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434 - Maps of Meaning
Blazing P2 - Map the Stages of Conventional Consciousness
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Maps of Meaning
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map ::: n. 1. A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens. 2. A maplike delineation, representation, or reflection of anything. maps, concept-maps. v. 3. To depict as if on a map. 4. To sketch or plan out. maps, mapped. :::
mapach ::: n. --> The raccoon.
maple ::: n. --> A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
maplike ::: a. --> Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
map ::: n. --> A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map. ::: v. t.
mapped ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Map
mappery ::: n. --> The making, or study, of maps.
mapping ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Map
MAP
1.{Manufacturing Automation Protocol}.
2. {Mathematical Analysis without Programming}.
(1996-12-01)
map
1.{function}.
2.In {functional programming}, the most common
{higher-order function} over lists. Map applies its first
argument to each element of its second argument (a list) and
returns the list of results.
map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
map f [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs
This can be generalised to types other than lists.
(1997-11-05)
MAPI
{Messaging Application Programming Interface}
Maple
A {symbolic mathematics} package by B. Char, K. Geddes,
G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of
Waterloo}, Canada and {ETH} Zurich, Switzerland in 1980.
Version: Maple V.
E-mail:. Mailing list:
glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu.
(1994-10-21)
mapping
{function}
MAPM 9636 195
mapach ::: n. --> The raccoon.
maple ::: n. --> A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
maplike ::: a. --> Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
map ::: n. --> A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map. ::: v. t.
mapped ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Map
mappery ::: n. --> The making, or study, of maps.
mapping ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Map
map ::: 1. (mathematics) function.2. (programming) In functional programming, the most common higher-order function over lists. Map applies its first argument to each element of its second argument (a list) and returns the list of results. map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] map f [] = [] (1997-11-05)
map ::: 1. (mathematics) function.2. (programming) In functional programming, the most common higher-order function over lists. Map applies its first argument to each element of its second argument (a list) and returns the list of results. map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]map f [] = [] (1997-11-05)
Maple ::: A symbolic mathematics package by B. Char, K. Geddes, G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the University of Waterloo, Canada and ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1980. Version: Maple V.E-mail: . Mailing list: (1994-10-21)
map: Also known as a mapping.
mapping: The generalised form of a function - with arguments (inputs) and values (outputs) where an argument may have more than one value.
Mapai ::: Israel's major labor party, Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Israel — Land of Israel Worker’s Party), was established in 1930 as a Zionist-socialist party and served as the dominant political party in the pre-state and early post-state years. The left-of-center Mapai led every coalition and owned the Premiership from 1948 until the party merged into the Labor alignment in 1968.
Mapam ::: A pioneering. left-wing labor-Zionist Israel party, founded in 1948, when Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir merged with Ahdut ha-Avodah-Po'alei Zion.
map ::: n. 1. A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens. 2. A maplike delineation, representation, or reflection of anything. maps, concept-maps. v. 3. To depict as if on a map. 4. To sketch or plan out. maps, mapped. :::
map ::: The ordered projection of axons from one region of the nervous system to another, by which the organization of the body (or some function) is reflected in the organization of the nervous system.
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1:Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers. ~ Ken Wilber, #KEYS
2:Dwell far above the laws that govern menAnd are not to be mapped by mortal judgments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act II, #KEYS
3:The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
4:For millennia magicians, philosophers and scientists and various other explorers have sought The Map of reality. This map has grown exponentially larger with the passage of time. ~ Peter J Carroll, The Octavo , #KEYS
5:Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ~ Alfred Korzybski, #KEYS
6:A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics , #KEYS
7:Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract wordA half-visible ground and travelling yard by yardIt mapped a system of the Self and God.I could not live the truth it spoke and thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
8:A map of subtle signs surpassing thoughtWas hung upon a wall of inmost mind.Illumining the world's concrete imagesInto significant symbols by its gloss, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
9:Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. ~ William S Anglin, #KEYS
10:By thee I have greatened my mortal arc of life,But now far heavens, unmapped infinitudesThou hast brought me, thy illimitable gift!If to fill these thou lift thy sacred flight,My human earth will still demand thy bliss.Make still my life through thee a song of joyAnd all my silence wide and deep with thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 12.01 - The Return to Earth, #KEYS
11:The danger of ceremonial magick-the subtlest and deepest danger-is this: that the Magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his own being, and arrange his invocations in such a way as to redress the balance. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA , #KEYS
12:The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called 'model agnosticism' and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, 'The map is not the territory.' Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as 'The menu is not the meal.' ~ Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger , #KEYS
13:In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. - Ken Wilber ~ Frank Visser, Ken Wilber Thought as Passion 1.01 - Foreward, #KEYS
14:Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn't matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting 'Hy-Brasil' on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can't manage that, then 'Here Be Dragons is better than nothing. Better than the void. ~ Terry Pratchett, #KEYS
15:Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot - we are introduced to the all-pervading Spiritual domain that the growing tip of our honored ancestors were the first to discover. And they were good enough to leave us a general map to that infinite domain, a map called the Great Nest of Being, a map of our own interiors, an archeology of our own Spirit. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology p. 190, #KEYS
16:So one of the things I do when a client comes is I just do a rough walk through of those dimensions its like does anybody care if youre alive or dead, you know, do you have any friends, do you have anybody that loves you, do you have an intimate relationship, how are things going with your family, do you have a job, are you as educated as you are intelligent, do you have any room for advancement in the future, do you do anything interesting outside of your job and if the answer to all of those is no.. its like your not depressed my friend you just are screwed. really. ~ Jordan Peterson, Narrative.php">015_Maps_of_Meaning.php">_Narrative Neuropsychology & Mythology II / Part 1, #KEYS
17:Theres another class of people and I would say this is one of the pathologies of being creative so if your a high open person and you have all those things its not going to be enough. you are going to have to pick another domain where you are working on something positive and revolutiony because like the creative impulse for someone who is open we know it is a fundamental personallity dimension, ... and if the ones who are high in openness arent doing something creative they are like dead sticks adn cant live properly. And I think those are the people who benefit particularly from depth psychological approaches, especially Jungian approaches. ~ Jordan Peterson, Narrative.php">015_Maps_of_Meaning.php">_Narrative Neuropsychology & Mythology II / Part 1, #KEYS
18:Jordan Peterson's Book List1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley2. 1984 - George Orwell3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson, #KEYS
19:so you distill these stories great authors distill stories and we have soties that are very very very old they are usually religious stories they could be fairy tales because some people ahve traced fairy tales back 10 000 years ... a story that has been told for 10000 years is a funny kind of story its like people have remembered it and obviously modified it, like a game of telephone that has gone on for generations and all that is left is what people remember and maybe they remember whats important, because you tend to remember what's important and its not necessarily the case that you know what the hell it means ... and you dont genereally know what a book that you read means not if its profound it means more than you can understand because otherwise why read it? ~ Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning 2017 - 1 , #KEYS
20:Two general and basic principles are proposed for the formation of categories: The first has to do with the function of category systems and asserts that the task of category systems is to provide maximum information with the least cognitive effort [("cognitive economy")]; the second has to do with the structure of the information so provided and asserts that the perceived world comes as structured information rather than than arbitrary or unpredictable attributes [("perceived world structure")]. Thus maximum information with least cognitive effort is achieved if categories map the perceived world structure as closely as possible. This condition can be achieved either by the mapping of categories to given attribute structures or by the definition or redefinition of attributes to render a given set of categories appropriately structured. ~ Rosch, 1978 p. 28, #KEYS
21:But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle of the night, since I did not know where I was, I did not even understand in the first moment who I was; all I had, in its original simplicity, was the sense of existence as it may quiver in the depths of an animal; I was more bereft than a caveman; but then the memory - not yet of the place where I was, but of several of those where I had lived and where I might have been - would come to me like help from on high to pull me out of the void from which I could not have got out on my own; I passed over centuries of civilization in one second, and the image confusedly glimpsed of oil lamps, then of wing-collar shirts, gradually recomposed my self's original features. ~ Marcel Proust, #KEYS
22:She sets the hard inventions of her brain In a pattern of eternal fixity: Indifferent to the cosmic dumb demand, Unconscious of too close realities, Of the unspoken thought, the voiceless heart, She leans to forge her credos and iron codes And metal structures to imprison life And mechanic models of all things that are. For the world seen she weaves a world conceived: She spins in stiff but unsubstantial lines Her gossamer word-webs of abstract thought, Her segment systems of the Infinite, Her theodicies and cosmogonic charts And myths by which she explains the inexplicable. At will she spaces in thin air of mind Like maps in the school-house of intellect hung, Forcing wide Truth into a narrow scheme, Her numberless warring strict philosophies; Out of Nature's body of phenomenon She carves with Thought's keen edge in rigid lines, Like rails for the World-Magician's power to run, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri , #KEYS
23:From above to below, the sefirot depict the drama of emanation, the transition from Ein Sof to creation. In the words of Azriel of Gerona, "They constitute the process by which all things come into being and pass away." From below to above, the sefirot constitute a ladder of ascent back to the One. The union of Tif'eret and Shekhinah gives birth to the human soul, and the mystical journey begins with the awareness of this spiritual fact of life. Shekhinah is the opening to the divine: "One who enters must enter through this gate." Once inside, the sefirot are no longer an abstract theological system; they become a map of consciousness. The mystic climbs and probes, discovering dimensions of being. Spiritual and psychological wholeness is achieved by meditating on the qualities of each sefirah, by imitating and integrating the attributes of God. "When you cleave to the sefirot, the divine holy spirit enters into you, into every sensation and every movement." But the path is not easy. Divine will can be harsh: Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac in order to balance love with rigor. From the Other Side, demonic forces threaten and seduce. [The demonic is rooted in the divine]. Contemplatively and psychologically, evil must be encountered, not evaded. By knowing and withstanding the dark underside of wisdom, the spiritual seeker is refined. ~ Daniel C Matt, The Essential Kabbalah , #KEYS
24:The great men of the past have given us glimpses of what is possible in the way of personality, of intellectual understanding, of spiritual achievement, of artistic creation. But these are scarcely more than Pisgah glimpses. We need to explore and map the whole realm of human possibility, as the realm of physical geography has been explored and mapped. How to create new possibilities for ordinary living? What can be done to bring out the latent capacities of the ordinary man and woman for understanding and enjoyment; to teach people the techniques of achieving spiritual experience (after all, one can acquire the technique of dancing or tennis, so why not of mystical ecstasy or spiritual peace?)... The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable. Already, we can justifiably hold the belief that these lands of possibility exist, and that the present limitations and miserable frustrations of our existence could be in large measure surmounted. We are already justified in the conviction that human life as we know it in history is a wretched makeshift, rooted in ignorance; and that it could be transcended by a state of existence based on the illumination of knowledge and comprehension, just as our modern control of physical nature based on science transcends the tentative fumblings of our ancestors, that were rooted in superstition and professional secrecy. ~ Julian Huxley, Transhumanism , #KEYS
25:As Korzybski and the general semanticists have pointed out, our words, symbols, signs, thoughts and ideas are merely maps of reality, not reality itself, because "the map is not the territory." The word "water" won't satisfy your thirst. But we live in the world of maps and words as if it were the real world. Following in the footsteps of Adam, we have become totally lost in a world of purely fantasy maps and boundaries. And these illusory boundaries, with the opposites they create, have become our impassioned battles. Most of our "problems of living," then, are based on the illusion that the opposites can and should be separated and isolated from one anotheR But since all opposites are actually aspects of one underlying reality, this is like trying to totally separate the two ends of a single rubber band. All you can do is pull harder and harder-until something violently snaps. Thus we might be able to understand that, in all the mystical traditions the world over, one who sees through the illusion of the opposites is called "liberated." Because he is "freed from the pairs" of opposites, he is freed in this life from the fundamentally nonsensical problems and conflicts involved in the war of opposites. He no longer manipulates the opposites one against the other in his search for peace, but instead transcends them both. Not good vs. evil but beyond good and evil. Not life against death but a center of awareness that transcends both. The point is not to separate the opposites and make "positive progress," but rather to unify and harmonize the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses them both. And that ground, as we will soon see, is unity consciousness itself. In the meantime, let us note, as does the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, that liberation is not freedom from the negative, but freedom from the pairs altogether: Content with getting what arrives of itself Passed beyond the pairs, free from envy, Not attached to success nor failure, Even acting, he is not bound. He is to be recognized as eternally free Who neither loathes nor craves; For he that is freed from the pairs, Is easily freed from conflict. ~ Ken Wilber, No Boundary , #KEYS
26:higher mind or late vision logic ::: Even more rare, found stably in less than 1% of the population and even more emergent is the turquoise altitude.Cognition at Turquoise is called late vision-logic or cross-paradigmatic and features the ability to connect meta-systems or paradigms, with other meta-systems. This is the realm of coordinating principles. Which are unified systems of systems of abstraction to other principles. ... Aurobindo indian sage and philosopher offers a more first-person account of turquoise which he called higher-mind, a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamism capable of formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming of all of which a spontaneous inherient knowledge.Self-sense at turquoise is called Construct-aware and is the first stage of Cook-Greuter's extension of Loveigers work on ego-development. The Construct-aware stage sees individuals for the first time as exploring more and more complex thought-structures with awareness of the automatic nature of human map making and absurdities which unbridaled complexity and logical argumentation can lead. Individuals at this stage begin to see their ego as a central point of reference and therefore a limit to growth. They also struggle to balance unique self-expressions and their concurrent sense of importance, the imperical and intuitive knowledge that there is no fundamental subject-object separation and the budding awareness of self-identity as temporary which leads to a decreased ego-desire to create a stable self-identity. Turquoise individuals are keenly aware of the interplay between awareness, thought, action and effects. They seek personal and spiritual transformation and hold a complex matrix of self-identifications, the adequecy of which they increasingly call into question. Much of this already points to Turquoise values which embrace holistic and intuitive thinking and alignment to universal order in a conscious fashion.Faith at Turquoise is called Universalising and can generate faith compositions in which conceptions of Ultimate Reality start to include all beings. Individuals at Turquoise faith dedicate themselves to transformation of present reality in the direction of transcendent actuality. Both of these are preludes to the coming of Third Tier. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-54 the Higher Mind, #KEYS
27:reading ::: Self-Help Reading List: James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904) Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2nd Century) The Bhagavad-Gita The Bible Robert Bly Iron John (1990) Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (6thC) Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980) David Brooks The Road to Character (2015) Brené Brown Daring Greatly (2012) David D Burns The New Mood Therapy (1980) Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth (1988) Richard Carlson Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (1997) Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994) Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012) Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (1988) Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991) The Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler The Art of Happiness (1999) The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings) Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit (2011) Wayne Dyer Real Magic (1992) Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841) Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves (1996) Viktor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning (1959) Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (1790) Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization (1982) Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence (1995) John Gray Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (1992) Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life (1984) James Hillman The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996) Susan Jeffers Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987) Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle (1998) Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) Ellen Langer Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (1989) Lao-Tzu Tao-te Ching (The Way of Power) Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics (1960) Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954) Thomas Moore Care of the Soul (1992) Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963) Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) M Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled (1990) Anthony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within (1991) Florence Scovell-Shinn The Game of Life and How To Play It (1923) Martin Seligman Learned Optimism (1991) Samuel Smiles Self-Help (1859) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955) Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854) Marianne Williamson A Return To Love (1993) ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Self-Help , #KEYS
28:INVOCATION The ultimate invocation, that of Kia, cannot be performed. The paradox is that as Kia has no dualized qualities, there are no attributes by which to invoke it. To give it one quality is merely to deny it another. As an observant dualistic being once said: I am that I am not. Nevertheless, the magician may need to make some rearrangements or additions to what he is. Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which one is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation. Alternatively, the process of invocation may be seen as adding to the magician's psyche any elements which are missing. It is true that the mind must be finally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered. The magical process of shuffling beliefs and desires attendant upon the process of invocation also demonstrates that one's dominant obsessions or personality are quite arbitrary, and hence more easily banished. There are many maps of the mind (psychocosms), most of which are inconsistent, contradictory, and based on highly fanciful theories. Many use the symbology of god forms, for all mythology embodies a psychology. A complete mythic pantheon resumes all of man's mental characteristics. Magicians will often use a pagan pantheon of gods as the basis for invoking some particular insight or ability, as these myths provide the most explicit and developed formulation of the particular idea's extant. However it is possible to use almost anything from the archetypes of the collective unconscious to the elemental qualities of alchemy. If the magician taps a deep enough level of power, these forms may manifest with sufficient force to convince the mind of the objective existence of the god. Yet the aim of invocation is temporary possession by the god, communication from the god, and manifestation of the god's magical powers, rather than the formation of religious cults. The actual method of invocation may be described as a total immersion in the qualities pertaining to the desired form. One invokes in every conceivable way. The magician first programs himself into identity with the god by arranging all his experiences to coincide with its nature. In the most elaborate form of ritual he may surround himself with the sounds, smells, colors, instruments, memories, numbers, symbols, music, and poetry suggestive of the god or quality. Secondly he unites his life force to the god image with which he has united his mind. This is accomplished with techniques from the gnosis. Figure 5 shows some examples of maps of the mind. Following are some suggestions for practical ritual invocation. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null , #KEYS
29:Ekajaṭī or Ekajaṭā, (Sanskrit: "One Plait Woman"; Wylie: ral gcig ma: one who has one knot of hair),[1] also known as Māhacīnatārā,[2] is one of the 21 Taras. Ekajati is, along with Palden Lhamo deity, one of the most powerful and fierce goddesses of Vajrayana Buddhist mythology.[1][3] According to Tibetan legends, her right eye was pierced by the tantric master Padmasambhava so that she could much more effectively help him subjugate Tibetan demons. Ekajati is also known as "Blue Tara", Vajra Tara or "Ugra Tara".[1][3] She is generally considered one of the three principal protectors of the Nyingma school along with Rāhula and Vajrasādhu (Wylie: rdo rje legs pa). Often Ekajati appears as liberator in the mandala of the Green Tara. Along with that, her ascribed powers are removing the fear of enemies, spreading joy, and removing personal hindrances on the path to enlightenment. Ekajati is the protector of secret mantras and "as the mother of the mothers of all the Buddhas" represents the ultimate unity. As such, her own mantra is also secret. She is the most important protector of the Vajrayana teachings, especially the Inner Tantras and termas. As the protector of mantra, she supports the practitioner in deciphering symbolic dakini codes and properly determines appropriate times and circumstances for revealing tantric teachings. Because she completely realizes the texts and mantras under her care, she reminds the practitioner of their preciousness and secrecy.[4] Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama meditated upon her in early childhood. According to Namkhai Norbu, Ekajati is the principal guardian of the Dzogchen teachings and is "a personification of the essentially non-dual nature of primordial energy."[5] Dzogchen is the most closely guarded teaching in Tibetan Buddhism, of which Ekajati is a main guardian as mentioned above. It is said that Sri Singha (Sanskrit: Śrī Siṃha) himself entrusted the "Heart Essence" (Wylie: snying thig) teachings to her care. To the great master Longchenpa, who initiated the dissemination of certain Dzogchen teachings, Ekajati offered uncharacteristically personal guidance. In his thirty-second year, Ekajati appeared to Longchenpa, supervising every ritual detail of the Heart Essence of the Dakinis empowerment, insisting on the use of a peacock feather and removing unnecessary basin. When Longchenpa performed the ritual, she nodded her head in approval but corrected his pronunciation. When he recited the mantra, Ekajati admonished him, saying, "Imitate me," and sang it in a strange, harmonious melody in the dakini's language. Later she appeared at the gathering and joyously danced, proclaiming the approval of Padmasambhava and the dakinis.[6] ~ Wikipedia, #KEYS
30:Death & FameWhen I dieI don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East River bury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey, B'nai Israel CemeteryBut I want a big funeral St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Mark's Church, the largest synagogue in ManhattanFirst, there's family, brother, nephews, spry aged Edith stepmother 96, Aunt Honey from old Newark,Doctor Joel, cousin Mindy, brother Gene one eyed one ear'd, sister-in-law blonde Connie, five nephews, stepbrothers & sisters their grandchildren, companion Peter Orlovsky, caretakers Rosenthal & Hale, Bill Morgan--Next, teacher Trungpa Vajracharya's ghost mind, Gelek Rinpoche, there Sakyong Mipham, Dalai Lama alert, chance visiting America, Satchitananda Swami Shivananda, Dehorahava Baba, Karmapa XVI, Dudjom Rinpoche, Katagiri & Suzuki Roshi's phantoms Baker, Whalen, Daido Loorie, Qwong, Frail White-haired Kapleau Roshis, Lama Tarchen --Then, most important, lovers over half-century Dozens, a hundred, more, older fellows bald & rich young boys met naked recently in bed, crowds surprised to see each other, innumerable, intimate, exchanging memories"He taught me to meditate, now I'm an old veteran of the thousandday retreat --""I played music on subway platforms, I'm straight but loved him he loved me""I felt more love from him at 19 than ever from anyone""We'd lie under covers gossip, read my poetry, hug & kiss belly to belly arms round each other""I'd always get into his bed with underwear on & by morning my skivvies would be on the floor""Japanese, always wanted take it up my bum with a master""We'd talk all night about Kerouac & Cassady sit Buddhalike then sleep in his captain's bed.""He seemed to need so much affection, a shame not to make him happy""I was lonely never in bed nude with anyone before, he was so gentle my stomach shuddered when he traced his finger along my abdomen nipple to hips-- ""All I did was lay back eyes closed, he'd bring me to come with mouth & fingers along my waist""He gave great head"So there be gossip from loves of 1948, ghost of Neal Cassady commin-gling with flesh and youthful blood of 1997 and surprise -- "You too? But I thought you were straight!""I am but Ginsberg an exception, for some reason he pleased me.""I forgot whether I was straight gay queer or funny, was myself, tender and affectionate to be kissed on the top of my head, my forehead throat heart & solar plexus, mid-belly. on my prick, tickled with his tongue my behind""I loved the way he'd recite 'But at my back allways hear/ time's winged chariot hurrying near,' heads together, eye to eye, on a pillow --"Among lovers one handsome youth straggling the rear"I studied his poetry class, 17 year-old kid, ran some errands to his walk-up flat, seduced me didn't want to, made me come, went home, never saw him again never wanted to... ""He couldn't get it up but loved me," "A clean old man." "He made sure I came first"This the crowd most surprised proud at ceremonial place of honor--Then poets & musicians -- college boys' grunge bands -- age-old rock star Beatles, faithful guitar accompanists, gay classical con-ductors, unknown high Jazz music composers, funky trum-peters, bowed bass & french horn black geniuses, folksinger fiddlers with dobro tamborine harmonica mandolin auto-harp pennywhistles & kazoosNext, artist Italian romantic realists schooled in mystic 60's India, Late fauve Tuscan painter-poets, Classic draftsman Massa-chusets surreal jackanapes with continental wives, poverty sketchbook gesso oil watercolor masters from American provincesThen highschool teachers, lonely Irish librarians, delicate biblio-philes, sex liberation troops nay armies, ladies of either sex"I met him dozens of times he never remembered my name I loved him anyway, true artist""Nervous breakdown after menopause, his poetry humor saved me from suicide hospitals""Charmant, genius with modest manners, washed sink, dishes my studio guest a week in Budapest"Thousands of readers, "Howl changed my life in Libertyville Illinois""I saw him read Montclair State Teachers College decided be a poet-- ""He turned me on, I started with garage rock sang my songs in Kansas City""Kaddish made me weep for myself & father alive in Nevada City""Father Death comforted me when my sister died Boston l982""I read what he said in a newsmagazine, blew my mind, realized others like me out there"Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gesturesThen Journalists, editors's secretaries, agents, portraitists & photo-graphy aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural historians come to witness the historic funeral Super-fans, poetasters, aging Beatnicks & Deadheads, autograph-hunters, distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkersEveryone knew they were part of 'History" except the deceased who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was aliveFebruary 22, 1997 ~ Allen Ginsberg, #KEYS
31:For instance, a popular game with California occultists-I do not know its inventor-involves a Magic Room, much like the Pleasure Dome discussed earlier except that this Magic Room contains an Omniscient Computer. To play this game, you simply "astrally project" into the Magic Room. Do not ask what "astral projection" means, and do not assume it is metaphysical (and therefore either impossible, if you are a materialist, or very difficult, if you are a mystic). Just assume this is a gedankenexperiment, a "mind game." Project yourself, in imagination, into this Magic Room and visualize vividly the Omniscient Computer, using the details you need to make such a super-information-processor real to your fantasy. You do not need any knowledge of programming to handle this astral computer. It exists early in the next century; you are getting to use it by a species of time-travel, if that metaphor is amusing and helpful to you. It is so built that it responds immediately to human brain-waves, "reading" them and decoding their meaning. (Crude prototypes of such computers already exist.) So, when you are in this magic room, you can ask this Computer anything, just by thinking of what you want to know. It will read your thought, and project into your brain, by a laser ray, the correct answer. There is one slight problem. The computer is very sensitive to all brain-waves. If you have any doubts, it registers them as negative commands, meaning "Do not answer my question." So, the way to use it is to start simply, with "easy" questions. Ask it to dig out of the archives the name of your second-grade teacher. (Almost everybody remembers the name of their first grade teacher-imprint vulnerability again-but that of the second grade teacher tends to get lost.) When the computer has dug out the name of your second grade teacher, try it on a harder question, but not one that is too hard. It is very easy to sabotage this machine, but you don't want to sabotage it during these experiments. You want to see how well it can be made to perform. It is wise to ask only one question at a time, since it requires concentration to keep this magic computer real on the field of your perception. Do not exhaust your capacities for imagination and visualization on your first trial runs. After a few trivial experiments of the second-grade-teacher variety, you can try more interesting programs. Take a person toward whom you have negative feelings, such as anger, disappointment, feeling-of-betrayal, jealousy or whatever interferes with the smooth, tranquil operation of your own bio-computer. Ask the Magic Computer to explain that other person to you; to translate you into their reality-tunnel long enough for you to understand how events seem to them. Especially, ask how you seem to them. This computer will do that job for you; but be prepared for some shocks which might be disagreeable at first. This super-brain can also perform exegesis on ideas that seem obscure, paradoxical or enigmatic to us. For instance, early experiments with this computer can very profitably turn on asking it to explain some of the propositions in this book which may seem inexplicable or perversely wrong-headed to you, such as "We are all greater artists than we realize" or "What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves" or "mind and its contents are functionally identical." This computer is much more powerful and scientifically advanced than the rapture-machine in the neurosomatic circuit. It has total access to all the earlier, primitive circuits, and overrules any of them. That is, if you put a meta-programming instruction into this computer; it will relay it downward to the old circuits and cancel contradictory programs left over from the past. For instance, try feeding it on such meta-programming instructions as: 1. I am at cause over my body. 2. I am at cause over my imagination. 3.1 am at cause over my future. 4. My mind abounds with beauty and power. 5.1 like people, and people like me. Remember that this computer is only a few decades ahead of present technology, so it cannot "understand" your commands if you harbor any doubts about them. Doubts tell it not to perform. Work always from what you can believe in, extending the area of belief only as results encourage you to try for more dramatic transformations of your past reality-tunnels. This represents cybernetic consciousness; the programmer becoming self-programmer, self-metaprogrammer, meta-metaprogrammer, etc. Just as the emotional compulsions of the second circuit seem primitive, mechanical and, ultimately, silly to the neurosomatic consciousness, so, too, the reality maps of the third circuit become comic, relativistic, game-like to the metaprogrammer. "Whatever you say it is, it isn't, " Korzybski, the semanticist, repeated endlessly in his seminars, trying to make clear that third-circuit semantic maps are not the territories they represent; that we can always make maps of our maps, revisions of our revisions, meta-selves of our selves. "Neti, neti" (not that, not that), Hindu teachers traditionally say when asked what "God" is or what "Reality" is. Yogis, mathematicians and musicians seem more inclined to develop meta-programming consciousness than most of humanity. Korzybski even claimed that the use of mathematical scripts is an aid to developing this circuit, for as soon as you think of your mind as mind 1, and the mind which contemplates that mind as mind2 and the mind which contemplates mind2 contemplating mind 1 as mind3, you are well on your way to meta-programming awareness. Alice in Wonderland is a masterful guide to the metaprogramming circuit (written by one of the founders of mathematical logic) and Aleister Crowley soberly urged its study upon all students of yoga. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising , #KEYS
32:SECTION 1. Books for Serious Study Liber CCXX. (Liber AL vel Legis.) The Book of the Law. This book is the foundation of the New Æon, and thus of the whole of our work. The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation. Liber ABA (Book 4). A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. In four parts: (1) Mysticism (2) Magical (Elementary Theory) (3) Magick in Theory and Practice (this book) (4) The Law. Liber II. The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the essence of the new Law in a very simple manner. Liber DCCCXXXVIII. The Law of Liberty. A further explanation of The Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems. Collected Works of A. Crowley. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy. The Yi King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XVI], Oxford University Press.) The "Classic of Changes"; give the initiated Chinese system of Magick. The Tao Teh King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XXXIX].) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism. Tannhäuser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled. The Upanishads. (S. B. E. Series [vols. I & XV.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism. The Bhagavad-gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ", expounds a system of Attainment. The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Frater O.M., 7°=48, is the most learned of all the Brethren of the Order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece. Raja-Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda. An excellent elementary study of Hindu mysticism. His Bhakti-Yoga is also good. The Shiva Samhita. An account of various physical means of assisting the discipline of initiation. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices. The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to the Shiva Samhita. The Aphorisms of Patanjali. A valuable collection of precepts pertaining to mystical attainment. The Sword of Song. A study of Christian theology and ethics, with a statement and solution of the deepest philosophical problems. Also contains the best account extant of Buddhism, compared with modern science. The Book of the Dead. A collection of Egyptian magical rituals. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, by Eliphas Levi. The best general textbook of magical theory and practice for beginners. Written in an easy popular style. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The best exoteric account of the Great Work, with careful instructions in procedure. This Book influenced and helped the Master Therion more than any other. The Goetia. The most intelligible of all the mediæval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favourite Invocation of the Master Therion. Erdmann's History of Philosophy. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind. The Spiritual Guide of [Miguel de] Molinos. A simple manual of Christian Mysticism. The Star in the West. (Captain Fuller). An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley. The Dhammapada. (S. B. E. Series [vol. X], Oxford University Press). The best of the Buddhist classics. The Questions of King Milinda. (S. B. E. Series [vols. XXXV & XXXVI].) Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated bydialogues. Liber 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticæ Viæ Explicandæ, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicam Sanctissimorum Scientiæ Summæ. A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English language. Varieties of Religious Experience (William James). Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment. Kabbala Denudata, von Rosenroth: also The Kabbalah Unveiled, by S.L. Mathers. The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject. Konx Om Pax [by Aleister Crowley]. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysticism and Magick. The Pistis Sophia [translated by G.R.S. Mead or Violet McDermot]. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism. The Oracles of Zoroaster [Chaldæan Oracles]. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master. The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy. The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium. Scrutinium Chymicum [Atalanta Fugiens]¸ by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy. Science and the Infinite, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years. Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus [A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus &c. &c. &c.], by Richard Payne Knight [and Thomas Wright]. Invaluable to all students. The Golden Bough, by J.G. Frazer. The textbook of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation. Three Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of Subjective Idealism. Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academic Scepticism. First Principles by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism. Prolegomena [to any future Metaphysics], by Immanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. The Canon [by William Stirling]. The best textbook of Applied Qabalah. The Fourth Dimension, by [Charles] H. Hinton. The best essay on the subject. The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA Appendix I: Literature Recommended to Aspirants, #KEYS
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1:Speak ye the truth. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
2:Taoists don’t have any maps. ~ Osho, #NFDB
3: L'Hermaphrodite
~ Albert Samain,#NFDB
4:Keyboarding Mapwork ~ Sarah Mackenzie, #NFDB
5:MAPLE-OAT BANANA BREAD ~ Thug Kitchen, #NFDB
6:I have always loved maps. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
7:maple-flavored whale shit. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
8:A map shows maybes. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
9:There's no map to human behaviour. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
10:I wisely started with a map. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
11:semaphore of the palps. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
12:Sorrow is the daughter of evil. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
13:We were just looking at maps. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
14:Folk Music is the map of singing. ~ Alan Lomax, #NFDB
15:The map? I will first make it. ~ Patrick White, #NFDB
16:We were just looking at maps... ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
17:A novel is a tricky thing to map. ~ Reif Larsen, #NFDB
18:I wish I could be elegant. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
19:Number forty-nine has been mapped. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
20:The map is not the territory. ~ Alfred Korzybski, #NFDB
21:The mind map will change your life. ~ Tony Buzan, #NFDB
22:There's no map for being an artist. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
23:Why are old maps always burnt? ~ Chelsea Peretti, #NFDB
24:You can’t map a sense of humor. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
25:Y un horario es un mapa del tiempo, ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
26:A map, it is said, organizes wonder. ~ Ellen Meloy, #NFDB
27:Believe the terrain, not the map ~ Brian Kernighan, #NFDB
28:She was a road trip without a map. ~ Georgia Clark, #NFDB
29:Strive forcefully, cross the current. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
30:A language is a map of our failures ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
31:I didn’t know the map of prestige. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
32:The World is a Treasure Map. ~ Roger James Hamilton, #NFDB
33:What is it but a map of busy life, ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
34:Science's job is to map our ignorance. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
35:There is no fire that can equal desire. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
36:True places are not found on maps. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
37:Geography is the art of the mappable. ~ Peter Haggett, #NFDB
38:In spring when maple buds are red, ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
39:So, if I looked him up on google maps- ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
40:The maple leaves grow restless. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
41:I carried recipes in my head like maps. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
42:Israel must be wiped off the map. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #NFDB
43:Put down that map and get wonderfully lost. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
44:Art is the act of navigating without a map. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
45:Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
46:You can't use an old map to see a new land. ~ Gary Hamel, #NFDB
47:Life is a journey I don't have a map for. ~ Delta Goodrem, #NFDB
48:Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
49:Ones vision is not a road map but a compass. ~ Peter Block, #NFDB
50:There’s just something hypnotic about maps. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
51:Happiness? No, it's not there for me. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
52:I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
53:Sometimes the best map will not guide you, ~ Bruce Cockburn, #NFDB
54:Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
55:There is no Google maps app for your life. ~ Mishka Shubaly, #NFDB
56:Life was a big thing to live without a map. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
57:Mapping out a campus that can embrace the future ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
58:My name’s Mapo,” the boy says. “Mesa Jar Jar. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
59:To ask for a map is to say, “Tell me a story. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
60:The map appears to us more real than the land. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
61:There is no happiness so great as peace of mind. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
62:To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story." ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
63:All I ever wanted was a world without maps. ~ Michael Ondaatje, #NFDB
64:Beauty and the devil are the same thing. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
65:Cross force-fully the torrent flood of the world. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
66:Principles are the territory. Values are maps. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
67:I believe that life is a journey without maps. ~ K Natwar Singh, #NFDB
68:Our losses become the road maps for our future. ~ Jill Bialosky, #NFDB
69:Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet. ~ Kelly Link, #NFDB
70:This relationship is going to be built on trust. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
71:All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. ~ Paula Scher, #NFDB
72:Because there is no map for where we are going... ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
73:It isn't down in any map; true places never are. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
74:My first occupation was to map the country. ~ John Hanning Speke, #NFDB
75:Scotland has no unity except on the map ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
76:The desert wasn’t mappable. It ate map-makers. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
77:the unknown breeds dragons in map margins ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
78:Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
79:When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
80:If you want Neil Gaiman I could draw you a map. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
81:I hunt in the refrigerator and find some maple syrup. ~ E L James, #NFDB
82:I just try to live my life and do my thing. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
83:Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
84:Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
85:Scars are the maps to the story of where we’ve been. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
86:excoriated and burned, mapped and measured and meted ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
87:Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
88:I'm a mapmaker. I'm not even a very good mapmaker. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
89:It's not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
90:Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge, #NFDB
91:Okay, welcome to Creepy Territory. Here's your map. ~ Cate Tiernan, #NFDB
92:You can't use an old map to explore a new world. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
93:I have cuts and bruises that do not map a course. ~ Margo Jefferson, #NFDB
94:I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan. ~ Sean Hannity, #NFDB
95:It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
96:It is not down on any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
97:There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
98:If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. ~ Watts Humphrey, #NFDB
99:Tattoos are a road map of the bearer’s personal journey. ~ Tami Hoag, #NFDB
100:The map is more interesting than the territory. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
101:There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
102:To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up. ~ Peter Gallagher, #NFDB
103:Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ~ Eric Bentley, #NFDB
104:I'm very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
105:I want to see something I've never seen before. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
106:She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
107:She was too small and the space covered by maps too big. ~ John Green, #NFDB
108:Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine. ~ Jo Ann Mapson, #NFDB
109:That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
110:The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
111:El mapa electoral de Europa está cambiando aceleradamente, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
112:the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
113:I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. ~ Ben Casnocha, #NFDB
114:It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
115:Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
116:I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
117:Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
118:My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
119:Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map. ~ Ed Stetzer, #NFDB
120:The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life, ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
121:War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
122:When darkness envelops you, do you not seek for a lamp? ~ Dammapada 146, #NFDB
123:Braised pork on a bed of polenta drizzled with maple syrup. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
124:For men, life is a highway. For women it is a roadmap. ~ Allison Pearson, #NFDB
125:I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
126:Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
127:"One should never dogmatize, but always analyze." ~ Anagarika Dharmapala, #NFDB
128:Problems don’t need a map. They’ll follow you everywhere. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
129:The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
130:When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
131:For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
132:I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language. ~ William Finnegan, #NFDB
133:I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
134:I just want to be written about as a normal artist. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
135:I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
136:Não há mapas. Não é possível mapear o sentido de humor. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
137:semaphoring a ‘hello’ to someone with his eyebrows. “Let’s ~ Celina Grace, #NFDB
138:The "Updating fonts" - Map screen was shown after few minutes ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
139:This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
140:To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
141:It is you who must make the effort; the sages can only teach. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
142:Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. ~ Chris Brogan, #NFDB
143:What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge, #NFDB
144:When I create art, it's like holding hands with God. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
145:Your product roadmap is the prototype for your strategy. ~ C Todd Lombardo, #NFDB
146:Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
147:Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map. ~ Neville Chamberlain, #NFDB
148:saw Gamache shaking his head he reconsidered. “Not the maps? ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
149:semaphored warning as well as I could. He took the hint. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
150:We have better maps of Mars than we do of our own seabeds. At ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
151:When you have seen your aim, hold to it, firm and unshakeable. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
152:Contents Dedication List of Illustrations List of Maps ~ Christopher Clark, #NFDB
153:Every map intends not simply to serve us but to influence us. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
154:I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
155:I am an iceberg drifting toward the edge of the map. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
156:I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
157:Mapu-ché, «gente de la tierra», así se llaman ellos mismos, ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
158:My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map. ~ Katie Cassidy, #NFDB
159:There are those who follow maps, and those who make them. ~ Alberto Villoldo, #NFDB
160:We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
161:Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps; ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
162:If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
163:In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
164:There would be no moon maps in Frank Borman’s house, however ~ Jeffrey Kluger, #NFDB
165:The two men used their arms to semaphore greetings and good-byes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
166:This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
167:We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
168:What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
169:Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
170:I was a sitting duck myself, and Arthur had a map of my nerves. ~ Tobias Wolff, #NFDB
171:Ones vision is not a roadmap but a compass. ~ Peter Block Business Philosopher, #NFDB
172:She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence. ~ Simon Wood, #NFDB
173:...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
174:Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
175:My destiny doomed me to be in this desert land. I will map it. ~ David Grossman, #NFDB
176:My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
177:My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
178:One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. ~ Scott Joplin, #NFDB
179:The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass. ~ Haddon W Robinson, #NFDB
180:To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. ~ William Carey, #NFDB
181:Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
182:Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped. ~ Fritjof Capra, #NFDB
183:Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man ~ Witold Gombrowicz, #NFDB
184:One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
185:The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps ~ Bob Black, #NFDB
186:the sprawling branches of the maple tree were plush with autumn. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
187:trying to map the brain has often been called “cartography for fools. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
188:When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
189:I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
190:I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map. ~ Rory Stewart, #NFDB
191:I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. ~ Greg Kinnear, #NFDB
192:That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
193:The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was. ~ Galt Niederhoffer, #NFDB
194:What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
195:What joy is there in this world which is everywhere a prey to flames? ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
196:Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
197:You read me,” Myron said, “like Vasco da Gama reads a map.” Dimonte ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
198:Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
199:If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
200:I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
201:La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atrás. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
202:Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
203:Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map. ~ William Carey, #NFDB
204:Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries, ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
205:Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
206:Goodbye is the waving map of your palm, is a stone on my tongue. ~ Natasha Trethewey, #NFDB
207:Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death. ~ John Carpenter, #NFDB
208:If you are a hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
209:Retire into thyself as into an island and set thyself to the work. ~ Dhammapada. 236, #NFDB
210:The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
211:Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
212:A map is not the territory and is not as interesting as the territory. ~ Amit Goswami, #NFDB
213:But brain maps for the fingers, often used in precise ways, are huge. ~ Norman Doidge, #NFDB
214:Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. ~ Hal Duncan, #NFDB
215:I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
216:I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
217:I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city. ~ Sarah McLachlan, #NFDB
218:So the unknown breeds dragons in map margins, she reflected... ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
219:The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. ~ Nicholas Meyer, #NFDB
220:You must name a thing before you can note it on your hand drawn map. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
221:150.97768 WEST 164 At first, I think they might be coordinates on a map. ~ Riley Sager, #NFDB
222:don’t waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping ~ Jesse Duplantis, #NFDB
223:I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
224:Legend says this map is unobtainable,” Poe noted. “How’d you do it? ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
225:Let yesterday be a map that guides your steps today, and tomorrow.” “The ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
226:Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge, #NFDB
227:The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
228:The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas. ~ Marcelo Gleiser, #NFDB
229:The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
230:There’s something both threatening and enticing about the end of a map. ~ Phil Brucato, #NFDB
231:To explore a woman who’s never been touched is like finding a treasure map ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
232:Autumn, whispering through the maples,
Pleaded: 'Die here with me! ~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
233:Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
234:Scars are just a treasure map of pain we've buried too deep to remember. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
235:Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
236:Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out. ~ David Luiz, #NFDB
237:God’s Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
238:Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. ~ William Irwin Thompson, #NFDB
239:I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
240:Let a man make haste towards good, let him turn away his thought from evil. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
241:Let him repulse lust and coveting, the disciple who would lead a holy life. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
242:Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
243:Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map! ~ Jeff Smith, #NFDB
244:Popular and unpopular don’t necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course. ~ Hal Duncan, #NFDB
245:These are the ruins
I mapped onto my body so I might always be lost. ~ Traci Brimhall,#NFDB
246:We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk. ~ Margot Livesey, #NFDB
247:Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
248:He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big. ~ Jude Morgan, #NFDB
249:I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
250:In the nineteenth century, maps often indicated watering holes for horses. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
251:Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
252:I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
253:I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going ~ Debby Ryan, #NFDB
254:Scares are just a tresure map for pain you've buried too depp to remember. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
255:Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
256:I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map. ~ Anne Sexton,#NFDB
257:I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
258:I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket. ~ Brittany Murphy, #NFDB
259:Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
260:Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it. ~ Jo Ann Mapson, #NFDB
261:Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere. ~ Justina Chen, #NFDB
262:"The most powerful, smallest and largest thing in the universe is the mind." ~ 16th Karmapa, #NFDB
263:There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
264:These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world. ~ Jay Sankey, #NFDB
265:The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. “Mapleshade,” she mewed. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
266:If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
267:If you do not meet a sage following the same road as yourself, then walk alone. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
268:If you never open a map until you're lost, you're missing out on all the fun. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
269:Like you helped my kits?” Mapleshade growled. “Never! I hope you die in agony! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
270:She tries to search her heart, but the map is old and the compass is faulty. ~ Nicola Barker, #NFDB
271:The first lie of a map—also the first lie of fiction—is that it is the truth. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
272:The map was the key to opening the door, and it was still at Oskar’s shop. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
273:When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe. ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
274:All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. —Michael Ondaatje ~ Shobha Rao, #NFDB
275:¿Qué es un mapa sino una forma de destacar ciertas cosas y disimular otras? ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
276:The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. ~ Donna Farhi, #NFDB
277:The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map. ~ Shimon Peres, #NFDB
278:A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
279:And maps can really point to places
Where life is evil now:
Nanking. Dachau. ~ W H Auden,#NFDB
280:As Riley looked, she saw that the three locations formed a triangle on the map. ~ Blake Pierce, #NFDB
281:Did she want to follow a well-worn trail, or did she want to become a mapmaker? ~ Hazel Gaynor, #NFDB
282:Don't know how to make a glaze? No problem. Just pour maple syrup on that thing. ~ Hannah Hart, #NFDB
283:I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker. ~ Shay Youngblood, #NFDB
284:Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
285:[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge, #NFDB
286:Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
287:the Collection of Aphorisms (sometimes referred to as the Tibetan Dhammapada). ~ Thupten Jinpa, #NFDB
288:When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB
289:Cut away in thee the love of thyself, even as in autumn thy hand plucks the lotus. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
290:Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
291:God's mapmakers rely on Christ not cheap human tricks, to draw people to the truth. ~ Eric Ludy, #NFDB
292:He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe) ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
293:If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup. ~ Nancy Greene, #NFDB
294:I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
295:One should guard oneself like a frontier citadel well defended—without and within. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
296:There are maps in me but I am lost, and there are skies in me but they are dead. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
297:What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going?
-Mr. Map ~ Catherynne M Valente,#NFDB
298:Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
299:Ish #109 "If MapQuest says make a right, go straight. You'll get there quicker. ~ Regina Griffin, #NFDB
300:People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
301:The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
302:To learn how to read any map is to be indoctrinated into that mapmaker’s culture. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
303:"We must recognize that without taming oneself, one cannot possibly tame others." ~ 17th Karmapa, #NFDB
304:We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
305:You shall wander in the darkness and see not till you have found the eternal Light. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
306:An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ~ Johnnie Cochran, #NFDB
307:I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
308:If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
309:I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
310:I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
311:It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
312:Jana était mapuche, fille d'un peuple sur lequel on avait tiré à vue dans la pampa. ~ Caryl F rey, #NFDB
313:My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
314:People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
315:There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites. ~ Samora Machel, #NFDB
316:A man I knew once told me that freckles were a map for kissing. A path to pleasure. ~ Megan Chance, #NFDB
317:But it’s no surprise; lost people everywhere and none of them accepting my free maps. ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
318:but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made. ~ Priya Ardis, #NFDB
319:My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
320:Sometimes I imagine a map composed only of the places I’d like to see once more. ~ Andrzej Stasiuk, #NFDB
321:the proper natural mapping requires no diagrams, no labels, and no instructions. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
322:The words are purposes. The words are maps. ADRIENNE RICH, “Diving into the Wreck ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
323:Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
324:I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map. ~ Richard Davidson, #NFDB
325:... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set! ~ Fran Drescher, #NFDB
326:I'm somewhere she can't find, and I don't have the map to give her that leads to me. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
327:I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine. ~ Kurt Rambis, #NFDB
328:She is neither an explorer nor a mapmaker, but she can always find her way to my heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
329:En un lugar más allá del borde del mapa de la sociedad, el Piloto siempre vive y muere ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
330:I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening. ~ Denis Johnson, #NFDB
331:I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
332:Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow. ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
333:All that we are is the result of what we have thought,” according to the Dhammapada. ~ Richard Restak, #NFDB
334:If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
335:I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
336:Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
337:She was going to be lost if she wasn’t able to use his skin as a roadmap back to sanity. ~ Elise Kova, #NFDB
338:Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map. ~ James Carlos Blake, #NFDB
339:When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
340:When thou art enfranchised from all hate and desire, then shalt thou win thy liberation. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
341:Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse. ~ Freya Stark, #NFDB
342:Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
343:[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
344:I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
345:I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
346:I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map. ~ George Ella Lyon, #NFDB
347:In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work. ~ David Grann, #NFDB
348:I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
349:A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety. ~ E B White, #NFDB
350:It is by gentleness that one must conquer wrath, it is by good that one must conquer evil. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
351:Leaders in an execution culture design strategies that are more road maps than rigid paths ~ Ram Charan, #NFDB
352:Pasear, paradójicamente, hace posible la quietud. Pasear es trazar un mapa con los pies. ~ Lauren Elkin, #NFDB
353:problem of simultaneous localization and mapping, which they refer to as SLAM. SLAM ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
354:The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
355:This map was one of those dangerous magical objects Mr. Weasley had been warning against. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
356:Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
357:When we allow ourselves to explore, we discover destinations that were never on our map. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
358:You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world. ~ Ray Kroc, #NFDB
359:...as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows. ~ John Ashbery, #NFDB
360:I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
361:I'm just one molecule of plastic in the composition of a little pin on a very large map ~ Ashok K Banker, #NFDB
362:Listen to me. When a physicist starts talking about souls, we are officially off the map. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
363:Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
364:What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
365:"You offer joy and happiness to another person, and it reflects back into your own life." ~ 17th Karmapa, #NFDB
366:I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off. ~ Rachel McAdams, #NFDB
367:In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
368:Just as she had promised to Reedshine, Mapleshade’s desire for vengeance would never sleep. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
369:On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data. ~ Jeremy Stoppelman, #NFDB
370:Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. This ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
371:Therefore we set out diligently to explore and map these untrodden regions of the mind. ~ James Wasserman, #NFDB
372:not the map that should make sense of the land, but the land that will make a map for us. ~ Tristan Gooley, #NFDB
373:The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
374:you couldn’t find
your way out of a small shed with a map, lighted signs, and an
escort ~ Penny Reid,#NFDB
375:You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
376:All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~ Earl Nightingale, #NFDB
377:A MAN WITHOUT A MAP WILL BE A MAN WITHOUT A HEART; HE’LL LACK BOTH PASSION AND COMPASSION. ~ Darrin Patrick, #NFDB
378:But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. ~ Mary Mapes Dodge, #NFDB
379:..his tone, like warm maple syrup, drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up. ~ Jasmine Haynes, #NFDB
380:Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus? ~ Jessica Simpson, #NFDB
381:Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. ~ John Tuzo Wilson, #NFDB
382:for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible? ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
383:Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
384:I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
385:It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. ~ Ali Khamenei, #NFDB
386:Lies are complicated, Ivy. The truth is easy. It flows like maple sap on a warm spring day. ~ Cynthia Ruchti, #NFDB
387:maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
388:My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
389:Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
390:The more time you spend mapping out an approach, the more likely you are to get attached to it. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
391:I looked at the paper. Maps were more accurate back when they thought you could sail off them. ~ Matt Abraham, #NFDB
392:It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke. ~ Cameron Conaway, #NFDB
393:Edwin, I'm so lost a map and a compass and a whole pack of bloodhounds couldn't find me again. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
394:He who regards the body as a milage or as a flake of foam on the waves, shall no longer see death ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
395:My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
396:shouldn’t do anything suspicious, like trying to map out the entire city in the first week. ~ Antonio J M ndez, #NFDB
397:The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
398:Thyself stimulate and direct thyself; thus self-protected and clairvoyant thou shalt live happy.— ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
399:What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding? ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
400:A reading life... is an adventure without maps where you meet unexpected soulmates along the way. ~ Joe Queenan, #NFDB
401:Between 1941 and 1945, maps of Pacific typhoon lanes may as well have been marked “Here Be Dragons. ~ Bob Drury, #NFDB
402:If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
403:Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost. ~ Jeanne Birdsall, #NFDB
404:People who know and love the same books you do have the roadmap of your soul. I believe that. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
405:Start with a “discussion map” of where to prioritize different concerns, such as customer feedback. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
406:The walls were smooth and whitewashed a pig-blood pink. Pascal folded the map he’d been studying ~ Jeremy Bates, #NFDB
407:Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things. ~ Jo Ann Mapson, #NFDB
408:You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
409:Estos devaneos son inútiles. La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atrás. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
410:I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
411:I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
412:Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
413:Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
414:Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. ~ Steve Cropper, #NFDB
415:Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
416:The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
417:The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. ~ Cara Black, #NFDB
418:You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
419:His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
420:I had a map on my wall, and every time I read about a place I wanted to go, I marked it on the map. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
421:I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
422:It’s as if that map they gave us is nothing to do with the actual experience of being here, she said. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
423:Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you? ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
424:The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map. ~ Anodea Judith, #NFDB
425:The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
426:We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
427:We’re looking for places that aren’t on a map. If we put them on one, then anybody could find them. ~ Pat Cadigan, #NFDB
428:And it seemed to me that Dante’s face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
429:Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
430:Glory sipped her second glass of red wine, impatient for the slight buzz that made her edges blur. ~ Jo Ann Mapson, #NFDB
431:Hallelujah might be putting itself on the map, but that mark would be made in blood, as well as iron. ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
432:I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
433:Il volto umano non mente mai: è l'unica mappa che segna tutti i territori in cui abbiamo vissuto. ~ Luis Sep lveda, #NFDB
434:No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school ground, anyway. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
435:What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations? ~ Luke Davies, #NFDB
436:...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
437:I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
438:I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
439:Let us act towards others as we would that they should act towards us: let us not cause any suffering. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
440:Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
441:I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
442:Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
443:Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
444:Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
445:she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
446:… What’s the map of?” “It provides detailed directions to the Empire of None of Your Fucking Concern. ~ Jay Kristoff, #NFDB
447:Courage implies action. like you are going somewhere or going to do something. Courage. Maps.Movement ~ Annie F Downs, #NFDB
448:He was intolerant of quiet,” says Walter Map, “and did not hesitate to disturb almost half of Christendom. ~ John Guy, #NFDB
449:I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
450:I don’t work that way.” Bleak eyes met his. “I need a map. A sign that says where the beginning is. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
451:I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
452:Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
453:Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me. ~ Tonya Harding, #NFDB
454:That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
455:Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. ~ Christina Baldwin, #NFDB
456:You can't study the map forever. At some point it's time to start walking; there is only so much daylight. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
457:Focalizá en soluciones y estarás construyendo nuevas alternativas, nuevos mapas neuronales para el cambio. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
458:Good,” Mapp said. “That’s very good. Eat some crabs. Grab Pilcher and smooch him on his face, go wild. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
459:I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. ~ Dougray Scott, #NFDB
460:I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side. ~ Nancy Greene, #NFDB
461:I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
462:Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
463:That’s not what feelings are for. If I wanted to be guided, I would open Google Maps or consult a Sherpa. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
464:The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ~ E C Bentley, #NFDB
465:The Savages’ Cockney roots are so well buried by now you’d need a map and a deep-sea drill to find them. ~ Lucy Parker, #NFDB
466:The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth. ~ Calvin Miller, #NFDB
467:When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him. ~ Marla Maples, #NFDB
468:Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take. ~ Walter Russell, #NFDB
469:"Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the liar with truth." ~ The Dhammapada, #NFDB
470:He is not a man of religion who does ill to another. He is not a disciple who causes suffering to another. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
471:I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
472:[…] in dark rooms, mapping out
each other’s bodies,
claiming whole countries
with their mouths. ~ Warsan Shire,#NFDB
473:It's a sad thing when you map the borders of a friendship and find it's a narrower country than expected. ~ Randy Ribay, #NFDB
474:I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
475:Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB
476:No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds, anyway. You ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
477:She likes things orderly and predictable and feels secure when her time is mapped out well in advance. ~ A S A Harrison, #NFDB
478:… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home—someday, somehow. … ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
479:The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
480:Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit. ~ Paul Scott, #NFDB
481:don’t ever try to teach me about good and evil. I’ve been there, and you’ve seen nothing but the map. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
482:Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away. ~ Heather Gudenkauf, #NFDB
483:If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
484:Roland found the crude map of the Algul and put it on the floor of the cave. They all gathered around it. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
485:Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty... Each of us is the sum of our scars. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover, #NFDB
486:There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination. ~ Swami Paramananda, #NFDB
487:There’s nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone’s first time. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
488:Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly. ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
489:Detective Norman M. Chapman, Jr., was on call that night. Chapman is a man with a voice like warm maple syrup. ~ Ann Rule, #NFDB
490:I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
491:I’ve become convinced that the Way of the Will is, in fact, the Start Here point on Charlotte Mason’s map. ~ Anne E White, #NFDB
492:Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. ~ David Christian, #NFDB
493:Rage swelled inside Mapleshade’s head until the sounds of the forest faded away and her vision blurred. She ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
494:The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
495:The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights. ~ Julia Ormond, #NFDB
496:Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? ~ Nick Flynn, #NFDB
497:You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
498:Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
499:Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else. ~ William Mapother, #NFDB
500:Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.
"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman ~ Roberto Bola o,#NFDB
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19 Occultism
7 Yoga
4 Philosophy
4 Integral Yoga
3 Buddhism
1 Hinduism
16 Aleister Crowley
11 Sri Aurobindo
5 The Mother
5 Swami Vivekananda
4 Satprem
4 Patanjali
4 Carl Jung
3 Jorge Luis Borges
3 Bokar Rinpoche
3 Aldous Huxley
2 Swami Krishnananda
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Sri Ramakrishna
16 Savitri
10 Magick Without Tears
8 Liber ABA
6 The Secret Doctrine
5 Essays On The Gita
4 The Mothers Agenda
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 Aion
3 The Perennial Philosophy
3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
3 Talks
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 Walden
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 The Life Divine
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Collected Poems
01.02_-_The_Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her life's broad highways and its sweet bypaths
Lay mapped to her sun-clear recording view,
From the bright country of her childhood's days
01.04_-_The_Secret_Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Immobile, seeing the millenniums pass,
Untouched while the long map of Fate unrolls,
They look on our struggle with impartial eyes,
--
Beyond earth's longitudes and latitudes,
His goal is fixed outside all present maps.
But none learns whither through the unknown he sails
01.05_-_The_Yoga_of_the_King_The_Yoga_of_the_Spirits_Freedom_and_Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And driven by a pointing hand of Light
Across his soul's unmapped immensitudes.
A pilgrim of the everlasting Truth,
--
Wrote clear the letters of its glowing code:
A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
02.02_-_The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Attempted vainly now or won in vain,
Already were mapped and scheduled there the time
And figure of her future sovereignties
02.05_-_The_Godheads_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A touch of friendship mid indifferent crowds
Draw his heart-plan on life's diminutive map.
If something great awakes, too frail his pitch
02.06_-_The_Integral_Yoga_and_Other_Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
(3) Because a method has been preconised for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz. the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods but only as a part action and passing on to others that are distinctive. I have not found this method (as a whole) or anything like it in its totality proposed or realised in the old Yogas. If I had I should not have wasted my time in hewing out a road and in thirty years of search and inner creation when I could have hastened home safely to my goal in an easy canter over paths already blazed out, laid down, perfectly mapped, macadamised, made secure and public. Our
Yoga is not a retreading of old walks, but a spiritual adventure.
02.10_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Little_Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At will she spaces in thin air of mind
Like maps in the school-house of intellect hung,
Forcing wide Truth into a narrow scheme,
--
Its brute unconscious accurate device
Unrolls an unerring march, maps a sure road;
It plans without thinking, acts without a will,
--
Apt to conceive, unable to attain,
It drew its concept-maps and vision-plans
Too large for the architecture of mortal Space.
02.14_-_The_World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Prophetic of new personality
Arranged the map of their coming destiny's course:
Heirs of their past, their future's discoverers,
03.03_-_The_House_of_the_Spirit_and_the_New_Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In her ingenious ardour of caprice,
In her transfiguring mirth she mapped on Time
A fascinating puzzle of events,
03.04_-_The_Vision_and_the_Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A plan in the occult eternal Mind
mapped out to backward and prophetic sight,
The aeons ever repeat their changeless round,
04.02_-_The_Growth_of_the_Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And organised the motions of the stars,
mapped out the visible fashioning of the world,
Questioned the process of his thoughts or made
05.03_-_Satyavan_and_Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
06.02_-_The_Way_of_Fate_and_the_Problem_of_Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Unfinished which his aeoned flight unrolls
Were mapped already in that world-wide look.
07.04_-_The_Triple_Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I know the goal, I know the secret route;
I have studied the map of the invisible worlds;
I am the battle's head, the journey's star.
--
I am silence mid the noisy tramp of life;
I am Knowledge poring on her cosmic map.
--
I have mapped the heavens and analysed the stars,
Described their orbits through the grooves of Space,
10.03_-_The_Debate_of_Love_and_Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Lost is the pilgrim's wallet and the scrip,
She fails to read the map and watch the star.
10.04_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Earthly_Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Where leads the march, whither the pilgrimage?
Who keeps the map of the route or planned each stage?
Or else self-moved the world walks its own way,
1.00_-_Foreword, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
"This plan has been put into action; the idea has been to cover the subjects from every possible angle. The style has been colloquial and fluent; technical terms have either been carefully avoided or most carefully explained; and the letter has not been admitted to the series until the querent has expressed satisfaction. Some seventy letters, up to the present have been written, but still there seem to be certain gaps in the demonstration, like those white patches on the map of the World, which looked so tempting fifty years ago.
1.00_-_Gospel_Preface, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He was an educationist all his life both in a spiritual and in a secular sense. After he passed out of College, he took up work as headmaster in a number of schools in succession Narail High School, City School, Ripon College School, Metropolitan School, Aryan School, Oriental School, Oriental Seminary and Model School. The causes of his migration from school to school were that he could not get on with some of the managements on grounds of principles and that often his spiritual mood drew him away to places of pilgrimage for long periods. He worked with some of the most noted public men of the time like Iswar Chandra Vidysgar and Surendranath Banerjee. The latter appointed him as a professor in the City and Ripon Colleges where he taught subjects like English, philosophy, history and economics. In his later days he took over the Morton School, and he spent his time in the staircase room of the third floor of it, administering the school and preaching the message of the Master. He was much respected in educational circles where he was usually referred to as Rector Mahashay. A teacher who had worked under him writes thus in warm appreciation of his teaching methods: "Only when I worked with him in school could I appreciate what a great educationist he was. He would come down to the level of his students when teaching, though he himself was so learned, so talented. Ordinarily teachers confine their instruction to what is given in books without much thought as to whether the student can accept it or not. But M., would first of all gauge how much the student could take in and by what means. He would employ aids to teaching like maps, pictures and diagrams, so that his students could learn by seeing. Thirty years ago (from 1953) when the question of imparting education through the medium of the mother tongue was being discussed, M. had already employed Bengali as the medium of instruction in the Morton School." (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda Part I. P. 15.)
1.00_-_INTRODUCTION, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
as Sri Aurobindo experienced them and described them to his disciples in his integral yoga, until they take us to the threshold of a new, still unknown experience that may have the power to change life itself.
For Sri Aurobindo is not only the explorer of consciousness, he is the builder of a new world. Indeed, what is the point of changing our consciousness if the world around us remains as it is? We would be like Hans Christian Andersen's emperor walking naked through the streets of his capital. Thus, after exploring the outermost frontiers of worlds that were not unknown to ancient wisdom, Sri Aurobindo discovered yet another world, not found on any map, which he called the Supermind or Supramental, and which he sought to draw down upon Earth. He invites us to draw it down a little with him and to take part in the beautiful story, if we like beautiful stories. For the Supermind, Sri Aurobindo tells us, brings a dramatic change to the 3
1.01_-_DOWN_THE_RABBIT-HOLE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time, as she went down, to look about her. First, she tried to make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed. It was labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE," but, to her great disappointment, it was empty; she did not like to drop the jar, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
Down, down, down! Would the fall never come to an end? There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking to herself. "Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear, I wish you were down here with me!" Alice felt that she was dozing off, when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
1.01_-_Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
To know this I should not need to look farther than to the shanties which every where border our railroads, that last improvement in civilization; where I see in my daily walks human beings living in sties, and all winter with an open door, for the sake of light, without any visible, often imaginable, wood pile, and the forms of both old and young are permanently contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and the development of all their limbs and faculties is checked. It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished. Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world. Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea
Islander, or any other savage race before it was degraded by contact with the civilized man. Yet I have no doubt that that peoples rulers are as wise as the average of civilized rulers. Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a staple production of the
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Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any. For the most part the farmer gives to his cattle and hogs the grain of his own producing, and buys flour, which is at least no more wholesome, at a greater cost, at the store. I saw that I could easily raise my bushel or two of rye and Indian corn, for the former will grow on the poorest land, and the latter does not require the best, and grind them in a hand-mill, and so do without rice and pork; and if I must have some concentrated sweet, I found by experiment that I could make a very good molasses either of pumpkins or beets, and I knew that I needed only to set out a few maples to obtain it more easily still, and while these were growing I could use various substitutes beside those which I have named. For, as the Forefathers sang,
1.01_-_Introduction, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
There were in addition two thousand others, both those who had more to learn and those who did not. The nun Mahprajpat was there, together with her six thousand attendants; and also the nun Yaodhar, Rhulas mother, together with her attendants.
There were also eighty thousand bodhisattva mahsattvas, all of whom were irreversible from highest, complete enlightenment (anuttar samyaksabodhi). They had obtained the dhras, were established in eloquence, and had turned the irreversible wheel of the Dharma. Each had paid homage to countless hundreds of thousands of buddhas, planted roots of merit in their presence, and had always been praised by those buddhas. They had also cultivated compassion within themselves, skillfully caused others to enter the wisdom of a buddha, obtained great wisdom, and reached the other shore. All of them were famous throughout countless worlds and had saved innumerable hundreds of thousands of sentient beings. They were Majur, Avalokitevara, Mahsthmaprpta, Nityodyukta, Anikiptadhura, Ratnapni,
Bhaiajyarja, Pradnara, Ratnacandra, Candraprabha, Pracandra,
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O Maitreya! You should know that at that time there were twenty kois of bodhisattvas in the assembly who wanted to hear the Dharma. All of these bodhisattvas, having seen all the buddha worlds completely illuminated by this ray of light, were struck with wonder and wanted to know why it was emitted.
A bodhisattva named Varaprabha was there with his eight hundred disciples. At that time the Buddha Candrasryapradpa, having emerged from samdhi, remained sitting for sixty intermediate kalpas and revealed to Bodhisattva Varaprabha the Mahayana sutra called Saddharmapuarka, the White
Lotus of the Marvelous Law (hereafter Lotus Sutra), which was the instruction for bodhisattvas and the treasured lore of the buddhas. The assembly also sat there undisturbed in body and mind listening to the Buddhas exposition for sixty intermediate kalpas as if only a single mealtime had passed; during that time not a single person among them experienced fatigue of body or mind.
1.01_-_Our_Demand_and_Need_from_the_Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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comprehensiveness. Its aim is precisely the opposite to that of the polemist commentators who found this Scripture established as one of the three highest Vedantic authorities and attempted to turn it into a weapon of offence and defence against other schools and systems. The Gita is not a weapon for dialectical warfare; it is a gate opening on the whole world of spiritual truth and experience and the view it gives us embraces all the provinces of that supreme region. It maps out, but it does not cut up or build walls or hedges to confine our vision.
1.01_-_SAMADHI_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
viramapratyayabhyasapoorvah sanskarashesho
anyah
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tatsthatadangjanatasamapattih
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tatra shabdarthajnanavikalpaih sankeerna savitarka
samapattih
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nirvichamvaisharadye adhyatmaprasadah
1.01_-_Tara_the_Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #Bokar Rinpoche, #Buddhism
In 1958, I had to go to Tsurphu, the Karmapa's seat in
the Lhasa area. It was there that I studied when I was
13 to 16 years old. The Karmapa7 asked me to come
back to accomplish the traditional three-year retreat on
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Besides this precious treat, our caravan carried
many presents for the Karmapa, offerings for rituals,
and all that was necessary for my three-year stay. In
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Khampas, an encounter beyond their expectations!
To obey the Karmapa, it was indispensable that we
go to Tsurphu however dangerous it might be. Who
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time, that was a very rare occurrence. Both were
receiving instructions from a Nyingmapa lama called
Khenpo Shenga. Kunu Lama and the local people
1.02_-_SADHANA_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
yamaniyamasanapranayamapratyaharadharanadhy
anasamadhayo-a-shtava anggani
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prayatnashaithilyanantasamapattibhyam
1.02_-_Taras_Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #Bokar Rinpoche, #Buddhism
Hevajra Tantra or the Zamo Nangdon (Profound Inner
Meaning), a tantric text written by the Third Karmapa.
ORIGIN OF THE TARA TANTRA
1.02_-_The_7_Habits_An_Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
Effectiveness Defined
The Seven Habits are habits of effectiveness. Because they are based on principles, they bring the maximum long-term beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person's character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual can effectively solve problems, maximize opportunities, and continually learn and integrate other principles in an upward spiral of growth.
1.02_-_The_Eternal_Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
personally recall (if you will excuse the digression) traveling to the Himalayas and enjoying a few wonderful days there in the company of a holy man, lost among the pines and the red laurels, with snow sparkling all around us between sky and valley. It was very beautiful,
and I remember saying to myself how easy it is to have divine thoughts, or perhaps even visions, at that altitude, but what about in the valley below? I was not entirely wrong, although I later learned that one can act and work for the world in the silence and stillness of one's own body. (A clinging illusion makes us confuse agitation with action.) Still, what remains of our divine moments once we are removed from our solitude and brought down to the plains? This is a mirage that Western enthusiasts of Hinduism should consider, for if we merely want to escape the world, a retreat in the Alps or the Yosemite Valley, or even a small whitewashed cell, would do just as well; the Pilgrimage to the Source12 has little, if nothing, to do with the Ganges or the Brahmaputra. What was India going to bring to Sri Aurobindo, then? Did she hold some secret relevant to action in life?
Reading books on Hinduism, it would appear that it is a kind of spiritual paleontology interspersed with polysyllabic Sanskrit words,
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neuroses of an unbalanced society: we must implicate ourselves.
Indeed, if we brought as much sincerity, meticulousness, and perseverance to the study of the inner world as we do to the study of our books, we would go fast and far the West also has surprises in store for us but it must first get rid of its preconceptions (Columbus did not draw the map of America before leaving Palos). These simple truths may be worth repeating, for the West seems to be caught between two falsehoods: the overly serious falsehood of the spiritualists, who have already settled the question of God in a few infallible paragraphs, and the not-serious-enough falsehood of the rudimentary occultists and psychics, who have reduced the invisible to a sort of freak-show of the imagination. India, wisely, refers us to our own direct experience and to experimental methods. Sri Aurobindo would soon put this fundamental lesson of experimental spirituality into practice.
But what kind of men, what human substance, was he going to find in that India he did not know? Once we have set aside the exotic facade and the bizarre (to us) customs that amuse and intrigue tourists,
1.02_-_Where_I_Lived,_and_What_I_Lived_For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were; its complete retirement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spring, though that was nothing to me; the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant; the hollow and lichen-covered apple trees, gnawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors I should have; but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which I heard the house-dog bark. I was in haste to buy it, before the proprietor finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the hollow apple trees, and grubbing up some young birches which had sprung up in the pasture, or, in short, had made any more of his improvements. To enjoy these advantages I was ready to carry it on; like Atlas, to take the world on my shoulders,I never heard what compensation he received for that,and do all those things which had no other motive or excuse but that I might pay for it and be unmolested in my possession of it; for I knew all the while that it would yield the most abundant crop of the kind I wanted if I could only afford to let it alone. But it turned out as I have said.
1.03_-_A_Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
O riputra! In the past I inspired you to seek the buddha path. Yet just now you had completely forgotten this and considered yourself to have attained nirvana. Now, because I want you to remember the path that you practiced according to your original vow in the past, I will teach the rvakas the Mahayana sutra called the Lotus Sutra, the instruction for the bodhisattvas and treasured lore of the buddhas.
O riputra! In the future after immeasurable, limitless, and inconceivable kalpas, you will have paid homage to thousands of myriads of kois of buddhas, preserved the True Dharma, and mastered the path practiced by the bodhisattvas. You will become a buddha called Padmaprabha, a Tathgata, Arhat, Completely Enlightened, Perfect in Knowledge and Conduct,
Well-Departed, Knower of the World, Unsurpassed, Tamer of Humans,
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Your land will be called Viraja. Its earth will be level and pure, ornamented, peaceful, and rich. The devas and humans will prosper. The earth will be made of lapis lazuli with a well-planned network of roads like a chessboard bordered with golden cords. Rows of seven-jeweled trees, which are always full of owers and fruits, will line the borders of these roads. The
Tathgata Padmaprabha will also lead and inspire sentient beings by means of the three vehicles.
O riputra! When that buddha appears, even though his will not be a troubled world, he will teach the three vehicles because of his original vow.
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lled with bodhisattvas like these.
O riputra! The lifespan of this buddha Padmaprabha will be twelve intermediate kalpas, not including the period after he becomes a prince and before he becomes a buddha; and the lifespan of the people in that world will be eight intermediate kalpas.
After these twelve intermediate kalpas have passed, the Tathgata
Padmaprabha will predict Bodhisattva Dhtiparipras attainment of highest, complete enlightenment and will address the monks, saying:
This Bodhisattva Dhtiparipra will become the next buddha after me. His name will be Padmavabhavikrama, a Tathgata, Arhat, Completely Enlightened. His buddha world will also be like this one.
O riputra! After the parinirva of the Buddha Padmaprabha the
True Dharma will remain in the world for thirty-two intermediate kalpas and the Semblance Dharma will also remain in the world for thirty-two intermediate kalpas.
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You will become a buddha of universal wisdom
Named Padmaprabha,
Who will save innumerable sentient beings.
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Such mahasattvas as these
Will be led and inspired by the Buddha Padmaprabha.
When this buddha becomes a prince
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And attain the path of the Buddha.
This Buddha Padmaprabha will live in the world
For twelve intermediate kalpas.
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And devas and humans will pay them homage.
All that the Buddha Padmaprabha does
Will be exactly like this.
1.03_-_The_End_of_the_Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo had spent fourteen years traveling the Western path; it would take him almost as much time to travel India's path and to reach the "peak" of traditional yogic realizations, the starting-point of his own work. What is most interesting for us, however, is that Sri Aurobindo traveled this traditional path, which we may therefore consider as a preparation, outside all customary rules, as a freelancer,
as it were, or rather as an explorer who does not care about precautions and maps, and hence avoids many unnecessary detours simply because he has the courage to forge straight ahead. Thus, it was not in seclusion or in the lotus position or under the guidance of an enlightened Master that Sri Aurobindo undertook the journey, but just as we might do it ourselves, without any special knowledge, right in the midst of everyday life a life as busy and hectic as ours can be and all alone. Sri Aurobindo's first secret is probably a persistent refusal to cut life in two action vs. meditation, inner vs. outer, and the whole range of our false divisions; from the day he thought of yoga, he put everything into it, high and low, inside and outside, and he set out without ever looking back. Sri Aurobindo does not come to demonstrate exceptional qualities in an exceptional environment; he comes to show us what is possible for man, and to prove that the exceptional is only a normal possibility not yet mastered, just as the supernatural, as he said, is that the nature of which we have not attained or do not yet know, or the means of which we have not yet conquered.20 Ultimately, everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration; there is nothing that will not finally yield to a wellapplied concentration.
When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm; but he had more immediate concerns of food and survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the Maharaja of Baroda, as 20
1.03_-_YIBHOOTI_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
kayakashayoh sanbandhasanyama l
aghutoolasamapatteshchakashagamanam
1.04_-_Descent_into_Future_Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Mythology
102. On June 9, 1917, there was a discussion on the psychology of the world war in the Association for Analytical Psychology following a presentation by Jules Vodoz on the Song of Roland. Jung argued that "Hypothetically, the World War can be raised to the subjective level. In detail, the authoritarian principle (tiling action on the basis of principles) clashes with the emotional principle. The collective unconscious enters into allegiance with the emotional." Concerning the hero, he said: The hero-the beloved figure of the people, should fall. All heroes bring themselves down by carrying the heroic attitude beyond a certain limit, and hence lose their footing (map,vol. 2, p. 10). The psychological interpretation of the First World War on the subjective level describes what is developed in this chapter. The connection between individual and collective psychology which he articulates here forms one of the leitmotifs of his later work
(Of Present and Future [1957], CW 10).
1.04_-_KAI_VALYA_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
tatah kritarthanan parinamakramapari
samaptirgunanam
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kshannapratiyogi parinamaparantanigrarhyah
kramah
1.04_-_The_Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
accompanying feeling-tones. Hence at least the two "rational"
functions B are needed in order to map out anything like a com-
plete diagram of a given psychic content.
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C. my "Psychology of the Child Archetype"; also Psychology and Alchemy,
index, s.v. "Alius Philosophorum," "child," "hermaphrodite."
1.05_-_Buddhism_and_Women, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #Bokar Rinpoche, #Buddhism
UGYEN TSOMO - The first one, Ugyen Tsomo, was the
15th Karmapa Khakyab Dorje's spouse. I met her
when I was studying in Tsurpu, the Karmapa's
monastery, not far from Lhassa. The 15th Karmapa
had already passed away. I must have been 13 or 14
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Given the ties uniting the previous Bokar Rinpoche to
the 15th Karmapa, she showed me much affection,
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1.05_-_CHARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Dhammapada
1.05_-_Knowledge_by_Aquaintance_and_Knowledge_by_Description, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
When we, who did not know Bismarck, make a judgement about him, the description in our minds will probably be some more or less vague mass of historical knowledge--far more, in most cases, than is required to identify him. But, for the sake of illustration, let us assume that we think of him as 'the first Chancellor of the German Empire'. Here all the words are abstract except 'German'. The word 'German' will, again, have different meanings for different people. To some it will recall travels in Germany, to some the look of Germany on the map, and so on.
1.05_-_The_Universe_The_0_=_2_Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
D. We also tend to think of the Universe as containing things of which we are not aware; but this is altogether unjustifiable, although it is difficult to think at all without making some such assumption. For instance, one may come upon a new branch of knowledge say, histology or Hammurabi or the language of the Iroquois or the poems of the Hermaphrodite of Panormita. It seems to be there all ready waiting for us; we simply cannot believe that we are making it all up as we go along. For all that, it is sheer sophistry; we may merely be unfolding the contents of our own minds. Then again, does a thing cease to exist if we forget it? The answer is that one cannot be sure.
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Note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. M.1. and F.1. are perfection. M.2. and F.2. still keep balance in their lines. The four "elements" show imperfection; yet they are all balanced as against each other. Note, too, how apt are the ideograms. M.3. shows the flames flickering on the hearth, F.3., the wave on the solid bottom of the sea; M.4., the mutable air, with impenetrable space above, and finally F.4., the thin crust of the earth masking the interior energies of the planet. They go in to double these Kw, thus reaching the sixty-four Hexagrams of the Y King, which is not only a map, but a History of the Order of Nature.
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[AC11] Possibly almost identical with the Buddhist Neroda-Samapatti.
1.06_-_Dhyana_and_Samadhi, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
All the different steps in Yoga are intended to bring us scientifically to the superconscious state, or Samadhi. Furthermore, this is a most vital point to understand, that inspiration is as much in every man's nature as it was in that of the ancient prophets. These prophets were not unique; they were men as you or I. They were great Yogis. They had gained this superconsciousness, and you and I can get the same. They were not peculiar people. The very fact that one man ever reached that state, proves that it is possible for every man to do so. Not only is it possible, but every man must, eventually, get to that state, and that is religion. Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves. You cannot hope to make a man a surgeon by simply giving him a few books. You cannot satisfy my curiosity to see a country by showing me a map; I must have actual experience. maps can only create curiosity in us to get more perfect knowledge. Beyond that, they have no value whatever. Clinging to books only degenerates the human mind. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! Millions of people have been killed because they did not believe what the books said, because they would not see all the knowledge of God within the covers of a book. Of course this killing and murdering has gone by, but the world is still tremendously bound up in a belief in books.
1.06_-_Hymns_of_Parashara, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
dvA an; v}tA g;B;vt^ pErEOn B$m .
vDtFmap, pvA s;EfE
vmt-y yonA gB
1.07_-_The_Farther_Reaches_of_Human_Nature, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
As usual, this new centauric stage possesses not just a new cognitive capacity (vision-logic)-it also involves a new sense of identity (centauric), with new desires, new drives, new needs, new perceptions, new terrors, and new pathologies: it is a new and higher self in a new and wider world of others. And Broughton has very carefully mapped out the developmental stages of self and knowing that lead up to this new centauric mode of being-in-the-world.7
1.07_-_The_Three_Schools_of_Magick_2, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
The documents of the Black School of Magick have already been indicated. They are, for the most part, tedious to the last degree and repulsive to every wholesome-minded man; yet it can hardly be denied that such books as The Dhammapada and Ecclesiastes are masterpieces of literature. They represent the agony of human despair at its utmost degree of intensity, and the melancholy contemplation which is induced by their perusal is not favourable to the inception of that mood which should lead every truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape from the ferule of the Black Schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the White Mistress of Life.
1.07_-_TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The overvaluation of words and formulae may be regarded as a special case of that overvaluation of the things of time, which is so fatally characteristic of historic Christianity. To know Truth-as-Fact and to know it unitively, in spirit and in truth-as-immediate-apprehensionthis is deliverance, in this standeth our eternal life. To be familiar with the verbalized truths, which symbolically correspond to Truth-as-Fact insofar as it can be known in, or inferred from, truth-as-immediate-apprehension, or truth-as-historic-revelationthis is not salvation, but merely the study of a special branch of philosophy. Even the most ordinary experience of a thing or event in time can never be fully or adequately described in words. The experience of seeing the sky or having neuralgia is incommunicable; the best we can do is to say blue or pain, in the hope that those who hear us may have had experiences similar to our own and so be able to supply their own version of the meaning. God, however, is not a thing or event in time, and the time-bound words which cannot do justice even to temporal matters are even more inadequate to the intrinsic nature and our own unitive experience of that which belongs to an incommensurably different order. To suppose that people can be saved by studying and giving assent to formulae is like supposing that one can get to Timbuctoo by poring over a map of Africa. maps are symbols, and even the best of them are inaccurate and imperfect symbols. But to anyone who really wants to reach a given destination, a map is indispensably useful as indicating the direction in which the traveller should set out and the roads which he must take.
1.089_-_The_Levels_of_Concentration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
That is what we are trying to achieve by samyama. Tasya bhmiu viniyoga (III.6). The bhumis, or the levels of concentration, which are suggested in this sutra are the levels mentioned in the Samadhi Pada where the various levels of samadhis, or samapattis, are described. The grossest form of the object as it is visible to the ordinary, conceptual mind is the first stage of concentration. We take the object as it is, in the manner we are able to conceive it, think of it, etc. Then, we try to free it from the associations that we have created in respect of it by thinking of it as lovable or not loveable, pleasurable or otherwise, liked or not liked, tall or short, etc. An object is neither tall nor short this also is a very important thing to remember. Tallness and shortness, thickness and thinness, etc., are relative terms. If I bring before you a shirt and ask you, Is it a big shirt or a small shirt? you cannot say it is big or small because it depends upon the person. If it is a small child, he will say it is too big; if it is for a big man, he will say it is too small. We cannot say anything about any object unless we compare it with something else. This comparison should be removed. We must take it as it is; and nothing can be more difficult than this task.
1.096_-_Powers_that_Accrue_in_the_Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Now, applying this technique, Patanjali tells us that we can control anything, whether it is visible or invisible, material or otherwise. The objective side, which is known as grahaya samapatti in the language of yoga, is intended to control the elements. The five elements which constitute this vast world, or rather the entire universe of physical nature, are supposed to be under ones control, provided samyama is practised on them. Earth, water, fire, air and ether these are the elements, and no one can have any control over them. They are the masters, as is well known. But they can be controlled, says the sutra, provided we establish a harmony with them and we become one with the law which operates them in the universe. This is called bhutajaya control of the elements.
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Thus, this grahsya samapatti, or the mastery one acquires over the object, brings such powers as these. Incidentally, it has a result on the body of the person also. There is a perfection that follows in respect of ones own body, which is described in another sutra: rpa lvaya bala vajra sahananatvni kyasapat (III.47). It appears that one becomes very handsome in ones personality, beautiful in complexion, radiant in the skin, and so on; these are qualities described. Apart from that, great strength follows. One becomes vajrasamhana adamantine in ones energy so that one will become indefatigable and unapproachable by the forces of nature. These perfections of the body are subsidiary consequences that follow the mastery one gains over the elements. The third result that follows, as the sutra tells us, is that the elements do not any more obstruct the person. We will not sink into water, or get burnt by fire, etc. These are the non-obstructing characters revealed by the elements. One can pierce through a wall and pass through it, by the entry of the subtle body through these apparently gross objects. The non-obstructive character of the elements in respect of the yogi is the third aspect.
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Then the sutra, tata manojavitva vikaraabhva pradhnajaya ca (III.49), tells us that the mind becomes powerful and it can carry the body, like a rocket, to any place. That is called manojavitvam: one can fly as fast as the mind flies. Vikranabhava is another perfection that is said to follow. Vikranabhava means the capacity to reach any object, at any distance, and manipulate it in the manner required, according to the wish of the yogi. Again, this is another part of grahsya samapatti, or the power that one gains over the elements.
1.10_-_The_Yoga_of_the_Intelligent_Will, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- not at the mercy of the objects and their contacts and reactions, - and that self again obedient to the highest self, the
Purusha. Then, free from reactions, the senses will be delivered from the affections of liking and disliking, escape the duality of positive and negative desire, and calm, peace, clearness, happy tranquillity, atmaprasada, will settle upon the man. That clear tranquillity is the source of the soul's felicity; all grief begins to lose its power of touching the tranquil soul; the intelligence is rapidly established in the peace of the self; suffering is destroyed.
1.11_-_GOOD_AND_EVIL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Dhammapada
1.11_-_Works_and_Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga and worship and sacrifice and austerity, and if it is true that sacrifice offered to the Devas leads only to material results and to Paradise, it is also true that sacrifice offered to the Ishwara leads beyond them to the great liberation. For the Lord and the immutable Brahman are not two different beings, but one and the same Being, and whoever strives towards either, is striving towards that one divine Existence. All works in their totality find their culmination and completeness in the knowledge of the
Divine, sarvam karmakhilam partha jnane parisamapyate. They are not an obstacle, but the way to the supreme knowledge.