4. To pour forth or cause to flow outward or give off a stream; flow. 5. To move or proceed continuously like a flowing stream, as a procession. 6. To extend in a beam or in rays, as light. streams, streamed.
strike ::: 1. To inflict, deliver, or deal (a blow, stroke, attack, etc.). 2. Of some natural or supernatural agency: to smite or blast. striking. 3. strike out, off or from. To remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
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).**
stroke ::: 1. The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact. 2. A blow struck at an object; e.g. with a hammer, axe, etc. 3. An act of hitting, or the blow given; also said of divine retribution. 4. A movement or mark made in one direction by a pen, pencil, paintbrush etc. 5. A single complete movement, esp. one continuously repeated in some process. strokes.
struck ::: pt. and Pp. of Strike. 1. Produced (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument; sounded (a particular note). 2. Proceeded or advanced, esp. in a new direction. 3. Produced or sent down roots (of a plant). struck out.** Produced or elicited as by a blow or stroke.
subconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Matter, the medium of all this evolution, is seemingly inconscient and inanimate; but it so appears to us only because we are unable to sense consciousness outside a certain limited range, a fixed scale or gamut to which we have access. Below us there are lower ranges to which we are insensible and these we call subconscience or inconscience. Above us are higher ranges which are to our inferior nature an unseizable superconscience.” Essays Divine and Human
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
subliminal ::: existing or operating below the threshold of sensation or consciousness. subliminal"s.
"Subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” Letters on Yoga
succeeds ::: comes next in time or succession; follows after another; replaces another in an office or a position.
successor ::: one who succeeds or follows another.
suffer ::: 1. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant). distress, grief, etc. 2. To tolerate or allow. 3. To undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition). 4. To submit to endure or to be something. suffers, suffered.
sullen ::: 1. Sombre; gloomy; dismal; sluggish; slow. 2. Gloomy or sombre in tone, color, or portent. Chiefly poet.
summoned ::: 1. Called for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; called. 2. Called into action; roused; called forth (often followed by up). summons, summoning.
sunken ::: situated at a lower level than the surrounding area.
suntracks ::: a word coined by Sri Aurobindo. Lines of travel, passage, or motion; the actual courses or routes followed (which need not be any beaten or visible path, or leave any traces, as the paths of ships, birds in the air, comets, etc.).
"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
surging ::: rising and moving in a billowing or swelling manner. Also said of emotions, feelings and actions.
"Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one"s ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.” Letters on Yoga
swallow ::: 1. To engulf something. 2. Fig. To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour. swallows, swallowed, swallowing, all-swallowing.
syllable ::: a unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants. syllables.
tamperings ::: actions of meddling, esp. for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with).
tapped ::: struck gently and clearly with light blows.
tardily ::: 1. Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late. 2. With slow, sluggish movement.
tardy ::: 1. Slow in progress, growth, etc. 2. Occurring later than expected.
tawny ::: of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown colour.
tedious ::: tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; wearisome; monotonous.
"The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood, in order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling, action, being on the lines of that Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood transfigure itself into the divine. The law, the Dharma which the Avatar establishes is given for that purpose chiefly; the Christ, Krishna, Buddha stands in its centre as the gate, he makes through himself the way men shall follow.” Essays on the Gita
“The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood, in order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling, action, being on the lines of that Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood transfigure itself into the divine. The law, the Dharma which the Avatar establishes is given for that purpose chiefly; the Christ, Krishna, Buddha stands in its centre as the gate, he makes through himself the way men shall follow.” Essays on the Gita
"the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM, - OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name – it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self- existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13 – Page 315*
::: "The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” *Letters on Yoga
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
"The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.” The Synthesis of 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 heart is the centre of the being and commands the rest, as the psychic being or caitya purusa is there. It is only in that sense that all flows from it, for it is the psychic being who each time creates a new mind, vital and body for himself.” *Letters on Yoga
the horny sheath covering the toes or lower part of the foot of a mammal, such as a horse, ox, or deer. hoof-mark.
"The message of the Gita is the gospel of the Divinity in man who by force of an increasing union unfolds himself out of the veil of the lower Nature, reveals to the human soul his cosmic spirit, reveals his absolute transcendences, reveals himself in man and in all beings. The potential outcome here of this union, this divine Yoga, man growing towards the Godhead, the Godhead manifest in the human soul and to the inner human vision, is our liberation from limited ego and our elevation to the higher nature of a divine humanity.” Essays on the Gita ::: *Divinity"s.
The Mother (to a young person): "It is very simple, as you will see. 1) The Infinite is the inexhaustible storehouse of forces. The individual is a battery, a storage cell which runs down after use. Consecration is the wire that connects the individual battery to the infinite reserve of forces. Or 2) The Infinite is the river that flows without cease; the individual is the little pond that dries up slowly in the sun. Consecration is the canal that connects the river to the pond and prevents the pond from drying up.” Some Answers from the Mother, MCW *Vol. 16.
::: The Mother (to a young person): "It is very simple, as you will see. 1) The Infinite is the inexhaustible storehouse of forces. The individual is a battery, a storage cell which runs down after use. Consecration is the wire that connects the individual battery to the infinite reserve of forces. Or 2) The Infinite is the river that flows without cease; the individual is the little pond that dries up slowly in the sun. Consecration is the canal that connects the river to the pond and prevents the pond from drying up.” The Mother - Collected Works, Centenary Ed., Vol. 16 - Some Answers from the Mother*
". . . the nature of the Spirit is a spacious inner freedom and a large unity into which each man must be allowed to grow according to his own nature.” The Human Cycle
::: ". . . the Person puts forward the personality as his role, character, persona, in the present act of his long drama of manifested existence. But the Person is larger than his personality, and it may happen that this inner largeness overflows into the surface formation; the result is a self-expression of being which can no longer be described by fixed qualities, normalities of mood, exact lineaments, or marked out by any structural limits.” *The Life Divine
::: "The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind — to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow terms — runs riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
"The serpent is the symbol of energy — especially of the Kundalini Shakti which is the divine Force coiled up in the lowest (physical) centre, Muladhara, and when it rises it goes up through the spine and joins the higher consciousness above.” Letters on Yoga
"The serpent with the six hoods is the Kundalini Shakti, the divine power asleep in the lowest physical centre which, awakened in the yoga, ascends in light through the opening centres to meet the Divine in the highest centre and so connect the manifest and the unmanifested, joining spirit and Matter.” Letters on Yoga*
The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge and the higher surpassing knowledge. Therefore he can guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it.” The Human Cycle*
"The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.” Letters on Yoga
"The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more complete self-giving in all the parts of the being. If they can achieve and preserve the attitude of the central surrender, if they can rely wholly on the Divine and accept cheerfully whatever comes to them from the Divine, then their path becomes sunlit and may even be straightforward and easy.” Letters on Yoga*
"The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one"s spiritual destiny) or, if one has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he regards them cheerfully as all in the day's work''. If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying,Well, that was a queer go but the Divine is evidently in a queer mood and if that is his way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means of putting me right."" Letters on Yoga
"The supermind contains all its knowledge in itself, is in its highest divine wisdom in eternal possession of all truth and even in its lower, limited or individualised forms has only to bring the latent truth out of itself, — the perception which the old thinkers tried to express when they said that all knowing was in its real origin and nature only a memory of inwardly existing knowledge.” The Synthesis of Yoga ::: *knowledge-bales, knowledge-scrap, half-knowledge, self-knowledge, world-knowledge.
"The supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. One has indeed to rise to high summits to reach it, but the more one rises, the more one can bring down below.” Letters on Yoga
"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. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"This Godhead is one in all things that are, the self who lives in all and the self in whom all live and move; therefore man has to discover his spiritual unity with all creatures, to see all in the self and the self in all beings, even to see all things and creatures as himself, âtmaupamyena sarvatra, and accordingly think, feel and act in all his mind, will and living. This Godhead is the origin of all that is here or elsewhere and by his Nature he has become all these innumerable existences, abhût sarvâni bhûtâni; therefore man has to see and adore the One in all things animate and inanimate, to worship the manifestation in sun and star and flower, in man and every living creature, in the forms and forces, qualities and powers of Nature, vâsudevah sarvam iti.” Essays on the Gita ::: *godhead, godheads, godhead"s.
::: **"This sraddhâ — the English word faith is inadequate to express it — is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding.” The Synthesis of Yoga
those who assist, guide, wait upon, accompany, give service or follow another to contribute to the fulfilment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; subordinate companions.
thus ::: 1. Therefore; consequently. 2. In such or the following manner; so.
thyrsus ::: greek myth. A staff, usually one tipped with a pine cone, borne by Dionysus (Bacchus) and his followers.
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 become ourselves by exceeding ourselves, — so we may turn the inspired phrases of a half-blind seer who knew not the self of which he spoke, — is the difficult and dangerous necessity, the cross surmounted by an invisible crown which is imposed on us, the riddle of the true nature of his being proposed to man by the dark Sphinx of the Inconscience below and from within and above by the luminous veiled Sphinx of the infinite Consciousness and eternal Wisdom confronting him as an inscrutable divine Maya. To exceed ego and be our true self, to be aware of our real being, to possess it, to possess a real delight of being, is therefore the ultimate meaning of our life here; it is the concealed sense of our individual and terrestrial existence.” The Life Divine*
tolerates ::: allows the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permits.
"To live and act under control or according to a standard of what is right — not to allow the vital or the physical to do whatever they like and not to let the mind run about according to its fancy without truth or order. Also to obey those who ought to be obeyed.” Letters on Yoga
tollings ::: sounds produced by a large bell, slowly and at regular intervals.
"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
tongue ::: 1. The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech. 2. A spoken language or dialect. 3. Style or quality of utterance 4. Any long thin projection that is transient, as a flame. 5. A long and narrow projecting strip of something. tongues.
topaz ::: a highly valued precious stone, transparent and lustrous, usually of a deep yellow but occasionally other colours.
torrent ::: 1. Of, or like a rushing stream. 2. A turbulent, swift-flowing stream. Also fig. **torrent"s.**
trace ::: n. 1. A surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige. 2. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something non-material; a vestige. 3. A barely discernable indication or evidence of some quality, quality, characteristic, expression, etc. v. 4. To make one"s way over, through, or along (something). Also fig. 5. To follow a course, trail, etc.; make one"s way. 6. To follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc. 7. To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence; follow the history of. 8. To draw an outline of something. Also fig. 9. To decorate with tracery. 10. To copy (a design, map, etc.) by drawing over the lines visible through a superimposed sheet of transparent paper or other material. 11. To draw or delineate a plan or diagram of. traced, tracing.
track ::: n. 1. A mark or succession of marks left by something that has passed. 2. A path made or beaten by or as if by the feet of people or animals; trail. 3. A path along which something moves or has moved, such as a wheel-rut; the wake of a ship; a series of footprints; etc. tracks. v. 4. To follow the tracks of; trail. 5. To observe, plot, or mark the path of something. tracked.
tract ::: an expanse of land or water. tracts, tract-memories, flower-tracts.
trail ::: n. 1. A mark, trace, course, or path left by a moving body. Also fig. **2. A stream of dust, smoke, light, people, vehicles, etc., behind something moving. 3. The track, scent, or the like, left by an animal, person, or thing, esp. as followed by a hunter, hound, or other pursuer. Also fig. 4. Something that is trailed or that trails behind, as the train of a skirt or robe. trails. v. 5. To drag or stream, or permit to drag or stream along a surface, esp. the ground. 6. To bring or have floating after itself or oneself. 7. To move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly. 8. To protract; linger. trails, trailed, trailing.**
transformation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body — and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended — they can only be mended by transformation.” *Letters on Yoga
"‘Transformation" is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind") to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change — the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a consciousness and power of our existence free from the imperfection and limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient light and omnipotent force of the spirit conquer. All may not open to the fullness of its light and power, but whatever does open must that extent undergo the change. That will be the principle of transformation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The Mother: "Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
"One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
translucency ::: the quality of allowing light to pass through, although not transparent.
transparency ::: 1. The quality of being clear and allowing the free passage of light. 2. Something such as an object, etc. that allows light to pass through it; transparent. transparencies.
trickle ::: a small, slow, or irregular quantity of anything coming, going, or proceeding. trickles.
triple heavens ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad — as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagât, — triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhâ vicakramânah. In those three strides he has measured out, he has formed in all their extension the earthly worlds; for in the Vedic idea the material world which we inhabit is only one of several steps leading to and supporting the vital and mental worlds beyond. In those strides he supports upon the earth and mid-world, — the earth the material, the mid-world the vital realms of Vayu, Lord of the dynamic Life-principle, — the triple heaven and its three luminous summits, trîni rocanâ. These heavens the Rishi describes as the higher seat of the fulfilling. Earth, the mid-world and heaven are the triple place of the conscious being"s progressive self-fulfilling, trishadhastha, earth the lower seat, the vital world the middle, heaven the higher. All these are contained in the threefold movement of Vishnu.” The Secret of the Veda
triple world ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Godhead has built this universe in a complex system of worlds which we find both within us and without, subjectively cognised and objectively sensed. It is a rising tier of earths and heavens; it is a stream of diverse waters; it is a Light of seven rays, or of eight or nine or ten; it is a Hill of many plateaus. The seers often image it in a series of trios; there are three earths and three heavens. More, there is a triple world below, — Heaven, Earth and the intervening mid-region; a triple world between, the shining heavens of the Sun; a triple world above, the supreme and rapturous abodes of the Godhead.” *The Secret of the Veda
triune Infinite ::: Sri Aurobindo: "We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation, His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"True sincerity consists in following the way because you cannot do otherwise, in consecrating yourself to the divine life because you cannot do otherwise, in endeavouring to transform your being and emerge into the Light because you cannot do otherwise, because it is the very reason for which you live.” *Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
twilight ::: n. 1. The diffused light from the sky during the early evening or early morning when the sun is below the horizon and its light is refracted by the earth"s atmosphere. 2. A state of uncertainty, vagueness or gloom. twilight"s. adj. 3. Lighted by or as if by twilight.
undertone ::: 1. A low or subdued tone. 2. An underlying tone (of feeling, etc.); a subordinate or unobtrusive quality or element; an undercurrent. undertones.
vessel ::: 1. A hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents. Also fig. 2. A person regarded as a holder or receiver of something; esp. something nonmaterial. vessels.
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.
wallow ::: 1. To roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for pleasure. 2. To indulge oneself in possessions, emotion, etc. 3. To luxuriate; revel in. **wallows, wallowed, wallowing.**
wallowings ::: acts or instances of rolling around in water, mud or filth. Also fig.
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.
"We arrive then necessarily at this conclusion that human birth is a term at which the soul must arrive in a long succession of rebirths and that it has had for its previous and preparatory terms in the succession the lower forms of life upon earth; it has passed through the whole chain that life has strung in the physical universe on the basis of the body, the physical principle.” The Life Divine
“We arrive then necessarily at this conclusion that human birth is a term at which the soul must arrive in a long succession of rebirths and that it has had for its previous and preparatory terms in the succession the lower forms of life upon earth; it has passed through the whole chain that life has strung in the physical universe on the basis of the body, the physical principle.” The Life Divine
weary ::: adj. 1. Physically or mentally fatigued. 2. Impatient or dissatisfied with something (often followed by of). 3. Causing fatigue; tiresome. wearily. v. 4. To become exhausted tired through overuse or great strain or stress.
well ::: n. 1. A deep hole or shaft sunk into the earth to obtain water, oil, gas, etc. 2. A source, esp. one that provides a continuous supply. 3. An apparent reservoir or source of energy, etc. wells. *v. wells. 4. Rises, springs, or gushes as water, from the earth or some other source (often followed by up). *welled.
"We see that the Absolute, the Self, the Divine, the Spirit, the Being is One; the Transcendental is one, the Cosmic is one: but we see also that beings are many and each has a self, a spirit, a like yet different nature. And since the spirit and essence of things is one, we are obliged to admit that all these many must be that One, and it follows that the One is or has become many; but how can the limited or relative be the Absolute and how can man or beast or bird be the Divine Being? But in erecting this apparent contradiction the mind makes a double error. It is thinking in the terms of the mathematical finite unit which is sole in limitation, the one which is less than two and can become two only by division and fragmentation or by addition and multiplication; but this is an infinite Oneness, it is the essential and infinite Oneness which can contain the hundred and the thousand and the million and billion and trillion. Whatever astronomic or more than astronomic figures you heap and multiply, they cannot overpass or exceed that Oneness; for, in the language of the Upanishad, it moves not, yet is always far in front when you would pursue and seize it. It can be said of it that it would not be the infinite Oneness if it were not capable of an infinite multiplicity; but that does not mean that the One is plural or can be limited or described as the sum of the Many: on the contrary, it can be the infinite Many because it exceeds all limitation or description by multiplicity and exceeds at the same time all limitation by finite conceptual oneness.” The Life Divine
“What the ’void’ feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if’ that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if’s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows….” Letters on Savitri
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga
wind ::: 1. To have or follow a circular or spiral course or direction. 2. To change direction; bend; turn; take a frequently bending course. 3. Fig. To coil or twine about something. winds.
"Within us, there are two centres of the Purusha, the inner Soul through which he touches us to our awakening; there is the Purusha in the lotus of the heart which opens upward all our powers and the Purusha in the thousand-petalled lotus whence descend through the thought and will, opening the third eye in us, the lightnings of vision and the fire of the divine energy. The bliss existence may come to us through either one of these centres. When the lotus of the heart breaks open, we feel a divine joy, love and peace expanding in us like a flower of light which irradiates the whole being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
womb ::: 1. *Fig. A place where something is generated or conceived; the place in which anything is formed or produced. *2. An encompassing, protective hollow or space.
wonder ::: n. 1. An event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle; something strange and surprising brought about by a supernatural force. 2. A miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon. 3. The emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration. 4. Something strange, unexpected, or extraordinary. Wonder, wonder"s, Wonder"s, wonders, wonder-book, wonder-couch, wonder-dance, wonder-flecks, wonder-flowers, wonder-hues, wonder-plastics, wonder-rounds, wonder-rush, wonder-tree, wonder-web, wonder-weft, Wonder-worker, Wonder-worker"s, wonder-works, wonder-world, wonder-worlds. *adj. 5. Arousing awe or admiration; wonderful. v. 6. To be filled with admiration, amazement or awe; marvel (often followed by at); to think or speculate curiously (at or about); be curious to know. *wonders, wondered, wondering.
wont ::: accustomed, used (usually followed by an infinitive.)
"Yet there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations.” The Life Divine*
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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1:Low aim, not failure, is the crime. ~ Bruce Lee, #KEYS
2:Falling snow bends pine so low benediction of moving stillness. ~ Paul Reps 1895-1990, #KEYS
3:The humble is the root of the noble. The low is the foundation of the high. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.39, #KEYS
4:It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #KEYS
5:The tree laden with fruit always bends low. So if you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
6:A man's pride shall bring him low, but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. ~ Proverbs XXIX. 23, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
7:alone
at low tide
along the river
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
8:Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle ~ Amos Tversky, #KEYS
9:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceit. ~ Romans X II, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
10:low tide
in a soft rain
darkness coming
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
11:a low tide
in a soft rain
autumn darkness
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
12:Egotism exists in ignorance, not in knowledge. The rain water stands in low places, but runs off from high places. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
13:low tide
in a soft rain
evening approaches
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
14:Born into the womb ::: Born into the womb of a HIPPU (a woman in a very low social position who is considered stupid and worthless) on a summer's day.
~ Saisei Muro,#KEYS
15:The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
16:Many with a show of humility say, "I am like a low worm grovelling in the dust." Thus in time, they become weak in spirit like worms. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
17:In the sight of worldly men there are differences of position, but with divine sight there remains no distinction of the high and low. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
18:When realization of the Self is obtained, all fetters drop off of themselves. Then there is no distinction between high caste and low. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
19:As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
20:What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. ~ John Milton,#KEYS
21:The noble love of Jesus spurs to great deeds and excites longing for that which is more perfect. Love tends upward; it will not be held down by anything low. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
22:The small man builds cages for everyone he knows
While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the beautiful rowdy prisoners. ~ Hafiz,#KEYS
23:There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of the word, our minds with the physico-chemical effects of wrong ideas. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS
24:It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ~ Giordano Bruno, #KEYS
25:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in the play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only-inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
26:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in that play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only - inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
27:I beg you to understand this one fact - no good comes out of the man who day and night thinks he is nobody. If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low, and nothing, nothing he becomes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
28:An egotistic person cannot realize God. Do you know what egotism is like? It is like a high mound, where rain-water cannot collect: the water runs off. Water collects in low land. There seeds sprout and grow into trees. Then the trees bear fruit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
29:Bhakti-Yoga is the science of higher love. Bhakti-Yoga does not say: "Give up"; it only says: "Love; love the Highest!" — and everything low naturally falls off from him, the object of whose love is the Highest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
30:5. High-uplifted be, piercing through reveal in us the things divine, O Fire; lay low what the demon forces42 have established: companion or single, crush the foe.
42 Or, demon impulsions ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns,#KEYS
31:If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, #KEYS
32:Insignificant architects of low-built lives
And engineers of interest and desire,
Out of crude earthiness and muddy thrills
And coarse reactions of material nerve
They build our huddled structures of self-will
And the ill-lighted mansions of our thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
33:Inside the temple Richard found a life waiting for him, all ready to be worn and lived, and inside that life, another. Each life he tried on, he slipped into and it pulled him farther in, farther away from the world he came from; one by one, existence following existence, rivers of dreams and fields of stars, a hawk with a sparrow clutched in its talons flies low above the grass, and here are tiny intricate people waiting for him to fill their heads with life, and thousands of years pass and he is engaged in strange work of great importance and sharp beauty, and he is loved, and he is honored, and then a pull, a sharp tug, and it's... ~ Neil Gaiman, #KEYS
34:Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Then I will also confess unto thee that thine own hand can save thee. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Job, 40:7-14, #KEYS
35:Oi, Pampaw," Diogo said as the door to the public hall slid open. "You hear that Eros started talking?"
Miller lifted himself to one elbow.
"Sí," Diogo said. "Whatever that shit is, it started broadcasting. There's even words and shit. I've got a feed. You want a listen?"
No, Miller thought. No, I have seen those corridors. What's happened to those people almost happened to me. I don't want anything to do with that abomination.
"Sure," he said.
Diogo scooped up his own hand terminal and keyed in something. Miller's terminal chimed that it had received the new feed route. "Chica perdída in ops been mixing a bunch of it to bhangra," Diogo said, making a shifting dance move with his hips. "Hard-core, eh?"
Diogo and the other OPA irregulars had breached a high-value research station, faced down one of the most powerful and evil corporations in a history of power and evil. And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. Of the dead. They were dancing to it in the low-rent clubs. What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
36:What do you think of the essence of Hell? Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of. Hell is when you can no longer attain what you could attain. Hell is when you must think and feel and do everything that you know you do not want. Hell is when you know that your having to is also a wanting to, and that you yourself are responsible for it. Hell is when you know that everything serious that you have planned with yourself is also laughable, that everything fine is also brutal, that everything good is also bad, that everything high is also low, and that everything pleasant is also shameful.
But the deepest Hell is when you realize that Hell is also no Hell, but a cheerful Heaven, not a Heaven in itself, but in this respect a Heaven, and in that respect a Hell.
That is the ambiguity of the God: he is born from a dark ambiguity and rises to a bright ambiguity. Unequivocalness is simplicity and leads to death. But ambiguity is the way of life. If the left foot does not move, then the right one does, and you move. The God wills this. ~ Carl Jung, The Red Book,#KEYS
37:I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,#KEYS
38:AHA!"
There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eight.
First, let the body of thee be still,
Bound by the cerements of will,
Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort
The fidget-babes that tense the thought.
Next, let the breath-rhythm be low,
Easy, regular, and slow;
So that thy being be in tune
With the great sea's Pacific swoon.
Third, let thy life be pure and calm
Swayed softly as a windless palm.
Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound
To the one love of the Profound.
Fifth, let the thought, divinely free
From sense, observe its entity.
Watch every thought that springs; enhance
Hour after hour thy vigilance!
Intense and keen, turned inward, miss
No atom of analysis!
Sixth, on one thought securely pinned
Still every whisper of the wind!
So like a flame straight and unstirred
Burn up thy being in one word!
Next, still that ecstasy, prolong
Thy meditation steep and strong,
Slaying even God, should He distract
Thy attention from the chosen act!
Last, all these things in one o'erpowered,
Time that the midnight blossom flowered!
The oneness is. Yet even in this,
My son, thou shalt not do amiss
If thou restrain the expression, shoot
Thy glance to rapture's darkling root,
Discarding name, form, sight, and stress
Even of this high consciousness;
Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here:
Thou art the Master. I revere
Thy radiance that rolls afar,
O Brother of the Silver Star! ~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
39:On a thousand bridges and paths they shall throng to the future, and ever more war and inequality shall divide them: thus does my great love make me speak.
In their hostilities they shall become inventors of images and ghosts, and with their images and ghosts they shall yet fight the highest fight against one another. Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all the names of values-arms shall they be and clattering signs that life must overcome itself again and again.
Life wants to build itself up into the heights with pillars and steps; it wants to look into vast distances and out toward stirring beauties: therefore it requires height. And because it requires height, it requires steps and contradiction among the steps and the climbers.
Life wants to climb and to overcome itself climbing.
And behold, my friends: here where the tarantula has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold it with enlightened eyes Verily, the man who once piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. How divinely vault and arches break through each other in a wrestling match; how they strive against each other with light and shade, the godlike strivers-with such assurance and beauty let us be enemies too, my friends Let us strive against one another like gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
40:8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception. ~ Charles F Haanel, The Master Key System,#KEYS
41:Response To A Logician :::
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.
And sing this song in response to you.
Listen, pay heed to what I say,
forget your critique for a while.
The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing"
the radiance of the mind itself.
The best prize is what cannot be looked for
the priceless treasure of the mind itself.
The most nourishing food is "noneating"
the transcendent food of samadhi.
The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking"
the nectar of heartfelt compassion.
Oh, this self-realizing awareness
is beyond words and description!
The mind is not the world of children,
nor is it that of logicians.
Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"
you receive the highest initiation.
Perceiving the void of high and low,
you reach the sublime stage.
Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"
you follow the supreme path.
Knowing the end of birth and death,
the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.
Seeing the emptiness of reason,
supreme logic is perfected.
When you know that great and small are groundless,
you have entered the highest gateway.
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view.
Observing the truth of "nonobservation"
opens the way to meditating.
Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"
opens the way to perfect action.
When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"
you are approaching the highest fruition.
Ignorant are those who lack this truth:
arrogant teachers inflated by learning,
scholars bewitched by mere words,
and yogis seduced by prejudice.
For though they yearn for freedom,
they find only enslavement. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
42:There I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to say to me, to learn what I had to do. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I remembered then that a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go in seclusion and to look into myself, so that I might enter into closer communion with Him. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it. It seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, The bonds you had not the strength to break, I have broken for you, because it is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. I have had another thing for you to do and it is for that I have brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work. Then He placed the Gita in my hands. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the sadhana of the Gita. I was not only to understand intellectually but to realise what Sri Krishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to be free from repulsion and desire, to do work for Him without the demand for fruit, to renounce self-will and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for high and low, friend and opponent, success andfailure, yet not to do His work negligently. I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindureligion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old. It is to give this religion that India is rising. She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin,#KEYS
43:The majority of Buddhists and Buddhist teachers in the West are green postmodern pluralists, and thus Buddhism is largely interpreted in terms of the green altitude and the pluralistic value set, whereas the greatest Buddhist texts are all 2nd tier, teal (Holistic) or higher (for example, Lankavatara Sutra, Kalachakra Tantra, Longchenpa's Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka treatises, and so forth).
This makes teal (Holistic), or Integral 2nd tier in general, the lowest deeply adequate level with which to interpret Buddhism, ultimate Reality, and Suchness itself. Thus, interpreting Suchness in pluralistic terms (or lower) would have to be viewed ultimately as a dysfunction, certainly a case of arrested development, and one requiring urgent attention in any Fourth Turning.
These are some of the problems with interpreting states (in this case, Suchness states) with a too-low structure (in short, a severe misinterpretation and thus misunderstanding of the Ultimate). As for interpreting them with dysfunctional structures (of any altitude), the problem more or less speaks for itself. Whether the structure in itself is high enough or not, any malformation of the structure will be included in the interpretation of any state (or any other experience), and hence will deform the interpretation itself, usually in the same basic ways as the structure itself is deformed. Thus, for example, if there is a major Fulcrum-3 (red altitude) repression of various bodily states (sex, aggression, power, feelings), those repressions will be interpreted as part of the higher state itself, and so the state will thus be viewed as devoid of (whereas this is actually a repression of) any sex, aggression, power, feelings, or whatever it is that is dis-owned and pushed into the repressed submergent unconscious. If there is an orange altitude problem with self-esteem (Fulcrum-5), that problem will be magnified by the state experience, and the more intense the state experience, the greater the magnification. Too little self-esteem, and even profound spiritual experiences can be interpreted as "I'm not worthy, so this state-which seems to love me unconditionally-must be confused." If too much self-esteem, higher experiences are misinterpreted, not as a transcendence of the self, but as a reward for being the amazing self I am-"the wonder of being me." ~ Ken Wilber, The Religion Of Tomorrow,#KEYS
44:Countless books on divination, astrology, medicine and other subjects
Describe ways to read signs. They do add to your learning,
But they generate new thoughts and your stable attention breaks up.
Cut down on this kind of knowledge - that's my sincere advice.
You stop arranging your usual living space,
But make everything just right for your retreat.
This makes little sense and just wastes time.
Forget all this - that's my sincere advice.
You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be - that's my sincere advice.
You may think awakened activity means to subdue skeptics
By using sorcery, directing or warding off hail or lightning, for example.
But to burn the minds of others will lead you to lower states.
Keep a low profile - that's my sincere advice.
Maybe you collect a lot of important writings,
Major texts, personal instructions, private notes, whatever.
If you haven't practiced, books won't help you when you die.
Look at the mind - that's my sincere advice.
When you focus on practice, to compare understandings and experience,
Write books or poetry, to compose songs about your experience
Are all expressions of your creativity. But they just give rise to thinking.
Keep yourself free from intellectualization - that's my sincere advice.
In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly - that's my sincere advice.
Intending to be helpful and without personal investment,
You tell your friends what is really wrong with them.
You may have been honest but your words gnaw at their heart.
Speak pleasantly - that's my sincere advice.
You engage in discussions, defending your views and refuting others'
Thinking that you are clarifying the teachings.
But this just gives rise to emotional posturing.
Keep quiet - that's my sincere advice.
You feel that you are being loyal
By being partial to your teacher, lineage or philosophical tradition.
Boosting yourself and putting down others just causes hard feelings.
Have nothing to do with all this - that's my sincere advice.
~ Longchenpa, excerpts from 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
,#KEYS
45:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
46:EVOCATION
Evocation is the art of dealing with magical beings or entities by various acts which create or contact them and allow one to conjure and command them with pacts and exorcism. These beings have a legion of names drawn from the demonology of many cultures: elementals, familiars, incubi, succubi, bud-wills, demons, automata, atavisms, wraiths, spirits, and so on. Entities may be bound to talismans, places, animals, objects, persons, incense smoke, or be mobile in the aether. It is not the case that such entities are limited to obsessions and complexes in the human mind. Although such beings customarily have their origin in the mind, they may be budded off and attached to objects and places in the form of ghosts, spirits, or "vibrations," or may exert action at a distance in the form of fetishes, familiars, or poltergeists. These beings consist of a portion of Kia or the life force attached to some aetheric matter, the whole of which may or may not be attached to ordinary matter.
Evocation may be further defined as the summoning or creation of such partial beings to accomplish some purpose. They may be used to cause change in oneself, change in others, or change in the universe. The advantages of using a semi-independent being rather than trying to effect a transformation directly by will are several: the entity will continue to fulfill its function independently of the magician until its life force dissipates. Being semi-sentient, it can adapt itself to a task in that a non-conscious simple spell cannot. During moments of the possession by certain entities the magician may be the recipient of inspirations, abilities, and knowledge not normally accessible to him.
Entities may be drawn from three sources - those which are discovered clairvoyantly, those whose characteristics are given in grimoires of spirits and demons, and those which the magician may wish to create himself.
In all cases establishing a relationship with the spirit follows a similar process of evocation. Firstly the attributes of the entity, its type, scope, name, appearance and characteristics must be placed in the mind or made known to the mind. Automatic drawing or writing, where a stylus is allowed to move under inspiration across a surface, may help to uncover the nature of a clairvoyantly discovered being. In the case of a created being the following procedure is used: the magician assembles the ingredients of a composite sigil of the being's desired attributes. For example, to create an elemental to assist him with divination, the appropriate symbols might be chosen and made into a sigil such as the one shown in figure 4.
A name and an image, and if desired, a characteristic number can also be selected for the elemental.
Secondly, the will and perception are focused as intently as possible (by some gnostic method) on the elemental's sigils or characteristics so that these take on a portion of the magician's life force and begin autonomous existence. In the case of preexisting beings, this operation serves to bind the entity to the magician's will.
This is customarily followed by some form of self-banishing, or even exorcism, to restore the magician's consciousness to normal before he goes forth.
An entity of a low order with little more than a singular task to perform can be left to fulfill its destiny with no further interference from its master. If at any time it is necessary to terminate it, its sigil or material basis should be destroyed and its mental image destroyed or reabsorbed by visualization. For more powerful and independent beings, the conjuration and exorcism must be in proportion to the power of the ritual which originally evoked them. To control such beings, the magicians may have to re-enter the gnostic state to the same depth as before in order to draw their power. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
47:STAGE TWO: THE CHONYID
The Chonyid is the period of the appearance of the peaceful and wrathful deities-that is to say, the subtle realm, the Sambhogakaya. When the Clear Light of the causal realm is resisted and contracted against, then that Reality is transformed into the primordial seed forms of the peaceful deities (ishtadevas of the subtle sphere), and these in turn, if resisted and denied, are transformed into the wrathful deities.
The peaceful deities appear first: through seven successive substages, there appear various forms of the tathagatas, dakinis, and vidyadharas, all accompanied by the most dazzlingly brilliant colors and aweinspiring suprahuman sounds. One after another, the divine visions, lights, and subtle luminous sounds cascade through awareness. They are presented, given, to the individual openly, freely, fully, and completely: visions of God in almost painful intensity and brilliance.
How the individual handles these divine visions and sounds (nada) is of the utmost significance, because each divine scenario is accompanied by a much less intense vision, by a region of relative dullness and blunted illuminations. These concomitant dull and blunted visions represent the first glimmerings of the world of samsara, of the six realms of egoic grasping, of the dim world of duality and fragmentation and primitive forms of low-level unity.
According to the Thotrol. most individuals simply recoil in the face of these divine illuminations- they contract into less intense and more manageable forms of experience. Fleeing divine illumination, they glide towards the fragmented-and thus less intense-realm of duality and multiplicity. But it's not just that they recoil against divinity-it is that they are attracted to the lower realms, drawn to them, and find satisfaction in them. The Thotrol says they are actually "attracted to the impure lights." As we have put it, these lower realms are substitute gratifications. The individual thinks that they are just what he wants, these lower realms of denseness. But just because these realms are indeed dimmer and less intense, they eventually prove to be worlds without bliss, without illumination, shot through with pain and suffering. How ironic: as a substitute for God, individuals create and latch onto Hell, known as samsara, maya, dismay. In Christian theology it is said that the flames of Hell are God's love (Agape) denied.
Thus the message is repeated over and over again in the Chonyid stage: abide in the lights of the Five Wisdoms and subtle tathagatas, look not at the duller lights of samsara. of the six realms, of safe illusions and egoic dullness. As but one example:
Thereupon, because of the power of bad karma, the glorious blue light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu will produce in thee fear and terror, and thou wilt wish to flee from it. Thou wilt begat a fondness for the dull white light of the devas [one of the lower realms].
At this stage, thou must not be awed by the divine blue light which will appear shining, dazzling, and glorious; and be not startled by it. That is the light of the Tathagata called the Light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu.
Be not fond of the dull white light of the devas. Be not attached to it; be not weak. If thou be attached to it, thou wilt wander into the abodes of the devas and be drawn into the whirl of the Six Lokas.
The point is this: ''If thou are frightened by the pure radiances of Wisdom and attracted by the impure lights of the Six Lokas [lower realms], then thou wilt assume a body in any of the Six Lokas and suffer samsaric miseries; and thou wilt never be emancipated from the Ocean of Samsara, wherein thou wilt be whirled round and round and made to taste the sufferings thereof."
But here is what is happening: in effect, we are seeing the primal and original form of the Atman project in its negative and contracting aspects. In this second stage (the Chonyid), there is already some sort of boundary in awareness, there is already some sort of subject-object duality superimposed upon the original Wholeness and Oneness of the Chikhai Dharmakaya. So now there is boundary-and wherever there is boundary, there is the Atman project. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, 129,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:That low vice, curiosity! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 2:No one rises to low expectations ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 3:Low aim, not failure, is the crime. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 4:Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 5:Failure is not the crime. Low aim is. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 6:A low wage business is always insecure. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 7:Force always attracts men of low morality. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 8:A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 9:Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 10:Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 11:Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 12:The secret to happiness is having low expectations. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 13:Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 14:It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 15:His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 16:Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 17:I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 18:Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 19:Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 20:However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 21:I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 22:No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 23:Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 24:Egotist: A person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 25:The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 26:To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 27:One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 28:Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 29:Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 30:Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 31:Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 32:when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 33:I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 34:Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 35:Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 36:The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 37:If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low! ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 38:Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 39:I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 40:The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 41:All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 42:Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 43:Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 44:The more low value tasks you outsource, the more time you have to do higher value stuff. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 45:Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 46:Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That’s not marketing though, that’s efficiency. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 47:The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 48:Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 49:Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 50:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 51:Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 52:We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 53:Victory comes late& 54:Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 55:Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 56:In the words of the poet, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, this erstwhile youth replies, I just can't ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 57:Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 58:Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 59:Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 60:Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 61:True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 62:God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 63:Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 64:My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 65:The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 66:The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 67:Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy... . ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 68:We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 69:God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 70:How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 71:Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 72:Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 73:I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: & 74:And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 75:People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 76:Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 77:Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 78:What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 79:The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 80:The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 81:When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 82:Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 83:There are times when you have low value tasks that can’t be cut away. They simply have to be done. That’s what outsourcing is for. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 84:A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 85:The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 86:If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 87:Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 88:Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 89:Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 90:Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 91:I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 92:Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems by Steven J. Simske, John Wiley & Sons, (p. 272), May 28, 2013. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 93:You a low down dog is what‚Äôs wrong. It‚Äôs time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 94:Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 95:If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 96:I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish& 97:Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 98:I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 99:When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 100:My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 101:Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 102:I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 103:Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 104:Mindful inquiry can heal low self-esteem, for the simple reason that a low self-estimation is really a wrong calculation, a misperception of reality. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 105:A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 106:Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 107:Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 108:The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 109:Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 110:Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.) ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 111:Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 112:Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 113:In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 114:The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 115:One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 116:No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 117:& 118:Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 119:Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 120:Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 121:Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 122:You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled? ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 123:During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 124:I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it). ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 125:I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 126:Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 127:Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 128:People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 129:Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 130:One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 131:Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 132:Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 133:The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing... is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 134:The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 135:Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, & 136:If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 137:This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 138:Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them... For as long as you are green, you can grow. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 139:Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 140:All noise is waste. So, cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 141:If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 142:The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 143:No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 144:If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 145:You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 146:Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 147:To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 148:I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 149:You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 150:Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry & 151:Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew up. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 152:If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 153:Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 154:Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 155:The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy." ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 156:This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 157:Love is what moves the world, I've always thought... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 158:A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 159:Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on the evolutionary scale. They want to experience the joy of destroying something. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 160:When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 161:It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 162:I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 163:It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 164:One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 165:The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 166:I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 167:No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 168:Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 169:I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 170:One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 171:His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, what? ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 172:And friends, dear friends,& 173:To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle- class respectability. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 174:Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong - these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 175:Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 176:Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 177:The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 178:Low consciousness people hold you back from reaching greater heights. These include energy vampires, critical people, dishonest characters, and people with temperament issues. Let them go from your life and send them love as you do that. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 179:He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 180:The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove 181:I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 182:The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 183:Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 184:Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 185:Riches and honor are what men desire; but if they arrive at them by improper ways, they should not continue to hold them. Poverty and low estate are what men dislike; but if they arrive at such a condition by improper ways, they should not refuse it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 186:And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 187:Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 188:People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although they often claim to be enlightened teachers who are disincarnate. These low-vibe beings seek life-force. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 189:If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 190:An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 191:Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 192:We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 193:His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 194:Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 195:They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 196:Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 197:Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 198:The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 199:The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 200:The enlightened mind Is without coming or departing. It is neither outside nor within. Transcending thought, it has no partiality. It is ultimate reality, unlimited and unconfined, Wherein there is no wide or narrow And no high or low. So set aside all anxious search for it. ~ longchenpa, @wisdomtrove 201:To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 202:The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 203:To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 204:The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 205:One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 206:The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 207:If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 208:I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 209:I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 210:When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 211:XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 212:Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 213:It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 214:Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 215:The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 216:Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure... get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 217:From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 218:It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 219:Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 220:... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 221:Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 222:Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 223:God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 224:I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 225:The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 226:When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 227:The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 228:The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 229:& 230:Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 231:I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in & 232:Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life - by denying the Now. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 233:Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 234:Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 235:Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 236:Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 237:Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 238:Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process our walk with God stays shallow, and our tank runs low on fumes. Intimacy offers a full tank of fuel that can only be found by pulling up closer to God, which requires taking necessary time and going to the effort to make that happen. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 239:And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? -now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 240:I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 241:The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts& 242:This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 243:Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 244:Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new... If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 245:Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 246:A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 247:Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 248:Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 249:It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, Don’t do that—that’s a sin! And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 250:Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love? ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 251:We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 252:Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 253:Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 254:The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 255:One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 256:It is true that all manifestation is in the opposites. Pleasure and pain, good and bad, high and low, progress and regress, rest and strife they all come and go together - and as long as there is a world, its contradictions will be there. There may also be periods of perfect harmony, of bliss and beauty, but only for a time. What is perfect, returns to the source of all perfection and the opposites play on. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 257:Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 258:When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 259:The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 260:My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la! ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 261:All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 262:If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 263:What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 264:... .all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity... ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 265:During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 266:The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 267:Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 268:I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 269:Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 270:The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 271:The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 272:We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 273:I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 274:Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight. I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: & 275:Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 276:And I, the for¬≠mer mys¬≠tic, was think¬≠ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de¬≠ceived You, You chased them from par¬≠adise. When You were dis¬≠pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa¬≠vour, You caused the heav¬≠ens to rain down fire and damna¬≠tion. But look at these men whom You have be¬≠trayed, al¬≠low¬≠ing them to be tortured, slaugh¬≠tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be¬≠fore You! They praise Your name! ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 277:Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 278:We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 279:Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 280:Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 281:I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 282:This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 283:Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 284:What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 285:At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 286:We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That's occasionally what happens. What more often happens is that we settle on some sort of - a few sort of structural ideas, like, "Okay, when I put my finger up, we're all going to move to the extremes of our instruments. So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we're going to stay there until I take my finger down. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 287:Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction& 288:Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 289:Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 290:When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, & 291:Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. & 292:Whether future growth is to come through additional incarnations on this earth, or in other worlds, or whether the Soul once released from the bonds of earthly flesh, goes into other planes of existence, there to grow, is not fundamental— not material. The Universe is large, and it is just possible that we may be given an opportunity of visiting all parts of it in our development, in which case it would seem that we are on a comparatively low plane of life just now— are just awakening into a consciousness of what it all means, and in the future we will be conscious of our growth and progress and development. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 293:The voice fell low, sank into her breast and stretched the tight bodice over her heart as she came up close. He felt the young lips, her body sighing in relief against the arm growing stronger to hold her. There were now no more plans than if Dick had arbitrarily made some indissoluble mixture, with atoms joined and inseparable; you could throw it all out but never again could they fit back into atomic scale. As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:By Odin's Hairy Arse! ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
2:Bass! How low can you go? ~ Chuck D, #NFDB
3:a low-cut sleeveless ~ Brenda Rothert, #NFDB
4:Money is low bandwidth, ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
5:That low vice, curiosity! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
6:Eyes skip a low-key profile. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
7:High and low rest on each other. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
8:house settled with a low ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
9:Science is in low regard. ~ Leo Kadanoff, #NFDB
10:Low-cost, broad-based index ~ J L Collins, #NFDB
11:Congratulations. A new low. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
12:In high tide or in low tide, ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
13:low-hanging lobes. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
14:Who aspires must down as low ~ John Milton, #NFDB
15:A low budget is uncomfortable. ~ Lukas Haas, #NFDB
16:His voice was low and manly, ~ Cheryl Bolen, #NFDB
17:If you have to hit--hit low. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
18:LOW SELF-WORTH Codependents ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
19:No one rises to low expectations ~ Les Brown, #NFDB
20:The high must make the low its base. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
21:The hourglass runs low... ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
22:Pop music will never be low brow. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
23:When they go low, we go high ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
24:I am running low on solutions. ~ Joe Dunthorne, #NFDB
25:Lay low, play dumb, keep moving. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
26:When they go low, we go high. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
27:But do I have “low intelligence”? ~ Jeff Kinney, #NFDB
28:I kind of do high-low style a lot. ~ Joy Bryant, #NFDB
29:I'm very, very low-key in general. ~ Debby Ryan, #NFDB
30:Low aim, not failure, is the crime. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
31:Low on his funeral couch he lies! ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
32:Low aim, not failure, is the crime. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
33:But after all highs comes a low. ~ Andie Mitchell, #NFDB
34:Hal remained a low-grade moron. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
35:Have the courage to make a mistake. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
36:I get it,” I said. “Loki. Low-key. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
37:I have a very low eerie threshold. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
38:Speak low if you speak love ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
39:Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ~ Plato, #NFDB
40:I don't know a high C from a low C. ~ Brett Somers, #NFDB
41:On Linden, when the sun was low, ~ Thomas Campbell, #NFDB
42:Speak low if you speak love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
43:Speak low, if you speak love ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
44:The good news is that we are Buddha. ~ Albert Low, #NFDB
45:Watch me.” A low, deep command. ~ Miranda Honfleur, #NFDB
46:He that is low need fear no fall. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
47:I absolutely love low-key restaurants. ~ Andy Cohen, #NFDB
48:I'm the master of low expectations. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
49:I've suffered from low self-esteem. ~ Ken Kercheval, #NFDB
50:My pride has brought me very low. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
51:Speak low, if you speak love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
52:A low wage business is always insecure. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
53:answered in a low, breathless voice. ~ Alan Jacobson, #NFDB
54:Feeling LOW?
Go on mountains. ~ Prajakta Mhadnak,#NFDB
55:He trembled with his head hung low. ~ William Morris, #NFDB
56:I don't believe in low-fat cooking. ~ Nigella Lawson, #NFDB
57:I have a really low boredom threshold. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
58:I have a very low boredom threshold. ~ Garth Kravits, #NFDB
59:The highest virtue seems as low as a valley. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
60:When the stakes are high, bow down low. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
61:His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. ~ John Green, #NFDB
62:The soft bigotry of low expectations ~ Michael Gerson, #NFDB
63:And death makes equal the high and low. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
64:It's amazing how low you go to get high. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
65:The blues is a low down achin' chill. ~ Robert Johnson, #NFDB
66:Aiming low is why you’re a happy person. ~ Bijou Hunter, #NFDB
67:Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
68:...shrink back like the ocean at low tide ~ Karen White, #NFDB
69:So high, so low, so many things to know. ~ Vernor Vinge, #NFDB
70:There is a high cost for low living. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB
71:Aim low and you won't be disappointed. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
72:Every high has an equal, measurable low. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
73:Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
74:Forget the adage buy low and sell high. ~ William O Neil, #NFDB
75:I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
76:So many comics have such low self-esteem. ~ Debra Wilson, #NFDB
77:The last great Englishman is low. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
78:How low am I, thou painted maypole? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
79:If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low! ~ J Cole, #NFDB
80:In debate he thought high and aimed low. ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
81:I've always loved high style in low company. ~ Anita Loos, #NFDB
82:Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom? ~ Jules Shear, #NFDB
83:Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
84:What is fate but the whine of the low-born? ~ Harold Lamb, #NFDB
85:Come, speak low.
The dark is not so dark. ~ Paul Val ry,#NFDB
86:Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
87:Oh! take time, to get very low before God. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
88:They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
89:Virtue may choose the high or low degree, ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
90:Bootstrapping + Lean Startup = Low-Burn Startup ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
91:A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
92:Force always attracts men of low morality. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
93:Dante chuckled low. "There's my blush." ~ Damon Suede, #NFDB
94:¨In high tide or low tide I´ll be by your side¨ ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
95:Multicultural teams need low-context processes. ~ Erin Meyer, #NFDB
96:Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
97:The low desire, the base design ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
98:The only time I set the bar low is for limbo. ~ Steve Carell, #NFDB
99:The words were low, more shape than breath. ~ Elizabeth Bear, #NFDB
100:To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
101:which descended low from her beaver. ~ James Fenimore Cooper, #NFDB
102:I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. ~ Ty Cobb, #NFDB
103:Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
104:low expectations were the key to a happy life. ~ I W Gregorio, #NFDB
105:On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
106:So High,
So Low,
So Many Things to Know ~ Vernor Vinge,#NFDB
107:The movie of my life must be really low budget. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
108:The secret to happiness is low expectations. ~ Barry Schwartz, #NFDB
109:Those who aim low usually hit their targets. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
110:Try to look unimportant. They may be low on ammo. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
111:A low voice is an excellent thing in woman. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
112:Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
113:Seduction is high warmth with low intention ~ Patrick J Carnes, #NFDB
114:You can do great things with low-tech stuff. ~ Laurie Anderson, #NFDB
115:A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
116:A low-minded person should not be given good advice. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
117:I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
118:I would that I were low laid in my grave. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
119:Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
120:Only know you've been high when you're feeling low. ~ Passenger, #NFDB
121:Their highs are too low and their lows are too high. ~ Dan John, #NFDB
122:I do not like assassins, or men of low character. ~ Gene Hackman, #NFDB
123:I hope to always be doing some low budget things. ~ Rider Strong, #NFDB
124:Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
125:Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
126:The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! ~ Jay Electronica, #NFDB
127:At low temperatures, liquid helium can flow upward. ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
128:If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem. ~ Jeph Jacques, #NFDB
129:I have my standards. They're low, but I have them. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
130:I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
131:Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas. ~ Drake, #NFDB
132:Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
133:"Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
134:Shoot low, boys. They're ridin' Shetland ponies. ~ Lewis Grizzard, #NFDB
135:Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
136:To make a low-budget independent is not easy work. ~ W Earl Brown, #NFDB
137:True love is but a humble, low born thing, ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
138:At present, the best low-carbon source is nuclear. ~ Stewart Brand, #NFDB
139:Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
140:For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
141:Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
142:I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile. ~ Paul Allen, #NFDB
143:In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript. ~ Olivia Cooke, #NFDB
144:I pulled a blue toboggan down low on my forehead, ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
145:Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good. ~ Anthony Hopkins, #NFDB
146:Le no man pull you low enough to hate him. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
147:Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
148:Most people's goals are too low and too slow. ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB
149:Right is right, even if no one else does it. ~ Juliette Gordon Low, #NFDB
150:The light at dusk was a low blaze, a brightness. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
151:The women that I picked spoke sweet and low ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
152:To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
153:You never get the high and you never get the low. ~ Walter Schloss, #NFDB
154:For every low there is an equal but opposite high. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
155:Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
156:On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries. ~ Lukas Haas, #NFDB
157:Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
158:Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
159:Keep digging and you'll always discover a new low. ~ Matthew Sturges, #NFDB
160:Low tide exposed the good and the bad, she supposed. ~ Denise Hunter, #NFDB
161:One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
162:Skulduggery, she's not being professional - Tanith Low ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
163:The secret to happiness is having low expectations. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
164:With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
165:I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played. ~ Matt LeBlanc, #NFDB
166:Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! ~ John Keats, #NFDB
167:Stop shooting for happiness. You are aiming too low. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
168:To be without silver is better than to be without honor. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
169:You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
170:Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. ~ O Henry, #NFDB
171:Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
172:I’d sunk to a new low, but I wouldn’t let it sink me. ~ Stephanie Land, #NFDB
173:In societies of low civilization, there is no money. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
174:It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit. ~ Les Brown, #NFDB
175:It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key. ~ Melanie Fiona, #NFDB
176:Low life netizens. They must lead such meaningless lives. ~ Sui Ishida, #NFDB
177:Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
178:Politicians and low profiles rarely went together. ~ Marshall Thornton, #NFDB
179:She’s in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high, ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
180:The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
181:Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'? ~ James Weldon Johnson,#NFDB
182:Drop your prices low enough and people will buy from you. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
183:Every tongue has low standards during starvation. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
184:Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego. ~ Adam Grant, #NFDB
185:Expectations placed low enough are rarely disappointed. ~ Linda Berdoll, #NFDB
186:For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit. ~ Paul Gillin, #NFDB
187:His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
188:I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films. ~ Hugo Weaving, #NFDB
189:Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas, #NFDB
190:Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ~ John Carmack, #NFDB
191:Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
192:Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
193:The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
194:The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. ~ Benjamin E Mays, #NFDB
195:her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
196:How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
197:If you want to change something, you have to use new ways. ~ Joachim Low, #NFDB
198:I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine. ~ Eva Green, #NFDB
199:Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
200:Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
201:That man is so low you can’t put a rug under him.” “His ~ Marie Bostwick, #NFDB
202:The scarecrow walks at midnight,” he uttered in a low voice. ~ R L Stine, #NFDB
203:And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them. ~ Joseph Roth, #NFDB
204:Could be he was a demon. Low-level. Many politicians were. ~ Cynthia Eden, #NFDB
205:Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
206:Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
207:Fortune doth both raise up the low and pluck down the high. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB
208:I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance. ~ Krysten Ritter, #NFDB
209:Only 9 percent of the world lives in low-income countries. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
210:Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
211:the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip. ~ Claudia Rankine, #NFDB
212:We keep our prices low and our manners high. -Miss Bartocci ~ Colm T ib n, #NFDB
213:A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
214:I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up. ~ Tim Duncan, #NFDB
215:I won’t hurt you,” he said, his voice low and urgent. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
216:Low enough to put on a tophat and crawl under a rattlesnake ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
217:Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions. ~ Paul Goodman, #NFDB
218:My boobs are so low I had to put curb feelers on my nipples! ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
219:Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
220:The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low. ~ Bud Selig, #NFDB
221:The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
222:Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur. ~ Gavin Extence, #NFDB
223:God is cruel,” David said in a voice almost too low to hear. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
224:I want to touch you." Walker says in a low voice.
"All over. ~ Mila Gray,#NFDB
225:One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations. ~ Gerald Chertavian, #NFDB
226:Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts. ~ Daymond John, #NFDB
227:You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to. ~ Rosamund Pike, #NFDB
228:Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
229:Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
230:just to gloat at mum and dad’s golden girl brought low. But ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
231:low expectations are corrosive to a democratic system. ~ Richard Lloyd Parry, #NFDB
232:…magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
233:Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
234:No, all eyes were on the seating hostess in the low-cut number. ~ Susan Mann, #NFDB
235:Run.” His voice was low, the words a harsh plea. “Please… Run. ~ Mina Carter, #NFDB
236:Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
237:The way Grandma paints her dream for me, there’s a low sky. ~ Heidi W Durrow, #NFDB
238:walled fields and low, rambling buildings, presenting ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs, #NFDB
239:I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years. ~ Walter Schloss, #NFDB
240:I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. ~ Sullivan Stapleton, #NFDB
241:It always amazed her to see the treasures low tide turned up. ~ Denise Hunter, #NFDB
242:Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead. ~ Joan Larkin, #NFDB
243:Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
244:Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass. ~ Norah Lofts, #NFDB
245:Brain eating birds patrol the low frequency brain waves. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
246:I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
247:I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. ~ Booker T Washington, #NFDB
248:ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
249:Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music. ~ Eyedea, #NFDB
250:there, behind that hedge. Keep low. After Mindy makes the call, her ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
251:Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
252:But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
253:Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
254:How low am I, thou painted maypole?
(Hermia to Helena) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
255:I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film. ~ James Mangold, #NFDB
256:It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor. ~ Lightnin Hopkins, #NFDB
257:Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go! ~ Brett Hoebel, #NFDB
258:Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low. ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
259:This low point isn't the book of your life. It's just a chapter. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
260:All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
261:Come and have a go if you think your hard enough
Tanith Low ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
262:Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
263:I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. ~ Mia Farrow, #NFDB
264:Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical ~ Stephen M R Covey, #NFDB
265:No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation. ~ Thomas L Friedman, #NFDB
266:Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
267:Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
268:Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
269:What kind of a house doesn't have salt? Low sodium freaks! ~ Keith R A DeCandido, #NFDB
270:#291. "The tiger lies low not out of fear, but for better aim."~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
271:60 percent of girls finish primary school in low-income countries. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
272:Being butchered by monkeys is pretty low on my list of ways to go. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
273:By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera. ~ Rohit Shetty, #NFDB
274:Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low! ~ Israel Putnam, #NFDB
275:Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
276:Hobbiton, a low but somehow cozy tunnel with rounded earthen sides ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
277:However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
278:Submission is 'ducking low enough so God can touch your husband. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
279:They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low ~ Bat for Lashes, #NFDB
280:Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
281:A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
282:Don't kid yourself. You're a dirty low-down detective. Kiss me. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
283:for the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. ~ Louis de Berni res, #NFDB
284:I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. ~ Lorraine Bracco, #NFDB
285:Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
286:Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
287:Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low! ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
288:No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody. ~ William James, #NFDB
289:Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. ~ Moby, #NFDB
290:Raffe makes a low sound in his throat that reminds me of a dog’s growl. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
291:She had a high tolerance for pain, and a low tolerance for bullshit. ~ Louisa Luna, #NFDB
292:Today, conflicts and fatalities from conflicts are at a record low. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
293:When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
294:Amber,” he says in a low, husky voice. “I am madly in love with you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
295:I am just a low, uncouth person. I'm a low-type sort of man." Some ~ Michael Newton, #NFDB
296:In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
297:It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. ~ Herodotus, #NFDB
298:I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows. ~ Sterling K Brown, #NFDB
299:I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
300:left on; a woman with a low, bored voice was reading a news bulletin ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
301:Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
302:Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities” ~ Erik Weihenmayer, #NFDB
303:Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films. ~ Catherine Deneuve, #NFDB
304:The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it. ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton, #NFDB
305:a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day. ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
306:George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
307:I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
308:I want to meet God at every high, every low, and every stop in between. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
309:Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. ~ Brad Meltzer, #NFDB
310:Never eat a low-carb, low-fat diet; your body needs the fat to thrive. ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
311:only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. ~ Rick Bragg, #NFDB
312:The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
313:The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
314:A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Alexander Pushkin, #NFDB
315:A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
316:Everyone deserves happiness, Rax. Even the lowest of the low. Even us. ~ Kendall Grey, #NFDB
317:For some reason his parents had a low opinion of his common sense. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
318:I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ~ Booker T Washington, #NFDB
319:I tug my Seahawks cap low over my face and sprint on down Western Avenue. ~ E L James, #NFDB
320:Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ~ Maxwell Maltz, #NFDB
321:Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ~ Maxwell Maltz, #NFDB
322:No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
323:ordered the development of a stripped-down, low-cost alternative to Duke, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
324:The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
325:Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
326:Trying to measure up to others leads to disappointment and low self-esteem. ~ Various, #NFDB
327:When bowing to the inevitable, it’s best to do so low, and quickly. ~ Daniel Polansky, #NFDB
328:If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it. ~ Abraham Low, #NFDB
329:Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
330:The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity. ~ Olivia Goldsmith, #NFDB
331:The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards. ~ Simon Rich, #NFDB
332:We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices ~ Dmitry Medvedev, #NFDB
333:What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
334:When she shouted, the gulls hidden by the dune buckshot the low clouds. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
335:Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
336:He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent. ~ Maggie Shipstead, #NFDB
337:Hey back,' I say, my voice low beside her ear. She shivers. I love that. ~ Trish Doller, #NFDB
338:I actually think that her [Hillary Clinton] numbers are artificially low. ~ Bill Burton, #NFDB
339:I've always like bleachers, things ordered vertically from high to low. ~ Julie Buxbaum, #NFDB
340:I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations ~ Jonathan Kozol, #NFDB
341:May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
342:Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low. ~ Morrissey,#NFDB
343:Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low. ~ John McEnroe, #NFDB
344:Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly. ~ Gary Larson, #NFDB
345:Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low. ~ Herbert von Karajan, #NFDB
346:When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
347:You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
348:But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
349:Florida was the low point.The entire state, yep. I'm not sure I'd go back. ~ David Cross, #NFDB
350:Graham let out another low growl as his eyes glowed with desire. "Come Here! ~ Lia Davis, #NFDB
351:I believe in low light and trick mirrors.
I believe in plastic surgery. ~ Andy Warhol,#NFDB
352:If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee. ~ Tony Hale, #NFDB
353:I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
354:Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair. ~ Wendy Raquel Robinson, #NFDB
355:In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
356:It’s always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
357:low serotonergic activity is strongly associated with aggressive behavior ~ Massad Ayoob, #NFDB
358:Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
359:Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places. ~ David Weber, #NFDB
360:Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
361:Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
362:One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
363:Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. ~ Juliette Gordon Low, #NFDB
364:Supplementation with a low dose of zinc, 10 to 15 milligrams, seems wise. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
365:the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions. ~ Laura Kreitzer, #NFDB
366:The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
367:By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
368:Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention. ~ Mary Cheney, #NFDB
369:I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points. ~ Kenny Cunningham, #NFDB
370:I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
371:I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
372:Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
373:Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular. ~ Edward Mills Purcell, #NFDB
374:My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
375:Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
376:Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
377:the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
378:The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
379:Then happy low, lie down! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
380:You can’t beat nobody down so low till you can rob ’em of they will. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
381:A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB
382:EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
383:I am not talking to you," said Abrenuncio. "I think in Low Latin. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
384:If I ever lay my hands on you,” he said low and husky, “You’ll want it. ~ Penelope Douglas, #NFDB
385:If you wash lousy clothing at low temperatures, all you get is cleaner lice. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
386:I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
387:I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
388:I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low. ~ Pam Dawber, #NFDB
389:The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares. ~ Michael O Leary, #NFDB
390:The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
391:The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. ~ Juliette Gordon Low, #NFDB
392:Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. ~ Anzia Yezierska, #NFDB
393:To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
394:Too low they build who build beneath the stars. ~ Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), #NFDB
395:We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison, #NFDB
396:What can it be about low temperatures
that sharpens the edges of objects? ~ Ian McEwan,#NFDB
397:Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
398:If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate. ~ Marion Barry, #NFDB
399:I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt. ~ Olivia Wilde, #NFDB
400:Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
401:media’?” “I guess so.” “It was an artifact of relatively low connectivity. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
402:New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. ~ Andrew Cuomo, #NFDB
403:Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
404:Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
405:People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world.” Suddenly, ~ Shanna Swendson, #NFDB
406:Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
407:Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
408:Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential. ~ Marty Nemko, #NFDB
409:The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
410:The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~ Sherrilyn KenyonWren ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
411:wisdom like none other can arise from those hard places that bring us low. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
412:You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is. ~ Willie Brown, #NFDB
413:A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
414:A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
415:Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature. ~ Christopher Heyerdahl, #NFDB
416:If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process. ~ Aimee Mann, #NFDB
417:I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know. ~ Sarah McLachlan, #NFDB
418:In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
419:In the middle of the Bible Belt, active church attendance is actually quite low. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
420:Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB
421:One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. ~ Robert Fortune, #NFDB
422:There is never any reason for jealousy. It is a very low and ignorant movement. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
423:The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
424:To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it? ~ Tucker Carlson, #NFDB
425:all the work’s done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings.’ In ~ Mick Herron, #NFDB
426:Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
427:Even today our knowledge of the ocean floors remains remarkably low resolution. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
428:Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes. ~ Sheryl Crow, #NFDB
429:From all around came very faintly a low sad hum, as the unhoused bees mourned. ~ Fritz Leiber, #NFDB
430:I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. ~ Leslie Fiedler, #NFDB
431:I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
432:I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work. ~ Mos Def, #NFDB
433:Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
434:Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
435:Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct. ~ Suzanne Palmieri, #NFDB
436:She was feeling far from inspired and her self-belief was at an all-time low. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
437:There is a low mist in the woods—
It is a good day to study lichens. ~ Henry David Thoreau,#NFDB
438:We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance. ~ Guy Ritchie, #NFDB
439:We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
440:Willpower is a limited resource; we run low on it, just like a tank of fuel. ~ David Eagleman, #NFDB
441:A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. ~ Marya Mannes, #NFDB
442:Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? ~ Walter Schloss, #NFDB
443:Born on straw at night
under low stable rafters,
Baby Jesus cried. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
444:Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university. ~ Claude Lelouch, #NFDB
445:Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet. ~ David Perlmutter, #NFDB
446:Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. ~ Nathan Rothschild 1st Baron Rothschild, #NFDB
447:I don’t believe you can ever get hurt by buying a good location at a low price. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
448:Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
449:I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
450:Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair. ~ George Leonard, #NFDB
451:I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
452:Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. ~ Ha Joon Chang, #NFDB
453:Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
454:My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man. ~ Beau Willimon, #NFDB
455:Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
456:The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
457:As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
458:Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
459:everyone feels lost and low. It’s how a person acts that makes them different. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
460:For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
461:God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
462:He growled low in his throat. “I don’t think I can do this the nice way, Jessica. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
463:I get so damn tired of not being with you every moment,” he says in a low voice. ~ Keary Taylor, #NFDB
464:I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
465:It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
466:Okayyyyy,” Isabelle said in a low voice, “When did Brother Zachariah get hot? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
467:On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week. ~ David Spade, #NFDB
468:Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
469:The article went on to explain that three separate low-pressure systems had ~ Michael J Tougias, #NFDB
470:When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high. ~ Monica Ali, #NFDB
471:You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low. ~ Heather O Reilly, #NFDB
472:23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
473:Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
474:I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar! ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
475:In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend! ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
476:Is there anything more attractive than a woman in high heels and low self esteem? ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
477:Just because their standards are low does not mean that we should lower ours. ~ Jasmine Guillory, #NFDB
478:Low blood sugar levels turn out to predict a wide range of willpower failures, ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
479:My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
480:People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off. ~ Anita Brookner, #NFDB
481:That's right, pick on Emby," says Connor. "Show everyone just how low you are. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
482:The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
483:The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
484:There is nothing else. No one else,” he grated low and deep. “There is only us. ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
485:...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
486:You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB
487:A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
488:A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
489:Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
490:For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
491:If you don’t know what you want, the chances that you’ll get it are extremely low. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
492:I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. ~ Barney Frank, #NFDB
493:I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play. ~ Walter Koenig, #NFDB
494:It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. ~ Nigel Farage, #NFDB
495:I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall. ~ Greyson Chance, #NFDB
496:Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers. ~ Dexter Palmer, #NFDB
497:Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
498:The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
499:The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs ( ~ David Rolf, #NFDB
500:when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
501:Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least heʹd left puppies out. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
502:By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. ~ Buddha #Buddha #gautama, #NFDB
503:For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
504:I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by. ~ Kid Rock, #NFDB
505:I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
506:It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
507:It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts. ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
508:I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
509:No sacrifice is too big; no action is too low if it leads you to defeat your enemy. ~ River Jordan, #NFDB
510:Queen of Air and Drkness", he said in a low voice. "I will never be like Malcom. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
511:The sky was low at night, full of the presence of a strange and watchful God. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
512:Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
513:A bullet’s velocity in low temperatures
greatly depends on its target’s virtues ~ Joseph Brodsky,#NFDB
514:All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom ~ Laura Wiess, #NFDB
515:Her voice makes perfume when she speaks,
Her breath is music faint and low. ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB
516:Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
517:Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness. ~ James MacGregor Burns, #NFDB
518:The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
519:To us, Stu. May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
520:A man’s pride shall bring him low, but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. ~ Proverbs XXIX. 23, #NFDB
521:Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
522:DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY! ~ Christiana Figueres, #NFDB
523:Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
524:For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
525:Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction? ~ Paul Russell, #NFDB
526:Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
527:I hear water lapping with low sound by the shore. ...I hear it in the deep heart's core. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
528:I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment. ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
529:In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
530:Most readers have low standards. All they demand from a book is entertainment. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
531:Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
532:Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
533:The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson. ~ Suzanne Shaw, #NFDB
534:The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
535:To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation. ~ E V Lucas, #NFDB
536:Why were you feeling low?’ ‘Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
537:All underearners, without question, share one common trait: a high tolerance for low ~ Barbara Stanny, #NFDB
538:And I had forgotten to get more Sweet’N Low, so I had to drink coffee as bitter as I am. ~ Meg Howrey, #NFDB
539:he cawed, a low, rolling sound, something like a kazoo being played into a theremin. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
540:He likes to be noticed. He’s not exactly low-key.” “I get it,” I said. “Loki. Low-key. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
541:His stare, combined with his voice being so low, was doing funny things to my heartbeat. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
542:I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
543:It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
544:materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem. ~ Richard Wiseman, #NFDB
545:Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
546:Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
547:P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low. ~ Jonathan Gruber, #NFDB
548:Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, #NFDB
549:Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind. ~ Adam Levin, #NFDB
550:The growling immediately stopped. "Did you just pet me?" The man asked in a low voice. ~ Alanea Alder, #NFDB
551:The town motto seems to be if you can't keep it on the down-low, then out you must go. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
552:Thunder sounded again, low and rumbling like the growl of some predatory beast. Hannah ~ Joanne Fluke, #NFDB
553:Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
554:When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
555:a felt cap pulled low over her ears even though it was already probably sixty degrees, ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
556:Aria... everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
557:I’d rather mate with a snake,” I told her, which was pretty low as far as dog swears went. ~ Mark Tufo, #NFDB
558:If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low! ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
559:I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
560:I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
561:It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. ~ Pamela Anderson, #NFDB
562:It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
563:It’s like the devil offering up your deepest desire for the low, low price of your soul ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
564:It was one of those rare occasions when my low expectations of others went unfulfilled. ~ Marcia Clark, #NFDB
565:Just because an attractive girl doesn’t want to fuck you, it doesn’t mean your value is low. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
566:The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...]. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
567:Then, in a voice so low it was almost a whisper, he said, “I’d like to have a daughter. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
568:When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look? ~ William Feather, #NFDB
569:You’re up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
570:You will sleep.” The low timbre of his voice vibrated through her. “I will watch. ~ Catherine Anderson, #NFDB
571:Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career. ~ Martin Gilbert, #NFDB
572:Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
573:Dear Mother Mary! His plaid sat low and hugged his hips, fitting him like a second skin. ~ Victoria Zak, #NFDB
574:Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
575:I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
576:I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover. ~ Bradford Cox, #NFDB
577:Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord? ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
578:It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
579:Keep expenses low, reduce liabilities, and diligently build a base of solid assets. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
580:Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
581:materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.26 ~ Richard Wiseman, #NFDB
582:My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. ~ Elinor Lipman, #NFDB
583:Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
584:Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
585:Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you’re capable of creating. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
586:The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. ~ Albert Low, #NFDB
587:There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. ~ William Stafford, #NFDB
588:The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
589:What do you want?"
"You." His voice was soft, low. His eyes were intense and watchful. ~ Donna Grant,#NFDB
590:When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
591:A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ~ Alan Perlis, #NFDB
592:Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
593:Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them. ~ R K Milholland, #NFDB
594:Give a low man one ounce of power and he’ll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
595:He was, after all, a motherless bastard who wouldn’t hesitate to lay an attacker low. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
596:Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
597:I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good. ~ Tommy Chong, #NFDB
598:I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed. ~ Vinod Khosla, #NFDB
599:Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil, ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
600:The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
601:The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands. ~ Seth Low, #NFDB
602:We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
603:What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
604:What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go. ~ Vikram Seth, #NFDB
605:You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
606:17 In the middle of the Bible Belt, active church attendance is actually quite low.18 Despite ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
607:All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
608:Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility. ~ Robert James Thomson, #NFDB
609:Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
610:For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol. ~ Eric Topol, #NFDB
611:I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
612:I want you, Elle," he said, voice low and rough. "It's a goddamn ache, I want you so much. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
613:Low goals don’t require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results. ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
614:Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ~ Ian McHarg, #NFDB
615:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceit. ~ Romans X II, #NFDB
616:Mostly, your success depends on how diligent you are in keeping dietary insulin levels low, ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
617:One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
618:There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
619:The shirts were buttoned low enough that their gray chest hair jutted out like steel wool. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
620:Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow. ~ Passenger, #NFDB
621:You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
622:You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
623:And do you know, Sonia, that low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
624:Her touch became stronger, firmer, and he rewarded her skill with a low growl of pleasure. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
625:I could settle down into a state of
equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. ~ Charles Dickens,#NFDB
626:I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
627:...in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
628:In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
629:Is that,” Isabelle said in a low, amazed voice, “Brother Zachariah? When did he get hot? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
630:It’s so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
631:Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
632:Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
633:Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. ~ Henry Mintzberg, #NFDB
634:Proverbs 29:23 23A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
635:Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
636:Sex. He wants lots and lots of blowjobs. Oh god, I’m starring in a low-rent porno. Or worse… He ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
637:Sunset was an hour off but the clouds were hanging low, sponging up the last of the light. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
638:The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
639:The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them. ~ Norman Lamont, #NFDB
640:The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
641:Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
642:You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
643:A low-carb, ketogenic diet needs to be high in fat, not protein, to produce adequate ketones. ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
644:Always go into new experiences with low expectations so as to always be pleasantly surprised. ~ Mara Altman, #NFDB
645:Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
646:Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
647:Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ~ Horace, #NFDB
648:if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence. ~ Albert Low, #NFDB
649:I made mistakes. I listened to the wrong people and let them influence my decisions. No more. ~ Gennita Low, #NFDB
650:... low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ... ~ Fareed Zakaria, #NFDB
651:Sometimes you must yield in order to win, and sometimes maintaining a low place leads you to win. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
652:There are some people who have a low tolerance for criticism. I'm not one of those people. ~ Martin Shkreli, #NFDB
653:There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. ~ Learned Hand, #NFDB
654:When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key. ~ Nina Dobrev, #NFDB
655:Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed. ~ Bill Gross, #NFDB
656:History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. ~ Alan Greenspan, #NFDB
657:If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. ~ Chip Kelly, #NFDB
658:If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. ~ Anna Akhmatova, #NFDB
659:I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you." ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
660:I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
661:In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
662:it's a well-known fact that neurotics seek out low company to compensate for their guilt-feelings. ~ Various, #NFDB
663:Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low. ~ Howard Stern, #NFDB
664:See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low. ~ Mariah Carey, #NFDB
665:The material was wrinkled, yet even in the low light it remembered the shape of two bodies. ~ Laura Whitcomb, #NFDB
666:The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency. ~ Gary Cohn, #NFDB
667:the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
668:Tina was painting on a stool in the shade, the skirt of her tent pulled low over her knees. ~ Sabine Durrant, #NFDB
669:Whenever you see the words "fat free" or "low-fat," think of the words "chemical shit storm. ~ Rory Freedman, #NFDB
670:You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax. ~ Nick Clegg, #NFDB
671:Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
672:Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. ~ Gichin Funakoshi, #NFDB
673:bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I’ve got a couple who hit low ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
674:Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. ~ Alexander von Humboldt, #NFDB
675:Go try your charming act on some tramp with low self-esteem, because I'm not falling for it. ~ Kody Keplinger, #NFDB
676:I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi. ~ Iman Shumpert, #NFDB
677:I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
678:I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. ~ Scotty McCreery, #NFDB
679:Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
680:Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB
681:Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
682:Man, I've missed you," Moth purred, like the low note on a cello. "But you gotta fuck off. ~ Greg Van Eekhout, #NFDB
683:Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it. ~ Uma Thurman, #NFDB
684:Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before. ~ Eydie Gorme, #NFDB
685:smoking hits record low By Kim Painter, Special for USA TODAY | 290 words Cigarette smoking among ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
686:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
687:What provided that light for me—when I sank very low and came close to giving up—was love. ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
688:When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us. ~ John Mihaljevic, #NFDB
689:A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
690:being low maintenance also meant not asking for what you needed and never inconveniencing anyone. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
691:Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. ~ Henry St John 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, #NFDB
692:Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out. ~ Katie Piper, #NFDB
693:I don’t know how it is with other writers, but I’ve been treated like the lowest of the low. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
694:I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility. ~ Vince McMahon, #NFDB
695:I never imagined I’d be brought so low. Archie’s here to kill me, and there’s nothing I can do. ~ Kekla Magoon, #NFDB
696:I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening. ~ Frankie Valli, #NFDB
697:I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. ~ Laura Linney, #NFDB
698:I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan, #NFDB
699:running on a half-empty tank of low-octane fuel that had been diluted by a pool of unshed tears. ~ Jonice Webb, #NFDB
700:Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
701:The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
702:The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
703:Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
704:You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. How ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
705:God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
706:Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
707:If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition. ~ Gary A Klein, #NFDB
708:I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed,” it said. Its voice was low and hopeless. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
709:Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
710:My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
711:my voice is low and hard and steady. I want some kind of an award for keeping it from shaking. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
712:Owen gave a low groan and said against her mouth, “Not sure I can do the hold-still thing, Mad. ~ Erin Nicholas, #NFDB
713:The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result. ~ Naomi Wolf, #NFDB
714:too low, we are not the least surprised to see her unable to perform even her habitual acts. We may ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
715:You want to be bad?” His tone was low, dangerous, thrilling. “Well, you came to the right place. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
716:CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
717:Donald Trump's numbers are historically low for a Republican nominee with women. Historically low. ~ Megyn Kelly, #NFDB
718:Got a warrant or something?" Pigpen asks in a low voice that's more of a threat than a question. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
719:Hallucinations may be a neglected low door in the wall to a scientific understanding of the sacred. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
720:I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
721:If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up. ~ Anna Akhmatova, #NFDB
722:I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that. ~ Alicia Sacramone, #NFDB
723:Low hangs the moon, it rose late,
It is lagging - O I think it is heavy with love, with love. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
724:low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
725:One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
726:The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally... ~ William Hague, #NFDB
727:the rain in this room is low and thick
and undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy ~ Nayyirah Waheed,#NFDB
728:The sun was directly overhead, but blotted out by low storm clouds as depressing as suicide. ~ Keith C Blackmore, #NFDB
729:When testosterone levels are low, vitamin D potentiates abnormal prostate tissue growth. ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, #NFDB
730:A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
731:Always—from all companies, high or low—she went forth richer in honor and esteem than when she came. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
732:I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut. ~ Cristin Milioti, #NFDB
733:It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. ~ James Franco, #NFDB
734:Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
735:Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
736:Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
737:The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
738:The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity. ~ Lori Silverbush, #NFDB
739:The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
740:Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother’s knee and other low joints, ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
741:Abdullah al-Sallal, the first president of the republic, came from a low-class butcher family. ~ Gregory D Johnsen, #NFDB
742:Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life. ~ Nick Nolte, #NFDB
743:Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health. ~ Jack Weatherford, #NFDB
744:Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
745:Great words, golden promises, built up exploits plus lack of character equals low down dirty fraud. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
746:It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.' ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
747:Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. ~ Les Brown, #NFDB
748:No one could blame her if she was running a little low on the sugar and spice and everything nice. ~ Erin Kellison, #NFDB
749:The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low. ~ Amy Bloom, #NFDB
750:The good thing about setting your expectations low is that you will not often be disappointed. ~ Danielle L Jensen, #NFDB
751:The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists. ~ Shawn Achor, #NFDB
752:Victory comes late,
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
753:We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
754:We had taken to living out of step. I resented his gaiety now that I had become low-spirited. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
755:We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before. ~ Drake, #NFDB
756:What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
757:You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
758:A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
759:Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
760:As I have emphasized, HSPs are prone to low self-esteem because they are not their culture’s ideal. ~ Elaine N Aron, #NFDB
761:I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me. ~ Chrissy Teigen, #NFDB
762:I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
763:It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
764:My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
765:Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
766:The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters. ~ Michael Schur, #NFDB
767:The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, “This too shall pass.” It will. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
768:The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. ~ Peter Cundill, #NFDB
769:"The Tao of heaven is like the bending of a bow.The high is lowered and the low is raised." ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, #NFDB
770:Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
771:We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. ~ Marion Cotillard, #NFDB
772:when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
773:You don't have to try to be the hero." His voice is rough and low.
"I'm not trying," I say. "I am. ~ Ally Condie,#NFDB
774:You have people with high standards and values as well as people with low ones no matter where you are ~ Amanda Lee, #NFDB
775:Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
776:I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
777:I almost passed the IQ test," he said in a low, shaky voice. "I'm not very special, only moderately; ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
778:If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions. ~ Tertullian, #NFDB
779:If you find your way under low light, that is good; if under utter darkness, that is excellent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
780:I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. ~ David Low, #NFDB
781:I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
782:It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film. ~ Anne Heche, #NFDB
783:I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. ~ Barry White, #NFDB
784:My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
785:Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
786:Successful low-hanging fruit results will be clear, compelling, and, potentially, paradigm shifting. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
787:The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low. ~ Paul Bremer, #NFDB
788:the most dangerous kind of job stress stems from having “low control” over one’s responsibilities. ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
789:There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz, #NFDB
790:... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
791:Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~ Dr Seuss, #NFDB
792:This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
793:War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
794:We are so materially well off, yet so psychologically tormented in so many low-level and shallow ways. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
795:What have I done to deserve that look?" He asked in a low voice so that nobody else could hear. ~ Julianne Donaldson, #NFDB
796:Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent. ~ Lee Majors, #NFDB
797:Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
798:... back then the sky seemed so vast.
And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy. ~ Inio Asano,#NFDB
799:Both low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
800:Dick Levin’s Buy Low, Sell High, Collect Early, and Pay Late: The Manager’s Guide to Financial Survival, ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
801:For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem. ~ David Schnarch, #NFDB
802:If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. ~ Sammy Hagar, #NFDB
803:I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention. ~ Julian Lennon, #NFDB
804:Never have I know spirits so low they could not be raised by hearing of a Frenchman eaten by a shark! ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
805:Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
806:Often, on the low-tech side, the more “executive” something looks, the more dysfunctional it really is. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
807:One thing I learned: starting off with very low standards is a surefire way to ensure they’ll be met. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
808:So not only was I self-sufficient, I came to have a pretty low opinion of most people’s intelligence. ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
809:The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
810:The insistence on low-rise, sadly, has done nothing to make modern Japanese construction more attractive. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
811:You can’t put a price on health, and any price you could put on it would be low compared to what you get, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
812:[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it. ~ Gretl Braun, #NFDB
813:« Around and around, and the sharp stars watched. And the low moon. And Jupiter over the mountains. » ~ Gary D Schmidt, #NFDB
814:before them an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a farm-yard. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
815:Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
816:I’d been careful to be low-maintenance, easygoing, cheerful, all those things people want women to be. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
817:If I want low-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate. If I want high-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate again. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
818:In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
819:I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.’ ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
820:It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
821:It's orange down low near the horizon, and pink on top, like the sky's blushing as it forces out the sun. ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
822:Life is ever a complicated symphony of catastrophes. Ever seeking to lay us low and lift us higher. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
823:moon dipped low over the dark outlines of the mountains, and the sable sky blazed with stars. There ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
824:My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. ~ Michael Sheen, #NFDB
825:The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support. ~ John Linder, #NFDB
826:They sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
827:True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
828:Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
829:You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five! ~ David Spade, #NFDB
830:Above me, the moon spun low across the sky and a few watery clouds hung from the stars like cobwebs. In ~ Cherie Priest, #NFDB
831:borrowing in a low-yielding currency (previously the yen) and parking in a currency that pays higher rates. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
832:God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
833:Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit—low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
834:I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
835:If Nina’s oxygen has run low, she might be in an unresponsive state.” “Like what?” Violet asked. “Texas? ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB
836:”If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” ~ Anna AkhmatovaPhoto Moi, #NFDB
837:In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
838:I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
839:Make commitments in a high-energy state so that you can’t back out when you’re in a low-energy state. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
840:wasn’t sure who would win then. TEN KALDAR lay on a low ridge, wearing one of the Mirror’s night suits. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
841:Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
842:But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
843:Don’t aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
844:Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
845:Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
846:Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment. ~ Chris Huhne, #NFDB
847:Hello?” The voice was low. He spoke slowly. She recognized it immediately. “Remember when we played? ~ Michelle McNamara, #NFDB
848:I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
849:Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. ~ Anchee Min, #NFDB
850:One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. ~ Wilfrid, #NFDB
851:team had joined the FOB at Hastings: a small village outside Freetown, a location chosen to maintain a low ~ Josef Black, #NFDB
852:The low road and the sea always flirted with each other, and today they were particularly passionate. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
853:There’s a silence. A perfect, profound silence. One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
854:The truth is that people usually live up to your expectations, whether those expectations are high or low. ~ Laszlo Bock, #NFDB
855:Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
856:A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace. ~ John Gresham Machen, #NFDB
857:Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together. ~ Juliette Gordon Low, #NFDB
858:Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
859:grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
860:He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama. ~ Diana Gabaldon, #NFDB
861:High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
862:I almost passed the IQ test," he said in a low, shaky voice. "I'm not very special, only moderately [...] ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
863:I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
864:My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
865:That’s what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you’re low-hung and she’s high-strung! ~ Jim Thompson, #NFDB
866:The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin. ~ Niki Lauda, #NFDB
867:The gunsmoke whipped away in the wind and the sudden noise faded and the jet whine came back, low and steady. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
868:There’s a silence. A perfect, profound, silence. One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
869:With her head bent low into the breeze, she trudged through the town as quickly as the frozen footpaths ~ Patricia Gibney, #NFDB
870:You are a little low this evening, Frederick,' said the Father of the Marshalsea. 'Anything the matter? ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
871:After a moment the king said, "So be it."
Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop. ~ J R Ward,#NFDB
872:A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. ~ Naomi Wolf, #NFDB
873:As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and richest at low latitudes. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
874:Attention will be given when information novelty is high and will drift away when information novelty is low. ~ Oren Klaff, #NFDB
875:Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low. ~ Steve Buscemi, #NFDB
876:He chuckles through the line, low and good. Good and oh my god, I’m so tired I want to smush his adorable face. ~ Sara Ney, #NFDB
877:Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -– low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
878:He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
879:How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy? ~ David Spade, #NFDB
880:Information products are low-cost, fast to manufacture, and time-consuming for competitors to duplicate. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
881:Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. ~ Joichi Ito, #NFDB
882:One of the biggest benefits of the low-hanging fruits effort is to show the naysayers that it can be done. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
883:President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
884:Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know ~ Jann Arden, #NFDB
885:Sara,” he repeats, his tone low, as if he was trying it out on his tongue, trying me out on his tongue. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
886:The Triune God will be our dwelling place even while our feet walk the low road of simple duty here among men. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
887:Trust is vital in a society. If societal trust is too low, people trust no one. Except, maybe, their cousins. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
888:What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
889:When you’re that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you’re so unimportant that no one can hear you. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
890:
Keep your expectations low, Rip. Isn’t that what life has taught you? Best way to avoid disappointment. ~ Meghan March,#NFDB
891:Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
892:I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. ~ Martina Hingis, #NFDB
893:in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a low-carb, high-fat diet was actually the primary treatment for diabetes! ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
894:It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. ~ Matthew Desmond, #NFDB
895:I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
896:I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
897:Low-carbohydrate diet leads to reduced body fat, study says Researchers cite lost weight, fewer risks for heart ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
898:Low in her body she felt a molten heat, and soon her beloved Thomas began to plunge into her pool of liquid. ~ Cheryl Bolen, #NFDB
899:Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
900:Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
901:Oh, Jennifer!” She said my name low and rough, as though it were a swear word. “A lady does not wear overalls. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
902:Princess,” he said, his voice low. He moved his hand closer and gave me the gentlest stare. “Trust me. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
903:Simply put, people who have low self-esteem and low tolerance for financial pressure can never be rich. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
904:The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
905:The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. PSA116:07 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
906:We Americans are being “low monthly payment-ed” to death. People underestimate how these little things add up. ~ David Bach, #NFDB
907:What now? We can't go to my place or the hospital or the fight club. Should we lay low at the grocery store? ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
908:And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
909:A surge of joy builds low in my stomach. Just the idea of another crazy summer with Wesley...it cant be true. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
910:Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. ~ Theodore Kaczynski, #NFDB
911:If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy. ~ John Doerr, #NFDB
912:If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
913:I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum) ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
914:Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?” Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. “Could you guys try to lay low? ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
915:Let’s face the truth. Low-calorie diets have been tried again and again and again. They fail every single time. ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
916:Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
917:Low-ceilinged and smoke-foxed, it had a curious smell: part beer, part cold fireplace ash, part pipe tobacco. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
918:Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. ~ Benjamin Rush, #NFDB
919:Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
920:Sometimes for a low energy person, the decision that looks like a no-decision becomes the only decision in life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
921:The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
922:The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. ~ Jim Clyburn, #NFDB
923:there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
924:Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
925:We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
926:We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. ~ Maxwell Maltz, #NFDB
927:Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low. ~ Sylvia Browne, #NFDB
928:Her laughter began low and quiet then rose in pitch and flickered all over the room, like blood splatter. ~ Caroline B Cooney, #NFDB
929:How she loathed being a Sparrow, how low she had sunk. Two years ago the world had been hers for the taking. ~ Jason Matthews, #NFDB
930:I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison]. ~ Jack Barakat, #NFDB
931:It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment. ~ Angela Merkel, #NFDB
932:I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
933:Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost. ~ Burt Rutan, #NFDB
934:Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
935:The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
936:The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
937:Unfortunately, being low maintenance also meant not asking for what you needed and never inconveniencing anyone. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
938:what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?... Take it as you will, it’s a low business." Stepan ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
939:You can discipline in a way that’s high on relationship, high on respect, and low on drama and conflict—and ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
940:And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
941:At first they were pitched in a low, rasping hum devoid of vowels, somewhat like Icelandic but more bestial. As ~ S J Perelman, #NFDB
942:Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
943:couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
944:Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. ~ Katherine Anne Porter, #NFDB
945:Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. ~ Frank Rich, #NFDB
946:How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. ~ Muriel Spark,#NFDB
947:I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. ~ Andy Hertzfeld, #NFDB
948:I don’t want to marry you. I just want you to give me an orgasm.”
“Just the one? You have low expectations. ~ Sarah Morgan,#NFDB
949:I don’t want to marry you. I just want you to give me an orgasm.”
“Just the one? You have low expectations. ~ Sarah Morgan,#NFDB
950:It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
951:Julianne, if one were doing a cost-benefit analysis, I would be a high-cost, high-risk, low-benefit venture. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
952:Stay with me,” he says in a low voice. “I have waited endless days to see your face again, and I prefer it awake. ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
953:the crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? ~ Hal Duncan,#NFDB
954:The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
955:The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods--not taking them too seriously. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
956:We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious! ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
957:What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain? ~ Jaclyn Moriarty, #NFDB
958:When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you. ~ Patrick Fabian, #NFDB
959:de novo lipogenesis can happen even on low-calorie diets that include an excess of high-glycemic carbohydrates. ~ Denise Minger, #NFDB
960:If there’s one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
961:It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. ~ Katharine Tynan, #NFDB
962:It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
963:It’s so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
964:I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
965:Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one’s magical resources when they were running low. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
966:Neither Wozniak nor Jobs left their regular jobs: This was strictly a low-risk venture meant for their free time. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
967:pessimism works because it’s self-fulfilling: if you’re a slacker with low expectations, they’ll probably be met. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
968:Relationships can be happy with low levels of love and high levels of compassion, but not the other way around. ~ Steven Stosny, #NFDB
969:The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
970:The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them. ~ Carlos Ghosn, #NFDB
971:There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, #NFDB
972:Yes sir, he thought, I’ll just lay low. First step: find a bunch of people and convince them I have magic powers. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
973:You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse. ~ Hector Elizondo, #NFDB
974:You want it rough and raw,” he rasped in a low whisper. “I’ll give you that, love. I’ll give you the fucking world. ~ Kit Rocha, #NFDB
975:And some will believe. The fools. But others will not. Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
976:But today? I'm taking the low road because that man, that jerk, deserves it, whoever he is. Fucking asshole ... ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
977:God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
978:Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
979:*** His legs were apart on the ottoman, and Jasmin could think of no way to get down low enough to peek up the loose ~ Lexi Hunt, #NFDB
980:How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
981:I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience. ~ Mark Morris, #NFDB
982:If there is one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
983:If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
984:If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
985:I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. ~ Aziz Ansari, #NFDB
986:India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
987:In my experience, men or women who kill out of “hopeless love” suffer from low self-esteem and all that malarkey. ~ Faith Martin, #NFDB
988:In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
989:Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
990:I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
991:I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
992:It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
993:Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
994:Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me. ~ Michael O Leary, #NFDB
995:Shrimp and scallops are also healthy forms of seafood low in toxins and high in good quality protein and minerals. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
996:Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy. ~ Denzel Whitaker, #NFDB
997:Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
998:The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it ~ Georges St Pierre, #NFDB
999:You're a bit of an odd duck aren't you Freda,' she says, her glasses hanging too low on her nose. 'Quack,' I reply. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
1000:An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1001:a world of perfect information and low transaction costs, the parties will bargain to a wealth-maximizing result. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
1002:Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic. ~ Norman Reedus, #NFDB
1003:Common issues in low-income families include depression, chemical dependence, and hectic work schedules—all factors ~ Eric Jensen, #NFDB
1004:Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1005:Desire to rise up in defiance of a sibling’s low expectations? That was a feeling Cara could well understand. ~ Jennifer Delamere, #NFDB
1006:Father", that sounds too dominant, too stern or Mufasa-like – he’s a coward, a low-budget, hand-fucking coward. ~ Danielle Esplin, #NFDB
1007:If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times. ~ Ayumi Hamasaki, #NFDB
1008:If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
1009:If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1010:It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1011:One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1012:One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low. ~ Glenn Reynolds, #NFDB
1013:She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1014:The coaching profession has a problem that is two-fold: there is a low bar for entry and a high bar for success. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
1015:The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
1016:the problem with self-esteem – whether it is high or low – is that, every single day, we are in the courtroom. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1017:We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1018:Which will you take, the high road or the low road?"
"Which one is longer?"
"They're both short. ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui,#NFDB
1019:You're not really him," Kevin said, so low Neil barely understood his words. "Tell me you aren't really Nathaniel. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
1020:Every movement, every glance, every low-pitched word is a work of art. Yes, they are performers, too, like me. ~ Storm Constantine, #NFDB
1021:however, the point I now want to stress is that the twenty-first century may see a return to a low-growth regime. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
1022:I’m attracted to you, Tate,” he says, his voice low. “I want you, but I want you without any of that other stuff. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1023:I’m low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,’ Simon told him. ‘You got the brunt of it. This time. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
1024:It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1025:I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between. ~ Louis Zamperini, #NFDB
1026:Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ~ Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig, #NFDB
1027:People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1028:Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. ~ Jim Leach, #NFDB
1029:She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1030:The golf course. He never thought he’d sink so low, but he did, like every other old duffer across the land. ~ T Coraghessan Boyle, #NFDB
1031:There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect. ~ Slick Rick, #NFDB
1032:The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
1033:the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
1034:Wherever the wind takes us. High, low. Near, far. East, west. North, south. We take to the breeze, we go as we please. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1035:Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1036:He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
1037:If there is one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives. So ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1038:I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s. ~ Bobby Womack, #NFDB
1039:I’m a cat person, myself,” she said, vaguely. A low-level voice said: “Yeah? Yeah? Wash in your own spit, do you? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1040:I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows. ~ Chely Wright, #NFDB
1041:One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1042:Our need to be shown respect can override our appreciation for things like efficiency, simplicity, or even low cost. ~ Kate O Neill, #NFDB
1043:Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent. ~ Laurie Notaro, #NFDB
1044:The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice— ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1045:The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1046:What is clear is that diets naturally high in fiber and low in animal-based foods can prevent colorectal cancer. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
1047:Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you. ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
1048:And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1049:An inflamed brain is an unhappy, low-performance brain that will make you act like a jerk even when you don’t want to. ~ Dave Asprey, #NFDB
1050:Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
1051:Dude!” the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson’s weight. “Do the words ‘low-carb diet’ mean anything to you? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1052:For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
1053:He who is down, needs fear no fall; He who is low, has no pride. He who is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
1054:Hey, listen, I think the Arby’s is hiring. Have you considered that? Their death rate is really low for the area.” But ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1055:I am - I am" - And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1056:I conquered a kingdom and found a treasure." His voice turns gravelly, low. "I won't let you go. Not now. Not ever. ~ Amanda Bouchet, #NFDB
1057:I had forgotten that, while Thor hurls his Hammer from storm-clouds, Odin prefers his strike to come out of a calm sky. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
1058:I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. ~ Steve Earle, #NFDB
1059:I mean, it's okay if you're the one with the low sex drive. We'll just have to adjust and learn to accommodate that. ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
1060:Maybe it’s hungry,” she suggested, her voice low but definitely goading now. “Do you keep kitty kibble around?” Silence ~ Lora Leigh, #NFDB
1061:Milk = fat. Butter = fat. Cheese = fat. People who think these products can be low fat or fat free = fucking morons. ~ Rory Freedman, #NFDB
1062:Music doesn’t soothe the savage beast, Cal,” Shay said, dipping me so low my hair brushed the floor. “Laughter does. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
1063:Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think you can be provided you are willing to pay the price! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1064:On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1065:Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
1066:She looked up at him in question and he bent his head low, speaking for her ears only. "I'm not your fucking partner. ~ D B Reynolds, #NFDB
1067:So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for striving fingers
That passed, an hour ago. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1068:The angel passed by the row of brothers, and paused in front of Vishous. In a low voice, he whispered, “Who’s your daddy? ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1069:This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1070:This must be Thursday,” said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. “I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1071:When you’re down and feeling low, violent activity helps. Actual violence itself seems to help my attitude to no end. ~ Dana Cameron, #NFDB
1072:You burn so brightly,” he said, his voice low and rough to raise the hair on my arms. “I would like to burn with you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1073:Your voice started to get all low and sexy at the end. You practically purr like a tiger when you're about to get off. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB
1074:Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy. ~ John O Hara, #NFDB
1075:He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1076:I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on. ~ Greg Mottola, #NFDB
1077:Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work. ~ Mark McKinnon, #NFDB
1078:Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1079:Touch her,” he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll be the biggest regret of your life. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1080:We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in. ~ Kurt Meyer, #NFDB
1081:Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate. ~ Keith Rabois, #NFDB
1082:A warm heart can heat us even in very low temperatures; a cold heart can frost us even in very high temperatures! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1083:deal for us as it was for him. Steve Wong’s grandparents were naturalized in the forties. My dad had escaped the low-grade ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
1084:Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
1085:It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1086:It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1087:It’s like this,” he repeated in a low voice, just for her. “I’m not that sort of man. I don’t wait for the things I want. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1088:It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
1089:Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
1090:Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour. ~ David Low, #NFDB
1091:Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1092:My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good. ~ Robert Parish, #NFDB
1093:People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
1094:She was looking more sleazy than grungy today, in an orange top cut so low that you could ski down the bare skin in front. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
1095:The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1096:The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it’s that they are too low, and we do. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1097:The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1098:When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear . . . We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
1099:You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1100:1.Stop putting sugar in (low-carbohydrate diets, intermittent fasting). 2.Burn remaining sugar off (intermittent fasting). ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
1101:All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars ~ Banksy, #NFDB
1102:A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy. ~ John Holdren, #NFDB
1103:Before I could stop myself, I punched his arm. “Careful,” he said in a low voice. “They might think we’re flirting. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1104:Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1105:For getting lean and trying to get toned, it's not about having a low weight and maximising as many reps as possible. ~ Greg Rutherford, #NFDB
1106:If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
1107:I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height. ~ Nalo Hopkinson, #NFDB
1108:I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me. ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
1109:I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong. ~ John Otway, #NFDB
1110:I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even. ~ Dan Harmon, #NFDB
1111:The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. Outwardness ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1112:the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it’s that they’re too low and you do. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1113:There’s no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, ’cause the door was verra low. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1114:Trust. Americans form "voluntary random social alliances." Other societies do not. Low trust societies in the U.S. do not. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
1115:When deciding whether a message should be ERROR or WARN, imagine being woken up at 4 a.m. Low printer toner is not an ERROR. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1116:When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. "What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar? ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1117:When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1118:Ah,” Uncle said, putting a hat on and tugging it low, “the dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
1119:A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. ~ Chester Barnard, #NFDB
1120:Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
1121:Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1122:God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1123:His silver buttons shine in the low light, but they’re nothing compared to the glare bouncing off his bald head. “You ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1124:If there is no God, then everything is permitted. But, if there is a God, and He created us all, then everyone matters: Low ~ Joel Ohman, #NFDB
1125:If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
1126:It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops. ~ Ernest Bramah, #NFDB
1127:Montaigne’s example teaches that if you have realistically low expectations, you’ll end up pleased in most circumstances. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1128:Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1129:The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
1130:Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening. ~ Leanne Payne, #NFDB
1131:Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1132:Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. ~ Frederic Raphael, #NFDB
1133:What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1134:You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1135:Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one ~ Liz Kessler, #NFDB
1136:eating a low-fat diet rich in whole grains such as bread, rice, pasta, and cereal can easily make you fat and malnourished. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
1137:Evie winked at Sam and he whispered low in her ear, making her neck tingle. “Sister, together, we could be a hell of a team. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1138:Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1139:high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative). ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1140:High to low, roof to floor, wall to wall, and door to door; Basement deep to sky above, fill this home with light and love. ~ Dani Harper, #NFDB
1141:If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1142:I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder. ~ Linda Howard, #NFDB
1143:I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
1144:I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. ~ Ray Manzarek, #NFDB
1145:In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1146:I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules. ~ Jason Blum, #NFDB
1147:It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. ~ Rudolf Carnap, #NFDB
1148:Kaz's laugh was low and humorless. "Who'd deny a poor cripple his cane?" "If the cripple is you, then any man with sense. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1149:Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil. ~ Ari Shapiro, #NFDB
1150:Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could. ~ Daniel Woodrell, #NFDB
1151:The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
1152:The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
1153:Watching movies was, and still is, an opportunity for my heart to rush irregularly while the cost, for me, remains low. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB
1154:When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1155:You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. ~ Bruce Campbell, #NFDB
1156:8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ~ Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, 1982, #NFDB
1157:All you have to do is ask for it.” It’s like the devil offering up your deepest desire for the low, low price of your soul. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
1158:Develop Self-confidence, then love will follow; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
1159:Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1160:Grace is at a low ebb in that soul which can even raise the question of how far it may go in worldly conformity. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1161:Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards. ~ Heidi Julavits, #NFDB
1162:Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. ~ James Bobin, #NFDB
1163:If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times. ~ Trista Sutter, #NFDB
1164:I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
1165:I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
1166:In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1167:I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile. ~ Mr Muthafuckin eXquire, #NFDB
1168:Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
1169:Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. ~ Walid Muallem, #NFDB
1170:likely to win. “I have all the strength in the world,” I whispered to myself, so low no one could hear me, “but no power. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
1171:No, not immeasurably: you have abilities, but there’s a great deal you don’t understand, because you’re a low person. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1172:Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. ~ Phil Plait, #NFDB
1173:Screw you," I told him in a low voice. "Are you offering?” "From what I've heard, there isn't much to screw," I shot back. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1174:She whistled long and low. "Vampires really are bastards, aren't they?"
-"What was your first clue?" Arthur asked dryly. ~ Mur Lafferty,#NFDB
1175:The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
1176:The headache that had started as a low thrum had worked its way up to miniature elves Riverdancing on her frontal lobe. ~ Brianna Labuskes, #NFDB
1177:The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me. ~ Chris Isaak, #NFDB
1178:When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
1179:Grace is at a low ebb in that soul, which can even raise the question of how far it may go in worldly conformity. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1180:He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. "Your Majesty. ~ Kimberly Derting, #NFDB
1181:Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
1182:If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1183:If you're going to ask me if the muffins are low fat, you should know I'm running out of places to hide all the dead bodies. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1184:I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low. ~ Mike Colter, #NFDB
1185:Low thyroid doesn’t kill you. It just makes you wish you were dead. —RICHARD AND KARILEE SHAMES, THYROID MIND POWER THYROID ~ Daniel G Amen, #NFDB
1186:Mini habits are low willpower trojan horses that can leverage their easy access into the brain’s control room into big results. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1187:No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. ~ Abigail Adams, #NFDB
1188:Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1189:Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
1190:Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight. ~ Tony Bennett, #NFDB
1191:The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1192:Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
1193:Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1194:Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. ~ Theresa May, #NFDB
1195:Alright, then, where do the lost names go? The probability of their surviving in the maze of a city must be extremely low. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1196:Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1197:HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. ~ Juliette Gordon Low, #NFDB
1198:I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top. ~ Elle Fanning, #NFDB
1199:If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
1200:I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go. ~ Johanna Braddy, #NFDB
1201:In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music. ~ James Fenton, #NFDB
1202:It’s his voice that I remember, certainly: my father’s voice, low and slow, how he would chuckle sometimes or laugh outright. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1203:It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to. ~ William H Macy, #NFDB
1204:it. The man with the high standard of living will always do more work and better than the man with the low standard of living. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1205:It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn’t scratch it. ~ Lawrence Block, #NFDB
1206:[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
1207:One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1208:The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton. ~ CM Punk, #NFDB
1209:The horizon was shitting a sun, casting a glow on a layer of fog that was settling in the low areas like puddles of ghost piss. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
1210:There was something about a long and low and open-space house with a lawn and a carport that made her feel spiritually afraid. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1211:We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom. ~ Jason Blum, #NFDB
1212:Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men. ~ Tracy McMillan, #NFDB
1213:You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered.
"I know her," Ash said in a low voice.
"I can't... hurt someone I know. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,#NFDB
1214:You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1215:Faith.” Kieran’s low voice rumbled through her as he stepped into the kitchen. “Are you alright?” “Obviously,” she snapped. ~ Abbie Zanders, #NFDB
1216:I could take nice and boring with you right now." He growled low and ran his lips across my neck. "Long, boring... and slow. ~ Amanda Carlson, #NFDB
1217:If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
1218:I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low. ~ Cote de Pablo, #NFDB
1219:I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot;
There flowers or weeds at will may
grow, So I behold them not ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1220:Looking after children is a low-status occupation. It is isolating, frequently boring, relentlessly demanding and exhausting. 7 ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
1221:Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjöld ~ Howard Sasportas, #NFDB
1222:Our laughter dissolves into a crackling current that steals my breath away. Our eyes lock, and heat pools low in my belly. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
1223:people overreact to low-probability outcomes when you discuss the event with them, when you make them aware of it. If ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1224:People with too high an opinion of themselves get cut down; people with too low an opinion of themselves get pushed around.... ~ Lolly Daskal, #NFDB
1225:There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1226:What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1227:When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1228:Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action? ~ Adlai Stevenson I, #NFDB
1229:Drizzt halted before the throne and bowed low. The sight of Regis standing beside the wizard disturbed him more than a little, ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1230:Executives often wrongly equate “good value” with “low price.” Instead, “good value” should mean outstanding value for the price. ~ Gary Hamel, #NFDB
1231:Finn smiled and blew half her brain cells.
“You going to teach me how to have fun, Pru?” he asked in that low, husky voice. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1232:Her voice was low and dry and monotonous, the voice of a vicious boredom. It affected me like a rattlesnake's buzzing signal. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
1233:I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
1234:I guess when you don’t have much more to offer, it’s best to aim as low as possible. If you don’t, you’d never get any pussy. ~ Scarlett Avery, #NFDB
1235:I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road. ~ Neil LaBute, #NFDB
1236:I wanna bring you down low to my level. I get off picturin’ makin’ you so dirty, so wild, so fuckin’ bad that it has to be good, ~ Layla Frost, #NFDB
1237:Lies and the truth both have one thing in common, Shawn,” Remy said in a low, steady voice. “They both have their consequences. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
1238:Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce, #NFDB
1239:Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. ~ Dan Pallotta, #NFDB
1240:So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1241:Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1242:There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. ~ James Gurney, #NFDB
1243:Words hold power. They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just the opposite, too ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
1244:As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1245:God’s promises aren’t just for certain people at a certain low point. His hope extends into any and every size pit or pothole. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1246:Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha) ~ Patrick Stump, #NFDB
1247:I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
1248:I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom. ~ Jackie Collins, #NFDB
1249:I have my limits, Lauren," he said, low. She knew it, could feel the caged beast hurling against his bars, knew how close he was. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB
1250:In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
1251:It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1252:Just as the King and Queen reached the cottage and the Dwarfs began making low bows to them, King Edmund called out: “Now, friends! ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1253:Kathleen.” His voice was low and raw.
“I just wanted to check on you. Is there anything you need? A glass of water?”
“You. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1254:Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody. ~ Gloria Gaynor, #NFDB
1255:Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. ~ Carl von Clausewitz, #NFDB
1256:Nothing a recovering addict likes more than a tale of how bad it had been in the old days, and how low a fellow addict had sunk. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1257:Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable! ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
1258:Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
1259:She's packed her topside fundamentals so tight into her low-cut dress that it's only a matter of time before she busts her banks. ~ Moira Young, #NFDB
1260:the good society would have a low rate of inheritance of social status and correspondingly low variations in income and wealth. ~ Gregory Clark, #NFDB
1261:We want people to be very low-status, but we don’t want to feel sympathy for them—slaves are always supposed to sing at their work. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1262:What low-wage employers now seem to demand are workers whose lives have infinite give and 24-7 dedication, for little in return. ~ Kathryn Edin, #NFDB
1263:Call no man happy,” said Shadow, “until he is dead.” “Herodotus,” said Low Key. “Hey. You’re learning.” “Who the fuck’s Herodotus? ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1264:Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny. ~ Joy Behar, #NFDB
1265:Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? ~ Megan Hart, #NFDB
1266:Gillian smiled whimsically back, and then a look of concern cut across her eyes like black thought, like a cat low on a fence. ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
1267:He suddenly needed to hear her speak, hear her low voice that always set his stomach aflutter. Fluttering in a masculine way. He ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
1268:He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there. ~ Robert Boyle, #NFDB
1269:I always want you, Chloe-lass,” he murmured suddenly in a low voice, for her ears only. “There’s no’ a moment that I doona. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1270:I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
1271:It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it. ~ Albert Low, #NFDB
1272:I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company. ~ Anita Loos, #NFDB
1273:Oooh. Barbie has a brain, huh?" The smile was gone. His voice low, gravelly.
"Oooh. Ken has an attitude," she snapped back. ~ Francine Pascal,#NFDB
1274:Screw you," I told him in a low voice.
"Are you offering?”
"From what I've heard, there isn't much to screw," I shot back. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1275:Stud,” D repeated, growly and low. Jack snorted. “You got a better word for a guy who’s swept my chimney five times in one night? ~ Jane Seville, #NFDB
1276:There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1277:The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations. ~ Joel Greenblatt, #NFDB
1278:A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1279:A society that lacks good people willing to speak against evil or low standards can only devolve into darkness and mediocrity. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
1280:Before I could stop myself, I punched his arm.
“Careful,” he said in a low voice. “They might think
we’re flirting. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick,#NFDB
1281:But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1282:If you’re falling short of your income goals, it’s because you waste time doing low-value work. That’s it. That’s the only reason. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
1283:I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought. ~ Robert Pattinson, #NFDB
1284:I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1285:In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy. ~ Jemaine Clement, #NFDB
1286:In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter, #NFDB
1287:It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
1288:Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror. ~ Charles Portis, #NFDB
1289:Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1290:Tell me why I shouldn’t shoot you,” Stefano murmured. Low, intimate, just between them.
“Fun . . . would be over too fast? ~ Aleksandr Voinov,#NFDB
1291:There he was, singing English music in a low voice and off-key because a while ago he had stopped caring if he sang out of tune. ~ Adriana Lisboa, #NFDB
1292:They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1293:They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can’t deserve our rights.” Others ~ John Howard Griffin, #NFDB
1294:Twenty-five years later, an African American guitarist named Son House sang, “The blues ain’t nothing but a low-down, aching chill. ~ Elijah Wald, #NFDB
1295:while the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1296:You are mine Kristin. Mine." His voice was low and graveled, filled with emotion. "And you could never love me as much as I love you. ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
1297:Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone. ~ Ubaldo Jimenez, #NFDB
1298:extreme outcomes (both high and low) are more likely to be found in small than in large samples. This explanation is not causal. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1299:His voice was low. Calm, assertive. And she actually turned to face the door before she stopped herself. "Stop woman-whispering me. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1300:I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way. ~ Judd Apatow, #NFDB
1301:I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success. ~ Keith Ferrazzi, #NFDB
1302:I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. ~ Peter Scott, #NFDB
1303:I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. ~ Ben Affleck, #NFDB
1304:Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1305:Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1306:many companies rank low on the customer satisfaction index because their employees are discouraged, disillusioned, and uninspired. ~ Carmine Gallo, #NFDB
1307:Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1308:These days, we prefer the quick fix of instant information and low-quality entertainment over real-world interactions and experiences. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
1309:Above his olive-skinned neck a Low Dark Fade they call it at the barber's school where I go for a $4.99 haircut and an experience. ~ Joseph McElroy, #NFDB
1310:Anyone would think you needed me,” he says in a low, silky tone. I have shivers again. All over my body. “I don’t!” “Well I need you. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1311:Apparently I'm in rehab for intensive partying soooo I'm just going to lay pretty low for a bit and maybe get some frozen yogurt. ~ Ireland Baldwin, #NFDB
1312:Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity. ~ Prince Ea, #NFDB
1313:Condillac begins his famous book with the words: “However high we climb and however low we fall we never escape our own feelings. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1314:Everything about my mother was a source of prepubescent agony. On the low end of the Mortification Scale there was her name: Floncey. ~ Jerry Stahl, #NFDB
1315:His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1316:If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches! ~ Thomas Malthus, #NFDB
1317:If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low. ~ Geoffrey Miller, #NFDB
1318:Low maintance is what's forgettable. You might want to right that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1319:Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields ~ Bjarne Stroustrup, #NFDB
1320:soft, moist air and bouts of low pressure blamed for headaches and illnesses and despair. A brisk autumn wind blew off the Alps, ~ Jessica Shattuck, #NFDB
1321:The general’s voice came low, so that his words were only for him and his daughter. “Kestrel,” he said, “you have broken my heart. ~ Marie Rutkoski, #NFDB
1322:Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1323:Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. ~ Bhartrhari, #NFDB
1324:Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1325:Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1326:Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. ~ Nigella Lawson, #NFDB
1327:He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1328:How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my Nails can reach unto thine Eyes ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1329:If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
1330:I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. ~ Joseph Brodsky, #NFDB
1331:I was three. What did I know?” Ronan turned away, lashes low over his eyes, expression hidden, burdened by being born, not made. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1332:Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging. ~ Laura Prepon, #NFDB
1333:Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
1334:One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
1335:(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits—a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone. ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1336:Research suggests that when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
1337:Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ~ David Low, #NFDB
1338:So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1339:The best way to minimize your exposure to industrial toxins may be to eat as low as possible on the food chain, a plant-based diet. ~ Michael Greger, #NFDB
1340:The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, #NFDB
1341:This is a neighborhood where underwear sags low. For instance, ole Mr Deutschman lives up here, who used to be upstanding and decent. ~ D B C Pierre, #NFDB
1342:Trials make the promise sweet; Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1343:We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1344:Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. ~ Susan Faludi, #NFDB
1345:Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks. ~ Joachim Low, #NFDB
1346:Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty. ~ Rex Harrison, #NFDB
1347:I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1348:I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it. ~ James Arthur, #NFDB
1349:I’m not his man, Father. I’m Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don’t marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1350:I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project. ~ Max Richter, #NFDB
1351:It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full employment system. ~ Robert B Reich, #NFDB
1352:Take this Hercules -this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies! ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1353:The lights were low, and Ranger was naked and lounging on the bed, waiting for me to return. I did a slow scan of his perfect body. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1354:You are on your quest. That is exciting. If you’re balanced, your boat floats on a low tide in the same way as it does on a high tide. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB
1355:As far as Rachel Tracey was concerned, builders who tried their luck with lone women were pretty low down on the evolutionary ladder. She ~ Kate Ellis, #NFDB
1356:As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, “If you don’t know what you want, the chances that you’ll get it are extremely low.” If ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1357:Entrepreneurs, by definition, shift resources from areas of low productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. Of ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB
1358:Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1359:He’d earned the moniker Gray Man for his ability to remain low profile, in the shadows, while still completing his arduous assignments. ~ Mark Greaney, #NFDB
1360:He had complete mastery of her, a mastery she welcomed as the tiny tremors low in her belly started, signaling her impending climax. ~ Danielle Monsch, #NFDB
1361:Her mind takes a picture of him, shirtless and wearing only his low-slung jeans. To be kept for later, when he is no longer around. ~ Georgia Le Carre, #NFDB
1362:high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1363:His voice fell dark and low. “I told you you are worth more than pennies, yet you cling to a dollar as if it’s the sum of your value. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1364:If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
1365:If you were mine,” he murmured low under his breath, “I would walk through the fires of hell itself to keep you away from a man like me. ~ Lara Adrian, #NFDB
1366:I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
1367:Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1368:Low maintenance is what's forgettable. You might want to wright that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1369:Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing. ~ Jim Nussle, #NFDB
1370:People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities. ~ Albert Bandura, #NFDB
1371:Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. ~ Gwen Ifill, #NFDB
1372:This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground. ~ Craig Childs, #NFDB
1373:Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
1374:We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know! ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
1375:You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
1376:You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child’s tantrum. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1377:You’re quite the specimen. Built like a sturdy building.
Are all your Low Born females like you?”
“You’ve begun to annoy me. ~ G A Aiken,#NFDB
1378:...and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1379:He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive. ~ Anderson Cooper, #NFDB
1380:He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe’s belly. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1381:Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. ~ Mencius, #NFDB
1382:I do not love hot more than I love cold, high more than low, left more than right. It is all relative. It is all part of what is. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1383:If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1384:If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1385:Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized. ~ John Corbett, #NFDB
1386:Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. ~ Dinesh D Souza, #NFDB
1387:People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. ~ Kevin Smith, #NFDB
1388:Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1389:There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.” (p. 12) ~ James Gurney, #NFDB
1390:This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand. ~ Olive Schreiner, #NFDB
1391:To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep. ~ Sarojini Naidu,#NFDB
1392:Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1393:You look like hell,' he said to me in a low voice.
'Gee, Dax, don’t coat it with honey. Tell me what you really think,' I said. ~ Maria V Snyder,#NFDB
1394:A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1395:Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1396:I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right? ~ Bill Burr, #NFDB
1397:If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
1398:I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1399:I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1400:Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training. ~ Homaro Cantu, #NFDB
1401:No friends, low grades, I’d worry about him at first. Saw him share food with a boy who’d forgot his lunch and I knew he’d turn out just fine. ~ Various, #NFDB
1402:People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1403:There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1404:There was… uh, in my book, you know,” her legs moved against his and she finished so low he barely heard her, “a really good sex scene. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1405:The sarissa’s song is a sad song.
He pipes it soft and low.
I would ply a gentler trade, says he,
But war is all I know. ~ Steven Pressfield,#NFDB
1406:This was what I loved about books. Even when my life was low, I was happy to lose myself in fiction and forget about it for a short while. ~ S J Pajonas, #NFDB
1407:Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost. ~ Ken Moelis, #NFDB
1408:...a low mist shimmers just above the meadow, as though the earth breathes out the dreams of the vanished generations buried in its breast. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1409:Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1410:Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1411:Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.' ~ Abel Ferrara, #NFDB
1412:Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1413:Hunter’s already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown man. ~ Catherine Anderson, #NFDB
1414:I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1415:If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing. ~ Josh Linkner, #NFDB
1416:I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1417:I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine. ~ Otto Ohlendorf, #NFDB
1418:It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
1419:Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
1420:Low serotonin means less happiness, more pain and anxiety, more illness, and a shorter lifespan—among humans, just as among crustaceans ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1421:Most of the time, the reason people are overweight is too little physical activity, in conjunction with a high-calorie, low-nutrient diet. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
1422:Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1423:Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1424:Perfection is the absolute right word. And you could never ruin it," she said in a low, calm voice. "Not when it was perfect because of you. ~ Laura Kaye, #NFDB
1425:Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1426:So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,'
The youth whispers, 'I can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,#NFDB
1427:Sure, it will be hard, but all you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass. ~ Anna Kendrick, #NFDB
1428:The creature—” A low growl rumbled from the backseat. “Peaches,” I said. “I don’t think he likes to be called ‘the creature.’” “Fine, ~ Orlando A Sanchez, #NFDB
1429:The Wendy’s was a low square building with the look of having been slapped together from a kit in an architecturally careless era, ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1430:The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt. ~ Andrew Davies, #NFDB
1431:What are you doing?" she whispered.
He wasn't sure why she was whispering, but he kept his voice just as low. "I want to taste you. ~ Savannah Stuart,#NFDB
1432:A high-fat diet in the presence of carbohydrate is different than a high-fat diet in the presence of low carbohydrate. – Dr. Richard Feinman ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
1433:Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
1434:Fane lightly slapped her thigh. "Luna, behave."
"Make me," she challenged as she leaned back, causing him to growl low in his chest. ~ Quinn Loftis,#NFDB
1435:Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
1436:Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1437:History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire, ~ William Lashner, #NFDB
1438:However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. ~ Maxim Gorky, #NFDB
1439:I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1440:I had the world sleepin’ on my chest,” he replied, his voice low, thick. I looked at the photo. “Funny how the world can fit in your arm. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1441:I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1442:Listen to me well, Low Born, don’t think for a second I won’t cut your heart from your worthless hide and wear it on my head . . . like a hat. ~ G A Aiken, #NFDB
1443:My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low. ~ Kandyse McClure, #NFDB
1444:My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted. ~ K D Lang, #NFDB
1445:Sometimes God allows us to sink down in our own misery until we reach a low place where we're finally read to look up and reach out to Him. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
1446:Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1447:We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
1448:You can’t beat me,” Swift said in a low voice. “You’re a novice, and a woman besides. It wouldn’t be fair unless I was assigned a handicap. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1449:Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia. ~ Jane Chen, #NFDB
1450:Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1451:Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. ~ J Philippe Rushton, #NFDB
1452:Do not be afraid to try. Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to simply exist never knowing either the high of success or the low of failure. ~ Shayla Black, #NFDB
1453:Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
1454:Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle ~ Amos Tversky, #NFDB
1455:If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB
1456:If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1457:I get cranky when I'm low blood sugar. I'm not diabetic or anything, but I've got that condition. What's it called? Oh, right, being human. ~ Angela Pepper, #NFDB
1458:I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. ~ Abigail Adams, #NFDB
1459:Imagine a pitch-black room with a single candle lit in the center," he said, his voice gone low. "The room is the world. You are the candle. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1460:I still don’t even know what I’m being tested for.” “The future of Oz,” Pete said. “No pressure. Like I said, so far, your score is pretty low. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1461:I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1462:It takes discipline to focus only on high-value targets instead of giving in to the temptation of the low-hanging fruit life serves up daily. ~ Mark Divine, #NFDB
1463:I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
1464:Low serotonin means less happiness, more pain and anxiety, more illness, and a shorter lifespan—among humans, just as among crustaceans ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1465:Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1466:My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
1467:Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour. ~ Joachim Low, #NFDB
1468:Somehow I know that eventually we'll fall back into step, so the pain is the low hum of detachment rather than the screaming stab of the end. ~ Cat Patrick, #NFDB
1469:The beaded purple top scooped low, showing off quite a bit of cleavage. And by quite a bit, I mean holy hell balls, that’s a lot of boobage. ~ Cindi Madsen, #NFDB
1470:The space in my life I've designated for you seems to be much too big, and you seem to have a low to medium-level interest in being there. ~ Chelsea Martin, #NFDB
1471:The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day. ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
1472:the value of working hours among the under-educated is fairly low by most measures, and the rise in “leisure” time may not be anything to envy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1473:Wrong answer,” Luc said, voice low as he dropped Lyla. “You always have a choice. It’s the one thing that no one can strip from us. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1474:A Bulletin
'Lothario is very low,'
So all the doctors tell.
Nay, nay, not _so_-he will be, though,
If ever he get well.
~ Ambrose Bierce,#NFDB
1475:Better to hit her now. She thinks her job is done. She’s coming down off a high. Her adrenaline is low. She’ll be braver in the morning.” Bishop ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1476:Excuse me,” Fyrian said. And he heaved himself over to a low shrub and vomited profusely. “Oh dear. I seem to have lit some things on fire. ~ Kelly Barnhill, #NFDB
1477:get enough seniority to get good things done but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1478:Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle ~ Amos Tversky, #NFDB
1479:Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, "lie low, go slow, and keep cool. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1480:launching a low-quality early prototype, charging customers from day one, and using low-volume revenue targets as a way to drive accountability. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1481:Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
1482:Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
1483:Some people thought I was dead. I had to keep a low profile.'
'Why... why did some people think you were dead?'
'Because they killed me. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1484:Sometimes, girls, you have to hit your lowest low just before you hit your highest high. It makes you appreciate the good things so much more. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
1485:Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray now that we were ashore. No ~ Robert Low, #NFDB
1486:The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1487:The seedy single-room-occupancy hotels and low-rent apartment buildings in that neighborhood were like vending machines filled with victims. ~ Christa Faust, #NFDB
1488:This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1489:When your problem is one of needing numerous specializations of a stable, common abstraction, inheritance can be an extremely low-cost solution. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1490:America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are. ~ Alphonso Jackson, #NFDB
1491:At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here. ~ Rajiv Joseph, #NFDB
1492:case they don’t have them where you live, Sizzler is a restaurant chain specializing in steak and seafood priced so low it’s hard not to worry. 4 ~ Dave Hill, #NFDB
1493:Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
1494:God above, you’re beautiful,’ he breathed.
‘You don’t believe in God,’ I reminded him, my voice low.
‘Right now, I think I just might. ~ Alwyn Hamilton,#NFDB
1495:Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again. ~ Rachel Simon, #NFDB
1496:He wipes his hand on his shirt.
What? Did I drool on you?"
A little."
You're a wolf. You should be used to drool."
That's low. ~ Carrie Jones,#NFDB
1497:If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1498:If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1499:If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1500:Is this all right?" he asked. He was using that very low, somewhat husky universal kissing voice.
"Huh?" I said, because I am sexy. ~ Maureen Johnson,#NFDB
891 Integral Yoga
446 Poetry
138 Fiction
114 Christianity
111 Occultism
106 Philosophy
83 Yoga
38 Psychology
31 Mysticism
21 Philsophy
17 Science
16 Mythology
16 Hinduism
14 Theosophy
9 Integral Theory
8 Kabbalah
8 Cybernetics
7 Education
6 Sufism
6 Baha i Faith
3 Buddhism
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
748 Sri Aurobindo
309 The Mother
198 Nolini Kanta Gupta
169 Satprem
84 H P Lovecraft
83 William Wordsworth
64 Percy Bysshe Shelley
44 Sri Ramakrishna
40 Plotinus
40 Carl Jung
39 Walt Whitman
39 James George Frazer
34 Robert Browning
31 Saint Augustine of Hippo
30 John Keats
29 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
27 Aleister Crowley
26 Swami Vivekananda
24 A B Purani
23 Friedrich Schiller
21 Ralph Waldo Emerson
19 William Butler Yeats
18 Jorge Luis Borges
18 Friedrich Nietzsche
15 Aldous Huxley
14 Rudolf Steiner
14 Anonymous
13 Swami Krishnananda
13 Rabindranath Tagore
12 Ovid
11 Edgar Allan Poe
9 Saint John of Climacus
9 Nirodbaran
9 Franz Bardon
8 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
8 Plato
8 Norbert Wiener
8 Lucretius
8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7 Lewis Carroll
7 George Van Vrekhem
7 Baha u llah
7 Alice Bailey
6 Vyasa
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Saint Teresa of Avila
6 Henry David Thoreau
5 Hafiz
4 Patanjali
4 Li Bai
4 Joseph Campbell
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Al-Ghazali
3 Ibn Arabi
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Solomon ibn Gabirol
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Peter J Carroll
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Ken Wilber
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jetsun Milarepa
2 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 Aristotle
202 Record of Yoga
128 The Synthesis Of Yoga
84 Lovecraft - Poems
83 Wordsworth - Poems
64 Shelley - Poems
44 Letters On Yoga IV
43 The Life Divine
43 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
39 The Golden Bough
38 Whitman - Poems
38 Letters On Yoga III
38 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
37 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
36 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
34 Browning - Poems
31 Letters On Yoga II
30 Keats - Poems
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
28 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
28 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
27 Essays On The Gita
26 Savitri
26 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
24 Letters On Yoga I
24 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
23 Schiller - Poems
21 Emerson - Poems
20 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
20 City of God
19 Yeats - Poems
19 The Human Cycle
19 Questions And Answers 1954
19 Agenda Vol 02
18 Questions And Answers 1955
18 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
18 Agenda Vol 03
16 Mysterium Coniunctionis
16 Agenda Vol 12
15 The Perennial Philosophy
15 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
15 Magick Without Tears
15 Labyrinths
15 Agenda Vol 08
14 The Divine Comedy
13 The Study and Practice of Yoga
13 The Bible
13 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
13 Liber ABA
13 Essays Divine And Human
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
13 Agenda Vol 10
12 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
12 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
12 Tagore - Poems
12 Questions And Answers 1956
12 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
12 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
12 Metamorphoses
12 Letters On Poetry And Art
12 Agenda Vol 05
12 Agenda Vol 01
11 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
11 Poe - Poems
11 Bhakti-Yoga
11 Agenda Vol 04
10 Talks
10 Raja-Yoga
10 Collected Poems
10 Aion
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Phenomenon of Man
9 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
9 Questions And Answers 1953
9 Let Me Explain
9 Isha Upanishad
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
9 Agenda Vol 09
9 Agenda Vol 07
8 The Secret Of The Veda
8 The Practice of Psycho therapy
8 The Future of Man
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
8 On Education
8 Of The Nature Of Things
8 Kena and Other Upanishads
8 General Principles of Kabbalah
8 Cybernetics
8 Agenda Vol 13
7 Vedic and Philological Studies
7 Twilight of the Idols
7 Theosophy
7 Some Answers From The Mother
7 Preparing for the Miraculous
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
7 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
7 Faust
7 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
7 Alice in Wonderland
6 Words Of Long Ago
6 Walden
6 Vishnu Purana
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
6 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
5 Words Of The Mother II
5 Prayers And Meditations
5 Initiation Into Hermetics
5 Anonymous - Poems
5 Agenda Vol 11
5 Agenda Vol 06
4 The Practice of Magical Evocation
4 The Integral Yoga
4 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Li Bai - Poems
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 5.1.01 - Ilion
3 The Way of Perfection
3 The Problems of Philosophy
3 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The Blue Cliff Records
3 Hymn of the Universe
3 Hafiz - Poems
3 Dark Night of the Soul
3 Borges - Poems
2 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Selected Fictions
2 Poetics
2 On the Way to Supermanhood
2 Milarepa - Poems
2 Liber Null
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Arabi - Poems
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From 1960, the Agenda took its final shape arid grew for thirteen years, until May 1973, filling thirteen volumes in all (some six thousand pages), with a change of setting in March 1962 at the time of the Great Turning in Mother's yoga when She permanently retired to her room upstairs, as had Sri Aurobindo in 1926. The interviews then took place high up in this large room carpeted in golden wool, like a ship's stateroom, amidst the rustling of the Copper Pod tree and the cawing of crows. Mother would sit in a low rosewood chair, her face turned towards Sri Aurobindo's tomb, as though She were wearing down the distance separating that world from our own. Her voice had become like that of a child, one could hear her laughter. She always laughed, this Mother. And then her long silences. Until the day the disciples closed her door on us. It was May 19, 1973. We did not want to believe it. She was alone, just as we were suddenly alone. S lowly, painfully, we had to discover the why of this rupture. We understood nothing of the jealousies of the old species, we did not yet realize that they were becoming the 'owners' of Mother - of the Ashram, of Auroville, of
Sri Aurobindo, of everything - and that the new world was going to be denatured into a new
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And they who are thus lifted up into the Higher Orbit are freed from the bondage to the cycle of rebirth. They enjoy the supreme Liberation that is of the Spirit; and even when they descend into the Inferior Path, it is to work out as free agents, as vehicles of the Divine, a special purpose, to bring down something of the substance and nature of the Solar reality into the lower world, enlighten and elevate the lower, as far as it is al lowed, into the higher.
IV. The Triple Agni
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Earth represents the material world itself, Matter or existence in its most concrete, its grossest form. It is the basis of existence, the world that supports other worlds (dhar, dharitri),the first or the lowest of the several ranges of creation. In man it is his body. The principle here is that of stability, substantiality, firmness, consistency.
Water represents the next rung the vital world, the world life-force (pra). Physiologically also we know that water is the element forming three-fourths of the constituents of a living body and that dead and dry are synonymous terms; it is the medium in which the living cells dwell and through which they draw their sustenance. Water is the veritable sap of lifeit is the emblem of life itself. The principle it represents is that of movement, continuity, perpetuity.
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We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
VII. The Cosmic and the Transcendental
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Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor.
Man, however, is an epitome of creation. He embraces and incarnates the entire gamut of consciousness and comprises in him all beings from the highest Divinity to the lowest jinn or elf. And yet each human being in his true personality is a lineal descendant of one or other typal aspect or original Personality of the one supreme Reality; and his individual character is all the more pronounced and well-defined the more organised and developed is the being. The psychic being in man is thus a direct descent, an immediate emanation along a definite line of devolution of the supreme consciousness. We may now understand and explain easily why one chooses a particular Ishta, an ideal god, what is the drive that pushes one to become a worshipper of Siva or Vishnu or any other deity. It is not any rational understanding, a weighing of pros and cons and then a resultant conclusion that leads one to choose a path of religion or spirituality. It is the soul's natural call to the God, the type of being and consciousness of which it is a spark, from which it has descended, it is the secret affinity the spiritual blood-relation as it were that determines the choice and adherence. And it is this that we name Faith. And the exclusiveness and violence and bitterness which attend such adherence and which go "by the "name of partisanship, sectarianism, fanaticism etc., a;e a deformation in the ignorance on the physico-vital plane of the secret loyalty to one's source and origin. Of course, the pattern or law is not so simple and rigid, but it gives a token or typal pattern. For it must not be forgotten that the supreme source or the original is one and indivisible and in the highest integration consciousness is global and not exclusive. And the human being that attains such a status is not bound or wholly limited to one particular formation: its personality is based on the truth of impersonality. And yet the two can go together: an individual can be impersonal in consciousness and yet personal in becoming and true to type.
The number of gods depends on the level of consciousness on which we stand. On this material plane there are as many gods as there are bodies or individual forms (adhar). And on the supreme height there is only one God without a second. In between there are gradations of types and sub-types whose number and function vary according to the aspect of consciousness that reveals itself.
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Man has two souls corresponding to his double status. In the inferior, the soul looks downward and is involved in the current of Impermanence and Ignorance, it tastes of grief and sorrow and suffers death and dissolution: in the higher it looks upward and communes and joins with the Eternal (the cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest status. It is true, however, that the Upanishad does not make a trenchant distinction between the cosmic and the transcendent and often it speaks of both in the same breath, as it were. For in fact they are realities involved in each other and interwoven. Indeed the triple status, including the Individual, forms one single totality and the three do not exclude or cancel each other; on the contrary, they combine and may be said to enhance each other's reality. The Transcendence expresses or deploys itself in the cosmoshe goes abroad,sa paryagt: and the cosmic individualises, concretises itself in the particular and the personal. The one single spiritual reality holds itself, aspects itself in a threefold manner.
The teaching of Yama in brief may be said to be the gospel of immortality and it consists of the knowledge of triple immortality. And who else can be the best teacher of immortality than Death himself, as Nachiketas pointedly said? The first immortality is that of the physical existence and consciousness, the preservation of the personal identity, the individual name and formthis being in itself as expression and embodiment and instrument of the Inner Reality. This inner reality enshrines the second immortality the eternity and continuity of the soul's life through its incarnations in time, the divine Agni lit for ever and ever growing in flaming consciousness. And the third and final immortality is in the being and consciousness beyond time, beyond all relativities, the absolute and self-existent delight.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
pounds per square inch ultimate. But masonry has low tensional coherence; it can
withstand only 50 pounds per square inch tensing. Stone-Age-derived masonry is a
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water. But nature had invented low-weight wood of high self-cohering tensile
strength (averaging approximately 10,000 p.s.i.) and of relatively low compression-
resistive capability (also approximately 10,000 p.s.i.). Wood floated on water and
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and the low overall displacement weights involved, made possible for humans to
design and fabricate air-enclosing wooden vessels whose structure and space
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The main temple is dedicated to Kali, the Divine Mother, here worshipped as Bhavatarini, the Saviour of the Universe. The floor of this temple also is paved with marble. The basalt image of the Mother, dressed in gorgeous gold brocade, stands on a white marble image of the prostrate body of Her Divine Consort, Siva, the symbol of the Absolute. On the feet of the Goddess are, among other ornaments, anklets of gold. Her arms are decked with jewelled ornaments of gold. She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. She wears a golden crown, golden ear-rings, and a golden nose-ring with a pearl-drop. She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a blood-stained sabre. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness. For She is the Cosmic Power, the totality of the universe, a glorious harmony of the pairs of opposites. She deals out death, as She creates and preserves. She has three eyes, the third being the symbol of Divine Wisdom; they strike dismay into the wicked, yet pour out affection for Her devotees.
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.)
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For the achievement of this goal the Vedanta prescribes an austere negative method of discrimination and renunciation, which can be fol lowed by only a few individuals endowed with sharp intelligence and unshakable will-power. But Tantra takes into consideration the natural weakness of human beings, their lower appetites, and their love for the concrete. It combines philosophy with rituals, meditation with ceremonies, renunciation with enjoyment. The underlying purpose is gradually to train the aspirant to meditate on his identity with the Ultimate.
The average man wishes to enjoy the material objects of the world. Tantra bids him enjoy these, but at the same time discover in them the presence of God. Mystical rites are prescribed by which, s lowly, the sense-objects become spiritualized and sense attraction is transformed into a love of God. So the very "bonds" of man are turned into "releasers". The very poison that kills is transmuted into the elixir of life. Outward renunciation is not necessary. Thus the aim of Tantra is to sublimate bhoga, or enjoyment into yoga, or union with Consciousness. For, according to this philosophy, the world with all its manifestations is nothing but the sport of Siva and Sakti, the Absolute and Its inscrutable Power.
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There are two stages of bhakti. The first is known as vaidhi-bhakti, or love of God qualified by scriptural injunctions. For the devotees of this stage are prescribed regular and methodical worship, hymns, prayers, the repetition of God's name, and the chanting of His glories. This lower bhakti in course of time matures into para-bhakti, or supreme devotion, known also as prema, the most intense form of divine love. Divine love is an end in itself. It exists potentially in all human hearts, but in the case of bound creatures it is misdirected to earthly objects.
To develop the devotee's love for God, Vaishnavism humanizes God. God is to be regarded as the devotee's Parent, Master, Friend, Child, Husband, or Sweetheart, each succeeding relationship representing an intensification of love. These bhavas, or attitudes toward God, are known as santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, and madhur. The rishis of the Vedas, Hanuman, the cow-herd boys of Vrindavan, Rama's mother Kausalya, and Radhika, Krishna's sweetheart, exhibited, respectively, the most perfect examples of these forms. In the ascending scale the-glories of God are gradually forgotten and the devotee realizes more and more the intimacy of divine communion. Finally he regards himself as the mistress of his Beloved, and no artificial barrier remains to separate him from his Ideal. No social or moral obligation can bind to the earth his soaring spirit. He experiences perfect union with the Godhead. Unlike the Vedantist, who strives to transcend all varieties of the subject-object relationship, a devotee of the Vaishnava path wishes to retain both his own individuality and the personality of God. To him God is not an intangible Absolute, but the Purushottama, the Supreme Person.
While practising the discipline of the madhur bhava, the male devotee often regards himself as a woman, in order to develop the most intense form of love for Sri Krishna, the only purusha, or man, in the universe. This assumption of the attitude of the opposite sex has a deep psychological significance. It is a matter of common experience that an idea may be cultivated to such an intense degree that every idea alien to it is driven from the mind. This peculiarity of the mind may be utilized for the subjugation of the lower desires and the development of the spiritual nature. Now, the idea which is the basis of all desires and passions in a man is the conviction of his indissoluble association with a male body. If he can inoculate himself thoroughly with the idea that he is a woman, he can get rid of the desires peculiar to his male body. Again, the idea that he is a woman may in turn be made to give way to another higher idea, namely, that he is neither man nor woman, but the Impersonal Spirit. The Impersonal Spirit alone can enjoy real communion with the Impersonal God. Hence the highest est realization of the Vaishnava draws close to the transcendental experience of the Vedantist.
A beautiful expression of the Vaishnava worship of God through love is to be found in the Vrindavan episode of the Bhagavata. The gopis, or milk-maids, of Vrindavan regarded the six-year-old Krishna as their Beloved. They sought no personal gain or happiness from this love. They surrendered to Krishna their bodies, minds, and souls. Of all the gopis, Radhika, or Radha, because of her intense love for Him, was the closest to Krishna. She manifested mahabhava and was united with her Beloved. This union represents, through sensuous language, a supersensuous experience.
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Thus, after nirvikalpa samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized maya in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kali vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Maya became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent. Sri Ramakrishna discovered that maya operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these "avidyamaya" and "vidyamaya". Avidyamaya represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man's birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyamaya is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyamaya elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyamaya the devotee rids himself of avidyamaya; he then becomes mayatita, free of maya. The two aspects of maya are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kali; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
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.
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Sunday, August 15, 1886. The Master's pulse became irregular. The devotees stood by the bedside. Toward dusk Sri Ramakrishna had difficulty in breathing. A short time afterwards he complained of hunger. A little liquid food was put into his mouth; some of it he swal lowed, and the rest ran over his chin. Two attendants began to fan him. All at once he went into samadhi of a rather unusual type. The body became stiff. Sashi burst into tears. But after midnight the Master revived. He was now very hungry and helped himself to a bowl of porridge. He said he was strong again. He sat up against five or six pil lows, which were supported by the body of Sashi, who was fanning him. Narendra took his feet on his lap and began to rub them. Again and again the Master repeated to him, "Take care of these boys." Then he asked to lie down. Three times in ringing tone's he cried the name of Kali, his life's Beloved, and lay back. At two minutes past one there was a low sound in his throat and he fell a little to one side. A thrill passed over his body. His hair stood on end. His eyes became fixed on the tip of his nose. His face was lighted with a smile. The final ecstasy began. It was mahasamadhi, total absorption, from which his mind never returned. Narendra, unable to bear it, ran downstairs.
Dr. Sarkar arrived the fol lowing noon and pronounced that life had departed not more than half an hour before. At five o'clock the Masters body was brought downstairs, laid on a cot, dressed in ochre clothes, and decorated with sandal-paste and f lowers. A procession was formed. The passers-by wept as the body was taken to the cremation ground at the Baranagore Ghat on the Ganges.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
But Chesed, in the lower sense, is conjoined to
Microprosopus. It is the true link between the greater
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Compare the doctrine of the higher and lower Manas in
Theosophy.
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and therefore the imperfection, of all the lower Sephiroth
in their essence.
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IO is the cry of the lower as OI of the higher.
In figures they are 1001;(9) in letters they are Joy.(10)
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lowest to the highest. The Rosy-Cross is the Universal
Key. But, as one proceeds, the Cross becomes greater,
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finger prest against thy lower lip. Then dashing
down the hand with a great sweep back and out,
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Extend the arms in the form of a Tau, and say low
but clear: {Pi-Rho-Omicron Mu-Omicron-Upsilon Iota-Upsilon-
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Thrice round the paddock, Highly, lowly, wily, holy,
dip, dip, dip!
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and the phrase "has its being" the lower animals, including
woman.
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Yea, though I were lowered by ropes into the
utmost Caverns and Vaults of Eternity, there is
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illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the
higher life.
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 Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality."[7]
It is clear that Sri Aurobindo interpreted the traditional idea of the Vibhuti and the Avatar in terms of the evolutionary possibilities of man. But more directly he has worked out the idea of the 'gnostic individual' in his masterpiece The Life Divine. He says: "A supramental gnostic individual will be a spiritual Person, but not a personality in the sense of a pattern of being marked out by a settled combination of fixed qualities, a determined character; he cannot be that since he is a conscious expression of the universal and the transcendent." Describing the gnostic individual he says: "We feel ourselves in the presence of a light of consciousness, a potency, a sea of energy, can distinguish and describe its free waves of action and quality, but not fix itself; and yet there is an impression of personality, the presence of a powerful being, a strong, high or beautiful recognisable Someone, a Person, not a limited creature of Nature but a Self or Soul, a Purusha."[8]
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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 philosophies 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
ground, so that the vessels can be raised and lowered without
danger.
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
to this conclusion that mental life, far from being a recent appearance in man, is the swift repetition in him of a previous achievement from which the Energy in the race had undergone one of her deplorable recoils. The savage is perhaps not so much the first forefa ther of civilised man as the degenerate descendant of a previous civilisation. For if the actuality of intellectual achievement is unevenly distributed, the capacity is spread everywhere. It has been seen that in individual cases even the racial type considered by us the lowest, the negro fresh from the perennial barbarism of Central Africa, is capable, without admixture of blood, without waiting for future generations, of the intellectual culture, if not yet of the intellectual accomplishment of the dominant European. Even in the mass men seem to need, in favourable circumstances, only a few generations to cover ground that ought apparently to be measured in the terms of millenniums. Either, then, man by his privilege as a mental being is exempt from the full burden of the tardy laws of evolution or else he already represents and with helpful conditions and in the right stimulating atmosphere can always display a high level of material capacity for the activities of the intellectual life.
It is not mental incapacity, but the long rejection or seclusion from opportunity and withdrawal of the awakening impulse that creates the savage. Barbarism is an intermediate sleep, not an original darkness.
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And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.
The assertion of a higher than the mental life is the whole foundation of Indian philosophy and its acquisition and organisation is the veritable object served by the methods of Yoga.
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And if since then Nature has sunk back from her achievement, the reason must always be found in some unrealised harmony, some insufficiency of the intellectual and material basis to which she has now returned, some over-specialisation of the higher to the detriment of the lower existence.
But what then constitutes this higher or highest existence to which our evolution is tending? In order to answer the question we have to deal with a class of supreme experiences, a class of unusual conceptions which it is difficult to represent accurately in any other language than the ancient Sanskrit tongue in which alone they have been to some extent systematised.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
As years passed the evening sittings went on changing their time and often those disciples who came from outside for a temporary stay for Sadhana were al lowed to join them. And, as the number of sadhaks practising the Yoga increased, the evening sittings also became more full, and the small verandah upstairs in the main building was found insufficient. Members of the household would gather every day at the fixed time with some sense of expectancy and start chatting in low tones. Sri Aurobindo used to come last and it was after his coming that the session would really commence.
He came dressed as usual in dhoti, part of which was used by him to cover the upper part of his body. Very rarely he came out with chaddar or shawl and then it was "in deference to the climate" as he sometimes put it. At times for minutes he would be gazing at the sky from a small opening at the top of the grass-curtains that covered the verandah upstairs in No. 9, Rue de la Marine. How much were these sittings dependent on him may be gathered from the fact that there were days when more than three-fourths of the time passed in complete silence without any outer suggestion from him, or there was only an abrupt "Yes" or "No" to all attempts at drawing him out in conversation. And even when he participated in the talk one always felt that his voice was that of one who does not let his whole being f low into his words; there was a reserve and what was left unsaid was perhaps more than what was spoken. What was spoken was what he felt necessary to speak.
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But what Nature aims at for the mass in a s low evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For if, leaving aside the complexities of their particular processes, we fix our regard on the central principle of the chief schools of Yoga still prevalent in India, we find that they arrange themselves in an ascending order which starts from the lowest rung of the ladder, the body, and ascends to the direct contact between the individual soul and the transcendent and universal
Self. Hathayoga selects the body and the vital functionings as its instruments of perfection and realisation; its concern is with the gross body. Rajayoga selects the mental being in its different parts as its lever-power; it concentrates on the subtle body. The triple Path of Works, of Love and of Knowledge uses some part of the mental being, will, heart or intellect as a starting-point and seeks by its conversion to arrive at the liberating Truth,
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the powers of disorder. The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine
Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
himself - that is, in control of his lower nature and capable of
becoming a true Yogi if that be his aspiration. And the more this
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the will of the lower nature, I cannot satisfy all its whims, for
that would be the worst thing I could do for you.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Knowledge and a faith that is the reflex in the lower consciousness of a Truth or real Idea yet unrealised in the manifestation.
It is this self-certainty of the Idea which is meant by the Gita when it says, yo yac-chraddhah. sa eva sah., "whatever is a man's faith or the sure Idea in him, that he becomes."
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- and Yoga is nothing but practical psychology, - is the conception of Nature from which we have to start. It is the selffulfilment of the Purusha through his Energy. But the movement of Nature is twofold, higher and lower, or, as we may choose to term it, divine and undivine. The distinction exists indeed for practical purposes only; for there is nothing that is not divine, and in a larger view it is as meaningless, verbally, as the distinction between natural and supernatural, for all things that are are natural. All things are in Nature and all things are in God.
But, for practical purposes, there is a real distinction. The lower
Nature, that which we know and are and must remain so long as the faith in us is not changed, acts through limitation and division, is of the nature of Ignorance and culminates in the life of the ego; but the higher Nature, that to which we aspire, acts by unification and transcendence of limitation, is of the nature of Knowledge and culminates in the life divine. The passage from the lower to the higher is the aim of Yoga; and this passage
The Synthesis of the Systems
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may effect itself by the rejection of the lower and escape into the higher, - the ordinary view-point, - or by the transformation of the lower and its elevation to the higher Nature. It is this, rather, that must be the aim of an integral Yoga.
But in either case it is always through something in the lower that we must rise into the higher existence, and the schools of
Yoga each select their own point of departure or their own gate of escape. They specialise certain activities of the lower
Prakriti and turn them towards the Divine. But the normal action of Nature in us is an integral movement in which the full complexity of all our elements is affected by and affects all our environments. The whole of life is the Yoga of Nature. The
Yoga that we seek must also be an integral action of Nature, and the whole difference between the Yogin and the natural man will be this, that the Yogin seeks to substitute in himself for the integral action of the lower Nature working in and by ego and division the integral action of the higher Nature working in and by God and unity. If indeed our aim be only an escape from the world to God, synthesis is unnecessary and a waste of time; for then our sole practical aim must be to find out one path out of the thousand that lead to God, one shortest possible of short cuts, and not to linger exploring different paths that end in the same goal. But if our aim be a transformation of our integral being into the terms of God-existence, it is then that a synthesis becomes necessary.
The method we have to pursue, then, is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform our entire being into His. Thus in a sense
God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sadhaka of the sadhana1 as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the
Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces
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its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sadhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine
Strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for our weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It "makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills." The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet, in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of
Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but
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Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some element or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefa thers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in
Nature, in the other it becomes swift and self-conscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
An integral method and an integral result. First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by
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Sachchidananda; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the Divine, sadharmya-mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
at rest.' Both the higher and the lower 'portions of the soul' are now tranquillized
and prepared for the desired union with the Spouse, a union which is the subject
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
your psychic being, you master and govern the lower being, and
then you will quite naturally take your proper place in the great
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feminine in the lower nature which attracts the eternal masculine in the lower nature and creates an illusion in the mind; it
is the great play, obscure and semi-conscious, of the forces of
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find against the lower and inconscient nature.
Nothing of all this is the right attitude. So long as you oscillate between wanting to transform yourself and not wanting to
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themselves in your lower nature, you have only to dislodge them,
calling me to your help.
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overcome one's lower nature. And is this not easier here, with
a concrete and tangible help, than all alone, without anyone to
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have sunk very low in my consciousness and you
seem farther away than ever. You are the Infinite Mother
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
... the principle of this Yoga is not perfection of the human nature as it is but a psychic and spiritual transformation of all the parts of the being through the action of an inner consciousness and then of a higher consciousness which works on them, throws out the old movements or changes them into the image of its own and so transmutes lower into higher nature. It is not so much the perfection of the intellect as a transcendence of it, a transformation of the mind, the substitution of a larger greater principle of knowledge - and so with all the rest of the being.
This is a s low and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something moreOneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding the separative consciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the Illusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance comes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere. The movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight, unwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each Power, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its possibilities as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its own enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches be low Overmind this turns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of chance survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the concretisation or devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a play of united diversity; but on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms and forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine Consciousness. Creation as it descends' towards the Ignorance becomes an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakeningsMatter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious Spirit.
The apparent or actual result of the movement of Nescienceof Involutionhas been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here be low in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and that the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying mode of the static consciousness, as it does even now behind the cosmic play, but in the play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.
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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.
This then is the supreme secret, not the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary human nature : first of all, its psychicisation, that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and identification with the light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here be low and work and achieve.
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The Supermind is not merely synthetic. The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of itself, where it has to prepare the principles of Overmind,synthesis is necessary only where analysis has taken place, one has dissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece together. But Supermind is unitarian, has never divided up, so it does not need to add and piece together the parts and fragments. It has always held the conscious Many together in the conscious One.
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01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And yet what can be more poetic in essence than philosophy, if by philosophy we mean, as it should mean, spiritual truth and spiritual realisation? What else can give the full breath, the integral force to poetic inspiration if it is not the problem of existence itself, of God, Soul and Immortality, things that touch, that are at the very root of life and reality? What can most concern man, what can strike the deepest fount in him, unless it is the mystery of his own being, the why and the whither of it all? But mankind has been taught and trained to live merely or mostly on earth, and poetry has been treated as the expression of human joys and sorrows the tears in mortal things of which Virgil spoke. The savour of earth, the thrill of the flesh has been too sweet for us and we have forgotten other sweetnesses. It is always the human element that we seek in poetry, but we fail to recognise that what we obtain in this way is humanity in its lower degrees, its surface formulations, at its minimum magnitude.
We do not say that poets have never sung of God and Soul and things transcendent. Poets have always done that. But what I say is this that presentation of spiritual truths, as they are in their own home, in other words, treated philosophically and yet in a supreme poetic manner, has always been a rarity. We have, indeed, in India the Gita and the Upanishads, great philosophical poems, if there were any. But for one thing they are on dizzy heights out of the reach of common man and for another they are idolised more as philosophy than as poetry. Doubtless, our Vaishnava poets sang of God and Love Divine; and Rabindranath, in one sense, a typical modern Vaishnava, did the same. And their songs are masterpieces. But are they not all human, too human, as the mad prophet would say? In them it is the human significance, the human manner that touches and moves us the spiritual significance remains esoteric, is suggested, is a matter of deduction. Sri Aurobindo has dealt with spiritual experiences in a different way. He has not clothed them in human symbols and allegories, in images and figures of the mere earthly and secular life: he presents them in their nakedness, just as they are seen and realised. He has not sought to tone down the rigour of truth with contrivances that easily charm and captivate the common human mind and heart. Nor has he indulged like so many poet philosophers in vague generalisations and colourless or too colourful truisms that do not embody a clear thought or rounded idea, a radiant judgment. Sri Aurobindo has given us in his poetry thoughts that are clear-cut, ideas beautifully chiselledhe is always luminously forceful.
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To humanise the Divine, that is what we all wish to do; for the Divine is too lofty for us and we cannot look full into his face. We cry and supplicate to Rudra, "O dire Lord, show us that other form of thine that is benign and humane". All earthly imageries we lavish upon the Divine so that he may appear to us not as something far and distant and foreign, but, quite near, among us, as one of us. We take recourse to human symbolism often, because we wish to palliate or hide the rigours of a supreme experience, not because we have no adequate terms for it. The same human or earthly terms could be used differently if we had a different consciousness. Thus the Vedic Rishis sought not to humanise the Divine, their purpose was rather to divinise the human. And their allegorical language, although rich in terrestrial figures, does not carry the impress and atmosphere of mere humanity and earthliness. For in reality the symbol is not merely the symbol. It is mere symbol in regard to the truth so long as we take our stand on the lower plane when we have to look at the truth through the symbol; but if we view it from the higher plane, from truth itself, it is no longer mere symbol but the very truth bodied forth. Whatever there is of symbolism on earth and its beauties, in sense and its enjoyments, is then transfigured into the expression of the truth, of the divinity itself. We then no longer speak in human language but in the language of the gods.
We have been speaking of philosophy and the philosophic manner. But what are the exact implications of the words, let us ask again. They mean nothing more and nothing lessthan the force of thought and the mass of thought content. After all, that seems to be almost the whole difference between the past and the present human consciousness in so far at least as it has found expression in poetry. That element, we wish to point out, is precisely what the old-world poets lacked or did not care to possess or express or stress. A poet meant above all, if not all in all, emotion, passion, sensuousness, sensibility, nervous enthusiasm and imagination and fancy: remember the classic definition given by Shakespeare of the poet
01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The cosmic soul is true. But that truth is borne out, effectuated only by the truth of the individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The individuals are the channels through which f lows the Universal and the Infinite in its multiple emphasis. Each is a particular figure, aspectBhava, a particular angle of vision of All. The vision is entire and the figure perfect if it is not refracted by the lower and denser parts of our being. And for that the individual must first come to itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency.
Not to do what others do, but what your soul impels you to do. Not to be others but your own self. Not to be anything but the very cosmic and infinite divinity of your soul. Therein lies your highest freedom and perfect delight. And there you are supremely creative. Each soul has a consortPrakriti, Naturewhich it creates out of its own rib. And in this field of infinite creativity the soul lives, moves and has its being.
01.02 - The Object of the Integral Yoga, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
You must go inside yourself and enter into a complete dedication to the spiritual life. All clinging to mental preferences must fall away from you, all insistence on vital aims and interests and attachments must be put away, all egoistic clinging to family, friends, country must disappear if you want to succeed in Yoga. Whatever has to come as outgoing energy or action, must proceed from the Truth once discovered and not from the lower mental or vital motives, from the Divine Will and not from personal choice or the preferences of the ego.
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man's consciousness is further to rise from the mental to over-mental regions. Accordingly, his life and activities and along with that his artistic creations too will take on a new tone and rhythm, a new mould and constitution even. For this transition, the higher mentalwhich is normally the field of philosophical and idealistic activitiesserves as the Paraclete, the Intercessor; it takes up the lower functionings of the consciousness, which are intense in their own way, but narrow and turbid, and gives, by purifying and enlarging, a wider frame, a more luminous pattern, a more subtly articulated , form for the higher, vaster and deeper realities, truths and harmonies to express and manifest. In the old-world spiritual and mystic poets, this intervening medium was overlooked for evident reasons, for human reason or even intelligence is a double-edged instrument, it can make as well as mar, it has a light that most often and naturally shuts off other higher lights beyond it. So it was bypassed, some kind of direct and immediate contact was sought to be established between the normal and the transcendental. The result was, as I have pointed out, a pure spiritual poetry, on the one hand, as in the Upanishads, or, on the other, religious poetry of various grades and denominations that spoke of the spiritual but in the terms and in the manner of the mundane, at least very much coloured and dominated by the latter. Vyasa was the great legendary figure in India who, as is shown in his Mahabharata, seems to have been one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer, to forge and build the missing link of Thought Power. The exemplar of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power s lowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple beginnings. The moderns go in for something more radical and totalitarian. The rationalising element instead of being an additional or subordinate or contri buting factor, must itself give its norm and form, its own substance and manner to the creative activity. Such is the present-day demand.
The earliest preoccupation of man was religious; even when he concerned himself with the world and worldly things, he referred all that to the other world, thought of gods and goddesses, of after-death and other where. That also will be his last and ultimate preoccupation though in a somewhat different way, when he has passed through a process of purification and growth, a "sea-change". For although religion is an aspiration towards the truth and reality beyond or behind the world, it is married too much to man's actual worldly nature and carries always with it the shadow of profanity.
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has fol lowed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet fol lows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.03 - Rationalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The fact is that Reason is a lower manifestation of knowledge, it is an attempt to express on the mental level a power that exceeds it. It is the section of a vast and unitarian Consciousness-Power; the section may be necessary under certain conditions and circumstances, but unless it is viewed in its relation to the ensemble, unless it gives up its exclusive absolutism, it will be perforce arbitrary and misleading. It would still remain helpful and useful, but its help and use would be always limited in scope and temporary in effectivity.
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01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the present nature of man, with its threefold nexus of mind and life and body, that stands there to be fought and conquered. This is the inferior nature, of which the ancients spoke, that holds man down inexorably to a lower dharma, imperfect mode of life the life that is and has been the human order till today. No amount of ceaseless action, however selflessly done, can move this wheel of Nature even by a hair's breadth away from the path that it has carved out from of old. Human nature and human society have been built up and are run by the forces of this inferior nature, and whatever shuffling and reshuffling we may make in its apparent factors and elements, the general scheme and fundamental form of life will never change. To displace earth (and to conquer nature means nothing less than that) and give it another orbit, one must find a fulcrum outside earth.
Sri Aurobindo does not preach flight from life and a retreat into the silent and passive Infinite; the goal of life is not, in his view, the extinction of life. Neither is he satisfied on that account to hold that life is best lived in the ordinary round of its unregenerate dharma. If the first is a blind alley, the second is a vicious circle,both lead nowhere.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A low muttering rose from the subconscient caves,
The stammer of the primal ignorance;
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Only life's lower reaches remained dim.
But there too, in the uncertain shadow of life,
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Power of the Spirit working in the mind and heart and body, the rest is a matter of remaining faithful to It, calling for it always, al lowing it to do its work when it comes and rejecting every other and inferior Force that belongs to the lower consciousness and the lower nature.
Apart from external things there are two possible inner ideals which a man can fol low. The first is the highest ideal of ordinary human life and the other the divine ideal of Yoga.
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Morality is a question of man's mind and vital, it belongs to a lower plane of consciousness. A spiritual life therefore cannot be founded on a moral basis, it must be founded on a spiritual basis. This does not mean that the spiritual man must be immoral - as if there were no other law of conduct than the moral. The law of action of the spiritual consciousness is higher, not lower than the moral - it is founded on union with the Divine and living in the Divine Consciousness and its action is founded on obedience to the Divine Will.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a f low of creative activity (ananda). The dynamism of the vital energy is only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypesswarupa and swabhavain the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man.
This is the truth that is trying to dawn upon the new age. Not matter but that which forms the substance of matter, not intellect but a vaster consciousness that informs the intellect, not man as he is, an aberration in the cosmic order, but as he may and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that orderthis is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of today. Only, the truth is being interpreted, as we have said, in terms of vital life. The intellectual and physical man gave us one aspect of the reality, but neither is the vital and psychical man the complete reality. The one acquisition of this shifting of the viewpoint has been that we are now in touch with the natural and deeper movement of humanity and not as before merely with its artificial scaffolding. The Alexandrine civilisation of humanity, in Nietzsche's phrase, was a sort of divagation from nature, it was fol lowing a loop away from the direct path of natural evolution. And the new Renaissance of today has precisely corrected this aberration of humanity and brought it again in a line with the natural cosmic order.
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.
But should there be an inherent incompatibility between spontaneous creation and self-consciousness? As we have seen, a harmony and fusion can and do happen of the superconscious and the normally conscious in the Yogi. Likewise, an artist also can be wakeful and transparent enough so that he is conscious on both the levels simultaneouslyabove, he is conscious of the source and origin of his inspiration, and on the level plain he is conscious of the working of the instrument, how the vehicle transcribes and embodies what comes from elsewhere. The poet's consciousness becomes then divalent as it werethere is a sense of absolute passivity in respect of the receiving apparatus and coupled and immisced with it there is also the sense of dynamism, of conscious agency as in his secret being he is the master of his apparatus and one with the Inspirerin other words, the poet is both a seer (kavih) and a creator or doer (poits).
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Genius had to be generally more or less unconscious in the past, because the instrument was not ready, was clogged as it were with its own lower grade movements; the higher inspiration had very often to bypass it, or rob it of its serviceable materials without its knowledge, in an almost clandestine way. Wherever it was awake and vigilant, we have seen it causing a diminution in the poetic potential. And yet even so, it was being prepared for a greater role, a higher destiny it is to fulfil in the future. A conscious and full participation of a refined and transparent and enriched instrument in the delivery of superconscious truth and beauty will surely mean not only a new but the very acme of aesthetic creation. We thus foresee the age of spiritual art in which the sense of creative beauty in man will find its culmination. Such an art was only an exception, something secondary or even tertiary, kept in the background, suggested here and there as a novel strain, called "mystic" to express its unfamiliar nature-unless, of course, it was openly and obviously scriptural and religious.
I have spoken of the source of inspiration as essentially and originally being a super-consciousness or over-consciousness. But to be more precise and accurate I should add another source, an inner consciousness. As the super-consciousness is imaged as lying above the normal consciousness, so the inner consciousness may be described as lying behind or within it. The movement of the inner consciousness has found expression more often and more largely than that of over-consciousness in the artistic creation of the past : and that was in keeping with the nature of the old-world inspiration, for the inspiration that comes from the inner consciousness, which can be considered as the lyrical inspiration, tends to be naturally more "spontaneous", less conscious, since it does not at all go by the path of the head, it evades that as much as possible and goes by the path of the heart.
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Ifso long the poet was more or less a passive, a half-conscious or unconscious intermediary between the higher and the lower lights and delights, his role in the future will be better fulfilled when he becomes fully aware of it and consciously moulds and directs his creative energies. The poet is and has to be the harbinger and minstrel of unheard-of melodies: he is the fashioner of the creative word that brings down and embodies the deepest aspirations and experiences of the human consciousness. The poet is a missionary: he is missioned by Divine Beauty to radiate upon earth something of her charm and wizardry. The fullness of his role he can only play up when he is fully conscious for it is under that condition that all obstructing and obscuring elements lying across the path of inspiration can be completely and wholly eradicated: the instrument purified and tempered and transmuted can hold and express golden truths and beauties and puissances that otherwise escape the too human mould.
"The Last Voyage" by Charles Williams-A Little Book of Modern Verse, (Faber and Faber).
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast,
01.05 - The Nietzschean Antichrist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the Nietzsche we all know. But there is another aspect of his which the world has yet been s low to recognise. For, at bottom, Nietzsche is not all storm and fury. If his Superman is a Destroying Angel, he is none the less an angel. If he is endowed with a supreme sense of strength and power, there is also secreted in the core of his heart a sense of the beautiful that illumines his somewhat sombre aspect. For although Nietzsche is by birth a Slavo-Teuton, by culture and education he is pre-eminently Hellenic. His earliest works are on the subject of Greek tragedy and form what he describes as an "Apollonian dream." And to this dream, to this Greek aesthetic sense more than to any thing else he sacrifices justice and pity and charity. To him the weak and the miserable, the sick and the maimed are a sort of blot, a kind of ulcer on the beautiful face of humanity. The herd that wal low in suffering and relish suffering disfigure the aspect of the world and should therefore be relentlessly mowed out of existence. By being pitiful to them we give our tacit assent to their persistence. And it is precisely because of this that Nietzsche has a horror of Christianity. For compassion gives indulgence to all the ugliness of the world and thus renders that ugliness a necessary and indispensable element of existence. To protect the weak, to sympathise with the lowly brings about more of weakness and more of lowliness. Nietzsche has an aristocratic taste par excellencewhat he aims at is health and vigour and beauty. But above all it is an aristocracy of the spirit, an aristocracy endowed with all the richness and beauty of the soul that Nietzsche wants to establish. The beggar of the street is the symbol of ugliness, of the poverty of the spirit. And the so-called aristocrat, die millionaire of today is as poor and ugly as any helpless leper. The soul of either of them is made of the same dirty, sickly stuff. The tattered rags, the crouching heart, the effeminate nerve, the unenlightened soul are the standing ugliness of the world and they have no place in the ideal, the perfect humanity. Humanity, according to Nietzsche, is made in order to be beautiful, to conceive the beautiful, to create the beautiful. Nietzsche's Superman has its perfect image in a Grecian statue of Zeus cut out in white marble-Olympian grandeur shedding in every lineament Apollonian beauty and Dionysian vigour.
The real secret of Nietzsche's philosophy is not an adoration of brute force, of blind irrational joy in fighting and killing. Far from it, Nietzsche has no kinship with Treitschke or Bernhard. What Nietzsche wanted was a world purged of littleness and ugliness, a humanity, not of saints, perhaps, but of heroes, lofty in their ideal, great in their achievement, majestic in their empirea race of titanic gods breathing the glory of heaven itself.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His height repelled the lowness of earth's state:
A wideness discontented with its frame
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, what such an uncompromising individualism fails to recognise is that individuality and ego are not the same thing, that the individual may have his individuality intact and entire and yet sacrifice his ego, that the soul of man is a much greater thing than his vital being. It is simply ignoring the fact and denying the truth to say that man is only a fighting animal and not a loving god, that the self within the individual realises itself only through competition and not co-operation. It is an error to conceive of society as a mere parallelogram of forces, to suppose that it has risen simply out of the struggle of individual interests and continues to remain by that struggle. Struggle is only one aspect of the thing, a particular form at a particular stage, a temporary manifestation due to a particular system and a particular habit and training. It would be nearer the truth to say that society came into being with the demand of the individual soul to unite with the individual soul, with the stress of an Over-soul to express itself in a multitude of forms, diverse yet linked together and organised in perfect harmony. Only, the stress for union manifested itself first on the material plane as struggle: but this is meant to be corrected and transcended and is being continually corrected and transcended by a secret harmony, a real commonality and brotherhood and unity. The individual is not so self-centred as the individualists make him to be, his individuality has a much vaster orbit and fulfils itself only by fulfilling others. The scientists have begun to discover other instincts in man than those of struggle and competition; they now place at the origin of social grouping an instinct which they name the herd-instinct: but this is only a formulation in lower terms, a translation on the vital plane of a higher truth and reality the fundamental oneness and accord of individuals and their spiritual impulsion to unite.
However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely fol low his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit. But that does not necessarily mean that collectivism has no truth in it; collectivism also, as much as individualism, has a lesson for us and we should see whether we can harmonise the two. Collectivism signifies that the individual should not look to himself alone, should not be shut up in his freedom but expand himself and envelop others in a wider freedom, see other creatures in himself and himself in other creatures, as the Gita says. Collectivism demands that the individual need not and should not exhaust himself entirely in securing and enjoying his personal freedom, but that he can and should work for the salvation of others; the truth it upholds is this that the individual is from a certain point of view only a part of the group and by ignoring the latter it ignores itself in the end.
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words, these heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is that that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred chord, "awakening in you someone dead" till thenmrtam kcana bodhayant. More than the matter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who embodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the words and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the soul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any speaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in what he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind and draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men, self-confident and bold and fiery, can carry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a lower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that is touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes straight to the spirit in youit is the call of the deep unto the deep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is asleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are free and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness Sachchidananda that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and invincible and free absolutely. The courage and fearlessness that Vivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the lordship of your spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in man.
Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the Atman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of India. India had a large place in Vivekananda's consciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to India's future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather the spiritual work to do. Here is India's work as Vivekananda conceived it in a nutshell:
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is this persuasion which, has led many spiritual souls, siddhas, to declare that theirs is not the kingdom upon this earth, but that the kingdom of Heaven is within. And it is why great lovers of humanity have sought not to eradicate but only to mitigate, as far as possible, the ills of life. Earth and life, it is said, contain in their last analysis certain ugly and loathsome realities which are an inevitable and inexorable part of their substance and to eliminate one means to annihilate the other. What can be done is to throw a veil over the nether regions in human nature, to put a ban on their urges and velleities and to create opportunities to make social arrangements so that the higher impulses only find free play while the lower impulses, for want of scope and indulgence, may fall down to a harmless level. This is what the Reformists hope and want and no more. Life is based upon animality, the soul is encased in an earth-sheathman needs must procreate, man needs must seek food. But what human effort can achieve is to set up barriers and limitations and form channels and openings, which will restrain these impulses, al low them a necessary modicum of play and which for the greater part will serve to encourage and enhance the nobler urges in man. Of course, there will remain always the possibility of the whole scaffolding coming down with a crash and the aboriginal in man running riot in his nudity. But we have to accept the chance and make the best of what materials we have in hand.
No doubt this is a most dismal kind of pessimism. But it is the logical conclusion of all optimism that bases itself upon a particular view of human nature. If we question that pessimism, we have to question the very grounds of our optimism also. As a matter of fact, all our idealism has been so long infructuous and will be so in the future, if we do not shift our foundation and start from a different IntuitionWeltanschauung.
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This is the meaning of the Reformist's pessimism. So long as we remain within the domain of the triple nexus, we must always take account of an original sin, an aboriginal irredeemability in human nature. And it, is this fact which a too hasty optimistic idealism is apt to ignore. The point, however, is that man need not be necessarily bound to this triple chord of life. He can go beyond, transcend himself and find a reality which is the basis of even this lower poise of the mental and vital and physical. Only in order to get into that higher poise we must really transcend the lower, that is to say, we must not be satisfied with experiencing or envisaging it through the mind and heart but must directly commune with it, be it. There is a higher law that rules there, a power that is the truth-substance of even the vital and hence can remould it with a sovereign inevitability, according to a pattern which may not and is not the pattern of mental and emotional idealism, but the pattern of a supreme spiritual realism.
What then is required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substancenot merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking the divine in the mental being, but left the vital becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint g low which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the real meaning and sense of the moral struggle in man, the continuous endeavour towards a transvaluation of the primary and aboriginal instincts and impulses. Looked at from one end, from be low up the ascending line, man's ethical and spiritual ideals are a dissimulation and sublimation of the animal impulsions. But this is becauseas we see, if we look from the other end, from above down the descending lineman is not all instinct, he is not a mere blind instrument in the hands of Nature forces. He has in him another source, an opposite pole of being from which other impulsions f low and continually modify the structure of the lower levels. If the animal is the foundation of his nature, the divine is its summit. If the bodily demands form his manifest reality, the demands of the spirit enshrine his higher reality. And if as regards the former he is a slave, as regards the latter he is the Master. It is by the interaction of these double forces that his whole nature has been and is being fashioned. Man does not and cannot give carte blanche to his vital, inclinations, since there is a pressure upon them of higher forces coming down from his mental and spiritual levels. It is these latter which have deviated him from the direct line of the pure animal life.
Thus then we may distinguish three types of control on three levels. First, the natural control, secondly the conscious, i.e. to say the mental the ethical and religious control, and thirdly the spiritual or divine control. Now the spirit is the ultimate truth and reality, behind the forces that act in the mind and in the body, so that the natural control and the ethical control are mere attempts to establish and realise the spiritual control. The animal impulses feel the hidden stress of the divine urges that are their real essence and thus there rises first an unconscious conflict in the natural life and then a conscious conflict in the higher ethical life. But when both of these are transcended and the conflict is carried on to a still higher level, then do we find their real significance and arrive at the consummation to which they move. Yoga is the ultimate transvaluation of physical (and of moral) values, it is the trans-substantiation of life-power into its spiritual substance.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to fol low the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As a matter of fact it is not so. The glimpses of a higher form of consciousness we can see even now present in self-consciousness. We have spoken of the different stages of evolution as if they were separate and distinct and incommensurate entities. They may be described as such for the purpose of a logical understanding, but in reality they form a single progressive continuum in which one level gradually fuses into another. And as the higher level takes up the law of the lower and evolves out of it a characteristic function, even so the law of the higher level with its characteristic function is already involved and envisaged in the law of the lower level and its characteristic function. It cannot be asserted positively that because man's special virtue is self-consciousness, animals cannot have that quality on any account. We do see, if we care to observe closely and dispassionately, that animals of the higher order, as they approach the level of humanity, show more and more evident signs of something which is very much akin to, if not identical with the human characteristic of self-consciousness.
So, in man also, especially of that order which forms the crown of humanityin poets and artists and seers and great men of actioncan be observed a certain characteristic form of consciousness, which is something other than, greater than the consciousness of the mere self. It is difficult as yet to characterise definitely what that thing is. It is the awakening of the self to something which is beyond itselfit is the cosmic self, the oversoul, the universal being; it is God, it is Turiya, it is sachchidanandain so many ways the thing has been sought to be envisaged and expressed. The consciousness of that level has also a great variety of names given to it Intuition, Revelation, cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness. It is to be noted here, however, that the thing we are referring to, is not the Absolute, the Infinite, the One without a second. It is not, that is to say, the supreme Reality the Brahmanin its static being, in its undivided and indivisible unity; it is the dynamic Brahman, that status of the supreme Reality where creation, the diversity of Becoming takes rise, it is the Truth-worldRitam the domain of typal realities. The distinction is necessary, as there does seem to be such a level of consciousness intermediary, again, between man and the Absolute, between self-consciousness and the supreme consciousness. The simplest thing would be to give that intermediate level of consciousness a negative namesince being as yet human we cannot foresee exactly its composition and function the super-consciousness.
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Touching the very core of the malady of our age he says that our modern enlightenment seeks to cancel altogether the higher values and install instead the lower alone as true. Thus, for example, Marx and Freud, its twin arch priests, are brothers. Both declare that it is the lower, the under layer alone that matters: to one "the masses", to the other "the instincts". Their wild imperative roars: "Sweep away this pseudo-higher; let the instincts rule, let the pro-letariat dictate!" But more characteristic, Monsieur Thibon has made another discovery which gives the whole value and speciality to his outlook. He says the moderns stress the lower, no doubt; but the old world stressed only the higher and neglected the lower. Therefore the revolt and wrath of the lower, the rage of Revanche in the heart of the dispossessed in the modern world. Enlightenment meant till now the cultivation and embellishment of the Mind, the conscious Mind, the rational and nobler faculties, the height and the depth: and mankind meant the princes and the great ones. In the individual, in the scheme of his culture and education, the senses were neglected, left to go their own way as they pleased; and in the collective field, the toiling masses in the same way lived and moved as best as they could under the economics of laissez-faire. So Monsieur Thibon concludes: "Salvation has never come from be low. To look for it from above only is equally vain. No doubt salvation must come from the higher, but on condition that the higher completely adopts and protects the lower." Here is a vision luminous and revealing, full of great import, if we fol low the right track, prophetic of man's true destiny. It is through this infiltration of the higher into the lower and the integration of the lower into the higher that mankind will reach the goal of its evolution, both individually and collectively.
But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must begin with the individual and within the individual. Man must "turn within, feel alive within himself", re-establish his living contact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself off. Man must learn to subordinate having to being. Each individual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon such individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller collectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses can a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur Thibon insistsand very rightlyupon the variety and diversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and not a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the reviewer of the London Times succinctly puts it: "Let us abolish our insensate worship of number. Let us repeal the law of majorities. Let us work for the unity that draws together instead of idolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. Let us understand that it is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each should be in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an organic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he alone is qualified and able to do."
So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the lowest, the lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.
Viewed in this light, Blake's memorable mantra attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not merely Earth the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted and affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the bowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man's consciousness, the slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities that man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient dungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the solar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of that Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not rejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and transubstantiated into the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must extend and touch the lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and set it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted into an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing carat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the nuptials of which we are speaking.
The Life Divine
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
surmount all the weaknesses and desires of the lower, ignorant
being.
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is to lower the level of one's consciousness.
Mother, do You advise this only for those who are
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It is from within that you must become master of your lower
nature by establishing your consciousness firmly in a domain
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to subdue the lower mind and establish a connection with higher
forces or with deities. These Japas must be given by the Guru,
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This uncertainty and these departures are due to the lower nature, which resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to
s low down the divine action, not out of ill-will but in order to
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of the lower nature.... What is created by spiritual progress is an
inner closeness and intimacy in the inner being, the sense of the
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower ooze, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
The neatness of the commentary cannot be improved upon. Only with regard to the "ironical ring" of which Huxley speaks, it has just to be pointed out, as he himself seems to understand, that the "we" referred to in the phrase does not mean humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower ooze' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life.
There is a quotation from Lao Tzu put under the heading "Grace and Free Will": "It was when the Great Way declined that human kindness and morality arose".
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thus, as sanctioned by God, there is a competition, a wager between man and Satan. The pact between the parties is this that, on the one hand, Satan will serve man here in life upon earth, and on the other hand, in return, man will have to serve Satan there, on the other side of life. That is to say, Satan will give the whole world to man to enjoy, man will have to give Satan only his soul. Man in his ignorance says he does not care for his soul, does not know of a there or elsewhere: he will be satisfied if he gets what he wants upon earth. That, evidently, is the demand of what is familiarly known as life-force (lan vital): the utmost fulfilment of the life-force is what man stands for, although the full significance of the movement may not be clear to him or even to Satan at the moment. For life-force does not necessarily drag man down, as its grand finale as it were, into hellhowever much Satan might wish it to be so. In what way, we shall see presently. Now Satan promises man all that he would desire and even more: he would give him his fill so' that he will ask for no more. Man takes up the challenge and declares that his hunger is insatiable, whatever Satan can bring to it, it will take in and press on: satisfaction and satiety will never come in his way. Satan thinks he knows better, for he is armed with a master weapon to lay man low and make him cry halt!
Love Human and Love Divine
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The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not-evil and evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outf lowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
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01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the earliest and primitive society men lived totally in a mass consciousness. Their life was a blind obedienceobedience to the chief the patriarch or pater familiasobedience to the laws and customs of the collectivity to which one belonged. It was called duty; it was called even dharma, but evidently on a lower level, in an inferior formulation. In reality it was more of the nature of the mechanical functioning of an automaton than the exercise of conscious will and deliberate choice, which is the very soul of the conception of duty.
The conception of Right had to appear in order to bring out the principle of individuality, of personal freedom and fulfilment. For, a true healthy collectivity is the association and organisation of free and self-determinate units. The growth of independent individuality naturally means at first clash and rivalry, and a violently competitive society is the result. It is only at this stage that the conception of duty can fruitfully come in and develop in man and his society the mode of Sattwa, which is that of light and wisdom, of toleration and harmony. Then only a society is sought to be moulded on the principle of co-ordination and co-operation.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine Love is a greater fire than the low smouldering fire that our secular unregenerate life is. One has to choose and declare his adhesion. Indeed, the stage of conversion, the crucial turn from the ordinary life to the spiritual life Eliot has characterised in a very striking manner. We usually say, sometimes in an outburst of grief, sometimes in a spirit of sudden disgust and renunciation that the world is dark and dismal and lonesome, the only thing to do here is to be done with it. The true renunciation, that which is deep and abiding, is not, however, so simple a thing, such a short cut. So our poet says, but the world is not dark enough, it is not lonesome enough: the world lives and moves in a superficial half-light, it is neither real death nor real life, it is death in life. It is this miserable mediocrity, the shal low uncertainty of consciousness that spells danger and ruin for the soul. Hence the poet exclaims:
. . . . Not here
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Descend lower, descend only
Into the world of perpetual solitude,. . . .
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And a lower and more facile inspiration tempts the poet and he often speaks with a raucous voice, even as the Arch-tempter sought to lure the Divine Word made flesh:
... Shrieking voices
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Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not the perfect voice. A Homer, even a Milton possesses a unity of tone and a wholeness of perception which are denied to the modern. To the modern, however, the old masters are not subtle enough, broad enough, psychological enough, let us say the word, spiritual enough. And yet the poetic inspiration, more than the religious urge, needs the injunction not to be busy with too many things, but to be centred upon the one thing needful, viz., to create poetically and not to discourse philosophically or preach prophetically. Not that it is impossible for the poet to swal low the philosopher and the prophet, metabolising them into the substance of his bone and marrow, of "the trilling wire in his blood", as Eliot graphically expresses. That perhaps is the consummation towards which poetry is tending. But at present, in Eliot, at least, the strands remain distinct, each with its own temper and rhythm, not fused and moulded into a single streamlined form of beauty. Our poet flies high, very high indeed at times, often or often he flies low, not disdaining the perilous limit of bathos. Perhaps it is all wilful, it is a mannerism which he cherishes. The mannerism may explain his psychology and enshrine his philosophy. But the poet, the magician is to be looked for elsewhere. In the present collection of poems it is the philosophical, exegetical, discursive Eliot who dominates: although the high lights of the subject-matter may be its justification. Still even if we have here doldrums like
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A Russian artist (Monsieur Benois) has stressed upon the primitivealmost aboriginalelement in Roerich and was not happy over it. Well, as has been pointed out by other prophets and thinkers, man today happens to be so sophisticated, artificial, material, cerebral that a [all-back seems to be necessary for him to take a new leap forward on to a higher ground. The pure aesthete is a closed system, with a consciousness immured in an ivory tower; but man is something more. A curious paradox. Man can reach the highest, realise the integral truth when he takes his leap, not from the relatively higher levels of his consciousness his intellectual and aesthetic and even moral status but when he can do so from his lower levels, when the physico-vital element in him serves as the springing-board. The decent and the beautiful the classic grace and aristocracyform one aspect of man, the aspect of "light"; but the aspect of energy and power lies precisely in him where the aboriginal and the barbarian find also a lodging. Man as a mental being is naturally sattwic, but prone to passivity and weakness; his physico-vital reactions, on the other hand, are obscure and crude, simple and vehement, but they have life and energy and creative power, they are there to be trained and transfigured, made effective instruments of a higher illumination.
All elemental personalities have something of the unconventional and irrational in them. And Roerich is one such in his own way. The truths and realities that he envisages and seeks to realise on earth are elemental and fundamental, although apparently simple and commonplace.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As soon as I meet or see certain people, certain lower
and wrong vibrations arise in me. This is an invariable
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A victory won over the lower nature gives a deeper and more
lasting joy than any external success.
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realization,most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda1 which f lows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divines Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe.
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What I call a descent takes place in the individual consciousness. In the same way, we speak of ascent (there is no ascent really, there is no high or low, no direction: its all a manner of speaking)we speak of ascent when we feel ourselves rising up towards something, and we call it a descent when, after having caught this thing, we bring it down into ourselves.
But when the doors are opened and the flood pours in, it can no longer be called a descent: it is a Force that spreads everywhere. Understood? Ah!
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Now, I recently had a very striking experience: a discrepancy occurred between my physical consciousness and the consciousness of the world. In some instances decisions made in the Light and the Truth produced unexpected results, upheavals in the consciousness of others that were neither foreseen nor desired, and I did not understand. No matter how hard I tried, I could not understand and I emphasize this word understand. At last, I had to leave my highest consciousness and pull myself down into the physical consciousness to find out what was happening. And there, in my head, I saw what appeared to be a little cell bursting, and suddenly I understood: the recording had been defective. The physical consciousness had neglected to register certain of your lower reactions. It could not have been through preference or through personal will (these things were eliminated from my consciousness long, long ago). But I saw that this most material consciousness was already completely permeated with the transforming supramental truth, and it could no longer fol low the rhythm of normal life. It was much more attuned to the true consciousness than to the world! I couldnt possibly blame it for lagging behind; on the contrary, it was in front, too far ahead! There was a discrepancy between the rhythm of the transformation of my being and the worlds own rhythm. The supramental action on the world is s low, it does not act directlyit acts by infiltration, by traversing the successive layers, and the results are s low to come about. So I had to pull myself violently down in order to wait for the others.
One must at times know how not to know.
This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble before the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the ethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter and illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the patience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like a tempest, a hurricaneif I listened to myself, I would tear into the future, and everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any communication with the rest.
One must have the patience to wait.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You see, the human species is a part of Nature, but as Sri Aurobindo has explained, from the moment mind expressed itself in man, it put him into a relationship with Nature very different from the relationship all the lower species have with her. All the lower species right up to man are completely under the rule of Nature; she makes them do whatever she wants, and they can do nothing without her consent. Whereas man begins to act and to live as an equal; not as an equal in terms of power, but from the standpoint of consciousness (he is beginning to do so since he has the capacity to study and to find out Natures secrets). He is not superior to her, far from it, but he is on an equal footing. And so he has acquiredthis is a fac the has acquired a certain power of independence that he immediately used to put himself under the influence of the hostile forces, which are not terrestrial but extra-terrestrial.
I am speaking of terrestrial Nature. Through their mental power, men had the choice and the freedom to make pacts with these extraterrestrial vital forces. There is a whole vital world that has nothing to do with the earth, it is entirely independent or prior to earths existence, it is self-existentwell, they have brought that down here! They have made what we see! And such being the case This is what terrestrial Nature told me: It is beyond my control.
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 be low, 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.
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The quality or the kind of relationship I had with the Supreme at that moment was entirely different from the one we have hereeven the identification had a different quality. One can very well understand that all the lower movements are different but this identification by which the Supreme governs and lives in us was the summit of our experience herewell, the way He governs and lives is different depending on whether we are in this hemisphere here or in the supramental life. And at that moment (the experience of November 13), what made the experience so intense was that I came to perceive vaguely both these states of consciousness at once. It was almost as if the Supreme Himself were different, or our experience of Him. And yet, in both cases, it was a contact with the Supreme. It is probably how we perceive Him or the way in which we translate it that differs, but the fact is that the quality of the experience is different.
In the other hemisphere, there is an intensity and a plenitude which are translated by a power different from the one here. How can I formulate it?I cannot.
0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To begin with, I must tell you a dream that I had here in Rameswaram a few days after my arrival. I was being pursued and I fled like an assassinit is a dream I have had hundreds of times for years, but in this dream, there was a new element: while being pursued, I climbed a kind of stairway to try to escape when suddenly, in a flash, I saw a feminine form hurtling into a void. I saw only the lower half of her body (with a kind of mauve-colored saree), because she was already falling. And I had the horrible sensation of having pushed this woman into the void, and I fled. I climbed, I climbed these stairs with my pursuers close at my heels, and the image of this falling woman gave me a horrible feeling. When I reached the top of the stairs, I tried to close a door behind me to stop my pursuers, but there they were, it was too late and I woke up.
The last time I was in Rameswaram, I had two other very poignant dreams, but I could not make out what they meant. In one dream I was strangling someone with my bare hands; it was an abominable feeling. And in the other, I saw, in a kind of nocturnal setting, a hanged man being taken down, with all kinds of people bustling about the corpse with lamps, and suddenly I knew that this hanged man was me.
0 1960-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It gives me the impression of something like Yes, thats it, like a cavemanOh (Mother speaks mockingly), surely one of the cave artists or poets or writers! The intellectual life of the caves, I mean! But the cave happens to be low and when youre in it, you are like this (Mother stoops over), but the whole time you want to stand up straight. That makes you furious. Thats exactly the feeling it gives menot a cave meant for a man standing on his two feet; its a cave for a lion or for for any four-legged animal.
Its symbolic. Im speaking symbolically.
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No, no thats not what I mean. Im speaking of the relationship I have with you, the true onewhat I was telling you about just a moment ago. Because, you see, Im going to tell you everything! (Mother laughs) I have the impression that it would go much faster if I could pick you up, put you here (Mother touches her heart), carry you here and tell you, Calm yourself, listen! But its not possible (alas). Youre always fast on your feet with your head touching this very low ceiling. Myself, I cant be like that. Im not even sure (laughing) if my feet would get in!
Anyway, my child, its not that Im not trying I am trying. And its not that you cantyou can. Thats the problem You know, its as if you were stubbornly trying to turn the key the wrong way in the lock.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I came out of the concentration at 4:10quite late. For I was VERY busy! I was in some sort of small house similar to my room, but it was at the top of a tower, for you could see the landscape from above. It was similar to my room here, with large windows. And I was much taller than I actually am, for there was a ledge be low each window (there was a cupboard be low each window, as in my room), and this ledge came quite low on me; in my room, it comes up to my chest, whereas it was much lower in my vision. And from there oh, what beautiful landscapes! It was surrounded by such lovely countryside! There was a f lowing river, woods, sunlightoh, it was really lovely! And I was very busy looking up words in the dictionary!
I had taken out a dictionary. There, its this one, I said. Someone was next to me, but this someone is always symbolic: each activity takes on a special form which may resemble someone or other. (The people around me for the work here are like families in those worlds there; they are types, that iseach person represents a typeso then I know that Im in contact with all the people of this same type. If they were conscious, they would know that I was there telling them something in particular. But its not a person, its a type and not a type of character, but a type of activity and relationship with me.)
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Along the way, I once went down into this physical mind for awhile to try to set it right, to organize it a little (it was done rather quickly, I didnt stay there long). So when I went inside X, I saw It was rather curious, for its the opposite of the method we fol low. In his material consciousness (physical and vital), he has trained himself to be impersonal, open, limitless, in communication with all the universal forces. In the physical mind, silence, immobility. But in the speculative mind, the one there at the very top of the head what an organization, phew! All the tradition in its most superb organization, but such a ri-gi-dity! And it had a pretty quality of light, a silver blueVERY pretty. Oh, it was very calm, wonderfully calm and quiet and still. But what a ceiling it had!the outer form resembled rigid cubes. Everything inside was beautiful, but that There was a very large cube right at the top, I recall, bordered by a purple line, which is a line of powerall this was quite luminous. It looked like a pyramid; the smaller cubes formed a kind of base, the lower part of which faded into something cloudy, and then this passed imperceptibly downwards to a more material realm, or in other words, the physical mind. The cube on top was the largest and most luminous, and the least yieldingeven inflexible, you could say. The others were somewhat less defined, and at the bottom it was very blurred. But up at the top!thats where I wanted to go, right to the top.
When I got there, I felt a moment of anguish; my feeling was that nothing could be done. Not for him in particular, but universally, for all those in his categoryit seemed hopeless.6 If that was perfection, then nothing more could be done. This lasted only a second, but it was painful. And then I tried that is, I wanted to bring my consciousness down into the highest cubethis eternal, universal and infinite consciousness which is the first and foremost expression of the manifestation but nothing doing. It was impossible. I tried for several minutes and saw that it was absolutely impossible. So I had to make a curious movement (I couldnt get through it, it was impassable), I had to come back down into the so-called lower consciousness (not lower, actuallyit was vast and impersonal), and from there I came out and regained my equilibrium. This is what gave me that splitting headache I told you about. I came out of there as if I were carrying the weight the weight of an irreducible absoluteit was dreadful. Unfortunately, I was unable to rest afterwards, and as people were waiting to see me, I had to talkwhich is very tiring for me. And this produced a bubbling in my head, like a this dark blue light of power in matter was there, shot through with streaks of white and gold, and all this was flashing back and forth in my head, this way and that way I thought I was going to have a stroke! (Mother laughs)
This lasted a good half hour before I could calm it down, make it quiet, quiet. And I saw that this came from the fact that he wanted to bring the Power down, to transmit the Power into the physical mind! But as soon as Im put in contact with the Power, you understand, it makes everything explode! (Mother laughs) It felt exactly like my head was going to explode!
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 closed, 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!
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sometime later (he doesnt know how long, for until he returned he had no sense of time), he woke up in a rather dark, low-roofed house way out in the country; there were five persons now, not four. They were busy eating, so he was careful not to budge. Mainly they were drinking (they have prohibition there). Four of them were already dead drunk. So he got up to have a look. The fifth one, whom he hadnt seen before (he must have been the chief), was not yet totally drunk; when he saw the boy stirring, he let out a fearful growlso the poor boy threw himself flat in the corner and lay stillhe waited. After awhile, the fifth one (after downing another bottle) was also dead drunk. So now that he saw them all fast asleep, he got up very cautiously and he said he ran for an hour and a half! A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadnt eaten for four days! I think thats a miracle.
After running for an hour and a half, he found himself back at the Poona station, he doesnt know how. He caught a train back to Bombay, scarcely knowing how he managed it.
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The rakshas are demons of the lower vital plane.
The attack of black magic in December 1958.
0 1960-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The problem appeared again to me very intensely when I read Sri Aurobindos The Yoga of Self-Perfection. I was confronted with a whole formidable world to be transformedto transform what is already luminous is quite easy, but to transform that! ughthis stuff of life, so low and so coarse, so ordinary its much more difficult.1
For the last several days, Ive been at grips fighting with it. How can I stop this idiotic, coarse and above all defeatist automatism from constantly manifesting? Its truly an automatism; it doesnt respond to any conscious will, nothing. So what will it take to ? And its QUITE INTIMATELY related to the bodys illnesses (the old habits the body has of coming out of its rhythmic movement, of entering into confusion)the two things are very intimately linked.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I am disrupting their work I know perfectly well that I am disrupting their domination of the world! All these vital beings have taken possession of the whole of Matter (Mother touches her body)life and action and have made it their domain, this is evident. But they are beings of the lower vital, for they seemed artificial they didnt express any higher form, but an entire range of artificial mechanisms, artificial will, artificial organization, all deriving from their own imagination and not at all from a higher inspiration.1 The symbol was very clear.
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!
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, with the same precision, the same calm, the same deliberate, clear and concentrated consciousness (absolutely NOTHING MENTAL), I began to come back down. And as I was descending, I realized that all the difficulty I had been fighting the other day and which had created this illness was absolutely ended, ANNULLEDmastered. Actually, it was not even mastery but the non-existence of anything to be mastered: Simply THE vibration from top to bottom; yet there was neither high nor low nor any direction.
And it went on like that. After this, S lowly, Still WITHOUT MOVING, everything went back into each of the different centers of the being. (Ah, let me say parenthetically that it wasnt AT ALL the ascent of a force like the ascent of the Kundalini! It had absolutely nothing to do with the Kundalini movement and the centers, it wasnt that at all.) But while re-descending, it was as though WITHOUT LEAVING THIS STATE, without leaving this state which remained conscious ALL the time, this supreme Consciousness began to reactivate the different centers: first here (Mother points to the center above the head and then touches the crown of the head, the forehead, throat, chest, etc.) then there, there, there. At each there was a pause while this new realization organized everything. It organized and made the necessary decisions, sometimes down to the most minute details: what had to be done in this case or said in that case; and all of that TOGETHER, at once, not one by one but seen entirely as a whole. It kept on descending I noted many things, it was extremely interestingdown and down, farther and farther, right to the depths. Everything went on at the same time,7 simultaneously, and at the same time this supreme Consciousness was organizing everything separately.8
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The whole disorder evidently originates from the subconscient and inconscient; all the more so as it came with various indications (sent by the hostile forces but this can always be useful, provided you are careful) saying, Yes, everything is going well in your higher centers, but(because the different points of attack have clearly fol lowed the order of the centers). Four or five days ago, or maybe a week, before this latest difficulty occurred, I saw little beings coming out of the subconscient and saying, Ah! Your legs havent had any trouble for a long time! Its the turn of the lower centers! I swept it all away, of course, but.
Taken this way, it could be an indication that all this needs a somewhat brutal preparation in order to be put in the necessary condition.
0 1961-02-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo wants to make the distinction between the progressive soul (the soul which has experiences and progresses from life to life), what can be called the lower soul, and the higher soul, that is, the eternal, immutable and divine soulessentially divine. He wrote this when he was in contact with certain Theosophical writings, before I introduced Theons vocabulary to him. For Theon, there is the divine center which is the eternal soul, and the psychic being; similarly, to avoid using the same word in both cases, Sri Aurobindo speaks in later writings of the psychic being and of the divine center or central being the essential soul.
What if we translate it la partie suprieure de lme, [the higher part of the soul], rather than me suprieure?
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, in that, too, there are a lot of. I myself wasnt present, so I dont know what Sri Aurobindo said, but I have a kind of feeling. Just recently they wanted to publish something similar in Mother India6Conversations with me noted by A. Luckily it was sent to me first: I Cut EVERYTHING! Such platitudes, my child! Oh, it was disgusting. I said, This is impossible. I have NEVER spoken like that, never! It was flat, flat, flat, with a superficial, word-for-word understanding! Oh, horrible, horrible. Whatever passes through people is terribly, terribly loweredpopularized, made commonplace.
Anyhow. Only Sri Aurobindo can speak of Sri Aurobindo. And as for their notes, its still Sri Aurobindo A la Z, or Sri Aurobindo A la A, and all the more so since Sri Aurobindo wrote in very different ways depending upon the person he was writing to (gesture indicating different levels).
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The second sign is a sense of ABSOLUTENESS in knowledge. As I have already told you, I had this with my experience of January 24. This state CANNOT be obtained through any region of the mind, even the most illumined and exalted. Its not a certainty, its (Mother lowers both hands like an irresistible block descending), a kind of absoluteness, without even any possibility of hesitation (theres no question of doubt), or anything like that. Without (how to say it ?). All mental knowledge, even the highest, is a conclusive knowledge, as it were: it comes as a conclusion of something elsean intuition, for instance (an intuition gives you a particular knowledge, and this knowledge is like the conclusion of the intuition). Even revelations are conclusions. Theyre all conclusions the word conclusion comes to me, but I dont know how to express it. This isnt the case, however, with the supramental experiencea kind of absolute. The feeling it gives is altogether uniquefar beyond certainty, it is (Mother again makes the same irresistible gesture) it is a FACT, things are FACTS. It is very, very difficult to explain. But with that one naturally has a complete power the two things always go together. (In my reply to this man I didnt speak of power because the power is almost a consequence and I didnt want to speak of consequences.) But the fact remains: a kind of absoluteness in knowledge springing from identityone is the thing one knows and experiences: one is it. One knows it because one is it.
When these two signs are present (both are necessary, one is incomplete without the other), when a person possesses both, then you can be sure he has been in contact with the Supermind. So people who speak about receiving the Light well, (laughing) its a lot of hot air! But when both signs are present, you can be sure of your perception.12
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
58The animal, before he is corrupted, has not yet eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the god has abandoned it for the tree of eternal life; man stands between the upper heaven and the lower nature.
Do you have a question?
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A similar memory has recurred several times under different circumstancesnot exactly the same scene and the same images, because it wasnt something I was seeing but A LIFE I was living. During a certain period, at any time, night or day, I would experience a particular state of trance in which I was rediscovering a life I had lived. I was fully conscious that this life had to do with the first f lowering of the human form upon earth, the first human forms able to incarnate the divine being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form (not a general life but an individual form); that is, for the first time, through the mentalization of this material substance, the junction between the higher Being and the lower being was made. I have lived that several times, and always in a similar setting and with quite a similar feeling of such joyous simplicity, without complexity, without problems, without all these questions. It was the blossoming of a joy of lifenothing but that; love and harmony prevailed: f lowers, minerals, animals all got along together perfectly.
Things began to go wrong only a LONG time afterwards, long after (but this is a personal impression), probably because certain mental crystallizations were necessary, inevitable, for the general evolution, so that the mind might prepare itself to move on to something else. That was when oh, it seems like a fall into a pitinto ugliness, darkness! Everything became so dark, so ugly, so difficult, so painful. Really really the sense of a fall.
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In my view, all these old Scriptures and ancient traditions have a graduated content (gesture showing different levels of understanding), and according to the needs of the epoch and the people, one symbol or another was drawn upon. But a time comes when one goes beyond these things and sees them from what Sri Aurobindo calls the other hemisphere, where one realizes that they are only modes of expression to put one in contacta kind of bridge or link between the lower way of seeing and the higher way of knowing.
A time comes when all these disputesAh, no, this is like this, that is like thatseem so silly, so silly! And there is nothing more comical than this spontaneous reply so many people give: Oh, thats impossible! Because with even the most rudimentary intellectual development, you would know you couldnt even think of something if it werent possible!
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We tend to apply the word natural to all spontaneous manifestation not resulting from a choice or a preconceived decision that is, with no intrusion of mental activity. Thats why a man with an only slightly mentalized vital spontaneity seems more natural to us in his simplicity. But this naturalness bears a close resemblance to the animals and is quite low on the human evolutionary scale. Man will not recapture this spontaneity free of mental intrusion until he attains the supramental level, until he goes beyond the mind and emerges into the higher Truth.
Up to that point, all his modes of being are naturally natural! But with the minds intrusion, evolution was, if not falsified, then deformed, because by its very nature the mind was open to perversion and it became perverted almost from the start (or to be more exact, it was perverted by the asuric forces). And what appears unnatural to us now is this state of perversion. At any rate, its a deformation.
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Its a terrible slavery to the lower mind, and so widespread! Oh, all these goings-on at the School, my child, all the teaching, all the teachers.2 Terrible, terrible, terrible! I was trying to turn on the switches to give some light and not one of them worked!
Of course, these scenes are slightly exaggerated because they are seen in isolation from the rest; within the whole many things crisscross and complete each other, diminishing each others importance. But in an experience like last nights, things are taken singly and shown in isolation, as through a magnifying glass. And after all its a good lesson.
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 f lowers: one very large Endurance in the Most Material Vital [zinnia] and another f lower 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 f lowers there (at the levels of the abdomen and chest), one more active, a very large, dark purple Endurance f lower, 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 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know he said someone has been doing black magic against me; but I have never felt anything of the sort in the room where we meditate, because I make a point of coming half an hour early and this of course clears the atmosphere: everything is always ready when he arrives, in silence, in perfect peace. Hasnt he always told you that when he comes into that room he enters another world, like Kailas?1 And thats the way it has always been. If there has been a change, its that now its even more like thatbecause (how to put it?) its more stable. Before, it fluctuated a bit: it came, went, came. But now its like a tranquil mass (Mother lowers her arms) that doesnt stir. Yesterday in particular, this was the experience: I felt him coming (when he is about to come in, I always sense something drawing me outward a little so that I wont be completely in trance and can stand up), and this prayer came so spontaneously, oh! And then (laughing) in the afternoon N. tells me, Oh, X said he had some difficulty at the start of todays meditationa hostile force was present and it took him five minutes to clarify the atmosphere!
It gave me the impression you get in outer life: all the pieces more or less dovetail but with no inner unitytheres not ONE thing, not one, that is true, essentially and always true. We know it is like that outwardly, of course; but I have always felt that with people who have an inner life, one could attain a kind of identity of vibration and knowledge but no!
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel that Ive never been as low as I am now.
low? No, you arent low I see you too, among the things I am looking at, and it isnt true. No, you are much better than you were! (Mother laughs)
(silence)
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like the word purityone could lecture endlessly on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. Divine purity (at the lowest level) is to admit but one influence the divine Influence (but this is at the lowest level, and already terribly distorted). Divine purity means that only the Divine existsnothing else. It is perfectly pureonly the Divine exists, nothing other than He.
And so on.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Sri Aurobindo's terminology, the 'Overmind' represents the highest level of the mind, the world of the gods and origin of all the revelations and highest artistic creations the world that has ruled mental man till now. in his gradations of the worlds, Sri Aurobindo speaks of two hemispheres, the upper hemisphere and the lower. The Overmind is the line between these two hemispheres, 'This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, but in receiving it divides, distributes, breaks up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds.' In the words of the Upanishad, 'The face of the Truth is covered by a golden lid.'
Mother is referring to the book Satprem will write on Sri Aurobindo, which prompted the questions posed in this conversation.
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh no, nothing doing! Whats marvelous is that I havent a single idea in my headnothing. Not idea; I never have many of them! (laughing) No words, mon petit, nothing. I have two of T.s notebooks here I read them, said Ah!, and put them away. Theyve already stayed there for two weeks or I dont know how long. NOTHING, completely blank. But on the lowest plane, some interesting things: suddenly (not from time to time, but all the time, or almost all the time), all the bodys cells suddenly seem to participate in a movement of force, a sort of circular movement containing all the vibrationsphysical vibrationsright from the most material sensation (Mother touches the skin of her hands) to all the feelings of strength, power and comprehension (especially from an active standpoint, the standpoint of actions, movements, influences). Its not at all limited to the body; its like that, like that, like that (Mother makes a gesture stretching to infinity). It has neither beginning nor end. The body itself is starting to feel how Energy behaves.
Its very interesting.
0 1961-09-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The night before last, around 3 in the morning, I was in a place where there were a lot of people from here (you were there), and I was trying to play some music, precisely in order to SAY something. There were three pianos there, which seemed to be interlocked into each other, so I leaned over sideways to get at one of the three and began playing on it. It was in a large hall with people seated at a distance, but you were just at my left alongside a young lady who was a symbol figure (that is, the vibration or impression I received from her and the relationship I had with her could be applied as well to four or five persons here: it was like relating to an amalgam something that is very interesting and often happens to me). Anyway, I was leaning over one of the keyboards and trying trying to work something out, to illustrate how this would translate into that. Finally I realized that playing half-standing, half-leaning was unnecessary acrobatics, because a grand piano was right there in front, so I sat down before it. Well, the most amusing part of it was that the keys (there were two keyboards) were all bluelike the marbled paper we are making now, all blue, and with every possible marbled effect. Black keys, white keys, high keys, low keys (all of them were the same width, quite wide, like this), all seemed to be coated but it wasnt paperwith this blue. Facing the piano I said to myself, Well now, this cant be played with physical eyesit has to be played FROM ABOVE.
While I was playing, I kept telling myself, But this is what Ive tried to do with music all my lifeplay on the blue keyboard!
0 1961-10-30, #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 be low 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 be low, 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 b low 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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The voyage draws to its close. Agni has recovered its solar totality, its two concealed extremities. The inviolable work is fulfilled. For Agni is the place where high meets lowand in truth, there is no longer high nor low, but a single Sun everywhere: O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide be low (III.22.3). O Fire O universal Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar (I.59.1). O Flame, thou foundest the mortal in a supreme immortality thou createst divine bliss and human joy (I.31.7). For the worlds heart is Joy, Joy dwells in the depths of all things, the well of honey covered by the rock (II.24.4).
The day before, Mother had listened to the passage of the manuscript concerning 'The Secret of the Veda.' Several extracts from it are included in the Addendum to this conversation.
0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one is in that state, there is neither high nor low.
But GENERALLY it is by REDESCENDING through the levels of the being with a supramentalized consciousness that one can accomplish the permanent transformation of physical nature.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I learned to do the same thing, and with great dexterity; I could halt on any plane, do what I had to do there, move around freely, see, observe, and then speak about what I had seen. And my last stage, which Theon called pathtisme,2 a very barbaric but very expressive word, bordered on the Formlesshe sometimes used the Jewish terminology, calling the Supreme The Formless. (From this last stage one passed to the Formless there was no further body to leave behind, one was beyond all possible forms, even all thoughtforms.) In this domain [the last stage before the Formless] one experienced total unityunity in something that was the essence of Love; Love was a manifestation more dense, he would always say (there were all sorts of different densities); and Love was a denser expression of That, the sense of perfect Unityperfect unity, identitywith no longer any forms corresponding to those of the lower worlds. It was a Light! An almost immaculate white light, yet with something of a golden-rose in it (words are crude). This Light and this Experience were truly wonderful, inexpressible in words.
Well, one time I was there (Theon used to warn against going beyond this domain, because he said you wouldnt come back), but there I was, wanting to pass over to the other side, whenin a quite unexpected and astounding way I found myself in the presence of the principle, a principle of the human form. It didnt resemble man as we are used to seeing him, but it was an upright form, standing just on the border between the world of forms and the Formless, like a kind of standard.3 At that time nobody had ever spoken to me about it and Madame Theon had never seen itno one had ever seen or said anything. But I felt I was on the verge of discovering a secret.
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One thing is certainas soon as one goes beyond the terrestrial atmosphere, beyond the higher minds highest region, the sensation of high and low totally vanishes. There are no longer movements of ascent and descent, but (Mother turns her hand over) something like inner reversals.
I think the problem arises only when you try to see and understand with the mental consciousness, even with the higher mind.
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It is by rising to the summit of consciousness through a progressive ascent (thats what I meant just now by leaving the body, but without going into details), that one unites with the Supermind. But as soon as the union is achieved, one knows and one sees that the Supermind exists in the heart of the Inconscient as well. When one is in that state, there is neither high nor low. But GENERALLY, (I emphasized this to make it clear that I am not making an absolute assertion) it is by REDESCENDING through the levels of the being with a supramentalized consciousness that one can accomplish the permanent transformation of physical nature. (This can be experienced in all sorts of ways, but what WE want and what Sri Aurobindo spoke of is a change that will never be revoked, that will persist, that will be as durable as the present terrestrial conditions. That is why I put permanent.) There is no proof that the Rishis used another method, although, to effect this transformation (if they ever did) they must necessarily have fought their way through the powers of inconscience and obscurity.
Yes, the Rishis give an absolutely living description of what you experience and experience continuallyas soon as you descend into the Subconscient: all these battles with the beings who conceal the Light and so on. I experienced these things continually at Tlemcen and again with Sri Aurobindo when we were doing the Workits raging quite merrily even now!
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(In a low voice) Yes.
Ah, lets seewell play preferences! Which do you prefer? Frankly, quite frankly.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your practice of psycho-analysis was a mistake. It has, for the time at least, made the work of purification more complicated, not easier. The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mindto take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow termsruns riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners,is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as be low them to lower subconscient ranges. If one wishes to purify and transform the nature, it is the power of these higher ranges to which one must open and raise to them and change by them both the subliminal and the surface being. Even this should be done with care, not prematurely or rashly, fol lowing a higher guidance, keeping always the right attitude; for otherwise the force that is drawn down may be too strong for an obscure and weak frame of nature. But to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of ones way to invite trouble. First, one should make the higher mind and vital strong and firm and full of light and peace from above; afterwards one can open up or even dive into the subconscious with more safety and some chance of a rapid and successful change.
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has sometimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though sometimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or something like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
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I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not be low, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was written in English and I am the one who translated it into Frenchinto horrible French, perfectly ghastly, because I put in all the new words Theon had dreamed up. He had made a detailed description of all the faculties latent in man, and it was remarkable but with such barbarous words! You can make up new words in English and get away with it, but in French its utterly ridiculous. And there I was, very conscientiously putting them all in! Yet in terms of experience, it was splendid. It really was an experienceit came from Madame Theons experiences in exteriorization. She had learned what Theon also taught me, to speak while youre in the seventh heaven (the body goes on speaking, rather s lowly, in a rather low voice, but it works quite well). She would speak and a friend of hers, another English woman who was their secretary, would note it all down as she went along (I think she knew shorthand). And afterwards it was made into stories, told as stories. It was all shown to Sri Aurobindo and it greatly interested him. He even adopted some of the words into his own terminology.
The divisions and subdivisions of the being were described down to the slightest detail and with perfect precision. I went through the experience again on my own, without any preconceived ideas, just like that: leaving one body after the other, one body after the other, and so on twelve times. And my experienceapart from certain quite negligible differences, doubtless due to differences in the receiving brainwas exactly the same.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the lower mind there was a whole world of difficulties I was unaware of. In the vital I knew, because Id had to do battle therewhich was fine with me! Just imagine, this time I have been given a warrior as my vital being. A magnificent warrior, neither male nor female, and as tall as this room1he is splendid. I was so happy when I first saw him. Well, I thought, thats worth my while!
Yes, there are battles galore there!
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At my fullest and most intense momentsmoments when truly what exists is the universe (by universe I mean the Becoming of the Supreme) with the utmost active awareness of the Supremeat such moments I am suddenly caught by that [the static, nirvanic aspect]. Its not a matter of choosing between the two, but rather a question of priorities from the standpoint of action on the lowest level. Instinctively (the instinct of this body, this material base), the choice is aspiration, because this being was built for action; but this cannot be taken as an absolute rule, its almost like a casual preference.
One feels that life Is this aspiration, this anguish, while bliss leads most naturally to the nirvanic side I dont know.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You can achieve excellent control of the heart. But I never practiced it violently, never strained myself. I think holding for 16 is too long. I used to do it simply like this: brea the in very s lowly to the count of 4, then hold for 4 like this (I still have the knack of it!), lifting the diaphragm and lowering the head8 (Mother bends her neck), closing everything and exerting pressure (this is an almost instantaneous cure for hiccupsits handy!). Then while I held the air, I would make it circulate with the force (because it contained force, you see) and with the peace as well; and I would concentrate it wherever there was a physical disorder (a pain or something wrong somewhere). Its very effective. The way I did it was: inhale, hold, exhale and emptyyou are completely empty. Its very useful; very handy for underwater swimmers, for instance!
I had trouble breathing in s lowly enough thats a bit hard. I began with 4 and eventually managed to do 12. I did 12-12-12-12. It took me months to reach that, it cant be done quickly. To brea the in very s lowly and hold all that air isnt easy.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This type of thing has happened to me very, very oftenfour times with snakes. There was one incident here near the fishing village of Ariankuppam, a place where a river empties into the sea. Night had fallen swiftly, it was pitch dark, and I was walking along a road when right in the middle of a step (I had already lifted my foot and was about to lower it), I distinctly heard a voice in my ear: Watch out! Yet no one had spoken. So I looked, and just as my foot was about to touch the ground, I saw an enormous black cobra right where I was casually going to put my foot. Those fel lows dont like that sort of thing! It slithered away and swam across the waterwhat a beauty, mon petit! Hood wide open, head held high, he swam across like a king. I would certainly have been punished for my impertinence!
I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences like thatinformed just at the last moment (not one second too soon)and in very different circumstances. Once in Paris I was crossing the Boulevard Saint Michel (I had resolved to attain union with the psychic presence, the inner Divine, within a certain number of months, and these were the last weeks I was thinking of nothing but that, engrossed in that alone). I lived near the Luxembourg Gardens and was going there for a stroll, to sit in the gardens that eveningstill indrawn. I came to a kind of intersectionnot a very sensible place to cross when youre interiorized! So, in that state, I started to cross when all of a sudden I had a shock, as if something had hit me, and I instinctively jumped back. As I jumped back a streetcar rushed by. I had felt the streetcar at a little more than arms length. It had touched my aura, the protective aura (that aura was very strong at the time I was deep into occultism and knew how to maintain it). My protective aura was touched, and it literally threw me backwards, just like a physical shock. Accompanied by the drivers insults!
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Really, it was. There was neither high nor low nor within nor withoutnone of those existed any more. There was only THAT.
It was something expressing itself, manifesting itself through these gusts. Something that was EVERYTHING. There was nothing else, there was really nothing but THAT. So to speak of high, low, descent wont do at all.
If you like, we could put the process of return.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is very interesting, mon petit. As you were telling me about it, I automatically went into that state. And there was a kind ofhow shall I put it? I dont know what to call it. It is a movement akin to will, but it has nothing to do with thought, its a feeling: I wanted to take you into the experience. And it was shown to meliterally shown that your whole relationship with the inner and outer worlds is situated here (gesture above the head); thats why it is so well expressed through intellectual activity. But here (gesture to the solar plexus) theres not much. And I was seeing this, you know, I was touching it. It only comes indirectly, as a consequence. And then down here (gesture lower down): NOTHING. It remains just the way it was formed when you came down to earth!
And here (umbilical region) I was shown that a sort of widening of the being is needed, a widening of the vibrationsa peace, a calm within the immensity. HEREthe prana, that isis where there should be a widening into peace, peace, peace and calm. But within the immensity.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all that belongs to a lower stage.
What you need is.
A lower stage?
When the contact is through images, concrete and palpable, its in a consciousness thats I dont say lower in a pejorative sense, but I mean in a more material consciousness. Its in the vital. In the vital. Ramakrishnas experiences were in the vital.
But at least it gives a meaning to life; life becomes full!
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
I know very well that Bengal is not really ready. The spiritual flood which has come is for the most part a new form of the old. It is not the real transformation. However this too was needed. Bengal has been awakening in itself the old yogas and exhausting their samskaras [old habitual tendencies], extracting their essence and with it fertilizing the soil. At first it was the time of VedantaAdwaita, Sannyasa, Shankaras Maya and the rest. It is now the turn of Vaishnava DharmaLila, love, the intoxication of emotional experience. All this is very old, unfitted for the new age and will not endure for such excitement has no capacity to last. But the merit of the Vaishnava Bhava [emotional enthusiasm] is that it keeps a connexion between God and the world and gives a meaning to life; but since it is a partial bhava the whole connexion, the full meaning is not there. The tendency to create sects which you have noticed was inevitable. The nature of the mind is to take a part and call it the whole and exclude all other parts. The Siddha [illuminated being] who brings the bhava, although he leans on its partial aspect, yet keeps some knowledge of the integral whole, even though he may not be able to give it form. But his disciples do not get that knowledge precisely because it is not in a form. They are tying up their little bundles, let them. The bundles will open of themselves when God manifests himself fully. These things are the signs of incompleteness and immaturity. I am not disturbed by them. Let the force of spirituality play in the country in whatever way and in as many sects as may be. Afterwards we shall see. This is the infancy or the embryonic condition of the new age. It is a first hint, not even the beginning.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some receive it from above; for others, it rises from be low (gesture to the base of the spine). As I once told you, the old system always proceeds from be low upwards, while Sri Aurobindo pulls from above downwards. This becomes very clear in meditation (well, in yoga, in yogic experience): for those who fol low the old system, its invariably the kundalini at the base [of the spine] rising from center to center, center to center, until the lotus (in an ironic tone) bursts open here gesture at the crown of the head). With Sri Aurobindo, it comes like this (gesture of descending Force) and then settles here (above the head); it enters, and from there it comes down, down, down, everywhere, to the very bottom, and even be low the feet the subconscientand lower still, the inconscient.
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from be low (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and s lowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
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Thought, by comparison (thought as we now know it), is much more material. Thoughtformulation in wordsis much lower down on the scale.
Some thoughts. Are they thoughts? Its something much higher than thought, much higher than ideas. It is the VISION OF KNOWLEDGE in an extremely luminous region where vibrations are very precise and very strong; and this is obviously what, as it descends, translates into sounds and words (but this is much lower down). In the form closest to the Origin, they are luminous vibrations.
But the human mind latches on to everything and copies it!
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Of course! We can dip into it with our head or with the tips of our toes, but everything bathes in this same river of Force (except what's shut up within the walls of our minds). At certain moments, or in certain places, we are less hardened and it naturally "enters" there. And so we call it the Shakti "From above" or the Shakti "from be low" or "from within." But when the walls tumble down, there is neither high nor lowwe are drenched in it.
Mother is referring to a letter of Sri Aurobindo's which Satprem had quoted in his manuscript: "... in the calm mind, it is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. Even if a thousand images or the most violent events pass across it, the calm stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind were a substance of eternal and indestructible peace. A mind that has achieved this calmness can begin to act, even intensely and powerfully, but it will keep its fundamental stillnessoriginating nothing from itself but receiving from Above and giving it a mental form without adding anything of its own, calmly, dispassionately, though with the joy of the Truth and the happy power and light of its passage."
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Uninterrupted, with one link the link of supreme Eternity. But the sense of consequences is false, it already implies a lowering of consciousness. So for meeven physically, in the midst of this whole hodgepodge of confusion, ignorance and stupidityit all translates into: I do things, and the results are none of my business. Thats how its expressed here in the body.
Its a kind of liberation I dont mean from worry or preoccupation, theres no question of that but from the very IDEA of a consequence: its this way because thats the way it is; it has to be this way, so it is. Thats all. And at each second its this way because it has to be, and so it is. And That repeats itself eternally, and it is this eternal Pulsation which is expressed in time by those gusts I feel this very strongly, very strongly. Its a constant, spontaneous and very natural experience for me. The idea of something behind or ahead in time and so on is a Truth changing from immutable Eternity into Eternity of manifestation. And it changes like this (Mother makes a pulsating gesture), exactly like gustspuff, puff, puff.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember that one of the first things I asked Sri Aurobindo when I came here, after innumerable experiences and innumerable realizations, was, Why am I so mediocre? Everything I do is mediocre, all my realizations are mediocre, theres never anything remarkable or exceptionalits just average. It isnt low, but its not high eithereverything is average. And thats really how I felt. I painted: it wasnt bad painting, but many others could do as well. I played music: it wasnt bad music, but you couldnt say, Oh, what a musical genius! I wrote: it was perfectly ordinary. My thoughts slightly excelled those of my friends, but nothing exceptional; I had no special gift for philosophy or whatever. Everything I did was like that: my body had its skills, but nothing fantastic; I wasnt ugly, I wasnt beautiful you see, everything was mediocre, mediocre, mediocre, mediocre. Then he told me, It was indispensable.
All right, so I kept quietand very quickly, within a few weeks, I understood.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have often told me that each time he comes it stirs up lower things.
Yes.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We always express things in terms of high and low. As Ive often said, other words are needed, another way of formulating things.
You say I didnt understand your question, but I understood it perfectly, I knew perfectly well what you wanted. But what can be said about That! It simply cannot be spoken of, and heres the proof: if we could talk about it, it would be here. And even then we probably wouldnt talk about it.
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know it very well, I have been there frequently. Its at the very summit of human consciousness, on the borderline between what Sri Aurobindo calls the lower and the higher hemispheres. It is very high, very high.
I have studied this realm extensively.
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 closer and closer, stronger and stronger, more and more conscious, luminous, and at the same time this (gesture be low).
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 1962-12-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Evolution does not move higher and higher, into an ever more heavenly heaven, but deeper and deeper; and each cycle or evolutionary round comes to completion a little further down, a little nearer the Center where the Supreme High and low, heaven and earth, will finally join. Thus for the two poles to actually meet, the pioneer must cleanse the mental, vital, and material middle ground. When the junction is made, not merely mentally and vitally but materially, Spirit will emerge in Matter, in a total supramental being and supramental body, and
All earth shall be the Spirits manifest home.1
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The question we could ask is: Will the human species be like those species that met with extinction? Some species became extinct (though not species that lasted as long as the human species, as far as I know (?), and also not those which had in them the seed of progress, a possibility of progress). The impression is rather that evolution will fol low a curve drawing nearer and nearer to a higher species, and maybe all that is still too close to the lower species will fall away, just as those species fell away in the past.
We always forget that not only is everything possibleeverything, even the most contradictory things but every possibility is given at least one moment of existence.
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This is the best possible use of the need for miracles. The need for miracles is a gesture of ignorance: Oh, I wish it were that way! Its a gesture of ignorance and impotence. On the other hand, those who tell you, You live in a world of miracles, know only the lower end of things (and quite imperfectly at that), and they are impervious to anything else.
We should turn this need for miracles into a conscious aspiration to something something that already is, that exists, and that will be manifested WITH THE HELP of all those aspirations: all those aspirations are necessary, or rather, looking at it in a truer way, they are an accompanimenta pleasant accompanimentto the eternal unfolding.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw, in my case, that my mantra has the power of immortality; whatever happens, if it is uttered, its the Supreme that has the upper hand, its no longer the lower law. And the words are irrelevant, they may not have any meaningto someone else, my mantra is meaningless, but to me its full, packed with meaning. And effective, because its my cry, the intense aspiration of my whole being.
A mantra given by a guru is only the power to realize the experience of the discoverer of the mantra. The power is automatically there, because the sound contains the experience. I saw that once in Paris, at a time when I knew nothing of India, absolutely nothing, only the usual nonsense. I didnt even know what a mantra was. I had gone to a lecture given by some fel low who was supposed to have practiced yoga for a year in the Himalayas and recounted his experience (none too interesting, either). All at once, in the course of his lecture, he uttered the sound OM. And I saw the entire room suddenly fill with light, a golden, vibrating light. I was probably the only one to notice it. I said to myself, Well! Then I didnt give it any more thought, I forgot about the story. But as it happened, the experience recurred in two or three different countries, with different people, and every time there was the sound OM, I would suddenly see the place fill with that same light. So I understood. That sound contains the vibration of thousands and thousands of years of spiritual aspiration there is in it the entire aspiration of men towards the Supreme. And the power is automatically there, because the experience is there.
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother seems to have forgotten the red of the vital, which comes between material Nature's violet and the Mind's blue. Thus we have twelve worlds: violet, red, blue (the Mind's three blues), yel low, then the Overmind's prismatic colors, which makes five lower worlds, then finally the three golds of the Supermind and the four whites of the supreme creative Joy or Ananda.
Mother means that there is no proof that the order was restored because of the Lord's intervention rather than by some other, "natural" mechanism.
0 1963-06-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because its very material the brain is material! Its just a little less mechanical than the cellular mind. But it Is material; it isnt the higher mind, certainly: its a mind confined to the body (same gesture to the temples). But the mind I was speaking of, the body-mind, is EVERYWHERE, in every cell: every cell has it within it; whereas that power is specifically situated at the brain level. Its a very cerebral action, enveloping the forehead and the lower part of the face, not even down to the throat.
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0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the remarkable thing is that it had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with all the intellectual activity, high or lownothing. Nothing. Nothing to do with knowledge, or observation, discernment, intellectual perception, understanding, judgment and whatever. Nothing, nothing, nothing to do with all that. It was a Force in motion.
Force means nothing! Force is something very small. Its the impression of something stupendous!
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must be (on a much lower level) at such moments that you fall ill; when people fall ill, it must be (on their scale, of course, probably a very, very small scale), it must be due to that (gesture of precarious balance): they must be going from one moment to another, from one balance to another, and if they are not careful, they topple over. Then its IN the illness that they find a new harmony(laughing) either here or in another world!
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0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I can still see Sri Aurobindo, a little taller than me, and myself bent forward and smiling, pointing to the left, and he said, Yes. And I could see I saw lots of people. Because its a strange thing, the eyesight is absolutely different (its in the subtle physical), the sight is absolutely different from physical sight: you see thousands of miles away and very near at the same time, and distance is implied only by a given place in the atmosphere (I dont know how to explain this), but whats far away is as near from the standpoint of action as whats very close by. You see, the action is just as concrete and close, but it is as though differently placed (Mother shows different levels in the atmosphere). I never gave it a thought, but probably in that activity of the subtle physical we are physically much taller, I think; yet the proportions remain the same; but things are smaller [than Mother or Sri Aurobindo]. Its the same for going up or down, it doesnt have the meaning it has here. And that country I was pointing to was to the left, a little not backward, a little forward and lower down, like this (gesture).
Sri Aurobindo was very tall there. But I, too, was tall.
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For some time (I mean a year or maybe a year and a half), I have quite often been seeing some very ugly faces pass before me, and also all kinds of queer objectsthings I didnt use to see formerly. I had seen ugly beings only once, when I was with Sri Aurobindo: during the day I caught a sort of influenza (it was more vital than physical), because I had attended and, so to say, presided over the festival of arms2 of the workers here. And they threw all their woes on me, asking to be protected, relieved and so onthere is a sort of spontaneous sincerity in those people, and I answered straightforwardly, without protecting myself. I didnt even think for a minute of protecting myself: I answered all of them (inwardly, of course). I came back inside. In the night, I had a frightful fever. But in the midst of that fever I was entirely conscious; I had the fever people call delirium, and I saw what delirium is: there were hordes of beings from the most material vital rushing at me with such violence! It was a real battle against an army of beings from the lowest, most material and also most violent vitalthey came in waves and I kept throwing them back (which probably people are unable to do): one wave and I threw them back, another wave and I threw them back, and so on the whole night long. I had a fantastic fever. Sri Aurobindo was there, sitting beside my bed, and I told him, Well, thats what gives what people call delirium. It attacks the cerebral region, its really a frightful battle. The next morning, I had an influenza that looked like typhoid fever I knew where it was coming from, I had seen it, I saw the whole thing, you understand.
It happened once and then it was over: quite naturally the atmosphere gave protection. This time it had the same character, in the sense that twisted faces, very base instincts, very ugly things come and ENTER, which means there must be some work going on on that level, and for it to be done some contact is necessary (naturally when I have my white atmosphere around me, try as they may, they cannot touch it), but this time they entered. Well, I peered at the thing (laughing), not without some curiosity. (The first times, I was surprised, I thought, Why am I starting to see such ugly things! But then I soon understood it was because a work had to be done.) I peer at the thing with some curiosity, and I see I just have to do this (gesture like the flick of a feather duster), simply a little effortless movement and prrt! off it runs with fantastic speed.
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Well, I have lived many years, and we know those things to exist, but I didnt attach any importance to them because to me they seemed powerless. Indeed, they have never affected me (a few Tantrics did do some magic and succeeded in making me ill, but that had quite another character; this boys story is in the lowest, most material vital domain, you see), and only lately did I notice those little games. They didnt affect me in the leastit was like images shown on a cinema screen, unsightly images, and I just thought, Whats the point? Still, I did my cleanup, out of habit. But then, when I heard that story, I thought, Well, I must be teaching a good lesson or two to all those people who do dirty magic!
In other words, one domain after another, one difficulty after another, one kind of obstacle after another (obstacles that are either subconscious or in the most material consciousness or the lower vital), it all comes for an ACTION. An action which is very sustained and varied; even when some other thing (some other difficulty or problem) is in the foreground, predominant in the consciousness, everything is there [in the surrounding atmosphere], and all the time there is that Light (Mother makes a gesture of cleaning in the atmosphere) which has always been with meof which I became totally conscious with Madame Thon, who told me what it wasa Light I have always kept with me, a white Light, absolutely pure, so dazzlingly white that eyes cannot look at it, a Light which is
(long silence Mother goes off into that Light, her eyes closed)
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive witnessed the most complete panorama of all the idiotic things in this life,1 they were shown to me as in a complete panorama: passing from one to another, seeing each of them separately and how they combined with each other. And then: Why? Why should one choose this? (A childs question, which one asks immediately.) And immediately, the answer: But the more (lets say central to be clearer) the more central the origin and the more pure in its essence, the greater the ignoble complexity be low, as we could call it. Because the lower down you go, the more it takes an essential light to change things.
Once youve been told this very nicely, youre satisfied, you stop worryingits all right, you take things as they are: Thats how things are, its my work and I do it; I ask only one thing, it is to do my work, all the rest doesnt matter.
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would like to be able to pass this experience on to others, because, well, its definitive: once you LIVE that for several hours, its over, you can no longer entertain any illusion,3 its not possibleits impossible, its so STUPID, you know! Above all, so silly, so flatits impossible (Mother makes the same gesture of a round, moving totality). But then you cannot say, I said this, the other answered that! How can we express ourselves? Our language is still truly inadequate. Its not that way its (same round gesture) and there isnt even either sense or direction: its not that this goes that way and that goes this way (gesture from one person to another, or from inside to outside), or that it goes this way and comes back that way (gesture from low to high and high to low), thats not it; its a whole a whole that moves, moves always forward, and with internal vibrations, internal movements. So according to the given point of concentration, this or that action is done.
Very long ago, many times over, when I looked at the universe (I dont mean the earth: the universe), it was that way (same gesture of a round totality). How can I put it? It gave the feeling of moving forward, of moving forward towards a progressive perfection. For years on end, my perception of the earth has been that way; and now, it takes place completely at will, in the sense that it takes only just a small movement in the consciousness (gesture of a trigger or a slight reversal, a drawing within) for the whole earth to move that way, along with the events and the inner complications. But now, that same consciousness of the whole works that way: when it thinks of something (for some reason of work, not because of an arbitrary decision), the thing imposes itself; its a whole set of things that presents itself as the TOTALITY on which the action must take place. So it may be a small thing like this sports festival, it may be the Ashram (very often the Ashram as a whole), it may be a part of the earth, or sometimes even a single individual (who is no longer an individual but a set or a world of things, a totality4). A totality of things (round gesture) that move within themselves in (Mother draws within that totality small movements, individual and local, like waves or currents of force). Oh, its most interesting! And even there, there is no more notion of this person, that person, so-and-soall that vanishes.
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I had another interesting example, with a visitor: a German industrial magnate, it seems. I had seen his photo and found there was something in him I had him come. He entered the room and came in front of me: he didnt know what to do (no one had told him anything). So I looked at him and put some force (Mother s lowly lowers her hand), a little, progressively. And all at once (at first he was quite official, it was MISTER So-and-so who was there), all at once his left hand began to rise, like this (gesture of a hand clenched as in trance), all the rest was absolutely still. When I saw that, I smiled and withdrew the force, then let him go. It seems he went downstairs, went into Sri Aurobindos room and started weeping. Afterwards, the next day, he wrote to me and told me in German English that I had been too human: Why have you been too human? He wanted his being to be DESTROYED in order to be born again to the true life.
That interested me. I thought, Oh, he felt it, he was conscious both of the force and of my withdrawing it. I answered him, True, I spared you, but because it was your first visit! Prepare yourself, I will see you again.
You see, he came in as a big industrial person with a remarkable power of mental creation that organizes events thats what entered the room and then it melted. And I didnt put the full charge: I simply put some power like this (Mother lowers her hand), and I was looking him in the face. Then I felt something going on lower down; I looked: his hand was tightly clenched. So I stopped.
But the remarkable thing is that he was CORRECTLY conscious.
0 1963-12-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is equally ignorant and one thousand miles away from my teaching to find it in your relations with human beings or in the nobility of the human character or an idea that we are here to establish mental and moral and social Truth and justice on human and egoistic lines. I have never promised to do anything of the kind. Human nature is made up of imperfections, even its righteousness and virtue are pretensions, imperfections and prancings of a self-approbatory egoism. What is aimed at by us is a spiritual truth as the basis of life, the first words of which are surrender and union with the Divine and the transcendence of ego. So long as that basis is not established, a sadhak is only an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with the evils of the lower nature.
I want to offer it to an American admiral who is here and who needs to know this.
0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you can enter that vibration in its purity, you realize immediately that it has the same quality as the vibration of Love: it is directionless. It isnt something going from one thing to another, it doesnt go from here to there (gesture from low to high) or there to here it is (round gesture) simultaneous and total.
I mean it isnt something that needs the two poles in order to exist; it doesnt go from one pole to the other or from the other to the one: its a vibration which in its purity is the same as the vibration of Love, which doesnt go from here to there or from there to here the two poles of existence.
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is something there, down be low. Before, it was here (gesture to the level of the forehead), like this, in the atmosphere; now, its there (gesture at ground level), that is to say, very low.
Its something that has happened in the Inconscient.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They come more and more often, those things that I scribble on a slip of paper, and they always fol low the same process: first, always a sort of explosionlike the explosion of a power of truth; it makes great dazzling white fireworks (Mother smiles), much more than fireworks! Then it rolls and rolls (gesture above the head), it works and works; and then comes the impression of an idea (but the idea is lower down, its like clothing), and the idea contains its sensation, it brings the sensation along with it the sensation was there before, but without any idea, so you couldnt define it. There is only one thing: its always the explosion of a luminous Power. Then, afterwards, if you look at it while remaining very still, while above all the head keeps quieteverything keeps quiet (gesture of a stillness turned upward)then, all of a sudden, somebody speaks in your head (!), somebody speaks. Its the explosion that speaks. Then I take a pencil and my paper, and I write. But between what speaks and what writes, there is still a difficult little passage, with the result that when I have written, something above isnt satisfied. So I again keep still: Ah, no, not that wordthis one sometimes it takes two days for the thing to be really definitive. But those who are satisfied with the power of the experience skimp it all and send you off into the world of sensational revelations, which are distortions of the Truth.
One must be very level-headed, very still, very criticalespecially very still, silent, silent, silent, without trying to grab at the experience: Ah, is it this? Ah, is it that? Then one spoils it all. But one must looklook at it very attentively. And in the words, there is a remnant, something left of the original vibration (so little), something remains, something which makes you smile, which is pleasant, it bubbles like a sparkling wine, and then here (Mother shows a word or a passage in an imaginary note), its lackluster; so you look at it with your knowledge of the language or sense of the rhythm of the words, and you notice: Here, a pebble the pebble must be removed; so then you wait, until suddenly it comesplop!it falls into place: the true word. If you are patient, after a day or two it becomes quite exact.
0 1964-02-13, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I expected it a little. You cant think of such things in advance, but when I spoke to her I thought she was going to be pleasedoh, she almost flew into a rage! But in front of me, of course I looked at her and went like this (Mother lowers her thumb): it stopped. But once she had gone, it was the end!
A jealous and vain character is hard to correct.
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not as much as sometimes. But here, when you look down, its very red. When you lower your eyelid, there is an entire bloodshot area, up to the iris.
So it has started again. All right.
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I did see something, but I dont think its very interesting, or collective either. I seemed to kind myself in an enormous plane, a very powerful one, which managed to take off (a takeoff which, besides, gave me a very pleasant sensation). It took off, but it was hedgehopping, that was dangerous. At first, the space before us was clear anyway, but we were flying very low and skimming the trees. Then, suddenly there were all kinds of buildings that stood in the way, in particular a huge tower, like a church steeple, of a very black color. I dont know how it happened, but the plane (or the force) entered itoddly enough and inside it was completely dark; there was only a sort of opening in a watt, and beyond it, a patch of blue sky. It sounds impossible, but the plane tried to go through that hose, and when we tried to, that sort of opening turned out to be covered with very thick glass that stopped us from going through. So I remember that with a pointed instrument I broke the entire window to enable us to go through. We did, but it was too small, the opening was too narrow for such an enormous plane. Afterwards, its very confused; I only remember that in a hidden place, there was a sort of huge gold ciborium, very beautifulit was hidden. But all the rest is quite confused.
Oh, but its interesting.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing the light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be something analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And to me, as I see it, the eyes are the will, while the lower part of the face is the struggle, the difficultyit represents the difficulty with the earth. But the eyes are the will to make contact (Mother pulls from above downward to make high and low meet).
They arent eyes of entreaty, look at them closely: they are eyes of willalmost eyes of command.
0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, immediately, without transition, it was as if I was plunged in a bath of the Supremes Love with the sensation of something limitless; in other words, when you have the perception of space, that something is everywhere (its beyond the perception of space, but if you have the perception of space, its everywhere). And its a kind of homogenous vibratory mass, IMMOBILE, yet with an unparalleled intensity of vibration, which can be described as a warm, golden light (but its not that, its much more marvelous than that!). And then, its everywhere at once, everywhere always the same, without alternations of high and low, unchanging, in an unvarying intensity of sensation. And that something which is characteristic of divine nature (and is hard to express with words) is at the same time absolute immobility and absolute intensity of vibration. And That loves. There is no Lord, there are no things; there is no subject, no object. And That loves. But how can you say what That is? Its impossible. And That loves everywhere and everything, all the time, all at the same time.
All those stories those so-called saints and sages told about Gods Love coming and going, oh, its unspeakably stupid!Its THERE, eternally; It has always been there, eternally; It will always be there, eternally, always the same and at the highest of its possibility.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As soon as we deal with even the vital plane, even the lower vital, the problem doesnt arise, its very easy; but here, in the cells of the body, in this life? In this life of every minute, which is so constricted, so shriveled, so microscopic. What should you do when you know that you mustnt bring into play a will to reject all that is a decay, and when, at the same time, you cant accept decay because you dont see it as a perfect expression of the Divine?
Its very subtle there is something to be found; and its something that, obviously, I havent found because it keeps coming back again and again. At times, I even say, Oh, for Peace, Peace, Peace but then I feel it is a weakness. I say, To let myself go, not thinking of anything, not trying to know anything, but then something instantly rises there, somewhere, and says, Tamas.2
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am expressing it with the minds words because theres no other way, but it was in the field of sensation rather than anything else. And it was very clearvery clear and very continuous, without fluctuations. And then, at that moment, the universal Consciousness intervened, saying, But here are the obstacles. And those obstacles were clearly seen: that kind of pessimism of the mind (a formless mind thats beginning to be born and organized in these cells). But the cells themselves didnt care a whit! To them it was like a disease, they said, Oh, that (the word distorts, but it was felt as a sort of accident or an inescapable disease or something that DID NOT FORM A NORMAL PART of their development and had been forced on them), Oh, that, we dont care about it! And then, at that moment, a sort of lowER power to act on that mind was born; it gave the cells a MATERIAL power to separate themselves from that and reject it.
From that point of view, it was interesting. And it was after that that there was the turning point I told you about: a turning point in things as a whole, as if something truly decisive had taken place. There was a sort of trusting joy: Ah! Were free from that nightmare.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They had a meeting with people from England or Europe, in which they said, Oh, the world needs a new religion, now is the time to give it a new religion. And they wanted to take Sri Aurobindos name and make a new religion out of it! So I answered them, The time of religions is over. They didnt understand, mon petit, they were appalled! I wrote it to them without explanation, the way you fling something to shake things up: The time of religions is over, this is the age of universal spirituality (universal in the sense of containing EVERYTHING and adapting to everything). So they answered me, We dont understand, but anyway (laughing) since you tell us, we accept it. So I added an explanation in the Bulletin (the explanation isnt as strong, but I had to try and make myself understood), I said that religions are based on spiritual experiences brought down to a level where mankind can grasp them, and that the new phase must be that of spiritual experience in its purity, not brought down to a lower level.2
But this too is hard to understand.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all the great Schools, the great Ideas, the great Realizations, the great and then the religions thats still lower down; all of it, oh, what childishness!
And that wisdom! Its an almost cellular wisdom (its odd). For instance, I was looking at the relationship I had with all those great beings of the Overmind and higher, the perfectly objective and very familiar relationship I had with all those beings and the inner perception of being the eternal Motherall that is very well, but for me its almost ancient history! The me that exists now is HERE, its at ground level, in the body; its the body, its Matter; its at ground level; and to tell the truth, it doesnt care much about the intervention of all those beings who ultimately know nothing at all! They dont know the true problem: they live in a place where there are no problems. They dont know the true problem the true problem is here.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its perfectly true. All our incapacities, all our limitations, all our impossibilities, its this idiotic Matter that chooses them allnot with intelligence, but with a sort of feeling that thats how things must be, that they are naturally like that. An adherencean idiotic adherenceto the mode of the lower nature.
Then there was laughter, tears, a whole revolution, and afterwards all was fine.
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When people write me long letters (what letters I receive! laments all the time: my health is going wrong, my work is going wrong, my relationships are going wronglaments all the time), and I always see, behind, that Consciousness, luminous, magnificent, marveloussun-filled, you knowexactly as if to say, Whenever will you be cured of that mania! The mania of the tragic and the lower.
Somewhere in the reason, one understandsit isnt that reason doesnt understand, but the reason has no power to make this matter obey.
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats why certain minds have postulated that the creation was the result of an error. But we find all the possible conceptions: the perfect creation, then a fault that introduced the error; the creation itself as a lower movement, which must end since it began; then the conception of the Vedas according to what Sri Aurobindo told us about it, which was a progressive and infinite unfolding or discoveryindefinite and infiniteof the All by Himself. Naturally, all these are human translations. For the moment, as long as we express ourselves humanly, its a human translation; but depending on the initial stand of the human translator (that is, a stand that accepts the primordial error, or the accident in the creation, or the conscious supreme Will since the beginning, in a progressive unfolding), the conclusions or the descents in the yogic attitude are different. There are the nihilists, the Nirvanists and the illusionists, there are all the religions (like Christianity) that accept the devils intervention in one form or another; and then pure Vedism, which is the Supremes eternal unfolding in a progressive objectification. And depending on your taste, you are here or there or here, and there are nuances. But according to what Sri Aurobindo felt to be the most total truth, according to that conception of a progressive universe, you are led to say that, every minute, what takes place is the best possible for the unfolding of the whole. The logic of it is absolute. And I think that all the contradictions can only stem from a more or less pronounced tendency for this or that position, that other position; all the minds that accept the intrusion of a fault or an error and the resulting conflict between forces pulling backward and forces pulling forward, can naturally dispute the possibility. But you are forced to say that for someone who is spiritually attuned to the supreme Will or the supreme Truth, what happens is necessarily, every instant, the best for his personal realizationthis is true in all cases. The unconditioned best can only be accepted by one who sees the universe as an unfolding, the Supreme growing more and more conscious of Himself.
(silence)
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So in that park I had seen the Pavilion of Love (but I dont like to use that word because men have turned it into something ludicrous); I am referring to the principle of divine Love. But it has been changed: it will be the Pavilion of the Mother; but not this (Mother points to herself): the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. (I say Mother because Sri Aurobindo used the word, otherwise I would have put something else I would have put creative principle or realizing principle or something of that sort.) And it will be a small building, not a big one, with just a meditation room downstairs, with columns and probably a circular shape (I say probably because I am leaving it for R. to decide). Upstairs, the top floor will be a room, and the roof will be a covered terrace. Do you know the old Indian Mogul miniatures with palaces in which there are terraces and small roofs supported by columns? Do you know those old miniatures? Ive had hundreds of them in my hands. But this pavilion is very, very lovely: a small pavilion like this, with a roof over a terrace, and low walls against which there will be divans where people can sit and meditate in the open air in the evening or at night. And downstairs, at the very bottom, on the ground floor, simply a meditation rooma place with nothing in it. There would probably be, at the far end, something that would be a living light (perhaps the symbol2 made of living light), a constant light. Otherwise, a very calm, very silent place.
Adjoining it would be a small dwelling (well, a dwelling that would still have three floors), but not of large dimensions, and it would be the house of H., who would act as keepershe would be the keeper of the pavilion (she wrote me a very nice letter, but she didnt understand all this, of course).
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, there was suddenly such a clear vision that the supremely perfect alone can give this body plenitude (gesture of junction between the High and the low).
I found that interesting.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came after a vision of plants and the spontaneous beauty of plants (which is something so wonderful!), then of the animal with such a harmonious life (when men dont interfere), and all that was quite in its own place. Then true humanity seen as such, that is to say, the summit of what a balanced mind can produce in beauty, in harmony, in charm, in elegance in life, in taste for lifetaste to live in beautywhile eliminating, naturally, all that is ugly and low and vulgar. That was a lovely humanity. Humanity at its highest, but lovely. And perfectly satisfied as such, because it lives harmoniously. And it may also be like a promise of what almost the totality of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation: as I saw it, it was what the supramental consciousness can do with humanity. There was even a comparison with what humanity has done with animal kind (something extremely mixed, of course, but there have been improvements, betterments, more complete utilizations). Animality under the mental influence has become something else, which naturally has been mixed because the mind is incomplete; similarly there are examples of a harmonious humanity among the well-balanced people, and it appeared to be what humanity could become under the supramental influence.
Only, its very far ahead; we shouldnt expect it to come about immediatelyits very far ahead.
0 1966-02-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, to tell you the truth, we are on the upward curve again. I think we have really reached the bottom of incoherence, absurdity and ugliness the taste for the ugly and the unsightly, the dirty, the offensive. We have, I think, reached rock bottom. If its taken in the right way (and I think there are people who have taken it in the right way), it can lead you straight to the Yoga, straight. That is, you feel a sort of very deep detachment from all the things of this world, a very intense need to find something else, an imperious need to find something truly beautiful, truly fresh, truly good so, quite naturally, it leads you to a spiritual aspiration. And those horrors seem to have divided people: a minority who were ready have risen very high; a majority who werent ready have gone down very low. Those are now wal lowing in mud, and thats why we cant get out of it for the moment; and if it goes on, we will be moving towards a new war, and this time it will really be the end of this civilization I am not saying the end of the world, because nothing can be the end of the world, but the end of this civilization, which means we will have to build another. You may tell me that it will be very good, for this civilization is on the decline, its rotting away; but still, there were in it some beautiful things that deserved to be preserved, and it would be a great pity if all that disappeared. But if there is a new war, I can tell you that it will all disappear. For men are very clever creatures, and they have found the way to destroy everything. And they will use it, because whats the use of spending billions to make certain bombs if they arent to be used? Whats the use of discovering that a city can be destroyed in a few minutes if not to destroy it! One wants to see the fruit of ones efforts! If there is a war, thats what will happen.
Quite appropriate. Well publish it in the next Bulletin.
0 1966-02-23, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other2 also was a poet, but he was the son of some very good folks (I think they were from the lower middle class, or maybe even peasants, people from the country), very good folks who had made considerable effort to send their son for studies in Paris. He was a very good student. A boy of the same age: about twenty or twenty-one. A fairly good poet, intelligent, and he was especially interested in occultism. But as for him, he wasnt inwardly formed; it was only his vital consciousness that took over the cat.
But strangely, the look of the cats eyes changed completely.
0 1966-03-04, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the strange thing the strange thingis that outwardly you go on living automatically according to certain ways of life, which no longer even have the virtue of appearing necessary, which no longer even have the force of being that habits have, but which are accepted and lived almost automatically with the sense (a kind of feeling, of sensation, but its neither feeling nor sensation, its a sort of very subtle perception) that Something, so immense that its undefinable, wants it so. I say wants it so or I say chooses it so, but its wants it so; its a Will that doesnt function like the human will, but that wants it sowants it or sees it or decides it so. And in each thing, there is that luminous, golden, imperative Vibration which is necessarily all-powerful. And it results in a background of perfect well-being of Certitude, which, a little lower down in the consciousness, is expressed as a benevolent and amused smile.
I feel like asking you a question. A little further on, Sri Aurobindo speaks of the worlds having neither beginning nor end, and he says that their creation and destruction is a play of hide and seek with our outward consciousness.2
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its always on a plane of intellectual organization. Intellectual, meaning that it doesnt go lower than the intellectual: its something coming from above which we spread and organize in the terrestrial mind thats where we always meet. Meet isnt exactly the word: its a habit of work. I must be going there very regularly, but when the night is full of lots and lots of things, I dont always remember. But last night, it so happens that I became conscious at that moment; it seems to be a very habitual activity.
Its a place (I have already told you about it1), a place which is very, very vast, very open and luminous, and VERY PEACEFUL. And very pleasant, its a place where one works very well. And there is nothing, no limitsits not a sky, not an earth at all; I cant say there are buildings, there are no buildings, yet one feels one is protected; and yet there are no walls. Now and then one sees a sort of very small shining steel bar (Mother draws a sort of frame that seems to delimit the place), like silver, now and then; and now and then, one feels there are kinds of cupboards that one opens, shelves, but transparent, its all transparent. There are tables, but transparent; theyre solid since one can write on them, but theyre transparent. No object is in the way. But everything is organized for the work. And you are there, you often write; you often come in and we talk, we organize. There are people, too, and we tell them to do this or that.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Have you heard of the drugs?1 Have you seen pictures? I saw pictures. People are hurled utterly defenseless into the lowest vital, and, according to their nature, either its horrifying or they find it marvelous. For instance, the fabric covering a cushion or a seat is suddenly filled with marvelous beauty. So it lasts for two hours, three hours like that. Naturally, they are quite mad while it lasts. And the trouble is that people call it spiritual experiences, and theres nobody to tell them that it has nothing to do with spiritual experiences.
There is an Italian here, whom I saw the other day with his wife (his wife is nice; he has long hair and a mystic air mystic is a way of speaking: mysticism for a theater stage). I didnt find them very interesting, but they intend to stay here for three or four months. And today, he has written me a letter in French. And in that letter there are many things; first he says he had an experience here and those people are terrible, mon petit, as soon as they have the slightest experience, theyre scared! So naturally, everything stops. But thats beside the point. Then, in that connection, he says he took that drug and he describes the effect (Mother shows Satprem a passage of the letter):
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Have you heard of dolphins speech? Havent you seen those articles? They have discovered that dolphins speak an articulate speech, but with a much more extensive range than ours: it rises much higher and goes much lower. And its far more varied. And they frequently talk (it seems it can be recorded), they talk but people dont understand what they say. And then, they were given our speech to listen tothey imitate it and make fun of it! They laugh! (Mother looks very amused)
I saw some photos, they look nice, but the photos arent enough. They have, as porpoises do, rows of small teeth (it seems they arent ferocious at all, they never fly into a fury). They talk and talk! And they know how to listen. And then, they imitate and laugh, as if they found us extremely ridiculous.
0 1966-08-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with all this, there is (it almost seems to be the key to the problem, to the understanding), there is a special concentration on the why, the how of death. Years and years ago, when Sri Aurobindo was still here, there came one day a sort of dazzling, imperious revelation: One dies only when one chooses to die. I told Sri Aurobindo, This is what I saw and KNEW. He said to me, It is true. Then I asked him, Always, in every case? He said, Always. Only, one isnt conscious, human beings arent conscious, but thats how it is. But now I am beginning to understand! Some experiences, some examples are given in the details of the bodys inner vibrations, and I see that there is a choice, a choice generally unconscious, but which, in some individuals, can be conscious. I am not talking about sentimental cases, I am talking about the body, the cells accepting disintegration. There is a will like this (Mother raises a finger upward) or a will like that (Mother lowers her finger). The origin of that will lies in the truth of the being, but it seems (and that is something marvelous), it seems that the final decision is left to the choice of the cells themselves.
I am not at all referring to the physical, vital, psychic consciousnesses, not to any of that: I am referring to the consciousness of the cells.
0 1966-08-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a very clear indication that they are more under peoples influence than under the influence of the Divine. Because, all in all, it makes the work a little difficult; I always feel as if, instead of the Will from above expressing itself, I am obliged to yield to the outside wills that impose themselves, and nothing in the world makes me more tired than that. I can work without stop if it comes from above; but those things that come and contradict the Rhythm are very tiring, very tiring. I have nervous fatiguenot nervous in the usual sense, because thats perfectly under control, but the nerves themselves are tired. If I can have a minute or two of real rest, it restores order, but with this whole avalanche of lower wills imposing themselves, the nerves start vibrating and hurting. Theyre quite stupid!
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0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But wont it look like hankering after sexual enjoyment? Because that would bring the whole thing down to a very low level. Ill-disposed people would say, Ah, of course, sexual desire is stronger than spiritual life.
It depends on the way its put. This woman she isnt a woman, she is almost a girl. There has never been a love relationship between them; she is a twelve- to thirteen-year-old child and there is an ancient relationship. Even the word love hasnt been uttered between them. There is only a need to be together, a need for union. She feels a oneness between this Sannyasin and her, its a being together, and she feels that being together doesnt mean to marry. But she feels the union, the oneness with him.
0 1967-01-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Theres no hurry I dont think there is. Its better if its ready, but The highest part of the consciousness is clearly in favour of the trance being unnecessary. And if the lower part becomes receptive enough in time, it wont be necessary. Or it will be reduced to very little. Just keep the text, thats all, keep it ready (Mother laughs).3
See Agenda III, November 20, 1962. p. 428
0 1967-02-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have some interesting things to tell you. Its about this cold. An extraordinary healing power All the phases in their most acute form, with the study of the process, and each phase gone through in a few hours, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). Usually, when you have a cold, you go through one phase, then another (you know how it is), then it goes lower down, then you cough, then All that was gone through quickly, and in two days it was over. And with the whole process, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes, acts, and at once Oh, it was very, very interesting, because there was the part played by the inconscient, the part played by conscious reactions, the part played by the will (tremendous, an enormous part), the part played by mental suggestion (tremendous too), and the action of the supreme Vibration. The whole thing in detail, day and night, constantly; to such a point that at moments I stood still, like that, to fol low the course. And it lasted (I saw you on Saturday) for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday: those three days.
Its my fault it started; as I told you, I had complained about these sinuses which were a constant nuisance, and there was also that constant inflammation of the mouth and the throat. So it had its effect. I cant say its fully over because there still remains a lot, quite a lot of the old habit, but it came with the intention of changing things.
0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when you are on the very lowest rung of the ladder of consciousness, those manners of speaking become increasingly concrete, absolute, hard, and exclusive of all that isnt themselves: those are religions. Oh, by the way, it seems the Pope was approached about Auroville and he asked if there would be a Catholic church! They put the question to me. I said, No. No churches, no temples.
But it might be amusing if we put together one specimen of every religion from every country and every epoch. A city of religions, can you see that? The totem pole next to the cathedral! Oh, that would be very amusing! All the ancient religions the Egyptian, the Tyrian, the Scandinavian gods and then the new religions.
0 1967-04-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, at the same time, at the same moment, there came the experience (not an objectified one), the experience that the Will is on a much lower level than That, or rather, much more external. Because the Will sees and doessees AND doeswhereas there, its not seeing AND executing AND doing, or seeing AND being: its simultaneous. Its something above visionabove vision and above will something (silence) something that IS. And at that moment, simultaneously, that is to say, without any possible space (space or time, of course, its quite outside that, because its not a vision that sees itself seeing, its not a perception thats conscious of its perception, not a consciousness conscious of its consciousness), it IS, like that (one could say), such as it will be projected in space and time.
So when we say, To want what God wants or To unite with the divine Will, its our way of looking (gesture from the bottom upwards, or from be low to above). And its quite approximate. But there And the marvellous thing is that its not what we in our infirmity may conceive of as a simplification, its really the Whole: the manifested, the non-manifested, the yet-to-be-manifested, everything, but everything the Whole. At that second, when you are there, its omnipotence. Omnipotence, absolute freedom, the unforeseeable, and the existent whole. And that
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like that habit of the cells of drawing the force from be low (through food and so on): when you try to transform that into a constant habit of drawing the force from above, every instant, in every small detail, theres a difficult moment. (From above is a manner of speaking, because if you think about it, it may also be from the depths: theres no sense of direction, no high or low or anything of the sort.) But its no longer leaning on the surface for support for standing, walking, sitting, for making movements.
There is also the pressure of external agitation (the world lives in perpetual agitation), the external agitation: everything and everyone is rushing towards one really doesnt know why. They want to do ten times more things in a given space of time than is normally possible, so it goes like this (gesture of trepidation). And to have the strength to remain calm and well-balanced in the middle of it, in that whirl
0 1967-05-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their interests (money, business)a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call the abyss.
When someone has decided to consecrate his life to the seeking for the Divine, if he is sincere, that is to say, if the resolution is sincere and carried out sincerely, there is absolutely nothing to fear, because all that happens or will happen to him will lead him by the shortest way to this realisation.
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are two things that make you die. One (the one that precedes the dramatic human existence) is wear and tear. What does wear and tear come from? From Ignorance, obviously. From Ignorance and the incapacity to renew forces; and that means the whole lower life: it decomposes, recomposes, decomposes again. But its only with animality and the beginning of a mental functioning that (Mother takes on a grandiloquent tone) death comes, such as we conceive it. But that is when the vital element that gives life (what we call life) breaks down. There are innumerable reasons for that, all of which stem from the same source. Of course, taken together, it is the incapacity to fol low the movement of progress: the need to remix everything together in order to start all over again. But for those who are beginning to think, that no longer has any reason to exist.
An accident? An accident to the material combination? But what accident, since the heart can stop and start again? Its a question of how long the accident lasts.
0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there begins to come a kind of material power of EXTENDINGextending the zone, you understand, extending it like that (encompassing gesture) to whats immediately near. So today, instead of applying the Force like this (gesture from high to low), as I always used to do, I it was as if encompassing your body in the same movement of the cells.
It was fairly successful! And Id like to know if you felt a difference.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All that lowers the consciousness, encourages desires and excites the passions runs counter to the true goal of music and ought to be avoided.
It is not a question of designation but of inspiration
--
Here is the person's description: "External awareness had slipped away I heard, saw nothing. I sagged forward as my wife held my head to keep me from pitching from the chair. To the Doctor I had reached clinical death. But for me there was a surge of inner awarenessmagnified, finely focused, brilliant. It is a progressive thing, this death. You feel the toes going first, then the feet, cell by cell, death churning them like waves washing the sands. Now the legs, the cells winking out. Closer now, and the visibility is better. Hands, arms, abdomen and chest, each cell flaring into a supernova, then gone. There is order and system in death, as in all that is life. I must try to control the progression, to save the brain for last so that it may know. Now the neck. The lower jaw. The teeth. How strange to feel one's teeth die, one by one, cell igniting cell, galaxies of cells dying in brilliance. Now, in retrospect, I grope for this other thing. There was something else, something that I felt or experienced or beheld at the very last instant. What was it? I knew it so well when it was there, opening before me, something more beautiful, more gentle, more loving than the mind or imagination of living creature could ever conceive. But it is gone." David Snell, Life Senior Editor (extract from Life, May 29, 1967).
According to Sri Aurobindo, the green light is a dynamic force of the vital which has the power to purify, harmonize or heal.
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your difficulty comes from the fact that you have still the old belief that in life, there are some things high and some things low. It is not exact. It is not the things or the activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false.
That is the interesting point.
0 1967-08-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, for two hours, I had what I believe to be really the most wonderful experience in my life from the point of view of knowledge-vision. And it was so total from the most essential perception of That which is beyond the creation down to the perception of the bodys cells, from high to low like that. And in every plane, the vision of the creation.
It went on for two hours. I walked about, had my washit didnt matter in the least, on the contrary there was, added to that, the knowledge of how the body can act without disturbing the state of consciousness.
Afterwards, there was a slight flagging, because there came I cant say the memory (it wasnt a memory), but all the complaints: the same thing as at the balcony on the darshan day the human attitude towards the Supreme is only to complain and demand complain and demand and complain Thats all. It came back. Before, the whole vision was there like that (gesture from high to low), it was magnificent, magnificent: each and every thing, the entire human history, the entire history of intellectual and material evolution, everything, everything like that, everything in its place. It was really fine. And afterwards, there came that wave of complaints.
It was as if the body were asking, What attitude (thats what provided the link), What attitude should I have? What should I do? Because there was the vision of life, death, of all occurences, everything was there. The full knowledge of everything. Oh, all the stories of death were very, very interesting, and how mankind has tried to understand, and how there have been all kinds of solutions (that is, partial attitudes), and all of it, all of it was part of the Whole.
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, Sri Aurobindo is there, like that, from here up to there (gesture from the lower part of the chest up to the forehead). So if you are like that when people are near you
Just in front of you.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Life runs in contemplation. People speak in a low voice. Their movements are s low and liturgical. The country is born for the spirit, the Pope said.
All the same, it means he is receptive.
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I saw Yesterday was the doctors birthday, I gave him a meditation (he had asked for one). Before the meditation, he asked me very sweetly, Oh, I would like peace in my whole body, my body doesnt have peace. I put Peace. For a quarter of an hour he was blissful, then there suddenly came (gesture floating in the atmosphere at a rather low level) something like a cloud, and he had a kind of unconsciousness: miserable, miserable, so miserablehe was appalled. So I had to stop the meditation. And it wasnt him: it didnt come from him, you understand, I saw it (same floating gesture). As for me, I see it, so it doesnt matter I see it, I even see the nature of it, the suggestions it gives and so on. It comes with such power that I am compelled to see it I see. So there is only ONE solution (so far): the absolute stillness of the supreme Force but no retaliation, simply like this (inflexible, still gesture). Then, after a time, it exhausts itself and falls away. But one must hold out, and few people are able to hold outits hard. Its hardits nasty, mean, like that (gesture at ground level), and VERY MATERIAL, very material: it touches the cells, disturbs the order. The body starts feeling ill at ease, uneasy: Whats the matter? Ill at ease. And its like that in everyone; when they ask me what it is, I tell them, Keep stillpeace, peace, peace, peace, like that.
If you try to reply, its much stronger than you: it comes in, and then the disorder is inside and you fall ill. Or you fall to the ground like the doctor.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I mean is that usually (always till now, and more and more so), men establish mental rules according to their conceptions and their ideal, then they apply them (Mother lowers her fist, as if to show the world under the mental grip). And thats absolutely false, arbitrary, unreal, with the result that things revolt, or else waste away and disappear. Its the experience of LIFE ITSELF that must s lowly work out rules AS SUPPLE AND VAST as possible, in order that they remain ever progressive. Nothing must be fixed. Thats the immense error of governments: they build a framework and say, Here is what weve established, now we must live under it. So naturally, Life is crushed and prevented from progressing. It is Life itself, developing more and more in a progression towards Light, Knowledge, Power, that must progressively establish rules as general as possible, so as to be extremely supple and capable of changing according to needof changing AS RAPIDLY as habits and needs do.
(silence)
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is an error too to imagine that, although the physical sexual action is to be abandoned, yet some inward reproduction of it is part of the transformation of the sex-centre. The action of the animal sex-energy in Nature is a device for a particular purpose in the economy of the material creation in the Ignorance. But the vital excitement that accompanies it makes the most favourable opportunity and vibration in the atmosphere for the inrush of those very vital forces and beings whose whole business is to prevent the descent of the supramental Light. The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true form of the divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda in the physical has a different quality and movement and substance; self-existent in its essence, its manifestation is dependent only on an inner union with the Divine. You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence of them would only repel it and make it withdraw again to the heights from which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which it alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the psychic being, and cast away the lower vital error.8
Sri Aurobindo
0 1968-02-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother unrolls a big parchment on her windowsill, facing the Samadhi. Perched on a low stool and armed with a huge black felt-pen that draws cuneiform-like letters, she starts copying Aurovilles Charter while commenting on it.)
1) Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.
--- Overview of noun low
The noun low has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. low, depression ::: (an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow")
2. Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low ::: (British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963))
3. low ::: (a low level or position or degree; "the stock market fell to a new low")
4. first gear, first, low gear, low ::: (the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving)
--- Overview of verb low
The verb low has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. moo, low ::: (make a low noise, characteristic of bovines)
--- Overview of adj low
The adj low has 10 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (55) low ::: (less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low")
2. (23) low ::: (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow")
3. (11) low, low-toned ::: (very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf")
4. (6) low ::: (unrefined in character; "low comedy")
5. (4) low, low-pitched ::: (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)
6. (3) abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy ::: (of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick")
7. humble, low, lowly, modest, small ::: (low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings")
8. depleted, low ::: (no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted")
9. broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low ::: (subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit")
10. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited ::: (filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted")
--- Overview of adv low
The adv low has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) low ::: (in a low position; near the ground; "the branches hung low")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun low
4 senses of low
Sense 1
low, depression
=> air mass
=> atmosphere, atmospheric state
=> weather, weather condition, conditions, atmospheric condition
=> atmospheric phenomenon
=> physical phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
INSTANCE OF=> cartoonist
=> draftsman, drawer
=> artist, creative person
=> creator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
low
=> degree, grade, level
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
first gear, first, low gear, low
=> gear, gear mechanism
=> mechanism
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun low
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun low
4 senses of low
Sense 1
low, depression
=> air mass
Sense 2
Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
INSTANCE OF=> cartoonist
Sense 3
low
=> degree, grade, level
Sense 4
first gear, first, low gear, low
=> gear, gear mechanism
--- Similarity of adj low
10 senses of low
Sense 1
low (vs. high)
=> debased, devalued, degraded
=> depressed, down(predicate)
=> low-level
=> reduced, rock-bottom
Also See-> inferior#1
Sense 2
low (vs. high)
=> deep
=> low-growing, flat-growing, ground-hugging
=> low-level, low-altitude
=> low-lying
=> lowset, low-set
=> nether, under
=> squat, underslung
Also See-> down#1; inferior#1; short#3, little#6
Sense 3
low, low-toned
=> soft (vs. loud)
Sense 4
low
=> unrefined (vs. refined)
Sense 5
low (vs. high), low-pitched
=> alto, contralto
=> baritone
=> bass, deep
=> contrabass, double-bass
=> throaty
Sense 6
abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
=> contemptible (vs. estimable)
Sense 7
humble, low, lowly, modest, small
=> inferior (vs. superior)
Sense 8
depleted, low
=> insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient
Sense 9
broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
=> humble (vs. proud)
Sense 10
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
=> dejected (vs. elated)
--- Antonyms of adj low
10 senses of low
Sense 1
low (vs. high)
high (vs. low)
=> advanced
=> broad(prenominal), full(prenominal)
=> graduate(prenominal), postgraduate
=> higher(prenominal)
=> higher(prenominal)
=> last, utmost
=> soaring
Sense 2
low (vs. high)
high (vs. low)
=> altitudinous
=> commanding, dominating, overlooking
=> eminent, lofty, soaring, towering
=> high-level, high-altitude
=> high-stepped, high-stepping
=> high-top, high-topped
=> steep
=> upper
Sense 3
low, low-toned
INDIRECT (VIA soft) -> loud
Sense 4
low
INDIRECT (VIA unrefined) -> refined
Sense 5
low (vs. high), low-pitched
high (vs. low), high-pitched
=> adenoidal, pinched, nasal
=> altissimo
=> alto
=> countertenor, alto
=> falsetto
=> peaky, spiky
=> shrill, sharp
=> screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing
=> soprano, treble
=> sopranino
=> tenor
=> tenor
Sense 6
abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
INDIRECT (VIA contemptible) -> estimable
Sense 7
humble, low, lowly, modest, small
INDIRECT (VIA inferior) -> superior
Sense 8
depleted, low
INDIRECT (VIA insufficient) -> sufficient
Sense 9
broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
INDIRECT (VIA humble) -> proud
Sense 10
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
INDIRECT (VIA dejected) -> elated
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun low
4 senses of low
Sense 1
low, depression
-> air mass
=> high
=> low, depression
Sense 2
Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
-> cartoonist
=> lampoon artist
HAS INSTANCE=> Feifer, Jules Feifer
HAS INSTANCE=> Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
HAS INSTANCE=> Mauldin, Bill Mauldin, William Henry Mauldin
HAS INSTANCE=> Nast, Thomas Nast
HAS INSTANCE=> Schulz, Charles Schulz, Charles M. Schulz, Charles Munroe Schulz
HAS INSTANCE=> Silverstein, Shel Silverstein, Shelby Silverstein
HAS INSTANCE=> Steinberg, Saul Steinberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Tenniel, Sir John Tenniel
HAS INSTANCE=> Thurber, James Thurber, James Grover Thurber
Sense 3
low
-> degree, grade, level
=> quality, caliber, calibre
=> intensity, intensiveness
=> grind
=> depth
=> highness
=> high
=> low
=> lowness
=> extreme
=> amplitude level
=> moderation, moderateness
=> immoderation, immoderateness
=> sun protection factor, SPF
Sense 4
first gear, first, low gear, low
-> gear, gear mechanism
=> first gear, first, low gear, low
=> gearset
=> high gear, high
=> park
=> reverse, reverse gear
=> second gear, second
=> steering gear
=> third gear, third
=> transmission, transmission system
--- Pertainyms of adj low
10 senses of low
Sense 1
low (vs. high)
Sense 2
low (vs. high)
Sense 3
low, low-toned
Sense 4
low
Sense 5
low (vs. high), low-pitched
Sense 6
abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
Sense 7
humble, low, lowly, modest, small
Sense 8
depleted, low
Sense 9
broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
Sense 10
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
--- Derived Forms of adj low
9 of 10 senses of low
Sense 1
low (vs. high)
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#4
=> lowness
Sense 2
low (vs. high)
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#3
=> lowness
Sense 3
low, low-toned
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#4
=> lowness
Sense 4
low
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#1
=> low status, lowness, lowliness
Sense 5
low (vs. high), low-pitched
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#4
=> lowness
Sense 7
humble, low, lowly, modest, small
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#1
=> low status, lowness, lowliness
Sense 8
depleted, low
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#4
=> lowness
Sense 9
broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#2
=> downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness
Sense 10
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
RELATED TO->(noun) lowness#2
=> downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness
--- Grep of noun low
afterglow
air flow
airflow
alizarin yellow
almond-leaves willow
almond willow
arctic willow
arroyo willow
babylonian weeping willow
backflow
balsam willow
bank swallow
barn swallow
basket willow
bay willow
bayberry tallow
bearberry willow
bed pillow
bedfellow
beef tallow
bellow
billow
black willow
blow
brittle willow
brownish yellow
bungalow
bush willow
by-blow
cadmium yellow
canary yellow
cash flow
chaparral mallow
chimney swallow
chrome yellow
class fellow
cliff swallow
clustered poppy mallow
common mallow
common rose mallow
confederate rose mallow
counterblow
counterglow
crack willow
creeping willow
cricket-bat willow
david low
deathblow
desert willow
dwarf gray willow
dwarf grey willow
dwarf willow
edward winslow
electric glow
extremely low frequency
fairy swallow
fallow
false mallow
fellow
florist's willow
flow
fringed poppy mallow
furbelow
glade mallow
globe mallow
glow
go-slow
goat willow
golden glow
golden willow
gray willow
greenish yellow
grey willow
harlow
hemp willow
henry wadsworth longfellow
high-low
high-low-jack
high mallow
hoary willow
hollow
huntingdon willow
indian mallow
inflow
japan tallow
jean harlow
joe blow
laminar flow
laurel willow
lemon yellow
lister plow
long pillow
longfellow
low
low-birth-weight baby
low-birth-weight infant
low-bush blueberry
low-calorie diet
low-carbon steel
low-density lipoprotein
low-down
low-fat diet
low-fat milk
low-level formatting
low-level radioactive waste
low-pass filter
low-salt diet
low-sodium diet
low-spiritedness
low-warp-loom
low-water mark
low archipelago
low beam
low blow
low blueberry
low brass
low comedy
low countries
low density
low explosive
low frequency
low gallberry holly
low gear
low german
low latin
low level flight
low mass
low pitch
low profile
low quality
low relief
low spirits
low st andrew's cross
low status
low sunday
low temperature
low tide
low water
lowan
lowboy
lowbrow
lowbush cranberry
lowbush penstemon
lowell
lowell jackson thomas
lowell thomas
lower
lower-case letter
lower-normandy
lower berth
lower bound
lower california
lower cannon
lower carboniferous
lower carboniferous period
lower class
lower court
lower criticism
lower deck
lower egypt
lower jaw
lower jawbone
lower limit
lower mantle
lower paleolithic
lower peninsula
lower rank
lower respiratory infection
lower respiratory tract
lower respiratory tract smear
lower saxony
lower status
lower tunguska
lowercase
lowerclassman
lowering
lowest common multiple
lowland
lowland burrowing treefrog
lowland fir
lowland scot
lowland white fir
lowlander
lowlands
lowlands of scotland
lowlife
lowliness
lowness
lowry
mallow
marsh mallow
marshmallow
menstrual flow
middle low german
moldboard plow
musk mallow
mutton tallow
odd fellow
orange yellow
outflow
overflow
pale yellow
peach-leaved willow
peachleaf willow
pillow
playfellow
plow
poppy mallow
prairie mallow
prairie willow
purple poppy mallow
purple willow
pussy willow
rate of flow
red false mallow
red willow
robin goodfellow
rose mallow
sage willow
sallow
salt marsh mallow
saul bellow
schoolfellow
sea swallow
seashore mallow
shadblow
shallow
shining willow
silky willow
silver willow
sir david alexander cecil low
sir david low
sitka willow
sky glow
snap willow
snowplow
solomon bellow
streamline flow
swallow
swamp mallow
swamp rose mallow
swamp willow
tall mallow
tallow
teaching fellow
throw pillow
tidal flow
tree mallow
tree swallow
turbulent flow
vegetable tallow
very low density lipoprotein
very low frequency
virginia mallow
wallow
wax mallow
waxmallow
weeping willow
white-bellied swallow
white mallow
white willow
whitlow
willow
winslow
wisconsin weeping willow
wood swallow
work flow
workfellow
workflow
yellow