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meta- ::: --> Alt. of Met-
metabases ::: pl. --> of Metabasis
metabasis ::: n. --> A transition from one subject to another.
Same as Metabola.
meta bit "character" The most-signigicant {bit} of an 8-bit {character}, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the {high bit}, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or {hobbit}. Some terminals and consoles (see {space-cadet keyboard}) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also {bucky bits}. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit {bytes}, the meta bit is invariably {hex} 80 ({octal} 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see {space-cadet keyboard}) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys. [{Jargon File}] (2014-10-05)
metabola ::: n. --> Alt. of Metabole ::: n. pl. --> Alt. of Metabolia
metabole ::: n. --> A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.
metabolian ::: n. --> An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
metabolia ::: n. pl. --> A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
metabolic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
metabolisis ::: n. --> Metabolism.
metabolism ::: n. --> The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
metabolite ::: n. --> A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
metabolize ::: v. t. & i. --> To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
metabranchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
metacarpal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metacarpus. ::: n. --> A metacarpal bone.
metacarpus ::: n. --> That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
metacenter ::: n. --> Alt. of -tre
metacetone ::: n. --> A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
metachloral ::: n. --> A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
metachronism ::: n. --> An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.
metachrosis ::: n. --> The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc.
metacinnabarite ::: n. --> Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.
metacism ::: n. --> A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
metaclass "programming" The {class} of a class in an {object-oriented programming} language. A metaclass is a class whose {instances} are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with {introspection} - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs. (2013-09-02)
metacrolein ::: n. --> A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
metacromion ::: n. --> A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
metadata "data, data processing" /me't*-day`t*/, or combinations of /may'-/ or (Commonwealth) /mee'-/; /-dah`t*/ (Or "meta-data") Data about {data}. In {data processing}, metadata is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other data managed within an application or environment. For example, metadata would document data about {data elements} or {attributes}, (name, size, data type, etc) and data about {records} or {data structures} (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Metadata may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data. A collection of metadata, e.g. in a {database}, is called a {data dictionary}. Myers of {The Metadata Company} claims to have coined the term in 1969 though it appears in the book, "Extension of programming language concepts" published in 1968, by {Philip R. Bagley}. Bagley was a pioneer of computer document retrieval. "A survey of extensible programming languages" by Solntsseff and Yezerski (Annual Review in Automatic Programming, 1974, pp267-307) cites "the notion of 'metadata' introduced by Bagley". (2010-05-15)
metadiscoidal ::: a. --> Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
metafile "graphics, file format" 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a {device independent bitmap}. 2. A {functional specification} for encoding computer {graphics} for later display on some suitable device. (1996-09-20)
metagastric ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
metagenesis ::: n. --> The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.
Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
metagenetic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metagenesis.
metagenic ::: a. --> Metagenetic.
metage ::: v. --> Measurement, especially of coal.
Charge for, or price of, measuring.
metagnathous ::: a. --> Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.
metagrammatism ::: n. --> Anagrammatism.
metagraphic ::: a. --> By or pertaining to metagraphy.
metagraphy ::: n. --> The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration.
metaheuristic "algorithm, complexity, computability" A top-level general strategy which guides other {heuristics} to search for feasible solutions in domains where the task is hard. Metaheuristics have been most generally applied to problems classified as {NP-Hard} or {NP-Complete} by the theory of {computational complexity}. However, metaheuristics would also be applied to other {combinatorial} {optimisation} problems for which it is known that a {polynomial-time} solution exists but is not practical. Examples of metaheuristics are {Tabu Search}, {simulated annealing}, {genetic algorithms} and {memetic algorithms}. (1997-10-30)
metainformation {metadata}
metalammonium ::: n. --> A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.
metalanguage 1. [theorem proving] A language in which proofs are manipulated and tactics are programmed, as opposed to the logic itself (the "{object language}"). The first {ML} was the metalanguage for the Edinburgh {LCF} proof assistant. 2. [logic] A language in which to discuss the truth of statements in another language.
metalbumin ::: n. --> A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
metaldehyde ::: n. --> A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
metaled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Metal
metalepses ::: pl. --> of Metalepsis
metalepsis ::: n. --> The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
metalepsy ::: n. --> Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
metaleptical ::: a. --> Metaleptic.
metaleptic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.
Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy.
metaling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Metal
metalled ::: --> of Metal
metallical ::: a. --> See Metallic.
metallic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.
metallicly ::: adv. --> In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
metallifacture ::: n. --> The production and working or manufacture of metals.
metalliferous ::: a. --> Producing metals; yielding metals.
metalliform ::: a. --> Having the form or structure of a metal.
metalline ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.
Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. ::: n. --> A substance of variable composition, but resembling a
metalling ::: --> of Metal
metallist ::: n. --> A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.
metallization ::: n. --> The act or process of metallizing.
metallized ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Metallize
metallize ::: v. t. --> To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
metallizing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Metallize
metallochrome ::: n. --> A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
metallochromy ::: n. --> The art or process of coloring metals.
metallographic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
metallographist ::: n. --> One who writes on the subject of metals.
metallograph ::: n. --> A print made by metallography.
metallography ::: n. --> The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals.
A method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action.
A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone.
metalloidal ::: a. --> Metalloid.
metalloid ::: n. --> Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are
metallorganic ::: a. --> Metalorganic.
metallotherapy ::: n. --> Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.
metallurgic ::: a. --> Alt. of Metallurgical
metallurgical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metallurgy.
metallurgist ::: n. --> One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.
metallurgy ::: n. --> The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.
metalman ::: n. --> A worker in metals.
metalmen ::: pl. --> of Metalman
metal ::: n. --> An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
A mine from which ores are taken.
The substance of which anything is made; material; hence,
metalogical ::: a. --> Beyond the scope or province of logic.
metalorganic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
metamere ::: n. --> One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven&
metameric ::: a. --> Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.
metamerically ::: adv. --> In a metameric manner.
metamerism ::: n. --> The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
metamer ::: n. --> Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
metamorphic ::: a. --> Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Causing a change of structure.
Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.
metamorphism ::: n. --> The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.
metamorphist ::: n. --> One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.
metamorphize ::: v. t. --> To metamorphose.
metamorphosed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Metamorphose
metamorphoser ::: n. --> One who metamorphoses.
metamorphoses ::: pl. --> of Metamorphosis
metamorphose ::: v. t. --> To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. ::: n. --> Same as Metamorphosis.
metamorphosic ::: a. --> Changing the form; transforming.
metamorphosing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Metamorphose
metamorphosis ::: 1. Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. 2. A change or succession of changes in form during the life cycle of an animal, allowing it to adapt to different environmental conditions, as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
metamorphosis ::: n. --> Change of form, or structure; transformation.
A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they
metanauplius ::: n. --> A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.
metanephritic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metanephros.
metanephros ::: n. --> The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
metanotum ::: n. --> The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.
metantimonate ::: n. --> A salt of metantimonic acid.
metantimonic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).
Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
metapectic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.
metapectin ::: n. --> A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits.
metapeptone ::: n. --> An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
meta "philosophy" /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ A prefix meaning one level of description higher. If X is some concept then meta-X is data about, or processes operating on, X. For example, a {metasyntax} is {syntax} for specifying syntax, {metalanguage} is a language used to discuss language, {metadata} is data about data, and {meta-reasoning} is reasoning about reasoning. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humour turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels. [{Jargon File}] (1999-04-06)
metaphone "algorithm, text" An {algorithm} for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to {soundex} in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips "lphilips@verity.com". It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995]. (1998-12-22)
metaphoric ::: a. --> Alt. of Metaphorical
metaphorical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.
metaphorist ::: n. --> One who makes metaphors.
metaphor ::: n. --> The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
metaphosphate ::: n. --> A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
metaphosphoric ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
metaphrased ::: a. --> Translated literally.
metaphrase ::: n. --> A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase.
An answering phrase; repartee.
metaphrasis ::: n. --> Metaphrase.
metaphrastic ::: a. --> Alt. of Metaphrastical
metaphrastical ::: a. --> Close, or literal.
metaphrast ::: n. --> A literal translator.
metaphysical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.
Preternatural or supernatural.
metaphysical ::: highly abstract or theoretical; abstruse, relating to that which is immaterial or concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth.
metaphysically ::: adv. --> In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.
metaphysician ::: n. --> One who is versed in metaphysics.
metaphysic ::: n. --> See Metaphysics. ::: a. --> Metaphysical.
metaphysics ::: n. --> The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.
Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena;
metaphysics ::: Traditionally, metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of ontology (what is being or reality?) and epistemology (how do we know it?). In Integral Theory, any assertion without injunctions is considered metaphysics, or a meaningless assertion (i.e., postulating a referent for which there is no means of verification). The term is also used in its traditional sense given the lack of alternatives.
metaphysis ::: n. --> Change of form; transformation.
metaplasm ::: n. --> A change in the letters or syllables of a word.
metaplast ::: n. --> A word having more than one form of the root.
metapode ::: n. --> The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
metapodial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
metapodiale ::: n. --> One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.
metapodialia ::: pl. --> of Metapodiale
metapodia ::: pl. --> of Metapodium
metapodium ::: n. --> Same as Metapode.
metapophyses ::: pl. --> of Metapophysis
metapophysis ::: n. --> A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr/; a mammillary process.
met- ::: --> A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.
Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.
That two replacing radicals, in the benzene nucleus, occupy the relative positions of 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 3 and 5, 4 and 6, 5 and 1, or 6 and 2; as, metacresol, etc. See Ortho-, and Para-.
metaprogram A program which modifies or generates other programs. A {compiler} is an example of a metaprogram: it takes a program as input and produces another (compiled) one as output. (1994-10-24)
metapterygium ::: n. --> The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
metasilicate ::: n. --> A salt of metasilicic acid.
metasilicic ::: a. --> Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid.
metasomatism ::: n. --> An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.
metasome ::: n. --> One of the component segments of the body of an animal.
metastannate ::: n. --> A salt of metastannic acid.
metastannic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.
metastases ::: pl. --> of Metastasis
metastasis ::: n. --> A spiritual change, as during baptism.
A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.
The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.
metastatic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
metasternal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
metasternum ::: n. --> The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.
The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.
metastoma ::: n. --> Alt. of Metastome
metastome ::: n. --> A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
metasyntactic variable "grammar" Strictly, a {variable} used in {metasyntax}, but often used for any name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion. The word {foo} is the {canonical} example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use "foo" or other words like it as permanent names for anything. In filenames, a common convention is that any filename beginning with a metasyntactic-variable name is a {scratch} file that may be deleted at any time. To some extent, the list of one's preferred metasyntactic variables is a cultural signature. They occur both in series (used for related groups of variables or objects) and as singletons. Here are a few common signatures: {foo}, {bar}, {baz}, quux, quuux, quuuux...: MIT/Stanford usage, now found everywhere. At MIT (but not at Stanford), {baz} dropped out of use for a while in the 1970s and '80s. A common recent mutation of this sequence inserts {qux} before quux. bazola, ztesch: Stanford (from mid-'70s on). {foo}, {bar}, thud, grunt: This series was popular at CMU. Other CMU-associated variables include ack, barf, foo, and {gorp}. {foo}, {bar}, fum: This series is reported to be common at {Xerox PARC}. {fred}, {barney}: See the entry for {fred}. These tend to be Britishisms. {toto}, titi, tata, tutu: Standard series of metasyntactic variables among francophones. {corge}, {grault}, {flarp}: Popular at Rutgers University and among {GOSMACS} hackers. zxc, spqr, {wombat}: Cambridge University (England). shme: Berkeley, GeoWorks, Ingres. Pronounced /shme/ with a short /e/. {foo}, {bar}, zot: {Helsinki University of Technology}, Finland. blarg, wibble: New Zealand Of all these, only "foo" and "bar" are universal (and {baz} nearly so). The compounds {foobar} and "foobaz" also enjoy very wide currency. Some jargon terms are also used as metasyntactic names; {barf} and {mumble}, for example. See also {Commonwealth Hackish} for discussion of numerous metasyntactic variables found in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. [{Jargon File}] (1995-11-13)
metasyntax "grammar" {Syntax} used to describe {syntax}. The best known example is {BNF} and its variants such as {EBNF}. A {metasyntactic variable} is a {variable} used in {metasyntax}. (1999-04-06)
metatarsal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metatarsus. ::: n. --> A metatarsal bone.
metatarse ::: n. --> Metatarsus.
metatarsi ::: pl. --> of Metatarsus
metatarsus ::: n. --> That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
metatheses ::: pl. --> of Metathesis
metathesis ::: n. --> Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
metathetic ::: a. --> Alt. of Metathetical
metathetical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metathesis.
metathoracic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
metathorax ::: n. --> The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
metatitanic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.
metatungstate ::: n. --> A salt of metatungstic acid.
metatungstic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.
metavanadate ::: n. --> A salt of metavanadic acid.
metavanadic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
metaxylene ::: n. --> That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf/ammable liquid.
metayage ::: n. --> A system of farming on halves.
metayer ::: a. --> One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
metazoan ::: n. --> One of the Metazoa.
metazoa ::: n. pl. --> Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
metazoans ::: pl. --> of Metazoan
metazoic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.
metazoon ::: n. --> One of the Metazoa.
metecorn ::: n. --> A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.
meted ::: distributed or allotted (something, often unpleasant).
meted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Mete
metely ::: a. --> According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate.
metempiric ::: a. --> Alt. of Metempirical
metempirical ::: a. --> Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics.
metempiricism ::: n. --> The science that is concerned with metempirics.
metempirics ::: n. --> The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
metempsychosed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Metempsychose
metempsychose ::: v. t. --> To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another.
metempsychosing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Metempsychose
metempsychosis ::: n. --> The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls.
metemptosis ::: n. --> The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
metencephalon ::: n. --> The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.
mete ::: n. --> Meat.
Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds. ::: v. t. & i. --> To meet.
metensomatosis ::: n. --> The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.
meteorical ::: a. --> Meteoric.
meteoric ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.
Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.
meteorism ::: n. --> Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.
meteorite ::: n. --> A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.
meteorize ::: v. i. --> To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor.
meteor ::: n. --> Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
meteorometer ::: n. --> An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.
meteorographic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to meteorography.
meteorograph ::: n. --> An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.
meteorography ::: n. --> The registration of meteorological phenomena.
meteoroidal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.
meteoroid ::: n. --> A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth&
meteoroligic ::: a. --> Alt. of Meteorological
meteorolite ::: n. --> A meteoric stone; an aerolite; a meteorite.
meteorological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology.
meteorologist ::: n. --> A person skilled in meteorology.
meteorology ::: n. --> The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.
meteoromancy ::: n. --> A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.
meteoroscope ::: n. --> An astrolabe; a planisphere.
An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
meteorous ::: a. --> Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.
meterage ::: n. --> The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
metergram ::: n. --> A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
meter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
Alt. of Metre
meter "spelling" US spelling of "{metre}". (1998-02-07)
metewand ::: n. --> A measuring rod.
meteyard ::: n. --> A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure.
methaemoglobin ::: n. --> A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.
methal ::: n. --> A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.
methane ::: n. --> A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas.
metheglin ::: n. --> A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead.
methene ::: n. --> See Methylene.
methenyl ::: n. --> The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.
methide ::: n. --> A binary compound of methyl with some element; as, aluminium methide, Al2(CH3)6.
methinks ::: v. impers. --> It seems to me; I think. See Me.
methionate ::: n. --> A salt of methionic acid.
methionic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic (thionic) acid derivative of methane, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts.
meth ::: n. --> See Meathe.
methodic ::: a. --> Alt. of Methodical
methodical ::: a. --> Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise.
Proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists.
method invocation "programming" In {object-oriented programming}, the way the program looks up the right {code} to run when a {method} with a given name is called ("invoked") on an {object}. The method is first looked for in the object's {class}, then that class's {superclass} and so on up the {class hierarchy} until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at {compile time} because the object's class is not known until {run time}. This is the case for an {object method} whereas a {class method} is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a {dynamically loaded library}). (2014-09-06)
methodios ::: n. --> The art and principles of method.
methodism ::: n. --> The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.
methodistic ::: a. --> Alt. of Methodistical
methodistical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists.
methodist ::: n. --> One who observes method.
One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory.
One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
methodization ::: n. --> The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
methodized ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Methodize
methodizer ::: n. --> One who methodizes.
methodize ::: v. t. --> To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one&
methodizing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Methodize
method ::: n. --> An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of
methodological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to methodology.
methodology 1. "programming" An organised, documented set of procedures and guidelines for one or more phases of the {software life cycle}, such as analysis or design. Many methodologies include a diagramming notation for documenting the results of the procedure; a step-by-step "cookbook" approach for carrying out the procedure; and an objective (ideally quantified) set of criteria for determining whether the results of the procedure are of acceptable quality. An example is The {Yourdon methodology}. 2. A pretentious way of saying "method". (1995-04-10)
methodology ::: n. --> The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
methodology ::: The principles and procedures of inquiry that reveal aspects of phenomena. A set of social practices that disclose a phenomenological world. Roughly synonymous with “paradigm,” “exemplar,” and “injunction.”
method "programming" In {object-oriented programming}, a {function} that can be called on an {object} of a given {class}. When a method is called (or {invoked (method invocation)}) on an object, the object is passed as an implicit {argument} to the method, usually referred to by the special variable "this". If the method is not defined in the object's class, it is looked for in that class's {superclass}, and so on up the {class hierarchy} until it is found. A {subclass} thus {inherits {inheritance}} all the methods of its superclasses. Different classes may define methods with the same name (i.e. methods may be {polymorphic}). Methods are sometimes called "object methods" or "instance methods". "{Class methods}" are methods that operate on objects of class "class". "Static methods" are not methods but normal {functions} packaged with the class. (2000-03-22)
methol ::: n. --> The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.
methought ::: imp. --> of Methinks
methoxyl ::: n. --> A hypothetical radical, CH3O, analogous to hydroxyl.
methylal ::: n. --> A light, volatile liquid, H2C(OCH3)2, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal.
methylamine ::: n. --> See Methyl amine, under Methyl.
methylated ::: a. --> Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.
methylate ::: n. --> An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. ::: v. t. --> To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.
methylene ::: n. --> A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene.
methylic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.
methyl ::: n. --> A hydrocarbon radical, CH3, not existing alone but regarded as an essential residue of methane, and appearing as a component part of many derivatives; as, methyl alcohol, methyl ether, methyl amine, etc.
methysticin ::: n. --> A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin.
metic ::: n. --> A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
meticulous ::: a. --> Timid; fearful.
meticulous ::: taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough.
metif ::: n. f. --> Alt. of Metive
met ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Meet ::: --> imp. & p. p. of Meet.
imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure.
p. p. of Mete, to dream.
meting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Mete
metis ::: n. f. --> Alt. of Metisse
metisse ::: n. f. --> The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
metive ::: n. f. --> See Metis.
metoche ::: n. --> The space between two dentils.
The space between two triglyphs.
metonic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
metonymic ::: a. --> Alt. of Metonymical
metonymical ::: a. --> Used by way of metonymy.
metonymy ::: n. --> A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
metope ::: n. --> The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
The face of a crab.
metopic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.
metopomancy ::: n. --> Fortune telling by physiognomy.
metoposcopic ::: a. --> Alt. of Metoposcopical
metoposcopical ::: a. --> Of or relating to metoposcopy.
metoposcopist ::: n. --> One versed in metoposcopy.
metoposcopy ::: n. --> The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.
metosteon ::: n. --> The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.
metred ::: v. 1. Composed verses; set to poetry. adj. **2.** Divided into a rhythmic pattern, or in a measured arrangement.
metre ::: n. --> Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
A poem.
A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and
metres ::: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line.
metre "unit" (US "meter") The fundamental {SI} unit of length. From 1889 to 1960, the metre was defined to be the distance between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris. This replaced an earlier definition as 10^-7 times the distance between the North Pole and the Equator along a meridian through Paris; unfortunately, this had been based on an inexact value of the circumference of the Earth. From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red line of krypton-86 propagating in a vacuum. It is now defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. (1998-02-07)
metrical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
metrically ::: adv. --> In a metrical manner.
metric ::: a. --> Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
metrician ::: n. --> A composer of verses.
metric ::: of or relating to distance.
metric {software metric}
metric space "mathematics" A set of points together with a {function}, d, called a metric function or distance function. The function assigns a positive {real number} to each pair of points, called the distance between them, such that: 1. For any point x, d(x,x)=0; 2. For any two distinct points x and y, d(x,y)"0; 3. For any two points x and y, not necessarily distinct, d(x,y) = d(y,x). 4. For any three points x, y, and z, that are not necessarily distinct, d(x,z) "= d(x,y) + d(y,z). The distance from x to z does not exceed the sum of the distances from x to y and from y to z. The sum of the lengths of two sides of a triangle is equal to or exceeds the length of the third side. (2003-06-26)
metric system ::: --> See Metric, a.
metrification ::: n. --> Composition in metrical form; versification.
metrify ::: v. i. --> To make verse.
metrist ::: n. --> A maker of verses.
metritis ::: n. --> Inflammation of the womb.
metrometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the size of the womb.
metrochrome ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring colors.
metrograph ::: n. --> An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
metrological ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to metrology.
metrology ::: n. --> The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.
metromaniac ::: n. --> One who has metromania.
metromania ::: n. --> A mania for writing verses.
metronome ::: n. --> An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.
metronomy ::: n. --> Measurement of time by an instrument.
metronymic ::: a. --> Derived from the name of one&
metropole ::: n. --> A metropolis.
metropolis ::: n. --> The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
metropolitan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. ::: n.
metropolitanate ::: n. --> The see of a metropolitan bishop.
metropolite ::: n. --> A metropolitan.
metropolitical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair.
metrorrhagia ::: n. --> Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.
metroscope ::: n. --> A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
metrosideros ::: n. --> A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
metrotome ::: n. --> An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
metrotomy ::: n. --> The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.
mette ::: imp. --> of Mete ::: --> imp. of Mete, to dream.
mettled ::: a. --> Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
mettle ::: n. --> Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
mettlesome ::: a. --> Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.
META 5 Early syntax-directed {compiler-compiler}, used for translating one {high-level language} to another. Versions: META II, META-3. ["META 5: A Tool to Manipulate Strings of Data", D.K. Oppenheim et al, Proc 21st Natl Conf, ACM 1966]. [Sammet 1969, p. 638]. (1995-01-23)
Meta Analysis ::: The statistical procedure used to combine numerous and independent research results into one study. Each research study becomes one subject in the meta-analysis.
MetaCard A commercial human interface and {hypertext} system for {Unix} and the {X Window System}, similar to {Hypercard}. (1994-11-17)
Meta-CASE tool A term sometimes used for software packages (like TBK or VSF) which allow users to develop or customise their own CASE tools.
Meta Class System "language" (MCS) A portable {object-oriented} extension of {Common Lisp} from {GMD}. It integrates the functionality of {CLOS} and {TELOS}. {(ftp://gmdzi.gmd.de/pub/lisp/mcs)}. (1994-10-21)
Meta-Crystal "language" A language for transformations of {Crystal} programs. Implemented in {T}. ["Meta-Crystal - A Metalanguage for Parallel-Program Optimisation", J.A. Yang et al, TR YALEU/DCS/TR-786, Yale Apr 1990]. (2016-01-19)
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META element "web" An {HTML} {element}, with tag name of "META", expressing {metadata} about a given {HTML} document. HTML standards do not require that documents have META elements but if META elements occur, they must be inside the document's HEAD element. The META element can be used to identify properties of a document (e.g., author, expiration date, a list of key words, etc.) and assign values to those properties, typically by specifying a NAME {attribute} (to name the property) and a CONTENT attribute (to assign a value for that property). The HTML 4 specification doesn't standardise particular NAME properties or CONTENT values; but it is conventional to use a "Description" property to convey a short summary of the document, and a "Keywords" property to provide a list of {keywords} relevant to the document, as in: "META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Information from around the world on kumquat farming techniques and current kumquat production and consumption data"" "META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="kumquat, Fortunella"" META elements with HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT attributes can simulate the effect of {HTTP} header lines, as in: "META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Tue, 22 Mar 2000 16:18:35 GMT"" "META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=http://foldoc.org/"" Other properties may be application-specific. For example, the {Robots Exclusion (http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html)}. standard uses the "robots" property for asserting that the given document should not be indexed by robots, nor should links in it be followed: "META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow"" (2001-02-07)
METAFONT A system for the design of raster-based alphabets by {Donald Knuth}. A companion to {TeX}. ["The METAFONT Book," Donald Knuth, A-W 1986. Version 2.0, March 1990]. (1994-11-04)
Meta-II An early {compiler-compiler}. ["Meta-II: a Syntax Oriented Compiler Writing Language", V. Schorre, Proc 19th ACM Natl Conf 1964]. (1995-01-23)
Meta-IV {Vienna Development Method Specification Language}
METAL 1. Mega-Extensive Telecommunications Applications Language. BBS language for PRODOS 8 on Apple II. 2. The syntax-definition formalism of the Mentor system. Metal specifications are compiled to specifications for a scanner/parser generator such as Lex/Yacc. "Metal: A Formalism to Specify Formalisms", G. Kahn et al, Sci Comp Prog 3:151-188 (1983).
Metalanguage: A language used to make assertions about another language; any language whose symbols refer to the properties of the symbols of another language. (Formed by analogy with "metamathematics", the study of formalized mathematical systems.) -- M.B.
META "language" The {assembly language} for the {CYBER 200}, developed at {CDC} ca 1977. [CDC Pub 60256020]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-16)
Metalogical: That which belongs to the basis of logic. Metalogical truths are the laws of thought, the formal conditions of thinking inherent in reason. (Schopenhauer.) -- H.H.
Metal Oxide Semiconductor "electronics" (MOS) The three materials used to form a {gate} in the most common kind of {Field Effect Transistor} - a {MOSFET}. [Other MOS devices?] (1996-05-27)
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor "electronics" (MOSFET) A {Field Effect Transistor} in which the conducting channel is insulated from the gate terminal by a layer of oxide. Therefore it does not conduct even if a reverse voltage is applied to the gate. (1997-02-24)
Metamathematics: See Proof theory, and Syntax, logical. Metaphor: Rhetorical figure transposing a term from its original concept to another and similar one. In its origin, all language was metaphoric; so was poetry. Metaphor is a short fable (Vico). -- L.V.
Metaphysical deduction: An examination of the logical functions of thought that there are certain a priori forms of synthesis which belong to the very constitution, the bare, purely formal machinery of the understanding. -- H.H.
Metaphysical essence: (in Scholasticism) The complexus of notes which are in a thing, as it is conceived by us -- i.e. the principle and primary notes by which that thing is sufficiently understood and distinguished from other things. -- H.G.
Metaphysical ethics: Any view according to which ethics is a branch of metaphysics, ethical principles being derived from metaphysical principles and ethical notions being defined in terms of metaphysical notions. -- W.K.F.
Metaphysical: Is the substantial essence of the whole thing -- as rational animal is said to bt the metaphysical form of man. -- H.G.
Metaphysically, the personal nature of the World Ground;
Metaphysical philosophy is an attempt to fix the fundamental realities and principles of being as distinct from its processes and the phenomena which result from those processes. But it is on the fundamental realities that the processes depend: our own process of life, its aim and method, should be in accordance with the truth of being that we see; otherwise our metaphysical truth can be only a play of the intellect without any dynamic importance.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 693
Metaphysics and psychology are not distinct in Herbert's view. In his day psychology was also philosophy. It was still a metaphysical science in the sense that it is differentiated from physical science. It was only later that psychology repudiated philosophy. Accepting Kant's challenge to make psychology a mathematical science, he developed an elaborate system of mathematical constructions that proved the least fruitful phase of his system. As a mathematical science psychology can use only calculation, not experiment. As the mind or soul is unitary, indivisible. science, including philosophy, is neither analytical nor experimental. Bv denying analysis to psychology, Herbart combatted the division of mind into separate faculties. Psychology is not the mere description of the mind, but the working out of its mathematical laws.
Metaphysics: (Gr. meta ta Physika) Arbitrary title given by Andronicus of Rhodes, circa 70 B.C. to a certain collection of Aristotelean writings.
Metaphysics. Pure Idealism or Immaterialism identifies ontological reality (substance, substantives, concrete individuality) exclusively with the ideal, ie., Mind, Spirit, Soul, Person, Archetypal Ideas, Thought. See Spiritualism, Mentalism, Monadism, Panpsychtsm, Idealistic Phenomenalism. With respect to the metaphysical status of self-consciousness and purposeful activity, Idealism is either impersonalistic or personalistic. See Personalism.
META tag {META element}
Meta-Vlisp "language" An innovative {Lisp} dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France. (2000-12-19)
Metempsychosis: (Gr. meta, over + empsychoun, to animate) The doctrine that the same soul can successively reside in more than one body, human or animal. See Immortality. The doctrine was part of the Pythagorean teaching incorporated in mythical form in the Platonic philosophy (see Phaedrus, 249; Rep. X, 614). The term metempsychosis was not used before the Christian era. -- L.W.
Met-English A {Fortran}-like language designed at {Metropolitan Life} in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife {DP} in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for {Honeywell} machines, but many programs still run under {IBM} {MVS} via a Honeywell {emulator}. (1995-02-15)
METEOR A version of COMIT with Lisp-like syntax, written in MIT Lisp 1.5 for the IBM 7090. "METEOR - A List Interpreter for String Transformation", D.G. Bobrow in The Programming Language LISP and its Interpretation, E.D. and D.G. Bobrow eds, 1964.
Method: (Gr. methodos, method) Any procedure employed to attain a certain end. Any knowing techniques employed in the process of acquiring knowledge of a given subject-matter. The science which formulates the rules of any procedure.
Methodic Doubt: The suspension of judgment in regard to possible truths until they have been demonstrated to be either true or false; in Cartesianism the criterion is the clearness and distinctness of ideas. -- V.J.B.
Method of simple enumeration: Inductive process by which the initial probability of a generalization is increased by more instances exactly the same as those previously observed. -- A.C.B.
Method of trial and error: Method of solving a problem, or of accomplishing an end, by putting the hypotheses or means to direct test in actuality rather than by considering them imaginatively in terms of foreseen consequences; opposed to reflection. -- A.C.B.
Methodology: The systematic analysis and organization of the rational and experimental principles and processes which must guide a scientific inquiry, or which constitute the structure of the special sciences more particularly. Methodology, which is also called scientific method, and more seldom methodeutic, refers not only to the whole of a constituted science, but also to individual problems or groups of problems within a science. As such it is usually considered as a branch of logic; in fact, it is the application of the principles and processes of logic to the special objects of the various sciences; while science in general is accounted for by the combination of deduction and induction as such. Thus, methodology is a generic term exemplified in the specific method of each science. Hence its full significance can be understood only by analyzing the structure of the special sciences. In determining that structure, one must consider the proper object of the special science, the manner in which it develops, the type of statements or generalizations it involves, its philosophical foundations or assumptions, and its relation with the other sciences, and eventually its applications. The last two points mentioned are particularly important: methods of education, for example, will vary considerably according to their inspiration and aim. Because of the differences between the objects of the various sciences, they reveal the following principal methodological patterns, which are not necessarily exclusive of one another, and which are used sometimes in partial combination. It may be added that their choice and combination depend also in a large degree on psychological motives. In the last resort, methodology results from the adjustment of our mental powers to the love and pursuit of truth. There are various rational methods used by the speculative sciences, including theology which adds certain qualifications to their use. More especially, philosophy has inspired the following procedures: The Soctattc method of analysis by questioning and dividing until the essences are reached; the synthetic method developed by Plato, Aristotle and the Medieval thinkers, which involves a demonstrative exposition of the causal relation between thought and being; the ascetic method of intellectual and moral purification leading to an illumination of the mind, as proposed by Plotinus, Augustine and the mystics; the psychological method of inquiry into the origin of ideas, which was used by Descartes and his followers, and also by the British empiricists; the critical or transcendental method, as used by Kant, and involving an analysis of the conditions and limits of knowledge; the dialectical method proceeding by thesis, antithesis and synthesis, which is promoted by Hegelianlsm and Dialectical Materialism; the intuitive method, as used by Bergson, which involves the immediate perception of reality, by a blending of consciousness with the process of change; the reflexive method of metaphysical introspection aiming at the development of the immanent realities and values leading man to God; the eclectic method (historical-critical) of purposive and effective selection as proposed by Cicero, Suarez and Cousin; and the positivistic method of Comte, Spencer and the logical empiricists, which attempts to apply to philosophy the strict procedures of the positive sciences. The axiomatic or hypothetico-deductive method as used by the theoretical and especially the mathematical sciences. It involves such problems as the selection, independence and simplification of primitive terms and axioms, the formalization of definitions and proofs, the consistency and completeness of the constructed theory, and the final interpretation. The nomological or inductive method as used by the experimental sciences, aims at the discovery of regularities between phenomena and their relevant laws. It involves the critical and careful application of the various steps of induction: observation and analytical classification; selection of similarities; hypothesis of cause or law; verification by the experimental canons; deduction, demonstration and explanation; systematic organization of results; statement of laws and construction of the relevant theory. The descriptive method as used by the natural and social sciences, involves observational, classificatory and statistical procedures (see art. on statistics) and their interpretation. The historical method as used by the sciences dealing with the past, involves the collation, selection, classification and interpretation of archeological facts and exhibits, records, documents, archives, reports and testimonies. The psychological method, as used by all the sciences dealing with human behaviour and development. It involves not only introspective analysis, but also experimental procedures, such as those referring to the relations between stimuli and sensations, to the accuracy of perceptions (specific measurements of intensity), to gradation (least noticeable differences), to error methods (average error in right and wrong cases), and to physiological and educational processes.
Methods "language" A line-oriented {Smalltalk} for {PC}'s, produced by Digitalk ca 1985. Methods was the predecessor of {Smalltalk/V}. (1995-04-16)
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) A data network intended to serve an area the size of a large city. Such networks are being implemented by innovative techniques, such as running {optical fibre} through subway tunnels. A popular example of a MAN is {SMDS}. See also {Local Area Network}, {Wide Area Network}. (1994-11-22)
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1. A composition in fanciful or irregular form or style. 2. Something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.
1. Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste, often due to agitation, pressure or eagerness to accomplish something. 2. Commotion or agitation; disturbance, tumult; bustle. hurries, hurried, hurrying.
1. A curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 2.* Fig.* That by which any one is attracted or ensnared and caught; a snare; a catch.
1. A dog. 2. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice. 3. In literary use the image of the hound is of something that pursues or chases relentlessly.
1. A loose pliable covering for the head and neck, often attached to a robe or jacket. 2. Something resembling this in shape or use. 3. In animals, a conformation of parts (as in the cobra and the hooded seal), or arrangement of colour about the head or neck, resembling or suggesting a hood. hoods.
1. An image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed. 2. A mere image or semblance of something visible but without substance, as a phantom. 3. A false conception or notion; fallacy. Idol, idols.
1. An intense, painful feeling of repugnance, fear and shock. 2. Something or someone that inspires dislike; dread; fright; something horrible.
1. A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2. A mental representation; idea; conception. 3. Form; appearance; semblance. 4. A type; embodiment. 5. An idol or representation of a deity. 6. A person or thing that resembles another closely; counterpart, double or copy. 7. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else. images, image-face.
1. A sweet yellowish or brownish viscid fluid produced by various bees from the nectar of flowers and used as food. 2. Something sweet, delicious or delightful. 3.* Fig. Sweetness. *honey-buds, honey-drunk, honey-fire, honey-packed, honey-sweet, honey-wine.
1. Passed the tongue over or along something. Also fig. **2. Lapped or flickered at like a tongue; of waves, flame, light, etc. storm-licked.**
1. Something false; an untrue idea, belief, etc. 2. A false statement; lie. **Falsehood, falsehood"s, Falsehood"s, falsehoods.
1. The act or an instance of imitating. 2. Something derived or copied from an original; counterfeit.
1. The condition of being deceived by a false perception, belief or appearance. 2. Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire that causes an erroneous belief or perception; as a deceptive apparition etc. Illusion, illusion"s, Illusion"s, illusions, illusion-makers.
1. The expenditure of something, such as time or labour, necessary for the attainment of a goal. Also fig. **2. The price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay. 3. **Suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty.
1. The quality or condition of being the same as something else. 2. The state or fact of being the same one as described; personal or individual existence. Identity, identity"s.
1. The state or quality of being immense; vastness; enormity; boundlessness. 2. Something immense or infinite. 3. Enormous expanse, distance, or volume. Immensity, immensities.
1. To be inadequate or insufficient; fall short. 2. To fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved. 3. To dwindle, pass, or die away. 4. To decline, as in strength or effectiveness; fig. of the heart. 5. Of some expected or usual resource: To prove of no use or help to. 6. Of a material thing: To break down under strain or pressure. fails, failed, failed.
1. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. 2. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
amethyst ::: a purple or violet quartz; having the clear colour as of the precious stone. Sri Aurobindo uses the word as an adj."for Amethyst (the Mother)she has revealed that it has a power of protection” Huta
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
abstract ::: adj. 1. Withdrawn or separated from matter, from material embodiment, from practice, or from particular examples; theoretical. 2. In the fine arts, characterized by lack of or freedom from representational qualities. n. 3. Something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
accountable ::: subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; answerable, responsible.
achievement ::: something accomplished, esp. by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc. achievements.
adamant ::: n. 1. Any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance. 2. A legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. adj. **3. Unshakeable, inflexible, utterly unyielding. 4. Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; immovable, impregnable. adamantine.**
adept ::: one who is completely versed (in something); thoroughly proficient; well-skilled; expert. adepts.
adj. 1. Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty. 2. Unconstrained; unconfined. 3. Unobstructed; clear. 4. Ready or generous in using or giving; liberal; lavish. 5. Exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one"s will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted. 6. Exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually followed by from or of). 7. Given readily or in profusion. freer, thought-free, world-free. *adv. *8. In a free manner; without constraints; unimpeded. v. 9. To make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint. 10. To disengage or clear something from an entanglement. 11. To relieve or rid of a burden, an inconvenience or an obligation. freed. set free. Released; liberated; freed.
adj. 1. Rousing (something) or being aroused, as if from sleep. n. awakenings. 2. Recognitions, realizations, or coming into awareness of things.
adoration ::: 1. The act of paying honour, as to a divine being; worship. 2. Reverent homage. 3. Fervent and devoted love. **adoration"s.*Sri Aurobindo: "Especially in love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Loved, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.” Letters on Yoga*
aggrandise ::: to make (something) appear greater; to widen in scope ,magnify. aggrandising.
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
alloy ::: 1. A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition; a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one, such as that which is added to gold and silver coinage. 2. Admixture, as with good with evil.
allured ::: 1. Attracted as to a lure; drawn or enticed to a place or to a course of action. 2. Attracted or tempted by something flattering or desirable; fascinated, charmed. alluring, **alluringly, allurement.
already ::: 1. Core Meaning: an adverb indicating that something has happened before now. 2. Happened in the past before a particular time, or will have happened by or before a particular time in the future. 3. Unexpectedly early.
amber ::: a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator. 2. The yellowish-brown colour of resin.
ambrosia ("s) ::: something especially delicious or delightful to taste or smell, divinely sweet; in Classical Mythology, the food of the gods.
"A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously tend towards it; not only so, but the life of humanity will be enlightened, uplifted, governed, harmonised by this luminous principle and even the body become something much less powerless, obscure and animal in its propensities and capable instead of a new and harmonised perfection. It is this possibility that we have to look at and that would mean a new humanity uplifted into Light, capable of a spiritualised being and action, open to governance by some light of the Truth-consciousness, capable even on the mental level and in its own order of something that might be called the beginning of a divinised life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
". . . an Avatar is not at all bound to be a spiritual prophet — he is never in fact merely a prophet, he is a realiser, an establisher — not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the outward also, but, as I have said, of something essential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolution which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
::: "An incarnation is something more, something special and individual to the individual being. It is the substitution of the Person of a divine being for the human person and an infiltration of it into all the movements so that there is a dynamic personal change in all of them and in the whole nature; not merely a change of the character of the consciousness or general surrender into its hands, but a subtle intimate personal change. Even when there is an incarnation from the birth, the human elements have to be taken up, but when there is a descent, there is a total conscious substitution.” Letters on Yoga
antipodes ::: places diametrically opposite each other.
anvil ::: a heavy iron block with a smooth face, frequently of steel, on which heated metals are hammered into desired shapes.
a person who is practised in or who studies geometry, the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space. World-Geometer"s.
"A philosophy of change?(1) But what is change? In ordinary parlance change means passage from one condition to another and that would seem to imply passage from one status to another status. The shoot changes into a tree, passes from the status of shoot to the status of tree and there it stops; man passes from the status of young man to the status of old man and the only farther change possible to him is death or dissolution of his status. So it would seem that change is not something isolated which is the sole original and eternal reality, but it is something dependent on status, and if status were non-existent, change also could not exist. For we have to ask, when you speak of change as alone real, change of what, from what, to what? Without this ‘what" change could not be. ::: —Change is evidently the change of some form or state of existence from one condition to another condition.” Essays Divine and Human
appalled ::: filled or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear, resulting in the loss of courage in the face of something dreadful.
arch ::: 1. An upwardly curved construction, for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening, either capable of bearing weight or merely ornamental; 2. Something bowed or curved; any bowlike part: the arch of the foot. 3. An arched roof, door; gateway; vault; fig. the heavens. arches.
architectonic ::: metaph. Of the systematic arrangement of knowledge.
architect ::: the deviser, maker, or creator of anything; one who builds up something, as, men are the architects of their own fortunes. Architect, architects.
arcturus ::: a giant star in the constellation Boötes. It is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere and the fourth brightest star in the sky, with an apparent magnitude of 0.00; sometimes referring to the Great Bear itself.
armour ::: 1. Any covering worn as a defense against weapons, especially a metallic sheathing, suit of armour, mail. 2. Any quality, characteristic, situation, or thing that serves as protection. armours, armoured.* n. 1. Weapons. v. 2. Provides with weapons or whatever will add strength, force or security; supports; fortifies. *armed, arming.
a rod, esp. a forked stick supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc.
ashes ::: 1. Bodily remains, especially after cremation or decay. 2. Fig. Ruins; esp. the residue of something destroyed; remains.
as it would be if; as though. (Introducing a supposition, or way of conceiving some entity or situation, that is not to be taken literally, but yields some insight or convenience in metaphysics.)
aspiration ::: 1. A strong desire for high achievement. 2. A steadfast longing for something above oneself. **aspiration"s.
aspire ::: to have a fixed desire, longing, or ambition for something at present above one; to seek to attain, yearn. aspires, aspired, aspiring.
assured ::: 1. Made certain; guaranteed. 2. Certified, verified. 3. Made secure or certain; confirmed. 4. Confident, characterized by certainty or security; satisfied as to the truth of something. assuring.
". . . as there is a constant dynamic energy in movement in the universe which takes various material forms more or less subtle or gross, so in each physical body or object, plant or animal or metal, there is stored and active the same constant dynamic force; a certain interchange of these two gives us the phenomena which we associate with the idea of life. It is this action that we recognise as the action of Life-Energy and that which so energises itself is the Life-Force. Mind-Energy, Life-Energy, material Energy are different dynamisms of one World-Force.” The Life Divine
a structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed. Also fig.
at a distance ::: far, remote from someone or something.
"A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
attempt ::: n. 1. An effort made to accomplish something. 2. The thing attempted, object aimed at, aim. attempts, half-attempts. v. 3. To make an effort at; try; undertake; seek. attempted, attempting.
a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess.
availed ::: to be of use, value, or advantage; to have the necessary force to accomplishment something.
axis ::: 1. The pivot on which any matter turns. 2. A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate.
barrels ::: large cylindrical containers, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter.
barren ::: 1. Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable. 2. Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation. 3. Devoid of something specified.
bear ::: 1. To carry. Also fig. 2. To hold up, support. Also fig. 3. To have a tolerance for; endure something with tolerance and patience. 5. To possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on. 6. To tend in a course or direction; move; go. 7. To render; afford; give. 8. To produce by natural growth. bears, bore, borne bearing.
beat ::: n. 1. A stroke or blow. 2. A regular sound or stroke. 3. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. 4. A pulsating sound. 5. A forceful flapping of wings. beats, nerve-beat, hammer-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats", moment-beats, rhyme-beats. v. 6. To strike or pound with repeated blows. 7. To shape or break by repeated blows, as metal. 8. To sound in pulsations. 9. To throb rhythmically; pulsate, as the heart. 10. To flap, especially wings. 11. To strike with or as if with a series of violent blows, dash or pound repeatedly against, as waves, wind, etc. beats, beaten, beating. *adj. *sun-beat.
"Beauty is the way in which the physical expresses the Divine – but the principle and law of Beauty is something inward and spiritual and expresses itself through the form.” *The Future Poetry
beauty ::: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, colour, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else, (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Beauty, beauty"s, Beauty"s, beauty-drenched, earth-beauty"s.
belief ::: 1. Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof. 2. Trust or confidence, faith. 3. Something believed; an opinion or conviction. beliefs.
Question: "Sweet Mother, l don"t understand very clearly the difference between faith, belief and confidence.”
Mother: "But Sri Aurobindo has given the full explanation here. If you don"t understand, then. . . He has written ‘Faith is a feeling in the whole being." The whole being, yes. Faith, that"s the whole being at once. He says that belief is something that occurs in the head, that is purely mental; and confidence is quite different. Confidence, one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one"s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything is going to help him, to do what he wants to do. Faith is a certitude without any proof. Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 6.
belly ::: 1. The stomach. 2. The inside or interior cavity of something.
bereft ::: deprived of or lacking something needed or expected.
beyond ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The language of the Upanishad makes it strikingly clear that it is no metaphysical abstraction, no void Silence, no indeterminate Absolute which is offered to the soul that aspires, but rather the absolute of all that is possessed by it here in the relative world of its sojourning. All here in the mental is a growing light, consciousness and life; all there in the supramental is an infinite life, light and consciousness. That which is here shadowed, is there found; the incomplete here is there the fulfilled. The Beyond is not an annullation, but a transfiguration of all that we are here in our world of forms; it is sovran Mind of this mind, secret Life of this life, the absolute Sense which supports and justifies our limited senses.” The Upanishads *
birth ::: 1. The act or fact of being born. 2. Fig. The coming into existence of something; origin. Birth, birth"s, births.
blessing ::: 1. Something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being, or prosperity; a boon. 2. A ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection, grace, etc.
blind or excessive devotion to something.
block ::: n. 1. A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, stone, etc. having one or more flat sides. Also fig. 2. Something that obstructs; an obstacle. blocks. *v. 3. To impede, retard, prevent or obstruct the progress or achievement of (someone or something). Also fig.*
blot ::: n. 1. A dark spot or stain. 2. Something likened to a blot that destroys. v. 3. To make obscure; hide. 4. To destroy utterly; annihilate. blotted.
metamorphosis ::: 1. Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. 2. A change or succession of changes in form during the life cycle of an animal, allowing it to adapt to different environmental conditions, as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
metaphysical ::: highly abstract or theoretical; abstruse, relating to that which is immaterial or concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth.
meted ::: distributed or allotted (something, often unpleasant).
meticulous ::: taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough.
metred ::: v. 1. Composed verses; set to poetry. adj. **2.** Divided into a rhythmic pattern, or in a measured arrangement.
metres ::: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line.
metric ::: of or relating to distance.
bond ::: 1. Something, such as a fetter, cord, or band, that binds, ties, or fastens things together. Also fig. 2. A duty, promise, or other obligation by which one is bound. 3. Something that binds one to a certain circumstance or line of behaviour. 4. A uniting force or tie; a link. 5. A binding agreement; a covenant. bonds.
boon ::: 1. A blessing; something to be thankful for. 2. A timely blessing or benefit received in response to a request or prayer. boons.
bordering ::: lying along or adjacent to the edge or border of something; adjoining.
border ::: n. 1. A part that forms the outer edge of something. 2. The line or frontier area separating political divisions or geographic regions; a boundary. 3. A strip of ground, as that at the edge of a garden or walk, an edging. borders. v. 4. To form the boundary of; be contiguous to. fig. To confine. 5. To lie adjacent to another. bordered.
borrowed light ::: light reflected and falling on something else. Also fig.
borrower ::: one who receives something or appropriates it from another source.
bosom ::: 1. The breast. 2. Something likened to the human breast, such as the bosom of the earth, the sea. 2. The breast, conceived of as the centre of feelings or emotions. 3. Centre of; heart of. bosom"s, bosoms, bosomed, white-bosomed.
boundary ::: something that indicates a border or limit, or the border or limit so indicated. boundary"s, boundaries.
bowels ::: the interior of something.
break down ::: of things fig; To break something into parts.
breast ::: 1. Each of two milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman; the human mammary gland. 2. The front of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest. 3. Fig. The seat of the affection and emotion. 4. Fig. A source of nourishment. 5. Something likened to the human breast, as a surface, etc. breasts, breasts".
breathe ::: 1. To be alive; live. 2. To take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire. Also fig. 3. To control the outgoing breath in producing voice and speech sounds. 4. To utter, especially quietly. 5. To make apparent or manifest; express; suggest. 6. To exhale (something); emit. 7. To impart as if by breathing; instil. 8. To move gently or blow lightly, as air. breathes, breathed, breathing. ::: To breathe upon fig. To taint; corrupt.
bribe ::: something, such as money or a favour, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person"s views or conduct.
bridge ::: n. 1. A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway. bridges, bridge-like. v. 2. To build or provide a bridge over something; span. Also fig. 3. To join by or as if by a bridge; link, connect. bridged, bridging.
bud ::: 1. A rudimentary inflorescence, i.e. flower bud. 2. *Fig. Something in an undeveloped or immature condition. *buds, honey-buds, lotus-bud.
build ::: 1. To construct; erect; lit. and fig. (sometimes with up). 2. To mould, form, create. 3. To found, form or construct (a plan, system, etc.) on a basis. 4. To develop or give form to according to a plant or process; create; construct (something immaterial). builds, built, building.
building ::: 1. The act or action of constructing; erecting. Also fig. **2. **Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
burden ::: n. 1. A weight that is to be borne; a load. 2. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear. v. **3. To load or overload. 4.** To oppress; tax; with responsibility, etc.
burnished ::: having a smooth glossy appearance ; luster, as rubbed and polished metal.
"But in the larger universal consciousness there must be a power of carrying this movement to its absolute point, to the greatest extreme possible for any relative movement to reach, and this point is reached, not in human unconsciousness which is not abiding and always refers back to the awakened conscious being that man normally and characteristically is, but in the inconscience of material Nature. This inconscience is no more real than the ignorance of exclusive concentration in our temporary being which limits the waking consciousness of man; for as in us, so in the atom, the metal, the plant, in every form of material Nature, in every energy of material Nature, there is, we know, a secret soul, a secret will, a secret intelligence at work, other than the mute self-oblivious form, the Conscient, — conscient even in unconscious things, — of the Upanishad, without whose presence and informing Conscious-Force or Tapas no work of Nature could be done.” The Life Divine
"By individual we mean normally something that separates itself from everything else and stands apart, though in reality there is no such thing anywhere in existence; it is a figment of our mental conceptions useful and necessary to express a partial and practical truth. But the difficulty is that the mind gets dominated by its words and forgets that the partial and practical truth becomes true truth only by its relation to others which seem to the reason to contradict it, and that taken by itself it contains a constant element of falsity. Thus when we speak of an individual we mean ordinarily an individualisation of mental, vital, physical being separate from all other beings, incapable of unity with them by its very individuality. If we go beyond these three terms of mind, life and body, and speak of the soul or individual self, we still think of an individualised being separate from all others, incapable of unity and inclusive mutuality, capable at most of a spiritual contact and soul-sympathy. It is therefore necessary to insist that by the true individual we mean nothing of the kind, but a conscious power of being of the Eternal, always existing by unity, always capable of mutuality. It is that being which by self-knowledge enjoys liberation and immortality.” The Life Divine
cadence ::: 1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory. 2. Music. A sequence of notes or chords that indicates the momentary or complete end of a composition, section, phrase, etc. 3. The flow or rhythm of events. 4. A recurrent rhythmical series; a flow, esp. the pattern in which something is experienced. 5. A slight falling in pitch of the voice in speaking or reading. cadences.
calculus ::: a method of calculation, esp. one of several highly systematic methods of treating problems by a special system of algebraic notations, as differential or integral calculus.
cancel ::: 1. To annul, make void or invalidate. 2. To equalize or make up for; offset. 3. To cross out with lines or other markings, making something invalid. cancels, cancelled, cancelling, self-cancelling.
carrier ::: something or someone that transports or conveys.
cast ::: v. 1. To throw with force; hurl. 2. To form (liquid metal, for example) into a particular shape by pouring into a mould. Also fig. 3. To cause to fall upon something or in a certain direction; send forth. 4. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling. 5. To put or place, esp. hastily or forcibly. 6. To direct (the eye, a glance, etc.) 7. To throw (something) forth or off. 8. To bestow; confer. casts, casting.
catch ::: n. 1. A concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap. 2. Anything that is caught, esp. something worth catching. v. **3. To take, seize, or capture, esp. after pursuit. 4. To become cognizant or aware of suddenly. 5. To receive. 6. catches, caught, catching.**
certainty ::: 1. The fact, quality, or state of being certain. 2. Something certain; an assured fact.
chain ::: n. 1. A series of things connected or following in succession. 2. Something that binds or restrains. chains. v. 3. Fig. To restrain or confine with or as with a chain.
change ::: v. 1. To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc. of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. 2. To become different or undergo alteration. changes, changed, changing, ever-changing.* n. 3. The act or fact of changing; transformation or modification of anything. Change, changes, soul-change.
channel ::: n. **1. A course through which something may be transmitted or through which something may be moved or directed onward. 2. The bed of a stream or river, etc. v. 3. To direct or convey something through (or as through) a channel. channels.**
childhood ::: 1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something. childhood"s.
chiselled ::: shaped or cut as with a chisel, a metal tool with a sharp bevelled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal. chisels.
chrysolites ::: brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as gemstones such as topaz, etc.
cipher ::: n. 1. Something having no influence or value; a zero; a nonentity. 2. A secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. unintelligible to all but those possessing the key; a cryptograph. ciphers. *v. 3. To put in secret writing; encode. *ciphers. Note: Sri Aurobindo also spelled the word as Cypher, the old English spelling.
circumference ::: the boundary line of a circle; perimeter; figure, area, or object or the area within the boundary.
claim ::: n. 1. A demand for something as rightful or due. 2. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner as a right or title. claims. *v. *3. To demand, ask for, assert, or take as one"s own or one"s due. 4. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain. claims, claimed, claiming, claimest, claimst, death-claimed, trance-claimed.
clang ::: 1. A loud resounding noise, as a large bell or metal when struck. 2. v. To make or cause to make, or produce a loud ringing, resonant sound as of a large bell.
clash ::: n. 1. A loud, harsh noise, such as that made by two metal objects in collision. 2. An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish. 3. A conflict, as between opposing or irreconcilable ideas. v. 4. To engage in a physical conflict or contest, as in a game or a battle (often followed by with). 5. To come into conflict; be in opposition. clashes, clashed, clashing.
clavichord ::: an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings.
climax ::: the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination.
cloak ::: 1. A loose outer garment, such as a cape. 2. Anything that covers or conceals. 3. Something that covers or conceals; a disguise. world-cloak.
clothe ::: 1. To cover as if with clothing. 2. To present in a specific form. 3. To furnish or invest with power or authority or endue or endow attributes, qualities. 4. To cover or envelop (something) so as to change its appearance, as the face of the earth. clothes, clothed.
cloud ::: 1. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth"s surface. 2. Any similar mass, esp. of smoke or dust. 3. Something fleeting or unsubstantial. 4. Anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc. clouds, clouds", cloud-veils.
comet ::: a celestial body that travels around the sun, usually in a highly elliptical orbit: thought to consist of a solid frozen nucleus part of which vaporizes on approaching the sun to form a gaseous luminous coma and a long luminous tail.
coin ::: 1. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money. 2. A mode of expression considered standard, a symbol; token.
compel ::: 1. To cause (someone) by force (to be or do something) 2. To force to submit; subdue. 3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway. compels, compelled, compelling, compellingly.
computed ::: determined by mathematics, especially by numerical methods.
conceit ::: 1. An excessively favourable opinion of one"s own ability, importance, wit, etc. 2. Something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea. 3. Imagination; fancy. 4. A fanciful thought or idea. conceits.
conceive ::: 1. To form or hold an idea. 2. To begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive). 3. To apprehend mentally; understand. 4. To be created or formed in the womb; to be engendered; begotten. conceives, conceived, self-conceived.
"Concentration simply means a fixing of consciousness on something.” Guidance from Sri Aurobindo by Nagin Doshi - Vol. 1
concept ::: 1. An idea, esp. an abstract idea or notion. 2. An idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct. 3. A directly conceived or intuited object of thought. concept"s, concept-maps.
conception ::: 1. Origin or beginning. 2. The act or power of forming notions, ideas, or concepts. 3. The act of conceiving; the state of being conceived; fertilization; inception of pregnancy. 4. Something conceived in the mind; a concept, plan, design, idea, or thought. conception"s.
confirm ::: 1. To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify. 2. To support or establish the certainty, or validity of; verify. 3. To reaffirm (something), so as to make (it) more definite. confirmed.
conquest ::: 1. The act or process of conquering, being victorious. 2. Something, such as territory, acquired by conquering. conquests.
consecration ::: a sanctification of something by setting it apart as dedicated to God.
consequence ::: 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. 2. Significance; importance.
consistency ::: agreement or harmony between parts of something complex; compatibility.
contempt ::: the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
contrary ::: something that is opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed. contraries.
convention ::: a method, practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom. conventions.
convicting ::: that which points out or impresses upon something its error.
core ::: the central, innermost, or most essential part of something.
cosharers ::: those who receive, possess, or occupy (something) together with others.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
counters ::: anything used in keeping account, as a disk of metal or wood, used in some games, as checkers, for marking a player"s position or for keeping score.
covering ::: n. **1. Anything that veils, screens, disguises or shuts from sight. 2. Something that covers or is laid, placed, or spread over or upon something else. v. 3. Protecting or shielding from harm, loss, or danger. coverings.**
cover ::: n. 1. Fig. Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. v. 2. To spread over a surface to protect or conceal or warm something. 3. To hide from view or knowledge; conceal. covers, covered, covering.
cradle ::: n. 1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers. 2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. cradles v. 2.* *To hold gently and carefully as in a cradle. 3. To hold gently or protectively. cradles, cradled.**
create ::: 1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2. To evolve from one"s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3. To cause to happen; to bring about; arrange, as by intention or design. creates, created, creating, all-creating, self-creating, world-creating, new-create.
creation ::: 1. The act or process of creating, esp. the universe as thus brought into being by God. 2. Something that has been brought into existence or created, esp. a product of human intelligence or imagination, as a work of art, music, etc. creation"s, creations, half-creations, **self-creation.
creature ::: 1. Something created; a living being, esp. an animal. 2. A human. 3. A person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet. creature"s, creatures, creatures".
crest ::: 1. The top, highest point, or highest stage of something. 2. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave. 3. A tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal as the comb of a rooster. 4. The fan-like tail of a comet. crests.
cross ::: 1. A structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to a cruel and ignominious death by being nailed or otherwise fastened to it by their extremities. 2. A representation or delineation of a cross on any surface, varying in elaborateness from two lines crossing each other to an ornamental design painted, embroidered, carved, etc.; used as a sacred mark, symbol, badge, or the like. 3. A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes anything that thwarts or crosses. v. 4. To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: pass over. 5. To extend or pass through or over; intersect. 6. To encounter in passing. crosses, crossed, crossing.
crown ::: n. **1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and those having sovereign power, often made of precious metal and ornamented with gems. 2. A wreath or garland for the head, awarded as a sign of victory, success, honour, etc. 3. The distinction that comes from a great achievement; reward, honour. 4. The top or summit of something, esp. of a rounded object. etc. 5. The highest or more nearly perfect state of anything. 6. An exalting or chief attribute. 7. The acme or supreme source of honour, excellence, beauty, etc. v. 8. To put a crown on the head of, symbolically vesting with royal title, powers, etc. 9. To place something on or over the head or top of. crowns, crowned.**
crystal ::: 1. A mineral, especially a transparent form of quartz, having a crystalline structure, often characterized by external planar faces. 2. Resembling crystal; transparent as water or a liquid. 3. Fig. Sometimes used to describe the eyes.
cup ::: 1. A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking, or something resembling it. cup"s 2. *Fig.* Something that one must endure; one"s lot to be experienced or endured with pain or happiness, as these lines in Savitri:
cure ::: n. 1. A means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental. v. 2. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing). curing.
curse ::: n. 1. The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. A formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. An evil brought or inflicted upon one. 4. The cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 5. A profane or obscene expression or oath. curses. v. 6. To wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. 7. To invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something). cursed.
curtain ::: 1. A hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc. 2. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, or barrier. curtains.
dart ::: n. 1. A small, slender missile that is pointed at one end and usually feathered at the other and is propelled by hand, as in the game of darts, or by a blowgun when used as a weapon. 2. Something similar in function to such a missile, as the stinging member of an insect. *v. 2. To thrust or move suddenly or rapidly.* darts.
date ::: 1. A particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen. 2. The time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general. 3. The time during which something lasts; duration. dates
debris ::: the scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
debt ::: 1. Something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services. 2. An obligation or liability to pay or render something to someone else.
deception ::: something that deceives or is intended to deceive; fraud; artifice.
decorated ::: furnished or adorned with something ornamental or becoming; embellished.
decoration ::: an addition that renders something more attractive or ornate; adornment.
deed ::: 1. Something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act. 2. An exploit or achievement; feat. 3. Often plural as an act or gesture, esp. as illustrative of intentions, one"s character, or the like. deeds.
deep ::: n. 1. A vast extent, as of space or time; an abyss. 2. Fig. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; as an unfathomable thought, idea, esp. poetic. Deep, deep"s, deeps. adj. 3. Extending far downward below a surface. 4. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination. 5. Coming from or penetrating to a great depth. 6. Situated far down, in, or back. 7. Lying below the surface; not superficial; profound. 8. Of great intensity; as extreme deep happiness, deep trouble. 9. Absorbing; engrossing. 10. Grave or serious. 11. Profoundly or intensely. 12. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to penetrate or understand. 13. Low in pitch or tone. 14. Profoundly cunning, crafty or artful. 15. The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night”; "in the deep of winter”. deeper, deepest, deep-browed, deep-caved, deep-concealed, deep-etched, deep-fraught, deep-guarded, deep-hid, deep-honied, deep-pooled, deep-thoughted. *adv. *16. to a great depth psychologically or profoundly.
defence ::: 1. Something that defends, as a fortification, something built to resist an enemy. 3. The act of defending against attack, danger, or injury.
delight ::: 1. A high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture. 2. Something that gives great pleasure. **delights, world-delight, World-Delight.
denial ::: 1. A refusal to accept or believe something, such as a doctrine or belief. 2. A refusal to grant the truth of a statement or allegation; a contradiction; a disavowal. denial"s, denials.
densities ::: relating to the degree to which something is filled, crowded, or occupied.
dependent ::: relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
descry ::: 1. To see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern. 2. To discover, perceive, detect. descried.
desert ::: 1. A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all. 2. Any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, permanent frost, or absence of soil. 3. Any place lacking in something; desolate, barren. deserts.
design ::: n. 1. Purpose, aim, intention, especially with reference to a Divine Creator. 2. Plan or scheme. 3. A combination of details or features; pattern or motif. design"s, designs. *v. 4. To work out the structure or form of (something). 5. To plan and make (something) artistically or skilfully. *designed, designing.
desire ::: n. **1. A longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. 2.** Sexual appetite or a sexual urge.
destiny ::: 1. Something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. 2. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. 3. The power or agency that determines the course of events. 4. *(Cap.) This power personified or represented as a goddess. *Destiny, destinies, world-destiny.
detached ::: 1. Impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased. 2. Not involved or concerned; aloof. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Detachment means that one stands back from [imperfections and weakness of the nature, etc.] , does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather looks on them as something foreign to one"s true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the Mother"s Force into these movements to eliminate them and bring the true consciousness and its movements there.” Letters on Yoga
device ::: 1. Something devised or framed by art or inventive power; an invention, contrivance for some particular purpose. 2. A plan or scheme, especially a malign one. 3. Something elaborately or fancifully designed. devices.
dews ::: 1. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces. 2. Something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality. dewy, Dew-time.
diameter ::: a straight line segment passing through the center of a figure, especially of a circle or sphere, and terminating at the periphery.
diagram ::: a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts. diagrams.
difficulty ::: 1. The condition or quality of being difficult; 2. Something that is hard to do, understand or surmount; an impediment or obstacle.
discontent ::: 1. A restless desire or craving for something one does not have. 2. Lack of content; dissatisfaction.
discover ::: 1. To determine the existence, presence, or fact of. 2. To be the first to find or find out or about something. 3. To reveal or make known. discovers, discovered, discovering, all-discovering, new-discovering,
discoverer ::: someone who is the first to observe something unknown or unseen. discoverers.
discovery ::: the fact of revealing or making known something that was hidden or unknown previously. flame-discovery, self-discovery, self-discovery"s, discoveries, form-discoveries.
disengage ::: 1. To release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles. 2. To free or detach oneself; withdraw. disengaging.
disguised ::: 1. Hid the identity of by altering the appearance etc. 2. An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something.
disguise ::: n. 1. A mask, costume, or manner that conceals the identity of. 2. Something that serves or is intended for concealment of identity, character, or quality; a deceptive covering, condition, manner, etc. 3. The state of being disguised; masquerade. disguises, self-disguise. v. 4. To hide under a false appearance. disguised.
displaced ::: 1. Removed or shifted (something) from its place; put out of the proper or usual place. 2. Took the place of; supplanted.
distinguishing ::: perceiving clearly by sight or other sense; discerning something as being different or distinct.
divide ::: to separate from something else; cut off. divides, divided.
divine love ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.” *Letters on Yoga
divulged ::: made known (something private or secret).
document ::: something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information. documents.
dot ::: n. 1. A small round mark made with or as with a pen, etc.; spot; speck; point. 2. Anything relatively small or specklike. dots. *v.* 3. To scatter or intersperse (with dots or something resembling dots). 4. To stud or diversify with or as if with dots, as trees dotting the landscape. dotted, dotting.
doubt ::: n. 1. Lack of belief in or conviction about something. v. 2. To be undecided or skeptical about: tend to disbelieve or distrust. doubts, doubting, doubtful, doubtfully, doubtfulness.
downward ::: adj. 1. Descending from a source or beginning. 2. Moving or tending to a lower place or condition. 3. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank. adv. 4. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
drag-net ::: a heavy or weighted net used to scour the bottom of a pond, river, etc., as when searching for something.
drain ::: v. 1. To deplete (a person or a thing) gradually, especially to the point of complete exhaustion. n. 2. A gradual depletion of energy or resources. 3. Something (a ditch, trench, waterpipe etc.) designed to carry away water. drained.
draw ::: 1. To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading. 2. To bring towards oneself or itself, as by inherent force or influence; attract. 3. To cause to come by attracting; attract. 4. To cause to move in a particular direction by or as by a pulling force; pull; drag. 5. To get, take or obtain as from a source; to derive. 6. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source. 7. To draw a (or the) line (fig.) to determine or define the limit between two things or groups; in modern colloquial use (esp. with at), to lay down a definite limit of action beyond which one refuses to go. 8. To make, sketch (a picture or representation of someone or something) in lines or words; to design, trace out, delineate; depict; also, to mould, model. 9. To mark or lay out; trace. 10. To compose or write out in legal format. 11. To write out (a bill of exchange or promissory note). 12. To disembowel. 13. To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something. 14. To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale. 15. To extend, lengthen, prolong, protract. 16. To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag. draws, drew, drawn, drawing, wide-drawn.
drift ::: n. 1. A driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure. 2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. 3. Tendency, trend, meaning, or purport. 4. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. 5. Something moving along in a current of air or water. 6. Any group of stars having a random distribution of velocities; usually applied to a group of stars with an apparent systematic motion towards some point in the sky. v. 7. To be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water. 8. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose. drifts, drifted, drifting, sleet-drift, slow-drifting.
drilled ::: pierced or bored a hole in (something).
drive ::: v. 1. To impel; constrain; urge; compel. 2. To manoeuvre, guide or steer the progress of. 3. To impel (matter) by physical force; to cause (something) to move along by direct application of physical force; to propel, carry along. 4. To send, expel, or otherwise cause to move away or out by force or compulsion. 5. To strive vigorously and with determination toward a goal or objective. 6. To cause and guide the movement of (a vehicle, an animal, etc.). n. 7. A strong organized effort to accomplish a purpose, with energy, push or aggressiveness. 8. Impulse; impulsive force. adj. 9. Urged onward, impelled. 10. Pertaining to an inner urge that stimulates activity or inhibition. drives, drove, drov"st, driving, driven.
drowning ::: something that is overwhelming or overpowering.
dull ::: adj. **1. Causing boredom; tedious; uninteresting. 2. Not brisk or rapid; sluggish. 3. Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive. 4. Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. 5. (of color) Very low in saturation; highly diluted; 6. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. duller, dull-eyed, dull-hued, dull-visioned. v. 7. To make numb or insensitive. 8. To make or become dull or sluggish. 9. To make less lively or vigorous. dulls, dulled.**
earn ::: 1. To obtain or deserve (something) as the reward of labour. 2. To deserve; to obtain as a recompense. earned.
effort ::: the use of physical or mental energy to do something; exertion. effort"s, efforts.
electors ::: those who chose or elect to do something.
eliminate ::: 1. To get rid of; to omit or exclude. 2. To wipe out someone or something, especially by using drastic methods.
emblem ::: a sign, design, or figure that identifies or represents someone or something.
emissary ::: fig. Someone or something sent out as on a mission.
employment ::: the purpose for which something is used.
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
enchanter ::: something that delights, often as with sorcery or a spell.
encountered ::: came upon or met with unexpectedly.
enfeoffed ::: invested someone or something with possession of.
enigma ::: 1. A puzzling or mystifying saying, in which some known thing is concealed under obscure language; an obscure question; a riddle. 2. Something seemingly having no explanation; a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation. enigma"s, Enigma, Enigma"s, enigmaed.
enjoyer ::: a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something.
ensemble ::: all the parts of something considered together and in relation to the whole.
entity ::: something having real or distinct existence. **Entity, entities.
entry ::: 1. The act or an instance of entering. 2.* Something that provides access to get in or get out. Also fig. *3. Permission or right to enter; access. entry"s, entries.
envelope ::: something that covers or surrounds.
envy ::: a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another"s advantages, success, possessions, etc.; longing to possess something awarded to or achieved by another.
epiphany ::: 1. An appearance or manifestation, esp. of a deity. 2. A sudden intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something. epiphanies.
erase ::: 1. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. 2. To eliminate completely; to efface, expunge, obliterate. 3. Fig. To remove from memory or existence. erased, erasing.
event ::: 1. Something that happens, or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, esp. one of some importance. 2. Something that occurs in a certain place during a particular interval of time. Event, event"s, events, shape-events. ::: Event, divine
evidence ::: something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign. self-evidence.
exchanged ::: given up (something) for something else.
excitement ::: something that excites; stimulation or thrill.
exclusive ::: 1. Not admitting of something else. 2. Noting that in which no others have a share.
execution ::: a carrying out of something.
executor ::: 1. A person who carries out or performs something. 2. A person named in a will to carry out the provisions of that will. executors.
expansion ::: 1. The action of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope. 2. The degree, extent, or amount by which something expands.
expenditure ::: the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
expense ::: something spent or used to attain a goal or accomplish a purpose.
experiment ::: n. **1. A test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc. v. 2.* To try something new, especially in order to gain experience. experiments. adj.* experimenting.
expose ::: 1. To lay open to something specified. 2. To lay open to the action or influence of. 3. To lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc. 4. To make visible or apparent. 5. To reveal or unmask (a crime, fraud, impostor, etc.). exposes, exposed.
expression ::: 1. The act of expressing, conveying, or representing in something such as a movement, etc. 2. A manifestation. self-expression.
::: **"Faith is a certitude in the soul which does not depend on reasoning, on this or that mental idea, on circumstances, on this or that passing condition of the mind or the vital or the body. It may be hidden, eclipsed, may even seem to be quenched, but it reappears again after the storm or the eclipse; it is seen burning still in the soul when one has thought that it was extinguished for ever. The mind may be a shifting sea of doubts and yet that faith may be there within and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on in spite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul"s ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it.” Letters on Yoga
::: "Faith is the soul"s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.” *Letters on Yoga
fate ::: 1. That which is inevitably predetermined or preordained; destiny. 2. Something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot. **fate"s, fates, fated, fate-bound, fate-driven, fate-hedged, fate-led, fate-turned, world-fate.
faun ::: in classical mythology, any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat.
feast ::: 1. A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by entertainment; a banquet. 2. Something giving great pleasure or satisfaction.
field ::: 1. A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice. 2. An area or sphere of activity. 3. A broad, level, open expanse of land; a stretch of open land, esp. one used for pasture or tillage; a plain. 4. The surface on which something is portrayed or enacted. An area of human activity or interest. 5. A piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field. 6. A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure. fields, field-paths, star-field, time-field, play-fields, race-fields.
figment ::: something invented, made up, or fabricated by the mind.
fig. The first gleam or appearance, earliest beginning (of something compared to light).
figurante ::: something possessing form or shape.
fixed ::: 1. Securely placed or fastened or set. 2. Set or intent upon something; steadily directed (as of a person"s eyes, mind, etc.). 3. Definitely and permanently placed. 4. Not fluctuating or varying; definite. 5. Coming each year on the same calendar date. 6. Assigned to a definite place, time, etc.
flaunted ::: exhibited something shamelessly. flaunting.
flaw ::: a feature that mars the perfection of something; an imperfection, defect, or blemish.
floating ::: adj. 1. Being buoyed up on water or other liquid. 2. Having little or no attachment; moving from one place to another. 3. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. 4. Being suspended in or as in a liquid with freedom to move; also, to move freely through (something).
flow ::: n. 1. To move or progress freely as if in a stream. 2. Fig. Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. v. 3. To circulate. 4. To move or progress freely as if in a stream. 5. To stream or well forth. 6. To proceed or be produced continuously and effortlessly from or out of a source. flows, flowed.
follow ::: 1. To come or go after; proceed behind. 2. Lit. and fig. To move along the course of; take a path. 3. Fig. To come after in order, time, or position. 4. To occur or be evident as a consequence; result. 5. Fig. To accompany; attend. 6. To take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master; to accept the authority or example of, obey the dictates or guidance of; to adhere to, espouse the opinions, side, or cause of. 7. Fig. To go after in or as if in pursuit. 8. To accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of. 9. To watch or trace the movements, progress, or course of. follows, followed, following. ::: following out. Proceeding; following; pursuing something to an end or conclusion.
follower ::: 1. Someone who travels behind or pursues another. 2. One who subscribes to the teachings or methods of another; an adherent. followers.
forbid ::: 1. To command (someone) not to do something. 2. To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit. forbids, forbade, forbidding, forbidden, half-forbidden.
force ::: n. 1. Strength; energy; power; intensity. 2. Fig. An agency, influence, or source of power likened to a physical force. Force, force"s, forces, Force-compelled, Conscious-Force, earth-force, God-Force, lion-forces, Mother-Force, Nature-force, Nature-Force, serpent-force, soul-force, Soul-Forces, world-force, World-Force, world-forces. *v. 3. To compel or cause (a person, group, etc.) to do something through effort, superior strength, etc.; coerce. 4. To propel or drive despite resistance. 5. To break open (a gate, door, etc.) *forces, forced, forcing.
foreknowledge ::: knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience.
forerunner ::: a person or thing coming in advance to herald the arrival of someone or something; guide. forerunners.
forge ::: n. 1. A special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping. v. 2. To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape. 3. To form or make, esp. by concentrated effort or energy; shape, fabricate, fashion, mould. 4. To imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; to counterfeit; to commit forgery. forged.
"For it is only the few who can make the past Teacher and his teaching, the past Incarnation and his example and influence a living force in their lives. For this need also the Hindu discipline provides in the relation of the Guru and the disciple. The Guru may sometimes be the Incarnation or World-Teacher; but it is sufficient that he should represent to the disciple the divine wisdom, convey to him something of the divine ideal or make him feel the realised relation of the human soul with the Eternal.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
fork ::: something resembling or suggesting a pronged instrument in form; ::: hence a flash of lightning having a zigzag appearance.
formula ::: 1. A prescribed form; a rule or model; any fixed or conventional method for doing something. 2. An established form of words or symbols for use in a ceremony or procedure. 3. Math. A general relationship, principle, or rule stated, often as an equation, in the form of symbols. 4. A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements. formulas.
formulate ::: to devise or develop, as a method, system, etc. or reduce to or express in a formula.
forsake ::: 1. To give up (something formerly held dear); renounce. 2. To leave altogether; abandon. forsaking.
fortunate ::: 1. Possessing good luck; lucky. 2. Bringing something good and unforeseen; auspicious.
forward ::: adv. 1. Toward or tending to the front; facing frontward. 2. Fig. Directed or moving ahead. 3. Of continuous motion: Towards what is in front; (moving) onwards, on. forward-rippling, forward-striving. *adj. 4. At or near or directed towards a point ahead.* ::: to look forward. Expect or hope for something positive in the future.
foundation ::: 1. The natural or prepared ground or base on which some structure is erected or rests. 2. Fig. That on which something is founded; basis. **foundations.
fuel ::: 1. A substance that can be consumed to produce energy. 2. Fig. Something that maintains or stimulates a passionate activity or an emotion. fuel"s.
gain ::: n. 1. Something won, acquired, earned, etc.; profit; advantage. gains. v. 2. To acquire (something desirable); obtain. 3. To obtain through effort or merit; achieve. gained.
galleries ::: long narrow passages sometimes serving as a means of access to other parts of a house; corridors.
gather ::: v. 1. To accumulate something (things or people) gradually; amass. 2. To summon up; muster. 3. To come together around a single point; collect, assemble. 4. To accumulate; increase. 5. To draw and bring closer. 6. To draw around or close. gathers, gathered, gathering, fast-gathering.
gem ::: 1. A pearl or mineral that has been cut and polished for use as an ornament. 2. Something that is valued for its beauty or perfection. gems.
geometer (‘s)
geometric
girdle ::: n. **1. A belt or sash worn around the waist. 2. Something that encircles like a belt. v. 3. To surround as with a girdle. girdling.**
govern ::: v. 1. To direct and control the actions, affairs, policies, functions, etc. 2. To control the actions or behaviour of. 3. To be a predominant influence on (something); decide or determine (something). governs, governed, governing.
grace ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flow of its being. ::: It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law — for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate — only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. A state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes, then the Grace itself acts. ” *Letters on Yoga
grasp ::: v. 1. To seize and hold firmly; lit. and fig. 2. To take hold of intellectually; comprehend. grasps, grasped, grasping.* n. 3. A hold or grip. 4. Fig. Total rule, possession or control. 5. Capacity or power to understand or comprehend. 6. One"s power of seizing and holding; reach. 7. The act of grasping or gripping, as with the hands or arms. 8. One"s arms or hands, in embracing or gripping. ::: to grasp at: To try to seize someone or something. Also fig.*
grate ::: a framework of metal bars used to hold fuel or food in a stove, furnace, or fireplace.
grief ::: 1. Deep or intense sorrow or distress, esp. at the death of someone. 2. Something that causes great unhappiness. grief"s, griefs, griefless.
groping ::: showing or reflecting a desire to understand, especially something that proves puzzling.
growth ::: 1. The process of growing in all senses of the word. 2. Something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process. growths.
guarantee ::: something that assures a particular outcome or condition.
guard ::: n. 1. Something that gives protection; a safeguard. 2. A body of people, esp. soldiers, charged with guarding a place from disturbance, theft, etc. guards. v. 3. To keep safe from harm or danger; to take care of, watch over, protect, defend. 4. To protect from harm by or as if by watching over. guards, guarded, guarding, deep-guarded, self-guarded. ::: on guard. Vigilant; watchful.
guidance ::: something which guides or leads, esp. through an unfamiliar area. Guidance.
hallucination ::: 1. A sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders. 2. A false notion, belief, or impression; illusion; delusion.
halo ::: a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage. haloed.
hang ::: 1. To fasten or attach (pictures, etc.) to a wall. 2. To suspend (something) around or in front of anything. 3.* Fig. To remain unresolved or uncertain. 4. To make (an idea, form, etc.) dependent on the situation, structure, concept, or the like, usually derived from another source. 5. To fasten or be fastened from above, esp. by a cord, chain, etc.; suspend. 6. To be suspended or poised; hover. 7. To bend forward or downward; to lean over. *hangs, hung, hanging, flower-hung, shadow-hung. ::: hung on: Remained clinging, usually implying expectation or unwillingness to sever one"s connection.
hazard ::: n. 1. An unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable. 2. Something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty. 3. The absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty. hazard"s, hazards. *v. 4. To expose to hazard or risk. 5. To venture (something); dare. 6. To venture upon (anything of doubtful issue). *hazards, hazarded.
heave ::: n. 1. The act of lifting something with great effort. heavings. v. 2. To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge. 3. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling). heaves, heaved.
heed ::: n. 1. Close and careful attention. v. 2. To pay close attention to (someone or something). heeds.
hemisphere ::: 1. Half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere. 2. The area within which something occurs or dominates; sphere; realm. hemispheres.
hermetic ::: 1. Having to do with the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical. 2. Made airtight by fusion or sealing. 3. Not affected by outward influence or power; isolated.
heritage ::: something inherited at birth, such as personal characteristics, status, and possessions.
hew ::: 1. To cut something by repeated blows, as of an axe. 2. To make or shape as with an axe. 3. To sever from a larger or another portion as with a blow. 4. To cut down with an axe; fell; slay. hews, hewed, hewn, hewing, hewer, half-hewn, rock-hewn. ::: rough-hewn. Shaped out roughly, given crude form to; worked or executed in the rough. (Here in reference to Satyavan"s abode.)
"Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation. To the pragmatical intellect which takes its stand upon the ever-changing present, ideals are not truths, not realities, they are at most potentialities of future truth and only become real when they are visible in the external fact as work of force accomplished. But to the mind which is able to draw back from the flux of force in the material universe, to the consciousness which is not imprisoned in its own workings or carried along in their flood but is able to envelop, hold and comprehend them, to the soul that is not merely the subject and instrument of the world-force but can reflect something of that Master-Consciousness which controls and uses it, the ideal present to its inner vision is a greater reality than the changing fact obvious to its outer senses. The Supramental Manifestation*
"I may say that the opening upwards, the ascent into the Light and the subsequent descent into the ordinary consciousness and normal human life is very common as the first decisive experience in the practice of yoga and may very well happen even without the practice of yoga in those who are destined for the spiritual change, especially if there is a dissatisfaction somewhere with the ordinary life and a seeking for something more, greater or better.” Letters on Yoga*
imperative ::: n. 1. An action, etc. involving or expressing a command; a command. 2. Something that demands attention or action; an unavoidable obligation or requirement; necessity. 3. The verbal mood (or any form belonging to it) which expresses a command, request, or exhortation. adj. **4. Absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable. 5. Of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding. imperatives.**
imperfection ::: 1. The quality or condition of being imperfect; incomplete; defective. 2. Something imperfect; a defect or flaw. imperfection"s, imperfections.
imperial ::: 1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of an empire or a sovereign, especially an emperor or empress. 2. Regal; majestic. 3. Something magnificent or outstanding in size or quality.
impose ::: 1. To establish or apply as compulsory; as something to be obeyed or complied with; levy; enforce. 2. To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority. imposes, imposed, imposing.
imposition ::: the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
impromptu ::: something that arises spontaneously or comes without previous preparation or premeditation. impromptus.
inane ::: something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
incident ::: 1. An individual occurrence or event. 2. Something contingent on or related to something else. incidents.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
incredible ::: something so extraordinary as to seem impossible; inconceivable, beyond belief.
independent ::: not determined or influenced by someone or something else; not contingent upon.
index ::: 1. An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages on which each item is mentioned. 2. A sequential arrangement. 3. Something that reveals or indicates; a sign.
indicator ::: one who or that which points to or towards the presence, existence, or reality of (something); is a sign or symptom of, betokens.
indifferent ::: 1. Having no marked feeling for or against. 2. Without interest or feeling in regard to something; unbiased, impartial, neutral; fair; unconcerned, unmoved, apathetic. 3. Being neither good nor bad; neutral.
indignant ::: angered at something unjust or wrong; expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base.
indignation ::: anger aroused by something unjust, mean, wicked or unworthy.
inflict ::: 1. To lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc. 2. To deal or mete out (something punishing or burdensome); impose. inflicted, inflicting.
inheritance ::: fig. Something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner"s death to the heir or those entitled to succeed.
inset ::: something that is put in or inserted.
insistent ::: earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent. insistence, insistency.
inspired ::: aroused, animated or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence. inspiring.
"In spiritual experience it [nirvana]is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcendence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. . . Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising and living in our true eternal being, living divinely in the Divine. But this we can do in the world and in life.” Letters on Yoga
instead ::: as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something.
instrument ::: 1. A means by which something is affected or done; agency. 2. A person used by an agency for a particular purpose. instruments, instruments", instrument-personality.
intent ::: n. 1. Something that is intended; purpose; design. v. 2. To be firmly or steadfastly fixed or directed, as the eyes or mind. 3. To be determined or resolved; having the mind or will fixed on some goal.
intercept ::: 1. To take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination. 2. To stop or check (passage, travel, etc.). 3. To stop or interrupt the course, progress, or transmission of. intercepts, intercepting, interceptor.
interest ::: 1. Something that concerns, involves, draws the attention of, or arouses the curiosity of a person. 2. Regard for one"s own benefit or advantage; self-interest. interests.
intermediate zone ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higher Mind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels , but one can receive something from them, even from the overmind, indirectly. Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers. ::: It is not necessary for everyone to struggle through the intermediate zone. If one has purified oneself, if there is no abnormal vanity, egoism, ambition or other strong misleading element, or if one is vigilant and on one"s guard, or if the psychic is in front, one can either pass rapidly and directly or with a minimum of trouble into the higher zones of consciousness where one is in direct contact with the Divine Truth.
intimate ::: n. 1. A close friend or confidant. intimates. adj. 2. Marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity. 3. Of or relating to the essential part or nature of something; intrinsic. 4. Very private; closely personal. 5. Familiarly associated. adv. intimately.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
invent ::: to produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination. invents, invented, inventing, inventor, invention, invention"s, inventions, inventive.
investigate ::: to search out and examine the particulars of in an attempt to learn the facts about something hidden, unique, or complex.
inview ::: a word coined by Sri Aurobindo. A sight afforded of something from a position stated or qualified, i.e. from within.
invite ::: 1. To attract, allure, entice, or tempt. 2. Fig. To bring on or call forth (something) or encourage (it) to come. inviting.
iron ::: n. 1. A silver-white metal, usually an admixture of some other substance, usually carbon, rendering it extremely hard and useful for tools, implements, machinery, constructions, and in many other applications. adj. 2. Inflexible; unyielding; firm. 3. Stern; harsh; cruel. 4. *Fig.* Resembling iron in firmness, strength, colour, etc.
issue ::: 1. The ultimate result, event, or outcome of a proceeding, affair, etc. 2. The act of sending out or putting forth; distribution. 3. Something that is sent out or put forth in any form. 4. The act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution. issues, issued, issuing, issueless.
jealous ::: solicitous or vigilant in maintaining or guarding something.
joy ::: n. 1. The emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation. 2. A state of happiness or felicity. joys, joyless, joylessness, joy-glow, soul-joy. v. 3. To feel happiness or joy. **joys, joyed.
keeper ::: one that has the charge or care of something. keepers.
key ::: 1. A small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt. 2. Fig. Something that explains a mystery or gives an answer to a mystery, a code etc. 3. Something that is crucial in providing an explanation or interpretation. 4. Fig. Serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule”. 5. The principal tonality of a composition. 6. Pitch of the voice. keys.
keyed ::: adj. **1. Secured, fastened, or fitted with a key or something compared to a key, with its power of locking or unlocking; opening up or closing, the way to something. v. 2.** Regulated or adjusted (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.) to a particular state or activity; brought into conformity.
kin ::: n. 1. A group of people related by blood or marriage one"s relatives; family; kinfolk. 2. Someone or something of the same or similar kind. adj. **3. Of the same family; related. 4. **Of the same kind or nature; having affinity.
knobbed ::: furnished with or having rounded protuberances at the extremity or on the surface of something.
::: "Knowledge is a child with its achievements; for when it has found out something, it runs about the streets whooping and shouting; Wisdom conceals hers for a long time in a thoughtful and mighty silence.” *Essays Divine and Human
lack ::: 1. To be missing or deficient in something. 2. To be without or in need of. lacks, lacked.
lance ::: a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and horsemen in charging at full speed.
lapped ::: 1. Enveloped in something. 2. Wrapped or wound around (something); encircled.
lash ::: n. **1. A whip. 2. Something that goads or pains in a manner compared to that of a whip. lashed, lashing.**
lattice ::: an open framework made of strips of metal, wood, or similar material overlapped or overlaid in a regular, usually crisscross pattern. lattices, lattice-window.
leave ::: 1. To go away from, depart from permanently, quit (a place, person, or thing). 2. To let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc. 3. To go without taking. 4. To permit, allow. 5. To let (someone) remain in a position to do something without interference. 6. To give in charge; entrust. 7. Have as a result or residue. leaves. (All other references to leaves are as pl. of leaf.)
legacy ::: something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past.
length ::: 1. The state, quality, or fact of being long. 2. The measurement of the extent of something along its greatest dimension.
limit ::: n. 1. A boundary or frontier, as of a country, area, etc. 2. The final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.; the point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed. limits. v. 2. To restrict or confine, as to area, extent, time, etc. limits, limited.
longing ::: strong, persistent desire or craving, esp. for something unattainable or distant. longing"s, longings, longings".
-loop ::: something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself. Time-loop.
lure ::: n. 1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward. lures. v. 2. To attract, tempt, entice. lures, lured, luring.
mail ::: flexible armor composed of small overlapping metal rings, loops of chain, or scales. mailed.
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too imperfect for that, too imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too imperfect in will and action, too imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity. The inmost need of man is not to perfect his humanity, but to be greater than himself, to be more than man, to be divine, even to be the Divine.” Essays Divine and Human
". . . [man"s] nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar. . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga
mantle ::: 1. A loose, always sleeveless cloak or cape of varying length. 2. Something that covers, envelopes, or conceals.
marble ::: n. 1. A hard crystalline metamorphic rock resulting from the recrystallization of a limestone: takes a high polish and is used for building and sculpture. adj. 2. Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness, smoothness, whiteness, etc. 3. Hard, rigid and inflexible, as marble.
mark ::: n. **1. A sign, symbol, action, event or other indication that distinguishes something. 2. A visible impression on something. 3. A distinctive trait or characteristic. 4. A fixed or recognized standard. caste-mark, hoof-mark, question-mark. v. 5. To make a visible trace or impression on, as with a spot, line, or dent. Also fig. 6. To record; to indicate in writing, note. 7. Fig. To designate as if by placing a mark upon; to indicate. 8. To take notice. marks, marked, marking.**
marshalled ::: arranged, placed, or set in methodical order. marshalling.
marsh ::: low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etc.
marvel ::: n. 1. Something that causes feelings of wonder, astonishment or admiration. Marvel, marvel"s, marvels. *v. 2. To become filled with wonder or astonishment. marvelled, marvelling, marvel-fraught, marvel-house, marvel-mooned, marvel-wefts. adv. marvellingly. See also: *Winged marvel
master ::: n. 1. One who has the power, knowledge and ability to control, manage, direct; as a teacher, guru, etc. with the authority and qualifications to teach apprentices. 2. A person eminently skilled in something, as an occupation, art, or science. 3. A person who has general authority over others. master"s, masters. *v. 4. To be or become completely proficient or skilled in; become an adept in. masters, mastered. adj. 5. Being master; exercising mastery; dominant. 6. Dominating or predominant. 7. Chief or principle. *master-clue, master-point.
master-spring ::: 1. A compound word denoting the mainspring or principal spring in a piece of equipment. 2. Fig. The prevailing power or motive to use or control something.
matrix ::: 1. Something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops. 2. A substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed.
maya ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” *The Life Divine
meaning ::: 1. The end, purpose, or significance of something. 2. What is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import. meanings.
measure ::: n. 1. A unit of standard of measurement. 2. The extent, quantity, dimensions, etc. of (something), ascertained esp. by comparison with a standard. 3. Bounds or limits. 4. A definite or known quality or quantity measured out. 5. A short rhythmical movement or arrangement, as in poetry or music. measures. *v. 6. To determine the size, amount, etc. 7. To estimate the relative amount, value, etc., of, by comparison with some standard. 8. To travel or move over as if measuring. *measured, measuring.
medium ::: an intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on. Also fig.
melt ::: 1. To become liquid; dissolve; evaporate; disperse. 2. To pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into). 3. To remake or refashion into something else. melted, melting.
menace ::: something likely to cause injury, damage etc.; a possible danger; a threat.
menial ::: pertaining to domestic servants. In current usage, lowly and sometimes degrading; servile.
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
mine ::: n. 1. An excavation in the earth from which ore or minerals can be extracted. v. 2. To remove something from its source without attempting to replenish it. (All other references are to mine as: belonging to me.)
miracle-monger ::: a compound word denoting a person promoting something undesirable or discreditable, in this instance, miracles.
mirage ::: 1. An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. 2. Something illusory, without substance or reality.
mirror ::: n. 1. A surface capable of reflecting sufficient undiffused light to form an image of an object placed in front of it. 2. Something that faithfully reflects or gives a true picture of something else. Also fig. mirrors. v. 3. To reflect in or as if in a mirror. mirrors, mirrored, mirroring, mirror-air, fragment-mirrorings.
misfit ::: something that fits badly, as a garment that is too large or too small.
mist ::: 1. A cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth"s surface reducing the visibility to a lesser degree than fog. 2. Something that dims, obscures or blurs. mists.
mixed ::: 1. Blended together into one unit or mass; intermingled. 2. Composed of a variety of differing, sometimes conflicting entities.
mode ::: a manner of acting or doing; method; way. modes.
model ::: n. 1. A representation, generally in miniature, to show the construction or appearance of something. 2. One serving as an example of excellence to be imitated or compared. models. v. 3. To plan, construct, fashion or shape. ::: models, modelled, new-model.
monopolist ::: one who has exclusive possession or control of something.
monument ::: 1. A structure, such as a building, pillar, statue or sculpture, erected as a memorial to a person or event, as a building, pillar or statue. 2. Any enduring evidence or notable example of something. 3. An exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality. monuments.
mooned ::: 1. Something resembling a moon and its light. Also fig. 2. Orb- or crescent-shaped. marvel-mooned
mosaic ::: 1. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface. 2. Something resembling such a picture or decoration in composition, esp. in being made up of diverse elements.
mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” The Mother ::: "The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine.
"That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her [the Mother"s] most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life.” *The Mother
: "The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible.” *Letters on the Mother
"When one does sadhana, the inner consciousness begins to open and one is able to go inside and have all kinds of experiences there. As the sadhana progresses, one begins to live more and more in this inner being and the outer becomes more and more superficial. At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external. The inner consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother.” Letters on Yoga ::: **mighty Mother, World-Mother, World-Mother"s.**
mould ::: n. 1. An often hollow matrix or form by which something is shaped; a model, a pattern. 2. Bodily form, body. Chiefly poet. **3. Poetic, the earth. moulds, moulders. v. 4. To work into a shape; fashion a material into a form. Chiefly poet. 5. To shape of form in or on a mould. moulds, moulded, moulding. adj. moulding. 6. Forming, shaping. moulded. 7. **Shaped or cast in a mould; made according to a mould; cut or shaped to a mould.
mover ::: a person, force or thing that sets something in motion. Often used for God. movers.
moving plate ::: photogr. A thin sheet of metal, porcelain, or (now usually) glass, coated with a film sensitive to light, on which photographs are taken.
mutter ::: n. 1. A low grumble or indistinct utterance. 2. A low rumbling sound. muttering, mutterings. *v. muttered. 3. Made a low continuous murmuring sound. 4. Complained murmuringly; grumbled. adj. *5. Uttered something in a low and indistinct tone.
mystery ::: 1. A spiritual truth that is incomprehensible to reason and knowable only through divine revelation. 2. Something that is not fully understood or that baffles or eludes the understanding; an enigma. 3. A mysterious character or quality. 4. The skills, lore, practices and secret rites that are peculiar to a particular activity or group and are regarded as the special province of initiates. Mystery, mystery"s, Mystery"s, mysteries, mystery-altar"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
n. 1. A conception of something in its absolute perfection. adj. **2. One that is regarded as a standard or model of perfection or excellence. Ideal, ideal"s, Ideal"s, ideals.
n. 1. A fashioned ornament for personal adornment, especially of a precious metal set with gems. 2. Something resembling a jewel in appearance, ornamental effect, or the like, as a star. jewels, jewel-faces", jewel-lamp, jewel-lamps, jewel-rhythm. *v. 3. Fig. To adorn, as with jewels. *jewelled.
n. 1. An exercise serving an educational purpose; something to be learned or studied. lessons. *v. *2. To teach, instruct.
n. 1. A small part broken off or detached from any larger whole. 2. An incomplete and unfinished piece; portion. 3. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit. fragments, fragment-being, fragment-mirrorings. *v. 4. To break or separate (something) into fragments. *fragmented.
n. 1. The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. 2. Something that is hoped for or desired. 3. A person or thing that gives cause for hope. hopes, hoping. v. 4. To feel that something desired may happen; to have trust or confidence (in). hopes, hoped, hoping, hopest.
n. 1. The lower interior part of a ship or airplane where cargo is stored. 2. The act or a means of grasping. v. 3. To have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 4. To bear, sustain, or support, as with the hands or arms, or by any other means. 5. To contain or be capable of containing. 6. To keep from departing or getting away. 7. To withstand stress, pressure, or opposition; to maintain occupation of by force or coercion. 8. To have in its power, possess, affect, occupy. 9. To engage in; preside over; carry on. 10. To have or keep in the mind; think or believe. 11. To regard or consider. 12. To keep or maintain a grasp on something. 13. To maintain one"s position against opposition; continue in resistance. 14. To agree or side (usually followed by with). holds, holding. ::: hold back. 15. a. To retain possession of; keep back. b. To refrain from revealing; withhold. c. To refrain from participating or engaging in some activity.
navel ::: 1. The scar in the centre of the abdomen, usually forming a slight depression, where the umbilical cord was attached. 2. The centre point or middle of something. navel"s, navel lotus.
negation ::: 1. The opposite or absence of something regarded as actual, positive, or affirmative. 2. Something that is without existence; nonentity. Negation, negations.
non-Being ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Non-Being is only a word. When we examine the fact it represents, we can no longer be sure that absolute non-existence has any better chance than the infinite Self of being more than an ideative formation of the mind. We really mean by this Nothing something beyond the last term to which we can reduce our purest conception and our most abstract or subtle experience of actual being as we know or conceive it while in this universe. This Nothing then is merely a something beyond positive conception. And when we say that out of Non-Being Being appeared, we perceive that we are speaking in terms of Time about that which is beyond Time.” The Life Divine ::: Non-Being"s, Non-being"s, non-being, non-being"s,
nymphs ::: greek & Roman Mythology: Any of numerous minor deities represented as beautiful maidens inhabiting and sometimes personifying features of nature such as trees, waters, and mountains.
objective ::: of or pertaining to something that can be known, or to something that is an object or a part of an object; existing independent of thought or an observer as part of reality.
obliging ::: constraining, esp. by moral or legal force or influence; forcing, compelling (to do something).
of or pertaining to geometry, the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space.
". . . One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Life is the first step of this release of consciousness; mind is the second; but the evolution does not finish with mind, it awaits a release into something greater, a consciousness which is spiritual and supramental. The next step of the evolution must be towards the development of Supermind and Spirit as the dominant power in the conscious being. For only then will the involved Divinity in things release itself entirely and it become possible for life to manifest perfection.” On Himself
opposite ::: adj. **1. Contrary or radically different in some respect common to both, as in nature, qualities, direction, result, or significance; opposed. 2. Situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing. n. 2. One that is opposite or contrary to another. opposites, Opposites.**
orb ::: 1. A sphere or spherical object. 2. An eye or eyeball. poet. and rhet. 3. A sphere or celestial body, such as the sun or the moon. 4. Something of circular form; a circle or an orbit. 5. *Fig. A range of endeavor or activity; a province. *orbs, moon-orb.
order ::: 1. A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved; methodical or harmonic arrangement. 2. A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group. 3. Conformity or obedience to law or established authority. 4. A sequence or arrangement of successive things. 5. An authoritative indication to be obeyed; a command or direction. order"s, orders.
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
ore ::: a mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.
organise ::: form (parts or elements of something) into a structured whole; coordinate. organised, organising.
origin ::: 1. The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived. 2. The first stage of existence; beginning. Origin, origins.
ornament ::: something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment. ornaments.
ornaments, such as bracelets, necklaces, or rings, made of precious metals set with gems or imitation gems. Also fig.
"Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect walking.” The Synthesis of Yoga
outset ::: the initial stage of something; the beginning.
outskirts ::: outlying districts or regions, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like.
outview ::: a word coined by Sri Aurobindo. A sight afforded of something from a position stated or qualified, i.e. from without.
overarching ::: spanning with or like an arch; forming an arch over something. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as a n.)
"Over each grade of our being a power of the Spirit presides; we have within us and discover when we go deep enough inwards a mind-self, a life-self, a physical self; there is a being of mind, a mental Purusha, expressing something of itself on our surface in the thoughts, perceptions, activities of our mind-nature, a being of life which expresses something of itself in the impulses, feelings, sensations, desires, external life-activities of our vital nature, a physical being, a being of the body which expresses something of itself in the instincts, habits, formulated activities of our physical nature. These beings or part selves of the self in us are powers of the Spirit and therefore not limited by their temporary expression, for what is thus formulated is only a fragment of its possibilities; but the expression creates a temporary mental, vital or physical personality which grows and develops even as the psychic being or soul-personality grows and develops within us.” The Life Divine
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
pageant ::: something comparable to a procession in colourful variety, splendour, or grandeur.
participant ::: one that participates, shares, or takes part in something.
part ::: n. 1. An essential portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole. 2. Participation, interest, or concern in something; role. 3. Region; area. parts, part-experience. *adj. 4. Partial. v. 5. To go or come apart; separate, as two or more things. 6. To go apart from or leave one another, as persons. 7. To put or keep apart; separate. *parts, parted, parting, half-parted.
passage ::: 1. A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration. 2. Fig. The process of passing from one condition or stage to another; transition. 3. An opening or entrance into, through, or out of something. 4. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass. 5. A hall or corridor; passageway. passages, cavern-passages.
passive ::: 1. Not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion of feeling. 2. Not involving visible reaction or active participation. 3. Inert or quiescent. passivity.
pass ::: v. 1. To move on or ahead; proceed. 2. To move by. 3. To go or get through (something), lit. and fig. **4. To go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross. 5. To cross, traverse, in reference to times, stages, states, conditions, processes, actions, experiences, etc. 6. To be transferred from one to another; circulate. 7. To come to or toward, then go beyond. 8. To come to an end. 9. To cease to exist. 10. To convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on). 11. To be accepted as or believed to be. 12. To sanction or approve. passes, passed, passing. n. 13. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. passes. ::: pass by. To let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overlook.
path ::: 1. A trodden track or way. 2. The route or course along which something travels or moves. 3. Fig. A course of action or conduct. path"s, paths, field-paths.
patron ::: one that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor.
pattern ::: 1. A model or original used as an archetype. 2. A plan or diagram used as a guide in making something. 3. An artistic or decorative design. 4. A combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement; order or form discernible in things, actions, ideas, situations, etc. patterns, patterned, many-patterned.
::: "Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
pearl ::: 1. A smooth, lustrous, variously colored deposit, chiefly calcium carbonate, formed around a grain of sand or other foreign matter in the shells of certain molluscs and valued as a gem. 2. Something similar in form, luster, etc., as a dewdrop or a capsule of medicine. pearls, pearl-bright, pearl-hued, pearl-winged. pearl-bright, pearl-hued, pearl-winged.
percept ::: 1. A mental impression of something perceived by the senses, viewed as the basic component in the formation of concepts; a sense datum. 2. The act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
peril ::: 1. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss. 2. Something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction. perils.
permits ::: allows the doing of (something); consents to; affords opportunity or possibility for.
phantasm ::: something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition.
phantom ::: n. 1. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition. 2. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion. adj. 3. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory. phantom"s, phantoms.
pierce ::: 1. To cut or pass through with or as if with a sharp instrument; stab or penetrate. Also fig. 2. To make a hole or opening in; perforate. 3. To succeed in penetrating (something) with the eyes or the intellect. 4. To move or affect (a person"s emotions, bodily feelings, etc.) deeply or sharply. pierced, piercing.
"Pity is sometimes a good substitute for love; but it is always no more than a substitute.” Essays Divine and Human
pivot ::: a person or thing on which something depends or turns; the central or crucial factor.
plank ::: a piece of lumber cut thicker than a board. Fig. something to stand on or cling to for support.
plan ::: n. 1. A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline. 2. A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective. plans, heart-plan, life-plan, time-plan, world-plan, vision-plans, world-plan. *v. 3. To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of. *plans, planned, planning.
". . . real faith is something spiritual, a knowledge of the soul.” Letters on Yoga*
regards as resulting from a specified cause; considers as caused by something or someone. attributing.
"Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
something caused or dictated by fate; esp. misfortune often resulting in death.
something of mixed origin or composition; something with two kinds of components.
something or someone that produces images or representations of.
something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity. Idea, idea"s, Idea"s, ideas, Ideas, world-idea.
something that actually exists; reality; truth. facts, dream-fact, earth-fact, world-fact.
Sri Aurobindo: "But what do we mean by the individual? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of Nature which holds together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible; but the individual self or soul is not this ego. The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal portion of the Divine, but can also be described as the Divine himself supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "But when I speak of the Divine Will, I mean something different, — something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently towards the best possible in the conditions of a world of Ignorance and leading it eventually towards a descent of a greater power of the Divine, which will be not an omnipotence held back and conditioned by the law of the world as it is, but in full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, passing through the mind or sense or both, awakes a vital enjoyment of the taste, Bhoga, and this can again awaken us, awaken even the soul in us to something yet deeper and more fundamental than mere pleasure and enjoyment, to some form of the spirit"s delight of existence, Ananda.” *Letters on Savitri
*Sri Aurobindo: "Creation is not a making of something out of nothing or of one thing out of another, but a self-projection of Brahman into the conditions of Space and Time. Creation is not a making, but a becoming in terms and forms of conscious existence.” The Upanishads*
*Sri Aurobindo: "Dawn always means an opening of some kind — the coming of something that is not yet fully there.” Letters on Yoga ::: "As the Sun is image and godhead of the golden Light of the divine Truth, so Dawn is image and godhead of the opening out of the supreme illumination on the night of our human ignorance. Dawn daughter of Heaven and Night her sister are obverse and reverse sides of the same eternal Infinite.” The Secret of the Veda
*Sri Aurobindo: "Experience is a word that covers almost all the happenings in yoga; only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi; e.g. peace when it comes and goes is an experience — when it is settled and goes no more it is a siddhi.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Finally, we have the goddess Dakshina who may well be a female form of Daksha, himself a god and afterwards in the Purana one of the Prajapatis, the original progenitors, — we have Dakshina associated with the manifestation of knowledge and sometimes almost identified with Usha, the divine Dawn, who is the bringer of illumination. I shall suggest that Dakshina like the more famous Ila, Saraswati and Sarama, is one of four goddesses representing the four faculties of the Ritam or Truth-consciousness, — Ila representing truth-vision or revelation, Saraswati truth-audition, inspiration, the divine word, Sarama intuition, Dakshina the separative intuitional discrimination.” *The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: "In fact it [the world] is not an illusion in the sense of an imposition of something baseless and unreal on the consciousness, but a misinterpretation by the conscious mind and sense and a falsifying misuse of manifested existence.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "It is true that when Matter first emerges it becomes the dominant principle; it seems to be and is within its own field the basis of all things, the constituent of all things, the end of all things: but Matter itself is found to be a result of something that is not Matter, of Energy, and this Energy cannot be something self-existent and acting in the Void, but can turn out and, when deeply scrutinised, seems likely to turn out to be the action of a secret Consciousness and Being: when the spiritual knowledge and experience emerge, this becomes a certitude, — it is seen that the creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "I used the word ‘mystic" in the sense of a certain kind of inner seeing and feeling of things, a way which to the intellect would seem occult and visionary — for this is something different from imagination and its work with which the intellect is familiar.” *On Himself
*Sri Aurobindo: "Pity may be reserved, so long as thy soul makes distinctions, for the suffering animals; but humanity deserves from thee something nobler; it asks for love, for understanding, for comradeship, for the help of the equal & brother.” Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies"] might be all right for mental poetry — it won"t do for what I am trying to create — in that, one word won"t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam" and ‘glow" are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri *
Sri Aurobindo: "The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother
*Sri Aurobindo: "There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly — that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world — but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone — . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of wideness and freedom and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence — sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "We mean by the Absolute something greater than ourselves, greater than the cosmos which we live in, the supreme reality of that transcendent Being which we call God, something without which all that we see or are conscious of as existing, could not have been, could not for a moment remain in existence. Indian thought calls it Brahman, European thought the Absolute because it is a self-existent which is absolved of all bondage to relativities . . . The Absolute is for us the Ineffable.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "We see at once that if such an Existence is, it must be, like the Energy, infinite. Neither reason nor experience nor intuition nor imagination bears witness to us of the possibility of a final terminus. All end and beginning presuppose something beyond the end or beginning. An absolute end, an absolute beginning is not only a contradiction in terms, but a contradiction of the essence of things, a violence, a fiction. Infinity imposes itself upon the appearances of the finite by its ineffugable self-existence.” *The Life Divine
Temporary possession of people by vital beings who sometimes pretend to be departed relatives, etc.
"The child (when it does not mean the psychic being) is usually the symbol of something new-born in some part of the consciousness.” Letters on Yoga
"The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top: — (1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga, — (1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error — the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga*
"The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results — it is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces." Letters on Yoga
"The Divine Grace is something not calculable, not bound by anything the intellect can fix as a condition, — though ordinarily some call, aspiration, intensity of the psychic being can awaken it, yet it acts sometimes without any apparent cause even of that kind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The divinisation of the nature of which we speak is a metamorphosis, not a mere growth into some kind of super-humanity, but a change from the falsehood of our ignorant nature into the truth of God-nature.” The Hour of God
::: "The inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind.” Letters on Yoga*
The Mother: "In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. the physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role is to put all manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of form, through harmony and a sense of the ideal which uplifts and leads towards something higher. On Education, MCW Vol. 12.
::: The Mother: "Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15*.
"The mystic feels real and present, even ever present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations.” Letters on Savitri
"There are different kinds of knowledge. One is inspiration, i.e. something that comes out of the knowledge planes like a flash and opens up the mind to the Truth in a moment. That is inspiration. It easily takes the form of words as when a poet writes or a speaker speaks, as people say, from inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"There is always the personal and the impersonal side of the Divine and the Truth and it is a mistake to think the impersonal alone to be true or important, for that leads to a void incompleteness in part of the being, while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential.” Letters on Yoga ::: Impersonal"s.
the sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together.
::: "This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul"s undying existence, what is meant is the survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial I'' of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; theI"" of the moment can only merit survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret Spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the I'' of this moment, theI"" of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless Spirit into the terms of Time.” The Life Divine
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
"Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
to attach firmly to something else, as by pinning or nailing.
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
v. **1. Focused attention, thought, etc., on (something). adj. 2. Directed or drawn toward a common center; focussed. concentrating.**
"We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. With realisation the erroneous identification ceases — in certain experiences the existence of the body is not felt at all. In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it, it is an instrumental formation in our wider being, — our consciousness exceeds but also pervades it, — it can be dissolved without our ceasing to be the self.” Letters on Yoga
::: "What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . what is this strongly separative self-experience that we call ego? It is nothing fundamentally real in itself but only a practical constitution of our consciousness devised to centralise the activities of Nature in us. We perceive a formation of mental, physical, vital experience which distinguishes itself from the rest of being, and that is what we think of as ourselves in nature — this individualisation of being in becoming. We then proceed to conceive of ourselves as something which has thus individualised itself and only exists so long as it is individualised, — a temporary or at least a temporal becoming; or else we conceive of ourselves as someone who supports or causes the individualisation, an immortal being perhaps but limited by its individuality. This perception and this conception constitute our ego-sense.” The Life Divine
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1:I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met. ~ John Green, #KEYS
2:Empty your mind. Now, without thinking of good or bad, what was your original face before your parents met? ~ Huineng, #KEYS
3:He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
4:He met a silver-grey expanse
Where Day and Night had wedded and were one: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
5:There was no act, no movement in its Vast:
Life's question met by its silence died on her lips, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
6:It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice
That speaks for ever from the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute#KEYS
7:To read too much is bad for thought. The greatest thinkers I have met among the savants whom I have studied were precisely those who were the least learned. ~ Liehtemberg, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
8:I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #KEYS
9:Met the hounds of bale who hunt men's hearts
Baying across the veldts of Destiny, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
10:As those who have lived long made one in love
Need word nor sign for heart's reply to heart,
He met and communed without bar of speech ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
11:Yet were there regions where these absolutes met
And made a circle of bliss with married hands;
Light stood embraced by light, fire wedded fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
12:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
13:I have never met a man so religious and devout that he has not experienced at some time a withdrawal of grace and felt a lessening of fervor. No saint was so sublimely rapt and enlightened as not to be tempted before and after. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
14:A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
15:We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" ~ David Foster Wallace, (1962 - 2008) American author, wrote "Infinite Jest,", (1996) et al., Wikipedia., #KEYS
16:In God's supreme withdrawn and timeless hush
A seeing Self and potent Energy met;
The Silence knew itself and thought took form:
Self-made from the dual power creation rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
17:Our souls travelling different paths have met in the ages
Each for its work and they cling for an hour to the names of affection,
Then Time's long waves bear them apart for new forms we shall know not, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
18:The obstacles met by the seeker after concentration are illness, langour, doubt, negligence, idleness, the domination of the senses, false perception, impotence to attain and instability in a state of meditation once attained. ~ Patanjali : Aphroisms I. 30, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange;
Our pleasure and pain are their wrestle and embrace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
20:Sometimes we say that we met people at the wrong time. But maybe we meet them when we are the wrong person, when we have not yet met and fallen in love with ourselves. We are only half of a thing~even if we can imagine that there is a better version of us out there~and we are hoping that someone else will fill in the missing parts so that we don't have to. ~ Chelsea Fagan, #KEYS
21:And this tie between you and me is never cut. There are people who have long ago left the Ashram, in a state of revolt, and yet I keep myself informed of them, I attend to them. You are never abandoned. In truth, I hold myself responsible for everyone, even for those whom I have met only for one second in my life.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
22:And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity. ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, #KEYS
23:And before thee she shall open wide the portals of her secret chambers and under thy eyes she shall lay bare the treasures hidden in the deeps of her bosom. But she shows not her treasures save to the eye of the spirit, the eve which is never closed, the eye which is met by no veil in any of the kingdoms of her empire. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
24:In the 20th century he became an important element within the mystical system of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley, where he is the Dweller in the Abyss,[1][2] believed to be the last great obstacle between the adept and enlightenment. Thelemites believe that if he is met with proper preparation, then his function is to destroy the ego, which allows the adept to move beyond the Abyss of occult cosmology. ~ Wikipedia, #KEYS
25:This is our time ~ to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can! ~ Barack Obama (2008), #KEYS
26:I have strayed like a lost sheep seeking outside me that which was within. I have run about the streets and places of the world, this great city, seeking Thee and I have not found Thee because I sought Thee ill and came not to the place where Thou wert. Thou wert within me and I sought thee without; Thou wert near and I sought thee at a distance, and if I had gone where Thou wert, I should immediately have met Thee. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
27:The aim of a complete course of development is to divest the basic structures of any sense of exclusive self, and thus free the basic needs from their contamination by the needs of the separate self sense. When the basic structures are freed from the immortality projects of the separate self, they are free to return to their natural functional relationships .... when hungry, we eat; when tired, we sleep. The self has been returned to the Self, all self-needs have been met and discarded; and the basic needs alone remain. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology, p. 253, #KEYS
28:I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias,#KEYS
29:I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothloriene no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horselords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fanghorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystefied as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden, June 7, 1955" #KEYS
30:Trump himself is a nothing, an empty vessel for cosmic forces to work through. Even on The Apprentice (which I used to enjoy) I remember he gave the guy who won a tour of his apartment, it was the tackiest thing you'd ever seen. Cluttered with gold furnishings so there was no space anywhere. The guy, who obviously worshipped Trump, asked who inspired him. So there he was, looking up to wait to hear some pearl of wisdom. And the Orange Clown just made some meaningless narcissistic comment about himself. It actually felt embarrassing (but not to Trump who simply isn't conscious of such things). It proves that even before his dementia he always was empty and vacuous. His ghost writer said Trump was the most evil human being he'd ever met. ~ M Alan Kazlev, FB, #KEYS
31:One memory alone was left: the thought of his beautiful wife. This thought possessed his mind with such intensity that he did not notice his loss of memory for the rest of the world. His whole nature became obsessed by her image, and like a madman, who losing his own identity becomes the being whose image possesses him, Puranjana found him self transformed into a lovely young girl like his wife.
"The young girl he had now become forgot her previous identity to such an extent that when she met with King Malayadhvaja, she fell in love with him and married him. When in the course of time the king passed away and she was left alone, lamenting his death and her bereavement, an unknown brahm in came to her and said:
~ Rishi Nityabodhananda, Ajna Chakra,#KEYS
32:Part 2 - Initiation
6. The Road of Trials:Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth-adventure. It has produced a world literature of miraculous tests and ordeals. The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper whom he met before his entrance into this region. Or it may be that he here discovers for the first time that there is a benign power everywhere supporting him in his superhuman passage. The original departure into the land of trials represented only the beginning of the long and really perilous path of initiatory conquests and moments of illumination. Dragons have now to be slain and surprising barriers passed-again, again, and again. Meanwhile there will be a multitude of preliminary victories, unsustainable ecstasies and momentary glimpses of the wonderful land. ~ Joseph Campbell,#KEYS
33:Life clung to its seat with cords of gasping breath;
Lapped was his body by a tenebrous tongue.
Existence smothered travailed to survive;
Hope strangled perished in his empty soul,
Belief and memory abolished died
And all that helps the spirit in its course.
There crawled through every tense and aching nerve
Leaving behind its poignant quaking trail
A nameless and unutterable fear.
As a sea nears a victim bound and still,
The approach alarmed his mind for ever dumb
Of an implacable eternity
Of pain inhuman and intolerable.
This he must bear, his hope of heaven estranged;
He must ever exist without extinction's peace
In a slow suffering Time and tortured Space,
An anguished nothingness his endless state.
A lifeless vacancy was now his breast,
And in the place where once was luminous thought,
Only remained like a pale motionless ghost
An incapacity for faith and hope
And the dread conviction of a vanquished soul
Immortal still but with its godhead lost,
Self lost and God and touch of happier worlds.
But he endured, stilled the vain terror, bore
The smothering coils of agony and affright;
Then peace returned and the soul's sovereign gaze.
To the blank horror a calm Light replied:
Immutable, undying and unborn,
Mighty and mute the Godhead in him woke
And faced the pain and danger of the world.
He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
34:the ruthless sacrifice ::: The vulgar conception of sacrifice is an act of painful self-immolation, austere self-mortification, difficult self-effacement; this kind of sacrifice may go even as far as self-mutilation and self-torture. These things may be temporarily necessary in man's hard endeavor to exceed his natural self; if the egoism in his nature is violent and obstinate, it has to be met sometimes by an answering strong internal repression and counterbalancing violence. But the Gita discourages any excess of violence done to oneself; for the self within is really the Godhead evolving, it is Krishna, the Divine; it has not to be troubled and tortured as the Titans of the world trouble and torture it, but to be increased, fostered, cherished, luminously opened to a divine light and strength and joy and wideness. It is not one's self, but the band of the spirit's inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the alter of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the soul's errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our self's real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may thrown by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
35:Received him in their deathless harmonies.
All things were perfect there that flower in Time;
Beauty was there creation's native mould,
Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity.
There Love fulfilled her gold and roseate dreams
And Strength her crowned and mighty reveries;
Desire climbed up, a swift omnipotent flame,
And Pleasure had the stature of the gods;
Dream walked along the highways of the stars;
Sweet common things turned into miracles:
Overtaken by the spirit's sudden spell,
Smitten by a divine passion's alchemy,
Pain's self compelled transformed to potent joy
Curing the antithesis twixt heaven and hell.
All life's high visions are embodied there,
Her wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs
Caught by the honey-eater's darting tongue,
Her burning guesses changed to ecstasied truths,
Her mighty pantings stilled in deathless calm
And liberated her immense desires.
In that paradise of perfect heart and sense
No lower note could break the endless charm
Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate;
Her steps are sure of their intuitive fall.
After the anguish of the soul's long strife
At length were found calm and celestial rest
And, lapped in a magic flood of sorrowless hours,
Healed were his warrior nature's wounded limbs
In the encircling arms of Energies
That brooked no stain and feared not their own bliss.
In scenes forbidden to our pallid sense
Amid miraculous scents and wonder-hues
He met the forms that divinise the sight,
To music that can immortalise the mind
And make the heart wide as infinity
Listened, and captured the inaudible
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
36:If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, - an image which in this experience becomes a reality, - we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; for though we have applied that word for want of a better to any supra-intellectual direct way of knowing, yet what we actually know as intuition is only one special movement of self-existent knowledge. This new range is its origin; it imparts to our intuitions something of its own distinct character and is very clearly an intermediary of a greater Truth-Light with which our mind cannot directly communicate. At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, - not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality. This then is the occult link we were looking for; this is the Power that at once connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Supermind Mind and the Overmind Maya, 293, #KEYS
37:I know some individuals who make this their daily practice: starting at the beginning and reading a canto or half a canto every day till they reach the end and then starting at the beginning again, and in that way they have gone through the whole of Savitri many times. When this is done in groups there's really no doubt that by this going through the whole soundbody of the epic from beginning to end aloud, there must be built up a very strong force field of vibrations. It is definitely of benefit to the people who participate in it. But again I would say that the effect or benefit of this sacrifice will be richer to the extent that the reading is done with understanding and above all with soul surrender. It shouldn't become a mere ritual.
Sri Aurobindo's mantric lines, repeated one after the other, will always have their power; but the power will be much greater if the mind can participate, and the will and the heart.
I have also heard of some groups who select one line that seems to have a particular mantric power and then within the group they chant that line many, many times. They concentrate on that one special line, and try to take its vibrations deep into themselves. Again I am sure that this is very beneficial to those who practice it.
In that way the words enter very deeply into the consciousness. There they resonate and do their work, and perhaps not just the surface meaning but the deeper meaning and the deeper vibrations may reveal their full depth to those who undertake this exercise if it is done with self-dedication, with a true aspiration to internalise the heart of the meaning, not just as a mere repetition.
At another end of the spectrum of possible approaches to Savitri, we can say there would be the aesthetic approach, the approach of enjoying it for its poetic beauty. I met a gentleman a couple of months ago, who told me, "We have faith in Sri Aurobindo, but it is so difficult to understand his books. We tried with The Life Divine, we tried with The Synthesis of Yoga but we found them so difficult. ~ collab summer & fall 2011,#KEYS
38:A difficulty comes or an arrest in some movement which you have begun or have been carrying on for some time. How is it to be dealt with?—for such arrests are inevitably frequent enough, not only for you, but for everyone who is a seeker; one might almost say that every step forward is followed by an arrest—at least, that is a very common, if not a universal experience. It is to be dealt with by becoming always more quiet, more firm in the will to go through, by opening oneself more and more so that any obstructing non-receptivity in the nature may diminish or disappear, by an affirmation of faith even in the midst of the obscurity, faith in the presence of a Power that is working behind the cloud and the veil, in the guidance of the Guru, by an observation of oneself to find any cause of the arrest, not in a spirit of depression or discouragement but with the will to find out and remove it. This is the only right attitude and, if one is persistent in taking it, the periods of arrest are not abolished,—for that cannot be at this stage,—but greatly shortened and lightened in their incidence. Sometimes these arrests are periods, long or short, of assimilation or unseen preparation, their appearance of sterile immobility is deceptive: in that case, with the right attitude, one can after a time, by opening, by observation, by accumulated experience, begin to feel, to get some inkling of what is being prepared or done. Sometimes it is a period of true obstruction in which the Power at work has to deal with the obstacles in the way, obstacles in oneself, obstacles of the opposing cosmic forces or any other or of all together, and this kind of arrest may be long or short according to the magnitude or obstinacy or complexity of the impediments that are met. But here too the right attitude can alleviate or shorten and, if persistently taken, help to a more radical removal of the difficulties and greatly diminish the necessity of complete arrests hereafter.
On the contrary, an attitude of depression or unfaith in the help or the guidance or in the certitude of the victory of the guiding Power, a shutting up of yourself in the sense of the difficulties impedes the recovery, prolongs the difficulties, helps the obstructions to recur with force instead of progressively diminishing in their incidence. It is an attitude whose persistence or recurrence you must resolutely throw aside if you want to get over the obstruction which you feel so much—which the depressed attitude only makes, while it lasts, more acute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, LOY4, Imperfections and Periods of Arrest,#KEYS
39:This is true in a general way; when those born scattered over the world at great distances from one another are driven by circumstances or by an impulsion to come and gather here, it is almost always because they have met in one life or another (not all in the same life) and because their psychic being has felt that they belonged to the same family; so they have taken an inner vow to continue to act together and collaborate. That is why even though they are born far from one another, there is something which compels them to come together; it is the psychic being, the psychic consciousness that is behind. And only to the extent the psychic consciousness is strong enough to order and organise the circumstances or the life, that is, strong enough not to allow itself to be opposed by outside forces, outside life movements, can people meet.
It is profoundly true in reality; there are large "families of beings" who work for the same cause, who have gathered in more or less large numbers and who come in groups as it were. It is as though at certain times there were awakenings in the psychic world, as though lots of little sleeping children were being called to wake up: "It is time, quick, quick, go down!" And they hurry down. And sometimes they do not drop at the same place, they are dispersed, yet there is something within which troubles them, pushes them; for one reason or another they are drawn close and that brings them together. But it is something deep in the being, something that is not at all on the surface; otherwise, even if people met they would not perhaps become aware of the bond. People meet and recognise each other only to the extent they become conscious of their psychic being, obey their psychic being, are guided by it; otherwise there is all that comes in to oppose it, all that veils, all that stupefies, all those obstacles to prevent you from finding yourself in your depths and being able to collaborate truly in the work. You are tossed about by the forces of Nature.
There is only one solution, to find your psychic being and once it is found to cling to it desperately, to let it guide you step by step whatever be the obstacle. That is the only solution. All this I did not write but I explained it to that lady. She had put to me the question: "How did I happen to come here?" I told her that it was certainly not for reasons of the external consciousness, it was something in her inner being that had pushed her. Only the awakening was not strong enough to overcome all the rest and she returned to the ordinary life for very ordinary reasons of living. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
40:Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing be cause they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common : mystery. Goldmund continued his thought: It is mystery I love and pursue. Several times I have seen it beginning to take shape; as an artist, I would like to capture and express it. Some day, perhaps, I'll be able to. The figure of the universal mother, the great birthgiver, for example. Unlike other fi gures, her mystery does not consist of this or that detail, of a particular voluptuousness or sparseness, coarseness or delicacy, power or gracefulness. It consists of a fusion of the greatest contrasts of the world, those that cannot otherwise be combined, that have made peace only in this figure. They live in it together: birth and death, tenderness and cruelty, life and destruction. If I only imagined this fi gure, and were she merely the play of my thoughts, it would not matter about her, I could dismiss her as a mistake and forget about her. But the universal mother is not an idea of mine; I did not think her up, I saw her! She lives inside me. I've met her again and again. She appeared to me one winter night in a village when I was asked to hold a light over the bed of a peasant woman giving birth: that's when the image came to life within me. I often lose it; for long periods it re mains remote; but suddenly it Hashes clear again, as it did today. The image of my own mother, whom I loved most of all, has transformed itself into this new image, and lies encased within the new one like the pit in the cherry.
As his present situation became clear to him, Goldmund was afraid to make a decision. It was as difficult as when he had said farewell to Narcissus and to the cloister. Once more he was on an impor tant road : the road to his mother. Would this mother-image one day take shape, a work of his hands, and become visible to all? Perhaps that was his goal, the hidden meaning of his life. Perhaps; he didn't know. But one thing he did know : it was good to travel toward his mother, to be drawn and called by her. He felt alive. Perhaps he'd never be able to shape her image, perhaps she'd always remain a dream, an intuition, a golden shimmer, a sacred mystery. At any rate, he had to follow her and submit his fate to her. She was his star.
And now the decision was at his fingertips; everything had become clear. Art was a beautiful thing, but it was no goddess, no goal-not for him. He was not to follow art, but only the call of his mother.
~ Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund,#KEYS
41:
Sweet Mother, can the psychic express itself without the mind, the vital and the physical?
It expresses itself constantly without them. Only, in order that the ordinary human being may perceive it, it has to express itself through them, because the ordinary human being is not in direct contact with the psychic. If it was in direct contact with the psychic it would be psychic in its manifestation - and all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn't even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical.
One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything at all. The ordinary human being is conscious only in his physical being, and only in relatively rare moments is he conscious of his mind, just a little more frequently of his vital, but all this is mixed up in his consciousness, so much so that he would be quite unable to say "This movement comes from the mind, this from the vital, this from the physical." This already asks for a considerable development in order to be able to distinguish within oneself the source of the different movements one has. And it is so mixed that even when one tries, at the beginning it is very difficult to classify and separate one thing from another.
It is as when one works with colours, takes three or four or five different colours and puts them in the same water and beats them up together, it makes a grey, indistinct and incomprehensi- ble mixture, you see, and one can't say which is red, which blue, which green, which yellow; it is something dirty, lots of colours mixed. So first of all one must do this little work of separating the red, blue, yellow, green - putting them like this, each in its corner. It is not at all easy.
I have met people who used to think themselves extremely intelligent, by the way, who thought they knew a lot, and when I spoke to them about the different parts of the being they looked at me like this (gesture) and asked me, "But what are you speaking about?" They did not understand at all. I am speaking of people who have the reputation of being intelligent. They don't understand at all. For them it is just the consciousness; it is the consciousness-"It is my consciousness" and then there is the neighbour's consciousness; and again there are things which do not have any consciousness. And then I asked them whether animals had a consciousness; so they began to scratch their heads and said, "Perhaps it is we who put our consciousness in the animal when we look at it," like that...
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
42:There is one fundamental perception indispensable towards any integral knowledge or many-sided experience of this Infinite. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and truth unaltered by forms and phenomena. Otherwise we are likely to remain caught in the net of appearances or wander confusedly in a chaotic multitude of cosmic or particular aspects, and if we avoid this confusion, it will be at the price of getting chained to some mental formula or shut up in a limited personal experience. The one secure and all-reconciling truth which is the very foundation of the universe is this that life is the manifestation of an uncreated Self and Spirit, and the key to life's hidden secret is the true relation of this Spirit with its own created existences. There is behind all this life the look of an eternal Being upon its multitudinous becomings; there is around and everywhere in it the envelopment and penetration of a manifestation in time by an unmanifested timeless Eternal. But this knowledge is valueless for Yoga if it is only an intellectual and metaphysical notion void of life and barren of consequence; a mental realisation alone cannot be sufficient for the seeker. For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge. This infinite and eternal Self of things is an omnipresent Reality, one existence everywhere; it is a single unifying presence and not different in different creatures; it can be met, seen or felt in its completeness in each soul or each form in the universe. For its infinity is spiritual and essential and not merely a boundlessness in Space or an endlessness in Time; the Infinite can be felt in an infinitesimal atom or in a second of time as convincingly as in the stretch of the aeons or the stupendous enormity of the intersolar spaces. The knowledge or experience of it can begin anywhere and express itself through anything; for the Divine is in all, and all is the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
43:
Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?
Why not?
But how can one do it?
But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
...
It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slackness and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406,#KEYS
44:
"The beings who were always appearing and speaking to Jeanne d'Arc would, if seen by an Indian, have quite a different appearance; for when one sees, one projects the forms of one's mind.... You have the vision of one in India whom you call the Divine Mother; the Catholics say it is the Virgin Mary, and the Japanese call it Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy; and others would give other names. It is the same force, the same power, but the images made of it are different in different faiths." Questions and Answers 1929 - 1931 (21 April 1929)
And then? You are not very talkative today! Is that all?
You say that "each person has his own world of dreamimagery peculiar to himself." Ibid.
Each individual has his own way of expressing, thinking, speaking, feeling, understanding. It is the combination of all these ways of being that makes the individual. That is why everyone can understand only according to his own nature. As long as you are shut up in your own nature, you can know only what is in your consciousness. All depends upon the height of the nature of your consciousness. Your world is limited to what you have in your consciousness. If you have a very small consciousness, you will understand only a few things. When your consciousness is very vast, universal, only then will you understand the world. If the consciousness is limited to your little ego, all the rest will escape you.... There are people whose brain and consciousness are smaller than a walnut. You know that a walnut resembles the brain; well these people look at things and don't understand them. They can understand nothing else except what is in direct contact with their senses. For them only what they taste, what they see, hear, touch has a reality, and all the rest simply does not exist, and they accuse us of speaking fancifully! "What I cannot touch does not exist", they say. But the only answer to give them is: "It does not exist for you, but there's no reason why it shouldn't exist for others." You must not insist with these people, and you must not forget that the smaller they are the greater is the audacity in their assertions.
One's cocksureness is in proportion to one's unconsciousness; the more unconscious one is, the more is one sure of oneself. The most foolish are always the most vain. Your stupidity is in proportion to your vanity. The more one knows... In fact, there is a time when one is quite convinced that one knows nothing at all. There's not a moment in the world which does not bring something new, for the world is perpetually growing. If one is conscious of that, one has always something new to learn. But one can become conscious of it only gradually. One's conviction that one knows is in direct proportion to one's ignorance and stupidity.
Mother, have the scientists, then, a very small consciousness?
Why? All scientists are not like that. If you meet a true scientist who has worked hard, he will tell you: "We know nothing. What we know today is nothing beside what we shall know tomorrow. This year's discoveries will be left behind next year." A real scientist knows very well that there are many more things he doesn't know than those he knows. And this is true of all branches of human activity. I have never met a scientist worthy of the name who was proud. I have never met a man of some worth who has told me: "I know everything." Those I have seen have always confessed: "In short, I know nothing." After having spoken of all that he has done, all that he has achieved, he tells you very quietly: "After all, I know nothing." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, [T8],#KEYS
45:Darkness
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went-and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires-and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings-the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire-but hour by hour
They fell and faded-and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash-and all was black.
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall of a past world; and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust,
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,
And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd
And twin'd themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stingless-they were slain for food.
And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought-and that was death
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails-men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,
But with a piteous and perpetual moan,
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer'd not with a caress-he died.
The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two
Of an enormous city did survive,
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar-place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage; they rak'd up,
And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery; then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects-saw, and shriek'd, and died-
Even of their mutual hideousness they died,
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,
The populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless-
A lump of death-a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge-
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
~ George Gordon Byron,#KEYS
46:Death & Fame
When I die
I 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 Cemetery
But I want a big funeral St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Mark's Church, the largest synagogue in Manhattan
First, 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 & kazoos
Next, 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 provinces
Then 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 gestures
Then 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 gawkers
Everyone knew they were part of 'History" except the deceased who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was alive
February 22, 1997
~ Allen Ginsberg,#KEYS
47:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:God and Nature met in light. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 2:I never met a man that I didn't like. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 3:And what would you do if you met a jibboo? ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 4:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 5:Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 6:A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 7:I've never met another man I'd rather be. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 8:Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 9:I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 10:I never met a person from whom I did not learn something. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 11:We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 12:My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 13:I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 14:Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 15:A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 16:Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 17:I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 18:My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met! ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 19:It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 20:If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way! ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 21:Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 22:I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 23:Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met? ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 24:Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 25:Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 26:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 27:Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 28:Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 29:I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 30:My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 31:I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 32:Being present means living without control and always having your needs met. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 33:He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 34:Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 35:I met my husband when a friend sent him over to my house to cure my hiccoughs. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 36:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 37:She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 38:And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 39:I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 40:I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 41:I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 42:I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 43:If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 44:I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 45:Truth is silent but, when met with questions about its true nature, is compelled to speak. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove 46:I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 47:I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 48:I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu... . she bid me a don't. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 49:When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 50:Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 51:There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 52:Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 53:We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 54:It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 55:No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 56:With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 57:I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 58:The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 59:Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 60:Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 61:I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 62:Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 63:Every achiever that I have ever met says, & 64:I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 65:I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 66:My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 67:The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 68:I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 69:I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using? ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 70:The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 71:Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 72:We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 73:[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, & 74:The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 75:Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 76:Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 77:Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 78:The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 79:and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 80:I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 81:Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 82:How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 83:I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was & 84:The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 85:I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 86:Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 87:The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 88:I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. & 89:Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 90:Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 91:Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 92:I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. & 93:Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 94:But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again! ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 95:We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 96:When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 97:The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 98:I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 99:After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, & 100:I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 101:I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 102:As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 103:Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 104:Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 105:I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. "You sound older!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 106:it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 107:I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 108:Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 109:I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 110:The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 111:Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 112:If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 113:When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 114:Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 115:In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 116:I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 117:Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 118:Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, None.’ He then asked, Who sold you on that plan?’ ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 119:When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, & 120:Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 121:When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, & 122:Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 123:Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit may the hair on his toes never fall out! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 124:I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 125:We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 126:Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 127:Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 128:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 129:It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 130:During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them... their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 131:I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 132:Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 133:When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 134:We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 135:Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 136:Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 137:But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 138:Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 139:The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 140:The relief experienced when a need is met, or an anxiety allayed is entirely due to the ending of pain. We may give it positive names like pleasure, or joy, or happiness, but essentially it is relief from pain. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 141:At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 142:Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 143:She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 144:As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 145:Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 146:Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 147:I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 148:Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 149:The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 150:One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you." ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 151:She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her & 152:I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 153:To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 154:I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 155:The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 156:He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 157:Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 158:Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 159:And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 160:You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense: This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal — that’s what intimacy is all about. — Good Will Hunting ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 161:The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 162:Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 163:The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 164:It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 165:When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 166:Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 167:If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 168:As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 169:I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 170:He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 171:You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 172:Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove 173:We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 174:Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 175:No one I met at this time - doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients - failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 176:We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache … The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 177:Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 178:Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 179:I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 180:People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 181:Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 182:I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 183:Once a painful concept is met with understanding, the next time it appears you may find it interesting. What used to be the nightmare is now just interesting. The next time it appears, you may find it funny. The next time, you may not even notice it. This is the power of loving what is. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 184:I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 185:Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 186:A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 187:It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 188:My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 189:It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved& 190:Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object ‚Äì we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 191:She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then -Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 192:There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 193:Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 194:John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight... ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 195:Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 196:Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times... From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom... Peace is not weak; it is unshakable. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 197:I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 198:Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 199:A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 200:Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 201:When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 202:As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 203:Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. & 204:Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 205:I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 206:In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the soul feels at home in the world. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 207:I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 208:I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 209:Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 210:I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 211:Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 212:When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 213:... there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved& 214:My love is my business; it has nothing to do with you. You love me, and that isn't personal. You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice. I am your story, no more and no less. You have never met me. No one has ever met anyone. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 215:She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 216:A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 217:I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 218:That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 219:I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable . ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 220:An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 221:The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 222:Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-& 223:I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. & 224:I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at the Trosly L'Arche community and we spent a few days together . . . I wanted him to get to know L'Arche, to understand what I was doing there. Afterward he said, "I understand now, Henri. You have found a home for your self." ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 225:Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 226:Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 227:Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?... ' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 228:I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy... .I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 229:The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the & 230:Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 231:The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 232:Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 233:I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 234:leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 235:And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 236:My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 237:We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 238:If a person opens his mouth to say affirmation or denial, he is lost. Zen is gone. But keeping silence does not go away. The stone on the ground is silent, the blossoming flower under the window is also silent, but they do not understand Zen. There must be some way to find the silence and the speech to be the same, ie. denial and affirmation to be unified in a higher form of utterance. We do that, so we have met Zen. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 239:Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is... No. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 240:The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 241:They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 242:Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 243:Of this, I am actually certain. After collecting thousands of stories, I’m willing to call this a fact: A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 244:He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 245:He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 246:If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 247:I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain! ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 248:With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 249:And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 250:But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 251:Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 252:I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 253:He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 254:The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 255:His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 256:Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 257:When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 258:In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 259:You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 260:You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 261:When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only & 262:And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 263:Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become & 264:Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject... ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 265:Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. & 266:There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me... but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 267:Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 268:The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 269:People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 270:He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... . ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 271:Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tin√∫viel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that L√∫thien Tin√∫viel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 272:The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 273:I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 274:Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" -he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen& 275:We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 276:The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 277:I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, & 278:You're a rotten driver,' I protested. & 279:First, identify your core aims. What are your purposes and principles in relationships? For example, one fundamental moral value is not to harm people,including yourself. If your needs are not being met in a relationship, that’s harmful to you. If you are mean or punishing, that harms others. Another potential aim might be to keep discovering the truth about yourself and the other person. Second, stay in bounds. The Wise Speech section of Buddhism’s Noble Eightfold Path offers good guidelines for communication that stays within the lines: Say only what is well-intended, true, beneficial, timely, expressed without harshness or malice, and—ideally—what is wanted. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 280:The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness - that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 281:Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths. Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights – and the money paid out in fees. Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 282:How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions? The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any large-scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Churches are rooted in common religious myths. Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths. Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights – and the money paid out in fees. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:I met with the prisoner ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:Hail fellow, well met. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
3:I never met a kid I liked. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
4:I THINK I JUST MET GOD I ~ Bob Odenkirk, #NFDB
5:loop, okay?” She met ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
6:gift all needs are met. ~ Joel S Goldsmith, #NFDB
7:PARENTS FIRST MET they were ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
8:When I met you last night baby ~ Nate Dogg, #NFDB
9:I met a girl who sang the blues ~ Don McLean, #NFDB
10:I've come alive since I met you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
11:When I met you it was magic... ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
12:I lucked out when I met you. ~ Sawyer Bennett, #NFDB
13:Once you have met a true human being, ~ Rumi, #NFDB
14:Slaan my plat met ’n vars snoek. ~ Deon Meyer, #NFDB
15:Their eyes met, green to blue. ~ Tiffany Snow, #NFDB
16:had become friends and met often ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
17:I miss you, but I haven't met you yet! ~ Bjork, #NFDB
18:I never met a man I could marry. ~ Greta Garbo, #NFDB
19:I never met a man I didn't like. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
20:I never met a pet I didn't like. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
21:I never met a lasagna I didn't like ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
22:I met my wife in South Dakota. ~ George McGovern, #NFDB
23:Lezen is denken met andermans hoofd. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
24:Rauw realisme met een gepast einde. ~ Tom Lanoye, #NFDB
25:since they had met, and repeatedly ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
26:they hadn’t met for several years; ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
27:We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly, #NFDB
28:We should have met in Finavir. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
29:I never met a color I didn't like. ~ Dale Chihuly, #NFDB
30:Since I met you, being alone sucks. ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
31:water where it met the footpath. ~ Robert Bryndza, #NFDB
32:I haven't met a cake I didn't like. ~ Amy Clipston, #NFDB
33:I met this girl when I was ten years old, ~ Common, #NFDB
34:I never met a color I did not like. ~ Dale Chihuly, #NFDB
35:I never met a girl I didn't meet ~ Daniel Johnston, #NFDB
36:I've never met a lasagna I didn't like ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
37:UNTIL SHE MET THE EXPLODING STATUE, ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
38:You’re the worst human I’ve ever met, ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
39:but I met him once and he’s super ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
40:crow flies. That’s where they met. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
41:God and Nature met in light. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
42:I am part of all that I have met. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
43:I felt better for having met her. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
44:I met an imp and everything changed. ~ Debra Dunbar, #NFDB
45:I’m glad I met God before I met you. ~ Daniel Black, #NFDB
46:I never met a man that I didn't like. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
47:We have met the Alien and it is us. ~ Judith Merril, #NFDB
48:Have you met Thor? He makes thunder. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
49:I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
50:It was him. The boy in ‘I met a boy! ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
51:I've met every freak in the business. ~ Quincy Jones, #NFDB
52:I've never wanted more, until I met you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
53:I’ve never wanted more, until I met you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
54:Putin is a tough guy. I met him once. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
55:And what would you do if you met a jibboo? ~ Dr Seuss, #NFDB
56:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
57:I have never met a miserly wine lover. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB
58:I never met a word I didn't love ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
59:Tee Ray met a crack runner called Tox. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
60:We have met the enemy, and it is us. ~ Glenda Gilmore, #NFDB
61:Would we fall in love if we met today? ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
62:Daar gaat hij weer - met háár. - Alyss ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
63:Day One of my life was the day I met you. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
64:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
65:I am a part of all whom I have met. ~ Alfred the Great, #NFDB
66:I'm just a newsboy who met a President. ~ David Powers, #NFDB
67:I've never met anyone that is their image. ~ Macy Gray, #NFDB
68:Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
69:Never met a wise man, if so its a woman. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
70:Not gay, just never met the right woman. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
71:I've never met a successful pessimist. ~ William O Neil, #NFDB
72:I was already set for life when I met her. ~ David Gest, #NFDB
73:Nothing I do is princely since I met you ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
74:Once upon a time I met a man who saved me. ~ Ella Frank, #NFDB
75:A stranger is a friend i haven't met yet. ~ Dan Buettner, #NFDB
76:Challenges are meant to be met and overcome. ~ Liu Xiang, #NFDB
77:Every writer he ever met was a drunk, ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
78:I am the stupidest person I have ever met. ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
79:I existed until I met you. Now I'm alive. ~ Cindy Gerard, #NFDB
80:Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet ~ Big L, #NFDB
81:I never belonged anywhere until I met you. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
82:My heart didn't beat until I met you. ~ RaShelle Workman, #NFDB
83:You've never met a more flawed guy than me. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
84:I barely knew I had skin before I met you. ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
85:Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
86:I met someone who lives in an elevator. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
87:I'm so lucky. I've met a lot of famous people. ~ Tim Gunn, #NFDB
88:I've met enough KGB colonels in my life. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
89:I wept because I had no shoes, until I met ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
90:Every casting director I've met is a woman. ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
91:Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F Bell III, #NFDB
92:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
93:I am glad I met you and I am glad to say that. ~ Ai Yazawa, #NFDB
94:I think it's time you met Percy. - Annabeth ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
95:I've never met a very memorable cobbler. ~ Carson Cistulli, #NFDB
96:I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met. ~ Norman Lear, #NFDB
97:met here as Americans to solve that problem. ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
98:A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
99:I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet. ~ Kate Moss, #NFDB
100:I haven't met a woman without insecurities. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
101:I met a boy. And when he smiled, my life began. ~ K Webster, #NFDB
102:I never met a man half so true as a dog. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
103:In Holland vergeleek men hoeren met paarden. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
104:I've met little meanness, wherever I went. ~ Reynolds Price, #NFDB
105:I've never met anybody in this world like me. ~ Vanilla Ice, #NFDB
106:had only met my grandparents on a few previous ~ Lorna Byrne, #NFDB
107:He was afraid of nothing. Until he'd met me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
108:I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
109:I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
110:It’s not like I was a nun before I met you, ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
111:I've never met another man I'd rather be. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
112:Peter never met a compliment he didn’t smile at. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
113:Gij met uw angsten altijd. Gij met uw emoties! ~ Leo Pleysier, #NFDB
114:I felt the pull toward you the first time we met. ~ Lia Davis, #NFDB
115:I had three goals and all of them were met. ~ George Galloway, #NFDB
116:I’ve never met anyone that makes me feel this way. ~ Nely Cab, #NFDB
117:I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
118:I've never met a strong person with an easy past. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
119:The first one I actually met was George Harrison. ~ Pete Best, #NFDB
120:For one moment our lives met, our souls touched. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
121:Have you ever met a dragon that couldn't talk? ~ Deborah Blake, #NFDB
122:How can somebody be yours if you never met him? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
123:I did not know I needed grace until I met you. ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
124:I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met. ~ Rita Moreno, #NFDB
125:I never met a person that I did not want to like ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
126:I never missed the daylight until I met you. ~ Melissa F Olson, #NFDB
127:I've never met a leopard print I didn't like. ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
128:Je sais combien la pauvreté met les amis en fuite. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
129:met him like a lover in an empty bed. The ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
130:My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie. ~ Nancy Reagan, #NFDB
131:Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him. ~ Rip Taylor, #NFDB
132:Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
133:Strangers are just friends we haven’t met yet. ~ Peter Swanson, #NFDB
134:We have met the enemy and they are ours. ~ Oliver Hazard Perry, #NFDB
135:We met in a charity shop during the summer break. ~ Mike Gayle, #NFDB
136:Your number was up the first time I met you. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
137:A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
138:A stranger is just an arsehole I haven't yet met. ~ Dave Turner, #NFDB
139:I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
140:Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met. ~ Gary Kirsten, #NFDB
141:We were perfect for each other. Until we met ~ Penelope Douglas, #NFDB
142:You are the most confusing woman I’ve ever met. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
143:You met me at a very strange time in my life. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
144:Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
145:I am the least jealous person I have ever met. ~ Nico Tortorella, #NFDB
146:I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
147:I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. ~ Tallulah Bankhead, #NFDB
148:I have met the devil, and her name is Cecily Temple ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
149:I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
150:I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
151:Kinda wished I had met you sooner,” he said quietly. ~ C L Stone, #NFDB
152:perspicacious individual I’ve met in years, you are ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
153:Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun. ~ Alexandra Potter, #NFDB
154:Think of strangers as friends you not met yet. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
155:You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
156:You're the most unknown famous man I ever met ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
157:A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
158:Faithfulness began even before you met your intended. ~ Lori Wick, #NFDB
159:Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
160:I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped. ~ Nan Goldin, #NFDB
161:I have never met a grateful performer in the movies. ~ Harry Cohn, #NFDB
162:I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show. ~ Ernie Wise, #NFDB
163:I'm fucked in the head, too. Even before I met you. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
164:I never liked bad weather. Not until I met you. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
165:I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people. ~ Allen Carr, #NFDB
166:I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met. ~ John Green, #NFDB
167:Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
168:Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
169:The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
170:The rich and the poor have met, God is their light. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
171:Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
172:Who are you?
I am someone you have met in a bar. ~ Amor Towles,#NFDB
173:You're the most unknown famous man I ever met. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
174:Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
175:I met his eyes. “Easily. I could love you easily. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
176:I never met a soul in this world as normal as me. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
177:I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
178:I've never met a strong person with an easy past. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
179:Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
180:The moment I met you, I knew you were different. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
181:Whoever said blondes have more fun hasn't met me. ~ Heather Dubrow, #NFDB
182:You’re one of the somebodiest somebodies I ever met. ~ Rose Lerner, #NFDB
183:You’re the most unforgettable person I’ve ever met. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
184:A stranger is simply a friend you haven’t met yet. ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
185:God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
186:He met her gaze head on. “That the witches in Kalari ~ Amber Argyle, #NFDB
187:I'd like to thank everyone I've met in my life. ~ Maureen Stapleton, #NFDB
188:I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
189:I know. A bitch who finally met the right asshole. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
190:I'm in love with the cities and people I've never met. ~ John Green, #NFDB
191:moment as the two men’s gazes met, neither attempting ~ Anna Jacobs, #NFDB
192:My home has been your heart since the day I met you. ~ Z A Maxfield, #NFDB
193:She was the most confusing person he had ever met ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
194:The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
195:Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music. ~ Nichelle Nichols, #NFDB
196:But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
197:Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before? ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
198:He was the most handsome nightmare she had ever met. ~ Jamie Farrell, #NFDB
199:I have never met a villager who does not want a vote. ~ Rory Stewart, #NFDB
200:I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
201:I never believed that angels exist, until I met you. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
202:I thought I was okay with dying. Until I met her. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
203:I used to hate everybody,” I say. “Until I met you. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
204:I wish I had met you first. Before we met them. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
205:Lothaire, I’ve met dirt younger than we
are.” -Nix ~ Kresley Cole,#NFDB
206:She was glad to have met someone who liked to read. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
207:The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988. ~ Dee Dee Myers, #NFDB
208:The happening that happened was that I met this girl. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
209:The night we met –’ ‘I’m not like that guy. ~ Tammara Webber, #NFDB
210:There are so many people I wish I could have met. ~ Karolina Kurkova, #NFDB
211:And what’s a stranger but a friend you haven’t met yet? ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
212:Chanel and Boy "Arthur" Capel met sometime around 1905. ~ Karen Karbo, #NFDB
213:Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet. ~ Morrie Ryskind, #NFDB
214:I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
215:I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
216:I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
217:I’ve never met anyone who sleeps with so many pillows. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
218:I’ve never met a shell before. What a marvelous gift. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
219:I wish I’d never met the bastard known as destiny. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
220:James never met anyone named Livvie. He never hurt her. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
221:Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse. ~ Mortimer Zuckerman, #NFDB
222:There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
223:You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
224:You two are the most in-love not-dating people I’ve met. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
225:Christ, you’re the most annoying woman I’ve ever met. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
226:Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
227:Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me. ~ Lawrence Tierney, #NFDB
228:Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. ~ Julius Schwartz, #NFDB
229:He was looking at the most exciting woman he’d ever met. ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
230:I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
231:I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. ~ Fred Melamed, #NFDB
232:Have you met my sword, Saiman? It’s to die for. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
233:I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
234:I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor. ~ Fred Armisen, #NFDB
235:I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
236:I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order. ~ Daniel Berrigan, #NFDB
237:I never met a man I didn't like. I don't go out much. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
238:I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt. ~ Ira Glass, #NFDB
239:I’ve killed some of the funniest fuckers I’ve ever met. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
240:I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
241:I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you. ~ Leon Uris, #NFDB
242:Lady, when I met you I must have run through a puddle of luck ~ Poppet, #NFDB
243:Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
244:Public story and inner experience finally met. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
245:Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
246:Their gazes met, clashed, those gorgeous blues begging. ~ Avril Ashton, #NFDB
247:There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
248:There’s no sense kissing the Devil till you’ve met him ~ Philipp Meyer, #NFDB
249:Work on what you love, your needs will be met. No ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, #NFDB
250:You are actually the worst person I have ever met. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
251:Die vraag is te goed om met een antwoord te verknoeien. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
252:He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
253:I cried because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet ~ Saadi, #NFDB
254:If not for that party, I never would have met the real you. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
255:I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
256:I met the game changer … I fell for the game changer. ~ Kate Canterbary, #NFDB
257:I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you ~ Brandi Carlile, #NFDB
258:LETA Oh, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn’t love. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
259:mental institutions, rural health clinics. Once, he met ~ Peter Hessler, #NFDB
260:Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
261:Our eyes met like a car crash, colliding and breaking away. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
262:She’s never met an adjective or adverb she didn’t like. ~ Loretta Chase, #NFDB
263:She’s one of the few women I’ve met who can sit in silence. ~ E L James, #NFDB
264:The happening that happened was that I met this girl ... ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
265:Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
266:The world is still full of friends you haven’t met yet. ~ Angela Pepper, #NFDB
267:Trouble ain’t met trouble till it crosses paths with us! ~ Kekla Magoon, #NFDB
268:We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
269:Yer crazy, I says.
I was fine till I met you, he says. ~ Moira Young,#NFDB
270:Zullen we even medelijden met onszelf hebben?' vroeg hij? ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
271:Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met ~ Carole Lombard, #NFDB
272:I love people I've never met and places I've never been to. ~ John Green, #NFDB
273:I met a girl… Isn’t that how the best stories begin?” “Yes, ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
274:I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay, #NFDB
275:I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you ~ Karuho Shiina, #NFDB
276:I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. ~ Edward Gorey, #NFDB
277:I've hung out and dated people I've never even met before. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
278:MFA program at the University of Michigan when we met. ~ Jennifer Coburn, #NFDB
279:My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
280:The impossible is just the possible you haven’t met yet. ~ Deborah Blake, #NFDB
281:What is it about you? You're under my skin. We just met. ~ Erin Nicholas, #NFDB
282:You," Sanguine said, "are the worst psychic I've ever met. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
283:Can I miss people I’ve never met? Because I think I do. ~ Erika L S nchez, #NFDB
284:Every time we hugged, I met words that were not words. ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
285:Have we as a group ever met a warning we didn't ignore? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
286:Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party! ~ Steven Moffat, #NFDB
287:Hello, Harry,” he said grimly, “I see you’ve met my mother. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
288:His arm caught her waist as their flush met in the center, ~ Shannyn Leah, #NFDB
289:I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
290:In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles. ~ Keith David, #NFDB
291:It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui. ~ Yu Hua, #NFDB
292:I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
293:Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different. ~ Mae West, #NFDB
294:Of lips that I am yet to kiss,
and eyes
not met my own. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
295:one night I met up with Death’s friend and didn’t know it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
296:She was quite maniac when I met her. I scared her, maybe. ~ Chris Wooding, #NFDB
297:Tell that guy to kiss my white vivacious ass. He never met me. ~ A S King, #NFDB
298:There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. ~ George Oppen, #NFDB
299:We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. ~ Andre Norton, #NFDB
300:What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
301:You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met. ~ Aaron Sorkin, #NFDB
302:You’re the strongest little beautiful creature I’ve ever met. ~ C L Stone, #NFDB
303:A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
304:Brownie, have you ever met someone you just feel at home with? ~ Sarah Jio, #NFDB
305:coincidence,” he met her ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
306:I have never met such weird yet serious and earnest people. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
307:I think you stole a piece of my heart the first night we met. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
308:I’ve lived every beat loving you, since I first met you. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
309:I've met some people who were very proud of their humility. ~ Michael Catt, #NFDB
310:I’ve never met anyone from Minnesota, and I don’t want to. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
311:I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person. ~ Rosemary Mahoney, #NFDB
312:Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met. ~ Don King, #NFDB
313:Pretty much nobody is getting their emotional needs met. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
314:Sometimes it feels like I started missing you the moment we met. ~ M Mabie, #NFDB
315:[Vincent Price] was the funniest damn guy I ever met. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
316:We are all a part of every person we have ever met. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
317:When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine. ~ E Stanley Jones, #NFDB
318:A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine. ~ DMX, #NFDB
319:As far as I know, I'm the most honest person I’ve met in this life. ~ Pat R, #NFDB
320:Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
321:Emmett and I met at a tantric sex education class a year ago, ~ Mary Calmes, #NFDB
322:For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
323:Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
324:I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him. ~ Lucia Berlin, #NFDB
325:I have remembered things you said long before I ever met you. ~ B R Sanders, #NFDB
326:I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
327:I've met a lot of pricks in my life; but you sir, are a cactus. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
328:The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
329:Violence met with violence produced only more violence. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
330:When our eyes met, I felt a jolt in my soul, an electric shock. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
331:All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
332:Confession: I’ve wanted to do that since the day that I met you. ~ G L Tomas, #NFDB
333:Do you like Vampires?
I don't know I've never met one. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
334:Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have ~ Thomas Leonard, #NFDB
335:I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
336:I feel like my life started the moment I met you," he murmured. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
337:I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.' ~ John Hawkes, #NFDB
338:I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal. ~ Tony Greig, #NFDB
339:I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
340:I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
341:My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
342:My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
343:My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
344:Okay.” “Thanks, bye.” Bennie left the conference room, met ~ Lisa Scottoline, #NFDB
345:The vast majority of adults have never met themselves. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
346:And I’ve never met someone rich who has never lost money. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
347:But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
348:Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met. ~ Jayne Mansfield, #NFDB
349:I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times. ~ Jordan Peele, #NFDB
350:I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
351:If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being. ~ Anzia Yezierska, #NFDB
352:I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
353:i knew you. before i met you. i’ve known you my whole life. ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
354:I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother. ~ Pope Paul VI, #NFDB
355:I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
356:I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
357:In that state of dishabille, she met the rest of the house. “I ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
358:It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
359:I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated. ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
360:Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
361:The moment our gazes met, the rest of the world washed away— ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
362:The only fearless people I've met were frightfully stupid. ~ Sarah Beth Durst, #NFDB
363:You're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met, Hermione. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
364:You’re the cleverest witch of your age I’ve ever met, Hermione. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
365:Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption. ~ Jane Leeves, #NFDB
366:Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
367:I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. ~ Wally Lamb, #NFDB
368:If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way! ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
369:I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix) ~ Marion Dane Bauer, #NFDB
370:I met a girl with raven dark hair and eyes the color of emeralds… ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
371:I met an angel in Morocco and all I got were these lousy scars. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
372:I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
373:I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
374:It smells like death met a rotten asshole and had five puke babies. ~ S T Abby, #NFDB
375:It's not right. It hasn't been right, not since I met you. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
376:It’s not right. It hasn’t been right, not since I met you. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
377:It’s official: I’ve actually met a guy who can pull off a wink. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
378:I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
379:No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
380:The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
381:The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
382:True friends share everything, except the past before they met. ~ Mary Renault, #NFDB
383:Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
384:A bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
385:Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
386:Fucking bravest kid I’ve ever met,” I muttered quietly. Magnus ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
387:great calamity met with great spirit can create great strength. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
388:I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
389:I cried because my 3G was down, until I met a man who had no smartphone. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
390:I used to cry because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
391:The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic. ~ Ice T, #NFDB
392:When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always ~ Rita Rudner, #NFDB
393:You're too good, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn't love. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
394:Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
395:Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird. ~ Rick Nielsen, #NFDB
396:Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father? ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
397:I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
398:I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
399:If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
400:I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life. ~ Kim Basinger, #NFDB
401:I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.
I was fine till I met you, he says. ~ Moira Young,#NFDB
402:I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. ~ Griffin Dunne, #NFDB
403:I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
404:I took love before. It was not until I met you that I gave love. ~ Linda Berdoll, #NFDB
405:I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt ~ Mark Rubinstein, #NFDB
406:I was always lonely, and I never knew it until I met the Beast. ~ Meagan Spooner, #NFDB
407:I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
408:Selena Gomez. She’s a sweetheart, I met her a couple of times. ~ Spencer Boldman, #NFDB
409:Since we have met I feel both happy and terrible all of the time. ~ Trish Doller, #NFDB
410:The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back. ~ Gordie Howe, #NFDB
411:Value for value,” she’d say. “Nothing short of total needs met. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
412:Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
413:A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
414:Because his mother never met a boundary she didn’t want to cross. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
415:De eeuwige stilte van deze eindeloze ruimte vervult me met angst. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
416:Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met? ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
417:I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
418:I loved you from the first day I met you. That’s never going away. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
419:I’m not sure I’ve ever met a girl that Zane and I both seem to like. ~ J S Cooper, #NFDB
420:I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
421:I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date. ~ Hunter Parrish, #NFDB
422:The girl I met two years ago and the girl I knew now were different. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
423:...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
424:Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
425:Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
426:Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.' ~ Norman Lear, #NFDB
427:Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. ~ Fred Armisen, #NFDB
428:Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh! ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
429:He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. ~ William Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
430:Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. ~ Noel Redding, #NFDB
431:Homelessness is frequently met with many mental health challenges. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
432:How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so? ~ Robert Galbraith, #NFDB
433:I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian. ~ David Markson, #NFDB
434:I have been accused of sleeping with people, I hadn't met yet. ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
435:I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
436:I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton, #NFDB
437:I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
438:I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
439:Never in his life had he met anyone quite like Margot De Wilde. ~ Roseanna M White, #NFDB
440:The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. ~ Chet Baker, #NFDB
441:Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
442:We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers. ~ Liz Reinhardt, #NFDB
443:Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile. ~ Jon Taffer, #NFDB
444:Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB
445:Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
446:From the moment they’d met, their friendship had been leading to more… ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
447:Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever? ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
448:I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
449:I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
450:I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there. ~ Bryan Ferry, #NFDB
451:I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways. ~ Jules Feiffer, #NFDB
452:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
453:Once they met, the rest of it, the love between them, was inevitable. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
454:Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order. ~ Belle de Jour, #NFDB
455:The great people I've met always have time for the niceties. ~ Mercedes McCambridge, #NFDB
456:Was it possible to love people you had never met, I wondered... ~ Diane Chamberlain, #NFDB
457:We just met and we're already doing heroin?" I said. "Seems sudden. ~ Gene Doucette, #NFDB
458:We met in the park to wrest the afternoon into the shape of a stroll. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
459:We met over a dead body, which for most people would be a turnoff.... ~ Julia Mills, #NFDB
460:You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back. ~ Shirley Jump, #NFDB
461:Anyone who says I would never hit a woman hasn't met my x girlfriend. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
462:I don't know Putin. I have never met Putin. He is not my best friend. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
463:If I met a horse that looked like you, I’d find that horse attractive. ~ S J Kincaid, #NFDB
464:I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
465:I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
466:In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment. ~ Christopher Lee, #NFDB
467:I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin. ~ Norman Lear, #NFDB
468:I see you met Eli,” said Victor. “He’s always been a bit trigger happy. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
469:I was back at the flat so quick that I nearly met myself coming out. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
470:I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet. ~ Ruta Sepetys,#NFDB
471:I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.’” I ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
472:Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
473:Our tongues dancing with familiarity even though they’ve only just met. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
474:Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
475:Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
476:That demon you met, Xerxes. He works for a fifth-level demon named Vald. ~ Angie Fox, #NFDB
477:The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
478:What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you? ~ Tim Sanders, #NFDB
479:Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
480:found it difficult to make friends when I didn’t trust anyone I met. And ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
481:If I met you for the first time now, I would choose you all over again. ~ J T Cope IV, #NFDB
482:If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody. ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
483:i knew you. before i met you. i’ve known you my whole life. – nafsi ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
484:i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life. ~ Nayyirah Waheed,#NFDB
485:I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
486:I met you soon after and i could never think of touching anyone else. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
487:I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more. ~ Banksy, #NFDB
488:The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
489:There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
490:Walking along the crowded row
He met the one he used to know. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,#NFDB
491:From the moment their mouths met, Eoghan knew there was no turning back. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
492:I began to get the idea that this wasn’t the brightest cat I’d ever met. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
493:I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you! ~ Pauline R age, #NFDB
494:I think you might very well be the most eccentric person I've ever met. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
495:It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
496:I've never met anyone nicer than my mom, and I've met Donny and Marie. ~ Nick Offerman, #NFDB
497:[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met. ~ Emanuel Cleaver, #NFDB
498:Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. ~ Bill Fitch, #NFDB
499:Their eyes met, locked, became wistful, and dreamy and beautiful. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
500:You wouldn’t believe all the nice people I’ve met at chemotherapy,” she ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
501:Zane nodded, a little in awe as he met Ty’s shining eyes. “Let’s do it. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
502:And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin. ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
503:At this point I don't really care how we met. I only care that we met. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
504:Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason. ~ Benny Hill, #NFDB
505:Blind date' is code for 'We met online and don't want to talk about it. ~ Beth Kendrick, #NFDB
506:Creena's eyes met his and her heart leapt with raw, uncontained emotion. ~ Marcha A Fox, #NFDB
507:He’s the sexiest, dirtiest, smartest, and kindest man I have ever met. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
508:I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents. ~ Mike Birbiglia, #NFDB
509:I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you. ~ Amanda Hocking, #NFDB
510:If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them. ~ Steven Furtick, #NFDB
511:I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. ~ Ken Livingstone, #NFDB
512:In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important ~ Matt Smith, #NFDB
513:I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. ~ Lana Wood, #NFDB
514:I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
515:I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together. ~ Paul Mazursky, #NFDB
516:I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. ~ Keith Green, #NFDB
517:Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
518:The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake; ~ W H Auden,#NFDB
519:When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea his first name was Always. ~ Rita Rudner, #NFDB
520:When I was little, I met Ronald Reagan. I think I said something to him. ~ Rich Fulcher, #NFDB
521:You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
522:At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view. ~ T Bone Burnett, #NFDB
523:De filosoof behandelt een vraag zoals men dat met een ziekte doet. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
524:Everyone I’ve ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
525:For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
526:He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
527:I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane. ~ Paul Reubens, #NFDB
528:If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. ~ Stephen Shore, #NFDB
529:I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
530:I met Albus Dumbledore at the age of eleven, on our first day at Hogwarts. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
531:I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who has changed the way I think. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
532:I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment ~ James Levine, #NFDB
533:Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
534:Prizes aren’t love. Because people who never met you can’t love you. ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
535:She possessed the unique ability to aggravate almost anyone she ever met. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
536:Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
537:Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
538:Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
539:His soul might be a sun. I've never met anyone who had the sun for a soul. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
540:His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
541:I am in love with cities i have never been to and people i have never met! ❣ ~ John Green, #NFDB
542:I'd put my faith in god, but I haven't met him, and I've been hurt before. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
543:If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow. ~ Penelope Lively, #NFDB
544:I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. ~ Anna Kavan, #NFDB
545:I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
546:I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
547:I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.' ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
548:I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
549:I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich. ~ Jack Kemp, #NFDB
550:...I've never met anybody Irish who came in a shade darker than moonglow. ~ Bethany Chase, #NFDB
551:I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible. ~ Judah Smith, #NFDB
552:Take care of yourself as if you’re the most awesome person you’ve ever met. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
553:The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
554:the words of his daughter’s married lover, the only time he had met him, ~ Bernard Minier, #NFDB
555:We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
556:When your caloric needs are met, your protein needs are met automatically. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
557:You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
558:Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
559:artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
560:As it turned out, the scariest person he’d ever met also gave the best hugs. ~ Elliott Kay, #NFDB
561:Being present means living without control and always having your needs met. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
562:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
563:He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
564:His gray eyes met mine. "It doesn't matter where I go. I'll still be yours. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
565:I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
566:I’d met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist, ~ Sara Gran, #NFDB
567:If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky. ~ Deborah Kerr, #NFDB
568:If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world. ~ Richard Dawson, #NFDB
569:In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
570:I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
571:I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. ~ Juliette Binoche, #NFDB
572:My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
573:Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
574:Our eyes met and I felt a surprising ripple of pleasure run through me. ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
575:Our story was delightful in its mundanity: we met, it worked, we're trying. ~ Scaachi Koul, #NFDB
576:The day I met a friendly ghost was the day I came up with better analogies. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
577:Until I met you, I never needed anything and now I can’t live without you. ~ Mercy Celeste, #NFDB
578:Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
579:When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
580:Alexei met Stanislav’s gaze. “I like her.”
He smiled. “I like her more. ~ Dianne Duvall,#NFDB
581:Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
582:En opeens zag Enrico helder voor zich wat er met zijn verloofde was gebeurd. ~ Mary Hoffman, #NFDB
583:Every new person you met in your life introduces you to something new! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
584:Except for Preity Zinta, I haven't met a single secure actress in Bollywood. ~ Katrina Kaif, #NFDB
585:I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met. ~ Sarah Miller, #NFDB
586:I hated being there without her and wondered what I had done before we met. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
587:I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
588:I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes. ~ Billy Wilder, #NFDB
589:I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19. ~ Mink Stole, #NFDB
590:I met many of the best people in my life at some of the worst jobs imaginable. ~ Jenn Sadai, #NFDB
591:It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB
592:I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey ~ E L James, #NFDB
593:I was tired of talking to you twenty minutes after I met you ten years ago. ~ Willy Vlautin, #NFDB
594:Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I’d ever met. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
595:Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
596:Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met. ~ Christina Farley, #NFDB
597:The fire flickered and died. Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
598:Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
599:The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton. ~ Charlie Rose, #NFDB
600:Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met. ~ Amy Sohn, #NFDB
601:A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. ~ Clifton Fadiman, #NFDB
602:Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough. ~ Michael Zadoorian, #NFDB
603:But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl. ~ Pete Rozelle, #NFDB
604:Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
605:Hé Colin... Ik geloof dat je weer eens slordig met je zaad bent omgesprongen. ~ Mary Hoffman, #NFDB
606:He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
607:His father, on the other hand, had never met a pause he didn’t need to fill, ~ Brian Freeman, #NFDB
608:I'd do this all over again a hundred times as long as I met you in the end. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
609:I’d met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept. ~ Adrian McKinty, #NFDB
610:I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
611:I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him. ~ Kenneth Noland, #NFDB
612:I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
613:I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
614:I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I`ve ever met. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
615:It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB
616:I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
617:I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
618:I’ve never met a man who led a rotten life and didn’t have a weak will. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
619:Moral hazard has never met a more efficient amplifier than a digital network. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
620:Since we first met I have loved you with whatever I had to love you with. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald, #NFDB
621:The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz. ~ Charlotte Featherstone, #NFDB
622:Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
623:The margrave turned toward her. Their eyes met. His expression softened. ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
624:They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
625:We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy. ~ Tommy Lee, #NFDB
626:Yet still, perhaps we’re well-met.” “Perhaps we are,” the gunslinger replied. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
627:After I left Brandon, I met Dominique at the Neptune Oyster in the North End. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
628:And whatever lie he would have given, it died on his lips as they met hers. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
629:Before I met you, my joy had such an early curfew it didn't bother going out. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
630:Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved. ~ Jonathan Frakes, #NFDB
631:Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece. ~ Annabel Croft, #NFDB
632:I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now. ~ Waylon Jennings, #NFDB
633:I'd never met...anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
634:I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
635:I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
636:It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind. ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB
637:I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met. ~ Levon Helm, #NFDB
638:I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
639:I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. ~ John Perkins, #NFDB
640:Madam, I've never met another woman who is as exasperating as you are! ~ Kathleen E Woodiwiss, #NFDB
641:Now that you've met me, you'll never be able to forget me. That's something. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
642:Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
643:The night we met –’ I’m not him. I’m not him. ‘I’m not like that guy. ~ Tammara Webber, #NFDB
644:We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
645:You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
646:You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
647:You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
648:Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress. ~ Cobie Smulders, #NFDB
649:Daar zaten we echt op te wachten,' kreunde Holly. 'Artemis Fowl met toverkracht. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
650:Hey I just met you The network’s laggy But here’s my data So store it maybe ~ Martin Kleppmann, #NFDB
651:I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~ Galileo Galilei, #NFDB
652:I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
653:I've met some of my best friends in the world working for Victoria's Secret. ~ Erin Heatherton, #NFDB
654:I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life. ~ Terence Conran, #NFDB
655:Middelmatigheid met ijver levert meer rrsultaat op dan talent zonder ijver. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
656:My ass hurts, Garrett.”
“Didn’t we have this conversation when we first met? ~ Abigail Roux,#NFDB
657:My looking ripens things
and they come towards me, to meet and be met. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
658:Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field. ~ Ronaldinho, #NFDB
659:Suffering is part of life. I've never met a strong person who hasn't suffered. ~ Susan Sleeman, #NFDB
660:(...), waar de weelde zich met welbehagen in het ordelijke spiegelt (...) ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
661:What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better. ~ Jasinda Wilder, #NFDB
662:Wij noemen hen Kraaien. Omdat ze zo hebberig zijn en zich voeden met de dood. ~ Michelle Paver, #NFDB
663:You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
664:Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Rita Rudner, #NFDB
665:Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met. ~ Clark Gable, #NFDB
666:Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music. ~ Mac DeMarco, #NFDB
667:Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
668:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
669:he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
670:He was the only man she’d ever met that could get under her skin like her had. ~ Julie Brannagh, #NFDB
671:I met my husband when a friend sent him over to my house to cure my hiccoughs. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
672:I see you've met Desire and Fulfillment...Regret is in the kitchen making coffee. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
673:I thought I had the ability to mind-fuck people, but today I’d met my match. ~ Georgina Guthrie, #NFDB
674:length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i. ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
675:Listen, we’re all trapped in our own lives. You, me, everyone we’ve ever met. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
676:No,” he agreed. “You’re not. You’re one of the somebodiest somebodies I ever met. ~ Rose Lerner, #NFDB
677:Our eyes met. Her green eyes melted and she gave me that beautiful siren smile. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
678:She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
679:The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew. ~ Robert Browning,#NFDB
680:The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am. ~ Kid Cudi, #NFDB
681:Um, hi, I'm Carswell Thorne, a convicted criminal in your country. Have we met? ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
682:We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. ~ Jeffrey D Sachs, #NFDB
683:devastating effects.” This personal revelation from a man he had just met made ~ Carole Lawrence, #NFDB
684:Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste. ~ Willie Brown, #NFDB
685:Eentonigheid is een vorm van zekerheid, met eentonigheid kun je angst bezweren. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
686:I'd just met a talking garden gnome and the nightmare version of My Little Pony. ~ Nicole Peeler, #NFDB
687:I do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
688:I don't have a step daughter. I have a daughter that was born before I met her. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
689:I'm confused."
"Where Meg is concerned, you've been confused since you met her. ~ Anne Bishop,#NFDB
690:I’m in love with you … I’ve been falling in love with you since the day we met. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
691:I suppose I just haven’t met someone who made me happier than I am being alone. ~ Terry Bolryder, #NFDB
692:I’ve missed you every single day we weren’t together since the moment I met you ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
693:I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people. ~ Doris Day, #NFDB
694:I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. ~ Chance the Rapper, #NFDB
695:I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
696:I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
697:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
698:met a woman named Julia Rothman. She was very beautiful but a complete bitch. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
699:ONE DAY, THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE IN YOU WILL TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY MET YOU ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
700:One day the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
701:Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
702:She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
703:Something good had come of the accident – he had met one of his neighbours. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
704:The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs. ~ Witold Gombrowicz, #NFDB
705:They’d met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take. • • • ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
706:Who says you’ll get hurt again?”
I pouted. “Have you met you?”
“Right. ~ Kate Evangelista,#NFDB
707:10. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
708:His gaze locked with hers. “I didn’t know what my life was missing until I met you. ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
709:I can't remember a minute since we met when I haven't been in love with you. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
710:I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were ~ George Nelson, #NFDB
711:I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. ~ Bela Lugosi, #NFDB
712:I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
713:I think they've met before," she finally said.
"Who? Thibault and the loser? ~ Nicholas Sparks,#NFDB
714:I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. ~ Louis C K, #NFDB
715:I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew ~ Steven Adler, #NFDB
716:Many codependents are barely surviving, and most aren’t getting their needs met. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
717:One day, the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
718:part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
719:President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had. ~ David Powers, #NFDB
720:Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor ~ Yasmine Galenorn, #NFDB
721:Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
722:She wasn't the little girl I'd first met. She was a woman in marriageable age now.. ~ Cora Reilly, #NFDB
723:taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one. ~ Max D Adams, #NFDB
724:The day I met you is the day by which all others will be measured. — Levi Ian Bryson ~ T R Graves, #NFDB
725:The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I’m cursed when it comes to women. ~ Trudi Canavan, #NFDB
726:This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
727:Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
728:To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
729:Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
730:What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!” “I loved everything I saw! ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
731:What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
732:Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
733:But behold! As soon as I went out on the adventure-path I met John Barleycorn again. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
734:Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
735:He hadn't even met me and he didn't like me. I felt a sense of accomplishment. ~ Marshall Thornton, #NFDB
736:Her mouth had got messier since he met her, more desirous of forbidden kisses. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
737:his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind. ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
738:Ichariba choodee,” she said in Okinawan. It meant, “Now that we’ve met, we’re family. ~ Alan Gratz, #NFDB
739:I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. ~ Shirley Chisholm, #NFDB
740:I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
741:I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
742:I met a woman named Julia Rothman. She was very beautiful but a complete bitch. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
743:I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere ~ Shane West, #NFDB
744:I've loved you from the first day I met you, as I will the rest of my existence. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
745:I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite. ~ Daniela Ruah, #NFDB
746:I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
747:Know that you deserve to have, and will always have, your every human need met. Do ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
748:North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
749:Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
750:Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
751:There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. ~ William Halsey, #NFDB
752:There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books. ~ David Hume, #NFDB
753:The town council met at the school. That meant we knew exactly how to sneak in. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
754:To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
755:Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
756:We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing. ~ Oliver Hazard Perry, #NFDB
757:We've basically just met, so I'll say this gently. Are you completely crazy? ~ Cath Crowley, #NFDB
758:When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
759:...when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
760:After the first couple weeks, when all your sex toys had met all my sex toys, ... ~ Giselle Renarde, #NFDB
761:And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
762:Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met. ~ Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, #NFDB
763:Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each. ~ Primo Levi, #NFDB
764:He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
765:He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything. ~ Jerry Pinto, #NFDB
766:He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
767:I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him. ~ Rumer Godden, #NFDB
768:I had no right to move out of my books and music, which was what I did when I met you ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
769:I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend. ~ Nicholas A Christakis, #NFDB
770:I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
771:I’m not scared of never meeting you. I’m scared of having met you, and let you go. ~ pleasefindthis, #NFDB
772:I never knew how much I could love another human being until I met you, Gabe. I’ll ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
773:I never knew who and what I could be, until I met you. You see the very heart of me. ~ Tiffany Snow, #NFDB
774:I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. ~ Richard Pryor, #NFDB
775:I set a goal, I met it, I proved that I could meet it, and now the hell with it.” Dear ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
776:Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
777:My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
778:She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that. ~ Jim Croce, #NFDB
779:She trusted him? She’d barely met him. Women. Thank God I’ve never wanted to date one. ~ J L Merrow, #NFDB
780:There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
781:There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
782:We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
783:When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
784:As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. ~ John Green, #NFDB
785:How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met. ~ Jonathan Goldstein, #NFDB
786:I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
787:If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at. ~ Brad Thor, #NFDB
788:I had met her in a space where she was a person, instead of a problem to be solved. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
789:I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, #NFDB
790:I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men. ~ Shirley Chisholm, #NFDB
791:Lifting her head, she met his gaze. “W-what the hell was that?” “I think… we’re mortal. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
792:My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
793:That woman freaks me out. She’s the whole reason I’m gay and I only met her yesterday. ~ L J Hayward, #NFDB
794:The exact spot where Derek woke up. Where I first met him. Where it all started. The ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
795:the “human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason, ~ Adam Begley, #NFDB
796:The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock ~ Dorothy Parker,#NFDB
797:There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
798:Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation ~ Lou Engle, #NFDB
799:When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew. ~ Larry Tesler, #NFDB
800:But, hey. Out of all the demons I have met, she is my favorite by, like, infinity. ~ Michelle Knudsen, #NFDB
801:Cress, this is sweet, but aren’t I the first guy you’ve ever met? Come on, up you go. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
802:Dragos leaned forward and told her, “You are the best lying non-liar I have ever met. ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
803:He met her halfway, and his hand curled around the back of her neck to hold her close. ~ Darcy Coates, #NFDB
804:He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
805:How much love is a person capable of giving? I thought I knew the answer until I met you. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
806:How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr, #NFDB
807:I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind. ~ Lesley Garrett, #NFDB
808:I love you too, Lizzie. Pretty sure since the minute I met you, and certain I will forever ~ S E Hall, #NFDB
809:I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
810:I never belonged anywhere until I met you,” he said, resting his cheek against my hair. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
811:In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
812:I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
813:I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
814:I think you’re the first guy I’ve met in person who I couldn’t stop staring at.” Was ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
815:I’ve met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world. ~ Brian McClellan, #NFDB
816:I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. ~ Kenneth Lonergan, #NFDB
817:Kinderen zijn geen kleurboeken. Je kunt ze niet met je lievelingskleuren inkleuren. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
818:Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny. ~ Isabelle Fuhrman, #NFDB
819:There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
820:The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
821:Waarom zou vader op zo'n nare plek willen werken met al die buren? Het slaat nergens op. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
822:Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15 train ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein Keynes ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
823:We met on a Wednesday morning, and I'd fallen in love with him by Thursday evening. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
824:When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat. ~ Joan Jett, #NFDB
825:YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU. ~ Vivian Amis, #NFDB
826:You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. ~ Audrey Niffenegger, #NFDB
827:And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ~ Jean Ingelow, #NFDB
828:Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
829:I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
830:I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them. ~ Emeril Lagasse, #NFDB
831:I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
832:It's a hundred years since we've met - it may be another hundred before we meet again. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
833:It was too late the first day we met. You're inside me, and I 'm inside you. It's done. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
834:I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170- ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
835:I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know? ~ Josh Hutcherson, #NFDB
836:I’ve never met a joke so bad I didn’t like it. Then again, I’ve never met a joke. ~ Pseudonymous Bosch, #NFDB
837:I watched her long, straight hair swaying right and left where it met her shoulders. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
838:Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
839:Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
840:Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met in a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
841:There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
842:They taught me that pain can be present, despite every physical need being met.” Small ~ Aleatha Romig, #NFDB
843:We met every morning, still bearded with toast crumbs from our continental breakfasts. ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
844:You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
845:Ze gedroeg zich als zichzelf, alleen uitgesprokener. Dat komt met de leeftijd, dacht ik. ~ Colm T ib n, #NFDB
846:An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. ~ Michael Aspel, #NFDB
847:Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met. ~ Elizabeth Knox, #NFDB
848:Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
849:How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
850:I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
851:I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. ~ George Jackson, #NFDB
852:I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books. ~ Frank Delaney, #NFDB
853:Instead, I'm met with the only familiar sensation my heart is capable of feeling: pain ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
854:I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
855:I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter. ~ Jean Smart, #NFDB
856:I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~ Tracy Chapman, #NFDB
857:My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met. ~ Taylor Hanson, #NFDB
858:One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
859:Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
860:Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you. ~ Iain Thomas, #NFDB
861:That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people. ~ David Ayer, #NFDB
862:Treat every natural beauty you met as if you see them for the first and last time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
863:Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
864:Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts ~ Frances Mayes, #NFDB
865:[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
866:You have got to be the most irritating person I've ever met." "Yeah, I get that a lot. ~ Kelly Thompson, #NFDB
867:You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it. ~ Kristin Hersh, #NFDB
868:All these folks I've never met became gods over my life. Now I gotta take the power back. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
869:Convince him. I relaxed against his touch and didn’t turn away when his mouth met mine. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
870:Do you believe in soul mates, Connor?”
“How could I not? I met mine when I was fourteen. ~ Emery Rose,#NFDB
871:Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
872:Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
873:How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
874:I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. ~ Miroslav Vitous, #NFDB
875:I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
876:If I am distracted, it is your fault. You have been my undoing since the day we met. ~ Danielle L Jensen, #NFDB
877:If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
878:I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence. ~ Tony Sunshine, #NFDB
879:I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship. ~ Kola Boof, #NFDB
880:In the eyes of the others we who met them saw ourselves. And there were demons there. ~ Whitley Strieber, #NFDB
881:I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest. ~ Channing Tatum, #NFDB
882:I thought you only had eyes for your ship.”
God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you. ~ Lisa Kessler,#NFDB
883:It was a dark and stormy night when the witch and the vampire met in the house of death. ~ Jo Ann Carson, #NFDB
884:I've never met a brave person who hasn't known disappointment, failure and even heartbreak. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
885:I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
886:Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet. ~ Howard Bloom, #NFDB
887:She got under my skin the moment I met her, and she’s still there, in my blood, in my heart. ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
888:She was not the first woman he’d met who endured dire pain in disturbing silence, ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
889:Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
890:When you’re met with your own physical limitations, don’t give up, never quit, just adapt! ~ B T Urruela, #NFDB
891:Across the distance between them, Bree's gaze met Mikkel's, and she did not blink. ~ Lois Walfrid Johnson, #NFDB
892:After all, I’d never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea. ~ Elizabeth Musser, #NFDB
893:be a bigger success than anyone could have imagined. Since then, the men had met once ~ Christopher Reich, #NFDB
894:By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met. ~ Joe Zee, #NFDB
895:I don’t understand how we got to this place. I didn’t even like you when I first met you. ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
896:I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
897:I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough. ~ Teresa Palmer, #NFDB
898:I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
899:Ik ben in een oerwoud. Ik ben in dit stomme oerwoud. Met een magische wasbeer " - Ransom ~ Victoria Scott, #NFDB
900:Ik denk... dat wij het prima met elkaar kunnen vinden. - Rode Moordenaar/Ruby, tegen Nova ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
901:Ik zal met mijn verstand niet kunnen begrijpen waarom ik bid en toch zal ik blijven bidden. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
902:I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
903:It was where parallel lines met, and circles meekly allowed themselves to be squared. ~ Jonathan L Howard, #NFDB
904:I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat."
-pg.170- ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
905:I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
906:Maddox isn’t a stupid man. He’s probably one of the most intuitive people I’ve ever met. ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
907:My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
908:No, I’m doing this because I’ve finally met someone I want to spend the rest of my life with. ~ E L James, #NFDB
909:Oneness—in some way, shape, or form, it’s what every person I’ve ever met has been seeking. ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
910:Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with. ~ David Grossman, #NFDB
911:The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man! ~ Katie Price, #NFDB
912:Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. ~ Geezer Butler, #NFDB
913:You are the most unattractive woman I’ve ever met. And you are exactly what I need. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, #NFDB
914:Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
915:And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
916:Angelina Jolie is my favorite. I've never met her before, but I just know she's amazing. ~ Mark Indelicato, #NFDB
917:Because you make me. Because I didn’t exist, not in any way that matters, until I met you. ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
918:Cheaters can always tell when they've met another cheater. Congrats on being in that special club. ~ Tijan, #NFDB
919:Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember? ~ Drake, #NFDB
920:Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
921:Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
922:I'd do this all over again a hundred times as long as I met you in the end - Tristan King ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
923:If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her. ~ Joanna Newsom, #NFDB
924:In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
925:I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
926:I used to be so fearless. Then I met Ella. Then I realized how much I really stand to lose. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
927:I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT. ~ Ken Livingstone, #NFDB
928:On est amoureux, le jour où l'on met du dentifrice sur une autre brosse que la sienne ~ Fr d ric Beigbeder, #NFDB
929:Some gifts are a test, and others are a curse.” He met my eyes seriously. “Which is yours? ~ Victoria Lamb, #NFDB
930:So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
931:The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
932:until Angel met his gaze again. “You’ve got that kind of pull?” “Yeah, I can have a federal ~ Randall Wood, #NFDB
933:We have met so many interesting faces in our lives, but only a few interesting souls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
934:When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had. ~ Illeana Douglas, #NFDB
935:While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. ~ Calamity Jane, #NFDB
936:You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
937:A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. ~ Marion Dane Bauer, #NFDB
938:And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life. ~ Anthony Quinn, #NFDB
939:Everyday since I have met you I have loved you a thousand times more.
(Napolean Bonaparte) ~ Gill Paul,#NFDB
940:From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. ~ Tera Lynn Childs, #NFDB
941:God is with you, He must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I've ever met ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
942:Het wezenlijke is voor het oog onzichtbaar, alleen met je hart kan je goed zien. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
943:I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
944:I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it. ~ Robert Davi, #NFDB
945:I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today. ~ Gigi Hadid, #NFDB
946:Life would have been easier for me if I just hadn't met you. But then it hadn't been my life. ~ Erich Fried, #NFDB
947:Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. ~ Jeanne Moreau, #NFDB
948:Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them. ~ J Maarten Troost, #NFDB
949:When I met you, I knew I would love you. When I lost you, I knew I hadn’t loved you enough. ~ Kathryn Perez, #NFDB
950:When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
951:Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
952:Cupping my chin, he tilted my head so our eyes met. “You were always meant to be mine, Savvy. ~ Nashoda Rose, #NFDB
953:For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
954:For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner. ~ Cheryl Cory, #NFDB
955:If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen,#NFDB
956:If you were to create a piece of art, what would the subject be?
I haven't met her yet. :) ~ Amie Kaufman,#NFDB
957:I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
958:I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home ~ Happy Chandler, #NFDB
959:In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
960:In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!" ~ Brian Blessed, #NFDB
961:I’ve not done much living in my life, but I met this guy who makes me want to live it. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
962:I wasn’t in love with Daniel. I only met him an hour ago. That was impossible. Wasn’t it? ~ Melanie Moreland, #NFDB
963:Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. There ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
964:Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
965:Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there. ~ Stacey Lee, #NFDB
966:The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. ~ John Maeda, #NFDB
967:T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy. ~ Thomas Middleditch, #NFDB
968:To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
969:Tussen ijsschotsen op de vijver dreef een enkele zwaan, arm in arm met haar spiegelbeeld. ~ Saskia de Coster, #NFDB
970:We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well. ~ Alan Jay Lerner, #NFDB
971:we're two sides of the same tragic coin, its like we were tied together before we even met ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
972:You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved. ~ Georgette Heyer, #NFDB
973:You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
974:You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
975:You've always been in here", he says, patting his chest over his heart. "We just hadn't met yet. ~ S L Scott, #NFDB
976:A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer. ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB
977:ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
978:Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
979:His world had been upended since the moment he’d met Evie… But this was a whole other ball game. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
980:I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
981:I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. ~ Oriana Fallaci, #NFDB
982:I like you,” he said. He smiled, his eyes twinkling. “You’re the best person I’ve met all year. ~ Audrey Bell, #NFDB
983:I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
984:I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
985:I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
986:It turned out that a person could miss someone she had never met, except in her imagination. ~ Lena Andersson, #NFDB
987:It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself. ~ Rick Remender, #NFDB
988:I've never met anyone like Keane Morgan. He's Daffy Duck trapped inside Prince Charming's body. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
989:I’ve never met anyone like Keane Morgan. He’s Daffy Duck trapped inside Prince Charming’s body. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
990:So, your dad's hot."
"Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit. ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
991:the harder it is to say goobye to sombody, the luckier u are to have met sombody ur going to miss ~ Jomny Sun, #NFDB
992:There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
993:When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
994:When you look at someone you knew when you were young, you always see the person you first met, ~ Tana French, #NFDB
995:You're the only one who could have ever met my standards for her, Miles. I'm happy it's you. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
996:Ze wist al aan welk prettig ding ze zou denken als Keren weer aan kwam zetten met zijn steen. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
997:All Pennella ever did was brag about places he’d visited, money he spent, and people he met. ~ Ruth Ann Nordin, #NFDB
998:At college, when people ask us how we met... I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
999:Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1000:Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
1001:Every day since I met you I have loved you a thousand times more...
-Napoleon the Great (pg.74) ~ Gill Paul,#NFDB
1002:For every time Luce met Daniel—and she always met Daniel—nothing mattered as much as their love. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
1003:I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1004:I have never met anyone who is addicted to alcohol who isn't drinking for a lot of dead spirits! ~ Robert Moss, #NFDB
1005:I have no idea what cunnilingus is – certainly no one I've met in Wolverhampton can afford it. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
1006:I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1007:I love you.” His eyes met hers briefly, and it was there. The simplicity of it. The enormity of it. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1008:I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters. ~ Leslye Walton, #NFDB
1009:I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. ~ Amy Schumer, #NFDB
1010:It’s something I always said I would do when I met The One. I met you…I went and got the tats. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1011:My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh. ~ Alek Wek, #NFDB
1012:the best spooks I ever met had learned to live a double life long before they joined any agency. ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
1013:The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. ~ Michael Gerber, #NFDB
1014:There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1015:There's nothing wrong. You are just happy because you met people who see the world differently. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1016:this thought has met with the fate of many other useful projects, of being applauded and neglected. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1017:Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
1018:We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1019:We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met. ~ Robyn Schneider, #NFDB
1020:Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1021:Why do you love me so much, you stupid man?”
He smiled down at her.
“Because I met you. ~ Tiffany Reisz,#NFDB
1022:With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like. ~ Nick Carter, #NFDB
1023:Alto: “She’s a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I’ve ever met. It’s like payback. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1024:Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met? ~ Rod McKuen,#NFDB
1025:DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?” Curran asked. “Only people who know you or have met you. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1026:Het evangelie moet koste wat kost verspreid worden, en indien nodig met behulp van woorden. ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1027:I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up! ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1028:I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1029:I think His plan all along has been for us to meet the people He made and feel like we just met Him. ~ Bob Goff, #NFDB
1030:It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1031:It sounds so fucking cliché, but it was when our eyes first met when my life changed irrevocably. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
1032:I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
1033:I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1034:Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but. ~ Diana Ross, #NFDB
1035:My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. ~ Tracy Austin, #NFDB
1036:No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1037:No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1038:NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
1039:Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1040:Remembering her words, Tony, you are mine and nobody else’s, he acquiesced; he’d met his match. ~ Aleatha Romig, #NFDB
1041:Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it? ~ Lucille Ball, #NFDB
1042:The people I met in the classroom were less living beings than mere shadows crossing my path. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1043:The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1044:You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met. ~ Tony Horwitz, #NFDB
1045:You’re in love with me.”
“You’re the best man I’ve ever met, Logan Brantley. Of course I am. ~ Meghan March,#NFDB
1046:But to-morrow I won’t remember having met anyone to-day. So don’t count on me to enlighten you. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
1047:He’d never met a person who tried so hard to stuff their own happiness back down their throat. ~ Kristen Simmons, #NFDB
1048:He never met a stranger. Every person in the world, to him, was just a friend he hadn’t met yet. ~ Melanie Shawn, #NFDB
1049:How can you want to marry someone you've never met?" said Miri. "What if you meet him and do like ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
1050:How wonderful that we have met with paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. —NIELS BOHR ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1051:I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work. ~ Johnny Mathis, #NFDB
1052:If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1053:If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. ~ Magda Szubanski, #NFDB
1054:I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth, #NFDB
1055:I met an Invalid,and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1056:It’s her. The one you’re going to fall for and fall hard. Oh, boy, you have so met your match. Totally. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
1057:Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met. ~ Michael Ventura, #NFDB
1058:My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it. ~ Chevy Chase, #NFDB
1059:My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened. ~ Paulo Costanzo, #NFDB
1060:Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
1061:Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1062:Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'. ~ Jane Russell, #NFDB
1063:The start of any new journey is usually met with sadness for the things and people we will miss. ~ Katie Salidas, #NFDB
1064:What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drownong"
"And what are you now?"
"Water ~ Ocean Vuong,#NFDB
1065:When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign. ~ John Boehner, #NFDB
1066:Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes... ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
1067:Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan. ~ Mary Jo Putney, #NFDB
1068:And besides, ten months is hardly long. I just haven’t met anyone interesting to share the night with ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
1069:And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'. ~ Dave Foley, #NFDB
1070:Every resistance will be met and conquered until you've soared over the sweet edge of surrender. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1071:He has the ability to work harder and endure more stress than anyone I’ve ever met,” Gracias said. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
1072:Hell, you’re the only man I’ve ever met that I would stand in front of a judge and say I’m gay for. ~ Kaje Harper, #NFDB
1073:Het is met je ziel als met je huid, hij wordt er van alle littekens niet mooier op, alleen dikker. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
1074:I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was. ~ Tommy Chong, #NFDB
1075:if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1076:I haven't met anyone that made me want to stay with them, more than I wanted to go and rescue you. ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
1077:I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
1078:I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
1079:I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person. ~ Jurgen Klopp, #NFDB
1080:I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1081:I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1082:I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
1083:I've known since before we met how it would be between us. But knowing didn't prepare me for you. ~ Myra McEntire, #NFDB
1084:Our eyes met, our souls embraced, and our spark of love ignited into a blissfully intense flame. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1085:Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree. ~ Johnny Shaw, #NFDB
1086:The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1087:The night we met, I felt you like an electric shock. Something about you calls to the devil in me. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1088:We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1089:You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson, #NFDB
1090:You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1091:You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1092:And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test. ~ Ken Blackwell, #NFDB
1093:Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them. ~ Cameron Esposito, #NFDB
1094:Have we met? Don't tell me. You're plainly a fool, and I have no interest in befriending fools. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
1095:His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
1096:I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,#NFDB
1097:If only we could have met each other sooner. We had led such poor and fragile lives, each alone. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
1098:I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him. ~ Sophie Calle, #NFDB
1099:I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements. ~ Robert Pattinson, #NFDB
1100:I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost. ~ Shannon A Thompson, #NFDB
1101:...no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1102:Our eyes met for a fraction of a second. If you’re real, I thought, help. She dissolved into smoke. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1103:Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1104:That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. ~ Michael Patrick King, #NFDB
1105:With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1106:You like playing with fire, don't you, Paul?"
"Only since I met you."
-Paul and Martie ~ Peggy Webb,#NFDB
1107:Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
1108:Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1109:Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1110:I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
1111:If I’m not constantly being met by challenges that I am overcoming, how do I know that I’m capable? ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
1112:I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. ~ Big Jim Sullivan, #NFDB
1113:In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services. ~ Kenneth G Wilson, #NFDB
1114:In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral. ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
1115:I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1116:Nothing unseemly? Who was she kidding? Had she never met those three smooth-talking, walking hard-ons? ~ Tate James, #NFDB
1117:Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1118:Part of me misses you so much it hurts, while part of me wishes I never even met you to begin with ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1119:Religion,” Voltaire is said to have remarked, “began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. ~ Maria Konnikova, #NFDB
1120:The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1121:There’s no protocol on how to console your girlfriend of four years who you just met this morning. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1122:The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1123:They say his eyes could strip a man's soul bare, that no secret could be hidden if he met your gaze. ~ Anthony Ryan, #NFDB
1124:Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1125:You may be the only avian I’ve ever met who can look happier scrubbing floors than surrounded by luxury. ~ Kim Dare, #NFDB
1126:Adrian met my eyes for a long moment, saying nothing aloud yet somehow conveying a million messages. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1127:Because I have a feeling most people who ahve met you get the urge to kill you at one point or another ~ Jus Accardo, #NFDB
1128:dear October, you’re the most passively suicidal person I’ve ever met, and that’s saying something. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1129:For every time Luce met Daniel—and
she always met Daniel—nothing mattered as
much as their love. ~ Lauren Kate,#NFDB
1130:Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in? ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
1131:He looked like a stranger, and then he met my glance, and it was like I had never stopped seeing him. ~ Robin Benway, #NFDB
1132:How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions? ~ Paul Washer, #NFDB
1133:I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue. ~ Yves Klein, #NFDB
1134:I didn’t stand a fucking chance against her. From the moment I met her, this was always inevitable. ~ Samantha Towle, #NFDB
1135:I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. ~ David Low, #NFDB
1136:Ik ben van plan de rest van mijn leven met haar door te brengen, maar dat durf ik nog niet te zeggen ~ Lieke Marsman, #NFDB
1137:I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction. ~ Mike Colter, #NFDB
1138:I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna ~ Scarlett Grove, #NFDB
1139:I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. ~ Martha Gellhorn, #NFDB
1140:I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. ~ Jimmie Johnson, #NFDB
1141:I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1142:I've never met anyone who sleeps with so many pillows. Maybe he needs them to cradle his massive ego. ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
1143:Loving you is just part of what makes me who I am. I knew that the moment I met you, and you did, too. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1144:met a woman of the desert who had told him that love would never keep a man from his Personal Legend. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1145:Never met a boner killer as effective as a text from the brother of the girl you want to screw. But ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
1146:The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1147:Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
1148:"We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1149:Well, it's better than those yellow sticky labels you suggested tagging to his ass, when we first met. ~ Jack L Pyke, #NFDB
1150:You’ve been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass,” he purred, meaning himself, ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1151:C'est drôle. Faut jamais rien raconter à personne. Si on le fait, tout le monde se met à vous manquer. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1152:Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1153:Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger ~ Dany Laferri re, #NFDB
1154:Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
1155:Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
1156:Forever and An Instant met up one day,
Had a short, but lovely talk,
then each went on it's way. ~ Bo Burnham,#NFDB
1157:Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine.
Held for a moment.
Flew away. ~ Khaled Hosseini,#NFDB
1158:Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb. ~ Joe Sakic, #NFDB
1159:I don't think I've ever met Putin. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1160: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
1161:I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. ~ Ouida, #NFDB
1162:I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. ~ Tom Sharpe, #NFDB
1163:I need to hear you say it. I need to know you’re mine.”
“I’ve been yours since the second we met. ~ Jamie McGuire,#NFDB
1164:I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
1165:I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic. ~ Hermann Goring, #NFDB
1166:I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates. ~ Whitney Port, #NFDB
1167:Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
1168:Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery ~ Charlotte Selver, #NFDB
1169:Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
1170:Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
1171:One thing I learned: starting off with very low standards is a surefire way to ensure they’ll be met. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
1172:Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
1173:So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met. ~ Andrew Lang,#NFDB
1174:The deepest needs my lifetime through Were all met on the cross by You. What more could anyone do? ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1175:Time cannot define your relationship. It’s the bonding you share even if you have met a day before. ~ Sudeep Nagarkar, #NFDB
1176:What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
1177:When my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance ~ Lin Manuel Miranda, #NFDB
1178:Awakening does not mean an end to difficulties; it means a change in the way those difficulties are met ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
1179:Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. ~ Prince Charles, #NFDB
1180:He met her gaze intently. "And what if you ruin me for all other women?"
She wanted to do that. ~ Erin Nicholas,#NFDB
1181:I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016]. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1182:I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
1183:I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers. ~ Carrie Underwood, #NFDB
1184:I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
1185:Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be. ~ Mercedes McCambridge, #NFDB
1186:John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
1187:My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
1188:Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. ~ Pope Leo XIII, #NFDB
1189:Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow.
Then he met it.
Now he glows in the dark. ~ Ben Loory,#NFDB
1190:Sex isn’t the only thing you need, Wolfe. I’ve never met anyone in such dire need of a friend.” Kelsey ~ Laura Griffin, #NFDB
1191:The beautful boy she'd met first, reckless with himself and others, learning to care and be careful. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1192:Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB
1193:You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
1194:also because, in the six months since I had met Jack, I had never even glimpsed this side of his character. ~ B A Paris, #NFDB
1195:As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1196:At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors. ~ Laurie Penny, #NFDB
1197:Back in America, true to her nature if not to Boris, Martha met and promptly fell in love with a new man, ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1198:By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.' ~ Joseph Lelyveld, #NFDB
1199:Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people. ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
1200:Empty your mind. Now, without thinking of good or bad, what was your original face before your parents met? ~ Hui-Neng, #NFDB
1201:Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
1202:God, remind me that peace comes not from having my needs met, but by finding my hope in You. —Ashley Kappel ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1203:Green eyes met green eyes for a long moment; then Fireheart turned and crept warily through the trees. He ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1204:Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate.
So I think it was fate. ~ Ai Yazawa,#NFDB
1205:His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1206:I didn't really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly. ~ Jessica Alba, #NFDB
1207:If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!" ~ Paul Rust, #NFDB
1208:If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. ~ Amy Koppelman, #NFDB
1209:I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1210:I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
1211:I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1212:I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin," Beranabus grunts. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
1213:There were tips on how to handle the various demons of the Duat. Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1214:Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
1215:Unicorns are real bastards. And if you’d ever met one personally, you would know what I mean. ~ Heather Killough Walden, #NFDB
1216:We met in a school elevator, and he could tell from the way I spoke that we had some sadness in common. ~ Kenny Porpora, #NFDB
1217:What kind of mighty spirit dwells within a man that he would lay down his life for those he’s just met? ~ Heather Burch, #NFDB
1218:When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
1219:You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1220:you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1221:And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1222:Avery,
I haven’t messed around with Steph since I met you. I have messed around with anyone since I met you. ~ J Lynn,#NFDB
1223:For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
1224:George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
1225:Holy shit, you’re the most accomplished stalker I’ve ever met.”
“It’s not stalking if you like it. ~ Aleksandr Voinov,#NFDB
1226:I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1227:I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful. ~ David Walliams, #NFDB
1228:I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
1229:I met a girl, we ate, we drank, had sex, got married, had affairs, broke up - God, what a night that was! ~ Richard Jeni, #NFDB
1230:I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. ~ Illeana Douglas, #NFDB
1231:I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1232:met by an officer with the name CRIMMINS printed on his crisp uniform. He was a silver-haired veteran ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1233:Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1234:Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1235:One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
1236:That's because I've been trying to get over him since the minute I met him so I'm one step ahead of myself. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
1237:Today I met the girls for some lunch at my favourite Japanese restaurant, Ichiban on Queen Street. Lucy ~ Joanna Bolouri, #NFDB
1238:When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly, #NFDB
1239:You are in a much better position to serve others when your basic needs are met and your “tank is full”. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
1240:At least, not until she met Patrick Casey, who proved that the charm of the Irish was not just a cliche. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
1241:But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her. ~ Drake, #NFDB
1242:Cloak, does God hate me?" I said. "It depends which god you mean. I've met several." "The Jewish One." "Yes. ~ C T Phipps, #NFDB
1243:Dr. Becky was a huge fan of Zach’s, even though she hadn’t met him. Figured. Zach was pretty irresistible. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1244:Ever since I met [my wife], my life has been different. I have what I want. I have my Jewel in Millie. ~ Oscar De La Hoya, #NFDB
1245:Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1246:I don't have a list or anything. I just haven't met that person that I want to hold a boom box up for yet. ~ Karyn Bosnak, #NFDB
1247:If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
1248:I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living and life-giving belief in Heaven. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
1249:I met a girl, Doc.”
He let out a light laugh. “You meet girls every day, Connor; this is nothing new. ~ Sandi Lynn,#NFDB
1250:It’d been a long time since she’d met a guy who could bring her down to earth—or follow her into the stars. ~ Cole McCade, #NFDB
1251:It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that ~ James Levine, #NFDB
1252:Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my life? ~ Mackenzi Lee, #NFDB
1253:Non ,’ he answered. ‘I blame the fact I have not been able to take my eyes off you from the moment we met. ~ Mandy Baggot, #NFDB
1254:One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
1255:She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1256:Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1257:There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1258:There are other Graces out there.” “There aren’t, man. I’m telling you. I just met her at the wrong time. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
1259:There is always hope, Ms. Haas.” “I have met Hope. It is a terrifying entity with altogether too many eyes. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
1260:There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one."
-Christopher ~ Kathleen E Woodiwiss,#NFDB
1261:The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something? ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1262:This was real life, not a book. And in
real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went
home. ~ Danielle Steel,#NFDB
1263:Toen ging hij slapen, met zijn hoofd op de woorden waar hij het meest van hield: warm, alles, altijd, ik. ~ Toon Tellegen, #NFDB
1264:UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To
give iT after your conditions have been meT :P ~ Sherry Argov,#NFDB
1265:Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response. ~ Terence Tao, #NFDB
1266:We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB
1267:What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you. ~ Edith Pearlman, #NFDB
1268:Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. ~ Frank Crowninshield, #NFDB
1269:Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1270:Annabeth smiled. “I don’t know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it’s time you met Percy. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1271:But they’re dying. The church, I mean,” she added as I met her eyes. “No new members. It’s sad, really. The ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1272:Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1273:He was a cowboy with the soul of a poet. To this day, he is the most American American I’ve ever met. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
1274:How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection? ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1275:I didn’t know why my mother, whom I hadn’t met, would send a woman who seemed to be death itself to me, but ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
1276:I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with. ~ Sylvia Browne, #NFDB
1277:I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1278:Ik snap niet wat dat is met mij, zegt Marianne. Ik snap niet waarom ik niet zo kan zijn als normale mensen. ~ Sally Rooney, #NFDB
1279:I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you. ~ Lauren DeStefano, #NFDB
1280:I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1281:I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated. ~ James Black, #NFDB
1282:I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. ~ George Stigler, #NFDB
1283:I recall that one of the first investment bankers I met taught me a poem. God gave you eyes, plagiarize. A ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1284:I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me. ~ Emmy Rossum, #NFDB
1285:It may be there’s such a thing as a tool than can’t be used as a weapon, but I’ve never met one. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover, #NFDB
1286:It’s hard to fall in love with assholes, Warren.”..
“Maybe you just haven’t met the right asshole yet. ~ Colleen Hoover,#NFDB
1287:I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. ~ Wendy Cope, #NFDB
1288:Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought. ~ Frederick Seidel,#NFDB
1289:Maybe, just maybe, neither one of us had found the right one before now…because we hadn’t met each other yet. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
1290:No, but by that reasoning,’ she said slowly, ‘anyone who I’ve never met in the flesh might actually be me. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1291:One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know thats she has met his expectations. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
1292:Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met ~ Doug Stanhope, #NFDB
1293:The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1294:The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB
1295:They’re better tactics than mine.” “Heart and head, John. They should know each other. Yours have never met. ~ Alan Garner, #NFDB
1296:We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday. ~ Neil Patrick Harris, #NFDB
1297:And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos—the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
1298:He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met. ~ Robert Galbraith, #NFDB
1299:I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1300:I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
1301:Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. ~ Jackie Jackson, #NFDB
1302:Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
1303:Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate ~ Clarence Darrow, #NFDB
1304:The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1305:We haven't met yet, I'm Brandon Taylor." Dear Lord that voice could warm me on the coldest day of the year. ~ Molly McAdams, #NFDB
1306:When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them. ~ Scarlett Johansson, #NFDB
1307:You’ve never met a man like me, a man who can challenge and respect you, a man worthy of a woman like you. ~ Sarah Castille, #NFDB
1308:Aarti? She got me into trouble the first day we met,’ Gopal said. I dipped a biscuit in my tea and listened. ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
1309:How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1310:I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. ~ Hedy Lamarr, #NFDB
1311:If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find. ~ Roger Clemens, #NFDB
1312:If Sydney had met many dhampirs like Yeva, I could understand why she thought our race were minions of hell. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1313:I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didnt speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me. ~ Elena Roger, #NFDB
1314:Je kunt met alles beginnen en ophouden: eten, slapen, lezen, vechten, verliefd zijn... Maar niet met denken. ~ Toon Tellegen, #NFDB
1315:Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my life? My ~ Mackenzi Lee, #NFDB
1316:My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
1317:Our lips met, and if this kiss wasn’t as…thorough as the first one, it felt bigger somehow. More important. ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
1318:The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! ~ Wilkie Collins, #NFDB
1319:We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be. ~ Adam Phillips, #NFDB
1320:We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton. ~ Andre Norton, #NFDB
1321:Whatever happened, I’d met my person, the one my soul connected to, despite age and distance and impossibility. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1322:You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor. ~ Lillie Langtry, #NFDB
1323:Every single person I've met, Astrid has also met. No one has met just me as me. I'm always in addition to her. ~ Jessica Pan, #NFDB
1324:figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1325:Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable. ~ Myra McEntire, #NFDB
1326:He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
1327:I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1328:I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson]. ~ Britt Robertson, #NFDB
1329:I met his eyes because I could not refuse them... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun. ~ Cherie Priest, #NFDB
1330:I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
1331:I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. ~ Leslie Fiedler, #NFDB
1332:I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet. ~ Evangeline Lilly, #NFDB
1333:I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1334:I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course"
Solo ~ William Boyd,#NFDB
1335:She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake. ~ Tim Tharp, #NFDB
1336:The article caught the attention of J.P. Morgan, who called on Tesla. Tesla met with Morgan and explained that ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1337:The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. ~ Tom Verlaine, #NFDB
1338:The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. ~ Sigmar Gabriel, #NFDB
1339:The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1340:There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1341:They were strangers who had met in a chance encounter.
They had known each other before Life began. (310) ~ Arundhati Roy,#NFDB
1342:When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had. ~ Allegra Huston, #NFDB
1343:White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1344:Do you know he has met Putin? Do you think anyone has really met Putin? Is he the kind of guy you can really know? ~ Gaby Dunn, #NFDB
1345:Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley, but that was before he met Draco Malfoy. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1346:His pale blue eyes met mine. My heart slammed frantically against my ribcage. I dropped my gaze, my long, dark ~ Lori Brighton, #NFDB
1347:I could have met a serial killer. I could have been murdered in my sleep. But I met legions of kind, warm people. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1348:If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1349:I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1350:I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1351:I love you Jack.
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Jack, this is where we first met. ~ James Francis Cameron,#NFDB
1352:In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him. ~ Chirlane McCray, #NFDB
1353:It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her. ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
1354:The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
1355:The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
1356:Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers ~ Arthur Helps, #NFDB
1357:You’re the only woman who’s ever looked at me and . . . I don’t know. Seen inside me. Met the real me, I guess. ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
1358:You’ve been inside me since the day we met. It’s time I return the favor. Only I’m going to be much more literal. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
1359:Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1360:A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
1361:Areop-Enap was ontwaakt... 'Je kunt nu maar beter uit de weg gaan,' zei ze met een verrassend welluidende stem. ~ Michael Scott, #NFDB
1362:Didn't Frankenstein get married?"
"Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect. ~ P G Wodehouse,#NFDB
1363:Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1364:Hesitated. She looked at the ceiling. Took in a breath. Met his gaze again. “It’s me, Kai. I’m Princess Selene. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1365:How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
1366:I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1367:I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together. ~ Susan Lucci, #NFDB
1368:I met him thrust for thrust...in a fighting sort of way, not a porno sort of way. Just wanted to clarify that. ~ Rick Gualtieri, #NFDB
1369:I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ~ Terry Southern, #NFDB
1370:I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1371:It’s hard to believe Jesus loves the van thieves and all the difficult people we’ve met just the same as you and me. ~ Bob Goff, #NFDB
1372:Like a lot of women she was attracted to bad boys and this guy seemed like the most badass boy she’d ever met. ~ Jake Remington, #NFDB
1373:pessimism works because it’s self-fulfilling: if you’re a slacker with low expectations, they’ll probably be met. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1374:She met his eyes, and he thought for the millionth time that God had invented that shade of green just for her. ~ Denise Hunter, #NFDB
1375:Stay aware out there.” Val laughed. “And there he is.” “Who?” Val met Owen’s eyes. “The brother I always loved. ~ Elaine Levine, #NFDB
1376:The idea of killing people you have never met before because they’re wearing a different uniform baffles me. But ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
1377:The queen has kept changing. The truth is I've never met the queen...well, never exactly her, do you understand? ~ Andr Maurois, #NFDB
1378:There's the old saying "I felt bad because I didn't have a pair of shoes until I met a man who didn't have any feet ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1379:The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.
It was:
'What do you think I am, stupid, or something? ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1380:Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once. ~ Amanda Schull, #NFDB
1381:Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
1382:You have not truly met someone until you have looked him or her in the eye as a soul with a place in your future. ~ Julia Glass, #NFDB
1383:You’re a pain in my ass.”
“I was a pain in the ass long before I met you, Roman. Don’t take it personally. ~ Lauren Dane,#NFDB
1384:A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
1385:Can we dispense with the ‘Monsieur’? Makes me feel ancient.” “First names? We’ve only just met.” “It’s 1939. ~ Martha Hall Kelly, #NFDB
1386:Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
1387:He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered. ~ Rainbow Rowell, #NFDB
1388:I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble. ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
1389:I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
1390:I...I've never met a man like you."
He chuckled, a broad grin on his face. "Of that, my lady, I'm certain. ~ Pamela Clare,#NFDB
1391:I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1392:I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me. ~ Dick Dale, #NFDB
1393:In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed. ~ Alan Wolfe, #NFDB
1394:In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way ~ Havelock Ellis, #NFDB
1395:It appeared that his sister, usually an irresistible force, had finally met a sufficiently immovable object. ~ Stephanie Laurens, #NFDB
1396:I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind. ~ Zo Marriott, #NFDB
1397:It might be a cultural thing, but I was always scolded for showing emotion. Sadness was always met with anger. ~ Brandon Stanton, #NFDB
1398:I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
1399:I’ve dreamed of this for so long,” he whispered. “The first time we met, part of my brain said, ‘I want that one. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1400:I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
1401:Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1402:Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
1403:Regent’s Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown. ~ Mick Herron, #NFDB
1404:She’d met far too many elderly women like her, women who saw themselves as anointed monitors of society. ~ Christopher G Nuttall, #NFDB
1405:Sure, I wanted all those things pre-Riley, but it wasn’t until I met her that all my reasons—my purpose—had a face. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
1406:The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. ~ Ella Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1407:The rule says that favors are to be met with favors; it does not require that tricks be met with favors. A ~ Robert B Cialdini, #NFDB
1408:The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1409:To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
1410:We’re having fun, and I’ve met some of your friends and your brother, all of whom seem absolutely delicious. ~ Jonathan L Howard, #NFDB
1411:With that obdurate set of his jaw, he looked exactly like the arrogant ass he had been the first time they’d met. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1412:You never forget the girl who shattered your heart and left you a different man than you were before you met her. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
1413:He reminds me of a guy I met many years ago. He died. A shame, as I'd have really liked to kill him again. ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB
1414:Het effect van de schoonheid was geen genot, geen begeestering, geen verzoening met het leven, maar pijn. Kramp. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
1415:If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1416:Ik had beloofd dat ik met niemand anders zou trouwen dan met Filippo. Ik heb niet gezegd welke Filippo. - Beatrice ~ Mary Hoffman, #NFDB
1417:I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
1418:I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality. Right here, ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
1419:I never met a survivalist. How do you get a job like that anyway?'
She smiled wanly. 'First you need a TV show. ~ Carl Hiaasen,#NFDB
1420:I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1421:It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye. ~ Kem Nunn, #NFDB
1422:I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out. ~ Hank Azaria, #NFDB
1423:I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite. ~ Keith Devlin, #NFDB
1424:My mother once told me that diamonds were born of pressure, but I never understood what she meant until I met you. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1425:The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
1426:The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1427:The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1428:8Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” “To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1429:[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
1430:And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1431:And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1432:Between us, I sensed a different vibe than the last time we'd met, something in the atmosphere was a little off. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1433:Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
1434:Did you know— then?” asked Harry.
“Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
1435:Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met? No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1436:Hello, Pepper. It's been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn't that right? ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1437:Her eyes met mine again. “So what does this mean for us?”
I lowered my forehead to hers. “It means you’re mine. ~ Katie McGarry,#NFDB
1438:I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. ~ Ken Livingstone, #NFDB
1439:I did believe that we met people for a reason and that each of them could impact our lives in some way if we let them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1440:I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar. ~ Nalo Hopkinson, #NFDB
1441:I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business. ~ Paul Hogan, #NFDB
1442:I met Jane’s dog, Balloon, and saw the famous Scientology sauna, which was predictably gargantuan and ridiculous. An ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
1443:I think you're very nice. I think twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian. I met a lady once who had an imaginary fish. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1444:It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
1445:It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1446:I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated. ~ Timothy Findley, #NFDB
1447:I want Otter to run back to San Diego and go back to the stupid fucking boyfriend, who Ive never met but cannot stand. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1448:most grounded people I have ever met. “There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1449:My mom said I had serious trust issues, but honestly, the more people I met, the more I didn’t want to meet more. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1450:Nakata had met many cats up till this point, but never before one who listened to opera and knew models of cars. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1451:Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1452:Ty smiled. It was a genuine, light-up-your-face-type smile, and it made Kit remember the first time he'd met Ty. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1453:Vimes nodded glumly. It was amazing how many people were prepared to do business with a man they’d met in a pub. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1454:Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high. ~ Chael Sonnen, #NFDB
1455:Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1456:What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting. ~ Forrest Gander, #NFDB
1457:When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
1458:why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? ~ Gaston Leroux, #NFDB
1459:You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
1460:You’ve met Molly?” “Yeah. She’s great, I like her. She’d be glad to see me in hell with my back broken, of course. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
1461:Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I’ve met are ones who’ve experienced personal tragedy. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
1462:Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.”
“Why?” she asked.
“Well. I met him,” I said. ~ Jim Butcher,#NFDB
1463:Even if we’d never met, even if you never existed, I would still love you beyond all reason for the rest of my life. ~ Aimee Carter, #NFDB
1464:For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary ~ Julie Lessman, #NFDB
1465:Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it. ~ Les Dawson, #NFDB
1466:He didn’t really believe this assassin talk, but it was safe to assume that anybody you met in prison was homosexual. ~ Robert Shea, #NFDB
1467:His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1468:I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1469:If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL. ~ Howard E Wasdin, #NFDB
1470:I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1471:It’s an odd fact about lunatics and junkies, but every one I’d ever met is just dying to share their life wisdom. ~ Daniel Polansky, #NFDB
1472:I’ve met guys like you before. They talk the talk but, well…talking doesn’t exactly get people to orgasm, does it? ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
1473:I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years. ~ Claudia Schiffer, #NFDB
1474:I’ve never stopped loving you. From the day we met, you’ve been the only one for me. There’s never been anyone else. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
1475:I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up. ~ Jenny McCarthy, #NFDB
1476:I wanted to throw you over my shoulder and take you back to my place the moment we met, your scent was that sexy. ~ Savannah Stuart, #NFDB
1477:[M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need. ~ Gene Doucette, #NFDB
1478:Now that I've met you and spoken to you and felt you and tasted you, I'm done. That's it. You're the end for me. ~ Christine Warren, #NFDB
1479:since the 2nd edition of Starting Strength was written. The Aasgaard Company has changed personnel, I have met lots ~ Mark Rippetoe, #NFDB
1480:We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1481:What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast! ~ S E Hinton, #NFDB
1482:When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
1483:When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close. ~ Alan Furst, #NFDB
1484:Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1485:You’re the first bangin’ *ss hot b*tch I ever met that’s got her sh*t together. Most hot b*tches are dumb as fuck. ~ Scott Hildreth, #NFDB
1486:Achter de ramen probeerden de mensen hun verlangens zo mogelijk in overeenstemming te brengen met hun mogelijkheden ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
1487:After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it. ~ Carl Zimmer, #NFDB
1488:And he loved you and your mom, so much. I’ll always remind you of that, but I wish you could have met him.” -Brandon ~ Molly McAdams, #NFDB
1489:Anybody who believed vampires couldn't feel things like living people did had never met Michael Glass. -Fall of Night ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1490:Do you see, my dear? The proverbs are at play. ‘I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.’” I ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
1491:Do you think he has met Putin? Do you think anyone has really met Putin? Is he the kind of guy you can really know? ~ Allison Raskin, #NFDB
1492:He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1493:Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’
‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago. ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
1494:If Célian met chivalry in a dark alley, he would beat it to death, then find its sister, generosity, and kill her too. “I ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
1495:I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1496:I met a man tonight.... maybe I shouldn't have, but he had the hands of someone I used to know. Someone I was used to. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
1497:I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being. ~ Edie Sedgwick, #NFDB
1498:Je kunt maar beter gauw vriendjes worden met geduld, zodat het naar je toe komt als je het later een keer nodig hebt. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1499:Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1500:Make America great again is not just some slogan. It is what has been in his heart since the day I met Donald Trump. ~ Melania Trump, #NFDB
838 Integral Yoga
360 Poetry
188 Occultism
124 Fiction
99 Christianity
96 Philosophy
93 Yoga
75 Psychology
38 Mysticism
23 Science
19 Hinduism
18 Mythology
14 Integral Theory
13 Education
11 Philsophy
8 Theosophy
8 Cybernetics
7 Sufism
4 Buddhism
4 Baha i Faith
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Kabbalah
1 Alchemy
500 Sri Aurobindo
457 The Mother
277 Satprem
130 Nolini Kanta Gupta
84 Aleister Crowley
79 H P Lovecraft
72 Carl Jung
52 Percy Bysshe Shelley
49 William Wordsworth
43 Sri Ramakrishna
42 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
37 James George Frazer
30 Swami Krishnananda
30 Robert Browning
28 William Butler Yeats
27 Plotinus
27 John Keats
24 Walt Whitman
23 A B Purani
20 Saint Augustine of Hippo
19 Jorge Luis Borges
18 Swami Vivekananda
15 Aldous Huxley
12 Vyasa
12 Rudolf Steiner
12 Plato
12 Friedrich Schiller
12 Friedrich Nietzsche
12 Aristotle
11 Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Ovid
11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11 George Van Vrekhem
10 Peter J Carroll
10 Nirodbaran
9 Lucretius
9 Franz Bardon
8 Norbert Wiener
8 Anonymous
7 Sri Ramana Maharshi
7 Saint Teresa of Avila
7 Joseph Campbell
7 Jordan Peterson
6 Saint John of Climacus
6 Rabindranath Tagore
6 Edgar Allan Poe
5 Wang Wei
5 Saint John of the Cross
5 Patanjali
5 Henry David Thoreau
5 Baha u llah
4 Thubten Chodron
4 Paul Richard
4 Li Bai
4 Kabir
4 Bokar Rinpoche
4 Alice Bailey
3 R Buckminster Fuller
3 Lalla
3 Ken Wilber
3 Al-Ghazali
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Omar Khayyam
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jean Gebser
2 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 Farid ud-Din Attar
89 The Synthesis Of Yoga
79 Lovecraft - Poems
67 Record of Yoga
52 Shelley - Poems
50 Magick Without Tears
49 Wordsworth - Poems
47 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
42 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
40 The Life Divine
37 The Golden Bough
37 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
36 Savitri
34 Liber ABA
34 Agenda Vol 10
32 Letters On Yoga IV
32 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
30 The Study and Practice of Yoga
30 Mysterium Coniunctionis
30 Letters On Yoga II
30 Browning - Poems
30 Agenda Vol 08
30 Agenda Vol 03
28 Yeats - Poems
27 Keats - Poems
26 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
23 Whitman - Poems
23 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
22 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
22 Agenda Vol 04
21 Agenda Vol 05
20 Questions And Answers 1956
20 Essays On The Gita
20 Agenda Vol 02
19 The Human Cycle
19 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
19 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
19 Agenda Vol 01
18 The Practice of Psycho therapy
18 Questions And Answers 1955
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
18 Agenda Vol 07
17 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
17 Questions And Answers 1954
17 Questions And Answers 1953
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
16 Words Of Long Ago
16 City of God
15 The Perennial Philosophy
15 The Future of Man
15 Labyrinths
15 Essays Divine And Human
14 The Phenomenon of Man
14 Agenda Vol 13
13 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
13 On Education
13 Agenda Vol 06
12 Vishnu Purana
12 Talks
12 Schiller - Poems
12 Poetics
12 Collected Poems
12 Agenda Vol 11
11 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
11 Preparing for the Miraculous
11 Metamorphoses
11 Emerson - Poems
11 Aion
11 Agenda Vol 09
10 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
10 The Bible
10 Some Answers From The Mother
10 On the Way to Supermanhood
10 Liber Null
10 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
9 Of The Nature Of Things
9 Isha Upanishad
8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
8 The Secret Of The Veda
8 Letters On Yoga III
8 Letters On Poetry And Art
8 Let Me Explain
8 Cybernetics
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
7 Vedic and Philological Studies
7 The Practice of Magical Evocation
7 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
7 Raja-Yoga
7 Prayers And Meditations
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
7 Maps of Meaning
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
6 Tagore - Poems
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
6 Letters On Yoga I
6 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
6 Faust
6 Bhakti-Yoga
6 Agenda Vol 12
5 Walden
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Way of Perfection
5 The Problems of Philosophy
5 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
5 The Blue Cliff Records
5 Poe - Poems
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
5 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
5 Hymn of the Universe
5 Goethe - Poems
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
4 Theosophy
4 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 The Integral Yoga
4 Tara - The Feminine Divine
4 Songs of Kabir
4 Li Bai - Poems
4 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
4 Anonymous - Poems
3 Words Of The Mother II
3 Words Of The Mother I
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Lotus Sutra
3 The Divine Comedy
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Dark Night of the Soul
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Borges - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother III
2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Book of Certitude
2 Symposium
2 Selected Fictions
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Amrita Gita
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was at this point that we met Mother, at this intersection of the anthropoid rediscovered and the 'so mething' that had set in motion this unfinished invention momentarily ensnared in a gilded machine. For nothing was finished, and nothing had been invented, really, that would instill peace and wideness in this heart of no species at all.
And what if man were not yet invented? What if he were not yet his own species?
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She were making fun of us, then loving us in secret), She told us, 'I have the feeling that ALL we have lived, ALL we have known, ALL we have done is a perfect illusion ... When I had the spiritual experience that material life is an illusion, personally I found that so marvelously beautiful and happy that it was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life, but now it is the entire spiritual structure as we have lived it that is becoming an illusion! - Not the same illusion, but an illusion far worse. And I am no baby: I have been here for forty-seven years now!' Yes, She was eighty-three years old then. And that day, we ceased being 'the enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' for this entire Divine was shattered to pieces - and we met Mother, at last. This mystery we call
Mother, for She never ceased being a mystery right to her ninety-fifth year, and to this day still, challenges us from the other side of a wall of invisibility and keeps us floundering fully in the mystery - with a smile. She always smiles. But the mystery is not solved.
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The warning seems to have fallen, in the modern age, on unheeding ears. For the modern mind, being pre-eminently and uncompromisingly scientific, can entertain no doubt as to the perfect competency of science and the scientific method to seize and unveil any secret of Nature. If, it is argued, mysticism is a secret, if there is at all a truth and reality in it, then it is and must be amenable to the rules and regulations of science; for science is the revealer of Nature's secrecies.
But what is not recognised in this view of things is that there are secrecies and secrecies. The material secrecies of Nature are of one category, the mystic secrecies are of another. The two are not only disparate but incommensurable. Any man with a mind and understanding of average culture can see and handle the 'scientific' forces, but not the mystic forces.
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Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain of intra-atomic forces. If one comes, all on a sudden, into contact with a force here without the necessary preparation to hold and handle it, he may get seriously bruised, morally and physically. The adventure into the mystic domain has its own toll of casualtiesone can lose the mind, one can lose one's body even and it is a very common experience among those who have tried the path. It is not in vain and merely as a poetic metaphor that the ancient seers have said
Kurasya dhr niit duratyay1
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
On the 18th January 1960; when a young sadhak met the Mother for a personal interview, She said to him: "I shall give you so mething special; be prepared." The next day, when he again met Her, She spoke in French first about how to kindle the psychic Flame and then in this connection started speaking about Sri Aurobindo`s great epic Savitri and continued to speak at length.
The sadhak, after returning from the Mother, wanted to note down immediately what She had said, but he could not do so because he felt a great hesitation due to his sense of incapacity to transcribe exactly the Mother`s own words.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But those who do speak, how do they choose their figures and symbols? What is their methodology? For it might be said, since the unseen and the seen differ out and out, it does not matter what forms or signs are taken from the latter; for any meaning and significance could be put into anything. But in reality, it does not so happen. For, although there is a great divergence between figures and symbols on the one hand and the things figured and symbolised on the other, still there is also some link, some common measure. And that is why we see not unoften the same or similar figures and symbols representing an identical experience in ages and countries far apart from each other.
We can make a distinction here between two types of expression which we have put together indiscriminately, figures and symbols. Figures, we may say, are those that are constructed by the rational mind, the intellect; they are mere metaphors and similes and are not organically related to the thing experienced, but put round it as a robe that can be dropped or changed without affecting the experience itself. Thus, for example, when the Upanishad says, tmnam rathinam viddhi (Know that the soul is the master of the chariot who sits within it) or indriyi haynhu (The senses, they say, are the horses), we have here only a comparison or analogy that is common and natural to the poetic manner. The particular figure or simile used is not inevitable to the idea or experience that it seeks to express, its part and parcel. On the other hand, take this Upanishadic perception: hirayamayena patrea satyasyphitam mukham (The face of the Truth lies hidden under the golden orb). Here the symbol is not mere analogy or comparison, a figure; it is one with the very substance of the experience the two cannot be separated. Or when the Vedas speak of the kindling of the Fire, the rushing of the waters or the rise of the Dawn, the images though taken from the material world, are not used for the sake of mere comparison, but they are the embodiments, the living forms of truths experienced in another world.
When a Mystic refers to the Solar Light or to the Fire the light, for example, that struck down Saul and transformed him into Saint Paul or the burning bush that visited Moses, it is not the physical or material object that he means and yet it is that in a way. It is the materialization of so mething that is fundamentally not material: some movement in an inner consciousness precipitates itself into the region of the senses and takes from out of the material the form commensurable with its nature that it finds there.
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Thus there is a great diversity of symbols. At the one end is the mere metaphor or simile or allegory ('figure', as we have called it) and at the other end is the symbol identical with the thing symbolized. And upon this inner character of the symbol depends also to a large extent its range and scope. There are symbols which are universal and intimately ingrained in the human consciousness itself. Mankind has used them in all ages and climes almost in the same sense and significance. There are others that are limited to peoples and ages. They are made out of forms that are of local and temporal interest and importance. Their significances vary according to time and place. Finally, there are symbols which are true of the individual consciousness only; they depend on personal peculiarities and idiosyncrasies, on one's environment and upbringing and education.
Man being an embodied soul, his external consciousness (what the Upanishad calls jgrat) is the milieu in which his soul-experiences naturally manifest and find their play. It is the forms and movements of that consciousness which clo the and give a concrete habitation and name to perceptions on the subtler ranges of the inner existence. If the experiences on these planes are to be presented to the conscious memory and to the brain-mind and made communicable to others through speech, this is the inevitable and natural process. Symbols are a translation in mental and sensual (and vocal) terms of experiences that are beyond the mind and the sense and the speech and yet throw a kind of echoing vibrations upon these lesser levels.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, before any explanation is attempted it is important to bear in mind that the Upanishads speak of things experiencednot merely thought, reasoned or argued and that these experiences belong to a world and consciousness other than that of the mind and the senses. One should naturally expect here a different language and mode of expression than that which is appropriate to mental and physical things. For example, the world of dreams was once supposed to be a sheer chaos, a mass of meaningless confusion; but now it is held to be quite otherwise. Psychological scientists have discovered a methodeven a very well-defined and strict methodin the madness of that domain. It is an ordered, organised, significant world; but its terminology has to be understood, its code deciphered. It is not a jargon, but a foreign language that must be learnt and mastered.
In the same way, the world of spiritual experiences is also so mething methodical, well-organized, significant. It may not be and is not the rational world of the mind and the sense; but it need not, for that reason, be devoid of meaning, mere fancifulness or a child's imagination running riot. Here also the right key has to be found, the grammar and vocabulary of that language mastered. And as the best way to have complete mastery of a language is to live among the people who speak it, so, in the matter of spiritual language, the best and the only way to learn it is to go and live in its native country.
Now, as regards the interpretation of the story cited, should not a suspicion arise naturally at the very outset that the dog of the story is not a dog but represents so mething else? First, a significant epithet is given to itwhite; secondly, although it asks for food, it says that Om is its food and Om is its drink. In the Vedas we have some references to dogs. Yama has twin dogs that "guard the path and have powerful vision." They are his messengers, "they move widely and delight in power and possess the vast strength." The Vedic Rishis pray to them for Power and Bliss and for the vision of the Sun1. There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer.
My suggestion is that the dog is a symbol of the keen sight of Intuition, the unfailing perception of direct knowledge. With this clue the Upanishadic story becomes quite sensible and clear and not mere abracadabra. To the aspirant for Knowledge came first a purified power of direct understanding, an Intuition of fundamental value, and this brought others of the same species in its train. They were all linked together organically that is the significance of the circle, and formed a rhythmic utterance and expression of the supreme truth (Om). It is also to be noted that they came and met at dawn to chant, the Truth. Dawn is the opening and awakening of the consciousness to truths that come from above and beyond.
It may be asked why the dog has been chosen as the symbol of Intuition. In the Vedas, the cow and the horse also play a large part; even the donkey and the frog have their own assigned roles. These objects are taken from the environment of ordinary life, and are those that are most familiar to the external consciousness, through which the inner experiences have to express themselves, if they are to be expressed at all. These material objects represent various kinds of forces and movements and subtle and occult and spiritual dynamisms. Strictly speaking, however, symbols are not chosen in a subtle or spiritual experience, that is to say, they are not arbitrarily selected and constructed by the conscious intelligence. They form part of a dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye.
I. The Several Lights
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In Yajnavalkya's enumeration, however, it is to be noted, first of all, that he stresses on the number three. The principle of triplicity is of very wide application: it permeates all fields of consciousness and is evidently based upon a fundamental fact of reality. It seems to embody a truth of synthesis and comprehension, points to the order and harmony that reigns in the cosmos, the spheric music. The metaphysical, that is to say, the original principles that constitute existence are the well-known triplets: (i) the superior: Sat, Chit, Ananda; and (ii) the inferior: Body, Life and Mindthis being a reflection or translation or concretisation of the former. We can see also here how the dual principle comes in, the twin godhead or the two gods to which Yajnavalkya refers. The same principle is found in the conception of Ardhanarishwara, Male and Female, Purusha-Prakriti. The Upanishad says 14 yet again that the One original Purusha was not pleased at being alone, so for a companion he created out of himself the original Female. The dual principle signifies creation, the manifesting activity of the Reality. But what is this one and a half to which Yajnavalkya refers? It simply means that the other created out of the one is not a wholly separate, independent entity: it is not an integer by itself, as in the Manichean system, but that it is a portion, a fraction of the One. And in the end, in the ultimate analysis, or rather synthesis, there is but one single undivided and indivisible unity. The thousands and hundreds, very often mentioned also in the Rig Veda, are not simply multiplications of the One, a graphic description of its many-sidedness; it indicates also the absolute fullness, the complete completeness (prasya pram) of the Reality. It includes and comprehends all and is a rounded totality, a full circle. The hundred-gated and the thousand-pillared cities of which the ancient Rishis chanted are formations and embodiments of consciousness human and divine, are realities whole and entire englobing all the layers and grades of consciousness.
Besides this metaphysics there is also an occult aspect in numerology of which Pythagoras was a well-known adept and in which the Vedic Rishis too seem to take special delight. The multiplication of numbers represents in a general way the principle of emanation. The One has divided and subdivided itself, but not in a haphazard way: it is not like the chaotic pulverisation of a piece of stone by hammer-blows. The process of division and subdivision follows a pattern almost as neat and methodical as a genealogical tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations.
Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Over and over their findings have been confirmed, proving the Qabalah contains within it not only the elements of the science itself but the method with which to pursue it.
When planning to visit a foreign country, the wise traveler will first familiarize himself with its language. In studying music, chemistry or calculus, a specific terminology is essential to the understanding of each subject. So a new set of symbols is necessary when undertaking a study of the Universe, whether within or without. The Qabalah provides such a set in unexcelled fashion.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
logical, and ingenious method of coping with the inherent inadequacy of terrestrial
life support, but since there are others who disagree dia metrically about the best
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provided for rearrangements of atomic interpositioning whose metallic alloying and
chemical structuring produces ever more powerful and incisive performances perpound of physical matter employed.
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000.117 The technology of metallurgy began developing metal alloys of ever
higher strength-to-weight ratios. Out of this came aluminum production by the
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strength-to-weight ratios of metal alloys and glass-reinforced plastic materials, ever
more heavily laden airplanes were designed, which could climb ever more steeply
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through taxation and would have no way of putting meters between the people and
their directly received individual cosmic incomes. So too, private enterprise should
no more meter the energy than it meters the air. But all of Earthians' present power
structures-political, religious, or capitalist-would find their interests disastrouslythreatened by total human success. They are founded upon assumption of scarcity;
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governing all physical and metaphysical, omniinteraccommodative, ceaseless
intertransformings of Universe.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
THE MASTER'S metHOD OF TEACHING
HOUSEHOLDER DEVOTEES
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The anguish of the inner soul of India found expression through these passionate words of the young Gadadhar. For what did his unsophisticated eyes see around him in Calcutta, at that time the metropolis of India and the centre of modem culture and learning? Greed and lust held sway in the higher levels of society, and the occasional religious practices were merely outer forms from which the soul had long ago departed. Gadadhar had never seen anything like this at Kamarpukur among the simple and pious villagers. The sadhus and wandering monks whom he had served in his boyhood had revealed to him an altogether different India. He had been impressed by their devotion and purity, their self-control and renunciation. He had learnt from them and from his own intuition that the ideal of life as taught by the ancient sages of India was the realization of God.
When Ramkumar reprimanded Gadadhar for neglecting a "bread-winning education", the inner voice of the boy reminded him that the legacy of his ancestors — the legacy of Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya — was not worldly security but the Knowledge of God. And these noble sages were the true representatives of Hindu society. Each of them was seated, as it were, on the crest of the wave that followed each successive trough in the tumultuous course of Indian national life. All demonstrated that the life current of India is spirituality. This truth was revealed to Gadadhar through that inner vision which scans past and future in one sweep, unobstructed by the barriers of time and space. But he was unaware of the history of the profound change that had taken place in the land of his birth during the previous one hundred years.
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There came to Dakshineswar at this time a brahmin woman who was to play an important part in Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual unfoldment. Born in East Bengal, she was an adept in the Tantrik and Vaishnava methods of worship. She was slightly over fifty years of age, handsome, and garbed in the orange robe of a nun. Her sole possessions were a few books and two pieces of wearing-cloth.
Sri Ramakrishna welcomed the visitor with great respect, described to her his experiences and visions, and told her of people's belief that these were symptoms of madness. She listened to him attentively and said: "My son, everyone in this world is mad. Some are mad for money, some for creature comforts, some for name and fame; and you are mad for God." She assured him that he was passing through the almost unknown spiritual experience described in the scriptures as mahabhava, the most exalted rapture of divine love. She told him that this extreme exaltation had been described as manifesting itself through nineteen physical symptoms, including the shedding of tears, a tremor of the body, horripilation, perspiration, and a burning sensation. The Bhakti scriptures, she declared, had recorded only two instances of the experience, namely, those of Sri Radha and Sri Chaitanya.
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Sri Ramakrishna was a learner all his life. He often used to quote a proverb to his disciples: "Friend, the more I live the more I learn." When the excitement created by the Brahmani's declaration was over, he set himself to the task of practising spiritual disciplines according to the traditional methods laid down in the Tantra and Vaishnava scriptures. Hitherto he had pursued his spiritual ideal according to the promptings of his own mind and heart. Now he accepted the Brahmani as his guru and set foot on the traditional highways.
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For the achievement of this goal the Vedanta prescribes an austere negative method of discrimination and renunciation, which can be followed by only a few individuals endowed with sharp intelligence and unshakable will-power. But Tantra takes into consideration the natural weakness of human beings, their lower appetites, and their love for the concrete. It combines philosophy with rituals, meditation with ceremonies, renunciation with enjoyment. The underlying purpose is gradually to train the aspirant to meditate on his identity with the Ultimate.
The average man wishes to enjoy the material objects of the world. Tantra bids him enjoy these, but at the same time discover in them the presence of God. Mystical rites are prescribed by which, slowly, the sense-objects become spiritualized and sense attraction is transformed into a love of God. So the very "bonds" of man are turned into "releasers". The very poison that kills is transmuted into the elixir of life. Outward renunciation is not necessary. Thus the aim of Tantra is to sublimate bhoga, or enjoyment into yoga, or union with Consciousness. For, according to this philosophy, the world with all its manifestations is nothing but the sport of Siva and Sakti, the Absolute and Its inscrutable Power.
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There are two stages of bhakti. The first is known as vaidhi-bhakti, or love of God qualified by scriptural injunctions. For the devotees of this stage are prescribed regular and methodical worship, hymns, prayers, the repetition of God's name, and the chanting of His glories. This lower bhakti in course of time matures into para-bhakti, or supreme devotion, known also as prema, the most intense form of divine love. Divine love is an end in itself. It exists potentially in all human hearts, but in the case of bound creatures it is misdirected to earthly objects.
To develop the devotee's love for God, Vaishnavism humanizes God. God is to be regarded as the devotee's Parent, Master, Friend, Child, Husband, or Sweetheart, each succeeding relationship representing an intensification of love. These bhavas, or attitudes toward God, are known as santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, and madhur. The rishis of the Vedas, Hanuman, the cow-herd boys of Vrindavan, Rama's mother Kausalya, and Radhika, Krishna's sweetheart, exhibited, respectively, the most perfect examples of these forms. In the ascending scale the-glories of God are gradually forgotten and the devotee realizes more and more the intimacy of divine communion. Finally he regards himself as the mistress of his Beloved, and no artificial barrier remains to separate him from his Ideal. No social or moral obligation can bind to the earth his soaring spirit. He experiences perfect union with the Godhead. Unlike the Vedantist, who strives to transcend all varieties of the subject-object relationship, a devotee of the Vaishnava path wishes to retain both his own individuality and the personality of God. To him God is not an intangible Absolute, but the Purushottama, the Supreme Person.
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About the year 1864 there came to Dakshineswar a wandering Vaishnava monk, Jatadhari, whose Ideal Deity was Rama. He always carried with him a small metal image of the Deity, which he called by the endearing name of Ramlala, the Boy Rama. Toward this little image he displayed the tender affection of Kausalya for her divine Son, Rama. As a result of lifelong spiritual practice he had actually found in the metal image the presence of his Ideal. Ramlala was no longer for him a metal image, but the living God. He devoted himself to nursing Rama, feeding Rama, playing with Rama, taking Rama for a walk, and bathing Rama. And he found that the image responded to his love.
Sri Ramakrishna, much impressed with his devotion, requested Jatadhari to spend a few days at Dakshineswar. Soon Ramlala became the favourite companion of Sri Ramakrishna too. Later on he described to the devotees how the little image would dance gracefully before him, jump on his back, insist on being taken in his arms, run to the fields in the sun, pluck flowers from the bushes, and play pranks like a naughty boy. A very sweet relationship sprang up between him and Ramlala, for whom he felt the love of a mother.
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The path of the Vedantic discipline is the path of negation, "neti", in which, by stern determination, all that is unreal is both negated and renounced. It is the path of jnana, knowledge, the direct method of realizing the Absolute. After the negation of everything relative, including the discriminating ego itself, the aspirant merges in the One without a Second, in the bliss of nirvikalpa samadhi, where subject and object are alike dissolved. The soul goes beyond the realm of thought. The domain of duality is transcended. Maya is left behind with all its changes and modifications. The Real Man towers above the delusions of creation, preservation, and destruction. An avalanche of indescribable Bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and pleasure, good and evil. There shines in the heart the glory of the Eternal Brahman, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. Knower, knowledge, and known are dissolved in the Ocean of one eternal Consciousness; love, lover, and beloved merge in the unbounded Sea of supreme Felicity; birth, growth, and death vanish in infinite Existence. All doubts and misgivings are quelled for ever; the oscillations of the mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted. Breaking down the ridge-pole of the tabernacle in which the soul has made its abode for untold ages, stilling the body, calming the mind, drowning the ego, the sweet joy of Brahman wells up in that superconscious state. Space disappears into nothingness, time is swallowed in eternity, and causation becomes a dream of the past. Only Existence is. Ah! Who can describe what the soul then feels in its communion with the Self?
Even when man descends from this dizzy height, he is devoid of ideas of "I" and "mine"; he looks on the body as a mere shadow, an outer sheath encasing the soul. He does not dwell on the past, takes no thought for the future, and looks with indifference on the present. He surveys everything in the world with an eye of equality; he is no longer touched by the infinite variety of phenomena; he no longer reacts to pleasure and pain. He remains unmoved whether he — that is to say, his body — is worshipped by the good or tormented by the wicked; for he realizes that it is the one Brahman that manifests Itself through everything. The impact of such an experience devastates the body and mind. Consciousness becomes blasted, as it were, with an excess of Light. In the Vedanta books it is said that after the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi the body drops off like a dry leaf. Only those who are born with a special mission for the world can return
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Sri Ramakrishna used to say that when the flower blooms the bees come to it for honey of their own accord. Now many souls began to visit Dakshineswar to satisfy their spiritual hunger. He, the devotee and aspirant, became the Master. Gauri, the great scholar who had been one of the first to proclaim Sri Ramakrishna an Incarnation of God, paid the Master a visit in 1870 and with the Master's blessings renounced the world. Narayan Shastri, another great pundit, who had mastered the six systems of Hindu philosophy and had been offered a lucrative post by the Maharaja of Jaipur, met the Master and recognized in him one who had realized in life those ideals which he himself had encountered merely in books. Sri Ramakrishna initiated Narayan Shastri, at his earnest request, into the life of sannyas. Pundit Padmalochan, the court pundit of the Maharaja of Burdwan, well known for his scholarship in both the Vedanta and the Nyaya systems of philosophy, accepted the Master as an Incarnation of God. Krishnakishore, a Vedantist scholar, became devoted to the Master. And there arrived Viswanath Upadhyaya, who was to become a favourite devotee; Sri Ramakrishna always addressed him as "Captain". He was a high officer of the King of Nepal and had received the title of Colonel in recognition of his merit. A scholar of the Gita, the Bhagavata, and the Vedanta philosophy, he daily performed the worship of his Chosen Deity with great devotion. "I have read the Vedas and the other scriptures", he said. "I have also met a good many monks and devotees in different places. But it is in Sri Ramakrishna's presence that my spiritual yearnings have been fulfilled. To me he seems to be the embodiment of the truths of the scriptures."
The Knowledge of Brahman in nirvikalpa samadhi had convinced Sri Ramakrishna that the gods of the different religions are but so many readings of the Absolute, and that the Ultimate Reality could never be expressed by human tongue. He understood that all religions lead their devotees by differing paths to one and the same goal. Now he became eager to explore some of the alien religions; for with him understanding meant actual experience.
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In March 1875, about a year before the death of his mother, the Master met Keshab Chandra Sen. The meeting was a momentous event for both Sri Ramakrishna and Keshab. Here the Master for the first time came into actual, contact with a worthy representative of modern India.
--- BRAHMO SAMAJ
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The other movement playing an important part in the nineteenth-century religious revival of India was the Arya Samaj. The Brahmo Samaj, essentially a movement of compromise with European culture, tacitly admitted the superiority of the West. But the founder of the Arya Samaj was a ' pugnacious Hindu sannyasi who accepted the challenge of Islam and Christianity and was resolved to combat all foreign influence in India. Swami Dayananda (1824-1883) launched this movement in Bombay in 1875, and soon its influence was felt throughout western India. The Swami was a great scholar of the Vedas, which he explained as being strictly monotheistic. He preached against the worship of images and re-established the ancient Vedic sacrificial rites. According to him the Vedas were the ultimate authority on religion, and he accepted every word of them as literally true. The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds. It also assumed leadership in many movements of social reform. The caste-system became a target of its attack. Women it liberated from many of their social disabilities. The cause of education received from it a great impetus. It started agitation against early marriage and advocated the remarriage of Hindu widows. Its influence was strongest in the Punjab, the battle-ground of the Hindu and Islamic cultures. A new fighting attitude was introduced into the slumbering Hindu society. Unlike the Brahmo Samaj, the influence of the Arya Samaj was not confined to the intellectuals. It was a force that spread to the masses. It was a dogmatic movement intolerant of those who disagreed with its views, and it emphasized only one way, the Arya Samaj way, to the realization of Truth. Sri Ramakrishna met Swami Dayananda when the latter visited Bengal.
--- KESHAB CHANDRA SEN
Keshab Chandra Sen and Sri Ramakrishna met for the first time in the garden house of Jaygopal Sen at Belgharia, a few miles from Dakshineswar, where the great Brahmo leader was staying with some of his disciples. In many respects the two were poles apart, though an irresistible inner attraction was to make them intimate friends. The Master had realized God as Pure Spirit and Consciousness, but he believed in the various forms of God as well. Keshab, on the other hand, regarded image worship as idolatry and gave allegorical explanations of the Hindu deities. Keshab was an orator and a writer of books and magazine articles; Sri Ramakrishna had a horror of lecturing and hardly knew how to write his own name, Keshab's fame spread far and wide, even reaching the distant shores of England; the Master still led a secluded life in the village of Dakshineswar. Keshab emphasized social reforms for India's regeneration; to Sri Ramakrishna God-realization was the only goal of life. Keshab considered himself a disciple of Christ and accepted in a diluted form the Christian sacraments and Trinity; Sri Ramakrishna was the simple child of Kali, the Divine Mother, though he too, in a different way, acknowledged Christ's divinity. Keshab was a householder holder and took a real interest in the welfare of his children, whereas Sri Ramakrishna was a paramahamsa and completely indifferent to the life of the world. Yet, as their acquaintance ripened into friendship, Sri Ramakrishna and Keshab held each other in great love and respect. Years later, at the news of Keshab's death, the Master felt as if half his body had become paralyzed. Keshab's concepts of the harmony of religions and the Motherhood of God were deepened and enriched by his contact with Sri Ramakrishna.
Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely delicate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisticated men of Bengal, the best products of Western education, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
Keshab's sincerity was enough for Sri Ramakrishna. Henceforth the two saw each other frequently, either at Dakshineswar or at the temple of the Brahmo Samaj. Whenever the Master was in the temple at the time of divine service, Keshab would request him to speak to the congregation. And Keshab would visit the saint, in his turn, with offerings of flowers and fruits.
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But he remained as ever the willing instrument in the hand of God, the child of the Divine Mother, totally untouched by the idea of being a teacher. He used to say that three ideas — that he was a guru, a father, and a master — pricked his flesh like thorns. Yet he was an extraordinary teacher. He stirred his disciples' hearts more by a subtle influence than by actions or words. He never claimed to be the founder of a religion or the organizer of a sect. Yet he was a religious dynamo. He was the verifier of all religions and creeds. He was like an expert gardener, who prepares the soil and removes the weeds, knowing that the plants will grow because of the inherent power of the seeds, producing each its appropriate flowers and fruits. He never thrust his ideas on anybody. He understood people's limitations and worked on the principle that what is good for one may be bad for another. He had the unusual power of knowing the devotees' minds, even their inmost souls, at the first sight. He accepted disciples with the full knowledge of their past tendencies and future possibilities. The life of evil did not frighten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation. He saw in everything the unerring finger of the Divine Mother. Even the light that leads astray was to him the light from God.
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Manomohan at first met with considerable opposition from his wife and other relatives, who resented his visits to Dakshineswar. But in the end the unselfish love of the Master triumphed over worldly affection. It was Manomohan who brought Rakhal to the Master.
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Kedarnath Chatterji was endowed with a spiritual temperament and had tried various paths of religion, some not very commendable. When he met the Master at Dakshineswar he understood the true meaning of religion. It is said that the Master, weary of instructing devotees who were coming to him in great numbers for guidance, once prayed to the Goddess Kali: "Mother, I am tired of speaking to people. Please give power to Kedar, Girish, Ram, Vijay, and Mahendra to give them the preliminary instruction, so that just a little teaching from me will be enough." He was aware, however, of Kedar's lingering attachment to worldly things and often warned him about it.
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Mahimacharan and Pratap Hazra were two devotees outstanding for their pretentiousness and idiosyncrasies. But the Master showed them his unfailing love and kindness, though he was aware of their shortcomings. Mahimacharan Chakravarty had met the Master long before the arrival of the other disciples. He had had the intention of leading a spiritual life, but a strong desire to acquire name and fame was his weakness. He claimed to have been initiated by Totapuri and used to say that he had been following the path of knowledge according to his guru's instructions. He possessed a large library of English and Sanskrit books. But though he pretended to have read them, most of the leaves were uncut. The Master knew all his limitations, yet enjoyed listening to him recite from the Vedas and other scriptures. He would always exhort Mahima to meditate on the meaning of the scriptural texts and to practise spiritual discipline.
Pratap Hazra, a middle-aged man, hailed from a village near Kamarpukur. He was not altogether unresponsive to religious feelings. On a moment's impulse he had left his home, aged mother, wife, and children, and had found shelter in the temple garden at Dakshineswar, where he intended to lead a spiritual life. He loved to argue, and the Master often pointed him out as an example of barren argumentation. He was hypercritical of others and cherished an exaggerated notion of his own spiritual advancement. He was mischievous and often tried to upset the minds of the Master's young disciples, criticizing them for their happy and joyous life and asking them to devote their time to meditation. The Master teasingly compared Hazra to Jatila and Kutila, the two women who always created obstructions in Krishna's sport with the gopis, and said that Hazra lived at Dakshineswar to "thicken the plot" by adding complications.
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Sri Ramakrishna also became acquainted with a number of people whose scholarship or wealth entitled them everywhere to respect. He had met, a few years before, Devendranath Tagore, famous all over Bengal for his wealth, scholarship, saintly character, and social position. But the Master found him disappointing; for, whereas Sri Ramakrishna expected of a saint complete renunciation of the world, Devendranath combined with his saintliness a life of enjoyment. Sri Ramakrishna met the great poet Michael Madhusudan, who had embraced Christianity "for the sake of his stomach". To him the Master could not impart instruction, for the Divine Mother "pressed his tongue". In addition he met Maharaja Jatindra Mohan Tagore, a titled aristocrat of Bengal; Kristodas Pal, the editor, social reformer, and patriot; Iswar Vidyasagar, the noted philanthropist and educator; Pundit Shashadhar, a great champion of Hindu orthodoxy; Aswini Kumar Dutta, a headmaster, moralist, and leader of Indian Nationalism; and Bankim Chatterji, a deputy magistrate, novelist, and essayist, and one of the fashioners of modern Bengali prose. Sri Ramakrishna was not the man to be dazzled by outward show, glory, or eloquence. A pundit without discrimination he regarded as a mere straw. He would search people's hearts for the light of God, and if that was missing he would have nothing to do with them.
--- KRISTODAS PAL
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This was a very rich and significant experience for Narendra. It taught him that Sakti, the Divine Power, cannot be ignored in the world and that in the relative plane the need of worshipping a Personal God is imperative. Sri Ramakrishna was overjoyed with the conversion. The next day, sitting almost on Narendra's lap, he said to a devotee, pointing first to himself, then to Narendra: "I see I am this, and again that. Really I feel no difference. A stick floating in the Ganges seems to divide the water; But in reality the water is one. Do you see my point? Well, whatever is, is the Mother — isn't that so?" In later years Narendra would say: "Sri Ramakrishna was the only person who, from the time he met me, believed in me uniformly throughout. Even my mother and brothers did not. It was his unwavering trust and love for me that bound me to him for ever. He alone knew how to love. Worldly people, only make a show of love for selfish ends.
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Others destined to be monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna came to Dakshineswar. Taraknath Ghoshal had felt from his boyhood the noble desire to realize God. Keshab and the Brahmo Samaj had attracted him but proved inadequate. In 1882 he first met the Master at Ramchandra's house and was astonished to hear him talk about samadhi, a subject which always fascinated his mind. And that evening he actually saw a manifestation of that superconscious state in the Master. Tarak became a frequent visitor at Dakshineswar and received the Master's grace in abundance. The young boy often felt ecstatic fervour in meditation. He also wept profusely while meditating on God. Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "God favours those who can weep for Him. Tears shed for God wash away the sins of former births."
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Jogindranath, on the other hand, was gentle to a fault. One day, under circumstances very like those that had evoked Niranjan's anger, he curbed his temper and held his peace instead of threatening Sri Ramakrishna's abusers. The Master, learning of his conduct, scolded him roundly. Thus to each the fault of the other was recommended as a virtue. The guru was striving to develop, in the first instance, composure, and in the second, mettle. The secret of his training was to build up, by a tactful recognition of the requirements of each given case, the character of the devotee.
Jogindranath came of an aristocratic brahmin family of Dakshineswar. His father and relatives shared the popular mistrust of Sri Ramakrishna's sanity. At a very early age the boy developed religious tendencies, spending two or three hours daily in meditation, and his meeting with Sri Ramakrishna deepened his desire for the realization of God. He had a perfect horror of marriage. But at the earnest request of his mother he had had to yield, and he now believed that his spiritual future was doomed. So he kept himself away from the Master.
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Gangadhar, Harinath's friend, also led the life of a strict brahmachari, eating vegetarian food cooked by his own hands and devoting himself to the study of the scriptures. He met the Master in 1884 and soon became a member of his inner circle. The Master praised his ascetic habit and attributed it to the spiritual disciplines of his past life. Gangadhar became a close companion of Narendra.
--- HARIPRASANNA
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
chapter indicates a supreme magical method; but it is
really called eleven, because of Liber Legis, I, 60.
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that method of destroying the reason by formulating
contradictions is definitely inculcated.
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This title is a mere reference to the metaphor of the
last paragraph of the chapter.
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Paragraphs 2-6 explain the method that was given
in Chapters 11 and 31. This method, however, occurs
throughout the book on numerous occasions, and even
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Transvaluation of values is only the moral aspect of the method
of contradiction.
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In the forest God met the Stag-beetle. "Hold! Wor-
ship me!" quoth God. "For I am All-Great, All-
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Transcendentalism; Y? = Scepticism, and the method of science. No denies
all these and closes the argument.
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criticism of metaphysics as such, and this is doubtless one of its many sub-
meanings.
0.00 - THE 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.)
Imparting secular education was, however, only his profession ; his main concern was with the spiritual regeneration of man a calling for which Destiny seems to have chosen him. From his childhood he was deeply pious, and he used to be moved very much by Sdhus, temples and Durga Puja celebrations. The piety and eloquence of the great Brahmo leader of the times, Keshab Chander Sen, elicited a powerful response from the impressionable mind of Mahendra Nath, as it did in the case of many an idealistic young man of Calcutta, and prepared him to receive the great Light that was to dawn on him with the coming of Sri Ramakrishna into his life.
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Even as a boy of about thirteen, while he was a student in the 3rd class of the Hare School, he was in the habit of keeping a diary. "Today on rising," he wrote in his diary, "I greeted my father and mother, prostrating on the ground before them" (Swami Nityatmananda's 'M The Apostle and the Evangelist' Part I. P 29.) At another place he wrote, "Today, while on my way to school, I visited, as usual, the temples of Kli, the Mother at Tharitharia, and of Mother Sitala, and paid my obeisance to them." About twenty-five years after, when he met the Great Master in the spring of 1882, it was the same instinct of a born diary-writer that made him begin his book, 'unique in the literature of hagiography', with the memorable words: "When hearing the name of Hari or Rma once, you shed tears and your hair stands on end, then you may know for certain that you do not have to perform devotions such as Sandhya any more."
In addition to this instinct for diary-keeping, M. had great endowments contri buting to success in this line. Writes Swami Nityatmananda who lived in close association with M., in his book entitled M - The Apostle and Evangelist: "M.'s prodigious memory combined with his extraordinary power of imagination completely annihilated the distance of time and place for him. Even after the lapse of half a century he could always visualise vividly, scenes from the life of Sri Ramakrishna. Superb too was his power to portray pictures by words."
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Living upon the threshold between yesterday and tomorrow, which threshold we reflexively assumed in some long ago yesterday to constitute an eternal now, we are aware of the daily-occurring, vast multiplication of experience generated information by which we potentially may improve our understanding of our yesterdays' experiences and therefrom derive our most farsighted preparedness for successive tomorrows.
Anticipating, cooperating with, and employing the forces of nature can be accomplished only by the mind. The wisdom manifest in the omni-interorderliness of the family of generalized principles operative in Universe can be employed only by the highest integrity of engagement of the mind's metaphysical intuiting and formulating capabilities.
We are able to assert that this rationally coordinating system bridge has been established between science and the humanities because we have made adequate experimental testing of it in a computerized world-resource-use-exploration system, which by virtue of the proper inclusion of all the para meters-as guaranteed by the synergetic start with Universe and the progressive differentiation out of all the parts-has demonstrated a number of alternate ways in which it is eminently feasible not only to provide full life support for all humans but also to permit all humans' individual enjoyment of all the Earth without anyone profiting at the expense of another and without any individuals interfering with others.
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Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, education, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.
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The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. Subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the design controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the designs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
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Science's self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical-because synergetically weightless. metaphysical has been science's designation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected-like it or not-life is but a dream.Science has found no up or down directions of Universe, yet scientists are personally so ill-coordinated that they all still personally and sensorially see "solids" going up or down-as, for instance, they see the Sun "going down." Sensorially disconnected from their theoretically evolved information, scientists discern no need on their part to suggest any educational reforms to correct the misconceiving that science has tolerated for half a millennium.
Society depends upon its scientists for just such educational reform guidance.
Where else might society turn for advice? Unguided by science, society is allowed to go right on filling its childrens' brain banks with large inventories of competence-devastating misinformation. In order to emerge from its massive ignorance, society will probably have to rely exclusively upon its individuals' own minds to survey the pertinent experimental data-as do all great scientist-artists. This, in effect, is what the intuition of world-around youth is beginning to do. Mind can see that reality is evoluting into weightless metaphysics. The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
net. A geologist would use the words metamorphism and
endomorphism. Object and subject marry and mutually trans-
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least partially) within the scope of the requirements and methods
of science ;
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a metaphysical system. Neither do I want any misunderstanding
about the degree of reality which I accord to the different parts of
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placed us. It is a safe and modest method and yet, as we shall see,
it suffices, through sym metry, to bring out ahead of us surprising
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The question which Arjuna asks Sri Krishna in the Gita (second chapter) occurs pertinently to many about all spiritual personalities: "What is the language of one whose understanding is poised? How does he speak, how sit, how walk?" Men want to know the outer signs of the inner attainment, the way in which a spiritual person differs outwardly from other men. But all the tests which the Gita enumerates are inner and therefore invisible to the outer view. It is true also that the inner or the spiritual is the essential and the outer derives its value and form from the inner. But the transformation about which Sri Aurobindo writes in his books has to take place in nature, because according to him the divine Reality has to manifest itself in nature. So, all the parts of nature including the physical and the external are to be transformed. In his own case the very physical became the transparent mould of the Spirit as a result of his intense Sadhana. This is borne out by the impression created on the minds of sensitive outsiders like Sj. K. M. Munshi who was deeply impressed by his radiating presence when he met him after nearly forty years.
The Evening Talks collected here may afford to the outside world a glimpse of his external personality and give the seeker some idea of its richness, its many-sidedness, its uniqueness. One can also form some notion of Sri Aurobindo's personality from the books in which the height, the universal sweep and clear vision of his integral ideal and thought can be seen. His writings are, in a sense, the best representative of his mental personality. The versatile nature of his genius, the penetrating power of his intellect, his extraordinary power of expression, his intense sincerity, his utter singleness of purpose all these can be easily felt by any earnest student of his works. He may discover even in the realm of mind that Sri Aurobindo brings the unlimited into the limited. Another side of his dynamic personality is represented by the Ashram as an institution. But the outer, if one may use the phrase, the human side of his personality, is unknown to the outside world because from 1910 to 1950 a span of forty years he led a life of outer retirement. No doubt, many knew about his staying at Pondicherry and practising some kind of very special Yoga to the mystery of which they had no access. To some, perhaps, he was living a life of enviable solitude enjoying the luxury of a spiritual endeavour. Many regretted his retirement as a great loss to the world because they could not see any external activity on his part which could be regarded as 'public', 'altruistic' or 'beneficial'. Even some of his admirers thought that he was after some kind of personal salvation which would have very little significance for mankind in general. His outward non-participation in public life was construed by many as lack of love for humanity.
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and - highest condition of victory in that effort - a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises selfconscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained.
Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great
Mother in her vast upward labour. It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear so mething mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective selffulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively
Life and Yoga
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Yogic methods have so mething of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as has the scientific handling of the force of electricity or of steam to their normal operations in Nature. And they, too, like the operations of Science, are formed upon a knowledge developed and confirmed by regular experiment, practical analysis and constant result. All
Rajayoga, for instance, depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces, can be separated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and functions to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise be impossible and that seem miraculous to those who have not seized the rationale of their process. And if in some other of its forms this character of Yoga is less apparent, because they are more intuitive and less mechanical, nearer, like the Yoga of Devotion, to a supernal ecstasy or, like the Yoga of Knowledge, to a supernal infinity of consciousness and being, yet they too start from the use of some principal faculty in us by ways and for ends not contemplated in its everyday spontaneous workings. All methods grouped under the common name of Yoga are special psychological processes founded on a fixed truth of Nature and developing, out of normal functions, powers and results which were always latent but which her ordinary movements do not easily or do not often manifest.
But as in physical knowledge the multiplication of scientific processes has its disadvantages, as that tends, for instance, to develop a victorious artificiality which overwhelms our natural human life under a load of machinery and to purchase certain forms of freedom and mastery at the price of an increased servitude, so the preoccupation with Yogic processes and their exceptional results may have its disadvantages and losses. The
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God. Therefore we see in India that a sharp incompatibility has been created between life in the world and spiritual growth and perfection, and although the tradition and ideal of a victorious harmony between the inner attraction and the outer demand remains, it is little or else very imperfectly exemplified. In fact, when a man turns his vision and energy inward and enters on the path of Yoga, he is popularly supposed to be lost inevitably to the great stream of our collective existence and the secular effort of humanity. So strongly has the idea prevailed, so much has it been emphasised by prevalent philosophies and religions that to escape from life is now commonly considered as not only the necessary condition, but the general object of Yoga. No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature in a liberated and perfected human life or, in its method, not only permit but favour the harmony of our inner and outer activities and experiences in the divine consummation of both. For man is precisely that term and symbol of a higher Existence descended into the material world in which it is possible for the lower to transfigure itself and put on the nature of the higher and the higher to reveal itself in the forms of the lower. To avoid the life which is given him for the realisation of that possibility, can never be either the indispensable condition or the whole and ultimate object of his supreme endeavour or of his most powerful means of self-fulfilment. It can only be a temporary necessity under certain conditions or a specialised extreme effort imposed on the individual so as to prepare a greater general possibility for the race. The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious
Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga."
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
desire and a need for the work. So this is the method I
have adopted: When I think I need so mething (anything),
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adopt this method.
There is still another method, far more interesting than these
two: ask for nothing at all and see what happens.
Give me an infallible method.
I don't have one.
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Sweet Mother said, "There is still another method." I
was a bit perplexed as to how to apply Sweet Mother's
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myself with the roof? Is there a definite method? Is this
method easier and more certain than the mental process
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga, a specialising and separative tendency which, like all things in Nature, had its justifying and even imperative utility and we seek a synthesis of the specialised aims and methods which have, in consequence, come into being.
But in order that we may be wisely guided in our effort, we must know, first, the general principle and purpose underlying this separative impulse and, next, the particular utilities upon which the method of each school of Yoga is founded. For the general principle we must interrogate the universal workings of Nature herself, recognising in her no merely specious and illusive activity of a distorting Maya, but the cosmic energy and working of God Himself in His universal being formulating and inspired by a vast, an infinite and yet a minutely selective
Wisdom, prajna prasr.ta puran. of the Upanishad, Wisdom that went forth from the Eternal since the beginning. For the particular utilities we must cast a penetrative eye on the different methods of Yoga and distinguish among the mass of their details the governing idea which they serve and the radical force which gives birth and energy to their processes of effectuation.
Afterwards we may more easily find the one common principle and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite.
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The assertion of a higher than the mental life is the whole foundation of Indian philosophy and its acquisition and organisation is the veritable object served by the methods of Yoga.
Mind is not the last term of evolution, not an ultimate aim, but, like body, an instrument. It is even so termed in the language of
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Do such psychological conceptions correspond to anything real and possible? All Yoga asserts them as its ultimate experience and supreme aim. They form the governing principles of our highest possible state of consciousness, our widest possible range of existence. There is, we say, a harmony of supreme faculties, corresponding roughly to the psychological faculties of revelation, inspiration and intuition, yet acting not in the intuitive reason or the divine mind, but on a still higher plane, which see Truth directly face to face, or rather live in the truth of things both universal and transcendent and are its formulation and luminous activity. And these faculties are the light of a conscious existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as man is at present apparently constituted, superhuman states of consciousness and activity. A trinity of transcendent existence, self-awareness and self-delight7 is, indeed, the metaphysical description of the supreme Atman, the self-formulation, to our awakened knowledge, of the Unknowable whether conceived as a pure Impersonality or as a cosmic Personality manifesting the universe. But in Yoga they are regarded also in their psychological aspects as states of subjective existence to which our waking consciousness is now alien, but which dwell in us in a superconscious plane and to which, therefore, we may always ascend.
For, as is indicated by the name, causal body (karan.a), as opposed to the two others which are instruments (karan.a), this crowning manifestation is also the source and effective power of all that in the actual evolution has preceded it. Our mental activities are, indeed, a derivation, selection and, so long as they are divided from the truth that is secretly their source, a deformation of the divine knowledge. Our sensations and emotions have the same relation to the Bliss, our vital forces and actions to the aspect of Will or Force assumed by the divine consciousness, our physical being to the pure essence of that Bliss and
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
What was talked in the small group informally was not intended by Sri Aurobindo to be the independent expression of his views on the subjects, events or the persons discussed. Very often what he said was in answer to the spiritual need of the individual or of the collective atmosphere. It was like a spiritual remedy meant to produce certain spiritual results, not a philosophical or metaphysical pronouncement on questions, events or movements. The net result of some talks very often was to point out to the disciple the inherent incapacity of the human intellect and its secondary place in the search for the ultimate Reality.
But there were occasions when he did give his independent, personal views on some problems, on events or other subjects. Even then it was never an authoritarian pronouncement. Most often it appeared to be a logically worked out and almost inevitable conclusion expressed quite impersonally though with firm and sincere conviction. This impersonality was such a prominent trait of his personality! Even in such matters as dispatching a letter or a telegram it would not be a command from him to a disciple to carry out the task. Most often during his usual passage to the dining room he would stop on the way, drop in on the company of four or five disciples and, holding out the letter or the telegram, would say in the most amiable and yet the most impersonal way: "I suppose this has to be sent." And it would be for someone in the group instantly to volunteer and take it. The expression he very often used was "It was done" or "It happened", not "I did."
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
all the people you met and whom you spoke to, what you told
them, etc. It will be a very good exercise in French and at the
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Then use Coué's method5 and repeat, "I am not tired, I cannot
be tired because I am protected!"
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The Mother's name for the Tiger-claw plant, Heliconia metallica.
I have seen this blouse, I find that the bird-of-paradise
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Since this is the plan of the divine Energy in humanity, the whole method and aim of our existence must work by the interaction of these three elements in the being. As a result of their separate formulation in Nature, man has open to him a choice between three kinds of life, the ordinary material existence, a life of mental activity and progress and the unchanging spiritual beatitude. But he can, as he progresses, combine these three forms, resolve their discords into a harmonious rhythm and so create in himself the whole godhead, the perfect Man.
In ordinary Nature they have each their own characteristic and governing impulse.
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But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HESE relations between the different psychological divisions of the human being and these various utilities and objects of effort founded on them, such as we have seen them in our brief survey of the natural evolution, we shall find repeated in the fundamental principles and methods of the different schools of Yoga. And if we seek to combine and harmonise their central practices and their predominant aims, we shall find that the basis provided by Nature is still our natural basis and the condition of their synthesis.
In one respect Yoga exceeds the normal operation of cosmic
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Its method is a direct commerce between the human Purusha in the individual body and the divine Purusha who dwells in every body and yet transcends all form and name.
Hathayoga aims at the conquest of the life and the body whose combination in the food sheath and the vital vehicle constitutes, as we have seen, the gross body and whose equilibrium is the foundation of all Nature's workings in the human being. The equilibrium established by Nature is sufficient for the normal egoistic life; it is insufficient for the purpose of the Hathayogin.
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The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even in a certain sense the capacity of a greater enjoyment of physical living have been carried out on an abnormal scale. But the weakness of Hathayoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. If in return for this loss we gain another life in another world within, the mental, the dynamic, these results could have been acquired through other systems, through Rajayoga, through Tantra, by much less laborious methods and held on much less exacting terms. On the other hand the physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves, apart from the common life, for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sum of the world's activities. Hathayoga attains large results, but at an exorbitant price and to very little purpose.
Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
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But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pran.ayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kun.d.alin, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on
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its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world. For the ancient system of
Rajayoga aimed not only at Swarajya, self-rule or subjective empire, the entire control by the subjective consciousness of all the states and activities proper to its own domain, but included
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The Path of Knowledge aims at the realisation of the unique and supreme Self. It proceeds by the method of intellectual reflection, vicara, to right discrimination, viveka. It observes and distinguishes the different elements of our apparent or phenomenal being and rejecting identification with each of them arrives at their exclusion and separation in one common term as constituents of Prakriti, of phenomenal Nature, creations of
Maya, the phenomenal consciousness. So it is able to arrive at its right identification with the pure and unique Self which is not mutable or perishable, not determinable by any phenomenon or combination of phenomena. From this point the path, as ordinarily followed, leads to the rejection of the phenomenal worlds from the consciousness as an illusion and the final immergence without return of the individual soul in the Supreme.
But this exclusive consummation is not the sole or inevitable result of the Path of Knowledge. For, followed more largely and with a less individual aim, the method of Knowledge may lead to an active conquest of the cosmic existence for the Divine no less than to a transcendence. The point of this departure is the realisation of the supreme Self not only in one's own being but in all beings and, finally, the realisation of even the phenomenal aspects of the world as a play of the divine consciousness and not so mething entirely alien to its true nature. And on the basis of this realisation a yet further enlargement is possible, the conversion of all forms of knowledge, however mundane, into activities of the divine consciousness utilisable for the perception of the one and unique Object of knowledge both in itself and through the play of its forms and symbols. Such a method might well lead to the elevation of the whole range of human intellect
The Systems of Yoga
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Y THE very nature of the principal Yogic schools, each covering in its operations a part of the complex human integer and attempting to bring out its highest possibilities, it will appear that a synthesis of all of them largely conceived and applied might well result in an integral Yoga. But they are so disparate in their tendencies, so highly specialised and elaborated in their forms, so long confirmed in the mutual opposition of their ideas and methods that we do not easily find how we can arrive at their right union.
An undiscriminating combination in block would not be a synthesis, but a confusion. Nor would a successive practice of each of them in turn be easy in the short span of our human life and with our limited energies, to say nothing of the waste of labour implied in so cumbrous a process. So metimes, indeed,
Hathayoga and Rajayoga are thus successively practised. And in a recent unique example, in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, we see a colossal spiritual capacity first driving straight to the divine realisation, taking, as it were, the kingdom of heaven by violence, and then seizing upon one Yogic method after another and extracting the substance out of it with an incredible rapidity, always to return to the heart of the whole matter, the realisation and possession of God by the power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous play of an intuitive knowledge. Such an example cannot be generalised. Its object also was special and temporal, to exemplify in the great and decisive experience of a master-soul the truth, now most necessary to humanity, towards which a world long divided into jarring sects and schools is with difficulty labouring, that all sects are forms and fragments of a single integral truth and all disciplines labour in their different ways towards one supreme experience. To know, be and possess
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Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on some central principle common to all which will include and utilise in the right place and proportion their particular principles, and on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable therefore of organising a natural selection and combination of their varied energies and different utilities.
This was the aim which we set before ourselves at first when we entered upon our comparative examination of the methods of
Nature and the methods of Yoga and we now return to it with the possibility of hazarding some definite solution.
We observe, first, that there still exists in India a remarkable
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This system is the way of the Tantra. Owing to certain of its developments Tantra has fallen into discredit with those who are not Tantrics; and especially owing to the developments of its left-hand path, the Vama Marga, which not content with exceeding the duality of virtue and sin and instead of replacing them by spontaneous rightness of action seemed, so metimes, to make a method of self-indulgence, a method of unrestrained social immorality. Nevertheless, in its origin, Tantra was a great and puissant system founded upon ideas which were at least partially true. Even its twofold division into the right-hand and left-hand paths, Dakshina Marga and Vama Marga, started from a certain profound perception. In the ancient symbolic sense of the words Dakshina and Vama, it was the distinction between the way of Knowledge and the way of Ananda, - Nature in man liberating itself by right discrimination in power and practice of its own energies, elements and potentialities and Nature in man
The Synthesis of the Systems
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If, however, we leave aside, here also, the actual methods and practices and seek for the central principle, we find, first, that Tantra expressly differentiates itself from the Vedic methods of Yoga. In a sense, all the schools we have hitherto examined are Vedantic in their principle; their force is in knowledge, their method is knowledge, though it is not always discernment by the intellect, but may be, instead, the knowledge of the heart expressed in love and faith or a knowledge in the will working out through action. In all of them the lord of the Yoga is the Purusha, the Conscious Soul that knows, observes, attracts, governs. But in Tantra it is rather Prakriti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the
Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tantric Yogin pursued the aims of his discipline, - mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude. Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. But in the end, as is the general tendency of Prakriti, Tantric Yoga largely lost its principle in its machinery and became a thing of formulae and occult mechanism still powerful when rightly used but fallen from the clarity of their original intention.
We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed
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Purusha pours itself out in the action of its Energy, there is action, creation and the enjoyment or Ananda of becoming. But if Ananda is the creator and begetter of all becoming, its method is Tapas or force of the Purusha's consciousness dwelling upon its own infinite potentiality in existence and producing from it truths of conception or real Ideas, vijnana, which, proceeding from an omniscient and omnipotent Self-existence, have the surety of their own fulfilment and contain in themselves the nature and law of their own becoming in the terms of mind, life and matter. The eventual omnipotence of Tapas and the infallible fulfilment of the Idea are the very foundation of all
Yoga. In man we render these terms by Will and Faith, - a will that is eventually self-effective because it is of the substance of
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The method we have to pursue, then, is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform our entire being into His. Thus in a sense
God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sadhaka of the sadhana1 as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the
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In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sadhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine
Strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for our weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It "makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills." The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet, in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of
Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but
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yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic
Yoga.
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Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in
Nature, in the other it becomes swift and self-conscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
An integral method and an integral result. First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by
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Perfection includes perfection of mind and body, so that the highest results of Rajayoga and Hathayoga should be contained in the widest formula of the synthesis finally to be effected by mankind. At any rate a full development of the general mental and physical faculties and experiences attainable by humanity through Yoga must be included in the scope of the integral method. Nor would these have any raison d'etre unless employed for an integral mental and physical life. Such a mental and physical life would be in its nature a translation of the spiritual existence into its right mental and physical values. Thus we would arrive at a synthesis of the three degrees of Nature and of the three modes of human existence which she has evolved or is evolving. We would include in the scope of our liberated being and perfected modes of activity the material life, our base, and the mental life, our intermediate instrument.
Nor would the integrality to which we aspire be real or even possible, if it were confined to the individual. Since our divine perfection embraces the realisation of ourselves in being, in life and in love through others as well as through ourselves, the extension of our liberty and of its results in others would be the inevitable outcome as well as the broadest utility of our liberation and perfection. And the constant and inherent attempt of such an extension would be towards its increasing and ultimately complete generalisation in mankind.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
effective metaphor of night, the Saint describes the excellent properties of the
spiritual night of infused contemplation, through which the soul journeys with no
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
of metaphysics and ethics. I am also thinking of reading
The Life Divine.
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If you read metaphysics and ethics, you must do it just as
mental gymnastics to give a little exercise to your brain, but
0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
Exposition of the stanzas describing the method followed by the soul in its journey upon the spiritual road to the attainment of the perfect union of love with God, to the extent that is possible in this life. Likewise are described the properties belonging to the soul that has attained to the said perfection, according as they are contained in the same stanzas.
PROLOGUE
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
by yoga that one can do it. There have been, throughout the spiritual history of humanity, many methods of yoga - which Sri
Aurobindo has described and explained for us in The Synthesis
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to constitute a definite basis for the various methods of selfdevelopment and self-discipline. That is why each philosophic,
educational or Yogic system has, as it were, its own division
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the methods of self-knowledge, self-control and selfmastery are good. You have to choose the one that comes to you
spontaneously and best corresponds to your nature. And once
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having chosen the method, you must use your intelligent will
to apply it with an unfailing perseverance that does not shrink
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo said, Our Yoga is not for ourselves but for humanity, many heaved a sigh of relief and thought that the great soul was after all not entirely lost to the world, his was not one more name added to the long list of Sannyasins that India has been producing age after age without much profit either to herself or to the human society (or even perhaps to their own selves). People understood his Yoga to be a modern one, dedicated to the service of humanity. If service to humanity was not the very sum and substance of his spirituality, it was, at least, the fruitful end and consummation. His Yoga was a sort of art to explore and harness certain unseen powers that can better and ameliorate human life in a more successful way than mere rational scientific methods can hope to do.
Sri Aurobindo saw that the very core of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his saying. So he changed his words and said, Our Yoga is not for humanity but for the Divine. But I am afraid this change of front, this volte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all hope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be totally lost and he came to be looked upon again as an irrevocable metaphysical dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even like the Immutable Brahman.
II
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The New Man will be Master and not slave. He will be master, first, of himself and then of the world. Man as he actually is, is but a slave. He has no personal voice or choice; the determining soul, the Ishwara, in him is sleep-bound and hushed. He is a mere plaything in the hands of nature and circumstances. Therefore it is that Science has become his supreme Dharmashastra; for science seeks to teach us the moods of Nature and the methods of propitiating her. Our actual ideal of man is that of the cleverest slave. But the New Man will have found himself and by and according to his inner will, mould and create his world. He will not be in awe of Nature and in an attitude of perpetual apprehension and hesitation, but will ground himself on a secret harmony and union that will declare him as the lord. We will recognise the New Man by his very gait and manner, by a certain kingly ease and dominion in every shade of his expression.
Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels itself only by creating an eternal opponentErbfeindby coming in constant clash with a rival that seeks to gain victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the egoit is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert hut simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
or these that contain the metaphysics of a spiritual life:
King, not in vain. I knew the tedious bars
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The heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulsesit is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not forgetting the so-called metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the metaphysicals has already been called into question. There is here, no doubt, some theology, a good dose of mental cleverness or conceit, but a modern intellectual or rather rational intelligence is so mething other, so mething more than that. Even the metaphysics that was commandeered here had more or less a decorative value, it could not be taken into the pith and substance of poetic truth and beauty. It was a decoration, but not unoften a drag. I referred to the Upanishads, but these strike quite a different, almost an opposite line in this connection. They are in a sense truly metaphysical: they bypass the mind and the mental powers, get hold of a higher mode of consciousness, make a direct contact with truth and beauty and reality. It was Buddha's credit to have forged this missing link in man's spiritual consciousness, to have brought into play the power of the rational intellect and used it in support of the spiritual experience. That is not to say that he was the very first person, the originator who initiated the movement; but at least this seems to be true that in him and his au thentic followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha.
Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, so mething aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, so mething a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In her he met his own eternity.
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If once it met the intense original Flame,
An answering touch might shatter all measures made
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Its stark conventions met the flame of a soul.
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01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Among the ancients, strictly speaking, the later classical Lucretius was a remarkable phenomenon. By nature he was a poet, but his mental interest lay in metaphysical speculation, in philosophy, and unpoetical business. He turned away from arms and heroes, wrath and love and, like Seneca and Aurelius, gave himself up to moralising and philosophising, delving 'into the mystery, the why and the how and the whither of it all. He chose a dangerous subject for his poetic inspiration and yet it cannot be said that his attempt was a failure. Lucretius was not a religious or spiritual poet; he was rather Marxian,atheistic, materialistic. The dialectical materialism of today could find in him a lot of nourishment and support. But whatever the content, the manner has made a whole difference. There was an idealism, a clarity of vision and an intensity of perception, which however scientific apparently, gave his creation a note, an accent, an atmosphere high, tense, aloof, ascetic, at times bordering on the supra-sensual. It was a high light, a force of consciousness that at its highest pitch had the ring and vibration of so mething almost spiritual. For the basic principle of Lucretius' inspiration is a large thought-force, a tense perception, a taut nervous reactionit is not, of course, the identity in being with the inner realities which is the hallmark of a spiritual consciousness, yet it is so mething on the way towards that.
There have been other philosophical poets, a good number of them since thennot merely rationally philosophical, as was the vogue in the eighteenth century, but metaphysically philosophical, that is to say, inquiring not merely into the phenomenal but also into the labyrinths of the noumenal, investigating not only what meets the senses, but also things that are behind or beyond. Amidst the earlier efflorescence of this movement the most outstanding philosopher poet is of course Dante, the Dante of Paradiso, a philosopher in the mediaeval manner and to the extent a lesser poet, according to some. Goe the is another, almost in the grand modern manner. Wordsworth is full of metaphysics from the crown of his head to the tip of his toe although his poetry, perhaps the major portion of it, had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-content genuinely metaphysical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardyindeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted.
We left out the metaphysicals, for they can be grouped as a set apart. They are not so much metaphysical as theological, religious. They have a brain-content stirring with theological problems and speculations, replete with scintillating conceits and intricate fancies. Perhaps it is because of this philosophical burden, this intellectual bias that the metaphysicals went into obscurity for about two centuries and it is precisely because of that that they are slowly coming out to the forefront and assuming a special value with the moderns. For the modern mind is characteristically thoughtful, introspective"introvert"and philosophical; even the exact physical sciences of today are rounded off in the end with metaphysics.
The growth of a philosophical thought-content in poetry has been inevitable. For man's consciousness in its evolutionary march is driving towards a consummation which includes and presupposes a development along that line. The mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imaginationremember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisationsof whatever order or world they may beexpressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a new turn has been coming on with an increasing insistencea definite time has been given to that, since the Renaissance, it is said: it is the growing importance of Thought or brain-power as a medium or atmosphere in which poetic experiences find a sober and clear articulation, a definite and strong formulation. Rationalisation of all experiences and realisations is the keynote of the modern mentality. Even when it is said that reason and rationality are not ultimate or final or significant realities, that the irrational or the submental plays a greater role in our consciousness and that art and poetry likewise should be the expression of such a mentality, even then, all this is said and done in and through a strong rational and intellectual stress and frame the like of which cannot be found in the old-world frankly non-intellectual creations.
The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
The philosophical trend in poetry has an interesting history with a significant role: it has acted as a force of purification, of sublimation, of katharsis. As man has risen from his exclusively or predominantly vital nature into an increasing mental poise, in the same way his creative activities too have taken this new turn and status. In the earlier stages of evolution the mental life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major role in man's creative activity.
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The religious poet seeks to tone down or cover up the mundane taint, since he does not know how to transcend it totally, in two ways: (1) by a strong thought-element, the metaphysical way, as it may be called and (2) by a strong symbolism, the occult way. Donne takes to the first course, Blake the second. And it is the alchemy brought to bear in either of these processes that transforms the merely religious into the mystic poet. The truly spiritual, as I have said, is still a higher grade of consciousness: what I call Spirit's own poetry has its own matter and mannerswabhava and swadharma. A nearest approach to it is echoed in those famous lines of Blake:
To see a World in a grain of Sand,
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Blake had this wonderful gift of transmuting the baser metal of mundane experience into the gold of a deep mystic and spiritual experience:
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And her magic methods wrapped in a thousand veils;
Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time
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Oceans of being met his voyaging soul
Calling to infinite discovery;
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not helpful to abandon the ordinary life before the being is ready for the full spiritual life. To do so means to precipitate a struggle between the different elements and exasperate it to a point of intensity which the nature is not ready to bear. The vital elements in you have partly to be met by the discipline and experience of life, while keeping the spiritual aim in view and trying to govern life by it progressively in the spirit of Karmayoga.
The best way to prepare oneself for the spiritual life when one has to live in the ordinary occupations and surroundings is to cultivate an entire equality and detachment and the samata of the Gita with the faith that the Divine is there and the Divine Will at work in all things even though at present under the conditions of a world of Ignorance. Beyond this are the Light and Ananda towards which life is working, but the best way for their advent and foundation in the individual being and nature is to grow in this spiritual equality. That would also solve your difficulty about things unpleasant and disagreeable. All unpleasantness should be faced with this spirit of samata.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I am not saying that there is to be no Ananda. The selfgiving itself is a profound Ananda and what it brings, carries in its wake an inexpressible Ananda - and it is brought by this method sooner than by any other, so that one can say almost,
"A self-less self-giving is the best policy." Only one does not do it out of policy. Ananda is the result, but it is done not for the result, but for the self-giving itself and for the Divine himself - a subtle distinction, it may seem to the mind, but very real.
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The style and manner of Sri Aurobindo's interpretation1 is also supremely characteristic: it does not carry the impress of a mere metaphysical dissertation-although in matter it clothes throughout a profound philosophy; it is throbbing with the luminous life of a prophet's message, it is instinct with so mething of the Gita's own mantraakti.
Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A new impulse is there, no one can deny, and it has vast possibilities before it, that also one need not hesitate to accept. But in order that we may best fructuate what has been spontaneously sown, we must first recognise it, be luminously conscious of it and develop it along its proper line of growth. For, also certain it is that this new impulse or intuition, however true and strong in itself, is still groping and erring and miscarrying; it is still wasting much of its energy in tentative things, in mere experiments, in even clear failures. The fact is that the intuition has not yet become an enlightened one, it is still moving, as we shall presently explain, in the dark vital regions of man. And vitalism is naturally and closely affianced to pragmatism, that is to say, the mere vital impulse seeks immediately to execute itself, it looks for external effects, for changes in the form, in the machinery only. Thus it is that we see in art and literature discussions centred upon the scheme of composition, as whether the new poetry should be lyrical or dramatic, popular or aristocratic, metrical or free of metre, and in practical life we talk of remodelling the state by new methods of representation and governance, of purging society by bills and legislation, of reforming humanity by a business pact.
All this may be good and necessary, but there is the danger of leaving altogether out of account the one thing needful. We must then pause and turn back, look behind the apparent impulsion that effectuates to the Will that drives, behind the ideas and ideals of the mind to the soul that informs and inspires; we must carry ourselves up the stream and concentrate upon the original source, the creative intuition that lies hidden somewhere. And then only all the new stirrings that we feel in our heartour urges and ideals and visions will attain an effective clarity, an unshaken purpose and an inevitable achievement.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of so mething or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
Still, it must be noted that Coleridge is a rare example, for the recording apparatus is not usually so faithful but puts up its own formations that disturb and alter the perfection of the original. The passivity or neutrality of the intermediary is relative, and there are infinite grades of it. Even when the larger waves that play in it in the normal waking state are quieted down, smaller ripples of unconscious or half-conscious habitual formations are thrown up and they are sufficient to cause the scattering and dispersal of the pure light from above.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We leave behind meted to us as life,
Our little walks, our insufficient reach.
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In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange;
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Are there; the rhythms and metres of the stars
Significant of the movements of our fate:
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A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will;
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it is not mere physical or nervous bravery, although that too is indispensable, and it is so mething more than moral courage. In the speeches referred to, the subject-matter (as well as the manner to a large extent) is philosophical, metaphysical, even abstract in outlook and treatment: they are not a call to arms, like the French National Anthem, for example; they are not merely an ethical exhortation, a moral lesson either. They speak of the inner spirit, the divine in man, the supreme realities that lie beyond. And yet the words are permeated through and through with a vibration life-giving and heroic-not so much in the explicit and apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth,nec plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme:
Yasyaite himavanto mahitv
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
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"They can no longer tell us that it is only small minds that have piety. They are shown how it has grown best in one of the the greatest geo metricians, one of the subtlest metaphysicians, one of the most penetrating minds that ever existed on earth. The piety of such a philosopher should make the unbeliever and the libertine declare what a certain Diocles said one day on seeing Epicurus in a temple: 'What a feast, what a spectacle for me to see Epicurus in a temple! All my doubts vainsh, piety takes its place again. I never saw Jupiter's greatness so well as now when I behold Epicurus kneeling down!"1
What characterises Pascal is the way in which he has bent his brainnot rejected it but truly bent and forced even the dry "geo metrical brain" to the service of Faith.
In his inquiry into truth and certitude Pascal takes his stand upon what he calls the geo metrical method, the only valid method, according to him, in the sphere of reason. The characteristic of this method is that it takes for granted certain fundamental principles and realitiescalled axioms and postulates or definitionsand proceeds to other truths that are infallibly and inevitably deduced from them, that are inherent and implied in them. There is no use or necessity in trying to demonstrate these fundamentals also; that will only land us into confusion and muddle. They have to be simply accepted, they do not require demonstration, it is they that demonstrate others. Such, for instance, are space, time, number, the reality of which it is foolishness and pedantry to I seek to prove. There is then an order of truths that do not i require to be proved. We are referring only to the order of I physical truths. But there is another order, Pascal says, equally I valid and veritable, the order of the Spirit. Here we have another set of fundamentals that have to be accepted and taken for granted, matrix of other truths and realities. It can also be called the order of the Heart. Reason posits physical fundamentals; it does not know of the fundamentals of the Heart which are beyond its reach; such are God, Soul, Immortality which are evident only to Faith.
But Faith and Reason, according to Pascal, are not contraries nor irreconcilables. Because the things of faith are beyond reason, it is not that they are irrational. Here is what Pascal says about the function and limitation of reason:
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The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked so mething of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
And the reason is his metaphysics. It is the Jansenist conception of God and human nature that inspired and coloured all his experience and consciousness. According to it, as according to the Calvinist conception, man is a corrupt being, corroded to the core, original sin has branded his very soul. Only Grace saves him and releases him. The order of sin and the order of Grace are distinct and disparate worlds and yet they complement each other and need each other. Greatness and misery are intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight. Eternal hell is a possible prospect that faces the Jansenist. That was why a Night always over-shadowed the Day in Pascal's soul.
Man then, according to Pascal, is by nature a sinful thing. He can lay no claim to noble virtue as his own: all in him is vile, he is a lump of dirt and filth. Even the greatest has his full share of this taint. The greatest, the saintliest, and the meanest, the most sinful, all meet, all are equal on this common platform; all have the same feet of clay. Man is as miserable a creature as a beast, as much a part and product of Nature as a plant. Only there is this difference that an animal or a tree is unconscious, while man knows that he is miserable. This knowledge or perception makes him more miserable, but that is his real and only greatness there is no other. His thought, his self-consciousness, and his sorrow and repentance and contrition for what he is that is the only good partMary's part that has been given to him. Here are Pascal's own words on the subject:
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It would have been an easy matter if these vital urges could flow on unhindered in their way. There would have been no problem at all, if they met satisfaction easily and smoothly, without having to look to other factors and forces. As a matter of fact, man does not and cannot gratify his instincts whenever and wherever he chooses and in an open and direct manner. Even in his most primitive and barbarous condition, he has often to check himself and throw a veil, in so many ways, over his sheer animality. In the civilised society the check is manifold and is frankly recognised. We do not go straight as our sexual impulsion leads, but seek to hide and camouflage it under the institution of marriage; we do not pounce upon the food directly we happen to meet it and snatch and appropriate whatever portion we get but we secure it through an elaborate process, which is known as the economic system. The machinery of the state, the cult of the kshatriya are roundabout ways to meet our fighting instincts.
What is the reason of this elaboration, this check and constraint upon the natural and direct outflow of the animal instincts in man? It has been said that the social life of man, the fact that he has to live and move as member of a group or aggregate has imposed upon him these restrictions. The free and unbridled indulgence of one's bare aboriginal impulses may be possible to creatures that live a separate, solitary and individual life but is disruptive of all bonds necessary for a corporate and group life. It is even a biological necessity again which has evolved in man a third and collateral primary instinct that of the herd. And it is this herd-instinct which naturally and spontaneously restrains, diverts and even metamorphoses the other instincts of the mere animal life. However, leaving aside for the moment the question whether man's ethical and spiritual ideals are a mere dissimulation of his animal instincts or whether they correspond to certain actual realities apart from and co-existent with these latter, we will recognise the simple fact of control and try to have a glimpse into its mechanism.
There are three lines, as the Psycho-analysts point out along which this control or censuring of the primary instincts acts. First, there is the line of Defence Reaction. That is to say, the mind automatically takes up an attitude directly contrary to the impulse, tries to shut it out and deny altogether its existence and the measure of the insistence of the impulse is also the measure of the vehemence of the denial. It is the case of the lady protesting too much. So it happens that where subconsciously there is a strong current of a particular impulse, consciously the mind is obliged to take up a counteracting opposite impulse. Thus in presence of a strong sexual craving the mind as if to guard and save itself engenders by a reflex movement an ascetic and puritanic mood. Similarly a strong unthinking physical attraction translates itself on the conscious plane as an equally strong repulsion.
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The method of unconscious or subconscious nature is fundamentally that of repression. Apart from Defence Reaction which is a thing of pure coercion, even in Substitution and Sublimation there always remains in the background a large amount of repressed complexes in all their primitive strength. The system is never entirely purified but remains secretly pregnant with those urges; a part only is deflected and camouflaged, the surface only assumes a transformed appearance. And there is always the danger of the superstructure coming down helplessly by a sudden upheaval of the nether forces. The whole system feels, although not in a conscious manner, the tension of the repression and suffers from so mething that is unhealthy and ill-balanced. Dante's spiritualised passion is a supreme instance of control by Sublimation, but the Divina Comedia hardly bears the impress of a serene and tranquil soul, sovereignly above the turmoils of the tragedy of life and absolutely at peace with itself.
In conscious control, the mind is for the first time aware of the presence of the repressed impulses, it seeks to release them from the pressure to which they are habitually and normally subjected. It knows and recognises them, however ugly and revolting they might appear to be when they present themselves in their natural nakedness. Then it becomes easy for the conscious determination to eliminate or regulate or transform them and thus to establish a healthy harmony in the human vehicle. The very recognition itself, as implied in conscious control, means purification.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the second method (perfect satisfaction of desire) very
dangerous, for is it possible to satisfy man's desire?
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problem and various possible methods of physical education. The fundamental problem is this: how can we
The Queen of Jhansi who died on the battlefield in 1858 while fighting British
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case and the occasion. Both methods have their good and bad
points, their advantages and drawbacks. For the captains, the
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and control your body methodically, make yourself useful by
working at the Playground and your place of work, and try to
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both these methods is that you deceive yourself, you delude
yourself that you have overcome your desires, whereas at best
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What is the use of Japa?15 Is it a good method to
repeat words like "Silence" and "Peace" in order to establish silence and peace in oneself when one sits down
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Just as there is a methodical progression of exercises
for mental and physical education, isn't there a similar
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We are quite familiar with this cry so rampant in our democratic ageprinciples and no personalities! And although we admit the justice of it, yet we cannot ignore the trenchant one-sidedness which it involves. It is perhaps only a reaction, a swing to the opposite extreme of a mentality given too much to personalities, as the case generally has been in the past. It may be necessary, as a corrective, but it belongs only to a temporary stage. Since, however, we are after a universal ideal, we must also have an integral method. We shall have to curb many of our susceptibilities, diminish many of our apprehensions and soberly strike a balance between opposite extremes.
We do not speak like politicians or banias; but the very truth of the matter demands such a policy or line of action. It is very well to talk of principles and principles alone, but what are principles unless they take life and form in a particular individual? They are airy nothings, notions in the brain of logicians and metaphysicians, fit subjects for discussion in the academy, but they are devoid of that vital urge which makes them creative agencies. We have long lines of philosophers, especially European, who most scrupulously avoided all touch of personalities, whose utmost care was to keep principles pure and unsullied; and the upshot was that those principles remained principles only, barren and infructuous, some thing like, in the strong and puissant phrase of BaudelaireLa froide majest de la femme strile. And on the contrary, we have had other peoples, much addicted to personalitiesespecially in Asiawho did not care so much for abstract principles as for concrete embodiments; and what has been the result here? None can say that they did not produce anything or produced only still-born things. They produced living creaturesephemeral, some might say, but creatures that lived and moved and had their days.
But, it may be asked, what is the necessity, what is the purpose in making it all a one man show? Granting that principles require personalities for their fructuation and vital functioning, what remains to be envisaged is not one personality but a plural personality, the people at large, as many individuals of the human race as can be consciously imbued with those principles. When principles are made part and parcel of, are concentrated in a single solitary personality, they get "cribbed and cabined," they are vitiated by the idiosyncrasies of the man, they come to have a narrower field of application; they are emptied of the general verities they contain and finally cease to have any effect.
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first extremes that met in India and fought and gradually coalesced to form a single cultural and social whole were, as is well known, the Aryan and the non-Aryan. Indeed, the geologists tell us, the land itself is divided into two parts structurally quite different and distinct, the Deccan plateau and the Himalayan ranges with the Indo-Gangetic plain: the former is formed out of the most ancient and stable and, on the whole, horizontally bedded rocks of the earth, while the latter is of comparatively recent origin, formed out of a more flexible and weaker belt (the Himalayan region consisting of a colossal flexing and crumpling of strata). The disparity is so much that a certain group of geologists hold that the Deccan plateau did not at all form part of the Asiatic continent, but had drifted and dashed into it:in fact the Himalayas are the result of this mighty impact. The usual division of an Aryan and a Dravidian race may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races.
However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elementsSakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic materialenter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so,a single unitary body was formed out of such varied and shifting materialsnot in the political, but in a socio-religious sense. For a catholic religious spirit, not being solely doctrinal and personal, admitted and embraced in its supple and wide texture almost an infinite variety of approaches to the Divine, of forms and norms of apprehending the Beyond. It has been called Hinduism: it is a vast synthesis of multiple affiliations. It expresses the characteristic genius of India and hence Hinduism and Indianism came to be looked upon as synonymous terms. And the same could be defined also as Vedic religion and culture, for its invariable basis the bed-rock on which it stood firm and erectwas the Vedas, the Knowledge seen by the sages. But there had already risen a voice of dissidence and discord that of Buddha, not so much, perhaps, of Buddha as of Buddhism. The Buddhistic enlightenment and discipline did not admit the supreme authority of the Vedas; it sought other bases of truth and reality. It was a great denial; and it meant and worked for a vital schism. The denial of the Vedas by itself, perhaps, would not be serious, but it became so, as it was symptomatic of a deeper divergence. Denying the Vedas, the Buddhistic spirit denied life. It was quite a new thing in the Indian consciousness and spiritual discipline. And it left such a stamp there that even today it stands as the dominant character of the Indian outlook. However, India's synthetic genius rose to the occasion and knew how to bridge the chasm, close up the fissure, and present again a body whole and entire. Buddha became one of the Avataras: the discipline of Nirvana and Maya was reserved as the last duty to be performed at the end of life, as the culmination of a full-length span of action and achievement; the way to Moksha lay through Dharma and Artha and Kama, Sannyasa had to be built upon Brahmacharya and Garhasthya. The integral ideal was epitomized by Kalidasa in his famous lines about the character of the Raghus:
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not the perfect voice. A Homer, even a Milton possesses a unity of tone and a wholeness of perception which are denied to the modern. To the modern, however, the old masters are not subtle enough, broad enough, psychological enough, let us say the word, spiritual enough. And yet the poetic inspiration, more than the religious urge, needs the injunction not to be busy with too many things, but to be centred upon the one thing needful, viz., to create poetically and not to discourse philosophically or preach prophetically. Not that it is impossible for the poet to swallow the philosopher and the prophet, metabolising them into the substance of his bone and marrow, of "the trilling wire in his blood", as Eliot graphically expresses. That perhaps is the consummation towards which poetry is tending. But at present, in Eliot, at least, the strands remain distinct, each with its own temper and rhythm, not fused and moulded into a single streamlined form of beauty. Our poet flies high, very high indeed at times, often or often he flies low, not disdaining the perilous limit of bathos. Perhaps it is all wilful, it is a mannerism which he cherishes. The mannerism may explain his psychology and enshrine his philosophy. But the poet, the magician is to be looked for elsewhere. In the present collection of poems it is the philosophical, exegetical, discursive Eliot who dominates: although the high lights of the subject-matter may be its justification. Still even if we have here doldrums like
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The radical method is to cut off all mental and vital connection
with these people; but until you know how to do this, you
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It is said that there are certain methods in the Tantras
to open the chakras from below, whereas in the integral
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is a long and meticulous work that requires much perseverance, but the result is worth the trouble, for it brings not
only mastery but also the possibility of the transformation and
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
person dreams of another, it means that both have met at night,
most often in the vital region, but it can also happen elsewhere,
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It is a long and meticulous work that may take years to be
done properly.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The method for each individual is worked out as the activity
proceeds, for each ego has its own character and needs a particular method. The only qualities indispensable for all are absolute
perseverance and sincerity. The least tendency to deceive oneself
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But a method has to be found, and this depends on the case
and the individual.
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I met a man (I was perhaps 20 or 21 at the time), an Indian who had come to Europe and who told me of the Gita. There was a French translation of it (a rather poor one, I must say) which he advised me to read, and then he gave me the key (HIS key, it was his key). He said, Read the Gita (this translation of the Gita which really wasnt worth much but it was the only one available at the timein those days I wouldnt have understood anything in other languages; and besides, the English translations were just as bad and well, Sri Aurobindo hadnt done his yet!). He said, Read the Gita knowing that Krishna is the symbol of the immanent God, the God within. That was all. Read it with THAT knowledgewith the knowledge that Krishna represents the immanent God, the God within you. Well, within a month, the whole thing was done!
So some of you people have been here since the time you were toddlerseverything has been explained to you, the whole thing has been served to you on a silver platter (not only with words, but through psychic aid and in every possible way), you have been put on the path of this inner discovery and then you just go on drifting along: When it comes, it will come.If you even spare it that much thought!
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W.W. Pearson, a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, who had come from Tagore's Ashram in 1923; Mother had met him with Tagore in 1916 in Japan.
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0 1957-10-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I need a practical method corresponding to my present possibilities and to results of which I am presently capable. I feel that my efforts are dispersed by concentrating so metimes here, so metimes therea feeling of not knowing exactly what to do to break through and get out of all this. Would you point out some particular concentration to which I could adhere, a particular method that I would stick to?
I am well aware that a supple attitude is recommended in the Yoga, yet for the time being, it seems to me that one well-defined method would help me hold on1this practical aspect would help me. I will do it methodically, obstinately, until it cracks for good.
Your child,
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This unique method was to be the mantra, as Mother herself would discover.
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0 1957-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Three groups of examiners conduct these tests. Apparently they have nothing in common and their methods are so different, at times even so seemingly contradictory, that they do not appear to work towards the same goal, and yet they complete one another, they work together for a common aim and each is indispensable for the integral result.
These three categories of tests are: those conducted by the forces of Nature, those conducted by the spiritual and divine forces, and those conducted by the hostile forces. This latter category is the most deceptive in its appearance, and a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility is required so as not to be caught by surprise or unprepared.
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You first have to be able to follow the methods and the means of the Grace to recognize its action. You first have to be able to remain unblinded by appearances to see the deeper truth of things.
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0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Money is meant to circulate. What should remain constant is the progressive movement of an increase in the earths productionan ever-expanding progressive movement to increase the earths production and improve existence on earth. It is the material improvement of terrestrial life and the growth of the earths production that must go on expanding, enlarging, and not this silly paper or this inert metal that is amassed and lifeless.
Money is not meant to generate money; money should generate an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. This is its true use. What I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything that education in all its forms can providenot as its generally understood, but as we understand it here: education in art, education in from the education of the body, from the most material progress, to the spiritual education and progress through yoga; the whole spectrum, everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money should serve to augment that and to augment the material base for the earths progress, the best use of what the earth can giveits intelligent utilization, not the utilization that wastes and loses energies. The use that allows energies to be replenished.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is the whole Chaldean tradition, and there is also the Vedic tradition, and there was very certainly a tradition anterior to both that split into two branches. Well, all these occult experiences have been the same. Only the description differs depending upon the country and the language. The story of creation is not told from a metaphysical or psychological point of view, but from an objective point of view, and this story is as real as our stories of historical periods. Of course, its not the only way of seeing, but it is just as legitimate a way as the others, and in any event, it recognizes the concrete reality of all these divine beings. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists exhibit great similarities. The only difference is in the way they are expressed, but the manipulation of the forces is the same.
I learned all this through Theon. Probably, he was I dont know if he was Russian or Polish (a Russian or Polish Jew), he never said who he really was or where he was born, nor his age nor anything.
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There are subtle bodies and subtle worlds that correspond to these bodies; it is what the psychological method calls states of consciousness, but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult process consists in becoming aware of these various inner states of being, or subtle bodies, and of mastering them sufficiently to be able to make one come out of the other, successively. For there is a whole hierarchy of increasing subtletiesor decreasing, depending upon the direction and the occult process consists in making a more subtle body come out from a denser body, and so forth, right to the most ethereal regions. You go out through successive exteriorizations into more and more subtle bodies or worlds. Each time it is rather like passing into another dimension. In fact, the fourth dimension of the physicists is only the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge.
To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the centerit is the most material and the most condensed, as well as the smallestand the more subtle inner bodies increasingly overlap the limits of this central physical body; they pass through it and extend further and further out, like water evaporating from a porous vase which creates a kind of steam all around it. And the more subtle it is, the more its extension tends to fuse with that of the universe: you finally become universal. It is an entirely concrete process that makes the invisible worlds an objective experience and even allows you to act in those worlds.
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And I had the impression It was not an impression I saw it. I was descending into a crevasse between two steep rocks, rocks that appeared to be made of so mething harder than basalt, BLACK, but metallic at the same time, with such sharp edgesit seemed that a mere touch would lacerate you. It appeared endless and bottomless, and it kept getting narrower, narrower and narrower, narrower and narrower, like a funnel, so narrow that there was almost no more roomnot even for the consciousness to pass through. And the bottom was invisible, a black hole. And it went down, down, down, like that, without air, without light, except for a sort of glimmer that enabled me to make out the rock edges. They seemed to be cut so steeply, so sharply Finally, when my head began touching my knees, I asked myself, But what is there at the bottom of this this hole?
And as soon as I had uttered, What is there at the bottom of this hole? I seemed to touch a spring that was in the very depthsa spring I didnt see but that acted instantly with a tremendous power and it cast me up forthwith, hurled me out of this crevasse into (arms extended, motionless) a formless, limitless vast which was infinitely comfortablenot exactly warm, but it gave a feeling of ease and of an intimate warmth.
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And I followed all this without objectifying it in the least; I was not aware of what it was nor of what was happening, nor of any explanation at all, nothing: it was like that. I was living it, thats all. The experience was absolutely spontaneous. And after this rather painful descent, phew!there was a kind of super-comfort. I cant explain it otherwise, an ease,4 but an ease to the utmost. A perfect immobility in a sense of eternity but with an extraordinary INTENSITY of movement and life! An inner intensity, unmanifested; it was within, self-contained. And motionless (had there been an outside, it would have been motionless in relation to that) and it was in a life so immeasurable that it can only be expressed metaphorically as infinite. And with an intensity, a POWER, a force and a peace the peace of eternity. A silence, a calm. A POWER capable of of EVERYTHING. Everything.
And I was not imagining nor objectifying it; I was living it with easewith a great ease. And it lasted until the end of the meditation. When it gradually began fading, I stopped the meditation and left.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But if the soul has had but ONE call, but ONE contact with the Grace, then in your next life you are put in the conditions, once, whereby EVERYTHING can be swept away at one stroke. And at this present moment on earth, you cannot imagine the number of people I have met that is, the number of soulswho had reached out towards this possibility with such an intensity and they have all found themselves on my path.
At that point, so metimes a great courage is needed, so metimes a great endurance is needed, so metimes a true love is enough, so metimes, oh! if only faith were there, one thing, one tiny little thing is enough, and everything can be swept away. I have done it often; there are times when I have failed. But more often than not I have been able to remove it. But then, what is needed is a great, stoical courage or a capacity to endure and to SEE IT THROUGH. The resistance (especially in cases of former suicide), the resistance to the temptation of renewing this stupidity creates a terrible formation. Or else this habit of fleeing when suffering comes: flee, flee, instead of absorbing the difficulty, holding on.
0 1958-11-27 - Intermediaries and Immediacy, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
That interested me very much. Because one of the obstacles I had felt was that although the Force was acting well, there was a time lag that appeared inevitable, a time element in the work which seemed unavoidablea play left to the forces of Nature. But with their knowledge of the processes, the tantrics can dispense with all that. So I understood why those who have studied, who are initiated and follow the prescribed methods are apparently more powerfulmore powerful even than those who are conscious in the highest consciousness.
What interested me is that in their case (those who follow tantric or other initiations), what is doubtful is whether or not they can succeed in receiving the response of the true Power, the divine power, the supreme power; they do everything they can, but this question still remains. Whereas for me, it is the opposite situation: the Power is there, I have it, but how can I make it act here in matter? The process for making it act immediately was missingthough not totally; I know from the psychological standpoint, but there is so mething other than the psychological power, there is the whole play of conscious, individualized forces that are everywhere in Nature and that have the right to exist. Since it was created this way, it must express so mething of the supreme Will, otherwise He wouldnt have made use of intermediaries but in His plan, it is obvious that the intermediary has a legitimate place.
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have also come to realize that for this sadhana of the body, the mantra is essential. Sri Aurobindo gave none; he said that one should be able to do all the work without having to resort to external means. Had he reached the point where we are now, he would have seen that the purely psychological method is inadequate and that a japa is necessary, because only japa has a direct action on the body. So I had to find the method all alone, to find my mantra by myself. But now that things are ready, I have done ten years of work in a few months. That is the difficulty, it requires time
And I repeat my mantra constantlywhen I am awake and even when I sleep. I say it even when I am getting dressed, when I eat, when I work, when I speak with others; it is there, just behind in the background, all the time, all the time.
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
3) There is also the destiny that feels human love as so mething divine, so mething that can be transfigured and become a very powerful driving force. I did not believe it possible, except in dreams, until the day I met someone here. But you do not believe in these things, so I shall not speak of it further. I can gag this also and tell myself that one day all will be filled in the inner divine love. But that does not prevent this other need in me from living and from finding that life is dry and from saying, Why this outer manifestation if all life is in the inner realms? But neither can I stifle this with reasoning.
So there remains the pure spiritual destiny, pure interiorization. That is what I have been trying to do for the last five years, without much success. There are good periods of collaboration, because one part of my being can be happy in any condition. But in a certain way this achievement remains truncated, especially when you base spiritual life on a principle of integrality. And these three destinies in me have their own good reasons, which are true: they are not inferior, they are not incidental, they are woven from the very threads that created the spiritual life in me. My error is to open the door to revolt when I feel too poignantly one or the other being stifled.
0 1959-06-13a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Lele: the tantric guru whom Sri Aurobindo met in 1908 and who gave him mental silence and Nirvana.
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0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I had said nothing to X about these various dreams before he told me the story of my last three existences: three times I committed suicide the first by fire, the second by hanging, and the third by throwing myself into the void. During the first of these last three existences, I was married to a very good woman, but for some reason I abandoned my wife and I was wandering here and there in search of so mething. Then I met a sannyasi who wanted to make me his disciple, but I could not make up my mind, I was neither this side nor that side, whereupon my wife came to me and pleaded with me to take her back. Apparently I rejected herso she threw herself into the fire. Horror-stricken, I followed her, throwing myself into the fire in turn. That was when I created a connection with certain beings [of the other worlds] and I fell under their power. For two other lives, under the influence of these beings, the same drama was repeated with a few variations.
During the second of these last three existences, I was married to the same woman whom I again abandoned under the influence of the same monk, and I again remained between two worlds wandering here and there. Again my wife came to plead with me and again I pushed her away. She hung herself, and I hung myself in turn.
0 1959-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
8) He gave me certain methods to follow, about which I shall speak to you in person.
Sweet Mother, I have such a yearning for everything in my consciousness to harmonize and for the tantric discipline, the japa, etc., not to separate me from you. I want to be your child, open to you, without any contradictions. I would like so much to find your almost physical Presence within me again, as before. May all be clear, pure, one.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But when I did that, I saw what X wanted to do for me. As a matter of fact, I recalled that when we first met I had told him that everything was all right up to this point (Mother indicates the region above the head), but below that, in the outer being, I wanted to hasten the transformation, and things there were difficult to handle.
When Sri Aurobindo was here, I never bothered about all this; I was constantly up above and I did what the Gita and the traditional writings advise I left it to Natures care. In fact I left it to Sri Aurobindos care. He is making the best use of it, I would say. He will manage it, he will do with it what he wants. And I was constantly up above. And from up there I worked, leaving the instrument as it was because I knew that he would see to it.
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Along the way, I once went down into this physical mind for awhile to try to set it right, to organize it a little (it was done rather quickly, I didnt stay there long). So when I went inside X, I saw It was rather curious, for its the opposite of the method we follow. In his material consciousness (physical and vital), he has trained himself to be impersonal, open, limitless, in communication with all the universal forces. In the physical mind, silence, immobility. But in the speculative mind, the one there at the very top of the head what an organization, phew! All the tradition in its most superb organization, but such a ri-gi-dity! And it had a pretty quality of light, a silver blueVERY pretty. Oh, it was very calm, wonderfully calm and quiet and still. But what a ceiling it had!the outer form resembled rigid cubes. Everything inside was beautiful, but that There was a very large cube right at the top, I recall, bordered by a purple line, which is a line of powerall this was quite luminous. It looked like a pyramid; the smaller cubes formed a kind of base, the lower part of which faded into so mething cloudy, and then this passed imperceptibly downwards to a more material realm, or in other words, the physical mind. The cube on top was the largest and most luminous, and the least yieldingeven inflexible, you could say. The others were somewhat less defined, and at the bottom it was very blurred. But up at the top!thats where I wanted to go, right to the top.
When I got there, I felt a moment of anguish; my feeling was that nothing could be done. Not for him in particular, but universally, for all those in his categoryit seemed hopeless.6 If that was perfection, then nothing more could be done. This lasted only a second, but it was painful. And then I tried that is, I wanted to bring my consciousness down into the highest cubethis eternal, universal and infinite consciousness which is the first and foremost expression of the manifestation but nothing doing. It was impossible. I tried for several minutes and saw that it was absolutely impossible. So I had to make a curious movement (I couldnt get through it, it was impassable), I had to come back down into the so-called lower consciousness (not lower, actuallyit was vast and impersonal), and from there I came out and regained my equilibrium. This is what gave me that splitting headache I told you about. I came out of there as if I were carrying the weight the weight of an irreducible absoluteit was dreadful. Unfortunately, I was unable to rest afterwards, and as people were waiting to see me, I had to talkwhich is very tiring for me. And this produced a bubbling in my head, like a this dark blue light of power in matter was there, shot through with streaks of white and gold, and all this was flashing back and forth in my head, this way and that way I thought I was going to have a stroke! (Mother laughs)
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But what you are speaking of, this sort of sound-mill, this milling of words interminably repeating the same thing, Ive suddenly caught it two or three times (not very often and with long intervals). It has always seemed fantastic to me! How is it stopped? Always in the same way. Its so mething that takes place outside, actually; its not insideits outside, on the surface, generally somewhere here (Mother indicates the temples), and the method is to draw your consciousness up above, to go there and remain therewhite. Always this whiteness, white like a sheet of paper, flat like a plate of glass. An absolutely flat and white and motionless surfacewhite! White like luminous milk, turned upwards. Not transparent: white.
When this mill starts turningusually it comes from this side (Mother indicates the right side of the head)it takes hold of any sound or any word at all, and then it starts turning, harping on the same thing. This has happened to me a dozen times perhaps, but it doesnt come from me; it comes from outside, from someone or so mething or some particular work. So then you take itas if you were picking it up with pincers, and then (She lifts it upwards), then I hold it there, in this motionless whiteno need to keep it there for long!
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I found this out, I immediately thought, Good, this boy caught the formation2 X had made for the other one, and it got him back. For its really miraculous that he succeeded. But the other one, the nephew, was left stranded, nowhere to be found. It was obviously the same gang and the same method.
Then the police got involved. They wanted to take him back to the countryside around Poona (naturally I suppose they nursed him in the meantime), but not much came out of it. Seems that wherever he remembered seeing these people, when he said he had seen them, he fainted. Finally, I was told the story, and the poor family wrote to me saying, Who are these demons with such a great power that even it withstands Mothers force as well as that of Xand who are holding our son? So X was again informed and, knowing the story of the elder brothers friend, he said, Ah, now I know where the other one is, and I hope it wont take too long. But then September 26 passedgeneral despair in the family. They wrote to me, and I concentrated.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have experienced all kinds of things in life, but I have always felt a sort of lightso INTANGIBLE, So perfectly pure (not in the moral sense, but pure light!)and it could go anywhere, mix everywhere without ever really getting mixed with anything. I felt this flame as a young childa white flame. And NEVER have I felt disgust, contempt, recoil, the sense of being dirtiedby anything or anyone. There was always this flamewhite, white, so white that nothing could make it other than white. And I started feeling it long ago in the past (now my approach is entirely differentit comes straight from above, and I have other reasons for seeing the Purity in everything). But it came back when I met Z (because of the contact with him)and I felt nothing negative, absolutely nothing. Afterwards, people said, Oh, how he used to be this, how he used to be that! And now look at him! See what hes become! Someone even used the word rotten that made me smile. Because, you see, that doesnt exist for me.
What I saw is this world, this realm where people are like that, they live that, for its necessary to get out from below and this is a wayits a way, the only way. It was the only way for the vital formation and the vital creation to enter into the material world, into inert matter. An intellectualized vital, a vital of ideas, an artist; it even fringes upon or has the first drops of Poetrythis Poetry which upon its peaks goes beyond the mind and becomes an expression of the Spirit. Well, when these first drops fall on earth, it stirs up mud.
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I know I told you that I had had a vision, but you didnt understand what I told you that day. It was a vision of the place you occupy in my being and of the work we have to do together. Thats really how it is. These things [that I tell you] have their utility and a concrete life, and I see them as very powerful for world transformation theyre what I call experiences (which is much more than an experience because it extends far beyond the individual)and its the same whether its said or not said: the Action is done. But the fact that it is said, that it is formulated here and preserved, is exclusively for you, because you were made for this and this is why we met.
It doesnt need a lot of explaining.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Once or twice I heard certain things about him and I told him (for I told him all I saw or heard), and I said that I was that these suggestions were coming from the Enemy and that I was violently fighting against them. Then he looked at metwicehe looked at me, nodded his head and smiled. And thats all. Nothing more was said. How strange! I thought. And thats all. Then I myself must have forgotten. You see, he wanted me to forget.
I only remembered afterwards.
0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To begin with, theres what could be called a negative way, the way expounded by Buddhism and similar religions: the refusal to see. To be in a state of such purity and beauty that there is no perception of evil and ugliness. Its like so mething that doesnt touch you because it doesnt exist in you. This is the perfection of the negative method.
It is quite elementary: never take notice of evil, never speak of the evil present in others, never perpetuate the vibrations of evil by observation, criticism or giving undue attention to the evil deed. This is what Buddha taught: each time you mention an evil you help spread it.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And do you know how he received me when I arrived there? It was the first time in my life I had traveled alone and the first time I had crossed the Mediterranean. Then there was a fairly long train ride between Oran and Tlemcenanyway, I managed rather well: I got there. He met me at the station and we set off for his place by car (it was rather far away). Finally we reached his estatea wonder! It spread across the hillside overlooking the whole valley of Tlemcen. We arrived from below and had to climb up some wide pathways. I said nothingit was truly an experience from a material standpoint. When we came in sight of the house, he stopped: Thats my house. It was red! Painted red! And he added, When Barley came here, he asked me, Why did you paint your house red? (Barley was a French occultist who put Theon in touch with France and was his first disciple.) There was a mischievous gleam in Theons eyes and he smiled sardonically: I told Barley, Because red goes well with green! With that, I began to understand the gentleman. We continued on our way uphill when suddenly, without warning, he spun around, planted himself in front of me, and said, Now you are at my mercy. Arent you afraid? Just like that. So I looked at him, smiled and replied, Im never afraid. I have the Divine here. (Mother touches her heart.)
Well, he really went pale.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has been like that since the beginning (gesture expressing agitation), and he had a go at a considerable number of things but none ever succeeded! He has no method, no sense of order and he doesnt know how to organize work. So World Union is simply to let him have his way, like letting a horse gallop.
I used to send him around to the various centers (because he had to do so mething!), and he would visit, speak to people I dont know about what. And during one of his trips to Delhi he happened to meet Z, who had been sent by the government of India to the Soviet Union, where it seems he delivered an extraordinary speech (it must have been extraordinary, because I have been receiving letters from everywhere, including America, asking for the text of this sensational speech in which he apparently spoke of human unity). So Z returned with the idea of forming a World Union, and J. and Z met. Furthermore, they were encouraged by S.M.7 and even by the Prime Minister,8 who probably had a special liking for Z and had given him a lot of encouragement. Thats how things began.
I treated it as so mething altogether secondary and unimportantwhen people need to gallop, I let them gallop (but I hadnt met Z). Then J. and Z left together on a speaking-tour of Africa and there things began to go sour, because Z was working in one way and J. in another. Finally, they were at odds and came back here to tell me, World Union is off to a good startwith a quarrel! (Mother laughs) Z was saying, Nothing can be done unless we base ourselves EXCLUSIVELY on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and they are behind us giving support. And J. said, No, no! We are not sectarian! We accept all ideas, all theories, etc. I replied, and as it happens, I said that Z was right, though with one corrective: he had been saying that people had to recognize us as their guru. No, I said, its absolutely uselessnot only useless, I refuse. I dont want to be anybodys guru. People should simply be told that things are to be done on the basis of Sri Aurobindos thought.9
So they kept pulling in opposing directions. Eventually they tried to set so mething up (which still didnt hold together), and finally they wrote me a little more clearly. (There is one very nice man involved, Y. He isnt particularly intellectual but has a lot of common sense and a very faithful hearta very good man.) Y asked me some direct questions, without beating around the bush, and I replied directly: World Union is an entirely superficial thing, without any depth, based on the fact that Sri Aurobindo said the masses must be helped to follow the progress of the elitewell, let them go ahead! If they enjoy it, let them go right ahead! I didnt say it exactly like that (I was a bit more polite!), but that was the gist of it.
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I told you last time about that experience [of March 11, with Pavitra] the night I met you and was saying good-bye, I neglected to mention one very important point, the most important, in fact: I was leaving the subjection to mental functioning permanently behind That was the meaning of my departure.
For a very long time now I have been watching all the phases of the subjection to mental functioning come undone, one after another for a very long time. That night was the end of it, the last phase: I was leaving this subjection behind and rising up into a realm of freedom. You had been very, very helpful, as I told you. Well, this latest experience was so mething else! It came to make me look squarely at the fact of our incapacity!
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Several times in my life I have met with the particular phenomenon of having an absolutely exceptional and unique experience and at the same time feeling that a part of my being was unaware of it! I would tell myself, if I hadnt been both here and there at the same moment (Mother indicates two different levels in her consciousness), I might have had all these experiences and never known it! And this happened not just once but many times. Some were utterly unique, like certain ancient Vedic experiencesutterly unique. When I recounted them to Sri Aurobindo, he told me, Oh, its extremely rare! Some people try all their lives to attain that. And it happened to me not just once but often: the experience took place there (gesture above) and so mething up there knew, and yet there was so mething down here that would never have known if the other hadnt (same gesture). Nevertheless the total experience was there.
Its very difficult to explain, its extremely subtle.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, because N. said quite categorically: X told me that on arriving for this mornings meditation he had some difficulties and it took him five minutes to get over it; an adverse force was present. N. was quite positive and I even made him repeat it. Are you sure, I asked him, that it didnt happen when X came to you? No, N. replied, X met that force THERE. He said THERE! Yet that it could have been there, with all the force, light and peace that descended is incomprehensible to me. Because the first thing I do when I sit down is to make a thorough cleaning.
It ruffles me because its like a negation of my power. Till yesterday I had never experienced anything of the kind! On the 29th, you know, it will be forty-seven years since I first came here3thats not exactly yesterday! And ever since I began working with Sri Aurobindo, I have had the sense of this Power, it has never left me; so. It is disconcerting to have this kind of episode come up after such a long time.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, I wasnt putting the problem on a metaphysical plane but on an occult one as if the play were acted out occultly and we were executing it materially.
For us, it seems like that.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All this is based on the old idea that whatever the imagewhich we disdainfully call an idolwhatever the external form of the deity may be, the presence of the thing represented is always there. And there is always someonewhe ther priest or initiate, sadhu or sannyasisomeone who has the power and (usually this is the priests work) who draws the Force and the Presence down into it. And its true, its quite real the Force and the Presence are THERE; and this (not the form in wood or stone or metal) is what is worshipped: this Presence.
Europeans dont have the inner sense at all. To them, everything is like this (gesture), a surfacenot even that, a film on the surface. And they cant feel anything behind. But its an absolutely real fact that the Presence is there I guarantee it. People have given me statuettes of various gods, little things in metal, wood or ivory; and as soon as I take one in my hand, the god is there. I have a Ganesh2 (I have been given several) and if I take it in my hand and look at it for a moment, hes there. I have a little one by my bedside where I work, eat, and meditate. And then there is a Narayana3 which comes from the Himalayas, from Badrinath. I use them both as paperweights for my handkerchiefs! (My handkerchiefs are kept on a little table next to my bed, and I keep Ganapati and Narayana on top of them.) And no one touches them but me I pick them up, take a fresh handkerchief, and put them back again. Once I blended some nail polish myself, and before applying it, I put some on Ganapatis forehead and stomach and fingertips! We are on the best of terms, very friendly. So to me, you see, all this is very true.
Only.
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It was to happen to me two years later when I met someone who told me of Theons teaching.
When I was told that the Divine was within the teaching of the Gita, but in words understandable to a Westerner that there was an inner Presence, that one carried the Divine within oneself, oh! What a revelation! In a few minutes, I suddenly understood all, all, all. Understood everything. It brought the contact instantly.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not very long ago I met someone from France who told me, Personally, you understand, I had no wish at all to read Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo translated by H.: no, thank you. And then he read some things translated here. Ah, he said, that makes a difference!
But still, I am not satisfied.
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The tantric guru Sri Aurobindo met in 1907 and from whom he received mental silence.
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0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastiche had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apartboth serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, I congratulate you. Practically the same phrase in both cases. And they both protested: Why are you congratulating me? (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwards.) Why? You did the operationyou should be congratulated for my quick recovery. And in both cases the doctor replied, No, no; we only operate, the body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify as miraculous, and I genuinely congratulate you. And then the two of them had the same reaction they wrote to me saying, We know where the miracle comes from. And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me a remarkable letter a few days before her operation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, I know that the operation is ALREADY done, that the Lord has already done it, and so I am calm.
Things like that, everywhere and PRECISE! So mething quite precise. Of course, to say that I work consciously is almost silly, its commonplace. But in many cases one may work consciously for long years without getting that precision in the result the action enters a hazy atmosphere and makes a kind of stir, and out of it comes the best that can, but no more than that. But now its exact, preciseits becoming interesting.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was an instance of this the other day: someone in a completely detestable mood wrote me a letter; it was impossible, I couldnt reply I didnt know what to say. I simply applied the Force and remained like this (gesture of an offering to the Light). I said, We shall see. Several hours later (I knew I was going to see this person) I didnt even know if I was going to say I had read the letteror rather if what I was going to say would result from having read it. I had come to that pointnothing. But that very morning a little circumstance occurred that changed everything! And when I met the person I knew immediately what had to be said, what had to be done, and everything worked out.
That is ONE example. I mention it because it happened the day before yesterday, but this goes on all the time.
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Note that modern astronomy is divided between the theory of endless phases of contraction-explosion-expansion, and the theory of a universe in infinite expansion starting with a 'Big Bang,' which seems quite as catastrophic, since the universe is then plunging at vertiginous speed into an increasingly cold, empty, and fatal infinity, like a bullet released from all restraints of gravity, until... until what? According to astronomers, an exact measurement of the quantity of matter in a cubic meter of the present universe (one atom for every 400 liters of space) should enable us to decide between these two theories and learn which way it will be best for us to die. If there is more than one atom per 400 liters of space, this quantity of matter will create sufficient gravitation to halt the present expansion of galaxies and induce a contraction, ending with an explosion within an infinitesimal space. If there is less than one atom per 400 liters of space, the quantity of matter and thus the gravitational effect will be insufficient to retain the galaxies within their invisible net, and everything will spin off endlesslyunless we discover, with Mother, a third position, that of a 'progressive equilibrium,' in which the quantity of matter in the universe proves in fact to be a quantity of consciousness, whose contraction or expansion will be regulated by the laws of consciousness.
When the veil of falsehood has gone: the supramental consciousness.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is always what could almost be called a popular way of presenting things. Take the whole Story of the Creation, of how things have come about: it can be told as an unfolding story (this is what Theon did in a book he called The Traditionhe told the whole story in the Biblical manner, with psychological knowledge hidden in symbols and forms). There is a psychological manner of telling things and a metaphysical manner. The metaphysical, for me, is almost incomprehensible; its uninteresting (or interesting only to minds that are made that way). An almost childish, illustrative way of telling things seems more evocative to me than any metaphysical theory (but this is a personal opinion and of no great moment!). The psychological approach is more dynamic for transformation, and Sri Aurobindo usually adopted it. He doesnt tell us stories (I was the one who told him stories! Images are very evocative for me). But if one combines the two approaches. Actually, to be philosophical, one would have to combine the three. But I have always found the metaphysical approach ineffective; it doesnt lead to realization but only gives people the IDEA that they know, when they really know nothing at all. From the standpoint of push, of a dynamic urge towards transformation, the psychological approach is obviously the most powerful. But the other [the symbolic approach] is lovelier!
In The Hour of God, theres a whole diagram of the Manifestation made by Sri Aurobindo3: first comes this, then comes that, then comes the other, and so fortha whole sequence. They published this in the book in all seriousness, but I must say that Sri Aurobindo did it for fun (I saw him do it). Someone had spoken to him about different religions, different philosophical methods Theosophy, Madame Blavatski, all those people (there was Theon, too). Well, each one had made his diagram. So Sri Aurobindo said, I can make a diagram, too, and mine will be much more complete! When he finished it, he laughed and said, But its only a diagram, its just for fun. They published it very solemnly, as if he had made a very serious proclamation. Oh, its a very complicated diagram!
But the trouble is that people will say: whats the need for a descent if all is involved and then evolves? Why a descent? Why should there be an intervention from a higher plane?
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other tradition Theon said it was the origin of both the Kabbala and the Vedasalso held the same concept of divine life and a divine world as Sri Aurobindo: that the summit of evolution would be the divinization of everything objectified, along with an unbroken progression from that moment on. (As things are now, one goes forward and then backwards, then forward and backwards again; but in this divine world, retrogression wont be necessary: there will be a continuous ascent.) This concept was held in that ancient tradition Theon spoke to me very clearly of it, and Sri Aurobindo hadnt yet written anything when I met Theon. Theon had written all kinds of thingsnot philosophy, but stories, fantastic stories! Yet this same knowledge was behind them, and when asked about the source of this knowledge he used to say that it antedated both the Kabbala and the Vedas (he was well-versed in the Rig-veda).
But Theon had no idea of the path of bhakti,5 none whatsoever. The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet he did have the idea of the Divine Presence here (Mother indicates the heart center), of the immanent Divine and of union with That. And he said that by uniting with That and letting That transform the being one could arrive at the divine creation and the transformation of the earth.
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Each time they met, Mother used to give Satprem a little bit of food: cheese, dried soups, etc.
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0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have done my best, all these years, to try to keep him at a distance. He has a powera terrible asuric power. Between you and me, I saw him like that from the start thats why I became involved with him. I never intended to marry him (his family affairs made it necessary), but when we met, I recognized him as an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood that is his origin (what he called the Lord of Nations); and in fact, this being has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries. As for Theon, he was.
It was not by choice that I met all the four Asurasit was a decision of the Supreme. The first one, whom religions call Satan, the Asura of Consciousness, was converted and is still at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood; Richard was an emanation, a vibhuti,1 as they say in India, of this Asura.
Theon was the vibhuti of the Lord of Death.
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He was a pastor at Lille, in France, for perhaps ten years; he was quite a practicing Christian, but he dropped it all as soon as he began to study occultism. He had first specialized in theological philosophy in order to pass the pastoral examinations, studying all the modem philosophy of Europe (he had a rather remarkable metaphysical brain). Then I met him in connection with Theon and the Cosmic Review, and I led him into occult knowledge. Afterwards, there were all sorts of uninteresting stories. He became a lawyer during the early period of our relationship and I learned Law along with him I could even have passed the exam! Then the divorce stories began: he divorced his wife; they had three children and he wanted to keep them, but to do so he had to be legally married, so he asked me to marry himand I said yes. I have always been totally indifferent to these things. Anyway, when I met him I knew who he was and I decided to convert him the whole story revolves around that.
As a matter of fact, the books he wrote (especially the first one, The Living Ether) were based on my knowledge; he put my knowledge into French and beautiful French, I must say! I would tell him my experiences and he would write them down. Later he wrote The Gods (it was incomplete, one-sided). Then he became a lawyer and entered politics (he was a first-class orator and fired his audiences with enthusiasm) and was sent to Pondicherry to help a certain candidate who couldnt manage his election campaign single-handed. And since Richard was interested in occultism and spirituality, he took this opportunity to seek a Master, a yogi. When he arrived, instead of involving himself in politics, the first thing he did was announce, I am seeking a yogi. Someone said to him, Youre incredibly lucky! The yogi has just arrived. It was Sri Aurobindo, who was told, Theres a Frenchman asking to see you. Sri Aurobindo wasnt particularly pleased but he found the coincidence rather interesting and received him. This was in 1910.
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Ah, no! It must all be erased. Simply put a note in your book: Paul Richard, who met Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1910. And you can mention that he was a theological writer or so mething of the sort to explain how he prompted Sri Aurobindo to write.
When he returned, he told me he would take me there as soon as he could.
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This man clearly led a rather loose life. Right after he left here he spent some time in the Himalayas and became a Sannyasi. Then he went to France and from France to England. In England he married againbigamy! I didnt care, of course (the less he showed up in my life, the better), but he was in a fix! One day I suddenly received some official letters from a lawyer telling me I had initiated divorce proceedings against Richard. it seems I had a lawyer over there! A lawyer I had never asked for, whose name I didnt know, a lawyer I didnt even know existedmy lawyer! The trial was taking place at Nice, and I was accusing Richard of abandoning me without any means of support! (That was nothing new I had paid all the expenses from the first day we met! But anyway.) Naturally, he couldnt plead that he was a bigamist; nor could he have me accuse him of being a bigamist, because it was true! So it seemed he hadnt been paying my expenses; but then I wasnt claiming anything from him in the case, no alimonya little incoherent, all that. After a few months I was finally informed that I was divorced, which was rather convenient for me as far as the bank was concerned. I had a marriage contract stipulating that our properties were separate; since I was the one with the money (he had nothing), I wanted to be free to do with it as I pleased. But the French were impossible in such matters: the woman was considered the minor party, so even if the money was the wifes and not the husbands, she couldnt withdraw it without his authorization. I dont know if its still like that, but in those days the husb and always had to countersignan annoying situation! I got around this in Japan (the banker there found the rule stupid and told me to ignore it), but the bank here can be a pain in the neck, so it was good to get this cleared up.
He remarried two or three more times. By now (I believe) he is the father of quite a large family, with grandchildren and perhaps great-grandchildren. He lives in America. Someone once told me he was dead, but I could sense that he wasnt. Then, out of the blue, E. arrived, full of admiration, telling me she had met Richard and how stunningly he could preach to people.
He had quite a life, you know!
0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is no proof that the Rishis used another method, although, to effect this transformation (if they ever did), they must necessarily have fought their way through the powers of inconscience and obscurity.
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0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My impression from the Veda is not the same as yours. You say that when they reached the heights they went into trance and then tried the other method. When I read the Veda at least what Sri Aurobindo translates for us, because otherwise I have no direct knowledge.
But they say nothing about this.
I know my own experience and I can speak of it in detail; and according to what Sri Aurobindo told me, it was the same for himalthough he NEVER wrote of it anywhere. But since it has been my experience, I naturally feel that its the simplest method.
There is also what Theon and Madame Theon used to say. They never spoke of Supermind, but they said the same thing as the Vedas, that the world of Truth must incarnate on earth and create a new world. They even picked up the old phrase from the Gospels, new heavens and a new earth,1 which is the same thing the Vedas speak of. Madame Theon had this experience and she gave me the indication (she didnt actually teach me) of how it was to be done. She would go out of her body and become conscious in the vital world (there were many intermediary states, too, if one cared to explore them). After the vital came the mental: you consciously went out of the vital body, you left it behind (you could see it) and you entered the mental world. Then you left the mental body and entered into. They used different words, another classification (I dont remember it), but even so, the experience was identical. And like that, she successively left twelve different bodies, one after another. She was extremely developed, you seeindividualized, organized. She could leave one body and enter the consciousness of the next plane, fully experience the surroundings and all that was there, describe it and so on, twelve times.
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Afterwards, when I met Sri Aurobindo and talked to him about it, he told me, It is surely the prototype of the supramental form. I saw it several times again, later on, and this proved to be true.
But naturally, you understand, once the border has been crossed, there is no more ascent and descent; you have the feeling of rising up only at the very start, while leaving the terrestrial consciousness and emerging into the higher mind. But once you have gone beyond that, theres no notion of rising; theres a sense, instead, of a sort of inner transformation.
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It is by rising to the summit of consciousness through a progressive ascent (thats what I meant just now by leaving the body, but without going into details), that one unites with the Supermind. But as soon as the union is achieved, one knows and one sees that the Supermind exists in the heart of the Inconscient as well. When one is in that state, there is neither high nor low. But GENERALLY, (I emphasized this to make it clear that I am not making an absolute assertion) it is by REDESCENDING through the levels of the being with a supramentalized consciousness that one can accomplish the permanent transformation of physical nature. (This can be experienced in all sorts of ways, but what WE want and what Sri Aurobindo spoke of is a change that will never be revoked, that will persist, that will be as durable as the present terrestrial conditions. That is why I put permanent.) There is no proof that the Rishis used another method, although, to effect this transformation (if they ever did) they must necessarily have fought their way through the powers of inconscience and obscurity.
Yes, the Rishis give an absolutely living description of what you experience and experience continuallyas soon as you descend into the Subconscient: all these battles with the beings who conceal the Light and so on. I experienced these things continually at Tlemcen and again with Sri Aurobindo when we were doing the Workits raging quite merrily even now!
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But I myself have never had it in trance, and neither did Sri Aurobindonei ther of us ever had trances! I mean the kind of trance where contact with the body is lost. Thats what he always said, and one of the first things I told him when we met was, Well, everybody talks about trance and samadhi and all those things, but I have never had them! I have never lost consciousness. Ah, he replied, its exactly the same for me!
It depends upon the level of development, thats what Theon used to say: One goes into trance only when certain links are missing. He saw people as made up of innumerable small bridges, with intermediary zones. If you have an intermediary zone that is undeveloped, he said, a zone where you are not conscious because its not individualized, then you will be in trance when you cross it. Trance is the sign of non-individualization the consciousness is not awake and so your body goes into trance. But if your consciousness is wide awake you can sit, keeping full contact with things, and have the total experience. I could go out of my body with no need of trance, except when Theon wanted me to do a particular work. That was a different business the vital force (not the consciousness, the vital force) had to go out for that work, so the body had to go into trance. But even then. For instance, very often when I am called and go to do so mething in response, my body does become still, but its not in trance; I can be sitting and, even in the middle of a gesture, suddenly become immobile for a few seconds.7 But I was doing another type of work with Theondangerous work, at thatand it would last for an hour. Then all the bodys vital energy would go out, all of it, as it does when you die (in fact, thats how I came to experience death).
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Dear Sir I must begin by telling you that although this text is an excellent essay, it is not, in its present form, a book for the Spiritual Masters series. Let us enumerate the reasons for this. First of all, the general impression is of an ABSTRACT text. I can straight-away imagine your reaction to this and I dread misunderstandings! But putting myself in the readers place, since, once again, it does involve a collection intended for a wide public that we are beginning to know well, I can assure you that this public will not be able to follow page after page of reflections upon what one is bound to call a philosophical and spiritual system. Obviously this impression is caused primarily by the fact that you have begun with twenty-one pages where the reader is assumed to already know of Sri Aurobindos historical existence and the content of the Vedas and the Upanishads, plus I dont know how many other notions of rite, truth, divinity, wisdom, etc., etc. In my view, and the solution is going to appear cruel to you, for you certainly value these twenty-one pages [on the Secret of the Veda], they should purely and simply be deleted, for everything you say there, which is very rich in meaning, can only become clear when one has read what follows. There are many books in which readers can be asked to make the effort entailed in not understanding the beginning until they have read the end: but not books of popular culture. One could envisage an introduction of three or four pages to situate the spiritual climate and cultural world in which Sri Aurobindos thought has taken place, provided, however, that it is sufficiently descriptive, and not a pre-synthesis of everything to be expounded upon in what follows. In a general way you are going to smile, finding me quite Cartesian! But the readership we address is more or less permeated by a widespread Cartesianism, and you can help them, if you like, to reverse their methodology, but on the condition that you make yourself understood right from the start. Generally, you dont make enough use of analysis and, even before analysis, of a description of the realities being analyzed. That is why the sections of pure philosophical analysis seem much too long to us, and, even apart from the abstract character of the chapter on evolution (which should certainly be shorter), one feels at a positive standstill! After having waited patiently, and so metimes impatiently, for some light to be thrown on Sri Aurobindos own experience, one reads with genuine amazement that one can draw on energies from above instead of drawing on them from the material nature around oneself, or from an animal sleep, or that one can modify his sleep and render it conscious master illnesses before they enter the body. All of that in less than a page; and you conclude that the spirit that was the slave of matter becomes again the master of evolution. But how Sri Aurobindo was led to think this, the experiences that permitted him to verify it, those that permit other men to consider the method transmittable, the difficulties, the obstacles, the realizationsdoesnt this constitute the essence of what must be said to make the reader understand? Once again, it is the question of a pedagogy intimately tied in with the spirit of the collection. Let me add as well that I always find it deplorable when a thought is not expressed purely for its own sake, but is accompanied by an aggressive irony towards concepts which the author does not share. This is pointless and harms the ideas being presented, all the more so because they are expressed in contrast with caricatured notions: the allusions you make to such concepts as you think yourself capable of evoking the soul, creation, virtue, sin, salvationwould only hold some interest if the reader could find those very concepts within himself. But, as they are caricatured by your pen, the reader is given the impression of an all too easily obtained contrast between certain ideas admired and others despised. Whereas it would be far more to the point if they corresponded to so mething real in the religious consciousness of the West. I have too much esteem for you and the spiritual world in which you live to avoid saying this through fear of upsetting you.
Amen.
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But so mething else could be done. Its a great pity you never met him. Perhaps its best. Its very difficult to rise above appearances.3
Here, just to give you an example: when I first began to work (not with Theon personally but with an acquaintance of his in France, a boy4 who was a friend of my brother), well, I had a series of visions (I knew nothing about India, mind you, nothing, just as most Europeans know nothing about it: a country full of people with certain customs and religions, a confused and hazy history, where a lot of extraordinary things are said to have happened. I knew nothing.) Well, in several of these visions I saw Sri Aurobindo just as he looked physically, but glorified; that is, the same man I would see on my first visit, almost thin, with that golden-bronze hue and rather sharp profile, an unruly beard and long hair, dressed in a dhoti with one end of it thrown over his shoulder, arms and chest bare, and bare feet. At the time I thought it was vision attire! I mean I really knew nothing about India; I had never seen Indians dressed in the Indian way.
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As for Theon, he was European and wore a long purple robe that wasnt at all like the one in my vision. (Im not sure, but I think he was either Polish or Russian, but more probably Russian, of Jewish descent, and that he was forced to leave his country; he never said anything about this to anyone, its only an impression.) When I saw him I recognized him as a being of great power. And he bore a certain likeness to Sri Aurobindo: Theon was about the same size (not a tall man, of medium height) and thin, slim, with quite a similar profile. But when I met Theon I saw (or rather I felt) that he was not the man I saw in my vision because he didnt have that vibration. Yet it was he who first taught me things, and I went and worked at Tlemcen for two years in a row. But this other thing was always there in the background of the consciousness.
Then when Richard came here he met Sri Aurobindo (he was haunted by the idea of meeting the Master, the Guru, the Great Teacher). Sri Aurobindo was in hiding, seeing no one, but when Richard insisted, he met him, and Richard returned with a photograph. It was one of those early photos, with nothing in it. It was empty, the remnants of the political man, not at all resembling what I had seen I didnt recognize him. Its strange, I said to myself, thats not it (for I saw only his external appearance, there was no inner contact). But still, I was curious to meet him. At any rate, I cant say that when I saw this photograph I felt, Hes the one! Not at all. He impressed me as being a very interesting man, but no more.
I came here. But so mething in me wanted to meet Sri Aurobindo all alone the first time. Richard went to him in the morning and I had an appointment for the afternoon. He was living in the house thats now part of the second dormitory, the old Guest House.5 I climbed up the stairway and he was standing there, waiting for me at the top of the stairs. EXACTLY my vision! Dressed the same way, in the same position, in profile, his head held high. He turned his head towards me and I saw in his eyes that it was He. The two things clicked (gesture of instantaneous shock), the inner experience immediately became one with the outer experience and there was a fusion the decisive shock.
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This can all be narrated in a very simple way; these things are not metaphysical. It involves occultism, of course, but its utterly concrete and simple: things a child could understand.
And these are the real milestones of the whole Story.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, I can say one thing about this. Theres a type of woman I have met more or less periodically throughout my life. These beings are under the influence, or are incarnations of, or in any case are responsive to forces which Theon called passivenot exactly feminine forces, but on the Prakriti2 side of the universe: the dark Prakriti side (there is an active dark side, the asuric forces, and a passive dark side). And these are terrible beings, terrible! They have wreaked havoc in life. They represent one of the creations biggest difficulties. And they are attracted to me! Mon petit, they adore me, they detest me, they would like to destroy meand individually they CANNOT do without me! They come to me like like fireflies to light. And they hate me! They would like to crush me. Thats how it is.
I have met five women like that, the last two here (they were the most terrible). Its a phenomenon of hate and rage mixed with loves greatest power of attractionno sweetness, of course, no tenderness, nothing like that but NEED, loves greatest power of attraction, mixed with hate. And they cling, you know, and then what fun!
I had a session like that some days agoits a work Im pursuing. (Likewise, I have constantly been with the adverse force I once told you about,3 who keeps incarnating especially to harass meso theres also this phenomenon, amiably passing from one being to another!) Anyway, not long ago I had given an appointment to this woman and had decided not to say anythingbecause there was nothing to be done (the most beautiful things go rotten, theres nothing to do). So I remained silent, indrawn, fully in contact with the Supreme Presence, with the external personality annulled (this experience, in fact, lasting almost one hour, is what gave me the key to everything that has been happening lately). There was only the Supreme, nothing else the Supreme THERE, in that very body, mon petit, in that whole agglomeration and in that apparently absolutely anti-divine influenceHIS Presence was there!
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But truly, EVERYTHING was changed at that moment: so mething was achieved. It was the perception of Power the Power that comes from Love (what Love is to the Supreme Consciousness, which has nothing to do with what we usually mean by the word love). And it was it was simple! None of those complications resulting from thought, intellect, understandingall that was gone, all gone. A formidable Power! And it made me understand one thing, that the state I had been put in (by the Lord of Yoga, in fact) was for obtaining the particular power that comes through an identity with all material things, a power possessed by certain personsnot always yogis, certain mediums, for instance. I saw it with Madame Theon: she would will a thing to come to her instead of going to the thing herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her mattershe exercised a will over her matterher central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as so mething accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an organization of Matter. And so I began to understand: With this comes the power to put each thing in its place! provided one is universal enough.
Well, I have understood. And now I know where I stand.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Given the worlds present set-up, this is normal but if the supramental world were to be realized, it shouldnt remain normal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physical substance. That will probably be the essential difference between the bodies fashioned by Natures methods and those to be fashioned by supramental knowledgea new element will come in, and we will no longer be natural. But so long as this natural element is present, well, a certain amount of patience is probably requiredlet the body catch its breath, otherwise so mething gives way.
It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant battle against all opposing forces. All that can go.
0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And EXACTLY five years later, it happened. Later I met people coming from China who told me it had all been the work of a secret society. They told me about it because that society used a certain sign, and instinctively, unknowingly, I had made that sign while one of them was talking to me (Mother puts one fist on top of the other). And the person said, Ah, so youre one of us! I didnt reply. Then he told me everything.
But its really interesting because the exact date was given. The revolution will take place in exactly five years, he told me. He knew it before he left. And that, he continued, will be the beginning, the first terrestrial movement heralding the transformation of. (Theon didnt use the word supramental; he used to talk about the new world on earth.)2
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has so metimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though so metimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or so mething like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down so mething of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I also remember reading The Tradition, before I met Sri Aurobindo (it was like a novel, a serialized romance of the worlds creation, but it was very evocative; Theon called it The Tradition). That was where I first learned of the universal Mothers first four emanations, when the Lord delegated his creative power to the Mother. And it was identical to the ancient Indian tradition, but told like a nursery story; anyone could understandit was an image, like a movie, and very vivid.
So She made her first four emanations. The first was Consciousness and Light (arising from Sachchidananda); the second was Ananda and Love; the third was Life; and Truth was the fourth. Then, so the story goes, conscious of their infinite power, instead of keeping their connection with the supreme Mother and, through Her, with the Supreme, instead of receiving indications for action from Him and doing things in proper order, they were conscious of their own power and each one took off independently to do as he pleased they had power and they used it. They forgot their Origin. And because of this initial oblivion, Consciousness became unconsciousness, and Light became darkness; Ananda became suffering, Love became hate; Life became Death; and Truth became Falsehood. And they were instantly thrown headlong into what became Matter. According to Theon, the world as we know it is the result of that. And that was the Supreme himself in his first manifestation.
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And to Theon, the God of the Jews and Christians was an Asura. This Asura wanted to be unique; and so he became the most terrible despot imaginable. Anatole France said the same thing (I now know that Anatole France had never read Theons story, but I cant imagine where he picked this up). Its in The Revolt of the Angels. He says that Satan is the true God and that Jehovah, the only God, is the monster. And when the angels wanted Satan to become the one and only God, Satan realized he was immediately taking on all Jehovahs failings! So he refused: Oh, nothank you very much! Its a wonderful story, and in exactly the same spirit as what Theon used to say. The very first thing I asked Anatole France (I told you I met him oncemutual friends introduced us), the first thing I asked him was, Have you ever read The Tradition? He said no. I explained why I had asked, and he was interested. He said his source was his own imagination. He had caught that idea intuitively.
Well, if you speak this way to philosophers and metaphysicians, theyll look at you as if to say, You must be a real simpleton to believe all that claptrap! But these things are not to be taken as concrete truths they are simply splendid images. Through them I really did come in contact, very concretely, with the truth of what caused the worlds distortion, much better than with all the Hindu stories, far more easily.
Buddhism and all similar lines of thought took the shortest path: The desire to exist is what has caused all the trouble. If the Lord had refrained from having this desire, there would have been no world! Its childish, very childish, really a much too human way of looking at the problem.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But Sujata, for example, was completely, COMPLETELY free of the whole (what shall I say?) what could be called the unhappy aspect of her karmacompletely free. For I know the people around me and what they carry with them very well, and there was nothingjust one thing remained, the one part that was rather constructive, so I had left that totally intact. And when the events of her past life were revealed to her, I took the greatest care to destroy the revelation as it was being given. And I did it ruthlessly. You see, it was like dumping a load of mud on someone completely unsullied, and I didnt let it happen (I couldnt stop what entered through her physical brain, but inwardly I utterly annihilated it). The only thing I left untouched was the constructive part of the bond that had existed between you two, and so when she met you, she. Thats all I left, because it was good, pure, lovelyit was good. But all the rest. And you saw how strongly I protested when I was told she had committed suicide. No, no, no! I said; even if somebody with perfect knowledge were to tell me so, Id still say NO.
She is untainted by all thatpure and I wont stand for someone pure to be soiled. She was so much my child that after her death everything was carefully cleansed, arranged, put back in place, organized, purified. So she returned unblemished and pure, and I dont want her soiled.
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And so according to your mission in the world, you have to find for yourself the right proportion between this work and external, intellectual or organizational work; and then there are the bodys needs, which can be met in the same way, trying to make it possible for the Lord to take delight in them. I have seen this for trivial things: for example, making your bath a pleasant experience, or caring for your hair, or whatever (of course, its been a long time since there have been any of those stupid, petty ideas of personal pleasure), so that these things arent done indifferently, out of habit and necessity, but with a touch of beauty, a touch of charm and delight for the Lord.
There, thats all.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It touched all the parts of my body and all the workings of the organs in successionvery, very methodically.
But is it necessary? Is all this disorganization necessary? Perhaps I call it disorganization when it isnt. You know, we are totally ignorant in that realm. We have our old human ways of seeing, but when it comes to the bodys functioning, we know nothing about whats good or not. Or even whats painful or not: the bodys initial impulse is to feel the pain, but upon reflection and attentive observation, we see it is simply an intensity of sensation were not used to. So it could well have been that. And if we were used to it (and especially if we didnt think of it as so mething troublesome), we would feel quite differently about it. In any case, its not so mething unbearablewe can bear a lot of things, much more than we imagine.
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And exhale slowly thats very difficultbeing careful to empty the top part of the lungs, because air often stagnates there. This seems to be one of the most frequent causes of coughs and colds. When I had bronchitis I learned to empty the air out completely. And I knew singing, so I was familiar with the method: you learn to hold the air and then release it slowly, slowly, so as to keep singing nonstop.
I advise you to practice it.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But what is the method?
Oh, the method is quite easy! There are various disciplines. It depends on what you want to achieve.
It depends. Each thing has its method. But the primary method is to want it, to make a decision. Then you are given a description of all these senses and how they function thats a lengthy process. You choose one sense (or several), perhaps the one for which you have the greatest initial aptitude, and you decide. Then you follow the discipline. Its similar to doing exercises for developing muscles. You can even manage to create willpower in yourself.
For the subtler senses, the method is to create an exact image of what you want, make contact with the corresponding vibration and then concentrate and practice. For instance, you practice seeing through an object, or hearing through a sound2 or seeing at a distance. As an example, I was once bedridden for several months, which I found quite boring I wanted to see. I was staying in one room and beyond that room was another little room and after that a sort of bridge; in the middle of the garden the bridge changed into a stairway going down into a very spacious and beautiful studio built in the middle of the garden.3 I wanted to go see what was happening in the studio I was bored stiff in my room! So I stayed very still, shut my eyes and gradually, gradually sent out my consciousness. I did the exercise regularly, day after day, at a set hour. You begin with your imagination, and then it becomes a fact. After a while, I distinctly sensed my vision physically moving: I followed it and saw things going on downstairs I knew absolutely nothing about. I would verify it in the evening, asking, Did it happen like this? Was that how it was?
But each of these things must be practiced for months, patiently, almost stubbornly. You take the senses one after another: hearing, sight, and eventually even the subtle aspects of taste, smell and touch.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its that old habit, the old fear of being lazy. It took me. But Sri Aurobindo cured me of that rather quickly. Thats how it was before I met him. And thats the first thing he did: he gave me a tap on the head, and all activity ceasedtotal silence, all mental constructions and habits swept away in the blink of an eye.
I was very careful not to let it come back.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because it comes from very highits not from here, not at all; it was decided on high, and a long, LONG time ago. Before you came here, I was constantly feeling. Besides, it hadnt been so long without Sri Aurobindo; when Sri Aurobindo was here I had nothing to say, and if I did speak it was almost by chance. Thats all. What had to be said was said by him. And when he left and I began to read his books (which I hadnt read before), I told myself, Well, what do you know! There was absolutely no need for me to say anything. And I had less and less desire to speak. The minute I met you, I began to get interested. Ah, I thought, collaboration! So mething interesting can be done.
None of this is random chance. Its not that were taking advantage of circumstances, not at all; it was DECREED.
0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is in that group a man whom I must have seen once or twice, who is not with them in spirit, but only in appearance, but without knowledge. He does not know what kind of being it is. And he always hopes to make him accept me, believing it is truly Sri Aurobindo. I saw this being last night. I wont tell you all the details of the vision. It is not necessary. But I must say that I was fully conscious, aware of everything, knowing that there was an Asuric Force there, but not rejecting it, because of the infinity of Sri Aurobindo. I knew that everything is part of him and I do not want to reject anything. I met this being last night three times, even apologized for sins that I have not committed, and in full love and surrender.
I woke up at twelve, remembering everything.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To illustrate this, Mother added: "I was always BATHED in the atmosphere of the people around metheir thoughts, their ways of feeling and seeing and understanding."
On April 3, Mother said: "I am no more in my body."
0 1962-05-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It dawned on me that that approach, which used to be so useful to me, so convenient, helping me do my yoga and giving me a grip on Matter, is simply a method, a means, a procedureit is not THAT.
Well, thats the state I am in.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Splendid. I am infinitely grateful to her. My body has never asked for fun or well-being or anything else. Thats life, it said, and you just have to take it as it is. And thats why when I first met someone who told me it could be otherwise (I was already past twenty), I said, Oh, really? Is that so? (Mother laughs) And then when he told me all about Thons teachings and The Cosmic Life and about the inner God and a new world that would be a world of beauty and (at least) of peace and light well, I rushed into it headlong.
But even then I was told: It depends on YOU alone, not on circumstancesabove all, dont blame circumstances; you must find it in yourself, the transformative element is within you. And you can do it wherever you are, even in a cell at the bottom of a hole. The groundwork was already done, you see, since the body never asked for anything.
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To open here (gesture to the heart), the method is a bit too classical, in that you would inevitably fall back into classical learning, all the classical methods and meansit will happen by itself, quite naturally.
And here (umbilical region): so mething like a quiet ease (theres no equivalent in French). A quiet ease. It has been all cramped up, and now it must widen. The inner life of the prana must be widened (the inner vital, the true vital, the being that has the experiences I told you about the piece of glass, the glimpse of the sea); thats what must widen. And vast, vast. It is all cramped up and it suffers. It has to be relaxed inwardly, by bringing in the Force, the Force of that new experience [April 13]: apply it there. And you simply let yourself go; if you could catch hold of the wave movement, that would be perfect.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with so mething very, very material) I have so metimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And so metimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
It will come.
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And yet I have noticed that to associate a certain state and a certain aspiration with a certain sound helps the body. No one told me the mantra; I had begun doing japa before we met X (it had come to me when I was trying to find a means of getting the body to take part in the experience the body itself, you know: THIS). And this help was certainly given to me, because the method imposed itself very, very imperiouslywhen I heard certain Words it was like an electric shock. And then, disregarding all Sanskrit rules, I made myself a sentence; it isnt really a Sanskrit sentence, or any kind of sentence at alla phrase made up of three Words. And these three Words are full of meaning for me. (I wouldnt mention it to a Sanskritist!) They have a full, living meaning. And they have been repeated literally millions and millions of times, I am not exaggerating they surge up from the body spontaneously.
It was the first sound that came from the body when I had that last experience [April 13]. Along with the first pain, came that first soundso it must be quite well rooted.6 And it brings in exactly that vibration of eternal Life: the first thing I felt, all of a sudden, was a kind of strong calm, confident and smiling.
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then someone came. There are symbolic people in these dreams; they seem to be made up of various parts of the beings of those around me, people who have a particular relationship with me and bring a particular help to the Work. They are symbolic characters and always the same: one of them is tall and thin, some are small, there are young ones, old ones. I cant say its this person or that person, but rather that so mething IN this or that person is represented in these characters. And one of them is like a big brotherhe helps out in certain circumstances; if theres a boat, for instance, the big brother steers it. So he came up to me and said, Yes, I know the method, and began to try. Stop, for heavens sake! I said. Youll spoil everything; to make it work I have to say: I WANT TO GO THERE. When he began trying to bring me across with his own methods, the water grew muddy again and I started to sink! No no no! I protested. Dont do that, thats notit at all! THAT has to (although I wasnt formulating it to myself, what I meant was the sense of a certain higher Will) THAT has to say: I WANT TO GO THERE; then it works.
After that, the experience changed, other things happened. But what I have just related is certainly part and parcel of that experience the other day [the two rooms, one inside the other], because the two were coexistent.1
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Material knowledge, I think I mean the higher use of the physical mind, which keeps you from entering the true room.2 Because I simply kept repeating, I have to say: I WANT TO GO THERE (in other words, it was a crystal clear, imperative will coming from the highest level) I have to say: I WANT TO GOnot that, not your methods! (Mother laughs.)
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But isnt there a practical method?
A practical method yes.
First of all, materially speaking, when you wake up you must ALWAYS KEEP STILL. You have to teach your body. You know, you mustnt even (gesture) move your head. Keep completely still. And stay like that, suspended between sleep and waking, with a very TRANQUIL will to remember.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is a period of study and observation. There is absolutely nothing to say. Its a whole world of minute observations which, I hope, will lead me towards so mething more positive. More exactly, its a demonstration of the inadequacy of the usual methods when it comes to acting according to Truth and it goes on night and day.
Two nights ago, I had an experience I hadnt had for perhaps more than a year. A sort of concentration and accumulation of divine Energy in the cells of the body. During a certain period (I dont remember when), every night I had a kind of recharging of batteries through contact with universal forces; I had it again two nights ago, spontaneously. Then last night, when I wanted to look, to study, to understand how it worked, I was given a lavish demonstration of the inadequacy and utter uselessness of all processes of consciousness working through the mind. They are useless, they simply spoil the experience.
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Last night I said to myself, Now look, thats not so brilliantif we are still no farther than that. You see, I was having an experience of (it wasnt an experience, really, but quite a normal state that was continuing and, as far as I could see, was practically continuous) a recharging of batteries. But there was also a kind of receiving and observing devicedetestable! And I used to think it was excellent! For years before last April, everything was very calm, the mind was always turned this way (gesture above), silent, and there was a sort of functioning I thought it was very good! Well, I have realized that its worthless. Mind you, I wish everyone could have what I had! It was extremely handy, far beyond ordinary mental methods but in fact, its not true. It is still a a gimmick. Not the TRUE thing. Its still one of the things that keep life from being divine, so its worthless!
But what in our present existence doesnt keep life from being divine? Nothing I know of! (Mother laughs) happily, Sri Aurobindo and I were the same on this point [a sense of humor]. Effortlessly, from a very young age, so mething in me has always laughed. It sees all the catastrophes, sees all the suffering, sees it all and cant help laughing the way one laughs at so mething that pretends to be but isnt.
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Before I met Sri Aurobindo they would come and come and come to me, night after night and so metimes during the daya mass of things! Afterwards I told Sri Aurobindo about it, and he explained to me that it was quite natural. And indeed, it is quite natural: with the present incarnation of the Mahashakti (as he described it in Savitri), whatever is more or less bound up with Her wants to take part, thats quite natural. And its particularly true for the vital: there has always been a preoccupation with organizing, centralizing, developing and unifying the vital forces, and controlling them. So theres a considerable number of vital beings, each with its own particular ability, who have played their role in history and now return.
But this one [the tall white Being] is not of human origin; it was not formed in a human life: it is a being that had already incarnated, and is one of those who presided over the formation of this present being [Mother]. But, as I said, I saw it: it was sexless, neither male nor female, and as intrepid as the vital can be, with a calm but absolute power. Ah, I found a very good description of it in one of Sri Aurobindos plays, when he speaks of the goddess Athena (I think its in Perseus, but I am not sure); she has that kind of its an almighty calm, and with such authority! Yes, its in Perseuswhen she appears to the Sea-God and forces him to retreat to his own domain. Theres a description there that fits this Being quite well.3
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the time I met Thon, it all got clarified: I saw it all clearly, understood and organized it. But a good deal of it happened beforeeverything I have just told you happened before I met Thon.
One after the other, these vital beings came, you say, and some of them have even been in men.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then look at India. Except for some solitary giants, everywhere there is your simple man, that is, the average man who does not want to think and cannot think, who has not the least Shakti but only a temporary excitement. In India, you want the simple thought, the easy word. In Europe they want the deep thought, the deep word; there even an ordinary laborer or artisan thinks, wants to know, is not satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thought-power can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddlenebulous metaphysics, yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is being made in Europe to surmount even this limitation. We already have the spiritual sensewe owe it to our forefa thersand whoever has that sense has at his disposal such Knowledge and Shakti as with one breath might blow away all the huge power of Europe like a blade of grass. But to get that Shakti one must be a worshiper of Shakti. We are not worshipers of Shakti. We are worshipers of the easy way. But Shakti is not to be had by the easy way. Our forefa thers dived into a sea of vast thought and gained a vast Knowledge and established a mighty civilization. As they went on in their way, fatigue and weariness came upon them. The force of thought diminished and with it also the strong current of Shakti. Our civilization has become an achalayatana [prison], our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of religious intoxication. And so long as this sort of thing continues, any permanent resurgence of India is improbable
In Bengal this weakness has gone to the extreme. The Bengali has a quick intelligence, emotional capacity and intuition. He is foremost in India in all these qualities. All of them are necessary but they do not suffice. If to these there were added depth of thought, calm strength, heroic courage and a capacity for and pleasure in prolonged labor, the Bengali might be a leader not only of India, but of mankind. But he does not want that, he wants to get things done easily, to get knowledge without thinking, the fruits without labor, siddhi by an easy sadhana [discipline]. His stock is the excitement of the emotional mind. But excess of emotion, empty of knowledge, is the very symptom of the malady. In the end it brings about fatigue and inertia. The country has been constantly and gradually going down. The life-power has ebbed away. What has the Bengali come to in his own country? He cannot get enough food to eat or clothes to wear, there is lamentation on all sides, his wealth, his trade and commerce, his lands, his very agriculture have begun to pass into the hands of others. We have abandoned the sadhana of Shakti and Shakti has abandoned us. We do the sadhana of Love, but where Knowledge and Shakti are not, there Love does not remain, there narrowness and littleness come, and in a little and narrow mind there is no place for Love. Where is Love in Bengal? There is more quarreling, jealousy, mutual dislike, misunderstanding and faction there than anywhere else even in India which is so much afflicted by division.
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You say that what is needed is maddening enthusiasm, to fill the country with emotional excitement. In the time of the Swadeshi [fight for independence, boycott of English goods] we did all that in the field of politics, but what we did is all now in the dust. Will there be a more favorable result in the spiritual field? I do not say there has been no result. There has been. Any movement will produce some result, but for the most part in terms of an increase of possibility. This is not the right method, however, to steadily actualize the thing. Therefore I no longer wish to make emotional excitement or any intoxication of the mind the base. I wish to make a large and strong equanimity the foundation of the yoga. I want established on that equality a full, firm and undisturbed Shakti in the system and in all its movements. I want the wide display of the light of Knowledge in the ocean of Shakti. And I want in that luminous vastness the tranquil ecstasy of infinite Love, Delight and Oneness. I do not want hundreds of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, purified of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God. I have no faith in the customary trade of the guru. I do not wish to be a guru. If anybody wakes and manifests from within his slumbering godhead and gets the divine lifebe it at my touch or at anothersthis is what I want. It is such men that will raise the country.
You must not think from all this lecture that I despair of the future of Bengal. I too hope, as they say, that this time a great light will manifest itself in Bengal. Still I have tried to show the other side of the shield, where the fault is, the error, the deficiency. If these remain, the light will not be a great light and it will not be permanent.
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Lele, a tantric guru Sri Aurobindo met in 1908, who gave him the realization of mental silence and Nirvana.
Rama, the divine Avatar who killed the demon Ravana with the help of Hanuman and the other monkeys.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then conscious yoga made a sudden entry into the picture when I met Thon; I must have been about twenty-one. Lifes orientation changed, a whole series of experiences took place, with the development of the vital giving interesting occult results.
Then, a period of intensive mental development, mental development of the most complete type: a study of all the philosophies, all the conceptual juggling, in minute detaildelving into systems, getting a grasp on them. Ten years of intensive mental studies leading me to Sri Aurobindo.
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Is it different for men? I dont know. Sri Aurobindos case was quite special, and apart from him I dont see any convincing example. But generally speaking, what is most developed in a man, along with the mind, is the physical consciousness; the vital is very impulsive, practically ungoverned. Thats my experience of the hundreds and hundreds of men I have met. Theres normally a physical strength built up through games and exercises, and side by side a more or less advanced, but primarily mental development, very mental. The vital is terribly impulsive and barely organized, except in artists, and even there. I lived among artists for ten years and found this ground to be mostly fallow. I mingled with all the great artists of the time, I was like a kid sister to them (it was at the turn of the century, with the Universal Exposition in 1900; and these were the leading artists of the epoch); so I was by far the youngest, much younger than any of themthey were all thirty, thirty-five, forty years old, while I was nineteen or twenty. Well I was much more advanced in their own fieldnot in what I was producing (I was a perfectly ordinary artist), but from the viewpoint of consciousness: observations, experiences, studies.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that the problem of consciousness ought to come first.
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But I have never been able to do it for anyonenot like that, with such plenitudenever, never. Its fantastic! It was stupendous! Truly we can say that only the Lord can do such a thing, He alone. Without the slightest effort, without even seeming to he didnt even seem to concentrate, nothing, just like that. You never met him, did you?
Yes, I had a darshan.
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Still, theres a difference when one has met him [physically].
I saw him once, I had a darshan in 1948.
0 1962-07-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen that the different stages of my development occurred in twelve-year periods, though I dont recall the exact dates. The first period, from the age of five (I cant start earlier than five!) to about eighteen, dealt with consciousness. Then came all the artistic and vital development, culminating in the occult development with Thon (I met Thon around 1905 or 06, I think1). Then right around this time an intensive mental development beganfrom 1908 to 1920, or a little before; but it was especially intense before coming here in 1914.
And 1920 marked the beginning of full development. Not spiritual development that had been going on from the very start but ACTION, the action with Sri Aurobindo. That was clearly from 1920 on; I had met Sri Aurobindo earlier, but it really began in 1920.2
And the realization of the inner Divine?
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In fact, Mother met Theon for the first time one day in 1904, in Paris. Then she went to Tlemcen in 1905 and again in 1906.
When Mother returned from Japan in April 1920.
0 1962-07-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Psychology: thats abstract. What they want is: on such and such a date he went to this place, saw these people and did thisall the most external and banal sorts of things. Even yoga boils down to: he sat down and stayed there for so many hours, he had this vision, he tried out that method, he did asanas and breathing exercises. That, for them, is concrete. That and that alone. Psychology is thoroughly abstractthoroughly. Its unreal to them.
But Ive tried to be as concrete as possible! Like cutting up a rat on a dissecting table to see whats inside it.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can see more rapid methods, but they are essentially part of the supramental world.
To change a karma, to stop a karma, to withdraw a certain number of vibrations from circulation, as it were, requires yet another movement, another movement altogether and that Power isnt yet at hand. Thats what will yield visible, tangible results. The other movement has very tangible and concrete results, but theyre invisible (to human observation, that is, which is much too limited and superficial). But it obviously does have results. That vision of terror clearly diverted the course of events that nations were being pushed into. But only someone with inner vision can see it.
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I always had that same impressionit was always like that in his room; and I would always have that impression whenever I met him. And even when I was working, all the while I would feel him behind me, doing everything. But this was much stronger. Much stronger. It was one was caught up and there was no way to get out of it. Thats how it was so mething ABSOLUTE.
Ive asked no one, Ive told no one, I havent said anything about it, not a word; youre the first. When Pavitra came yesterday I smilingly asked him if hed had a good meditation, thats all. He said yes. So I told him, Well, Sri Aurobindo was sitting on you! (Mother laughs) I was sitting below, in Sri Aurobindos room, he replied. He was there too! I said (Mother laughs).
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its more like part of the kundalini method. Its not an exteriorization, but the mental opening to higher realms.
So metimes it happens just when Im falling asleep.
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For a long, long time, that was also the one thing I felt was worth living forConsciousness. When I met Thon and came to understand the mechanism, I also understood why I wasnt conscious at a certain level. I think Ive told you how I spent ten months one year working to connect two layerstwo layers of consciousness; the contact wasnt established and so I couldnt have the spontaneous experience of a whole spectrum of things. Madame Thon told me, Its because theres an undeveloped layer between this part and that part. I was very conscious of all the gradations: Thon had explained it all in the simplest terms, so you didnt need to be, as I said, a genius to understand. He had made a quadruple division, and each of them was divided into four, and then again into four, making innumerable divisions of the being; but with that mental simplification you could make in-depth psychological studies of your own being. And so by observation and elimination I eventually discovered that between this and that (gesture indicating two levels of Mothers consciousness), there was an undeveloped layerit wasnt conscious. So I worked for ten months on nothing but that: absolutely no results. I didnt care, I kept right on, telling myself, Well, it may take me fifty years to get anywhere, who knows. And then I left for the country (I was living in Paris at the time). I lay down on the grass, and all at once, with the contact of earth and grass, poof! There was a sort of inner explosion the link was established, and full consciousness came, along with all the ensuing experiences. Well, I said to myself, it was worth all the trouble!
And I am sure thats how the work is done, slowly, imperceptibly, like a chick being formed in the egg: you see the shell, you see only the shell, you dont know whats inside, whether its just an egg or a chick (normally, I meanof course, you could see through with special instruments) and then the beak goes peck-peck! And then cheep! Out comes the chick, just like that. Its the same thing exactly for the contact with the psychic being. For months on end, so metimes years, you may be sitting before a closed door, push, push, pushing, and feeling, feeling the pressure (it hurts!), and theres nothing, no results. Then all at once, you dont know why or how, you sit down and poof! Everything bursts wide open, everything is ready, everything is doneits over, you emerge into a full psychic consciousness and become intimate with your psychic being. Then everything changeseverything changesyour life completely changes, its a total reversal of your whole existence.
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But if I only had a method!
There are methodsbooks are full of them. I dont recommend any of them: its always the method the author uses or has heard of. Everyone has to find his own method.
One can get certain hints, one can find ones own method.
But one has to. Look, its the same as for japa. Your japa is given to you, isnt it? You receive it (unless you find it on your own, but thats harder and already requires another level of realization); you receive your japa along with the power to do it but you have to learn how to do it, right? For a long while you dont fully succeed; all sorts of things happenyou forget it right in the middle or fall asleep or grow tired, get a headache, all sorts of things; or even outer circumstances interfere and disturb you. Well, here its the same: you tell yourself, Ill do it, and you will do it, even if. You have to go at it just like a mule: everything blocks the way but you keep going. You said youd do it and you will do it. There are no results I dont care. Everything is against me I dont care. I said Id do it and I will I said Id do it and I will. And you keep on going like that.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At their maximum, at the height of their possibilities, human conceptions can at the VERY BEST express so mething or other of the overmind. For me it is very vivid, very familiar, because I have lived there a lot. But even so, I consider words too awkward to express italthough with poetic metaphors you might just manage to convey an impression of it. But as for speaking of the Other Thing, I am quite aware that. Because even when youre right in the Experience, the only thing you feel like doing is keeping quiet. You cant talk. As soon as you utter a word, poof! It all clouds over. Its useless.
But physically, for instance, you see this object [Satprem picks up a paperweight]. Now, I see it in a certain way but you, with a supramental consciousness?
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I met another Chinese a few years ago, a man with a spiritual life. He came to meet me and talked for an hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative powerinventors. He told me, No people in the world could understand Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese. And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual comprehension, really at its peak.
Its another story when it comes to doing yoga. Although that must depend entirely on the individual. The Chinese dont have the same spiritual intensity you find rooted in the Indian characterits so mething completely different. Here, spiritual life is real, concrete, tangibletotally real. For the Chinese it all happens at the top of the head.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My method is essentially very simple: for each thing that comes, I say, Here, Lord, its for You; change it, transform it. A work of offering and dedication (gesture of presenting so mething to the Light). And this morning there was a sort of replynot exactly to a question, but as though I were wondering How do I do it? (because the Lord tells me I am here for His work), How do I do His work? Whats the new way of doing the Work? We know all the old ways, but whats the new way? And the reply came, very concrete, without words: By bringing the two extremes together. Everything you see, everything that comes to you or that you discover is automatically put in the presence of the Most High, of the Supreme. You join the two extremes. Your whole work is to make the junction.
And now you read me all this! Its as if you were explaining itdont you find that interesting! (Mother laughs) I find it VERY interesting.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this side of Bengal and Assam is full of Chinese who settled there years and years ago; there are thousands and thousands of them, doing business. And all the communists support them, and it seems they keep a very accurate and meticulous list of those for and those against communism. (What do they base it on? I dont knowon what people say or do.) And the idea is that its all going to be taken like this (gesture of encircling India).
Its nasty.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day, I dont remember on what occasion, I saw what had motivated the forefa thers who wrote the Vedas: it was the need for immortality; they were in quest of immortality.6 From there, I went on to Buddha and saw what had set the Buddha on his way: this kind of need for permanence, purely and simply; the vision of the impermanence of things had profoundly troubled him, and he felt the need for Permanence. His whole quest was to find the Permanent (why was he so anxious to have the Permanent?). There are a few things like that in human nature, in the deep human need. And then I saw another such need: a need for the Certitude which is security. I dont know how to explain it. Because I had the experience of it, I saw it was one of the human needs; and I understood it very intensely, for when I met Sri Aurobindo, this Certitude is what made me feel I had found the Truth I needed. And I didnt realize how DEEP this need was until he left his bodyjust then, at the moment of the transition. Then the entire physical consciousness felt its certitude and security collapse. At that moment I saw (we spoke about it with Nolini a year later and he had had exactly the same impression), I saw this was similar to Buddhas experience when he realized that everything was impermanent and so all of life collapsed in other words, So mething Else HAD to be found. Well, at that moment. Id already had all my experiences, but with Sri Aurobindo, for the thirty years I lived with him (a little more than thirty years), I lived in an absolute, an absolute of securitya sense of total security, even physical, even the most material security. A sense of absolute security, because Sri Aurobindo was there. And it held me up, you know, like this (gesture of being carried): not for ONE MINUTE in those thirty years did it leave me. That was why I could do my work with a Base, really, a Base of absolutenessof eternity and absoluteness. I realized it when he left: THAT suddenly collapsed.
And then I understood that it is one of lifes needs (there are several); and its what spurs the human being to get out of his present state and find another one. These needs are (whats the word?) the seeds, the germs of evolution. They compel us to progress. The whole time Sri Aurobindo was here, as I said, individual progress was automatic: all the progress Sri Aurobindo made, I made. But I was in a state of eternity, of absoluteness, with a feeling of such security, in every circumstance. Nothing, nothing unfortunate could happen, for he was there. So when he left, all at oncea fall into a pit. And thats what projected me wholly (Mother gestures forward).
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was in both French and English. He called it Fundamental Axioms of Cosmic Philosophy. It was the work of a certain French metaphysician who was well known around the turn of the centuryhis name began with a B. He met Theon in Egypt when Theon was with Blavatski; they started a magazine with an ancient Egyptian name (I cant recall what it was), and then he told Theon (Theon must have already known French) to publish a Cosmic Review and the Cosmic Books. And this B. is the one who formulated all this gobbledygook.
There used to be the name of the printer and the year it was printed, but its not there any more.
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This B. seems to have had the idea that the perfect man, the immortal man, would be spherical! And then Thon always used to say (he told me the whole story himself): I told him it wasnt possible, it would be too impracticalpeople couldnt kiss! His idea of a joke. Thon also told me that when B. came to Tlemcen (they first met in Egypt, then again in Tlemcen), he saw the house Thon was building and asked, Why is your house painted red? Does it have some mystical significance? And Thon replied, No, its because red goes well with green! So you get the picture. But I dont remember his name any more; in his time he was very well known, he was a contemporary of the fellow who wrote The Great Initiates.
Schur?
Yes, Edouard Schur. He was a contemporary of Edouard Schur, a bit older (I met Schur, by the waya rather hollow individual). His name began with a B and hes the one who formulated these Axioms.
You once mentioned someone called Barley.
0 1963-01-02, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They tire methey wear me out.
While I would need Oh, at times I withdraw from action altogetherby action, I mean talking and above all receiving swarms of vibrations terrible, terrible vibrations!
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then, they had brought a four-year-old with them. Today was his birthday. They sent me some money for the child and asked for a card of blessings. I refused to give the card and threw the money back at themquite bluntly. I said, Tell these people that they are selfish and stupid, and I want nothing from them. And I banged on the table. Oh, oh! Everyone was petrified. (Mother laughs) The doctor was there, and Nolini, Champaklal, Amrita. So mething in me was laughing a lot! Oh, they thought I was in a terrible fit: Theyll see what will happen to them! And you know, those vibrations are familiar to metheyre terrifying, mon petit. Not human. When it comes, its fearsome, people are in a cold sweat. And I watch it all like a spectator!
Fairly often, its Sri Aurobindo. But this time it was entirely impersonal. It was so mething that WILL NO LONGER tolerate in the world a certain kind of selfish stupidityto trample this childs finer feelings just because she isnt stupidly attached to her family (who didnt even give her a single thought all the time she was here, she didnt exist for them).
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The question we could ask is: Will the human species be like those species that met with extinction? Some species became extinct (though not species that lasted as long as the human species, as far as I know (?), and also not those which had in them the seed of progress, a possibility of progress). The impression is rather that evolution will follow a curve drawing nearer and nearer to a higher species, and maybe all that is still too close to the lower species will fall away, just as those species fell away in the past.
We always forget that not only is everything possibleeverything, even the most contradictory things but every possibility is given at least one moment of existence.
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In fact, for education, people should always encourage both tendencies side by side: the thirst for the Marvelous, the seemingly unrealizable, for so mething that fills you with a sense of divinity, while at the same time encouraging, in the perception of the world as it is, an exact, correct and sincere observation, the abolition of all imaginings, a constant control, and a most practical and meticulous feeling for exactness in details. Both tendencies should go side by side. Generally, people kill one with the idea that its necessary in order to develop the otherwhich is totally erroneous. The two can coexist, and as knowledge grows, a moment comes when you understand that they are two aspects of the same thing, namely, a clear vision, a superior discernment. But instead of the vision and discernment being limited and narrow, they become absolutely sincere, correct, exactAND immense, embracing an entire field thats not yet part of the concrete Manifestation.
This is very important from an educational point of view.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take the example of someone ill, even feeling pain. When Sri Aurobindo was in possession of this supramental Power (at certain times he said it was totally under his control, he could do whatever he wanted with it and apply it wherever he wanted), then he would put this Will on some disorder or other, physical or vital, say (or mental, of course), he would put this Force of a superior harmony, a superior, supramental order, keep it there, and it would act instantly. And it was an orderit created an order and harmony superior to natural harmony. Which means that if the object was to cure, for example, the cure was more perfect and total than a cure brought about by the ordinary physical and mental methods.
There were hosts of instances. But people are so blind, you know, so bogged down in their ordinary consciousness, that they always have ready explanations. They can always explain it away. Only those who had faith and aspiration and so mething very pure in them, that is, those who really wanted to know, were aware of it.
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The memory of all these things returned AFTERWARDS, when I met Thonlong afterwards, when I was more than twenty, that is, more than ten years later. I met Thon and got the explanation of these things, I understood. Then I remembered all that had happened to me, and I thought, Well! Because Madame Thon said to me (I told her all my childhood stories), she said to me, Oh, but I know, you are THAT, the stamp of THAT is on you. I thought over what she had said, and I saw it was indeed true. All those experiences I had were very clear indications that there were certainly people in the invisible looking after me! (Mother laughs)
Interestingly there was nothing mental about it: I didnt know the existence of those things, I didnt know what meditation was I meditated without the least idea of what it was. I knew nothing, absolutely nothing, my mother had kept it all completely taboo: those matters are not to be touched, they drive you crazy!
0 1963-03-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That blue force, that blue light, I had known it for a long time, but without defining it: it was a power of consciousnessa POWERthe power of consciousness in Matter. I knew exactly what it was when I came in contact with X1 (with the Swami first, then with X). Since then, I had been able to tell without doubt whether someone I was seeing was practicing Tantrism or not. And now when I see a photograph, its the same thing! Yesterday, for example, I was shown somebodys photo, and I had the same impression of force; I didnt say anything, I asked what the man did (maybe he is a businessman in life, I dont remember), but then they gave me a letter from him in which he wrote that for a few years he had been trying to follow the Tantric method of yogait amused me! It was plain in his photo!
I came across a man who had that blue light but I found him rather formidable. He looked after all the religious rites and priests of B.s state. He came here and asked to see me. I saw him on a December 9 (I think) when I paid a visit to the estate at Aryankuppam. I was walking in the gardens when suddenly I felt so mething pulling at meand none too gently! I turned around and saw a tall man, standing and staring at me. So (I didnt know who he was, no one had told me), I stared back and simply answered his impudence! And pfft! it just fell off. I was surprised. Later (I had not yet been told who he was), he asked to see me. When he entered the room, I felt I felt a solid being. I dont know how to define it, I had never before felt it in a human beingsolid. As solid as rock. Extraordinarily solidcoagulated, an edifice. And quite powerful, I must say. Not like an arrow (gesture upward) but all around him. Then it was very funny (because theres no doubt he must have had an awesome effect on people instantly, without a word or anything), but I answered in my own way, with so mething else!
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A rather funny thing was that the day before, he had met N., and N. told me, When that man entered my room, he stared at me, and I felt forbidden to speak I wanted to say so mething but my mouth remained sealed! He froze me with a look, I couldnt utter a word!
Thats the kind of man he is, hes used to that sort of thing. The most solid man I have ever seen I mean, a oh, a remarkably organized individuality. He must be holding a tight grip on himself.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nothing spectacular whatsoeverspectacular, you know, thats what people enjoy. Nothing of the sort. For instance, there are two things that give you (and others too) a sense that youre making progress: one is the direct knowledge of whats happening in a given place; the other is the foreknowledge of coming events. Well, ever since the beginning of my Yoga, the two possibilities or capacities have been there, with all the admixture (as Sri Aurobindo says) of the movements of the mind, which befuddles everything. Already around 1910, not only was the capacity there (it would come off and on), but along with it, a discernment which showed me the mixture, and thus left me without any certainty. In this regard, therefore, I cant even say there has been a big change the change is in the proportion, its just a question of proportion: proportion in the certainty, proportion in the accuracy, proportion in the mixture. The mixture keeps decreasing, the certainty keeps increasing but thats all. With, now and then (but that has always happened), now and then, a clear, precise, definite indicationbang! Its a bit more frequent. Thats all. So? Sixty-three years. Sixty-three years of methodical effort, of constant will, of opportunities for the workpeople who want quick results, they make me laugh, you know!
This body isnt even one that is unprepared. It had capabilities, it was born with certain capabilities and was prepared for all kinds of experiences. There was also the sort of intuitive discernment Sri Aurobindo refers to, it had been there since my earliest childhoodveiled, mixed, no doubt, but present all the same, it was there. Afterwards, it was purified, developed, streng thened, the mixture lessened and the body was somewhat (laughing) to perfect itself it went through quite a great deal of friction of all types. Its certainly more apt today than it was fifty years ago, there isnt a shadow of doubt about it! But you understand, theres nothing to boast about!
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One thing, though: suddenly I read (yesterday or the day before) a sermon delivered in the U.S.A. by an American (who is a rabbi, a pastor and even a Catholic priest all at the same time!). He heads a group, a group for the unity of religions. A fairly young man, and a preacher. He gives a sermon every week, I think. He came here with some other Americans, stayed for two days and went back. But then, he sent us the sermons he had given since his return, and in one of them he recounts his spiritual journey, as he calls it (a spiritual journey through China, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and so on up to India). What shocked him most in India was the povertyit was an almost unbearable experience for him (thats also what prompted the two persons who were with him to leave, and he left with them): poverty. Personally, I dont know because Ive seen poverty everywhere; I saw it wherever I went, but it seems Americans find it very shocking. Anyway, they came here, and in his sermon he gives his impression of the Ashram. I read it almost with astonishment. That man says that the minute he entered this place, he felt a peace, a calm, a stability he had never felt ANYWHERE else in his life. He met a man (he doesnt say who, he doesnt name him and I couldnt find out), who he says was such a monument of divine peace and quietude that I only wished to sit silently at his side. Who it is, I dont know (theres only Nolini who might, possibly, give that impression). He attended the meditationhe says he had never felt anything so wonderful anywhere. And he left with the feeling this was a unique place in the world from the point of view of the realization of divine Peace. I read that almost with surprise. And hes a man who, intellectually, is unable to understand or follow Sri Aurobindo (the horizon is quite narrow, he hasnt got beyond the unity of religions, thats the utmost he can conceive of). Well, in spite of that Those who already know all of Sri Aurobindo, who come here thinking they will see and who feel that Peace, I can understand. But thats not the case: he was enthralled at once!
Its the same with people who get cured. That I know, to some extent: the Power acts so forcefully that it is almost miraculousat a distance. The Power I am very conscious of the Power. But, I must say, I find it doesnt act here so well as it does far away. On government or national matters, on the terrestrial atmosphere, on great movements, also as inspirations on the level of thought (in certain people, to realize certain things), the Power is very clear. Also to save people or cure themit acts very strongly. But much more at a distance than here! (Although the receptivity has increased since I withdrew because, necessarily, it gave people the urge to find inside so mething they no longer had outside.) But here, the response is very erratic. And to distinguish between the proportion that comes from faith, sincerity, simplicity, and what comes from the Power Some people I am able to save (naturally, in my view, its because they COULD be saved), this is so mething that for a very long time I have been able to foresee. But now I dont try to know: it comes like this (gesture like a flash). If, for instance, I am told, So and so has fallen ill, well, immediately I know if he will recover (first if its nothing, some passing trouble), if he will recover, if it will take some time and struggle and difficulties, or if its fatalautomatically. And without trying to know, without even trying: the two things come together.2 This capacity has developed, first because I have more peace, and because, having more peace, things follow a more normal course. But there were two or three little instances where I said to the Lord (gesture of presenting so mething, palms open upward), I asked Him to do a certain thing, and then (not very often, it doesnt happen to me often; at times it comes as a necessity, a necessity to present the thing with a commentfrom morning to evening and evening to morning I present everything constantly, thats my movement [same gesture of presenting so mething] but here, there is a comment, as if I were asking, Couldnt this be done?), and then the result: yes, immediately. But I am not the one who presents the thing, you see: its just the way it is, it just happens that way, like everything else.3 So my conclusion is that its part of the Plan, I mean, a certain vibration is necessary, enters [into Mother], intervenes, and No stories to tell, mon petit! Nothing to fill people with enthusiasm or give them trust, nothing.
0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My only method is a kind of shield of mental silence (in the ordinary mind), so that all the peoples thoughts do not come and pester me all the time, without letup. But they creep underneath! With some people, the moment they enter the room, I feel exhausted, because of their attitude. It doesnt work through thought at all: its a special vibration in my body.
With others, on the contrary, its fine.
0 1963-05-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Seeing that, there is obviously a similar experience in connection with what is called life and death. Its a sort of overhanging (it comes to me in English, thats why I have difficulty) of that constant presence of Death or possibility of death. As he says in Savitri, we have a constant companion all the way from the cradle to the grave, we are constantly shadowed by the threat or presence of Death. Well, this gives the cells an intensity in their call for a Power of Eternity which would not be there without that constant threat. Then we understandwe begin to understand very concretely that all those things are only goads to make the Manifestation progress and grow more intense, more perfect. If the goads are crude, it is because the Manifestation is very crude. As it grows more and more perfect and apt to manifest so mething ETERNALLY PROGRESSIVE, those very crude methods will give way to more refined ones, and the world will progress without the need for such brutal oppositions. It is only because the world is in infancy and the human consciousness in its very early infancy.
Its a very concrete experience.
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It is the quickest and most effective method of pulling the creation out of its inertia and leading it on to its blossoming.
(long silence)
0 1963-05-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a new experience. It came very strongly, as though the final decision were referred to meto the PHYSICAL consciousness. So I said, Very well, then! Let him be cured, thats my decision.
What struck me was the suddenness of it: all at once I felt an easing.
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was saying to myself, But whats the way to get out of here? I concentrated, became conscious again of the divine Presence, but there was so mething telling me, Nothing is responding, its not working. It was horrible. Nothing is responding, its not working; its not working, it cant change, nothing is responding; nothing is responding, its not working. I was there like that, with two or three people. I sat down (some rooms were higher than others and it made a difference in level between the terraces), I sat down on a ledge, questioning intensely within, What can I do? What can I do? Whats the way? What can I do? Wheres the lever? I was trying to find the lever for changing it all. But I was unable to find it. Suddenly, from the room at the end a little old man came out, very old, who gave the impression of an attachment to old things; just the same (he was all blue), just the same when he arrived (it must be the symbol of an old method or an old discipline), I told him, Ah, now that you are here, can you tell me the way out of this place? Whats the way to get free, the way out? That started him laughing: No, no! Theres no way, no way out, you must be content with what you have. Then he looked at that poor light above, which really didnt give much light at all, and he said (in a high-sounding tone): But in the first place, I came to tell you that you must put out that sun! I dont want that dazzling sun here. Ah! I thought, Thats what he calls a sun! I was so disgusted that finally I woke up. So mething pulled me out abruptly. But with such a strong impressionso strong that I was gripped by anguish: What can be done to change that? The WAY, you see, the way was inadequateinadequate. That was the anguish: My own experience is inadequate, it has no effect THERE, so whats to be done? Whats to be done? What can be done? So thats how I was for hours this morning: Whats the way? Whats the way? Whats the way to change that darkness into light?
It wasnt very cheering.
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I thought, Why? Why am I not happy and quiet here, too? And so mething answered, Because I want to change that. If I accepted it, I wouldnt even notice it; its because I want to change that darkness. So then then there will be joy only when we have FOUND the wayand how to find it? All the methods I use for the yoga and for transformation, all were useless, useless, useless, no action, no action, no effect, no effect. Ive never seen a place so unreceptive! No effect, none at all. And everybody VERY content with what he knew!
It is evidently a mental domain. A mental subconscient. But its horrible. Horrible.
0 1963-06-26a, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, these are almost methods for children (children from the spiritual viewpoint), young soulschild-souls. They are methods for child-souls.
I used to write my whole japa fluently like that, in Sanskrit,1 now I have forgotten everything again.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have to say that I know this man. I have met him several times. I dont know whether he is conscious, I mean I dont think he remembers when he returns to his body. But for a long time (not recently, certainly at least for a year, maybe two), the man has been involving himself in world affairs, which means he takes interest in global movements.1 I met him in this connection. I cannot say weve had interesting conversations or anything of that sort, but he is part of the organizations.
I hadnt seen that at all in the other photo [published by the daily newspapers] its his eyes. The mouth is bad as in the other photo, but bad in another way: he looks almost malicious. But the man has powerreal power; not a Popes power, I mean: real power, inside him.
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But maybe The very fact that I met him (he may have been already thinking of becoming Pope, I dont know), but anyway, long before anyone except him thought of it, the fact that I met him while seeing to certain terrestrial arrangements shows that, probably unconsciously (I told you right away: I dont think he is conscious in his body), he is nevertheless under the influence, if not the control, of the higher forces.
Why is my attention drawn all of a sudden in that direction? Generally, I am not interested in all those things. For the action, I am concerned only with the little field of experience I have been given, and my terrestrial action is of quite another nature; its on a higher plane, very independent of individuals.
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(Mother looks at the Time magazine photo again:) With these photos its very interesting, I have intriguing experiences: all at once Ill see crystal clear (much clearer than I see physically), Ill see the individual very clearlyhe comes alive, the eyes speak to meand Ill say, Oh, hes like this and like that. Everybody brings me photos, because I am used to reading peoples characters in their photos, thats very easy for me, elementary; but so metimes when I am given a photo, suddenly I see somebody and I say, Oh, but its such and such person, hes like this and like that. But if I am shown the SAME photo a few days afterwards, its just a photo and I see nothing. Its a method thats used to let me know certain things, and once I know them, its finished. For instance, the first time I saw this photo of the Pope, when they brought it to me, I saw the man (I know him, you see) JUST AS I see him over there. But if I look at it nowit doesnt evoke anything in me any more, only the kind of things you see in a photo: a mouth thats not good, far from it. Certainly, that he chose this photo means he LIKES authorityhe wants to be seen in his aspect of authority.
The odd thing is that he is seated [in the photo], while all the time I see him standing. He is seated with his hand on the armrest, but I keep seeing him standingholding his head high, facing life, standing. He must be fairly tall: the man I know is fairly tall, he looks very much like this one. Its unmistakable, I mean, when I saw the photo I saw the man I knew.
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, its simply a question of consciousness: people (ordinary people) have a consciousness that reaches up to a certain point (a point not very far away generally), and whats beyond it, to them, is the unconscious (although its full of consciousness!), but its unconscious to them because they cant make contact. Its the same as when at night you wake up in another state of being, become conscious and have a dream (what people call a dream, meaning an experience), then you return to your ordinary consciousness, and as there is no contact between the two consciousnesses, you dont even remember your dream. But you can, through methodical development, extend your consciousness and make a connection between the two; and the minute the connection is mader to bring you into contact with your soul, your psychic b, it takes very little to remember everything. But whats difficult is to extend your consciousness.
Basically, the gurus real power is to fill up the gaps! To bring you into contact: when you are in the higher planes, to bring you into contact with the Highest. Or to bring you into contact with your soul, your psychic being within, or to bring you into contact with the Supreme but that not many can do.
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its giving me the same kind of nights again. But its odd, I dont know what it means, last night there were buildings made of a kind of red granite, and many Japanese. Japanese women sewing and making ladies dresses and fabrics; Japanese youths climbing up and down the buildings with great agility; and everybody was very nice. But it was always the same thing (gesture of a collapse or a fall into a hole): you know, a path opens up, you walk on it, and after a while, plop! it all collapses. And there was a young Japanese man who was climbing up and down the place absolutely like a monkey, with extraordinary ease: Oh, I thought, but thats what I should do! But when I approached the spot, the things he used to climb up and down vanished! Finally, after a while, I made a decision: I will go just the same, and found myself downstairs. There I met some people and all sorts of things took place. But what I found interesting was that all the buildings (there were a great many of them, countless buildings!) were made of a kind of red porphyry. It was very beautiful, Granite or porphyry, there were both. Wide stairs, big halls, large gardenseven in the gardens there were constructions.
But outwardly, difficulties are coming back, in the sense that the Chinese seem to be seized again with a zeal to conquer they are massing troops at the border.
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The side of reason (of a gradual and harmonious progress as conceived by the mind) wants peace and quiet, order and harmony among nations. The mortar and pestle method, which mixes everything together to bring out so mething more potent, a richer combination of the elements, demands destruction. Both are there in the atmosphere, like this (Mother looks). And it would seemit would seem that the decision hasnt been made yet, as Sri Aurobindo says [it is still hanging].
Yet at present, it would seem that my work is more a work of pacification (I mean the universal work).
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And such details! There was a whole story (which lasted even more than an hour and a half) with all the details. Because where I was with him was an upper floor and when I came down I met people, did some things and so on. It was the upper floor. And it all went on in a dazzling light, dazzling, dazzling; everything was as though in a blazing sun much brighter than the sun the sun is dark in such a case.
And when I came downstairs (it wasnt like here: everyone had his own house and garden, it was a huge estate), I went straight to my bathroom. I open the door and whom do I find there but someone (I recognized him, but I wont name him) who was using itWell, I thought, thats a fine thing! And I closed the door again. All kinds of details, it lasted more than an hour. And you know, the number of things that can happen in an hour and a half at night.
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Last night was less pleasant. There were again those things collapsing. I was below, you see, trying to go back up to my room, and every time I tried to go back up, all the means to do so disappeared or were done away with. Now Ive chased it all away because it was tiring. But one thing I do remember: I was climbing up a sort of not stairs or a ladder, it was a very queer thing, like blocks of dark red stone, and they were all crumbling and coming apart. It ended up annoying me, and I had a movement not of anger, but of self-assertive will and everything vanished. You feel its adverse formations trying to harass you, until I cant say I lose patience, but so mething gets angry (is it angry? Asserts itself, rather: Ah, no! Enough!) and instantly, pfft! it all goes away. But then I found myself on a road I knew very well, but there was such a crowd! A crowd, a crowd: all the schools of the world were coming there for their holidays. There were troops of kids led by matrons and teachers, myriads and myriads of them! And also children who stopped and played on the ground; but all those children knew me very well, and when I arrived, they would take their things out of the way to let me throughweeny little kids this high. Then I met a symbolic person (not a human person) whom I know very well, she was pale blue (that is to say, a being of the higher mind, a force of Nature in the higher mind), I know her very well, she is very often with me. She explained to me her difficulties and I explained to her what she should do; I told her, Ive already told you several times, its like this and like that. She stayed beside me a very long time, and she asked me, Why do I always have to leave you? I answered her, Dont worry; everything is fine now. It went on for a long time. But it was interesting, a very pleasant, very refined contact: a beautiful girl that is, a beautiful thought or a beautiful idea. A beautiful girl. And she had in her charge an innumerable amount of kids (Mother laughs), so she was somewhat worried at times, and I explained to her what she should do.
I feel a sort of tenderness towards that person.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a constructiona huge construction. It resembled one of those huge hotels they build nowadays, with inner courtyards and all sorts of things. And I had my room right at the top. (It called to my mind an old experience I had had. Do you remember that big hotel?1 It was somewhat like that.) And everyone there was APPARENTLY full of respect, of obedience, of thoughtfulness but everyone was going his own sweet way thats nothing new. At first, I was downstairs (my room was way upstairs, I dont know how many floors there were), and there I met some people, people whom I know. But each and every detail was so revealing, it was marvelous! And it was time for me to have my bath (I dont know what time it was!), so I wanted to go back upstairs to do so, but I needed someone to prepare the bath (its symbolic; I dont know yet, I havent yet understood the symbol of that bath, because it occurs very often; but there may be some meaning hidden in that symbol). But then one person was too old (someone who had offered to prepare the bath, but he was too old), another wasnt strong enough, anotherto be able to prepare the bath required VERY special qualities. It isnt the first time; it has happened two or three times before: to be able to prepare that bath took absolutely exceptional qualities of courage, strength, physical power, endurance. And the people downstairs (gesture expressing incapacity). So I said to myself, All right, Ill go upstairs and see what happens.
On the way, the same thing happened again: I went the usual wayplop! cut off, nothing left, I cant get through; I come back, start another wayplop! cut off, I cant get through. Yet I kept going up (how, I dont know). Then I reached a sort of square terrace-balcony, perfectly square, and ALL its doors were closed. There was no way of going farther: all the doors were closed. Then I see water rising, rising, rising in the ENTIRE building, except the places where the doors were closed. Downstairs (I dont know, I was very high up, maybe on the fourth or fifth floor) the doors were closed, so naturally water could not get in. All the courtyards (large, immense courtyards) were turned into swimming pools. What water! I kept watching it, admiring it; I said to myself, What wonderful water! So clear, so clear, clearer than any I ever saw. Water that was I cant say, it was transparent like like purity itself, it was marvelous. It was rising and rising and rising. I saw in one of the courtyards on my left (a very large courtyard: it had become an immense swimming pool!), I saw a person in a bathing suit come out of the water, as if he had taken his bath in it, and wrap himself up (a very tall person, very tall, who was neither a man nor a woman), he wrapped himself up in a bathrobe, then walked away on the water (!) I was watching this till suddenly I realized that the water was beginning to reach my feet. Then I KNEW: Ah, yes! Theyve decided to do this. I was a little upset: They really could have told me they were going to do this! I thought. Its so mething they must do regularly. Did they inform some people? (All this in my head, of course.)
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wouldnt call it serious because he may have done it with the best of intentions: not to deceive me, but to help me. But I found it so IGNORANT! That he should use such methods with me shows that he knows absolutely nothing of me.
It would succeed with any ordinary medium, or with a faker. A faker, someone insincere, would be immediately taken in, because in such cases IT IS SINCERITY THAT SAVES. Going by appearances its very, very difficult to make out the difference. It is sincerity that saves (its the same thing I said to Sujata3). I remember how Madame Thon, after I told her several of my experiences, said to me, Nobody can deceive you because you are perfectly sincere (occultly, I dont say outwardly: occultly). And its true, it depends on the sincerity. Consequently, that X should attempt this shows he has a peculiar opinion of me!
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You see, what I do is this: the thing comes, its taken up, presented (gesture to the Heights) as though it were mine: But look, see how I am (but its the Ithe great I), its presented to the Lord, very humbly, with the sense and feeling of complete helplessness I simply say, Here, change it. The feeling that only He can do it, that everything that people have tried everywhere appears childisheverything appears to be childish. The most sublime intelligence seems to me childish. All the attempts that are made to enlighten, organize, educate mankind, to awaken it to a higher consciousness, to give it mastery over Nature and its forces, all of itall of it, which for a human vision is so metimes utterly sublime, seems absolutely like children playing and having fun in a nursery. And children who love dangerous games, who believe TERRIBLY in what they do (as do children, naturally). I have never met more serious and stern a justice than the justice children have in their games. They really take life seriously. Well, thats exactly the impression it makes on me: the impression of a mankind in infancy which takes what it does with ferocious seriousness. And which will never get out of itit will never get out of it, it lacks the little so mething (which may be really nothing at all), a very little so mething thanks to which ah, everything becomes clear and organizedall that comes from mankind always BORDERS on Truth.
So the only thing I can do is this (gesture of presenting): Look, Lord, see how ignorant and powerless we are, how utterly stupid we areits up to You to change it. How do you change it? You cant even imagine the change, you cant even do that. So all my time (same gesture)not from time to time: constantly, day and night, without letup, day and night without letup. If for an interval of one or two minutes this isnt done, there is so mething that catches up: Oh, all that time wasted! And if I take a close look at what happened, then I see; I see that for these few minutes, I was blissful in the Lord, letting myself live blissfully in the Lord; so I no longer presented things to Himit happens two or three times a day. A relaxation, you know, you let yourself flow blissfully in the Lord. And its so natural and spontaneous that I dont even notice it; I notice it when I resume my attitude (same gesture to the Heights) of transferring everything to the Lord every minute.
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I stopped the immediate effect (the immediate effect was almost catastrophic), I stopped it with my great method: that sort of inner immobility, and leaving everything in the Lords hands. Nevertheless, the next day, I was unwell (Im not quite well yet), as though the body had been terribly shaken.
Then I saw all kinds of thingsoh, bah! bah! An adverse organization in the most material vital to mislead unenlightened spiritual aspirations: I encountered that last night. There was a kind of preacher teaching how to do things, and for each thing I had to contradict and explainbecause he had quite an audience: he has that audience at night, and when people wake up, they arent conscious of it, and it influences them. It results in a kind of possession. It was (oh, I see that gentleman often), its a tall, black beinghe is black, jet black but he passes himself off as a great Initiate! People dont see him as he is (they must see him in a very attractive guise), and he preaches the very things that foster disintegration. He teaches you in detail how to doa very good teacher of mischief. But I argued with him about everything, explained everything in detail, very carefully, very conscientiously, and when it was over, I offered it all to the Lordso I dont know what happened to him!
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The strange thing is that L., who was in the path of this formation (gesture from south to north), was sick, like you, he had a fever: the same thing, the same painsvery particular pains. And U. too was nearly caught; but the day before, I had explained to him how to defend himself, and he told me he had used my method and it worked quite well. I had explained to him how to pass the thing on to the Lord (that is, to learn to offer it). He tried it and told me, It worked quite well, the thing didnt take root: a moment of discomfort, and it was over.
One should learn to do that. If one does it with ones head, its useless; whats effective is when you are able to summon that sort of eternal immobility then, the effect is immediate. But generally, people know how to do it for others but not for themselves, because for themselves, they go on vibratingwhen it hurts a lot, its difficult to stop that vibrating. But it CAN be done; even when the pain is absolutely acute, almost unbearable (normally one would start screaming), one CAN, one can do it and summon that silent immobility to the painful spotimmobility of eternity. Very, very quickly, within a few seconds, the intensity disappears; there remains only a memory, which one should take care not to reawaken by thinking about it, but which lingers as a memory in the body, as when youve given yourself a good knock, a sound blow, and the acute pain has gone, but the mark stays. It stays a more or less long time. If one made the effort to stay very, very quiet, immobile, without doing anything, thinking anything, wanting anything, for a long enough time, I think there would be very little effect.
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If we look at it from a psychological standpoint On the mental plane, its very easy; on the vital plane, its not too difficult; on the physical plane, its a little heavier, because desires are passed off as needs. But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the bodys makeup, its needs, and whats good or bad for it. And all this, in its essence, again boils down to the same question of vibrations. It was quite interesting: there was an appearance (because all things as the ordinary consciousness sees them are nothing but appearances), there was an appearance of food poisoning (mushrooms that are thought to have been bad). It was the object of a particular study to find out whether there was so mething absolute about the poisoning, or whether it was relative, that is, based on ignorance, a wrong reaction and the absence of the true Vibration. And the conclusion was as follows: its a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as so mething concrete, real, or else as so mething that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesnt resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, because, immediately, as soon as the consciousness became aware of the cause of the trouble in the bodys functioning (the consciousness perceived where it came from and what it was), immediately the observation began, with the idea: Lets see what happens. First set the body perfectly at rest with the certainty (which is always there) that nothing happens except by the Lords Will and that the effect too is the Lords Will, all the consequences are the Lords Will, and consequently one should be very still. So the body is very still: untroubled, not agitated, it doesnt vibrate, nothingvery still. Once this is achieved, to what extent are the effects unavoidable? Because a certain quantity of matter that contained an element unfavorable to the bodys elements and life was absorbed, what is the proportion between the favorable and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous. But this is still a dream for tomorrowwere on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable (I cant say all-powerful, far from it, but rather favorable), so that the consequences of the ill-being didnt last very long and the damage was, so to say, minimal.
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and-half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or written: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, so mething wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside existence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when so mething hurts, for instance, when things resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sentence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a WONDERFUL field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just recently I have been observing this fact. Apart from Sri Aurobindo, all the people I have ever met and had around me were dissatisfied. And in some cases (cases of lives more constantly intimate with me), either rebels, or people terribly bitter about life as it iswhich is the very opposite of my nature. I am rather on the side of those who take things quite philosophically as they areeven when I was a very small child. So then I wondered (I saw this these last few days): Why is it like that?
I saw that this attitude or way of feeling is like a fortress for what opposes the transformation.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He met the prowl and stealthy come and go
Of armed disquieting bodied Influences.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Immediately afterwards, I had a visit from the Pope! The Pope [Paul VI] had come to Pondicherry (he does intend to visit India), he had come to Pondicherry and asked to see me (quite impossible things materially, of course, but they were perfectly simple and straightforward). So I saw him. He came, we met each other over there (in the music room), and we actually did speak to each other. I really felt the man in front of me (gesture of feeling), felt what he was. And he was very worried at the thought of what I was going to say to people about his visit: the revelation I would give of his visit. I saw that, but I didnt say anything. Finally he said (we were speaking in French, he had an Italian accent; but all this, you see, doesnt correspond to any thought: its like pictures in a film), he said, What will you tell people about my visit? So I looked at him (inner contacts are more concrete than pictures or words) and I simply answered him, after staring at him intently, I will tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Lord. And there was in it the warmth of a golden lightextraordinary! Then I saw so mething relax in him, as if an anxiety were leaving him, and he left like that, in a great concentration.
Why did that come? I dont know.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its a lesson. I could have been cured immediately (it was yesterday). At first, it met with the true consciousness and the true attitude (even in the body), and for hours it was under control. Then came the people who come every day, some in the morning and some in the afternoon (but it was in the afternoon, yesterday), with their truckloads of worka truckload, you know, its dumped as when a truck unloads, meaning they dont wait for one to be unloaded before bringing another: they throw it all together. So, all of a sudden, my nose started running, it was overthere was a tension. The Force that was there couldnt withstand it. In the night and this morning, it was brought under control again and could have gone away; then came the usual people with their usual truckloads (each his truckload, there are four of them); so, right in the middle of the work, again my nose started running. Its stupid, but anyway.
And always the same thing (the first vision was quite correct, I mean the vision of the cells was quite correct): it isnt so mething coming from outside, its the impulse that comes from outside, its the wrong vibration that comes from outside, and the difficulty is that you are unable to replace this wrong vibration or, rather, CANCEL it, with the True Vibration. Thats what I had already said: the proportion isnt sufficient, so it takes time. I can understand that with a sufficient proportion of cells remaining in the True Vibration, the cure should be instantaneous, that is, the effect of the wrong vibrations should be canceled automatically. But I had seen the thing and spent almost an hour, three quarters of an hour [in concentration], and the little bit that had been affected (it was in the throat) was canceledit didnt return. It was canceled. But after those three quarters of an hour, I had to resume my activities, see people, do things, take my bath, too (although the bath is always beneficial), and a sort of memory lingered. And then, from three oclock, a quarter to three, the invasion started: first one, then another, then two more, then a third, then So all at once, because my attention had been DIVERTED to what I had to do (scores of answers to be written, of blessings to be sent, of problems to be resolvedall of it dumped on me), as my attention was diverted to that, naturally all at once I started sneezing and so forththere was nothing to do but go through it.
0 1964-02-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I hadnt changed: my appearance was exactly the same when I came here. So for your book, well say 1914, according to the appearance; in other words, thats how I looked when I met Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1914. Voil.
Mother went to Tlemcen twice, in 1906 and 1907.
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So thats how I am this morning, a little giddy. These are powerful methods!
(silence)
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing the light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be so mething analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All our endeavour is to make this consciousness and this will govern our lives and action and organise all our activities. It is the way in which the Ashram has been created. Since 1926 when Sri Aurobindo retired and gave me full charge of it (at that time there were only two rented houses and a handful of disciples) all has grown up and developed like the growth of a forest, and each service was created not by any artificial planning but by a living and dynamic need. This is the secret of constant growth and endless progress. The present difficulties come chiefly from psychological resistances in the disciples who have not been able to follow the rather rapid pace of the sadhana and the yielding to the intrusion of mental methods which have corrupted the initial working.
A growth and purification of the consciousness is the only remedy.
0 1964-03-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its my method for Savitri, too, its a long time since I stopped translating: I follow the thought up to a point, and then, instead of thinking this way (same gesture of tipping to the right), I think that way (to the left), thats all. So its not pure English, not pure French either.
Personally I would like it to be neither English nor French, to be so mething else! But for the moment, what words are to be used? I clearly feel that to me, both in English and French (and maybe in other languages if I knew any), words have another meaning, a slightly unusual and far more PRECISE meaning than they do in languages as we know themfar more precise. Because, to me, a word means exactly a certain experience, and I clearly see that people understand quite differently; so I feel their understanding as so mething hazy and imprecise. Every word corresponds to an experience, to a particular vibration.
--
And the method is always the same: I never translatenever, never I go up above, to the place where one thinks beyond words, where one experiences the idea or the thought of a thing, or the movement or the feeling (whatever), and when its in a particular language, it goes like this (same gesture as before), while in another language, it goes like that: its as if so mething up above tipped over. I dont translate on the same level at all, I never translate on the level of languages. And so metimes, I notice that for me the quality of the words is very different from what it is for others, very different.
I have given up all hope of making myself understood.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The two poles had met.2
(silence)
0 1964-03-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Two lines from Savitri sent along with this note, on the occasion of March 29, the date when Mother and Sri Aurobindo first met fifty years earlier:)
Because thou art, men yield not to their doom,
--- Overview of verb meet
The verb meet has 13 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)
1. (49) meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see ::: (come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!")
2. (38) meet, get together ::: (get together socially or for a specific purpose)
3. (32) converge, meet ::: (be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point")
4. (23) meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil ::: (fill or meet a want or need)
5. (18) meet, fit, conform to ::: (satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?")
6. (15) meet, match, cope with ::: (satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams")
7. (14) meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather ::: (collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room")
8. (12) meet ::: (get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore")
9. (11) meet ::: (meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?")
10. (8) meet, encounter, play, take on ::: (contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary")
11. (7) meet, encounter, receive ::: (experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition")
12. (3) suffer, meet ::: (undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate")
13. (1) touch, adjoin, meet, contact ::: (be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point")
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